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Orogun01

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  1. I think after hearing that I would give the kid a glass.
  2. Doing anything else but watching it?
  3. It works for women, Does it? We are talking about ideas that have been pushed forth by hysterical women in the past...I'd say yeah.
  4. It works for women, aren't we equal and all that.
  5. When you Google the answer because Sierra developers are actually aliens that don't understand human logic.
  6. Funny thing is that Kotick was not overpaid, at least not comparatively. Activision was the best performing game stock for a long time, and that's what Bobby got paid for. At this point he's pretty much run the company into the ground by focusing on the short term and relying on big franchises with little new stuff coming through, but that same approach of having no chaff is what brought in the money and inflated the stock prices (more than others, to be clear) in the first place. Stock markets themselves are the fundamental problem as they focus far too much on short term; and everything inflated beyond their actual worth due to low interest rates/ quantitative easing. Even relatively poorly performing companies like EA saw huge share price appreciation over the last few years. Considering that Activision has declined for the past 5 years I would say that he's been overpaid and living from his past glories from the video game bubble of 2009. Quite frankly if investors thought that a one trick pony like Kotick was a good bet they deserve to lose money. Also, I"m curious what you mean by quantitation easing. I've never heard of it being applied to video game stock.
  7. Except that sometimes they don't go down with the ship. In fact, sometimes even when the company goes down in flames the top executives STILL get their year end bonuses and then get hired by another company for 7 figures to boot. Hey; i"m just trying to explain investors thought, process I didn't say that it was sound or rational. Although to keep playing Devil's advocate, that jump might be a lot sooner if they get a better offer.
  8. I'm going to play devil's advocate here; the reason they get that much money is so that they go down with the ship. Most firings happen at a top level and a bottom level, and at the top level they need to guarantee that the people involved keep the company's secrets, they serve the investors best interests and that they don't go to another company. Paying them high salaries guarantees that and it justifies the very restrictive contracts that they have to sign. Seriously though, looking at this and at how Bobby Kotick has been overpayed all these years it is no surprise that investors are launching an investigation into the company.
  9. I wonder if understanding of the Federal Reserve system will ever reach the point where people start to act against it.
  10. I'd give Ubi fans a pass, I mean for crying out loud, this is what you and I like: Edit: You can actually assign Nugget to be your manager and he does a great job! Why does a chicken need a paycheck, its even bigger than some of the human characters. Anyways I usually hire Steven Spielberg and Michael Jackson for my properties, but the chicken is good.
  11. It's either having guns or teenage girls selling their panties; I would hope for a happy medium where teenage gun toting girls sell their panties without fear.
  12. Really try to get all charms, some boss fights get easier if you have the right combination. Get the notches too for the same reason.
  13. ...Did you take all the refugees that were running from the massive ice storm?
  14. It is a lot of what I hear and seen from Superhero movies nowadays. Too many needless action sequences jammed into the film and directed by second units.
  15. Does Rosbjerg know? In the words of the famous Admiral Acbar 'It's a trap!!'
  16. She goes out of her way to mention "White Rage" omits the bit on the film where Michael Douglas is attacked by Hispanic gangs, and completely avoids mentioning the race of the LA rioters. The economic gap between classes was less before the 80's, I would say that is certainly more gilded than in recent times. The fact is that she isn't old enough to have the reference of a better time. I brought up Do the Right thing as it is a similar premise but with a different race, except that since blacks are on the liberals protected groups (unless they're Republicans) you'd likely won't hear a peep from SJW reviewers. Falling Down is definitively not a movie for this generation of apologist snowflakes.
  17. I sincerely hope that you don't drink the Kool Aid like the author of that article, riddled with eschewed social commentary that reveals his political leanings. She omits events from the film that don't support her narrative and frames the rest to fit with it. In short; Feminist writer doesn't like the film, what a surprise. Coincidentally, I guess she feels more compassionate to the LA rioters as she fails to condemn their actions. I guess that Falling Down is just White rage but Do the Right Thing is righteous black indignation, I think I can safely dismiss her opinion on the film. The film serves as social commentary on a decaying society and the main characters as someone from a golden past who is mad at the status quo. At every turn it seems that the world turns against him and refuses to give him the simple thing that he wants. Change to call his family, a breakfast meal,etc etc. Falling Down is actually the satirical take on society that GTA pretends to be, you have a man that keeps running into the worst aspects of society and reacts in an extreme manner. The reason he has to be the bad guy is that the film can't be seen as advocating that people should go on rampages.
  18. Love the movie, hate the ending. It always felt forced, as in he needs to be a bad guy because otherwise the film would be accused of promoting violence, even though for most of it he is a sympathetic character. The ending isn't the thing making him a bad guy. His anger felt justified to me, maybe that's what made him sympathetic. The issue isn't the justification or lack thereof, but the way in which he responds to those triggers. It's kind of what makes a villain a sympathetic villain: relatable motivations to justify questionable deeds. So you never had enough bull**** to run your cup over? You never yelled at a telemarketer for bothering you after a hard day, or did something in the like? Either you should get yourself nominated for sainthood or get yourself some self awareness, cause I'm pretty sure everyone gets fed up and vents. Sometimes at the expense of someone. If venting was the worst Michael Douglas did throughout the film, sure (kinda? It's not like if I did something in the past, I immediately consider it to be the right thing or justified). But it's not, far from it. Maybe is generational or cultural difference but I do like to favor individual's right over upholding the social contract, specially when you run into a situation where the scale is heavily tipped in favor of society.
  19. Love the movie, hate the ending. It always felt forced, as in he needs to be a bad guy because otherwise the film would be accused of promoting violence, even though for most of it he is a sympathetic character. The ending isn't the thing making him a bad guy. His anger felt justified to me, maybe that's what made him sympathetic. The issue isn't the justification or lack thereof, but the way in which he responds to those triggers. It's kind of what makes a villain a sympathetic villain: relatable motivations to justify questionable deeds. So you never had enough bull**** to run your cup over? You never yelled at a telemarketer for bothering you after a hard day, or did something in the like? Either you should get yourself nominated for sainthood or get yourself some self awareness, cause I'm pretty sure everyone gets fed up and vents. Sometimes at the expense of someone.
  20. Love the movie, hate the ending. It always felt forced, as in he needs to be a bad guy because otherwise the film would be accused of promoting violence, even though for most of it he is a sympathetic character. The ending isn't the thing making him a bad guy. His anger felt justified to me, maybe that's what made him sympathetic.
  21. Do you have good running form? If you hit the ground to hard with your heels you will have back problems.
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