Register  |  Sign In
View unanswered posts | View active topics It is currently Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:19 pm



Reply to topic  [ 64 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next
 A contrary popular-culture opinion 
Author Message
The Incredible Hulk
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:02 pm
Posts: 519
Location: Golden State
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
The thread about Rareware had me thinking... Perfect Dark Zero was a pretty damn good launch title for the 360. Not a perfect game by any means (no pun intended), but the multiplayer was some pretty absurd fun before Gears and Rainbow Six Vegas came out a year later. And I thought the excessive motion blur was kinda awesome in a weird way.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:02 am
Profile WWW
Leader of the Pack
User avatar

Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:35 am
Posts: 1526
Location: A better place
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Riggs wrote:
Michael Bay is one of the greatest directors of our time.


Second that!


Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:52 am
Profile
Extraordinary
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm
Posts: 12096
Location: Stroudsburg, PA
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
John Lennon's best work was in the Beatles and as a solo performer, his ego was so big that all his songs are about himself and Yoko.

_________________
Buy my books! http://michaelaventrella.com


Image


Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:32 am
Profile WWW
On autopilot for the summer
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm
Posts: 21641
Location: Walking around somewhere
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Chip n Dale are in a Disney film, and I will prove it someday.

_________________
Image

Chippy wrote:
As always, fuck Thegun.


Chippy wrote:
I want to live vicariously through you, Thegun!


Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:39 pm
Profile
Where will you be?

Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am
Posts: 11675
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Organized sports are a massive waste of time and money.

Star Trek > Star Wars

Adaptations that stray from the source material are often better for it.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:46 pm
Profile
On autopilot for the summer
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm
Posts: 21641
Location: Walking around somewhere
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
PS, is my Avatar gone, it's not opening for me?

_________________
Image

Chippy wrote:
As always, fuck Thegun.


Chippy wrote:
I want to live vicariously through you, Thegun!


Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:36 pm
Profile
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
MovieDude wrote:
Organized sports are a massive waste of time and money.

Agreed.

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:02 pm
Profile
Sbil

Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm
Posts: 48626
Location: Arlington, VA
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
I would've been so unhappy growing up without organized sports. They teach you so much about teamwork and self determination.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:35 pm
Profile
Superfreak
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 am
Posts: 21890
Location: Places
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
People who hate on organized sports just sucked at them and do not like to think that they truly belong at the bottom of the food chain.

"Evolution always wins".

_________________
Ari Emmanuel wrote:
I'd rather marry lindsay Lohan than represent Mel Gibson.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:37 pm
Profile
New Server, Same X
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm
Posts: 28293
Location: ... siiiigh...
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
I prefer unorganized sports. I'm still on a timeout from a hockey game I started twelve years ago. I'm almost ready!

_________________
Ecks Factor: Cancelled too soon


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:37 pm
Profile
New Server, Same X
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm
Posts: 28293
Location: ... siiiigh...
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Organized sports > organized religion.

Though I also prefer unorganized religion. I'm still going through a confession I started twelve years ago. I'm almost ready, Father!

_________________
Ecks Factor: Cancelled too soon


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:45 pm
Profile
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Libs wrote:
They teach you so much about teamwork and self determination.

Oh, do shut the fuck up.

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:56 pm
Profile
KJ's Leading Pundit
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm
Posts: 63026
Location: Tonight... YOU!
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Poor unathletic David.

_________________
trixster wrote:
shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element

trixster wrote:
chippy is correct

Rev wrote:
Fuck Trump


Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:00 pm
Profile
Sbil

Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm
Posts: 48626
Location: Arlington, VA
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
David wrote:
Libs wrote:
They teach you so much about teamwork and self determination.

Oh, do shut the fuck up.


:|

I'm just relating my own experience.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:05 pm
Profile
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
And I am gagging on it and retching. ;)

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:07 pm
Profile
Where will you be?

Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am
Posts: 11675
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Image


Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:18 pm
Profile
Where will you be?

Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am
Posts: 11675
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
BTW I understand and respect sport's value in building teamwork, individual growth, etc. Sports are a great thing for many people as a form of exercise, team-building and leisure. I'm proud of coaches who provide active, kinesthetic learning. It's a great thing for us to get children outside, but I think we're overly obsessed about team-based games that are about two packs of people dueling over a ball. That was what I intended to convey when I wrote organized sports.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:25 pm
Profile
KJ's Leading Pundit
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm
Posts: 63026
Location: Tonight... YOU!
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
People who are actively involved with sports are usually more engaged with education.

_________________
trixster wrote:
shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element

trixster wrote:
chippy is correct

Rev wrote:
Fuck Trump


Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:29 pm
Profile
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Football culture always gets well out of hand and becomes a disgusting American spectacle.

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:00 pm
Profile
Z
User avatar

Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm
Posts: 7952
Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
The Rush Limbaugh rhetoric really suits you, Magnus.

_________________
"Der Lebenslauf des Menschen besteht darin, dass er, von der Hoffnung genarrt, dem Tod in die Arme tanzt."
- Arthur Schopenhauer


Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:54 pm
Profile WWW
A very honest-hearted fellow
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:02 pm
Posts: 4767
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Many of those coaches are paid for through alums/boosters and not purely by the state. Also, those same Universities do not pay any of the players who help generate the revenue at money producing schools like UT, Michigan, OHSU, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Tennessee, etc.

Further, many of those football programs help subsidize the Title IX sports that are not revenue generating.


Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:47 pm
Profile WWW
Extraordinary
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm
Posts: 12159
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Empathy exists.


Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:03 am
Profile
You must have big rats
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 92093
Location: Bonn, Germany
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
snack wrote:
Empathy exists.


I don't think that's contrary to popular opinion. Now if you said "altruism exists", that'd be different.

_________________
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!

Image


Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:18 am
Profile WWW
Killing With Kindness
User avatar

Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm
Posts: 25020
Location: Anchorage,Alaska
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
MovieDude wrote:
Image

Go Alaska :D

_________________
The Force Awakens

Image


Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:11 pm
Profile WWW
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67043
Post Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
The Angry Birds Movie deserves to win some awards (not Razzies).

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Sun Feb 12, 2017 4:33 am
Profile WWW
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic   [ 64 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3  Next

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 94 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.
Designed by STSoftware for PTF.