Recent content by Aphroditty

I think MovieBob's spot on here. Phantom Meneace wasn't any more cataclysmic than we allowed it to be. For my part, I was a kid when it came out. The original Star Wars movies were hands-down my favorites, so I was simply psyched when the first prequel came out. It didn't disappoint me--although...

Normally I wouldn't, because these drug arguments are always so boring, but this made me laugh so much that I had to respond. Now, I have not read the whole thread, so it's possible I may be repeating what someone else already said. If so, I do apologize. Anyway, that's a silly argument. The...

I agree that everyone should probably have to kill at least one thing and then make it into a steak, but not for every meal. Just... too impractical. Regardless, the levels of meat consumption in the country need to come down (although I'm very far from a vegetarian).

I usually go "ba dum tish," if I just told a bad joke. The "tish" just makes me think of a really weak, flat cymbal to highlight an equally awful joke. "Ba dum tssh" is how I would actually write it, but it's never come up.

I'm sure somebody has mentioned already, but that figure of NetEase's 1.1 billion yuan value translating to 1.59 billion US dollars is incorrect. As a note, in China at least they do not charge 15 dollars USD for a month's subscription. That rate would equal roughly 1170 yuan per year at...

I'm a fair bit squeamish, particularly when it comes to romantic embarrassment, so many rom-coms are actually a bit difficult for me to get through. But a movie that really got to me was Requiem for a Dream. There were definitely a few scenes that would get to a lot of people, but the entire...

Fair enough. And cheers!

What use is intelligibility, if it intelligibly communicates misinformation?

Spelling, generally speaking, has no relation to intelligence. With that in mind I really try not to judge people based on their spelling. But since I'm usually a good speller and mildly competitive to boot, sometimes I do. Am I proud of it? No. However, I do try to help bad spellers where I...

As others have said, the vast majority of words in a language which refer to an object, idea or action have no relation to the objects that they refer to, beyond the fact that they refer to it. So water is called what it is because we have to refer to it by something, and saying or writing the...

I agree that society is not in conflict with our nature, however, it can't be said that society reveals nature, or even how we feel about it (after all, society changes how we perceive nature). Society is our nature, as much as selfishness is; our ability to communicate and empathize with others...

Your brain is easily fooled. If your brain can remember real [http://io9.com/5804917/science-proves-that-skillful-advertisers-can-word+jack-your-brain?tag=psychology], even when a part of you knows it isn't. That's because your brain is not interested in giving you the truth; your brain is...

Generally speaking, the only interaction I'm going to have with a cop is when I'm getting a ticket. I've never even gotten a ticket, but there's really no other time that I'm much going to interact with a man of the law. So yeah, when I see 'em, especially highway patrol, there's a moment of...

And yet, because there are so many people writing and reading compared to just two hundred years ago, literature has blossomed and expanded a hundredfold. What you're talking about is Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is shit. Good law, although obviously the percentages don't have to be that...

The slow-motion boobies are what's exploding. Nothing but class, Michael Bay has.