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Alaois posted:I think by "positive thinking" they mean "magical thinking", like the kind of poo poo espoused by The Secret that tells you if you just think about something you want to happen really hard, it will. Yup. I should have elaborated; it's stuff like that. Having positive thoughts is fine. Having a positive attitude toward life is fine. Optimism is totally fine. Believing that the right thoughts will magically bring things into your life is bug gently caress crazy.
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Alaois posted:I think by "positive thinking" they mean "magical thinking", like the kind of poo poo espoused by The Secret that tells you if you just think about something you want to happen really hard, it will. It's this, and it has the implication (or sometimes even stated outright) that all those cancer patients and people with depression just aren't thinking positively enough, and also don't need/shouldn't get treatment.
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Alaois posted:I think by "positive thinking" they mean "magical thinking", like the kind of poo poo espoused by The Secret that tells you if you just think about something you want to happen really hard, it will. This always struck me as a pseudo-secular rebranding of the "pray-away" strategy espoused by fundie bible-thumpers.
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AlphaKretin posted:It's this, and it has the implication (or sometimes even stated outright) that all those cancer patients and people with depression just aren't thinking positively enough, and also don't need/shouldn't get treatment. yea this is the big problem with it. There's a huge gulf between 'look just try to keep a positive view of things, maybe if you do you'll see the world better and see more opportunities for positive change' and 'you can do LITERALLY ANYTHING with positive thinking, and if you're not a mad wealthy movie star right now you're not thinking positive enough.' It's like the woo woo hippy version of libertarian bullshit. Bootstraps with a new age flavor.
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AlphaKretin posted:It's this, and it has the implication (or sometimes even stated outright) that all those cancer patients and people with depression just aren't thinking positively enough, and also don't need/shouldn't get treatment. With some auxiliary assistance from crystals and marijuana.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:yea this is the big problem with it. There's a huge gulf between 'look just try to keep a positive view of things, maybe if you do you'll see the world better and see more opportunities for positive change' and 'you can do LITERALLY ANYTHING with positive thinking, and if you're not a mad wealthy movie star right now you're not thinking positive enough.' Brainstraps
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It also ultimately shifts the blame for anything bad that happens in peoples' lives entirely to themselves. Even if it's some random thing you can't control (why no I didn't choose to have my house flattened by a meteor when I was sleeping, thanks) the idea is that you thought too negatively and drew it to yourself. Whatever happens in your life is entirely, totally, 100% your own drat fault, no matter what, all the time. Don't complain because that's negative! It's a tremendously stupid ideology that is appealing because it simplifies the world so much, blames anybody that's suffered misfortune on themselves, and absolves people of winning birth lotteries. Jim Carrey in particular had a non-poor upbringing and a father that helped him get where he was. But, you know, it was all just positive thinking, right? ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 04:05 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:But, you know, it was all just positive thinking, right? And talking out his rear end. I'm not referencing Ace Ventura by the way.
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Alaois posted:I think by "positive thinking" they mean "magical thinking", like the kind of poo poo espoused by The Secret that tells you if you just think about something you want to happen really hard, it will. So, same thing Scott Adams genuinely believes in.
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Also Noel Edmunds, though he calls it Cosmic Ordering based on some book he read.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's a tremendously stupid ideology that is appealing because it simplifies the world so much, blames anybody that's suffered misfortune on themselves, and absolves people of winning birth lotteries. Jim Carrey in particular had a non-poor upbringing and a father that helped him get where he was. But, you know, it was all just positive thinking, right? There was a period during Carrey's late teens where his family was pretty poor. He had to drop out of school to help support his family as a janitor at a factory. His parents and some siblings lived in a VW bus in his older sister's backyard. His father did help, I guess, by driving Jim to his comedy routines but was dead before Jim made it big. Carrey wrote the $20 million check to himself as a promise to make it big and he put it in his dad's coffin. But I agree that he's a woobird with some naive at best, dangerous at worst, beliefs. Little known bit of Jim Carrey trivia that I honestly read in a mid-1990s biography was that when he was young he would sneak into his parents bedroom and hump a green rug that was on the floor. I clearly remember reading that because 13-year-old me found it hilarious.
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bean_shadow posted:Little known bit of Jim Carrey trivia that I honestly read in a mid-1990s biography was that when he was young he would sneak into his parents bedroom and hump a green rug that was on the floor. I clearly remember reading that because 13-year-old me found it hilarious. He was just getting in character for The Grinch.
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AA is for Quitters posted:At least RPatz was open about not showering in an attempt to keep teenage fangirls away. Also his open contempt for the entire Twilight series made him pretty ok by me. Rpats will forever have my sympathy after he talked about women literally scratching open their necks to get him to drink their blood, and when he ran out into traffic to get away from fangirls. He had no idea what he was getting into.
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Platystemon posted:Unlilever doesn’t care if you find it attractive.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Ask and ye shalt receive. (Admittedly, I have to add "allegedly", as the case is still open.) drat, I really hope he gets some prison time out of this, but he's rich as gently caress so it's not very likely.
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il_cornuto posted:Also Noel Edmunds, though he calls it Cosmic Ordering based on some book he read. At some point did Noel Edmonds think really really hard about Mr Blobby then?
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What the gently caress https://twitter.com/UniversalORL/status/816751445143908356
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It's a meme, I think.
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Tired Moritz posted:It's a meme, I think. yeah it's called loss.jpg
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Johnny Aztec posted:Most "stars" end up insane. isnt it just jenna thats anti vax? not that carrey is a pillar of mental health since he really belives in the 23 conspiracy edit: nm should of read the rest of the thread. snergle has a new favorite as of 07:28 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Just saw an ad for Mafia III set to a hip hop track. Why even set your game in the 60s, or any defined time period, if your marketing team is just going to gently caress it up for you? Similarly, EA's marketing department thought the most fitting lyrics to accompany battlefield 3 was "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one"
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Mierenneuker posted:A big thing about Mafia III is that it features a mixed heritage protagonist in a fictional equivalent of New Orleans. It's not going for a The Godfather vibe. You're about two to three decades late for big band
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Mierenneuker posted:A big thing about Mafia III is that it features a mixed heritage protagonist in a fictional equivalent of New Orleans. It's not going for a The Godfather vibe. Yeah, but it's the 1960s. You'd expect poo poo like Hendrix.
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Waffleman_ posted:Drivers in Mexico City are being heckled by drones carrying signs advertising Uber. Okay, this is a few months late, but I immediately thought of the Bother-Gyros Viscous Soda has a new favorite as of 04:45 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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You people never complain all the times 1890's ragtime is in movies about the 1920's or 30's.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:You people never complain all the times 1890's ragtime is in movies about the 1920's or 30's. Well obviously I just figured it didn't even need to be said.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, but it's the 1960s. You'd expect poo poo like Hendrix. Hendrix would be a great since the protagonist is a Vietnam vet IIRC (haven't played it) so there could be a big connection around that, the protest movement etc. That said, anachronistic music can work amazingly well if done properly so I wouldn't complain about it based on principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dSdh21mCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1IG8hw73A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBBie5spRrs
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mobby_6kl posted:Hendrix would be a great since the protagonist is a Vietnam vet IIRC (haven't played it) so there could be a big connection around that, the protest movement etc. I think those work best because they're intentionally trying to be stylized and the eras have music that doesn't quite sound entertaining and dynamic to most modern ears. It's a bit different when it's the 1960s, which has a lot of really iconic music that's still popular among the general public today.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It also ultimately shifts the blame for anything bad that happens in peoples' lives entirely to themselves. Even if it's some random thing you can't control (why no I didn't choose to have my house flattened by a meteor when I was sleeping, thanks) the idea is that you thought too negatively and drew it to yourself. Whatever happens in your life is entirely, totally, 100% your own drat fault, no matter what, all the time. Don't complain because that's negative! Some time in the 90s I caught an episode of Oprah (I know, I know) where she and her guests were cooing over children who had "pre-birth memories of heaven". The parents were basically taking their kids' ramblings about angels and inability to understand the concept of time as proof that their children had 'chosen' what lives and families to be born to. Of course, these were all middle-class Oprah-watching mothers whose children did ballet and baseball and could have seconds of the home-made, organic dessert if they wanted. Even as a daft teenager, I was really unimpressed at the implication that a child who is hideously abused or suffers devastating brain damage at birth had also 'chosen' that life over one of comfort and stability.
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I gotta admit to something here: the situation with Mafia III isn't quite as dire as I'd thought. Turns out the trailer song was especially written by Ice Cube, using a synopsis of the game's plot, and samples a 60s song for the hook. I still would have preferred something period appropriate, but despite my initial impression it's not like they just slapped a generic gangsta rap track onto the trailer footage and called it a day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiHOpHbCzM ... it just really feels like it. I mean, okay, I get it, Mafia III is a gangster story, and 60s or not if you write rap lyrics about a gangster story you are getting a gangsta rap track out of that.
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If that's the only tweet, then the real story is probably that their social media person retweeted this thinking they were on their own account.
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Pancakes so good, Bernie would have one.
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Waffleman_ posted:Pancakes so good, Bernie would have one. Bernie understands that waffles are superior to pancakes. 
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In fairness to Mafia III, not using Hendrix might have to do with the fact that Hendrix's estate is VERY protective about his music being used. Al Hendrix, Jimi's dad, has a real bug up his rear end about allowing any media he morally disagrees with using his son's music, which sounds reasonable until you realize Al tried to get in Jimi's way almost every step of the way on Jimi's way to the top. Maybe they could have used some reworked Motown stuff, particularly the more socially conscious songs. I guess what I'm saying is licensing music can be a pain in the rear end, and the hip-hop songs they used in the ads were probably simply a matter of making a decent offer.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:In fairness to Mafia III, not using Hendrix might have to do with the fact that Hendrix's estate is VERY protective about his music being used. Al Hendrix, Jimi's dad, has a real bug up his rear end about allowing any media he morally disagrees with using his son's music, which sounds reasonable until you realize Al tried to get in Jimi's way almost every step of the way on Jimi's way to the top. Maybe they could have used some reworked Motown stuff, particularly the more socially conscious songs. "All Along the Watchtower" plays over the games Main Menu.
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jojoinnit posted:"All Along the Watchtower" plays over the games Main Menu. Bob Dylan wrote that song, though. So the publishing rights would be his, I'd think.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Bob Dylan wrote that song, though. So the publishing rights would be his, I'd think. I'm not well-versed on how copyright law effects covers, but I think the rights would still go to the cover artist unless the cover artist negotiated a license with the original artist that precluded this kind of thing. So they'd still need the Hendrix estate's permission, not Bob Dylan's.
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm not well-versed on how copyright law effects covers, but I think the rights would still go to the cover artist unless the cover artist negotiated a license with the original artist that precluded this kind of thing. So they'd still need the Hendrix estate's permission, not Bob Dylan's.
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Even if they'd hypothetically used the Hendrix version in the main menu, that wouldn't necessarily mean they have rights to use it in advertising, would it?
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