Not SAT math. They go up to Freshman Geometry level, and then they stop. No integrals, theorems, or standard deviations.

Dude, I blazed through AB calc and Calculus II. I should have taken BC in high school.

So did I. It was a boarding school for rich kids. I got a 5 on the AP test without studying.

As if people here didn't hate me enough.

Big deal man, there are plenty of us that are mensa material and don't spend all our time bragging about it.

I have met several extremely "gifted" individuals that barely had enough life skills to survive. You might be book smart but I am not seeing strong evidence of you being able to apply that to the real world.

You missed where he said it was a boarding school for rich kids. That means his grades were bought and paid for, making a correlation between them and actual intelligence (or even book smarts) hard to derive.

Dude, AP test 5. I don't think the administrators can manipulate that. And this whole thing started because Wounded Ronin pretended to get offended, so don't be a dick about this.

Platinum, I label you my new Critias to my... well, me. Have fun being a forum vulture.

blah ... witty comment removed. Not feeding trolls anymore.

Hopefully, you drop the hobby the way your predecessor did.

Yeah, vulture seems too baroque. How about boar. A boar with ticks on it. (Those would be you.)

Which would make me the Green Knight!!

Somehow I see you as more of a Black Knight, flailing about sans limbs.

This is getting tiresome. I could say "And you're the tool who got a sword through the face before Arthur came," but seriously, I need to work.

Why you gotta be hatin' like that, Melissa Jo?

I'm sorry, I didn't reakluize that it was ok for you to make jokes about the source of your education, but not me.

Grades and test scores mean absolutely nothing in the real world past having them on your resume. And after X amount of years in a profession they don't mean anything there either. Even the much valued IQ test means practically little outside of the small field of things it tests. Show me results in real life and I'll be impressed.

The above was not directed at emo to say "you aren't smart" but at anyone who thinks scoring well on a test means anything beyond a demonstration of a person's ability to score well on a test. I've known people (myself included) who score excellently on tests, especially the standardized ones. Some were actually smart people, some were dumb but with good short term memories, and some just knew how to take tests well.

I would just like to apologize to anyone who was weirded out by my "cognitive ovaries" comment. It's just that WR's comment about testicles implied that I was dumb because I was a girl, and I felt obligated to defend my feminine honor and all that stuff.

I agree with you about testing as a measure of intelligence: I adhere to Gardner's Theory of multiple intelligences because it makes sense given my own abilities. I have scads of linguistic intelligence, but my mathematical and interpersonal intelligences are definitely subpar. I'm probably about average in most of the others, but I'm certain that when it comes to kinesthetics, I'm a downright retard.

I don't think that that's stopped members of my extended family from viewing me as an all-around genius, though. For example, my cousin once remarked to me that I'm "gonna cure cancer or something," even though I barely know a carcinogen from a pathogen. I've kinda resented being labeled as "the smart one" in the family because I want people to take a fuller view of me and my personality. There was a time when, whenever a family member would comment on what a genius I was, I would snap, "I'm not smart--I'm merely the product of a superior educational system!*" But then the grownups would just laugh at me, so I eventually stopped.

*I spent most of my life going to a snotty and secular private day school, the kind of place where children between ages 3 and 18 are sent to be groomed into philosopher-kings. For example, the high school has neither a cheerleading squad nor a football team: all the cool kids do Model UN.

I don't like to nip at people who don't hate me; sorry, James.

congnitive ovaries can't be any worse than journalistic ovaries.

FanGirl, I also don't think you were being targeted by all the hatred and stuff; it was just general "swarm emo samurai kekekeke" bullshit.

Heh heh. Nip away. It just ups my feistiness factor in the other threads I'm debating in.

I personally think that one of the most attractive parts of a woman are her cognitive ovaries. The ability to conceive, gestate, and give birth to thought is a necessity for any date that wants to go beyond the "get drunk and do the horizontal Lambada" stage.

Not that there's anything wrong with drunken debauchery of course. If it weren't for that I'd have stayed inside playing games all through college.

Happy fun James is back!!!

I just shaved. In some ways my morale is inversely proportional to the amount of whiskers on my face, changing to exponentially proportional when they reach the length that they start to itch.

I was a total bastard for my entire goatee-wearing sophomore year.

Dude, I got an idea! We should singe your face so that it doesn't grow back!! Then you'll always be happy!

If you knew her in real life, you could not say that without laughing. She couldn't hit a puppy, much less a pigheaded relative. Oh wait, she could and probably should.

I don't have MSN, so that title is technically unattainable. . .
Better use your Edge.

Jesus Christ, are you passive agressive, James? I didn't even see that side of the post until Kremlin pointed it out!

Then again, it's possible it's just the internet. The internet NEVER creates misunderstandings.

You know, my one regret about the internet is that vendettas cannot be pursued in flashy sword fights with orchestral accompaniment

No...no...boring words

Well given my edge stat.... nah even then betteroff going for something possible

AIM? Yahoo? email? which of these should i try to get to become the AntiJames?

legally have facial hair? care to explain that one?

I suspect it has something to do with school regulations, given the timeframe (though late June seems… well, late to be getting out).

Either that or maybe he's in the military and is getting out soon?

~J

I'm rereading that post and wondering how it is I dissed emo by telling him it's ok to pick at me?

I also wasn't hitting on FanGirl, just making a general statement about my views on the attractiveness of women. Not that I wouldn't hit on her of course.

And yeah, sometimes I can be passive aggressive. Other times I'm an ass. It all depends on the mood.

The Internet is, after all, a perfect communication medium. Especially when there's no tone to read.

If I were you, Kremlin, I'd try and get my AIM name. Make a Charisma + Negotiation test.

So anyway, how does everyone structure their roleplaying sessions? Do you have "Do job, go home," or "Do job, have players talk after job," or what? After my first run, the characters all visited a bar and talked about themselves.

In other words, how much do you RP, and what do you RP?

That'll probably happen to my dude.

"Don't... eat all the... goddammit."

"No, you can not pelt my landlord's house with paint grenades."

"Stop hacking people's cars and running them into each other on my lawn!"

I really want the chance to RP "downtime"--the times when I'm not actively running. This is a great article about roleplaying downtime. Anyway, I'm definitely going to try and do stuff with my team as we get to know each other better, like treat them to ice cream after a successful run. Why ice cream? Sometimes spending your free time in a bar can get old, especially when drinking, gambling, drinking, fighting, drinking, and drinking is not especially interesting to you. You need something wholesome and simple to balance out all that grit, and what could be more wholesome than ice cream?