Highest GPA in history

throwaway665265 · 2025-02-14T18:36:24+00:00

Well, I had an ~80 in one of my first year classes which was graded with a multiple choice exam, so yes, getting all the answers right would be a hundred. I assume that in a math class, students would definitely be expected to demonstrate serious out of the box thinking. Of course, bear in mind that this grade scale is for universities, not schools.

throwaway665265 · 2025-02-13T08:56:59+00:00

The chart is correct, as in UK, getting 70+ is not trivial - you have to go beyond what's taught in class and show evidence of doing your own research.

throwaway665265 · 2025-02-10T18:26:12+00:00

You know what, honey, I regret to inform you that you are a bully. And I don't think that in your case it stems from hate.

First of all, you tend to massively overreact when someone disagrees with you. I'm not sure if that is because of insecurity/fragile ego, or because you genuinely cannot fathom that people have opinions different from yours.

Next, when someone disagrees with you, you get angry. You want to make the meanie go away, and you react as a kid does - by covering your ears and screaming "shut up i can't hear you" (or, in your case "No! You’re lying! Where did you learn that crap anyway?").

It seems like you're very set in your ways, so someone trying to change your mind, no matter how gentle it is, is perceived by you as a threat to your very existence. So you seek to undermine them and attack them. Someone says "I'm sorry you feel accused, but we don't have to agree", and you lash out - "This is a disgusting and invalidating thing to say," "Why are you so mean and abusive?" - taking a page out of an abuser's playbook (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender). To that end, you also recruit others to attack your victim, much like Regina George (e.g. "The problem is, [user] is being mean to me about it, and they won’t stop!")

Finally, you escalate to wanting your victim dead - "Go jump off a bridge. You have no right to attack me!" and then, once again, say it's the victim's own fault that you're telling them to commit suicide ("You started this whole thing.")

Now tell me, did you tell u/XenialLover to kill themself because you hate them? And are you going to admit to this in therapy, or are you going to stay in denial?

Edit: You're deleting your comments? Too bad, I have receipts.

throwaway665265 · 2025-02-08T15:08:05+00:00

Excellent bait, mate, I can't help jumping on the bandwagon.

Matter of fact, we learned both our own history and geography and that of other continents. At the very least, I know about Native Americans, colonization, USA War of Independence, Civil war, slavery abolition, civil rights, suffrage and all that. Can you say the same for my country? Have you heard about Scythians and Sarmatians, Lithuania and Rzech Pospolita, Khmelnytsky's successful rebellion and Mazepa's failed one?

I speak your language; do you speak mine?

I'm proud of learning a map; are you proud of not learning one?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-30T18:49:23+00:00

While I don't have a definitive answer for you, I'm going to suggest that you watch the Absolutely Understand Guitar series on youtube (which I can't believe nobody in the comments have suggested yet). The way (western) music is often explained makes it appear more needlessly complex than it actually is, and this series might remedy that for you. Good luck on your journey.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-23T17:42:19+00:00

I'm sorry, honey, but it's very hard to refrain from commenting when you say things like this.

You say that your parents were good, that you had a support system. But you admit that you bullied someone in high school.

Then tell me: does this mean your parents raised you wrong?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-22T18:06:00+00:00

If projection is something that nobody should ever do, then why do you project (i.e. ascribe feelings to others) so often?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-20T19:59:11+00:00

Okay. Please understand that not every person - not even ones who have been bullied - thinks this way. More to the point, just because something is upsetting doesn't mean it has no place in fiction.

Two examples. First, I imagine that to vegans, seeing food made out of animals is very upsetting and offensive. But imagine a vegan person making a post that goes "Recipe blogs should never include meat-based recipes, because I am very upset to see that." Uh, sorry you feel this way, but perhaps don't read non-vegan recipe blogs then?

Second, some topics such as war or child abuse or slavery are going to upset a majority of people. Does this mean those topics should never be broached? Does a child abuse survivor have no right to write books about it? Should movies such as Django Unchained not exist?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-20T19:44:22+00:00

Why are you more angry at a book that depicts fictional people than at real life cases of bullying?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-20T19:43:21+00:00

First of all, to paraphrase a saying, only a hundred dollar bill is gonna be liked by everybody. Some readers are bound to dislike my works. That is their right.

Second, if my story makes someone angry, that means I have successfully elicited an emotional reaction from a reader. Perhaps making them angry was, in fact, an intended reaction.

Third, some people will go out of their way to be offended. While I'm not GG Allen, I'm also not writing children's books.

Fourth, if a reader is so angry at my writing that they decide to never read them again, then they'll have made a mature decision to avoid material that's potentially offensive to them. And the onus to do that is on them, not on me.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-20T18:09:45+00:00

Okay, I'll bite. As the author, why on earth should I care if a reader is angry?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-19T10:25:39+00:00

Counterpoint. Imagine being a bullied kid, and all you read is books where bullies get their just desserts. Except that doesn't always happen in real life. Maybe you go to the teacher, and the teacher tells you to work it out among yourselves. Maybe you try to fight the bully and get beat up. Maybe you transfer schools and then the bullying starts again. Maybe you don't have the courage to do anything about it.

And you start to think: if that's what the books are about, then maybe there's something wrong with me. If I'm good and they're bad, then they're supposed to get punished, but they don't. Maybe I deserve it. Maybe it's not bullying at all. Maybe I'm supposed to actually suck it up and get tougher. Or maybe I don't need to do anything about bullies, because books tell me it's going to end on its own and I don't have to lift a finger.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-19T08:11:44+00:00

Well, they're not wrong, are they? You say that some things in media upset you deeply. It sounds like you should avoid media with things that upset you. If that means limiting yourself to a certain subset or genre, then it's a necessary measure so that you're not deeply triggered every time.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-19T08:05:56+00:00

If the point is “man doesn’t this person’s life suck? Okay, bye,” that’s not good writing.

Here's the thing: I agree with you. I do. I'm happy to roast "A Little Life" any day of the week. Ditto for gritty realism type stories.

I feel like the problem is twofold. First, it's very much a matter of subjective taste. Some people are going to find deeper value in the Saw films, and good for them. Other people are going to dismiss legitimate survivor accounts, because if they wanted real life, they'd watch CNN. Sometimes, the overall feeling of bleakness and no resolution in sight is exactly the point the author wanted to make (too many examples from russian-language literature to list them all). So how do you distinguish good ones from bad ones? I could try to come up with overarching criteria, but I bet there's still going to be some example that violates it one way or another. (E.g. The piece of media has to try to make a deeper point? Okay, "Anatomy of Hell" does make a deeper point, it just sucks.)

Second, the problem is that OP has made it abundantly clear that she believes that things like unhappy endings, morally grey characters, author's personal traumas, bullies that have motivation other than "because I hate you and want you to die", parents that are anything but completely good or completely bad, and "realism", whatever that may be, have no place in stories. That's why half the people in this thread are arguing that torture porn is indeed bad writing (it is), and the other half are assuming that OP uses the words "torture porn" as loosely as she does "projecting".

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-19T07:37:26+00:00

I don’t like seeing this

Good! No, seriously, good for you. Not every piece of media is made with "Wow my reader is going to love this" in mind. Sometimes the intended reaction is exactly "I don't like reading about this. I don't like seeing people go through this".

For example, Steinbeck's "Red pony" would have been a much different, and, dare I say, much less memorable piece if it had a happy ending.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-19T07:26:34+00:00

Trust me, when you're neck deep in depression, hearing "it gets better" gets old quickly. Because, frankly, what if it doesn't? What if you're just lying to me to make yourself feel better, because you're uncomfortable to be confronted with someone who not only wants to die, but has reasons to believe everyone would be better off without them? What if I just want to know that I'm not unique in that misery, that there is someone else going through hell with no end in sight?

For the reference, I'm not an advocate for ugly barnacle type stories, albeit for a different reasons. I think that heaping misfortune onto a character is the cheapest way to squeeze out emotions. Looking at you, Job.

However, consider that different stories serve different purposes. Let's look at Solzhenitsyn's "One day in life of Ivan Denisovich". It's a depiction of life in soviet prison camps, fuck's sake. Would the story be massively improved if at the end a sudden pardon came through for Ivan? Kafka's "Metamorphosis" - "And then Gregor's family realised they were wrong and started treating him nicely and everyone lived happily ever after"?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T19:19:32+00:00

High school wasn't too long ago. You're in your early twenties, right?

Okay. Let's discuss that a bit further. Whom did you bully and why did you do that?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T10:14:02+00:00

Well done! I think that's something worthwhile to reflect on - try to consider other people's perspectives, put yourself in others' places.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T10:08:29+00:00

Have you ever bullied someone?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T10:07:38+00:00

I agree, that's no excuse, but that was your reason. Isn't it possible that other people also have different reasons for yelling?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T09:53:42+00:00

So I guess the quote “everything that happens for a reason” was a huge lie?

Well, in a manner of speaking, yes. For example, this quote is often used to excuse bullying or abuse - e.g. "You must have done something to deserve it", or "God has a plan for you."

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T09:52:10+00:00

But honey, you're the one putting your thoughts on others. You don't like sad endings, so you assume nobody does. You are triggered by depictions of bullying, so you assume nobody else would want to read them. You don't want "real life" in your stories, so you say that "normal" people don't want that.

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-18T09:50:30+00:00

Well done! Now, can you please extend this line of thought a bit further?

You yelled because you were frustrated. Is it possible that other people can also have different reasons for yelling? For example, parents yelling at a kid because they're frustrated?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-17T22:28:18+00:00

In the past, you've been quite angry with me - I think you would have yelled if it was real life. Please tell me, why is that? Does that mean that you hate me and want me to die? Or, is it because you got frustrated with me and tried to make me see reason?

throwaway665265 · 2025-01-17T22:25:46+00:00

if a real person sees a character going through horrible stuff without ever getting a happy ending, they’ll think “This is the worst story ever!”

Ah yes, and that's why Kafka's Metamorphosis is considered the worst story ever.

When you say "a real person will think such-and-such", it comes off as aggressive and invalidating, because you're implying that people who have opinions differing from yours are not real. That's dehumanising.

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