I don't even know why I have them on DVD.

Disappointment given physical form.

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Check out the big brain on Peter!
While amusing...really why sooo long

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Here's a much shorter review of the new Star Trek movie for you.

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Tarquinn said:
Here's a much shorter review of the new Star Trek movie for you.

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It's pretty much spot on. You tell yourself it wasn't so bad, maybe even enjoyable, but always start crying when you look back on the experience.

As a side note, I still really don't know why Star Trek keeps getting rave reviews. It was possibly the worst movie I've seen all year. Unless you're an easily pleased member of the ADD generation who craves being blinded by lens flares is every god damn scene, there's no reason to think the movie was anything else than utter garbage.

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Mortious spewed forth this undeniable truth:
It's pretty much spot on. You tell yourself it wasn't so bad, maybe even enjoyable, but always start crying when you look back on the experience.

As a side note, I still really don't know why Star Trek keeps getting rave reviews. It was possibly the worst movie I've seen all year. Unless you're an easily pleased member of the ADD generation who craves being blinded by lens flares is every god damn scene, there's no reason to think the movie was anything else than utter garbage.

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So...you know exactly why and are just in denial about how much of society that is these days? Hell, a lot of adults are like that these days as well.

It stops me being depressed about the fact society as a whole are fucking morons.

Let me just live in my house made by society, typing on my internet made by society

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 01-05-2010 at 07:48 PM.

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Mortious had this to say about Knight Rider:
I like being in denial though.

It stops me being depressed about the fact society as a whole are fucking morons.

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It certainly beats the alternative, which is realizing that society is pretty a big, unorganized bunch of screwheads, not being in denial, and then ping-ponging between rage and frustration.

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Mortious has the right stuff
I like being in denial though.

It stops me being depressed about the fact society as a whole are fucking morons.

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I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and I'm going to try to take the first steps toward putting my thoughts into words via this post.

With the advent of stuff like Star Trek, Twilight, what have you, there's frequently a call raised: "How could this shit be so popular? Why are people so dumb?"

I think the best way to summarize it is: sometimes things are popular for a reason, sometimes boring shit isn't automatically intellectual.

Take Twilight, for example: yes, it's completely asinine and stupid and probably endorses condoning of abusive relationships in impressionable young women. This is so very rarely the complaint lodged against it, though, with the foremost being: "BUT THOSE AREN'T VAMPIRES." No, they aren't the traditional take on vampires (and why the weirdo author decided to call them vampires when they have next to nothing in common with them, I'll never know), but really, amongst everything wrong with the book, why is the leading complaint that the vampires don't conform to a model used in a sort of clandestine manner by nerds?

Really, that's what everything behind this "if it's popular, it sucks" motif is: the loss of nerd identity. Star Trek is loathed because it used to be OUR show. Twilight is loathed because those are OUR vampires they're desecrating. Etc. etc.

But really, what's the worst thing that they did with Star Trek? Make it...fun? Most Star Trek fans eagerly admit that 90% of the episodes (including one entire SERIES) were completely, mind-numbingly boring. This is a point of pride to them, since it was written in a secret language that only they had the patience to listen to and they convinced themselves was only understood by them.

Prior to this, though, there was an outcry over how much nerds were persecuted and how terrible it was that no one understood them. Really, this is just society recognizing the value of nerd-dom and accepting it quite gleefully. Star Trek is just the attempt to make it easier for the rest of society to "get it."

I'll ignore Maradons post for now since he's not trying hard enough. Get my red pen and see me after class.

I pretty much hate Twilight because it teaches people to be angsty and abusive/ed

Anyway, I've been running my mouth around here long enough that you probably already know what I would have said had I expounded my point properly.

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 01-06-2010 at 06:12 PM.

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Vallo, the Second Coming impressed everyone with:
I agree. I also agree that the Star Trek shows are mind-numbingly boring. Very first one ever was okay, sorta.

I pretty much hate Twilight because it teaches people to be angsty and abusive/ed

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And what was the first Star Trek? Fighting, goatees, scantily-clad women, laser guns.

That stuff everyone can understand. It wasn't until The Next Generation that shit got all into world-building.

The problem with world-building is that it sort of has to be background with characters in it at the forefront. TNG still worked on this level because Picard was funny and relateable and a diverse cast of characters kept things interesting. Beyond that, the characters were aggressively dull.

If world-building is at the forefront, it's pretty much pointless. I'll show you great mountains, babbling brooks, maybe flowers that excrete pollen that gives you explosive diarrhea. But without a character for you to relate to, I'm basically saying: "Here, look at this great playground. What? Oh, no, you can't play in it. Just look."

It's the same concept that made True Blood work so well.

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ACES! Another post by Maradon!:
I can't say politically substantive things anymore, I just make people angry. I started going to political meetups and had people saying they couldn't stand to talk to me after the first month.

Anyway, I've been running my mouth around here long enough that you probably already know what I would have said had I expounded my point properly.

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political meetups

lmao

I want to give you a swirlie so bad

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Steven Steveing:
political meetups

lmao

I want to give you a swirlie so bad

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Haha, it's actually pretty awesome, but the demographic breaks down into either 1) People who already agree with me, or 2) Hysterical jesusfreaks who only care about Obama's birth certificate and banning abortion and gay marriage.

The former aren't so bad to talk to but generally don't present many new viewpoints. The latter were fun to engage at first, but now they don't bother objecting to anything I say because they know that I've actually thought my viewpoints through and they haven't.

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Verily, Maradon! doth proclaim:
Haha, it's actually pretty awesome, but the demographic breaks down into either 1) People who already agree with me, or 2) Hysterical jesusfreaks who only care about Obama's birth certificate and banning abortion and gay marriage.

The former aren't so bad to talk to but generally don't present many new viewpoints. The latter were fun to engage at first, but now they don't bother objecting to anything I say because they know that I've actually thought my viewpoints through and they haven't.

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So there are two groups, people that agree with you and people that don't. And you wtfpwned the latter.

Got it.

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This insanity brought to you by Bloodsage:
Of course, Tarq! We all know it's impossible for rational people to disagree on politics. Much like ice cream flavors, comic book heros, and physics, it's clear there can be only one correct answer to a political question.

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It's literally impossible for Batman to be better than Superman, anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

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Peanut butter ass Shaq Bloodsage booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Of course, Tarq! We all know it's impossible for rational people to disagree on politics. Much like ice cream flavors, comic book heros, and physics, it's clear there can be only one correct answer to a political question.

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It's funny you should mention that, because the political questions I really care about are the ones with only one possible answer.

I don't know why you chose to be flippant, the point of my comment wasn't to say that people were irrational for disagreeing with me but to express regret that there weren't any rational people who disagreed with me to talk to.

Kinda like on these forums!

yeah I guess nsfw

Inferno-Spirit fucked around with this message on 01-11-2010 at 03:34 AM.

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Maradon! painfully thought these words up:
It's funny you should mention that, because the political questions I really care about are the ones with only one possible answer.

I don't know why you chose to be flippant, the point of my comment wasn't to say that people were irrational for disagreeing with me but to express regret that there weren't any rational people who disagreed with me to talk to.

Kinda like on these forums!

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Sorry, fixed.

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Tarquinn Model 2000 was programmed to say:
So there are two groups, people that agree with you are rational and people that don't aren't. And you wtfpwned the latter.

Got it.

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Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 01-11-2010 at 05:09 AM.

Do you tea bag?

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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Maradon! absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
It's funny you should mention that, because the political questions I really care about are the ones with only one possible answer.

I don't know why you chose to be flippant, the point of my comment wasn't to say that people were irrational for disagreeing with me but to express regret that there weren't any rational people who disagreed with me to talk to.

Kinda like on these forums!

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So what's an example of a political question with only one correct answer?

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Bloodsage got served! Bloodsage got served!
So what's an example of a political question with only one correct answer?

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I was gonna come up with a silly answer, but then I decided not to steal Maradon's thunder.

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Mr. Parcelan had this to say about Knight Rider:

With the advent of stuff like Star Trek, Twilight, what have you, there's frequently a call raised: "How could this shit be so popular? Why are people so dumb?"

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