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edit: on the other hand, who gives a flying gently caress.
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The way message boards are structured it's hard to post in huge threads without feeling like you're probably saying something that was already said 50 pages ago. Social media has outstripped message boards
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Nijinsky Hind posted:The way message boards are structured it's hard to post in huge threads without feeling like you're probably saying something that was already said 50 pages ago. Social media has outstripped message boards people already made that point 50 pages ago nobody cares.
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Oct 19, 2017 05:26
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There should be strict laws prohibiting employers from making their employees take (too much) work home, or from contacting their employees after work hours.
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Nijinsky Hind posted:There should be strict laws prohibiting employers from making their employees take (too much) work home, or from contacting their employees after work hours. Agreed except for some edge cases where the nature of the job requires you to be on call most of the time (although you could argue they should just hire two people for jobs like that). Especially in academic jobs, it's insane how much you're expected to do from home, which is exactly why I'm trying to leave. At least pay us better if you're going to treat us as if they expect us to do the work of 2-3 people.
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Pick posted:Obama was too naive to become president at that time. Idk if it's possible to be "too naive" to be president.
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Nijinsky Hind posted:Idk if it's possible to be "too naive" to be president. sure it is, Trump got elected and he's been largely clueless thus far.
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If every president seems naive to you, maybe you are the one who's naive?
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Pick posted:I was being literal, I see it as propaganda for the unacceptable behavioral tendencies of people with autism spectrum disorder. WEW
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sassassin posted:Every every president seems naive to you, maybe you are the one who's naive? I didn't mean that they were all naive, I just meant that there's no such thing as a good President of the United States.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Agreed except for some edge cases where the nature of the job requires you to be on call most of the time
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Oct 19, 2017 10:58
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Facebook slacktivism needs to go away
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Facebook slacktivism needs to go away The fuss surrounding the new Wolfenstein game annoys me because of this. I see people declaring they're only buying the game because it annoyed the alt right on twitter and...thats literally all they're doing. Throwing fifty quid at a game developer is their sole contribution to The Cause, but its made out to be a massive thing. gently caress positive social change and combating fascism, buying a computer game annoys someone!!!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Facebook slacktivism needs to go away Especially the assumption they tend to make where if you don't join in, you must support the other side. I'm not reposting anything in solidarity, liking/sharing poo poo, or anything to prove I have the Correct Opinion. We've known each other for years, you should know either where I stand already or where I would stand based on my character.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Especially the assumption they tend to make where if you don't join in, you must support the other side. I'm not reposting anything in solidarity, liking/sharing poo poo, or anything to prove I have the Correct Opinion. We've known each other for years, you should know either where I stand already or where I would stand based on my character. This is kinda out political climate in a nutshell and I hate it. Humans are not binary.
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I just really find it funny that they're complaining about nazi-killing in a series about... killing nazis. Also, my PHUO: Antifa strategies are right and proper, and I fully support the use of them against Nazis.
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When I was in elementary school there was a series of kids' books called My Teacher Fried My Brain about aliens infiltrating this kid's school. I forget most of the story but I remember the big reveal at the end was that aliens were mad about Earth and one of the aliens had gone rogue and was responsible for giving humans TV technology to gently caress with our development and now space government was extra pissed because we had this premature communications technology that was so far beyond our means that we just weren't culturally equipped to handle it at all, and now that we were all hopped up on TV we needed to be put down like rabid dogs this is how I feel about social media
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Straight White Shark posted:When I was in elementary school there was a series of kids' books called My Teacher Fried My Brain about aliens infiltrating this kid's school. I forget most of the story but I remember the big reveal at the end was that aliens were mad about Earth and one of the aliens had gone rogue and was responsible for giving humans TV technology to gently caress with our development and now space government was extra pissed because we had this premature communications technology that was so far beyond our means that we just weren't culturally equipped to handle it at all, and now that we were all hopped up on TV we needed to be put down like rabid dogs I totally read these. My Teacher Flunked the Planet and all those.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Facebook slacktivism needs to go away "Slacktivism" implies that it isn't significant in some way or that the people accused of it aren't also doing other things besides posting on social media all day. Both are just assumptions meant to discredit people you don't agree with. But like to be fair a lot of people post really bad takes on Facebook Elizabethan Error posted:sure it is, Trump got elected and he's been largely clueless thus far. I'd attribute that to a lot more than just naivete on his part. Clueless is an understatement. yeah I eat rear end posted:Especially the assumption they tend to make where if you don't join in, you must support the other side. I'm not reposting anything in solidarity, liking/sharing poo poo, or anything to prove I have the Correct Opinion. We've known each other for years, you should know either where I stand already or where I would stand based on my character. In a lot of cases you're basically on one side or the other IMO Nijinsky Hind has a new favorite as of 23:15 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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People worry too much about the effects of social media & smart phones, the same way they worried too much about the effects of television. I mean like people who take the unilateral "television rots your brain" stance, not the "network news makes us think the world is nastier than it actually is" stance.
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Nijinsky Hind posted:"Slacktivism" implies that it isn't significant in some way or that the people accused of it aren't also doing other things besides posting on social media all day. Both are just assumptions meant to discredit people you don't agree with. Yeah even though it's a fairly new term I think it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that re-posting poo poo on the internet actually can have a massive impact on society now in terms of where it leads people's minds and actions to. Those Slactivist posts basically lead to Trump getting elected and to Antifa and the rise in nationalism and all those things happening
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Slactivism is stuff like Kony
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Games having lootbox stuff in it isn't a big deal, or a cause to get mad over. If you don't want to use it, don't. If you want to burn money on stuff like that (hell, I'll throw clink at a mobile game I like), whatever. I feel like 80% of the complaint is based on inane completionism.
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Men's office formal wear usually looks bad. Things like Oxford shoes, khakis, shirts with buttoned collars so you look like you're wearing a trash bag, polo shirts (especially polos) aren't a good look on most guys. Neckties are fine but extraneous if you think about it. A lot of the assumptions we have about what constitutes formal wear seem kind of archaic to me at least.
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Nijinsky Hind posted:Men's office formal wear usually looks bad. Things like Oxford shoes, khakis, shirts with buttoned collars so you look like you're wearing a trash bag, polo shirts (especially polos) aren't a good look on most guys. Neckties are fine but extraneous if you think about it. A lot of the assumptions we have about what constitutes formal wear seem kind of archaic to me at least.
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I'm kind of done with comics for a while I think. I used to like superhero comics as a kid but when all of the Marvel screen adaptations started popping up in the 2000s I got really sick of them. I think I can understand the appeal of DC/Marvel series but I don't understand how DC/Marvel nerds aren't incredibly put off by the way they've been peddled in cinema and in print since the 2000s. I just don't find them that engaging, though I feel like they could have the potential to be good. Similarly I'm also kind of put off of "alternative" comics, there's a sense of pretension of the artists to being totally unique despite copying each other all the time, it kind of mirrors the CalArts style in animation in a weird way, despite most alt comics artists coming from more than a single school or handful of schools, because they tend to have that same kind of feel to them that the artist went to art school & was heavily impressed upon in the same sort of way. There aren't as many distinctive artists or authors in alt comics anymore
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Halloween Jack posted:Men's formalwear is largely defined by the fact that millions of men were mobilized for war in the first half of the 20th century. Our fashion is essentially patriarchal and highly militarized. Hmm, interesting. I'd like to know more about that.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Their three main prospects for 2020 are Sanders, Biden and Warren who will be 80, 76 and 74 respectively. Maybe Jerry Brown should throw his hat into the ring to make them look younger by comparison. The problem with the Democrats is that they don't support the interests of young people any more than the poor, POC or the LGBT community in any way that goes beyond nominal support. They're just in politics for the sake of it. The two party system is like good cop, bad cop: they're both cops & they both exist to uphold the power of the ruling elite. Getting people to realize this means getting them to acknowledge how desperate our situation is as civilians, though, which is incredibly hard to do. (I'll stop posting now)
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Nijinsky Hind posted:Men's office formal wear usually looks bad. Things like Oxford shoes, khakis, shirts with buttoned collars so you look like you're wearing a trash bag, polo shirts (especially polos) aren't a good look on most guys. Neckties are fine but extraneous if you think about it. A lot of the assumptions we have about what constitutes formal wear seem kind of archaic to me at least. The whole concept of formal wear seems archaic to me - I mean sure I can see why you’d make the effort for a wedding or other special event but I’m absolutely not going to make any effort for my office job.
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MisterBibs posted:Games having lootbox stuff in it isn't a big deal, or a cause to get mad over. If you don't want to use it, don't. If you want to burn money on stuff like that (hell, I'll throw clink at a mobile game I like), whatever. To a degree, I agree here but games are starting to have their design based around the loot box, rather than just having them added as a way to get cosmetics and keep the multiplayer populated.
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dissss posted:The whole concept of formal wear seems archaic to me - I mean sure I can see why you’d make the effort for a wedding or other special event but I’m absolutely not going to make any effort for my office job. The guy at the office who everyone hates (maybe it's you) is 10x worse to be around with no dress code keeping him in line. As is everyone else (apart from Tina at the front desk).
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dissss posted:The whole concept of formal wear seems archaic to me - I mean sure I can see why you’d make the effort for a wedding or other special event but I’m absolutely not going to make any effort for my office job. Eh like any other sort of self-expression fashion is so ingrained in society that you're saying something with it even if you think you're not. It'd be seriously hard to disengage thousands and thousands of years of something so heavily steeped in culture and history, and formal wear/a set group of dress for specific work groups is only slightly starting to wain currently
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Intoluene posted:To a degree, I agree here but games are starting to have their design based around the loot box, rather than just having them added as a way to get cosmetics and keep the multiplayer populated. To build on this, to keep generating revenue after the initial entry fee (the purchase of the game itself) and publishers are basically trying to see what they can get away with before people stop paying. I mean, I don't care about microtransactions and DLC and lootboxes and poo poo but if the game is designed like a slot machine it takes away from it.
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sassassin posted:The guy at the office who everyone hates (maybe it's you) is 10x worse to be around with no dress code keeping him in line. Yeah it’s probably me anyway so I don’t care. I mean I would wear shorts or sandals or anything but I don’t see why I should have to wear a shirt with buttons or formal shoes to do my drat job. Aesop Poprock posted:Eh like any other sort of self-expression fashion is so ingrained in society that you're saying something with it even if you think you're not. It'd be seriously hard to disengage thousands and thousands of years of something so heavily steeped in culture and history, and formal wear/a set group of dress for specific work groups is only slightly starting to wain currently And I wouldn’t give a poo poo about what I’m saying - my priorities are comfortable and cheap so I’ll buy whatever is available that ticks those boxes.
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Intoluene posted:To a degree, I agree here but games are starting to have their design based around the loot box, rather than just having them added as a way to get cosmetics and keep the multiplayer populated. That's the thing, I mentioned the completionist part of it. Show me someone mad about loot crates making it mandatory/required/essential, and I'd put my money down that it's really not mandatory/required/essential, you (general you) just think it is because your vision is predicated on desiring that thing you get out of a loot crate. Nobody is making you spend the money on that stuff.
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MisterBibs posted:That's the thing, I mentioned the completionist part of it. Show me someone mad about loot crates making it mandatory/required/essential, and I'd put my money down that it's really not mandatory/required/essential, you (general you) just think it is because your vision is predicated on desiring that thing you get out of a loot crate. This is where it gets kinda fuzzy, because yes, you can get everything via regular paying at a pace between reasonable and glacial but our lizard brain is willing to do more for that thing it really wants but wants it quickly. You can't outright buy that really good thing so you're stuck buying boxes or earning them until you get it. There's no cap on the charge to get that one thing and making an equivalence to gambling isn't that far from the truth.
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MisterBibs posted:Games having lootbox stuff in it isn't a big deal, or a cause to get mad over. If you don't want to use it, don't. If you want to burn money on stuff like that (hell, I'll throw clink at a mobile game I like), whatever. With some of that stuff there's a good argument to be made for getting rid of it for the same reasons as slot machines, casinos, etc. Gambling is addictive and harmful and that's what a lot of those features are. But when people make the argument that a particular feature is ruining a game they'd otherwise enjoy or ruining "the video games industry", that seems to be much more petty and personal. Like, do you think you're entitled to like every game that comes out? If this ruins it for you, don't buy it. If other people are enjoying it enough to pay for it, that's their business.
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dissss posted:Yeah it’s probably me anyway so I don’t care. I mean I would wear shorts or sandals or anything but I don’t see why I should have to wear a shirt with buttons or formal shoes to do my drat job. Because an office environment isn't about you doing your job, it's about everyone doing all the jobs at the same time. A dress code eliminates a bunch of potentially disruptive nonsense (like dudes rolling in wearing the same hoodie they slept in the night before stinking of booze). Women should have to wear shirt and tie as well.
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So it’s fine to roll in stinking of booze if you chuck a new shirt on? That’s absurd, the problem isn’t with the dress code and shouldn’t be approached as such.
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Intoluene posted:This is where it gets kinda fuzzy, because yes, you can get everything via regular paying at a pace between reasonable and glacial but our lizard brain is willing to do more for that thing it really wants but wants it quickly. I get that, but I feel like if you have a problem with gambling or loot-boxing because your lizard brain is so dominant that you can't control it, do the right thing and own that. Frame your rant for what it is - a personal issue based on your personality - and not the some terrible publisher thing must be fought and crusaded against. If something is too slow, I stop playing it. If I can't reasonably get the Sinestro skin so that Batman is dressed the thematically correct way, I don't get it. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 03:20 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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