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 Post subject: Do you think I'm a pretentious snob or not?
PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 2:32 am 
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I like discussing movies and video games and whatnot with people, but when someone tells me that they really liked/didn't like a piece of media that I really didn't like/liked, I almost get slightly irritated and starting thinking, "Geez, what did/didn't they like about it, it was obviously crap/phenomenal and here's ten reasons why, #1.....". I've gotten a lot better about it, but that's just a part of me that I don't like about myself. I try to not be a condescending butt about it, but sometimes people have opinions that I think are just plain wrong(I have a friend who really likes Jar Jar Binks) and at those times, I find it hard to not try to convince them to try to see my point of view when it comes up in conversation and WHY AM I LIKE THIS. I seriously don't know if people think this is an annoying habit of mine or if they notice at all.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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Would it hurt you to know I'm neutral about Jar Jar?

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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Would it hurt you to know I'm neutral about Jar Jar?

BURN HIM

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 11:18 am 
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Dire wrote:
Would it hurt you to know I'm neutral about Jar Jar?


WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS ANYMORE

YOU'RE NOT INVITED TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY

Nah, I don't really mind that much. He doesn't irritate as much as some people, but I really don't think he added anything to the movie. When I had that conversation with my friend about him, what really got to me was that he was using(in my opinion) really stupid arguments for why Jar Jar is great and then acting cocky about it. He bodaciously told me at one point in that discussion, "You can't beat me at this argument, Marc. I'm good at making solid arguments." I had to refrain from telling him that no, he WASN'T making a sold argument, I just wasn't making counterarguments because I was trying not to be a critical butthole.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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Jar Jar could've passed for a children's movie but in Star Wars he just didn't fit.

It was just so out of place seeing an over the top goofy and clumsy character in a setting that's supposed to be (mostly) serious.


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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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I loved Jar Jar but that's because I saw the movie in theaters when I was four years old.

Looking back, he didn't suit the movie in any way.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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i remember seeing the movie when i was really little and not even caring, like the whole movie i just didn't care until like qui-gon died and i was like "nooo you're the only person who i gave a shit about"

and then my mom apparently fell asleep during it and wanted to go back to the theaters to see it again and i cared even less

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 Post subject: At the risk of sounding like a jackass
PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:52 pm 
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Wow, Frozen has absolutely no competition for Best Animated Feature except that Miyazaki film.


A year in which Frozen is even in the running is a bad year for animation


OK, this is what I'm talking about. I'm not saying anything bad about creaky and DEFINITELY not trying to start an argument about it, but I saw this and had this brief moment of thinking, "Nope nope nope he's wrong it was good".

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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I should finish my project that's due tomorrow but I want to play XCOM. Probably going with XCOM for now.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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Jar Jar could've passed for a children's movie but in Star Wars he just didn't fit.

But Phantom Menace was a children's movie.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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I'm hopelessly confused by XCOM UFO Defense. I get it but they throw a lot at you with no explanation so I'm very unsure of any sort of strategy.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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JarJar weirded me out as a kid. I'm not sure how old I was when I saw the movie, but I just know he looked the creepiest, and I'd cringe when he talked.

I think I dislike people imitating voices. Like when kids would imitate JarJar or Stitch for the whole day. I'd cringe and stop talking to them. Also when my parents repeat words or phrases, I know it's either cause they're amused by it or they're trying to remember it, but it just grates on my ears. Copy catting isn't that annoying though, unless my big brother did it.

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 Post subject: Re: At the risk of sounding like a jackass
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Marcato wrote:
creakyAccordion wrote:
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Wow, Frozen has absolutely no competition for Best Animated Feature except that Miyazaki film.


A year in which Frozen is even in the running is a bad year for animation


OK, this is what I'm talking about. I'm not saying anything bad about creaky and DEFINITELY not trying to start an argument about it, but I saw this and had this brief moment of thinking, "Nope nope nope he's wrong it was good".


It's not that it wasn't good. It's that it wasn't as good as what a lot of people thought it should have been. For most people that I've talked to, the soundtrack was what made them like it, not the animation and not the story. I haven't seen it, so I can't give an opinion myself. But being in a demographic where I am surrounded by people that actually do bother to go and watch that kind of movie, I can tell you what large portions of people thought.


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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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The transition from doing absolutely nothing all day to going to school and figuring out life and stuff is going to be jarring. Being the last semester of my senior year, I have to figure out graduation, decide how I wanna get teacher certification done, make sure my schedule is in order, all on top of the usual school business. Especially since I'm trying to make an effort to overhaul and improve my study habits (never too late, right?).

I can't say I'm demotivated, it's really just that it's a lot on my plate and I'm worried I will fall behind or miss something somewhere or another. Really that's kind of the story of my life.

Yo if there's a career where I can play video games all the time that'd be great
...still contemplating going back to school after teaching for a little while, maybe get into something involving computer science.
but that's too far in the future for me to bother thinking about now.

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 Post subject: Re: Confessions
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Kamak wrote:
Valbrandur wrote:
Jar Jar could've passed for a children's movie but in Star Wars he just didn't fit.

But Phantom Menace was a children's movie.


Not children enough though to warrant Jar Jar. Not enough at all.


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