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At 5/3/10 10:31 PM, amaterasu wrote:.

Read the bill, I posted it.

Sheesh, this thread is a typical example of people believing misinformation from a biased news source. Just goes to show you libs and conservatives are equally guilty of this.

Skepticism is the only path to truth.

Part D, by the way, gives the Doctors the ability to withhold information.

What really irks me is if a doctor does that then he is not being a very good doctor. The patient deserves to know if there is any complications or genetic defects with the baby. You'd be surprised how many parents don't really care, but the fact that they are telling doctors it's okay to withhold information is the most terrible thing a state can do.

Where is the ethics in that? Oh right there are none as long as you want to pass your own agenda.

People were saying just about the same thing for the Famous Bowl and now people are gobbling those up like cock.

A game so shitty that it barely gets a mention on Wikipedia.

T.R.A.G (known as Tactical Rescue Assault Group) a name so shitty that Resident Evil shit a brick is known as Hard Edge in Japan. The game is basically Resident Evil style with a more futuristic terrorist Die Hard Japanese kind of bullshit attached to it.

The game starts with two specialist from TRAG meant to assault the building and save a professor. Something goes wrong and a lot of people die. So they have to focus on the mission with a building known as terrorist. My immediate reaction when the game began was one of the main characters, a chick, boobs look horribly disproportional. Not only that but they spring forward like a Nazi part march. Straight and forward. Even when she turns her tits stay the same direction.

The next thing I noticed were how off sounding the voice actors were. This being 1999 when it came out in America it's to no shock that these people couldn't act their way out of a bad date. What comes as odd is the fact that both of them sound nothing like their anime counterparts. Oh and I assure you they look very anime. The male sounds like he's always ready to take a dump just once someone gets out of the bathroom and the female look "kwai" but sounds like your mom after I fucked her raw.

Once I tacked gameplay I began to have murderous thoughts on the scale of the Green River Killer. Holy fucking shit are they abysmal. First it feels weird that for a game essentially copying the Resident Evil style that they go ahead and nix the aim function. Next, upon experiencing my first encounter I realized that most of the enemies are fast and the action is played at a fast pace. You know what else they can do? MOVE IN A DIAGONAL FUCKING PLANE! What the fuck? You have to move to dodge enemies because it would be too much of a hassle to add a block button. To do so you have to move your character, standing still, to the area he or she wants to go. Then you must dribble your sippy cup, forget basic math, wear your special helmet and act like a total retard which is enough time for even the simplest enemies to come of and fuck you in your eye sockets.

While this is happening you are seriously condemning the United States for not Nuking Japan enough times.

Too much is an effort in this game. Fighting is an effort, dealing with the confusing button system is an effort , WALKING IS AN EFFORT! Most games allow you to cycle through your many weapons using a simple L1 R1 combo, but not TRAG. No, you fuckers, TRAG gives you the ability to use one button and it's not even the one that you would even want to use. So you L1 the fuck out of your weapons inventory just to get to something powerful and by the time you are done your eye sockets are filled with weird terrorist robot cum.

What amazes me the most about this game is the ability NOT to walk or run into walls. You have to run everywhere because if you walk you'll probably kill yourself. It's so shitty that you'll run into everything. It's especially fun when you run into an enemy you cannot hit because you are too busy doing your retard turn.

Let me really emphasis just how shitty combat is. Most enemies are making a slow advance towards you. So this gives you ample amount of time to aim in and miss them several fucking times. You have to literally have your character turned at a certain degree that not even a great physicist could detect on a plane or scale and then be able to hit them before they knife you or skull fuck your awesome Nazi tits.

By the time I had played 30 minutes of this game I was already shouting at my TV going "FUCK YOU GAME! FUCK YOU IN YOUR WHORE ASS!" Prompting my neighbor to come over and ask me if anything was okay, because they thought there was a domestic abuse incident going on.

I may attempt this again at some point, but I seriously do not have the patience to even care enough about this gem to want to actually go through the whole fucker.

Did anyone know that Goldmen Sachs was one of Obama's top contributer during the 2008 election?

Food for thought.

At 4/17/10 12:00 PM, Master117chief wrote:

At 4/17/10 11:59 AM, Stoicish wrote: Internet on phone.

Ugh, I was drunk last night and for some reason thought this was Facebook.

YES, I was that drunk.

Being drunk does not make you awesome.

Didn't say it did. Maybe I just know how to have a great fucking time on a Friday. Cynical fucks.

Internet on phone.

Ugh, I was drunk last night and for some reason thought this was Facebook.

YES, I was that drunk.

So awesome that I go to a strip club tonight, get hammered, and pull a legit number from a stripper who gave me lap dances for free.

That's how fucking awesome I am.

It's okay if you bow down to me.

Not many people can stand looking at the light once they see it. Oh man, what an awesome night,

At 4/16/10 02:31 AM, Svn wrote: I love those movies when the socially awkward actors.

What like Juno or some other movie with Michael Cera? Nope, nothing like that.

What more can I say?

That's fine.

At 4/16/10 02:04 AM, RuinedMartyr wrote: Bunch of nerdy tweens running around playing hero. Didn't sound appealing to me, which is why I will not be watching the film.

Not to switch around my point, but it's not meant to be entirely serious. It's more satire than anything. If you actually watch the previews it's supposed to be funny.

And it is.

If you want to brush it to the side then fine do so. You won't exactly be missing much.

Fucking Jetpack Minigun.

*sigh*

I wanted to like this because I was so anticipated, but I left disappointed. I hate being one of those comic book fans who go "HUR HUR SOURCE MATERIAL!" but that's what I'm going for in this review.

I will say this though before I get on with the review. This is just a review from a person who already read the 12 Issue Comic book. On its own right Kick-Ass is a decent film and I'd suggest watching it. It is very funny on its own right. Unless, of course, you don't like the glorification of a child killing people, but I'll get into that later.

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT

Kick-Ass is about a teenage kid who decided at one point that he's going to become a super hero. Of course he manages to get his ass kicked, ran over by a car and almost died. This should have taught him a lesson, but right after he's off of the crutches he right back on the street. It's at a certain point where gang members are beating the shit out of a man that he steps in and manages to fend them off. People record this on YouTube and it becomes a hit. Even though, in reality, Kick-Ass is a just a weak high school kid who barely manages to get himself out of the situations he gets in.

As a whole the comic books are a dark comedy heavy on the dark.

The movie is dark comedy, but tries to take everything lightly and really fails to miss the point of the comic.

As a whole it follows the source material...er...to a point. Then is sort of just falls apart around itself.

For example, Dave (Kick-Ass's alter ego) has a crush on a girl named Katie whom hates him until she thinks that she is gay. Instead she wants to be friends with him. Dave is in love with Katie, but in a sad state of affairs he ends up pretending to be gay just to be close to her. Which is funny in the movie until it sort of decides to go for the happier ending.

In the comic Katie is a total bitch and Dave has love blinders on being the nerd he is. After the events of the end of the comic he works up the courage to tell her he's not gay and that he's in love with her. Instead she gets pissed and tells her new boyfriend to beat the shit out of him which he does.

In the movie Dave, in his Kick-Ass costume, decides to tell Katie that he's Kick-Ass, not gay and in love with her. She gets pissed, but decides to fall for him and they fall in love. AWWWWW

Totally pissed because it tells me that someone decided what was in the comics was too dark instead of happy and funny. Kick-Ass of course gets knifed and a little girl kills people, but let's not forget that the nerd always gets the girl in the end gents. Well, I liked the comic because it kept it real and showed that note everything goes your way. In fact Dave's life is shitty all around, but somehow in the end he manages to overcome his problems.

The film lets us know that Dave's life just gets better because he is Kick-Ass when in fact his life goes from bad to worse in the comics.

Another problem I have in the film is direction. For some reason it feels like this movie went through a rewrite at some point and it shows. Cause' at the point where Kick-Ass sees Hit-Girl kill the shit out of people (and this was really faithful and cool in the movie) he becomes scared and sick at seeing the death. The same thing when he runs into the burning building with Red Mist. However, he has no qualms getting on a Jetpack Minigun (I'll explain why this pissed me off in a minute) and killing the shit out of people in the end. NO PROBLEM WHEN JUST 30 MINUTES AGO YOU WERE SHITTING YOUR PANTS IN TERROR AND SADNESS SEEING DEATH.

In fact in the comics Kick-Ass made it a policy not to kill people, but fuck it if it was okay at this certain point. Way to fucking miss the point on that.

Also getting on missing the point who the fuck thought the Jetpack Minigun was a good idea? Kick-Ass is supposed to be as close to the real world as possible and you decide to put a Jetpack Minigun in a film about real world superhero's. You are now asking the audience to have a suspension of disbelief and just go with it no matter how fucking ridiculous it was.

Now, onto the characterization of Big Daddy and Hit-Girl. For one I don't understand why you made him look like Batman when there already is a Batman. Another is that they totally fudged the back story in favor for the less darker one.

In the film Big Daddy tells hit girl that he used to be a cop. The kingpin John Genovese supposedly, with the help of a cop, frames him for selling drugs. The mom kills herself while pregnant, but not before the baby is saved. Big Daddy decides to take revenge on the kingpin for everything that was stolen by training his daughter. He dies thanks to being set on fire in the film and the daughter finishes the dirty work in the end. She goes lives with her father's old partner and attempts to live a normal life.

In the comic it's much darker than that. See Big Daddy was actually an accountant and made up all of the shit he told his daughter. Instead, like Kick-Ass asked "Why didn't anyone every try being a superhero?" he was a lone nut comic book collector who actually took the time to train and got all of his funds from mint condition rare comic books. Big Daddy actually went of a Genovese because he just thought it would be cool. In addition to making up all of that shit her mother actually wasn't dead AND he kidnapped her when she was young. He also coked her up sometimes and told her that it was secret superhero dust to make her fight better. In the end she goes back to her mother and lives a normal life.

Which leaves me with my last point and that is the filmmaker missing the point. A child killing people is horrible not matter how cool it looks. The comic book made sure of that especially when the big reveal was that her daddy was actually just a nut who ruined her childhood. Instead the film glorifies the violence that she commits and makes her into this kind of hero because her mother died. So now this puts it kind of a gray area where you can either say "HOLY SHIT! SHE IS SO FUCKING COOL!" or " Wow, that's just really fucking wrong." I'm gonna lean on the side of both. While she owns up to her character (and the actress is really good) the director totally missed the fucking point.

You are supposed to feel better about the fact that she leads a normal life in the end instead of going "WHOOP WHOOP MORE HIT-GIRL!". I think if they kept the original story maybe all those critics who gave it a one star (including Ebert) would understand why she was a killer instead of feeling sick because she kills. That she was brainwashed and manipulated because her dad thought her life would be cooler if she was a superhero. Instead the filmmakers gave a purpose behind it to give it a lighter ending.

So I ended up being disappointed. I have never done this before, but if you haven't read the comic go see the movie. You'll probably like it or think it horrible a small child could kill people without remorse. If you like the comic I'd suggest you skip this least you get pissy that the fucked with the source material too much.

** stars out of four.

gumonshoe made the only good one.

The rest of you suck ass.

Is that your manly bicep in the background?

Being it the military I have to say they had every right to shoot those guys because it was fairly clear that they were carrying weapons.

The van? Not so much and they were in the wrong.

That's all I have to say about that.

The film was disappointing.

I'm not saying it was bad, but it really wasn't that great as well. It had elements to be a great movie, but it also had elements of suck.

Even the Kraken scene should have been awesome, but it really wasn't.

Well, Hollywood, way to fuck up something that could have been good. In the way of the 50's and then the 80's Hollywood has never really found a good market for 3D.

Lo and behold the advancement of technology and we actually have real eye popping 3D. Here's the deal, though, is that with something making a lot of money Hollywood instantly assume that everything needs to have it now so they can have more money.

Problem, when you start making every movie you release have the option to be in 3D you start to lose what going to the movies is about. I don't want to watch Shindler's List in 3D. There is no point to it.

Now they are squeezing every dime they can get out of the market and re-releasing the Harry Potter Films now in 3D. Is their an end to this? Apparently not.

To add the icing on the cake of suck Hollywood is now making films SPECIFICALLY to be in 3D. This includes existing films and franchises.

When I went to watch Clash of the Titans yesterday there were two 3D previews for 3D specific films. There was "Step Up 3D" a continuation of the "Step it Up Franchise" which is essentially a 90 minute long music video in 3D and there was Piranha 3D.

WHY THE FUCK DID YOU REMAKE PIRANHA!? Did you think the 21st century generation deserved a film that the 20th century didn't even need to see? It also looks hella fucking stupid.

That's the point. When you start making films that cater specifically to 3D you sacrifice good storytelling for eye popping visuals. The Step it Up series was never good and Piranha was shitty shitty when it was first made so why they needed to remake it is beyond me. Maybe so they can milk the 3D market.

Finally, films that don't need to be in 3D. Not getting into Clash of the Titans too much, but it wasn't a very good film. Could have been better. What was shitty was that watching the entire film in 3D was pointless. There were absolutely no eye popping visuals and (after I took my glasses off at one point) I realized that a good chunk of the film wasn't even in 3D.

So, no, I will not watch another 3D film. I enjoyed Up in 3D and Avatar had some enjoyability in 3D, but it's already heading down the road of pure bullshit.

I'm all for international cooperation, but the Human Rights Council is made up mostly of Islamic countries which makes me want to scream "Bull Shit!" at the top of my lungs.

It also doesn't exactly leave the organization with any credibility when in the past they had countries who violated human rights themselves ON the council.

You have Egypt, India, Indonesia, Qatar.

Then you had China and Jordan in the council in the past which is a joke.

They also have a severe bias against Israel specifically anytime there is conflict in the Gaza strip with no efforts maintained to condemning Palestinian acts of terror.

Anyway, the US rejoined the council so WOOHOO! Let's see what happens.

Haha, This was a bad day to ask.

Honestly this I stuff is making Politics so much more funnier.

So, today I had to endure talking to Mormon's for an hour thanks to a prank my friend pulled on me.

You may say, "Well why didn't you slam the door on them?"

Well, cause I'm not a dick and I felt bad for them even though I didn't care about the religion.

He apparently signed me up to get a book of Mormon (cause he's odd like that) and now I have to enact revenge. However, I'm not very creative other than the idea to send him penis pills, but that would probably make him and his wife happy.

So I was wondering if you, Newgrounds, could help me prank my friend.

It needs to follow these rules:
1. It doesn't cost me a dime
2. It isn't something too terrible (All I had to do was suffer Mormons for an hour).

SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!

Seriously? We are supposed to care?

We all have problems. Fuck, I'm broke and depressed half the time, but I still realize how great my life is and how good I have it.

In fact you aren't even telling us what is wrong with you. Why should we care anyway? Go talk to some friends or people you think who may care.

Call a suicide hot line! Fuck!

How about grow some balls?

Actually, according to factcheck.org, this is what pg. 30 says:

Actually, the section starting on page 30 sets up a "private-public advisory committee" headed by the U.S. surgeon general and made up of mostly private sector "medical and other experts" selected by the president and the comptroller general. The advisory committee would have only the power "to recommend" what benefits are included in basic, enhanced and premium insurance plans. It would have no power to decide what treatments anybody will get. Its recommendations on benefits might or might not be adopted.

At 3/26/10 05:18 PM, SadisticMonkey wrote:
Um, perhaps because the whole point America was founded was to escape govoernment control and founded by the kind of people who despise government control.

Yes, because the Founding fathers were orginally Anarchist. The Sex Pistols stole "Anarchy in the U.K." from the puritans who treked to the US in the Mayflower.

America hated being ran by a King when we thought we could control our own desitiny.

The healthcare bill actually outlines policies that relate too death panels. It doesn't call them that, but still.

Which specific part inside of the bill actually details this exactly?

And most conservatives hate/dislike Europe so obviously that doesn't mean anything

It's kind of wrong to hate/dislike a place you never been to in the first place. Which most of them haven't.

because of its founding principles, and that most Americans love freedom, albeit only their own freedom.

We do love our freedom, but when do we (as a society) start becoming to selfish? Besides this isn't government control. Everyone is really complaining that this has the potential to becoming government control. That wonderful slippery sloap theory.

I'm going to be the Devil's Advocate here and call bullshit on the Universal Healthcare Critics.

Listen, it is so retarded to think we know how every country is like when none of you mother fuckers actually have been there. "Oh shit, I watch the news and I hear horror stories about waiting list and death panels."

Yeah, they happen, but people make it sound like those waiting list happen all the time. As if these lines are 90% of universal health care and that's a load of horse shit.

I'm not advocating Universal Health Care for the United States, but I sure as hell think it's retarded that people assume that it's the worst thing ever and that people are dying left and right in other countries. Also, it's bullshit to assume that this country would be a tyranny under that system when all the others who have it are still functioning democracies.

This whole year was people losing their shit to something that was needed, but losing their shit for all the wrong reasons. There are legit complaints about the healthcare bill, but not many people actually went after those complaints. Shit, half those freepers didn't bother reading it (did you) and the others just read the "in a nutshell" like myself.

All the complaints, all the rhetoric and all of the yelling back and forth never really touched on the ACTUAL issues in the bill.

Maybe that's why it actually passed because no one knew what they were yelling about.

Go ahead.

You are going to be very surprised to find that every other industrialized nation have healthcare WAYYYY more socialized than the one that was enacted in this healthcare bill.

Have fun living in Africa douchebag.

At 3/23/10 01:12 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote:
Have you even read Atlas shrugged? The productive men that went on strike created their own community consisting only of the "titans, creators and entrepreneurs" and they were entirely self-sufficient.

I've never believed in Laissez-faire nor do I believe that Rand was right in advocating that philiosphy.

I can't exactly point the finger at who's doing it wrong the most: The Government or the Corperations, but the problem pretty much stems from both. One not actually paying attention or caring what the other does and the other making so much money that it can't fail. All the while they are way too connected to each other.

However, if you just "let it be" I believe that opens the doors for abuse and backdoor deals that can essentially hurt those who are trying to make an honest living, i.e. the small worker.

This is all fine and dandy for the small buisnessman and the person trying to start a small company, but for those big ones, the giants, there do need to be regulations in place to make sure they don't care more about profit rather than screwing us all over because they only care about profit.

Also, funny enough Bioshock was Rand's philiosophy in a nutshell and the smallest potential for abuse. It was a society that Rand advocated, but all it took was one person to mess it all up and the society itself was doomed.

I know that was fiction, but it's something to think about/

I'd like to point out to everyone that the resolution passed in the House.

Healthcare Bill succeeds in America.

And what's that? Oh God, America hasn't collapsed. After all this rhetoric I expected it to implode the minute this bill passed.

At 3/21/10 11:50 PM, LordBeta2 wrote:
Do I have to buy a car? No.
Do I have to carry a handgun? No.
Do I have to buy a service that I, or a lot of other Americans, don't want? Apparently.

Same argument that has been used above and I like how you completely ignored my argument when it came to Social Security, which by the way, I am very right about.

No, you don't, but that doesn't mean you can only be against one and not the other. Also, you aren't exactly touching on why the president should be impeached. Should he still? I just proved to you that the government has forced people to buy into things all of which could very well be considered to be unconstitutional and all those presidents haven't been impeached.

Hell, FDR, when trying to pass Social Security reached almost the same amount of opposititon in his idea to pass this bill. Did he get impeached? No, no he did not.

That is because, like taxes, believe it or not the Federal Government are within the rights to tack on provisions to property and taxes. You can debate on if its right or wrong, but in the end it's not unconstituional and therefor NOT and impeachable offense.

Please try to be clear on what you are trying to oppose.

At 3/21/10 11:29 PM, LordBeta2 wrote:
http://health.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/
16/45-of-doctors-oppose-proposed-health-
care-bill/

First, you are citing a Fox News Blog which on its own right should not be held up to credible sources. Second, you are citing a study that only asked private practice Doctors and even aknowledges itself that it isn't a scientific poll. Even if you want to take it as fact it only said the doctors would "consider" leaving, but that doesn't mean they are. So, in the end, it's not real undeniable proof.

For furthur proof of what a real scientific poll is people visit: http://www.gallup.com

I never said forty states. Google it. There are articles on reliable news sites.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=states+sue+if+h ealthcare+bill+passes


I'm not sure if you noticed, but the 32 million of uninsured people aren't all immigrants with crotch wounds. We will have to pay more for everyone overall. Everyone who gets treated, regardless if they didn't want to switch to the governments system, we will pay through taxes for there treatment.

Same goes for the uninsured who rush our emergency rooms like my sister who abuses the system because she can't afford healthcare.

Taxes are an unavoidable process in health care reform even if the Republicans wanted to pass something. The only difference is on how you want to view it and if you think its okay to rasie the taxes in certain places. Obviously, you do not think so so it's best to just move on from this point of discussion.

Um, wrong again. The constitution says that the government can't force us to buy a product. If you don't want to be treated using there coverage, you have to pay a yearly fine. If states sue, doctors quit, and the bill is unconstitutional, I'm sure your messiah can be impeached.

Where? You are an idiot. The president can only be impeached for, "treason, bribary and high crimes and midimeanors." If he signs this into law then all of the Senators and Congressmen who voted on the bill as well are subseptible to impeachment, because in your words, "The government can't force us to buy a product."

They can, and uh, have before.

Social Security is one. You are forced to buy into that with your taxes.
You have to buy car insurance if you get a car.
You have to buy a conceald carry license of you want to have a concealed handgun.

I just want to point out how very wrong you are on this current issue.