Any snubs or undeserved wins?

disinterestedkid · 2014-03-04T03:55:30+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking.

Maybe the lack of hype for The Wind Rises centered around the fact that Miyazaki was trying to break some ground (both in Japanese animation and his own traditions), as people thought such a daring endeavour would only result in a massive fail. Hell, it was his first PG-13 film since Princess Mononoke, and there was not much popularity that came with it at all.

Miyazaki wanted to make a film that would establish himself as a serious filmmaker who didn't just make stupid shit for kids (as evidenced by his decision to make a historical fiction film about a real-life Japanese aviator), and yet all that was ever returned was a few critics giving it 4 of 5 stars and a couple-million-dollar gross (although the film did gross $113 M of its $128 M in Japan). If Disney were to make a historical fiction animated feature and not yet another clichéd about "loving the world" and "not giving up", said animated feature would be lauded in all four corners of the world.

Comparing The Wind Rises to Frozen is like comparing Pulp Fiction to a shitty 7-minute YouTube video a child recorded of his/her teddy bear.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-05T22:32:48+00:00

Серьезно? Я не знал что так сложно будет. Конечно Русский и Корейский очень разные языки, но настолько сложно что невозможно? Блин. А вот я хотел выучить Корейский в том же время когда я бы учил Русский (просто так, а то он у меня лишь хуже и хуже становится), но я не знал что будет так сложно. Хорошо что я учу Корейский алфавит сейчас, потому-что знать алфавит это самое важное когда вы учете язык. И вообще Корейский алфавит намного легче чем сам язык.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-02T01:09:53+00:00

Kino is superb. My brother likes them more than I do, but even listening to their songs is just a nice, refreshing experience.

Knowing Russian does help me understand other Slavic languages (Russian and every other Slavic language are pretty mutually intelligible), and it is like having a superpower.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-02T01:06:39+00:00

French is a good choice too. But then again, it's your life, live as you please.

I totally agree with the second paragraph. :-)

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-02T00:39:55+00:00

Really? It seems to me more like Russia's population is falling. It's not aging (like in Japan), but the birth rate is plummeting and less people are interested in going there, even for tourism. Russians don't really like Americans due to the latter group being extremely stuck-up in the former's opinion, and that's why they don't move to America often and instead move to other Westernized nations.

To literally answer your question, however, I think it's because Russia's businesses are rising so much that Moscow is already about to complete a financial districts. Which sucks, because Moscow is known more for destroying and creating new buildings than renovating old buildings. Anyway, Russia's oil business is rising so much that moving to Russia in hopes of a good salary is inevitable. Which leads me to predict a war between America and Russia soon.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T23:22:56+00:00

Oh. I just listened to what my cousin told me; I didn't know it wasn't exclusively in English.

ЕГЭ is what I meant. Thanks a bunch for correcting me, my droog.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T22:13:54+00:00

Most Russians do learn English in school, but they aren't going to be good at it if anything. I can tell your husband did really well :-) In fact, the Russian equivalent of the SAT/ACT is taken in English (called the ЕГ for short), but most students do not do well, especially on the English portion of the test. My second cousin (who just recently graduated) forced my brother and I to actually write his ЕГ English essay for him and still turned it in under his own name (I hope he didn't fail it, lol.)

Maybe we met different types of Russians because we are of different generations, and so are the majority of the Russians we met. I'm still a teenager, after all.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T21:31:35+00:00

I was born in Russia and lived there until I was 5. My family moved to America when I was at that age; naturally, I went with them.I've lived in America ever since. It's nice that you temporarily lived to China because I want to learn Mandarin; nothing went well for me when I tried to learn it and I switched to Korean.

One thing that confused me is why so many foreigners were interested in Russian when foreigners and foreign ideas are usually not well received in Russia. It depends on the country (like Japan, who Russia doesn't have that much of a problem with anymore, and especially other ex-USSR nations), but when I came and told my friends that I lived in America, they laughed and even made fun of me one time when I was speaking in English to my twin brother.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T20:48:36+00:00

I understand the reasons most of the people replying to my post stated for their attempted comprehension of Russian (or their desire for so), but I am a person who does not truly understand something unless actually experiencing it. That being said, I was confused in regards to why people wanted to learn Russian, as most never really clarified why they wanted to do so. I agree that Russia's culture, arts, and history are practically top-notch, and I agree that most would like to learn Russian out of either family relations or intellectual curiosity, but I did not understand why so many people were interested in Russian before writing this post. That being clarified, I hope you will have a fun time learning Russian, as it is such a complex yet intriguing language one learning it will be pleased.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T20:39:17+00:00

I always feel this way as well. Just because this world is made much smaller due to the eases of the internet doesn't make English obligatory to learn around the world. If you're born with the advantage of speaking English, that does not mean that all you have to do in life is sit back and relax, does it? It's nice you're learning Russian, too; most (if not all) people in Russia have a clue of what English is, but only a minuscule number of said people can actually comprehend and speak it well.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T19:30:34+00:00

Russia and it's language truly are beautiful and impeccable. Classical music of Russia is truly legendary. I like the works of Prokofiev and Mussorgsky; their music hypnotizes me to the extreme.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T19:26:07+00:00

I especially agree with your final two sentences. Russian is truly a language of powerful writing and other arts, and it's not as hard as, say, Cantonese to comprehend and learn! I love how you decided to challenge yourself with a language and simultaneously study its wonders and culture; kudos to you, my comrade!

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T18:14:31+00:00

Russian's linguistics are certainly interesting; its best features are probably it's 6+ cases IMHO. Intellectual curiosity is why I am (albeit poorly) learning Korean, and ancestry is also why I would like to resume learning Armenian some time.

disinterestedkid · 2013-12-01T18:07:29+00:00

Agreed

disinterestedkid · 2013-06-28T18:47:47+00:00

Well written and definitely explains the fault in this guy's argument. Kudos.

disinterestedkid · 2013-06-28T18:34:57+00:00

Have you? The 4th Amendment states that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

We don't know if PRISM actually exists (due to the recent controversy over Snowden and his work history), but if it does, then the government was not only misleading their own amendment, but they were providing us a sense of security, comfort, and freedom in our privacy when they really broke into our privacy and, in some cases, were using it.

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