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Oh sure, I think learning for the sake of learning is great, and if people just wanted to go to university because they wanted to, that's great. My issue is that people are pressured into going to university and take on massive loans for degrees that won't pay off in the long run. Basically, I think you should go to university if you think it's a wise investment and your degree will pay off, or if you can afford to and want to.
i think the system in place now where you're basically expected to go to university for any degree is silly, since it leads to so many people going to university who just see it as something they have to do to get a job that they haven't really thought about, rather than actually wanting to be there to study and learn, or making sure the job market for that degree is worthwhile. It's just lead to a lot of people with a lot of degrees that aren't useful that they didn't really want and that they paid a lot of money for, and weird hiring practices where people are expected to have more qualifications for jobs that wouldn't have any a few decades ago.
I think the longer any government exerts its power in a way as visible as it has during the pandemic, the more people will believe in conspiracy theories about it and create their own. I don't think the recent Gamestop stock issues have helped much either.
I'd say something had a lot of cultural impact if it had groups of people talking about it, influenced other work or is commonly referenced by people in casual conversation or other media.
I haven't heard anything about this movie other than the eye-rolling before it came out and the later discovery of it being the highest grossing animated film according to Wikipedia.
I mean, it sounds nice in principle, but that's kind of a kafkatrap of trying to get me to agree with something because it sounds like it has good ideals and being shocked or appalled if I don't. I think it's just founded on the idea that most problems for black people come from white people being racist to them. Black people are killed by their fellow black person at far higher numbers and rates than white people (or cops), yet I've never seen BLM say anything about it or hold any protests or anything, do those black lives not matter? Do black lives only matter when it's a white person ending them?
I'm not even saying racism isn't a problem, but I think the framing of the discussion around it is ultimately unhealthy for the Western world.
People ARE mad about the ending, trust me, the websites I go to have people constantly complaining about the ending of the show, specifically the acupuncture rock and the fact that Aang didn't kill the Firelord. I get people being upset about the first point, it's a way the writers got themselves out the corner they wrote themselves concerning Aang's blocked chakra from Azula zapping him with a lightning bolt, but at least it provided a cool fight scene. I think the people who wanted Aang to kill Ozai had weird expectations, and I won't complain about them here.
Also I think Aang "keeping" Katara as an earthly attachment is what prevents him from entering the avatar state at will, instead of when he is in danger. Not great writing either, but I kind of like some of the idea behind it.
In the Legend of Korra sequel series (which is really disappointing in itself despite sounding great on paper) there are more sky bison because apparently some fire sages kept some in secret so the future airbenders get to fly around on them in it. I think it's a really lame ass-pull to justify having more sky bison through not wanting to depart from imagery of the original show.
I've never been that attached to John Connor as a character, but this just felt disrespectful and done only for shock value and as a way to introduce a new (female because it's "in" right now) protagonist. I also hated how apparently the future has all changed now and it's no long Sky Net oppressing humanity, but the Terminators all still look and act the same, it's almost like they didn't have any real imagination or vision for the movie and just wanted to throw in arbitrary twists to justify the changes they made to it.
It's interesting that Earth actually has a few smaller moons outside the famous THE Moon. Scientists don't take their own word as gospel, that's entirely the point of science, that everything is up to question and debate and analysis to provide evidence for future claims as scientific models evolve over time.
You make a lot of really good points, as I see it, we live a world where almost everything has already been planned out by people who have power and are willing to do ANYTHING they can to maintain it, but we also live in a world where the things that aren't planned out happen because people see it as the best thing to do at the time and the unintended consequences have been disastrous over time or are manipulated to be useful to those in power, like the emergence of the internet and social media.
I don't want to get too political, but you can see how the landscape of what is or isn't a political talking point has been carefully crafted so that it ultimately benefits those with the most power without fundamentally addressing any of the issues that are holding everyone else back, those aren't up for discussion or debate, there might be a few meagre concessions that'll be ignored and forgotten about, and instead you have to be drafted into team A or team B to hate everyone on the opposing side (and especially their big scary strawman) because they are EVIL, I mean, isn't that more fun and interesting than figuring out how the system is actually broken? Now real life is like a videogame and YOU are the main character! The game was already rigged from the start, and you weren't even invited to play.
I think there's a "void" inside people's minds that was once occupied by religion, but now for a lot of people is occupied by the idea of science. They just want to believe in something, even if they don't fully understand it, and get angry at others who don't share the same beliefs and ultimately have an unhealthy relationship with "science" where they make it part of their identity and only have an understanding of it from Buzzfeed-tier news headlines. I think "politics" is something that also can occupy the same void and results in so many people becoming increasingly polarised as time goes on as they section themselves off in their online filter-bubbles and ferment over how much the other side is so evil and they are so good.
I believe that we should "listen" to the findings of scientific institutes, but that doesn't mean I think we should take their word as gospel.
IQ isn't to do with what or how much you know, it's more to do with how well you learn things or take in information or whatever else, you could memorise lots of information and have a low IQ or memorise less information and have a high IQ. I imagine there is as much a genetic component to it as there is environmental, but it's probably not politically correct to talk about very much.
No idea, maybe they are embarrassed given the low quality of other video game movies.
It says "Feature film based on the video game by Capcom" right in the description for the movie on this website. But yeah, it's a video game series.
I think about 50% of people are just "going with the flow" on LGBT matters and are uncomfortable with the current state (socially, politically, culturally) of how LGBT affairs are presented, but don't want to speak out about it because they'll be shouted down as bigots or whatever as it's just become something that people use bludgeon people over the head to prove to others how pro-LGBT they are. I think it's weird and prevents any actual discussion, the other side is just as bad at shouting peopel down but since they aren't supported by big, powerful institutions they aren't as vocal about it. Of course I'd rather have the pro side have more power than the anti side, since the anti side seeks to actively oppress the other, but I think in the West we've become too willing to appease cry-bullies the second they claim to be the victim at the expense of wider society for decades now.
That's why I said "white" in my post, she looks white but I'm sure she'd claim to be Jewish or something. Also, you're comparing the response of people from 1963 to today, nobody cared about "whitewashing" 60 years ago, people love to complain about it now because they think it makes them look "woke" or something, even if they are wrong.
It's because people are dumb. To them Egypt is in Africa so black must live and be from there, and Cleopatra was a ruler of Egypt so she must have been black too, so it's whitewashing to have her be played by someone "white".
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) - 50 million budget, don't know if that's too high
I went into this movie expecting it to be garbage along the lines of Jack the Giant Slayer, but I found it to be surprisingly enjoyable.
I'm going to say "yeah" until I see evidence that suggests otherwise. Maybe if you were growning one to hide some sort of severe neck deformity or offensive tattoo it could work in your favour.
Poverty and unemplyoment don't have anything to do with the daily life of a cop either, he was listing problems with the city he works in, not things that affect his daily life as a cop.
Oh sure, they've paid for themselves with those reviews alone.
Though part of me does "like" the prequels just for how dumb and strange they are, but they really aren't good movies by any measure.