Smart move. Don't go to r&p , they'll crucify you.Paragon Fury said:
OT : happens often. Iv'e been lurking long enough to know when to quit while i'm ahead.
You write up a big, long post about something that has been on your mind for a long time....
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OT : happens often. Iv'e been lurking long enough to know when to quit while i'm ahead.
I delete the majority of my posts, I think.
In fact, I largely just stopped coming into the forums, to be honest. A combination of a lack of topics that interest me with an incredibly short fuse until everything explodes in a flame war means that I just don't have the patience to sit through most threads anymore. I mean, jeez, many of the threads on the first page of GD are threads that were on the first page a week ago.
In fact, I largely just stopped coming into the forums, to be honest. A combination of a lack of topics that interest me with an incredibly short fuse until everything explodes in a flame war means that I just don't have the patience to sit through most threads anymore. I mean, jeez, many of the threads on the first page of GD are threads that were on the first page a week ago.
Been there. Done that. I actually still have a file in Documents called "Escapist post." I used to use it for composition because I lost a couple long posts to editing/Internet problems. Half of what's in there was never posted.
All the freakin' time.Paragon Fury said:
I'm slowly getting to the point where I'm just no longer bothering to make longs posts about stuff anymore.
Two hours?!Paragon Fury said:
http://www.typingtest.com/blog/5-shortcuts-to-increase-your-typing-speed/
Yeah I've sometimes gotten a paragraph or two into a response to a topic before deciding I just can't be assed to finish it. Either because I'm not happy with my post, or because in the time it's taken me to start crafting a reply I've lost interest in the subject.
I don't know about you, but some people like me spend hours to choose words that are appropriate for precise expression of opinion.BloatedGuppy said:
Even on the internet.
Once I wrote a very long post about God of War: Acension and how it marked an endpoint to the franchise from which it would be impossible to come back. Then I just thought "Who gives a crap 'cept me?" and deleted the whole thing. I still stand by everything that I wrote, but it wasn't worth making a whole thread about.
Also I wrote a second rant/bashing post about Evangelion 3.33 after I watched it a second time just to see if I missed anything. I still have it on my hard drive. You know what? If there's ever been a time to post it, it's this! Time to piss in the great sewer of the internet once again.
Also I wrote a second rant/bashing post about Evangelion 3.33 after I watched it a second time just to see if I missed anything. I still have it on my hard drive. You know what? If there's ever been a time to post it, it's this! Time to piss in the great sewer of the internet once again.
Evangelion 3.0 ? I was right
Yes, it's time to flog this dead horse again, but this is the last time, I swear. I finished watching Evangelion 3.0 for the second time a few weeks ago. Suffice to say it was a challenging watch to say the least, but I finally made it through. But boy, am I glad to admit that I was 100% right about it all along. It is a terrible film. Not only as a sequel to 2.0, not only as a new story, but also as a remake as well as a film in general.
Honestly, after watching it a second time I have no idea how people can defend this film. It pulls so much stuff out of the deepest reaches of its ass, breaks its own rules and the very basic rules of visual storytelling so hard so many times it has to be a joke: Hideaki Anno farting in the fans' face for 90 minutes and then laughing his ass off as they ask for more and analyze the pitch, tone and odor of this anal discharge.
I mean did the concept of ?show, don't tell? escape the fans' minds? Did you actually watch the film instead of dreaming a better version of it yourself? Did you honestly take it all without question and 100% seriously? I very much doubt all of that.
The scene where Fuyutsuki talks to Shinji about Yui was the last straw. It was nothing but characters talking, focal plot points delivered poorly through exposition out of nowhere without any buildup and didn't make things any clearer, only more confusing. It broke the ?show, don't tell? rule over its knee and then pissed on its corpse.
And worst of all, not a single thing was made any clearer on the second viewing. Not one of my shit ton of questions were answered or clarified. They all still stand, including some new ones:
? So Shinji meets Kaworu, the only person who could give him answers and shows compassion towards him? And what does Shinji do? Starts playing the fucking piano with him without asking any questions!
? In fact, the two never share any meaningful dialogue. They just randomly play the piano and boom! BFFs for life! The great writing of Anno Hideaki would rival Shakespeare himself. But I guess you could chalk it up to Shinji just accepting anyone giving a shit about him, so that's not such an issue.
? Towards the end Shinji says very adamantly that he won't pilot the Eva, but when Kaworu takes the Choker off of him he suddenly wants to? And mere moments later when Kaworu pleads him to stop, he's suddenly so committed to it that he won't? And when things fuck up again he acts all surprised? Our hero, ladies and gentlemen!
? What exactly was that thing where Unit 02 suddenly turned into a... fucking cat, growing a tail, fangs and all? Was it some added feature? If it was, how did they add it AFTER THE FREAKING APOCALYPSE? If it was already there, how come we didn't see it the last time the Beast mode was used?
? About the apocalypse: the final plot point of 2.0, Third Impact getting cancelled by Kaworu, is completely ignored. They actually retconned the mythology between movies. Everything is played like the last scene before the end credits in 2.0 was the very last thing that happened.
? Nope, the Nemesis series are never adequately established to be under NERV's or SEELE's control, they're just some random thing that appears out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.
? How come when Kaworu suddenly blurts out that he is an angel, i.e. An absurdly powerful being (which has no relevance at all in terms of the ?plot?), mere moments later a device designed to kill humans just offs him, like that? He couldn't just, you know, take it off like he did before? Or stop it with his AT field?
? They built up Kaworu for 2 movies as some kind of big player, but in the end his character ended up not mattering at all.
? It's never even implied that WILLE is trying to go after Shinji either. Asuka and Mari just show up out of nowhere to give the audience some flashy action porn at the end.
? The Longinus and Cassius lances are completely unexplained, and neither is why they needed that retarded four-armed Eva to get them. It's just an excuse to get Shinji and Kaworu piloting together, something out of a bad fan fiction.
? Apparently starting up an eva, a process which in the past took hours of preparation and a crew of dozens, can now just as well be done automatically by two people. And post-apocalypse. Oh well.
? That mountain of skulls on top of which Lilith's corpse was... in comparison to the size of the Evas, they were about the size of SUVs. What were they supposed to be?
Yes, it's time to flog this dead horse again, but this is the last time, I swear. I finished watching Evangelion 3.0 for the second time a few weeks ago. Suffice to say it was a challenging watch to say the least, but I finally made it through. But boy, am I glad to admit that I was 100% right about it all along. It is a terrible film. Not only as a sequel to 2.0, not only as a new story, but also as a remake as well as a film in general.
Honestly, after watching it a second time I have no idea how people can defend this film. It pulls so much stuff out of the deepest reaches of its ass, breaks its own rules and the very basic rules of visual storytelling so hard so many times it has to be a joke: Hideaki Anno farting in the fans' face for 90 minutes and then laughing his ass off as they ask for more and analyze the pitch, tone and odor of this anal discharge.
I mean did the concept of ?show, don't tell? escape the fans' minds? Did you actually watch the film instead of dreaming a better version of it yourself? Did you honestly take it all without question and 100% seriously? I very much doubt all of that.
The scene where Fuyutsuki talks to Shinji about Yui was the last straw. It was nothing but characters talking, focal plot points delivered poorly through exposition out of nowhere without any buildup and didn't make things any clearer, only more confusing. It broke the ?show, don't tell? rule over its knee and then pissed on its corpse.
And worst of all, not a single thing was made any clearer on the second viewing. Not one of my shit ton of questions were answered or clarified. They all still stand, including some new ones:
? So Shinji meets Kaworu, the only person who could give him answers and shows compassion towards him? And what does Shinji do? Starts playing the fucking piano with him without asking any questions!
? In fact, the two never share any meaningful dialogue. They just randomly play the piano and boom! BFFs for life! The great writing of Anno Hideaki would rival Shakespeare himself. But I guess you could chalk it up to Shinji just accepting anyone giving a shit about him, so that's not such an issue.
? Towards the end Shinji says very adamantly that he won't pilot the Eva, but when Kaworu takes the Choker off of him he suddenly wants to? And mere moments later when Kaworu pleads him to stop, he's suddenly so committed to it that he won't? And when things fuck up again he acts all surprised? Our hero, ladies and gentlemen!
? What exactly was that thing where Unit 02 suddenly turned into a... fucking cat, growing a tail, fangs and all? Was it some added feature? If it was, how did they add it AFTER THE FREAKING APOCALYPSE? If it was already there, how come we didn't see it the last time the Beast mode was used?
? About the apocalypse: the final plot point of 2.0, Third Impact getting cancelled by Kaworu, is completely ignored. They actually retconned the mythology between movies. Everything is played like the last scene before the end credits in 2.0 was the very last thing that happened.
? Nope, the Nemesis series are never adequately established to be under NERV's or SEELE's control, they're just some random thing that appears out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.
? How come when Kaworu suddenly blurts out that he is an angel, i.e. An absurdly powerful being (which has no relevance at all in terms of the ?plot?), mere moments later a device designed to kill humans just offs him, like that? He couldn't just, you know, take it off like he did before? Or stop it with his AT field?
? They built up Kaworu for 2 movies as some kind of big player, but in the end his character ended up not mattering at all.
? It's never even implied that WILLE is trying to go after Shinji either. Asuka and Mari just show up out of nowhere to give the audience some flashy action porn at the end.
? The Longinus and Cassius lances are completely unexplained, and neither is why they needed that retarded four-armed Eva to get them. It's just an excuse to get Shinji and Kaworu piloting together, something out of a bad fan fiction.
? Apparently starting up an eva, a process which in the past took hours of preparation and a crew of dozens, can now just as well be done automatically by two people. And post-apocalypse. Oh well.
? That mountain of skulls on top of which Lilith's corpse was... in comparison to the size of the Evas, they were about the size of SUVs. What were they supposed to be?
For real? That's crazy.Pirate Of PC Master race said:
Am I in the minority here? How many people are literally spending hours typing out posts or selecting words? I'm actually curious now. *I'm not trying to be a dick*. I really cannot state that firmly enough. I am not trying to be a dick. I'm just...really surprised.
Often, I do it to see if I can learn anything myself. The best part there, is that when you come across as a student rather than a teacher, it often makes the other guy open his mind as well, since he doesn't feel the need to be defensive about anything.RJ 17 said:Sounds about right. To this day I refuse to go to the Religion and Politics forum due to the fact that if I try to express my opinion in a topic there, for the next 4 days my inbox will be filled with people quoting me who are more than happy to tell me exactly how incredibly wrong I am.
Best thing to do is to pick your battles before you even bother typing. Ask yourself this: "Do I really care about what this random jackass on the internet has to say? Is it worth the effort knowing full well that nothing I can say - regardless of what proof I offer - is going to change this person's mind?" More often then not the answer to those questions is - or should be - no. It's best to realize this before you write an essay.
I don't know about hours, but I often do put lots of time into my posts. Sometimes I think about what I should type while I'm doing something else. How you say something can make a world of difference if you're discussing a touchy subject.BloatedGuppy said:
Guilty as charged.
I once was going to make a thread about how I feel about skimpy clothing in video games... (And before anyone asks, no, it wasn't about finding them sexist. It was about finding them boring)
...Then I realized that on this site, that's pretty much a death sentence, so I promptly deleted everything. Seriously, that's a can of worms that should not be opened around these parts.
I once was going to make a thread about how I feel about skimpy clothing in video games... (And before anyone asks, no, it wasn't about finding them sexist. It was about finding them boring)
...Then I realized that on this site, that's pretty much a death sentence, so I promptly deleted everything. Seriously, that's a can of worms that should not be opened around these parts.
I do that with just small posts at times. Tend to look over my post and think "Does sound/read like a jerk" and then delete it if it does. I usually don't write long posts unless it's a review or Rp(Role play) post
Seems like a poor reason not to post it. I may erase a post if I don't really want to talk to a particular person I'm replying to after all or if I don't feel I'm clear enough.
But as far as people being pissed off, I'm like so what? Trying to please everyone means pure silence. What I care about is if I was wrong, then it's a matter of "Oops I said stupid shit". People just not liking it just doesn't matter. After all if I'm not gonna post my opinions that I believe are right but others may dislike on the Internet, where the hell will I voice them? And what's the worst, people will dislike me *online*? The horror. They'll have forgotten me a week later anyways
But as far as people being pissed off, I'm like so what? Trying to please everyone means pure silence. What I care about is if I was wrong, then it's a matter of "Oops I said stupid shit". People just not liking it just doesn't matter. After all if I'm not gonna post my opinions that I believe are right but others may dislike on the Internet, where the hell will I voice them? And what's the worst, people will dislike me *online*? The horror. They'll have forgotten me a week later anyways
It's less being nice and more: God this might tick them off and continue to poke at me/put words in my mouth/blah blah blah.
It's to save myself a headache and a bunch of updates notifications. Also on phone so can't reply as well as I normally could
It's to save myself a headache and a bunch of updates notifications. Also on phone so can't reply as well as I normally could
Ah, my post was directed at the OP. Yours seemed like a good idea because if the post did sound jerkish it might get a warning lolMerlinCross said:
For me, it's like 98% for myself than having someone else read my opinion. It's good closure to conduct all your thoughts into one post, even if no person reads it. Like this post, I don't really care if nobody reads it, because I just want to organize my thoughts on it for once.
Usually when I post this big, half-controversial posts, I plain don't read it when other people quote me, I just open the message in a new tab and immediately close it. It's for me, not because I want to start a deep conversation about the quality of 3D Sonic games.
Sometimes I want to start threads, only to realize that I'm creating the topic more to assert my opinion than read other opinions, and that's just plain... wrong. I write up a longass post only to finish it off, proofread it, declare that it summarizes my idea nicely, then delete it and never really think of it again.
It's natural, if you ask me, sort of like writing in a diary then burning the pages that you're ashamed of. Errybody do it.
Usually when I post this big, half-controversial posts, I plain don't read it when other people quote me, I just open the message in a new tab and immediately close it. It's for me, not because I want to start a deep conversation about the quality of 3D Sonic games.
Sometimes I want to start threads, only to realize that I'm creating the topic more to assert my opinion than read other opinions, and that's just plain... wrong. I write up a longass post only to finish it off, proofread it, declare that it summarizes my idea nicely, then delete it and never really think of it again.
It's natural, if you ask me, sort of like writing in a diary then burning the pages that you're ashamed of. Errybody do it.