Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=Alice3173;44086410]I can honestly say high school taught me very little. I learned some in math my junior and senior years but past that my first three years of high school covered next to nothing I hadn't already learned on my own elsewhere.[/QUOTE]
To clarify on this, I spent way too much of my time as a child reading my family's set of encyclopedias as well as some (fairly old) college textbooks. Between all those it managed to cover the vast majority of everything I was taught in high school. The only things that were really new to me were math my last two years of school, about half the chemistry class I took, and a handful of other classes such as my English class my last year of school and Japanese which was, if I recall correctly, my junior year of school. Past those the rest of my classes were lucky to teach me even a single fact I didn't already know.
some people make grate vines, but most are just some white girls twerking or people doing shit that's already been done before
[QUOTE=Skyward;44093811]The Sims 3 is the best in the series. Sure I miss the style of Sims 1 and 2, and its humor, and the rabbit hole lots are bullshit, but everything else in the game is just a plain upgrade to the Sims formula to the point where looking over those problems is easy.[/QUOTE]
The problem imo is how EA keeps making the same expansions over and over. Going from TS2 with the expansion to vanilla TS3 felt like a downgrade in many ways.
If I ever wanted to play The Sims again I'd install TS2 from my discs because even though TS3 is a nice upgrade, I'd have to spend hundreds of bucks again to get a game with the same amount of content.
[QUOTE=bdd458;44092491]I go to a pretty good Semi-Private High School (If you're in one of the towns that sends their kids to the school, it's free. If you're not it's tuition. All funds the school gets are through private endowments).
All my teachers, with the exception of a couple Freshman year were p. ace who care a lot about teaching and about their students. For example, my AP US teacher last year (He is also my Modern History teacher this year) cares a lot about what he does, and is a really great, relaxed teacher. Monday last channel we did nothing but talk about shit other than Modern History. There's always a laugh to be had, and we actually learn. it's really nice.[/QUOTE]
That is because they are making a hell of a lot more than $40,000 a year.
Schooling in general in this country is awful. The blame shifts everywhere from the government to the teachers to the parents, but really it is a collective snowball of these things that fucks it up. Part of it is the stupid, shitty way the government handles education by basically giving more successful schools money because of graduation rates, even if those schools aren't actually [I]successful[/I] at creating good students because their grades are terrible. As long as they graduate, in the government's eyes they did a great job and they throw more money at them. This has caused many schools to adopt policy designed at passing as many students as possible. For example, my psych teacher spilled the beans to my class that he was told that if a student had an F, even if it was a 0%, (they didn't do ANY work whatsoever) that he had to bump it up to a 55% in the gradebook.
This has bred a society of uneducated dumbfucks. We spend so much time trying to force people through school instead of actually making them learn shit. People who don't [I]want[/I] to learn will not learn, and many countries have realized that already and put up other opportunities for education geared more towards those people. The US, on the other hand, has decided everyone needs the same basic curriculum that has remained unchanged for very nearly 100 years now. There's no way to avoid it, and the "No Child Left Behind" policy has ruined any effective education because instead of focusing on the students who excel and providing a better education for them, we have to pander to the lowest common denominator of students who don't care, meaning our actually smart people who have a chance at success are left in the dirt so the teachers can focus on lazy shitheads who don't want to learn and wont amount to anything in the current system.
Then there is a bit of the fault on the teachers, but that is true for everywhere. People are people, and it is unavoidable. However, it is understandable that many would get fed up with teaching on a yearly salary of $40,000, especially with how much work they are expected to do. My dad taught for 9 years. He did his best because he wanted to educate his pupil's to be productive people. I don't know how successful he was (but I have heard good things from his former students; they seemed to like him) but he caved in and quit once me and my brother were born because [I]it is too much work and you don't make enough money.[/I] You work from sunrise to sunset grading papers, planning, teaching, sitting in on meetings, e.t.c. It is no wonder most teachers hate it after a while.
Then it is the fault of our citizens and culture in general. Because of the aforementioned issues, most people graduated from highschool to find an uncaring world and because they weren't allowed to hone what skills and talents they were good at, they ended up work a dead-end job at fucking Arby's. Then they teach their kids that school is useless and it got them nowhere, perpetuating this cycle of apathy for education. And now you can't even make it by on just a highschool diploma. If you don't have a college diploma, you aren't getting anywhere. Yet college is very expensive, takes up a lot of time, and you aren't even guaranteed a job once you leave. This has led many to believe college is useless, and even people who go to college invariably waste it smoking weed and drinking beer and partying, resulting in expulsion.
It is no wonder this nation is a cesspool that is only getting worse. People are less and less educated with each generation because of these issues. The government's attempts to "help" the situation are only making it worse. I don't even know if it can be fixed. Like most problems in this country, the problems have been allowed to fester too long, like and infected wound. There isn't a way to treat it; it is too far gone. You could sever the limb, but if you did that for all the problems in this country there wouldn't be anything left.
America makes me sad. While I don't think it will be straight up apocalyptic or anything, I do feel like this society is falling from grace (hell, it never was [I]in[/I] grace to begin with) and standards are dropping. America's time in the limelight is over. This country may continue to dominate this planet for the next hundred years or even thousand, but it will be only an old remnant. A formality. A memorial to what could have been and what should have been but was not. All I can hope is that other places will learn from our mistakes and correct them before they happen.
I would rather live in japan during the 1980s or so. I think I would fit in far better into the schools and stuff. I wouldn't mind the extra school work or lack of technology, since I would have actual PEOPLE to spend my time with, not cleverbot.
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44093393]moving to finland would be pointless in the first place and the language is virtually impossible to learn.
i'm finnish (oh god why) and even i have a hard time speaking it sometimes, english is so much easier.[/QUOTE]
eh, it's a pretty, spacious country. Though so is America I guess.
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;44096403]Then there is a bit of the fault on the teachers, but that is true for everywhere. People are people, and it is unavoidable. However, it is understandable that many would get fed up with teaching on a yearly salary of $40,000, especially with how much work they are expected to do. My dad taught for 9 years. He did his best because he wanted to educate his pupil's to be productive people. I don't know how successful he was (but I have heard good things from his former students; they seemed to like him) but he caved in and quit once me and my brother were born because [I]it is too much work and you don't make enough money.[/I] You work from sunrise to sunset grading papers, planning, teaching, sitting in on meetings, e.t.c. It is no wonder most teachers hate it after a while.[/QUOTE]
I find this part ridiculous. I've known a few teachers that were exceptionally good teachers and really cared about their students but could barely even make ends meet.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44093880]The Sims is a depressing game series.[/QUOTE]
"why am I watching a fake character do things I should be doing right now" the series
I don't really play sims but when I do I just make an asshole and screw with the other characters, its just sad playing that game normally
[QUOTE=Alice3173;44096532]I find this part ridiculous. I've known a few teachers that were exceptionally good teachers and really cared about their students but could barely even make ends meet.[/QUOTE]
I have a feeling it was the Art teacher
I don't like Green Day.
Or Fallout Boy.
Or any other modern Punk band.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;44097896]I don't like Green Day.
Or Fallout Boy.
Or any other modern Punk band.[/QUOTE]
not unpopular after the age of 12
[editline]1st March 2014[/editline]
thankfully
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4[/media]
Fuck this song. I really hate this song, and it seems I'm the only one.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44097903]not unpopular after the age of 12
[editline]1st March 2014[/editline]
thankfully[/QUOTE]
But if we're going into an unpopular opinion after twelve years old, there's only one Green Day song I like. Holiday, and I blame one of the Tony Hawk games for that.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44097845]I have a feeling it was the Art teacher[/QUOTE]
Two different science teachers, a special ed. teacher, and a math teacher. (The math teacher being the best math teacher I've had.) After my sophomore year we didn't actually have an art teacher. They sacked her or she quit or something like that.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;44098553]Two different science teachers, a special ed. teacher, and a math teacher. (The math teacher being the best math teacher I've had.) After my sophomore year we didn't actually have an art teacher. They sacked her or she quit or something like that.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't surprise me, a lot of schools have art teachers pay for the paint with their own money. At least all the schools I know of have done that. Either way it's bullshit.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44097903]not unpopular after the age of 12
[editline]1st March 2014[/editline]
thankfully[/QUOTE]
Eh, I kinda like fall out boy, even though they're massive cuntbags. I think some of the music sounds good but I don't really go out of my way to listen to it.
I tried out a few mechanical keyboards today. I thought the red cherry mx were nice but not so much better that I'd replace my rubber dome keyboard.
The blues just got on my nerves.
i am liking the new thief game so far
that's pretty unpopular i guess
halo 4's art is the best of all halo game's art. 343i has some of the most talented artists to work on a halo game.
EarthBound is overrated.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;44099243]EarthBound is overrated.[/QUOTE]
I never was a huge fan of the actual gameplay but I still liked the story/artwork/music/etc
I really didn't like Skyrim at all and felt the Oblivion was a much better game. Morrowind>Oblivion>The rest>Skyrim.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44098641]That doesn't surprise me, a lot of schools have art teachers pay for the paint with their own money. At least all the schools I know of have done that. Either way it's bullshit.[/QUOTE]
After all these years i finally found out why my DT cooking teacher was so adamant on cleaning everything up so they're spotless. She had to buy all the cooking equipment and cutlery out of her own money.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;44097896]I don't like Green Day.
Or Fallout Boy.
Or any other modern Punk band.[/QUOTE]
The Hives want to speak with you. And basically every other band from the Post-Punk Revival of the early 2000's :D.
[video=youtube;pgQ8gph1kHs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQ8gph1kHs[/video]
[QUOTE=bdd458;44103636]The Hives want to speak with you. And basically every other band from the Post-Punk Revival of the early 2000's :D.
[video=youtube;pgQ8gph1kHs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQ8gph1kHs[/video][/QUOTE]
Okay, that's alright.
I also hate post-Master of Puppets Metallica. Bunch of fucking sellouts.
Also, One is a boring, overrated, shitty song.
If you want a good Thrash Metal band, go for Slayer.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;44105114]Okay, that's alright.
I also hate post-Master of Puppets Metallica. Bunch of fucking sellouts.
Also, One is a boring, overrated, shitty song.
If you want a good Thrash Metal band, go for Slayer.[/QUOTE]
That's funny. I used to think the same way.
But then I actually listened to Load/ReLoad and I found out I actually like the songs on those albums.
And exactly how is making music that you wanna make selling out? "Lars Ulrich: "This album and what we're doing with it – that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, then just sit down and fucking die.""
Speaking of music, slow paced songs are better than fast paced ones.
[QUOTE=Blazedol;44105534]Speaking of music, slow paced songs are better than fast paced ones.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, the old school metallica kinda wears me out when I listen to it too much.
I like the slower songs, and they have a bunch of them on the Load albums.
Honestly, I like this song.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8SJggnNRI4[/media]
Love it, reminds me of those bright summer nights.
And this, I dunno man, but this song also is touching to me. One of my favs actually.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVcbVeMnt8[/media]
I mean, at first when I heard these songs, I thought they were shitty and all that. But these songs have grown on me.
Bleeding Me is propably my favorite song from Metallica, but my favorite song really depends on my mood, right now overall I think is GnR Estranged (instrumental), gotta love that fucking wailing guitar. Or maybe it's High Hopes from Pink Floyd, that is a superb song.
Bleeding Me
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftV_XepIwpo[/media]
[QUOTE=usaokay;44102008]I could hardly give any shits about Justin Bieber and whoever else people seem to hate/always talk about.
No, really, I could hardly care. At all.
If you dislike some celebrity, don't talk about it (or watch whatever dribble he/she puts out on Youtube). Simple.
On that note, I find it funny that most people here are against the paparazzi because they intrude on people's private lives, but when you see the news about a celebrity you hate getting the boot, then you'll fist pump. It's a tiny bit hypocritical.[/QUOTE]
Hating against justin bieber I don't really get too much, we weren't really forced to hear him, didn't hear him much over the radio. But hating on miley cyrus for example is justified cause you are pretty much forced to hear her music because it gets radio play, so if you go outside you WILL hear it at some point.
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44105507]And exactly how is making music that you wanna make selling out? "Lars Ulrich: "This album and what we're doing with it – that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, then just sit down and fucking die.""[/QUOTE]
Maybe "sellouts" was a bad way to put it.
I just don't like Metallica.
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