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 Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:04 pm
I don't even feel like I'm learning that much anymore now that I've been majoring for a year and a half. At this point everything overlaps so much that it seems unnecessary and repetitive, yet I still need to go for five more semesters and each year costs like 7000$. -_- It's like I'm a) wasting time and b) buying a piece of paper so people will believe that I'm capable. Yeah, capable of emptying my pockets and those of my family mad
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:28 pm
Postsecondary is a huge ripoff imo. You can take classes and apprenticeships for trades in high school and be able to find decent work as soon as you graduate - the HS I went to could even hook you up with paid apprenticeships as part of your education - usually during school hours. Not well paid, of course, but hey, getting paid to go to school is pretty cool and it's easy networking with local business and free work experience.
Then again, I didn't realize any of this as a teenager and maybe you have to be a little older to understand how much time and money starting toward something like that at age 15 would save you over the next eight years.
Not to mention labor trades are not everyone's cup of tea.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:57 pm
Yeah I might have done something like that but I didn't have any specific trade in mind that I wanted to commit to. I don't really care, just pay me monies crying
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:12 pm
The great thing about trades is that it's like playing a musical instrument - for example, carpenters and mechanics generally learn enough about what electricians need to know to do their job that it's easy for them to switch trades with basic training. Not to mention, you can fix anything around the house np.
If I ever have a kid I'm going to try to convince them to find a trade they like. Growing up with a mechanic for a father has taught me that knowing how things work well enough to fix/build/improve them yourself is hacking life.
What sucks is that you don't realize any of this until you're an adult and you watched your dad fix a furnace you spent all night trying to get working in ten minutes.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:40 pm
"Hacking life" razz I like that. If I had to do a trade for a living it might be cooking. You could make everything delicious and inexpensive.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:43 pm
Yea, I didn't have any trades programs in my high school. You graduated and you got the ******** out of dodge or else you knocked someone up and stayed there forever.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:49 pm
Oh hey, remember that rumor about the XY starters being dual-type? In the trailer you can see them using moves (almost primarily) outside of their fire/grass/water types, the rumor being that they're water/fighting, grass/dark and fire/psychic. I hadn't thought about it too much until I remember it was kind of what I wanted the starters to be (minus the grass/fire/water types) awhile ago, because they also make rock/paper/scissors-sense (although psychic just straight-up can't hurt dark >_>).
It would make each type good against its own weakness with its secondary, which would certainly be interesting. I wonder if there will be more like that with Pokemon you find in the game, or if the Pokemon will actually be dual-type at all. Maybe the "next evolution" of the series will be that Pokemon more often evolve into different types than they start with, giving them more flexibility in their final stages? Maybe Froakie will just be a fighting type in his third form, but still have a lot of water moves? It would remove his STAB, but give him more versatility. Or maybe the types would switch? Or maybe they'd just stay dual-type.
Anyway, with the dual-types listed, it would make your rival, who usually picks the starter that's good against yours, which makes them "stronger" at the beginning, still be stronger at the beginning, but giving you a way to fight back. If they shed their primary type or grow more into their secondary, it would make you a lot stronger in the end. Neat to think about, if nothing else, but I suspect these starters are all going to be dual-type at some point.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:05 pm
Imagine what life would be like if the Nintendo Cult had formed in the mid-80s. First of all, we'd have to all have met in-person, probably, and all live close to one another. We'd probably attend club meetings in person at Matthew's house, where we'd discuss Nintendo Power news/rumors and swear while playing NES games that we don't even consider worth our time, today. We'd also probably look like this. It'd be so ridiculous but so much fun.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:06 pm
Meta_Fish Oh hey, remember that rumor about the XY starters being dual-type? In the trailer you can see them using moves (almost primarily) outside of their fire/grass/water types, the rumor being that they're water/fighting, grass/dark and fire/psychic. I hadn't thought about it too much until I remember it was kind of what I wanted the starters to be (minus the grass/fire/water types) awhile ago, because they also make rock/paper/scissors-sense (although psychic just straight-up can't hurt dark >_>). It would make each type good against its own weakness with its secondary, which would certainly be interesting. I wonder if there will be more like that with Pokemon you find in the game, or if the Pokemon will actually be dual-type at all. Maybe the "next evolution" of the series will be that Pokemon more often evolve into different types than they start with, giving them more flexibility in their final stages? Maybe Froakie will just be a fighting type in his third form, but still have a lot of water moves? It would remove his STAB, but give him more versatility. Or maybe the types would switch? Or maybe they'd just stay dual-type. Anyway, with the dual-types listed, it would make your rival, who usually picks the starter that's good against yours, which makes them "stronger" at the beginning, still be stronger at the beginning, but giving you a way to fight back. If they shed their primary type or grow more into their secondary, it would make you a lot stronger in the end. Neat to think about, if nothing else, but I suspect these starters are all going to be dual-type at some point. Weren't you just saying that they were using dark/psychic/fighting moves in the trailer a couple days ago? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:18 pm
Ribbin Weren't you just saying that they were using dark/psychic/fighting moves in the trailer a couple days ago? Or am I thinking of someone else? No no, I was, but no one cared and I thought that maybe they just knew some strange moves. Chespin also seems to use solarbeam, which is pretty bizarre, so who knows. I just thought about it more and it seems to make more sense now. Jaycorn Imagine what life would be like if the Nintendo Cult had formed in the mid-80s. First of all, we'd have to all have met in-person, probably, and all live close to one another. We'd probably attend club meetings in person at Matthew's house, where we'd discuss Nintendo Power news/rumors and swear while playing NES games that we don't even consider worth our time, today. We'd also probably look like this. It'd be so ridiculous but so much fun. That would be hilariously cool.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:23 pm
It's so fun to imagine what you'd be like if you were this age in the 80s. No Pokemon, no Kirby, no Sonic, no modern video games, none of your modern music, no Internet! We'd all have to be up to such different things.
Also Bulbasaur can learn Solarbeam by TM, so why not Chespin?
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:25 pm
Jaycorn It's so fun to imagine what you'd be like if you were this age in the 80s. No Pokemon, no Kirby, no Sonic, no modern video games, none of your modern music, no Internet! We'd all have to be up to such different things. Also Bulbasaur can learn Solarbeam by TM, so why not Chespin? It is. In any time, really! We'd be very different, I think, because I think it's more nurture than nature that leads the person we become. Without the same pop culture raising us, we'd all be a lot different, as sad as it may seem. I suppose that's not that strange, then. Just kind of weird they'd show it off, especially being used on a Magikarp.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:37 pm
Meta_Fish Ribbin Weren't you just saying that they were using dark/psychic/fighting moves in the trailer a couple days ago? Or am I thinking of someone else? No no, I was, but no one cared and I thought that maybe they just knew some strange moves. Chespin also seems to use solarbeam, which is pretty bizarre, so who knows. I just thought about it more and it seems to make more sense now. Jaycorn Imagine what life would be like if the Nintendo Cult had formed in the mid-80s. First of all, we'd have to all have met in-person, probably, and all live close to one another. We'd probably attend club meetings in person at Matthew's house, where we'd discuss Nintendo Power news/rumors and swear while playing NES games that we don't even consider worth our time, today. We'd also probably look like this. It'd be so ridiculous but so much fun. That would be hilariously cool. Well I remember you mentioning the second types and I thought "He's reading into this way too much." But the more you talk about it, the more sense it makes. Grass/Dark sounds badass too.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:38 pm
[Kegan] yea a*****e its called a business what did you think you were doing learning? everyone knows the board of education is keepin the black man down. then profiteering off their love of rims, grape soda, and watermelon that they programmed them to love during their time in school. facts are facts.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:51 pm
Ribbin Well I remember you mentioning the second types and I thought "He's reading into this way too much." But the more you talk about it, the more sense it makes. Grass/Dark sounds badass too. If you rewatch the trailer, you can see them using attacks like those, too!
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