Sentences with phrase «ultimately pointless»

The Sound Blaster Tactic3D software also enables you to change the colour of the pulsating LEDs in each ear cup - a nice but ultimately pointless feature.

It doesn't take much to recognize I have a fascination for things that I know to be ultimately pointless and to always lead to wrong conclusions eventually.

The provocative title is aimed at distinguishing genuine relationship building from crude attempts at networking based on empty business card swapping that are ultimately pointless.

Unlocking achievements and gaining Gamerscore may be an addictive if ultimately pointless diversion for many players, but dedicated achievement hunters will now get some tangible benefits in the form of an ongoing Microsoft Points rebate and special gift.

The game is short, and ultimately pointless, but the lure of meaning is meant to be absurdely tantalizing.

Sources at Square Enix USA have confirmed with Kotaku the reports from yesterday, which have settled a long - running - if ultimately pointless - debate amongst fans of the series.

Nathan wanders through a Nepalese town, indulging in amusing but ultimately pointless interactions with the locals, kicking footballs, patting bulls, chatting — just as in The Graveyard, the character simply walks along a cemetery path, taking in the sights and sounds.

Forget those fleeting leaderboard positions and ultimately pointless achievements - this is about beating your backlog.

Man, something always bothers me about Nintendo's floor space - Sure, they take up the largest area, but instead of filling it with ultimately pointless statuettes, cars and enormous Nintendoesque logos, why don't they fill it with more gaming booths instead?

There are fun little side missions that can be replayed in the Grand Prix mode, or the «Driver Rivalry» stuff, although these are ultimately pointless, and are simply there to add a false competition between a random racer.

You even get to drive the car to the marshal at the end of each stage, which is ultimately pointless but a nice touch nonetheless.

There's a key moment as we're running across some largely open ground on some probably ultimately pointless quest, the kind that Dragon Age is a little too full of for its own good.

Just like the mouse pad, though, there are currently only three games supported (CS: GO, League of Legends and Minecraft) and it's ultimately a pointless feature.

The first of these is, somewhat ironically, the Skyrim section, which offered some mildly interesting but ultimately pointless texts such as the Gentleman's Guide to Whiterun, which is a mere two pages talking about some of the more attractive and interesting women that can be found within the city.

Yeah, all right, perhaps they were just rip - offs of the at - the - time hugely successful Nintendo Wii's Mii avatars, but still, they were a fun distraction, a nice means of personalisation, though ultimately pointless.

While tossing a few bucks to your credit card issuers or collection agencies may temporarily get them off your back, such payments are ultimately pointless if you wind up erasing your debts in bankruptcy or entering a debt management plan.

The movie's humor becomes more desperate as it proceeds, from a song about moustaches (and a reprise of it by sheep, brought on by a drug - induced hallucination during an ultimately pointless stay with a Native American tribe) to a character loosening the contents of his bowels into a hat (His attempt to obtain a second hat from a bystander who knows better is admittedly funny).

Bleak, brutal, and ultimately pointless, the film stars Guy Pearce as a man whose car is stolen and who won't rest until he not only gets it back but also punishes, with extreme prejudice, the dirtbags who took it.

She's trying to suppress the dark secrets of her recent past (relayed via confusing and ultimately pointless flashbacks), while he's itching to do a Liv and lose his cherry: it appears they were made for each other, though the film does little to persuade you why this should be so.

To be totally overwhelmed by flashy, but ultimately pointless and mind - numbing explosions, robotic fights and a serious epidemic of a CGI overdose that lapses the audience into a deep stupor (or even worse, seizures)?

Less than half a year after the (failed) launch of the 3DS, there are rumblings from Nintendo about a rather drastic hardware redesign: the much - ballyhooed but ultimately pointless 3D screen is going to be either nerfed or nixed altogether, and the system will pick up a much - needed second analog stick.

The repetitive, insincere, and ultimately pointless dialogue in this crucial scene thoroughly tinges one's impression of the whole film.

By achieving this you learn that chasing feelings, whether they be positive or negative is ultimately a pointless exercise as feelings and emotions are fleeting and come and go.

There seems to be a current vogue for political films dealing with heavyweight subjects but Frost / Nixon eclipses efforts such as Oliver Stone's humorous but ultimately pointless Bush biopic W.

Keeping Braun strong by having him eliminate everyone else hurt the match because he came in in the second half so the entire first half of the match was ultimately pointless, and the booking for Roman winning was weird.

Personally I would just say it is an annoying and ultimately pointless insult Soopa.

Other than historical context on the politics inside Christianity, this is an ultimately pointless discussion.

But this is just wishing to live in some other world than the one we have — understandable, but ultimately pointless.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, any attempt to automate the process of brush making is pointless.

I guess ultimately, if there is no God and is no purpose to this life of mine outside of being a link in a pointless endless chain of evolution then why should I care about any issues around me.

Ultimately, I've found these arguments to be pointless because you can't convince a creationist that evolution is the way to go and you can't convince an evolutionist that creation makes sense.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

We may as well just talk dirty to each other, because ultimately it is pointless to talk to them.

Many saw his efforts to squeeze the Mercedes as somewhat pointless and it ultimately caused his retirement.

It also contributes to alienation from politics, and ultimately from democracy itself, because the power of big economic interests to get their way demonstrates to everyone else their powerlessness and encourages a belief that political activity is pointless.

Review: Every year, it seems, must see at least one vaguely spiritual, semi-inspirational, over done and ultimately empty and pointless film, and this year's appears to be «August Rush.»

And although the film picks up slightly in its human - centered final stretch, The Pact II ultimately does nothing to alleviate the misguided and pointless vibe that's running throughout this would - be franchise.

This movie is funny but ultimately bland and pointless.

A quietly understated performance as the conflicted and unstable city councilman in Gus Van Sant's Milk came hot on the heels of a star making turn in Oliver Stone's ultimately rather pointless biopic of number 43, where Josh amazingly managed to make Georgie and his daddy issues almost sympathetic.

I didn't mind the violence, but it's the absurd stillness of the film that I thought was rather dull, pointless, indulgent and with all those pregnant pauses where nothing really happened, ultimately it was just extremely boring... I saw this one yesterday and hated it as I had not hated a film in a long time.

Sure, it could be seen as a decent workout, but the wall isn't going to feel a thing, you're going to take more damage than you dish out, people will look at you funny, and it's ultimately pretty pointless.

Instead, he pulls together a group of ignorant and traitorous characters that the audience simply can't identify with, ultimately resulting in one of the most pointless movie experiences since last year's hugely overrated «Into the Wild.»

Ultimately, a seemingly pointless origin story featuring weird casting choices (will.i.am?)

And all of this was ultimately pretty pointless because, as I've noted before, the bill is unlikely to go anywhere in the Senate.

A policy sure to create implementation challenges and headaches for faculty, only to ultimately prove pointless.

, and analysing my specific portfolio FX gains / losses would ultimately be pretty pointless / meaningless anyway when so many readers hail from a multitude of different countries / base currencies.

I was features editor while studying a pointless but intriguing postgraduate degree; I'd decided to do that after leaving a well - paid job because, ultimately, I followed my gut instinct in seeking a career and life that would truly suit me.

This is a pretty cool touch but ultimately makes no difference to the ending whatsoever and simply ends up becoming pointless.

Ultimately it will all make sense in the end when the review comes full circle and the truth behind the seemingly pointless opening rant is revealed.