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When you rate something, what is an average score? It kinda bugs me that, especially in video game reviews, a lot of people see 7 or 8 out of 10 as indicating that a game is "average." Why do people reinforce that lopsided metric? Why isn't 5/10 considered average? Even worse is the use of decimals, because the narrow 8-10 range doesn't allow enough room to express how truly good some things are (be it a game, movie, music, whatever). People need to embrace the normal distribution.

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86th Academy Awards [b]Best Picture[/b] American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave [b]~WINNER~[/b] The Wolf of Wall Street [b]Best Actor in a Leading Role[/b] Christian Bale (American Hustle) Bruce Dern (Nebraska) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) [b]~WINNER~[/b] [b]Best Actress in a Leading Role[/b] Amy Adams (American Hustle) Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) [b]~WINNER~[/b] Sandra Bullock (Gravity) Judi Dench (Philomena) Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) [b]Best Actor in a Supporting Role[/b] Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) Jona

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Family movies that just arent for kids Have you ever gone back to a movie you watched during your childhood and found it to be kind of overly dark or inappropriate? Sometimes I show movies to kids that I know or work with, and reliving some older movies has taken me by surprise. First off, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I guess the folks at Disney had to reach pretty far for a new adaptation, because this is how the original story goes: Esmeralda is executed by hanging, and Quasimodo lies with her corpse until he simply dies of starvation. So even after they fixed that part up, it still turned out to be a really dark movie about lust and alienation. Then there's Peter Pan, with its overtly racist depiction of American natives. I can accept th

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