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Lafin Atchu
The Incredible Hulk
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:02 pm Posts: 519 Location: Golden State
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 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.
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Viper Rodgers
Leader of the Pack
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:35 am Posts: 1526 Location: A better place
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 Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
Riggs wrote: Michael Bay is one of the greatest directors of our time. Second that!
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Groucho
Extraordinary
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:30 pm Posts: 12096 Location: Stroudsburg, PA
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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.
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21856 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Chip n Dale are in a Disney film, and I will prove it someday.
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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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.
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21856 Location: Walking around somewhere
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PS, is my Avatar gone, it's not opening for me?
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:36 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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 Re: A contrary popular-culture opinion
MovieDude wrote: Organized sports are a massive waste of time and money. Agreed.
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48677 Location: Arlington, VA
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I would've been so unhappy growing up without organized sports. They teach you so much about teamwork and self determination.
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Excel
Superfreak
Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:54 am Posts: 22182 Location: Places
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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".
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Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28301 Location: ... siiiigh...
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I prefer unorganized sports. I'm still on a timeout from a hockey game I started twelve years ago. I'm almost ready!
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Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28301 Location: ... siiiigh...
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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!
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:45 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Libs wrote: They teach you so much about teamwork and self determination. Oh, do shut the fuck up.
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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Poor unathletic David.
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:00 pm |
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48677 Location: Arlington, VA
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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.
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:05 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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And I am gagging on it and retching. 
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
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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.
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Chippy
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People who are actively involved with sports are usually more engaged with education.
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:29 pm |
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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Football culture always gets well out of hand and becomes a disgusting American spectacle.
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Argos
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Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm Posts: 7952 Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
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The Rush Limbaugh rhetoric really suits you, Magnus.
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:54 pm |
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Caius
A very honest-hearted fellow
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:02 pm Posts: 4767
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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.
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Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:47 pm |
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snack
Extraordinary
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm Posts: 12159
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Empathy exists.
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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snack wrote: Empathy exists. I don't think that's contrary to popular opinion. Now if you said "altruism exists", that'd be different.
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:57 pm Posts: 25035 Location: Anchorage,Alaska
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Go Alaska 
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68223 Location: Seattle, WA
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The Angry Birds Movie deserves to win some awards (not Razzies).
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