October 26 Shall be Forever Known as IGNORANT MAN-CHILD DAY! (OTT)

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[quote name='zewone']Wait...the Renegade edition just comes with a gold turntable and a 2-CD soundtrack? Who would pay that stupid premium?[/QUOTE]Wow, I thought they were making a big deal about it because it had a shitload of exclusive playable tracks. Isn't it $200?
 
[quote name='Chika']wrong. At a lot of higher-end schools, you can get upto a 4.6

4.3=A+
4.6=A++[/QUOTE]

Yes, and A++** :) is worth 5.

Please provide an example of a higher-end high school that doesn't understand allowing a grade value higher than the maximum grade value completely ruins any point to assigning GPAs.
 
[quote name='Mojimbo']Wow, I thought they were making a big deal about it because it had a shitload of exclusive playable tracks. Isn't it $200?[/QUOTE]

Yes. All those Jay-Z and Eminem songs are just a greatest hits album included with the game. No extra content.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Yes, and A++** :) is worth 5.

Please provide an example of a higher-end high school that doesn't understand allowing a grade value higher than the maximum grade value completely ruins any point to assigning GPAs.[/QUOTE]

Columbia does it all the time, take it up with them.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Yes, and A++** :) is worth 5.

Please provide an example of a higher-end high school that doesn't understand allowing a grade value higher than the maximum grade value completely ruins any point to assigning GPAs.[/QUOTE]
My high school did that for AP classes, we had an adjusted GPA for difficulty. It came about because some students wouldn't take a more difficult AP and risk getting a "B" when they could get an "A" with the same effort or less (and less homework) in the standard class. However, that was many moons ago.
 
Columbia? :lol: How much are you willing to pay to send your kids to a top-ranked University, staffed with some of the most elite scholars in the United States, if not globally...

...so they can attend courses taught by first-year grad students?
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Columbia? :lol: How much are you willing to pay to send your kids to a top-ranked University, staffed with some of the most elite scholars in the United States, if not globally...

...so they can attend courses taught by first-year grad students?[/QUOTE]

i didn't go as an undergrad. i was accepted to their graduate program in community health. I just couldn't afford it.
 
Southeastern Ohio is very poor. Too poor, evidently, to afford grades of "A+" (and...err...higher, I guess) into our grading system.

But there are probably more beer bongs per capita here than most other universities, rendering the point moot, I think.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Southeastern Ohio is very poor. Too poor, evidently, to afford grades of "A+" (and...err...higher, I guess) into our grading system.

But there are probably more beer bongs per capita here than most other universities, rendering the point moot, I think.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Southeastern Ohio is very poor. Too poor, evidently, to afford grades of "A+" (and...err...higher, I guess) into our grading system.

But there are probably more beer bongs per capita here than most other universities, rendering the point moot, I think.[/QUOTE]

I'm glad I'm not in a hiring position. I might call bullshit on an applicant claiming to have a 4.3/4.0 GPA.

I might try to make the argument that the applicant actually has a 4.3/4.3 GPA.

Then, the applicant would probably call me a name like a fucktard.
 
Contrary to popular belief: Gummo was actually a documentary.

Check that film out if you want to see how fuckED Ohio is.
 
[quote name='Brak']Contrary to popular belief: Gummo was actually a documentary.

Check that film out if you want to see how fuckED Ohio is.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I've seen it.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']Someone wanna tell me why, when I added 2 new movies to my DVD AF "owned list" the number stayed at 375 titles?[/QUOTE]
Because DVD Af. doesn't consider Iron Man and Transformers 2 as actual cinema.
 
[quote name='Brak']Because DVD Af. doesn't consider Iron Man and Transformers 2 as actual cinema.[/QUOTE]

I'll give you Transformers 2. Movie is hot garbage. But IDK why you guys hate on Iron Man...
 
They were too cowardly to make Tony Stark an alcoholic, and the screenplay could have easily been adapted, untouched, into a FOX Kids cartoon.

Vanilla, Spielberg-like direction, as well.
 
[quote name='thekeybladewars']I wish I knew who "cornershop" and all of these other "white boy" bands were, otherwise I'd probably "get" it. It still sounds good, though, haha.

: ([/QUOTE]


Cornershop? I
 
Trakan (3:12:56 PM): give me a link
Brax0r (3:13:53 PM): http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/member.php?u=9193
Trakan (3:14:28 PM): such a dick
Brax0r (3:14:43 PM): lol
Brax0r (3:14:50 PM): I can't believe you clicked that.
Trakan (3:15:02 PM): i knew where it was going

(His name is in "last viewed by" thing on Wombat's profile.)
 
[quote name='Rocko']Step one, get off of 20 posts per page.[/QUOTE]

omg, rocko and i agree on something for once.... the world is going to end! :whee:
 
[quote name='Brak']They were too cowardly to make Tony Stark an alcoholic, and the screenplay could have easily been adapted, untouched, into a FOX Kids cartoon.

Vanilla, Spielberg-like direction, as well.[/QUOTE]

From what I know about Stark and Iron Man, he doesn't develop his alcoholism until awhile after he begins his Iron Man career. Being an origin movie, I can understand why they left it out. From what I've read, they plan (and I hope so too) to touch on some of the darker themes in the second movie.

I have no problem with the movie being "lighter" than say Dark Knight (which I had a lot of problems with), the movie still had (mostly) good action and a mature enough storyline.

As far as the direction, do you mean the acting or the action sequences? The last action sequence in particular probably could've used better direction, it felt disjointed and disappointing to me, but still passable. As far as the acting, when I first heard Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, I thought it was perfect, and it mostly was. Gwenyth Paltrow is whatever, servicable as Pepper Potts and I thought Jeff Bridges was great as Obediah. Terrence Howard though as Rhodes was TERRRRIBLE.

The movie still has its problems, but the hate isn't warranted.
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']why would i care how many posts are on a page?[/QUOTE]

because all the cool kids are doing it.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']From what I know about Stark and Iron Man, he doesn't develop his alcoholism until awhile after he begins his Iron Man career. Being an origin movie, I can understand why they left it out. From what I've read, they plan (and I hope so too) to touch on some of the darker themes in the second movie.

I have no problem with the movie being "lighter" than say Dark Knight (which I had a lot of problems with), the movie still had (mostly) good action and a mature enough storyline.

As far as the direction, do you mean the acting or the action sequences? The last action sequence in particular probably could've used better direction, it felt disjointed and disappointing to me, but still passable. As far as the acting, when I first heard Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, I thought it was perfect, and it mostly was. Gwenyth Paltrow is whatever, servicable as Pepper Potts and I thought Jeff Bridges was great as Obediah. Terrence Howard though as Rhodes was TERRRRIBLE.

The movie still has its problems, but the hate isn't warranted.[/QUOTE]
In the comics, Stark develops alcoholism during his battle with his electrical heart.

I read in interviews that they decided to swap his struggle with alcoholism with the moral dilemma of being a playboy... which, in the film, he was a PG-13 neutered playboy.

And by bland direction, I mean that there was no style to the film at all. It was a sterile, by-the-numbers action flick with the style from the director; It was generic.
 
[quote name='Brak']In the comics, Stark develops alcoholism during his battle with his electrical heart.

I read in interviews that they decided to swap his struggle alcoholism with being a playboy... which, in the film, he was a PG-13 neutered playboy.

And by bland direction, I mean that there was no style to the film at all. It was a sterile, by-the-numbers action flick with the style from the director; It was generic.[/QUOTE]

I think he had enough of that playboy charisma, for a first film, to establish to the audience who might not know who Tony Stark is, that he is a womanizing, charismatic billionaire. I'm not sure how many one night stands you wanted in the movie Brak.

I'll agree on the style factor. I wouldn't say it was sterile, but it was, say "standard" for the action genre. I did think that the movie had enough "cool Iron Man" moments unique to the Iron Man character to give itself some flavor.
 
You should watch Goemon if you want a stylish action movie. I saw that shit the other day and thought I was losing my mind.
 
[quote name='A Happy Panda']I think he had enough of that playboy charisma, for a first film, to establish to the audience who might not know who Tony Stark is, that he is a womanizing, charismatic billionaire. I'm not sure how many one night stands you wanted in the movie Brak.[/QUOTE]
I wanted tons of one night stands.

Him with two girls under his arms at a party scene doesn't cut it, and it doesn't help that he solved his personal demons by the end of the film.

And that makes me think of something else I hated... The one-dimensional social commentary on war, and the greed that comes with it. Stark's redemption, with this issue, was hilariously superficial and Hollywood (synonyms of one another, I know) and wrapped up by the end of the film. The problem is far greater than that, Marvel Studios.
 
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