When I say I prefer Xbox/PC to Wii and Wii players automatically assume I only care about graphics (even though I actually like the Wii's colorful graphics).

The entirely of the console wars.

Just play your games, people.

It's well known that only Nintendo deal in "proper" games, stupid. All the games on the XBox are hyperviolent-bloodrushing-mindless-shooters, dontcha know? :shame:

 

You can't call yourself a gamer until you have a gold-plated Wind Waker special edition GBA SP. Oh, don't you have one? Well it is quite rare... too rare for casuals like you. Just go and play CoD and camp with a sniper rifle like all the other non-proper gamers and pretend you have 'skills' while I try and break the speed run record for LoZ. :rolleyes:

 

Gameplay > graphics.

 

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The Zelda series are an amazing series, I have to give Nintendo that. I have a sudden urge to play Windwaker again after that post now.

Crying babies. Especially in highly public places. Hold their damn nose shut, they'll learn what to do quickly.

The Zelda series are an amazing series, I have to give Nintendo that. I have a sudden urge to play Windwaker again after that post now.

Nintendo makes great series. The problem is all of the 3rd party shovelware crap that gets thrown onto the Wii.

Crying babies. Especially in highly public places. Hold their damn nose shut, they'll learn what to do quickly.

Yeah, killing babies is probably the best course of action.

When people mistake you're with your

When people mistake you're with your

 

Their with there

Where with were

Hoard with Horde

Effect and Affects.

People who read but don't follow the rythm the sentence should have. Mainly ignoring random commas and periods and screwing up dependent and independent clauses. Personally, when I read, I make sure the sentence sounds understandable, but some people just read and end a sentence on a high note and read the next clause likes it's the end of the sentence, that kind of stuff.

Crying babies. Especially in highly public places. Hold their damn nose shut, they'll learn what to do quickly.

Yeah, killing babies is probably the best course of action.

 

A baby is smart enough to realize "stop yelling and breath through mouth". People tend to think babies and children are completely helpless, but that's not true.

People who read but don't follow the rythm the sentence should have. Mainly ignoring random commas and periods and screwing up dependent and independent clauses. Personally, when I read, I make sure the sentence sounds understandable, but some people just read and end a sentence on a high note and read the next clause likes it's the end of the sentence, that kind of stuff.

This. They seem to read each word individually without taking in the idea the sentence is conveying.

Study guides for novels.

 

I understand that teachers need to know that the student read the book, but damn, can I just enjoy the novel (isn't that what reading fiction is about) without constantly thinking, "Oh God, what quotes have symbolism?"

^ that's the whole point of highschool english. The teachers and students put more effort into analysing the text than the author put in writing it. :lol:

^ that's the whole point of highschool english. The teachers and students put more effort into analysing the text than the author put in writing it. :lol:

What I want to know is how much the author expected the reader to see in his/her writing. I think it'd be funny if you went back in time and talked with such an author who responded with, "Hell no, symbolism? I was just writing a fun story!"

^ that's the whole point of highschool english. The teachers and students put more effort into analysing the text than the author put in writing it. :lol:

What I want to know is how much the author expected the reader to see in his/her writing. I think it'd be funny if you went back in time and talked with such an author who responded with, "Hell no, symbolism? I was just writing a fun story!"

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Brilliant, haha :thumbsup:

I think the reason so many people "hate reading" is because of how English teachers ruin it. People would hate movies too if there were teachers that stopped the movie every 2 minutes to ask about the symbolism in the scene. Even worse is that when you try to bring up alternate interpretations, teachers will dismiss it.

 

On a side-note, just because an author didn't intend for something to be symbolic doesn't mean it isn't.

I think the reason so many people "hate reading" is because of how English teachers ruin it. People would hate movies too if there were teachers that stopped the movie every 2 minutes to ask about the symbolism in the scene.

I had a teacher that did that in high school. :\

On a side-note, just because an author didn't intend for something to be symbolic doesn't mean it isn't.

Well, if we're talking about symbolic of perhaps what the author is feeling/his lifestyle/experiences, that's very true. It could be subconscious. But that kind of symbolism that concerns an actual character's feelings (assuming the character does not represent a person in the author's real life) is a different case. imo

What I want to know is how much the author expected the reader to see in his/her writing. I think it'd be funny if you went back in time and talked with such an author who responded with, "Hell no, symbolism? I was just writing a fun story!"

I took a creative writing course at a community college recently. Everyone in the class had to present a story. Mine was intended to be an over-the-top monologue from the perspective of a guy who couldn't decide what to have for dinner. Cue comments that, based on one throwaway sentence from the character's wife, I wrote a story from the perspective of a man in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The scary part was that it made more sense than what I intended. :ohnoes:

Even worse is that when you try to bring up alternate interpretations, teachers will dismiss it.

This. Me and a friend were in American Lit together last year, and we were reading the Great Gatsby. We came up with this huge, multi-leveled explanation of why Gatsby was a pirate, and when we tried to do our final project with this, the teacher was like, "No. Get out."

 

Instead, I made all the characters from basically all our stories into pirates and made a script out of it. I showed her.

I only had one English teacher who turned down alternate interpretations. The other 2 (I had one teacher twice; unfortunately, it was the close-minded one) were open to anything legitimate.

 

But that one teacher used to turn down anything that wasn't EXACTLY what she thought.

I hate it when English teachers over-analyze every single line in a poem/short story...

 

What also annoys me is when people give you crap for being a "picky eater". Seriously, I don't like everything, why is that so bad? Most of the stuff I dislike are pretty expensive, too. meh

That picky eater thing is me, as well. Except that I really am very picky. I have a very short list of foods I like.

I have a very short list of foods I don't like.

Picky eaters only annoy me when they won't try something that they've never had. If you tried something and don't like it sure, but don't tell me you don't like something if you've never eaten it.