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gradenko_2000 posted:Can I get a link to this? I can't find the link for you because I'm on my phone but the source is a specific interview with the DX:HR developers about the market research they did when relaunching the brand. You should be able to find it with some Google searching. I forget which dev it was, maybe the lead writer?
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computer parts posted:That works as fantasy, but not in the same sense that cyberpunk or science fiction stuff typically works in. I'm still really salty about John Carter. It was a good or at least decent movie that did not deserve to fail that hard. Pet peeve.
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drilldo squirt posted:I bet it's Bernie. This would be the most hilarious option, but oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Killer robot posted:80s cyberpunk written anew looks wrong for the same reason why you wouldn't write sci-fi today where a veteran of the atomic wars is fighting snake people in the jungles of Venus. I don't know; with the amount of student loan debt the average snake person has been saddled with, I could see them getting violent against an atomic war vet (or "boomer") who used the GI bill for college and just can't relate to snake people problems
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm still really salty about John Carter. It was a good or at least decent movie that did not deserve to fail that hard. Pet peeve. Honestly I think a major reason is just that it wasn't very novel anymore. Like anything vaguely fantasical in space borrowed from the Barsoom stories. That's why the climactic fight against the White Ape was bemoaned because Star Wars had done it a decade earlier in Attack of the Clones.
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computer parts posted:Honestly I think a major reason is just that it wasn't very novel anymore. Like anything vaguely fantasical in space borrowed from the Barsoom stories. That's why the climactic fight against the White Ape was bemoaned because Star Wars had done it a decade earlier in Attack of the Clones. Yeah, it was two thirds bad marketing and one third that Star Wars had already lifted the highlights. Still viewed on its own it was a decent film and many movies that were much worse have done much better financially. They also rewrote the Therns in an interesting way and I would really have enjoyed the sequels if they had been made.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm still really salty about John Carter. It was a good or at least decent movie that did not deserve to fail that hard. Pet peeve. John Carter was a terrible long slog of a film, and it deserved worse than it got
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Zelder posted:John Carter was a terrible long slog of a film, and it deserved worse than it got I also think Howard the Duck is better than it is given credit for and un-ironically enjoy the Flash Gordon movie.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I also think Howard the Duck is better than it is given credit for and un-ironically enjoy the Flash Gordon movie. 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm still really salty about John Carter. It was a good or at least decent movie that did not deserve to fail that hard. Pet peeve. Maybe if they had kept all the nudity it would have helped.
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im trying to temember the flas AH! AH!! movie but my mind apparently blocked every thing after the title song
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I also think Howard the Duck is better than it is given credit for and un-ironically enjoy the Flash Gordon movie. How can one not enjoy that Queen sound track?
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After hearing about the Ted Cruz/DC Madam connection I thought I'd browse some right wing forums to see what they're saying. Unsurprisingly, any and all references to Ted Cruz and the DC Madam are being purged from Free Republic. I'm amused. I wonder what Conservapedia will say?
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Hollismason posted:The US Department of Education 100% considers that title 9 protects transgender students. They don't really gently caress around either. There was a similar situation in Illinois and it was resolved very quickly. The transgender discrimination isn't really the point of the bill- that's just to gin up evangelical support for November. It'll get removed. The real meat of the bill is in the anti-minimum wage and worker protection parts.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I can't find the link for you because I'm on my phone but the source is a specific interview with the DX:HR developers about the market research they did when relaunching the brand. You should be able to find it with some Google searching. I forget which dev it was, maybe the lead writer? This it? http://www.vice.com/read/2000s-cyberpunk-adventure-deus-ex-really-did-see-the-future-coming-115
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I believe the DoJ came out within the last 6 months or so and said they as far as they are concerned transgender people fall under Equal Protection already. So yes, the Feds are keeping a close eye on this one.
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comes along bort posted:NC Republicans have been doing everything they can to defund public schools so this only helps further their goal. Is UNC going to be included and can they pull the 'no money, basketball is over' card?
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Boywhiz88 posted:This it? http://www.vice.com/read/2000s-cyberpunk-adventure-deus-ex-really-did-see-the-future-coming-115 I don't think so. The interview specifically talked about young people's awareness of the term "cyberpunk". It was a quote about marketing more than about genre itself. Ive linked it before on this forum. I'll try to find it later.
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Killer robot posted:This is a popular meme with a lot of classic cyberpunk fans, but it's kinda misleading too. I mean, it's hard to write classic cyberpunk fiction and have it resonate with people, but it's sort of in this order. 4. Kowloon Walled City has already come and gone. We're in a post-future society. Most of the genre was crap though, even the celebrated books. I didn't like Neuromancer and I thought Snow Crash just petered out towards the end. Part of the issue is if you write a future with sufficiently powerful AI/super hackers/whatever so the reader is awed by them, you've also written in the Deus Ex Machina that you're going to use in your climax. The only prediction that's still pending that anyone cares about is Decking, and everyone was horrified when Facebook bought the rights to it.
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I've brought it up before but all of these laws would be irrelevant if they'd just remove the exclusion of people who are transgender from the ADA.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:None of the people actually involved with passage of this bill will be impacted by this. Hope this helps. If this results in Title IX issues and adversely affects Duke and/or UNC's basketball program that'd cause fallout on par with what Jindal would've faced had his stupidity shut down LSU's football program.
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Hollismason posted:I've brought it up before but all of these laws would be irrelevant if they'd just remove the exclusion of people who are transgender from the ADA. People might be reluctant to be classified as having a disability. This is already a huge issue, esp. for vets with PTSD, TBI, or other MI issues.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:People might be reluctant to be classified as having a disability. This is already a huge issue, esp. for vets with PTSD, TBI, or other MI issues. This has more to do with the social stigma associated with persons with a disability as if they're not complete people. GLAAD has filed a lawsuits regarding this and this may end up going to the Supreme Court because of the phrasing of the ADA language. The case is still not finished I don't believe. The phrasing and language at the time was to lump people who are transgender in with people who are also pedophiles. ADA language definition of what a disability is quote:The ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. This includes people who have a record of such an impairment, even if they do not currently have a disability. It also includes individuals who do not have a disability but are regarded as having a disability It's a legal definition. If this is removed from the ADA (which it's possible it will be ) because the ADA rules can be interpreted by the DOJ and they release new requirements every few years. So it's completely possible that the DOJ could just say " Yea, this is a old definition, persons who are transgender are protected by the ADA". This may actually happen.
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Right, right. I'm speaking more about the politics and popularity of such a shift rather than the legal aspects.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned LePage's lovely "April Fools" joke yet. quote:Maine's governor pulled a political April Fool's joke on a newly-elected lawmaker by cancelling her swearing-in ceremony Friday — after she and her family had already driven 72 miles to the state capital.
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Party Plane Jones posted:I'm surprised nobody has mentioned LePage's lovely "April Fools" joke yet. You mean LePage's future corruption charge and court case?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Right, right. I'm speaking more about the politics and popularity of such a shift rather than the legal aspects. Yeah, it most certainly is a very nuanced issue. I've dealt with more than a few of these discussions and it really comes down to the social stigma of persons with disabilities.
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/politics/obama-donald-trump-economy-indiana.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer= Once again, this is why some places are going to be impossible to appeal to. People whose livelihoods were saved by Obama, but want Trump because racism and sexism.
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hey guys, if you ever wanted to see Michael Hayden get the grilling of his life here's a pretty amazing interview:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fqPpX70jY
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Al-Saqr posted:hey guys, if you ever wanted to see Michael Hayden get the grilling of his life here's a pretty amazing interview:- This is a really great illustration of just how much difference an interviewer can really make in the way an interviewee comes across, or presents their case. Go watch Hayden on Bill Maher and compare the two, it's a night and day difference. Why can't we have good journalists on American news 
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Blindeye posted:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/politics/obama-donald-trump-economy-indiana.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer= God, gently caress these people.
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Al-Saqr posted:hey guys, if you ever wanted to see Michael Hayden get the grilling of his life here's a pretty amazing interview:- That is an extraordinary interview. And the extraordinary thing is that this is so unique in that it's actual, adversarial interviewing which is about as rare as a goddamn unicorn these days. It just makes me Also Michael Hayden is a disgusting, morally bankrupt reptile. The second part of the interview is just as extraordinary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGK_Q4VZGck Junior G-man fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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On Terra Firma posted:God, gently caress these people. To be fair, going from unemployed to employed but working four part time jobs isn't that much of an improvement.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:To be fair, going from unemployed to employed but working four part time jobs isn't that much of an improvement. Yet they'd malign anyone asking for a living wage.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:To be fair, going from unemployed to employed but working four part time jobs isn't that much of an improvement. At least their kids they don't see have 3 meals a day.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:To be fair, going from unemployed to employed but working four part time jobs isn't that much of an improvement. 23 dollar an hour jobs in Indiana is no joke, and if they're trying to bite out of homeless shelters you bet 4 jobs is not the norm. Plus the mention in the story about so many jobs that can allow single-earner lifestyles. Thanks, Obama.
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fool_of_sound posted:I can't believe we're living in the Shadowrun future jesus christ. 
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I've heard he has tiny claws.
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Zerilan posted:I've heard he has tiny claws. Dunkelzahn was a cool guy wth very large claws.
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vorebane posted:Dunkelzahn was a cool guy wth very large claws. Would you say his claws were YUUUUUGE?
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