The 10,000 Post Thread v2

[astronelson 339]

8851.

Most of what I watch is on our public broadcaster, the ABC (not to be confused with ABC). There's usually something good on most nights.

[airman15 4,111]

8850.

TV has become a wasteland, Hollywood is so out of touch with entertainment.

8852

Spot on. Some of the newer movies I have seen just keep getting worse and worse as time goes on. I think the 2010's is going to be another decade of terrible movies (or can we even call them movies anymore?) especially with movies like the 3 Stooges (there's a certain way to bring a 30's style up to modern times and this movie failed to attempt this), Battleship (really? make a movie based on a board game and add aliens was the best they could come up with?) and i'm sure the new TMNT is going to be another movie to tarnish the series (I think Michel Bay did enough damage with Transformers).

[Duke87 1,070]

(8853)

The dumbing down of entertainment merely follows the dumbing down of society.

That, and Hollywood is more about the money and less about the art than it used to be.

Doesn't help either that special effects aren't cheap and making a good fancy movie in the modern day requires a lot of investment that it needs to be a big hit in order to get a good return on.

[Larks2242 251]

8854.

Aliens do not belong in battleship, they have destroyed the game for me.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

8855

Integral Calculus is hard. I was supposed to start work on the Substitution Rule homework due Tuesday but instead I read and wrote about SimCity.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8856)

Heh, yeah, sounds like me in college. Homework due Tuesday was no way ever getting done before Monday night!

I've found that I actually often get things done faster if you don't give me a deadline. A due date for homework just ended up being excuse to procrastinate until the last minute. No hard deadline on something important, meanwhile, means I do it as soon as I get a chance. It's like I interpret the deadline to mean "I don't have to have it done until then" rather than "I have to have it done before then".

[jacksunny 741]

8857.

My English teacher forgets almost every time she gives us homework to collect it and mark it.

[simlink 1,098]

8858

Procrastination always leads to fun last minutes...

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

8859.

You know, I missed the conclusion of the last 10K thread. Only appropriate I help wrap up this one. Back on topic, I've decided to stop procrastinating....starting tomorrow.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8860)

...and someone else changes their name. I really wish that members hadn't been given the ability to do that.

Seriously, it causes confusion when people's names change. If I hadn't recognized your avatar, I wouldn't have known who you were or known that I'd seen you before!

  Edited October 11, 2012 by Duke87  

[Ocram's Razr 963]

8861

I changed my avatar from the Space Needle to the Washington Mutual Tower. Then I changed my displayed name from Ilikeseattle to OcramSeattle. Then I changed the picture to a modified picture meant to display the Mezaton Mutual tower.

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[astronelson 339]

8862.

I've changed my picture quite a few times, certainly too many to list them all, but I do have a folder on my computer with copies of most of them.

Sorting by date, they have been:

1. Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb
   
2. Jojo from Horton Hears a Who
   
3. Scamper from Igor
   
4. Xandir from Drawn Together
   
5. Changed Daily from The Secret Show
   
6. Aerrow from Sky Knights
   
7. Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
   
8. a drawing of a paramecium
   
9. a fox
   
10. the same picture of a fox except wearing a Santa hat
    
11. Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist (also wearing a Santa hat)
    
12. chibi Zexion from Kingdom Hearts
    
13. a different picture of Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
    
14. Lord Vetinari from Discworld
    
15. a picture of a cat wearing a watermelon helmet
    
16. Australia from Scandinavia and the World
    
17. Admiral Nelson
    
18. Axel from Kingdom Hearts
    
19. Marluxia from Kingdom Hearts
    
20. Vexen from Kingdom Hearts
    
21. a different picture of Vexen from Kingdom Hearts
    
22. Xion from Kingdom Hearts
    
23. Demyx from Kingdom Hearts
    
24. another picture of Zexion from Kingdom Hearts
    
25. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII
    
26. an original picture of Alexis Marfan from an abandoned CJ
    
27. Demyx in the iPod ad style
    
28. Axel in the iPod ad style
    
29. Marik from Yu-Gi-Oh
    
30. Benedict Arnold
    
31. Britain
    
32. the German Eurovision logo
    
33. Xigbar from Kingdom Hearts
    
34. Neko Wikipe-tan
    
35. Shindo Shuichi from Gravitation
    
36. Edd from Ed, Edd, and Eddy
    
37. Roxas from Kingdom Hearts
    
38. Sora from Kingdom Hearts
    
39. a different picture of Sora from Kingdom Hearts
    
40. an original (bad) drawing of a face
    
41. another picture of Sora from Kingdom Hearts
    
42. the ABC logo
    
43. Terra from Kingdom Hearts
    
44. Sora from Digimon
    
45. Lyle Lanley from The Simpsons
    
46. Sora from Digimon with the "It Gets Better" logo
    
47. Vexen punching Axel
    
48. Bo from Sugar Bits
    
49. Takuto Tsunashi from Star Driver
    
50. Octavia from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
    
51. and the current one, a humanised version of Vinyl Scratch from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
    

A couple might be ones I used elsewhere, but most of them definitely were used here.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8863)

My current avatar is my 70th here.

[RipRap 4,400]

8864

Wow I only changed mine a few times

[Ocram's Razr 963]

8865

I finished my homework due tomorrow but little else.

[simlink 1,098]

8866

I've only ever used 6 avatars here I think. A bouncing sheep, SC pic of CN Tower, my Periodic Table of Trixies 2011 Avatar, A picture of a tree, and 2 CJ related avatars.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8867)

Wow I only changed mine a few times

You've also only been here a third of the time I have.

Of course, when I was newer here, I changed my avatar pretty often. By my 1st anniversary I was already up to 28 (that's an average of a new avatar every 13 days). On the date you registered a bit over three years ago, I was on my 63rd avatar.

[astronelson 339]

8868.

If I change avatars at about the same average rate I have since becoming a member, by the time I've been here as long as Duke has now I'll have used over 100 avatars.

It is starting to get to the point where I'll stick with the same one for a while though.

And, of course, my estimated time to reach 10,000 posts myself at my overall post rate is late December 2014.

[Larks2242 251]

8869.

I don't save my avatars apart from a select few.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8870)

At NY comic con!

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

8871.

I was just going to add capitalization to my name originally, but I thought 'ah what the hell' and made it match my name everywhere else on the web.

Don't go searching for it.

Please.

[Larks2242 251]

8872.

I was just going to add capitalization to my name originally, but I thought 'ah what the hell' and made it match my name everywhere else on the web.

Don't go searching for it.

Please.

Well looky who we got here, Hey self proclaimed Trainguy, haven't seen you round these parts in awhile how goes it?

[astronelson 339]

8873.

I've given myself the task of working through my physics textbook using only a pen, paper, and a slide rule. I've made my way through one chapter.

I'm really starting to like the slide rule, it's a great piece of equipment.

[Duke87 1,070]

(8874)

Can't say I've ever even seen an actual slide rule in person, and I have no clue how it works.

I'm fine with calculators, myself.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

8875

I can't remember how to do any of the math on the 9th graders' midterm exam here, although I do know we were taught how to do it in high school. I'm a lot better at social studies and languages, not that they're any easier for me to learn, I just like studying them more.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

8876

I have never used a slide rule in my entire life. I am so glad that we have graphing calculators!

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[Duke87 1,070]

(8877)

For calculating things I usually use Excel. Whether on my computer at home or my computer at work, I almost always have something open in it... so, grab an empty cell and stat typing equations. Easy!

[airman15 4,111]

8878

I am dependent on calculators except when it comes to basic math. I normally use calculators for decimals, fractions, quadratic equations and squares/square roots (one of the things I HATE dealing with)...

[SomeRandomAmerican 5]

8879.

I can't math, which is bad for a university student who is required to take mathematics courses.

8872.

Well looky who we got here, Hey self proclaimed Trainguy, haven't seen you round these parts in awhile how goes it?

Well howdy hey there stranger. Its going...alright. The Real World claimed me for a while. Just trying to get back into the groove of things round here. How's life been?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

8880

Dude, I totally understand your feeling about trying to get back into the swing of things, SomeRandomAmerican, that was me like a year and a half ago!