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Correct. Everyone blacks out at the perimeter, except for the path through the coral.
I thought this guy just had like, a white muscle-man fetish. But it's hilarious that he doesn't consider Underworld woke even though it satisfies all the woke conditions that he listed throughout this thread. I'm dying XDD
<blockquote>THE WHITE LEAD,THE ULTIMATE CREATURE IS THE LAMEST LEAD EVER AND SPENDS THE WHOLE MOVIE BEING PROTECTED BY A WOMAN...HE GETS EVEN LESS EFFECTIVE AND THEN DEAD IN THE SEQUELS</blockquote>
So true XD
Your whole argument basically implies that gratuitous gore and violence can't be artful or cinematically thoughtful. I don't think that's correct.
Yeah, perhaps was aiming for a YA audience, with these younger more "relatable" protagonists. But the movie's content itself isn't generically YA friendly either.
I'm not foo familiar with the comic, but it's certainly an older comic, so this movie definitely probably had trouble finding any sort of audience given all these disparate factors.
Ethan Hawke was great though lol. I forgot he could act.
<blockquote>All the older people responding to a problem like 1+2x3 are saying 9; because they were never taught the order of operations.</blockquote>
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult you earlier. I didn't realize what side of the debate you were on. I've just had a lot of arguments with petulant ppl online who do remember pemdas, but just forgot what it meant (which happens a lot, and it's not always older people).
I guarantee you learned the order of operations when you were younger but if you didn't consistently use the knowledge, you just forgot.
It's definitely not just an age gap. I've seen ppl who are literally in school right now, and they just don't know what the fuck's going on. And there were people older than me that definitely remembered had the right answer even though they went to school in the 70s.
edit: there's also a possibility that you were taught incorrectly. I've seen teachers nowadays who fail to understand the subjects that they teach.
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Consider a line, how would you write the formula for it? Typically it'll be something like y = ax + b, with a and b being constants. The expression here is describing the angle and position of a line, with a representing the slope of the line, and b being where the line crosses the y axis. Given the way we describe that, there needs to be consistency on how to describe it.
If ax + b meant something different from b + ax, it would be incoherent.
Because according to these goofballs, you should do A * x + b in the former. And (b + a) * x in the latter, which are two entirely different lines. But they're not. Which is why we use parenthesis if want to add b + a before multiplying x.
This still applies even when you don't have have variables. Just replace a with 2, x with 3, and b with 1.
7 = 2(3)+1 = 1 + 2(3) =/= (1+2)3 = 9
"simplifying an expression" is just the name for the action being performed here, which is to reduce the number of terms in an expression by putting like variables together. In this case, there are no variables, so simplifying the expression reduces it to a single term.
<blockquote>Why would anyone do it in "whatever order they wanted" when you generally do math problems from left to right? </blockquote>
I was just speaking hypothetically, in keeping with my grammar metaphor. PEMDAS is the set of rules as to how to approach the simplification of an expression. And you've answered your own question there. You don't "generally" "do" math problems from left to right". The order of operations is intrinsic to mathematics. The people who don't follow that are just doing it incorrectly.
<blockquote>What makes someone decided to randomly do a math problem in any order they wanted than what we were taught?</blockquote>
lol but this is exactly what all those idiots on social media are doing when they solve these incorrectly and deny the order of operations. Everyone is taught in a very specific way on how to simplify expressions and equations.
<blockquote>The order of operations throws that completely out the window. You don't go left to right and get 9, you do the multiplication first and get 7. </blockquote>
I don't have a historical explanation, so I was discussing it abstractly. But if you're wondering about the practicality realities of why this is important, you can tackle this from a few different ways.
Consider a line, how would you write the formula for it? Typically it'll be something like y = ax + b, with a and b being constants. The expression here is describing the angle and position of a line, with a representing the slope of the line, and b being where the line crosses the y axis. Given the way we describe that, there needs to be consistency on how to describe it.
If ax + b meant something different from b + ax, it would be incoherent.
Unfortunately, the thought provoking nature of the show, and the ways it expanded on the terminator mythos (and elevating it) meant it alienated some casual viewers looking for action, and some of the hardcore fanbase that is only interested in T1 and T2.
Annoying, and out of place. Hell they only added her cause network wanted John to have a gf. Glad they made something interesting out of her story arc.
I second that.
I'm thinking:
-Speed Racer
-Mask of the Phantasm
Plenty of good ones but those two stand out for sure.
-The implication is that they are eating like crazy. They just don't show us. Kinda like how we assume that ppl in other movies go to the rest room, but movies don't show us that all the time.
-Sexual intercourse was not injected into the film for shock value and sensationalism. In fact that was one of the few things taken directly from the source graphic novel. And in terms of understanding sex...I mean, this was kind of the plot of blue lagoon. I guess we can't really say for certain either way of two kids in isolation in the 6-9 age group, will figure out sex, if left to their own devices.
-If the expansion is gradual, you may not notice until it's uncomfortable. It's like a sound, gradually getting louder and louder. You won't register a change if the changes are minute.
-There is no explanation about PMS.
-Everyone aged inconsistently. This is just a movie. This isn't really an oddity.
-Abbey Lee did not age so much faster than the others. Not sure what the flailing around has anything to do with that either. She was breaking her bones.
-They didn't show this part just like they didn't show ppl eat, or show people taking a shit.
-Some of the camera angles are bad, but based on your comment, I think you just didn't like the stylistic choice. They're different and not your usual shots, but not objectively poor. And yes, intentionally keeping things out of sight from the viewer at times. It's not "shock value".
Quite frankly, it matters because that's just the way the mathematics was developed. It's similar to, why did you use a period to end your sentences, or why did you use quotation marks to reference concepts that you were quoting?
It's for clarity and consistency within the rules of grammar.
With PEMDAS, this is just the shared understanding of how to simplify an expression. If people could freely do the operations in whatever order they wanted, then people would just get different responses. I'm not suggesting that like math is arbitrary either. The way we've selected our words and articulated our expressions are arbitrary, but they're linked to true statements such as 1+1=2.
Btw, side note, the reason why ppl are even arguing about it on social media is because a lot of ppl never understood or are misremembering pemdas, which itself is just a simplified heuristic to help young students remember (ironically). People are saying that because "m" is before "d", you do multiplication before division, which isn't true at all.
lmao. nice.
Speed Racer was great.
Better content than this thread.
The movie established he could talk via electrical equipment in the first five minutes of the movie.
And you think that's a reach compared to later on when the movie suddenly displayed his:
-super human strength
-olympian level agility
-ability to manipulate electricity
-the dexterity that would allow him to place first in american ninja warrior ever single time
Hard sci-fi hardly usually doesn't appeal to the masses unless it's like star trek/star wars.
Guardians of the Galaxy worked out because they turned it into a massive comedy with tons of pop culture references.
But when movies are just so out-there, mainstream audiences usually need something to ground them. (Like Bruce willis in the fifth element for instance).
lmao i gotta watch this again now.
The term "woke" was used by the left.
The right uses it derogatively in disagreement.
But "woke" was thought up by the left.
I prefer the Thing, but I have to admit, this is arguably a better movie.