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[Ochita]

All this talk about shipping is making me want to do some BL...
Platonic. Mostly.

[warhammer651]

Well, they finally got him

[Darvi]

I know, I was there!

Was kinda disappointing though. No explosions or blood or anything.

[Aqizzar]

I'm starting to think we should just head on up and make a Metal Gear Megathread, to passionately discuss how utterly confusing and infuriating all of the stories and characters are.  There's more than enough material, because I could yak all day about how moronic everything Otacon does is, or how poorly utilized the Beauties were, let alone High Master Gasmask.

Until then though, I'll just pose the question - do you think Screaming Mantis' ridiculous she-mullet was supposed to be a reference to Gozer?  It's not a flattop, but it's pretty close.

The 80's are known for a lot of brilliance, but goddam how did I not watch this in my youth.

 It has everything a childrens cartoon could ever want. It is perfection, and I don't know how we have ever tried to make any new shows knowing this exists.

Figured I'd quote this.  Not only have I seen that show, but I've seen the toys that were made for it.  As should be abundantly obvious, it was a show explicitly made to sell those combining vehicles.  I never really knew what it was called, but my uncle had almost the entire collection, and they were actually pretty cool.  The show itself though, yeah, if you went to 4chan and posited the question, "Quick, make up the most outrageously 80s nonsensical superteam cartoon you could possibly imagine," that's what you'd get.  Magic rings, wizards, evil aliens, feathered hair with white-stripes, cars with buzzsaws for wheels, hideous power-ballads, and frickin' laser beams everywhere.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I developed a new term today: Scantron Homogeneous Answer Anxiety.

SHAA is characterized by exponentially rising nervousness, paranoia, and self-doubt as an individual selects a string of consecutive scantron test responses that are assigned the same letter. In high level events, SHAA can cause a mental breakdown where the individual begins to suspect that they do not actually know the material being tested for at all, due to the percevied unlikeliness of a string of answers on the same letter, despite the fact that such a string of answers is no more likely than any other string in randomized answers.

[Cthulhu]

I'm starting to think we should just head on up and make a Metal Gear Megathread, to passionately discuss how utterly confusing and infuriating all of the stories and characters are.  There's more than enough material, because I could yak all day about how moronic everything Otacon does is, or how poorly utilized the Beauties were, let alone High Master Gasmask.

Until then though, I'll just pose the question - do you think Screaming Mantis' ridiculous she-mullet was supposed to be a reference to Gozer?  It's not a flattop, but it's pretty close.

The 80's are known for a lot of brilliance, but goddam how did I not watch this in my youth.

 It has everything a childrens cartoon could ever want. It is perfection, and I don't know how we have ever tried to make any new shows knowing this exists.

Figured I'd quote this.  Not only have I seen that show, but I've seen the toys that were made for it.  As should be abundantly obvious, it was a show explicitly made to sell those combining vehicles.  I never really knew what it was called, but my uncle had almost the entire collection, and they were actually pretty cool.  The show itself though, yeah, if you went to 4chan and posited the question, "Quick, make up the most outrageously 80s nonsensical superteam cartoon you could possibly imagine," that's what you'd get.  Magic rings, wizards, evil aliens, feathered hair with white-stripes, cars with buzzsaws for wheels, hideous power-ballads, and frickin' laser beams everywhere.

Laser beam flying around, powered by a wizard.

Also, played a really easy game today.

:|

[alway]

I developed a new term today: Scantron Homogeneous Answer Anxiety.

SHAA is characterized by exponentially rising nervousness, paranoia, and self-doubt as an individual selects a string of consecutive scantron test responses that are assigned the same letter. In high level events, SHAA can cause a mental breakdown where the individual begins to suspect that they do not actually know the material being tested for at all, due to the percevied unlikeliness of a string of answers on the same letter, despite the fact that such a string of answers is no more likely than any other string in randomized answers.

We have a professor who's multiple choice and t/f answers on tests and homework are always true for t/f and 'all of the above' for multiple choice. Every time.

[Aqizzar]

The solution is to believe that your teacher/professor is lazy.  Essentially all multiple-choice tests are based on the same formula - there will almost always be four answers: the right one, a nearly right one, a kinda right one if you answer the question wrong, and a very obviously wrong one.  You could easily have a test where every question has the answers arranged in the same basic order - "right" being the third option, since it's wrong to have the right answer be first or last, unless the question would make you second guess your first assumptions.

Not only have I filled out so many Scantrons that I started to figure this out, but some easygoing teachers will happily describe how they construct their tests off-time.

[Duke 2.0]

Until then though, I'll just pose the question - do you think Screaming Mantis' ridiculous she-mullet was supposed to be a reference to Gozer?  It's not a flattop, but it's pretty close.

Probably based on some model I would venture to guess. I would have to do some research to know who, but I'm a bit more interesting in knowing what accents they were supposed to have.

 And there is some beauty to actively thinking of those very same scantron concepts while taking a Psychology test.

[Bauglir]

The solution is to believe that your teacher/professor is lazy.  Essentially all multiple-choice tests are based on the same formula - there will almost always be four answers: the right one, a nearly right one, a kinda right one if you answer the question wrong, and a very obviously wrong one.  You could easily have a test where every question has the answers arranged in the same basic order - "right" being the third option, since it's wrong to have the right answer be first or last, unless the question would make you second guess your first assumptions.

Not only have I filled out so many Scantrons that I started to figure this out, but some easygoing teachers will happily describe how they construct their tests off-time.

This was more or less explicitly how I was told to write exams when I TA'd for International Security Policy, but for some reason my "obviously wrong" answers were always changed on the actual exam. Apparently "The Moon" is a little too obviously wrong an answer for "Where did Marx expect the first Communist revolution to occur?" (There's a lot of history in the course, if you're wondering what that question was doing there). We did try to vary which option in the list was actually correct, though.

[Itnetlolor]

A funny thought came to mind about scantrons. You know how schools pretty much give a "tip" that if you're stumped on a question, and need to fill in an answer, fill in "C" by default, or something to that degree? Well, if you're a teacher and want to be a dick to your students, don't have any correct (or high scoring) answers use the "C" bubble.

Consider it as a way to break the habit.

[SalmonGod]

I'm pretty sure I've heard of at least one study where they randomly sent people into large college classrooms (where they could easily blend in and just be handed a test without a second glance) with nothing but incidental knowledge of the course material on multiple choice test days to see how they would do.  IIRC the average grade was a C+.

Of course, I have seen some teachers who really really strive to make them difficult, and resort to dick tactics like vague wording and trick questions where multiple answers could be correct depending on how you interpret it.

[sonerohi]

Took my AP World History exam. I am under some clause of secrecy, but I'm pretty sure I got a six out of five.

[Taco Dan]

Of course, I have seen some teachers who really really strive to make them difficult, and resort to dick tactics like vague wording and trick questions where multiple answers could be correct depending on how you interpret it.

Really? I thought that was just my teachers being lazy.

[Vector]

I'm starting to think we should just head on up and make a Metal Gear Megathread, to passionately discuss how utterly confusing and infuriating all of the stories and characters are.  There's more than enough material, because I could yak all day about how moronic everything Otacon does is, or how poorly utilized the Beauties were, let alone High Master Gasmask.

Until then though, I'll just pose the question - do you think Screaming Mantis' ridiculous she-mullet was supposed to be a reference to Gozer?  It's not a flattop, but it's pretty close.

Hoho, well, if someone makes it then I shall come.

Because it's Metal Gear time in Vectorania.  I'm home from school (for a little while) and it's time to rock.

Probably better in Other Games, though, rather than 'round these parts... Touhou makes sense because we're also talking mostly about fandom, but MGS doesn't exactly fit.  I don't think.  And I've got no idea about Screaming Mantis thus far... I'm still on the Big Mama expositionathon.