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I recently played the Enslaved DLC, where you need to use L3 to crouch, and it was awful. I hate having to use the buttons on the analogue sticks for pretty much anything.

I hate The Warblers. They should have called them The Blaines. I'm fine with them returning as long as it doesn't mean Blaine's going to sing at least one song every episode. Because he seems like a pretty flaky writer. See: Sam being gay. I know there are more examples, but I can't think of any right now. I think there's a reason every high school show moves over to college once the kids graduate. Before Glee turned into 'cover of the week' in season two, it was about the characters. So we spend three seasons getting to know these characters and then, what - we start all over again with a bunch of new characers? Haven't you ever watched a TV show where an actor leaves and you find yourself thinking, "man, I wish he/she was still around"? Imagine having half the cast disappear overnight. It's not like they've exhausted the storyline possibilities for their current characters. A whole bunch of them still haven't had a storyline that has lasted for more than an episode. The only way I can see it not being a total disaster is if people really do just care abut the music. But in that case, they should just drop the pretense of having a story and actual characters and just do forty minutes of covers every week.

Kind of defeats the purpose of 3D trailers, doesn't it?

"Then what's the point in 100%?" was exactly my point, so I think you've got the gist of the discussion. Kurtle, if you still haven't watched a movie that you think deserves a 10, then either you need to lower your standards for what constitutes a 10, or you need to watch better movies. I can think of a bunch of games (I'm not a big movie buff, so I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about movies) that I would give 10s if I reviewed them. Not a single one of them is perfect, of course, but I don't think that really matters. And I say this as someone who's been accused on several occasions of being an overly negative reviewer. :p

It may as well not exist if you never use it. If I make a game with ten levels, but the tenth level is completely inaccessible, the game still has ten levels. Ten. End. If I judge a competition and hand out a special platinum prize to perfect performances but no one can ever get it because no performance is perfect, it still exists. The platinum prize still exists. End. My whole issue was with you saying that you would never give a movie 100%, so if you're willing to do so, rate away. Though it seems a bit strange to say that 100% is reserved for perfect films and then say you'd be willing to give a film a perfect score even if it wasn't perfect. Round up from what? 99%? 98%? We both agreed that rating out of a hundred is stupid, so what - you'd be rounding up from 9? There's always going to be a 'but' when you're reviewing something. "This movie was amazing/it was touching/it had a deep meaning/whatever... but... that one extra looked out of place/there was one scene that felt redundant/the lighting was off occasionally/whatever." If you're looking for reasons to give a nine, you're always going to find something that makes the movie not perfect. But when it's deserved (and it sometimes is), you shouldn't be afraid to give a movie a 10. Not all flaws are made equal. The whole notion that 10 means perfect needs to go away. Otherwise, 9 is going to mean less because you give it to every great movie and 10 is going to mean even less because no movie can ever get it. My movie idea is awesome, by the way. Edit: I think my point is that either 10 means perfect, in which case no movie can ever get a 10, or it's just the highest score and you give it to movies that deserve it. I think the latter is preferable.

I'm sorry to hear that, Captain Falcon.

Yes, giving something 10/10 makes you as easily pleased as a child. Clearly. The thing is, nothing can ever be perfect. If God himself came down from the heavens and made a romantic action-comedy starring Julia Roberts and Arnold Schwarzenegger as wise-cracking vampires, people would still find flaws in it. So you'll never give a film 100%. Ever. So the score may as well not even exist. If 90% is the highest attainable score, then that's essentially your 'perfect score'. Because there isn't a higher score. 10s should be reserved for the very best movies/games/whatever, but there's no point in making them unattainable. I agree that rating out of a hundred is stupid and needs to go away forever, but you just said that you'd give a perfect film 99% not two seconds ago, so...

I hear people in prison enter relationships with people of the same sex because there isn't anyone of the opposite sex around. That might worth looking into, Kurtle!

If you never give any movie 100%, you're essentially just shifting the 'perfect score' to 90% and rating on a 1-9 scale. That seems unnecessarily complicated. It might help to look at it as a 10 rather than 100%. Seems less... perfect that way.

No, that's an extra bonus this time around. I also think they've made it a bit harder overall.

You're like Rachel on Friends. She got fired. Congratulations.

He's always done that:

That was my first thought, but then I saw LittleBigPlanet 2. The Sly games are worth checking out.

Did it put you off watching television forever? Because I can understand that. I think most people download TV shows and watch them that way. I don't think trying to watch things directly online is really the way to go unless you live in the US and have access to Hulu or the official sites.

Needs more Uncharted 2, I think.

There should never be a Toy Story 4. I'm not really too worried about Tom Hanks saying that he thinks there will be one and that he thinks they're working on it now. One actor thinking a studio is going to make a sequel in a successful franchise is hardly confirmation of it definitely happening.

Hahaha, no. As illustrated by this thread.

Maybe now that I've fixed your post.

It's a joke about how he suffers from Parkinson's disease.

At least she has a job. :p Serious advice: Drug her/get her really drunk/make sure she oversleeps somehow, then dress up as her and go to the appraisal in her place.

But... they are...

Sappy... Cirthday... G. I'm not very good at this.

Wah, wah, they changed it, now it sucks. I get enough of this when I read the IMDb boards.