I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I was just commenting on the fact that he misspelled Bueller. Of course, that normally isn't a big deal, but he did it in an offtopic first post. And THAT sir, will not be tolerated.
Seriously?
Is
this the movie you are referencing?
You're either really old, really young, or are privy to some joke I'm unaware of.
If it's the last, then well played.
When I first read it, I assumed the "protruding forehead" was a reference to Neanderthals. Upon closer inspection, he was calling them "eggheads". Thank you for pointing out my mistake. So it wasn't arrogance, but still the imagery was kind of strange.
I apologize for being mean-spirited and for derailing this thread.
I only post about spelling/grammar issues when the original poster is calling other people stupid.
If his post had been less arrogant then I wouldn't have bothered.
No...the problem is the focus group is composed of people who's forehead sticks out
First off, the word you are looking for is "whose".
Second, you should have said "foreheads stick out", assuming these "people" you speak of have more members than just you.
Where I live, there's only one cable company to choose from. They must be counting DirecTV and the like as "competition", because I've only once in my entire life had the ability to choose from two cable companies. And that didn't last long either, because the one I picked (the smaller, better one) got bought out by the large, crappier one after about a year.
And I personally don't count DirecTV as an adequate "replacement" for cable.
after all this is why we like PC games, always delivering top technology.
Speak for yourself. I'd rather have superior content than high-end graphics. PC games have much more memory and disk space to use (in general) than console games, so they could theoretically offer far more depth.
However, since so many people think like you do, we are force-fed inane games that are very nice to look at but very little fun to play.
WoW doesn't need a graphics overhaul. It needs a content and game-mechanics overhaul. The reason most people quit isn't because it isn't pretty enough, but rather they've run out of "meaningful" things to do. This expansion appears to be an effort to address that, but I think it is probably too little too late for most jaded players.
I give this two and a half years at best before we see an unsurprising news story claiming that this did not significantly improve any digital music sales for anyone.
Well it would have, if it weren't for all those god damn pirates!
But a thousand trillion sounds bigger, because the average person has a hard time distinguishing numbers above a million or so.
So, a quadrillion is a very big number.
But a thousand trillions is a thousand very big numbers.
If you are after dramatic effect, you'd use "thousand trillion" or, even better, "million billion".
As a side note, this effect has a lot to do with how the U.S. national debt got so high. "13 trillion" doesn't sound a whole lot bigger than "5 trillion".
...unless you've got it set to delete all data on your phone after 10 incorrect attempts.
That would make sabotaging someone's phone pretty easy. Just pick it up, make ten wild ass guesses at a PIN, and rest assured their precious data is now gone.
As an added bonus, if one of your wild ass guesses is right, you can look at the data before you trash it.
That's nothing, I just bought an application that converts my speech to text. Read that back to me. I said, read that back to me. God damn it, what the hell is wrong with this thing. Stupid blinking light, what the hell is that supposed to mean? This is... oh here we go. No, don't send
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Misusing the word "literally" like that SHOULD be illegal...maybe that's what the OP had in mind.
You're right, I'm so angry right now I'm literally on fire.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I was just commenting on the fact that he misspelled Bueller. Of course, that normally isn't a big deal, but he did it in an offtopic first post. And THAT sir, will not be tolerated.
Buhler?
Seriously? Is this the movie you are referencing? You're either really old, really young, or are privy to some joke I'm unaware of. If it's the last, then well played.
Agreed. Alliterate assholes.
That's assonance.
"Horse and buggies may now be a thing of the past due to the new honda civic comeing out this year"
You got that right! I'm finally ready to trade in ol' Bessie.
When I first read it, I assumed the "protruding forehead" was a reference to Neanderthals. Upon closer inspection, he was calling them "eggheads". Thank you for pointing out my mistake. So it wasn't arrogance, but still the imagery was kind of strange. I apologize for being mean-spirited and for derailing this thread.
I only post about spelling/grammar issues when the original poster is calling other people stupid. If his post had been less arrogant then I wouldn't have bothered.
No...the problem is the focus group is composed of people who's forehead sticks out
First off, the word you are looking for is "whose". Second, you should have said "foreheads stick out", assuming these "people" you speak of have more members than just you.
The first set of explorers are to seed the planet with their corpses so that the next wave will have something to eat.
Well, they certainly aren't going to decompose.
"an increasingly competitive communications marketplace"
Where I live, there's only one cable company to choose from. They must be counting DirecTV and the like as "competition", because I've only once in my entire life had the ability to choose from two cable companies. And that didn't last long either, because the one I picked (the smaller, better one) got bought out by the large, crappier one after about a year. And I personally don't count DirecTV as an adequate "replacement" for cable.
after all this is why we like PC games, always delivering top technology.
Speak for yourself. I'd rather have superior content than high-end graphics. PC games have much more memory and disk space to use (in general) than console games, so they could theoretically offer far more depth. However, since so many people think like you do, we are force-fed inane games that are very nice to look at but very little fun to play. WoW doesn't need a graphics overhaul. It needs a content and game-mechanics overhaul. The reason most people quit isn't because it isn't pretty enough, but rather they've run out of "meaningful" things to do. This expansion appears to be an effort to address that, but I think it is probably too little too late for most jaded players.
This is great news for all of those students going to schools that permit them to carry cell phones.
Wait, what?
My son's elementary school lets the teachers decide whether or not students may bring cell phones to class. So far, most of them do allow them.
I give this two and a half years at best before we see an unsurprising news story claiming that this did not significantly improve any digital music sales for anyone.
Well it would have, if it weren't for all those god damn pirates!
If they'd been called PuppyWords, then I'm sure the approval process would have been much easier.
How much were you paid to post this?
I assume not very much. Poor Murdoch can't even afford the good astroturfers anymore.
But a thousand trillion sounds bigger, because the average person has a hard time distinguishing numbers above a million or so. So, a quadrillion is a very big number. But a thousand trillions is a thousand very big numbers. If you are after dramatic effect, you'd use "thousand trillion" or, even better, "million billion".
As a side note, this effect has a lot to do with how the U.S. national debt got so high. "13 trillion" doesn't sound a whole lot bigger than "5 trillion".
This would be devastating news if it was still the 1990s...
That's true, a release date of 2010 would be over 10 years away!
Hell, some of my friends still argue with me that THC is a hallucinogen
They said no such thing. I think you imagined the whole conversation.
Pete Rose needs to be reinstated to professional baseball and then inducted into the Hall of Fame!
Fixed that for you.
I understand you are merely trolling, Mr. pr0n, but I'll go ahead and link this to explain why you are an idiot. Broken Window Fallacy
before the wussification of America
We used to call it pussification. Looks like they got to you, too.
Survival is a terrible metric of intelligence. By that standard, lions and tigers and bears are the most intelligent species on the planet.
They were, then we started shooting them. Who's the smartest one now, bitches?
...unless you've got it set to delete all data on your phone after 10 incorrect attempts.
That would make sabotaging someone's phone pretty easy. Just pick it up, make ten wild ass guesses at a PIN, and rest assured their precious data is now gone.
As an added bonus, if one of your wild ass guesses is right, you can look at the data before you trash it.
I am confused. Does it suck, or does it blow? These are opposites, are they not?
That's nothing, I just bought an application that converts my speech to text. Read that back to me. I said, read that back to me. God damn it, what the hell is wrong with this thing. Stupid blinking light, what the hell is that supposed to mean? This is... oh here we go. No, don't send