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Open Marriage Night posted:My pizza overcame great fear, and was really good. Shame about your fridge, though. Samuringa fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 12, 2018 |
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Facebook just reminded me that today is the anniversary of me almost backing over Hilary Barta. So that's fun.
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May 12, 2018 18:52
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Samuringa posted:Shame about your fridge, though. 
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May 12, 2018 19:06
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Teenage Fansub posted:Didn't someone here's brother or somethin' direct Patti Cake$? Glad you dug it! Everyone else, go watch Patti Cake$.
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May 12, 2018 20:04
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CapnAndy posted:It was Apple and the truth is more complex. App development targets the newest hardware and over time, as your phone gets further and further away from that level of processor speed, it draws more and more power to keep up -- using silly, simplified numbers to explain that, if an app needs 40 calculations done every second, your phone can do 50 calculations per second, and the newest phone can do 100, your phone is drawing twice the power to do the same task. In an effort to conserve battery life, Apple put in a thing that'd notice phones doing that past a certain threshold and go "look just limit yourself to a certain power drain level and slow the program down if you need to". It got bad press because they did it in secret and intentionally slowing performance down is never a good look. This isn't it at all. The issue had to due with Apple making a whole series of gently caress ups. So the problem really started with Apple loving up their selection for batteries in the iPhone. They basically used batteries that were right at the borderline of what their processor needed. But lithium ion batteries don't last forever and with daily charging and discharging, within a year or so the voltage output from the battery is noticeably degrading. Now this normally wouldn't be a problem because you'd account for it when you design your product, but Apple didn't, and when a particularly processor intensive task occurred, the processor drew more voltage than some of the batteries could put out causing it to go into a brown out state and reset. Now the responsible thing to do would be to address the problem as a hardware failure. What Apple did was they just turned down the clock speed on the CPU. This wasn't because "old CPUs need twice as much power to do the same thing", it's because switching transistors on and off consumes power and doing it more often require giving that power faster. The amount of power being consumed remained exactly the same, but what had to be sent to the processor at any given moment decreased. They got away with this for about a month with people just going, "My phone is running slower than normal," and other people going, "It's just your imagination," before someone benchmarked a whole bunch of phones and found some really suspicious clustering of scores. Which led to details of Apple's "solution" coming out. It's not about conserving battery life and it's not about the calculations being done per second, at least in the sense that you stated. It's about Apple not planning the lifecycle of their hardware more than six months out and how they mismanaged their batteries. I wrote a relatively long research paper on this so I've gotten a pretty good handle on things.
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So the Stan Lee Twitter account went out of its way to claim that Stan Lee is now using it himself, and that he also doesn't have control of his Facebook (fan page) account. https://twitter.com/TheRealStanLee/status/995499582921498624 Kind of weird. I mean, we all kind of assume famous people don't usually use their social media, right?
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May 13, 2018 06:01
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Unless a celeb is actively posting video or doing live events it's likely their assistant is doing the posting for them. Stephen Amell is one of the few celebs that handles all his own social media and I actually believe it.
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May 13, 2018 06:13
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Rhyno posted:Unless a celeb is actively posting video or doing live events it's likely their assistant is doing the posting for them. Stephen Amell is one of the few celebs that handles all his own social media and I actually believe it. The Stan Lee poo poo just keeps getting weirder and weirder, though.
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May 13, 2018 06:50
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Clearly the dog is running King's social media.
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May 13, 2018 06:53
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Rhyno posted:Clearly the dog is running King's social media. Every time that dog Tweets a picture of itself, it becomes closer and closer to entering our reality.
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May 13, 2018 12:17
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Rhyno posted:Clearly the dog is running King's social media. Or is the corgi driving the car?
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May 13, 2018 12:45
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Gavok posted:Every time that dog Tweets a picture of itself, it becomes closer and closer to entering our reality. I want you to know, I understood and appreciated this reference.
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May 13, 2018 13:48
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Gavok posted:Every time that dog Tweets a picture of itself, it becomes closer and closer to entering our reality. Thank you for this.
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I have a weird question. I've seen some odd third-hand tweets about something, and Google hasn't helped me get to the bottom of it. Is there a reason that a group of people are mad at Mark Waid (i.e. calling him an SJW and stuff)?
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ZDar Fan posted:I have a weird question. I've seen some odd third-hand tweets about something, and Google hasn't helped me get to the bottom of it. Is there a reason that a group of people are mad at Mark Waid (i.e. calling him an SJW and stuff)? Check out the Darkside of the Industry thread for more details, but long story short, Waid criticised a terrible, racist person for being terrible and racist. Waid started getting a lot of abuse and went offline, which he's done in the past. Oh yeah, and the terrible racist person was doxxing female comic book store workers, which has lead to massive harassment against women. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 13, 2018 19:53
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Also Mark Waid is destroying the industry all by himself.
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Good.
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Rhyno posted:Also Mark Waid is destroying the industry all by himself. That's just what Disney wants you to think, it's actually a concerted effort to censor free speech by Mousewitz.
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May 13, 2018 20:17
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Is Waid's Archie any good? I grabbed the first trade from Half Price Books based on it having Fiona Staples art.
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May 13, 2018 20:46
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is Waid's Archie any good? I grabbed the first trade from Half Price Books based on it having Fiona Staples art. Yes. Very much so.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is Waid's Archie any good? I grabbed the first trade from Half Price Books based on it having Fiona Staples art. Yes. It's really fun and explores the characters in a great way. It's probably my second favorite ongoing series which isn't by Marvel. But to be fair, it's not exactly close to number one, since Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky win that category by a landslide. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:00 on May 13, 2018 |
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is Waid's Archie any good? I grabbed the first trade from Half Price Books based on it having Fiona Staples art. Have you considered reading the thing you purchased and forming your own opinion?
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I still can't understand how his Archie is so good and yet his Champions was among the worst books Marvel launched out of SW.
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Endless Mike posted:Have you considered reading the thing you purchased and forming your own opinion? Maybe it's not about the money investment, but rather the time. And for some reason asking us is faster than reading it. Rhyno posted:I still can't understand how his Archie is so good and yet his Champions was among the worst books Marvel launched out of SW. It might be the different levels of levity. The Archie books might be dramatic at some points, but at the end of the day, it's all just personal stakes which can still feel fun. Champions was just depressing and to broody. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 21:09 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 13, 2018 21:02
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Rhyno posted:I still can't understand how his Archie is so good and yet his Champions was among the worst books Marvel launched out of SW. Probably a matter of editing?
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Mr. Maltose posted:Probably a matter of editing? You think Archie has more editorial control of Mark Waid than Marvel?
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No? Like. Have you worked with an editor before because control is not the only dynamic involved there.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Probably a matter of editing? Eh, Waid is a former editor and tends to be left alone by editorial. He just never found the voices for the individual characters.
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Skwirl posted:Check out the Darkside of the Industry thread for more details, but long story short, Waid criticised a terrible, racist person for being terrible and racist. Waid started getting a lot of abuse and went offline, which he's done in the past. Thanks for the info. I figured it would be stupid, but I didn't realize it would be that stupid.
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Endless Mike posted:Have you considered reading the thing you purchased and forming your own opinion? Of course, but I buy a dozen trades at a time, often before I've finished reading the last dozen I bought because I'm a consumerist whore and find it difficult to pass up discount books that I might like. Asking the thread is to figure out if I should make it one of those I get to before the next influx of books buries it.
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I think The Champions floundered for a number of reasons and a few of them were explicitly about not playing to Mark Waid's strenghs. I think Waid has always been better at synthesizing disparate versions of a longstanding character into a cohesive whole than creating and defining new characters. I think I've compared him to Mark Gruenwald before, but I stick by it-- the older and weirder a character, he better he does with them. His real gift is taking someone with a whole host of baggage and weirdness and make what appears to be a mess into the compelling appearance of complexity. See his Flash run, where he did more than anyone to make the Flash corner of the DC Universe feel like an interesting, mysterious place. His Daredevil, too, reads like an attempt to make the lighthearted swashbuckler of the 60s gel with the gritty Daredevil of the last few decades, and it sings with the frisson of that challeng.That's what made his Archie such a treat-- nothing could be more Waid than taking four broadly sketched characters with decades of clutter behind them and making them speak relevently to a contemporay audience. He's a refurbisher, and a really great one. With The Champions, he was writing characters who had, up to that point, been the babies, for better or worse, of single writers with strong stylistic thumbprints. Kamala Khan is G. Willow Wilson's baby. Miles Morales is Brian Michael Bendis' baby. Amadeus Cho is Grek Pak's baby, Sam Alexander was pretty much a cipher until Gerry Duggan came along, Viv Vision worked in Tom King's Vision but was kind of broadly defined, and young Cyclops is just kind of nothing. There's no synthesizing and reconciling to be done so Waid is put in the position of just trying to respectfully follow in the footsep's of those writers. It comes off as politely not wanting to step on those writers' toes, and on paper it reads like spinning wheels and going very, very cautiously. This is not what makes thrilling superhero comics. Waid is also a great collaborator, who plays to the strengths of his partners and, in the best situations, has those artists tease notes of wit and subtlety out of what tends to be a pretty blunt scripting style. This is, again, on full display in Archie and Daredevil. This can even be true of his work with Humberto Ramos! Impulse, a young, brash, immature hero, is not really Waid's signature, but Ramos' kinetic and cartoony pencils made it a great comic. Champions is scripted and plotted so limply though that Ramos comes off as struggling to find the right tone. His exaggerated, rubbery style is just not the right fit for a comic which tends to be as deliberate and talky as Champions, and so you have scenes that call for a lot of nuanced acting dominated by crazy poses and hollaring faces. I think Waid and Ramos are both super talented creators, and I think a lot of the characters in Champions are very rich. But the brief for it was so limp and tired-- young heroes teaming up! proactively!-- that it tarnished everybody involved. The series was also so hamstrung by crossovers and compulsory continuity checks that it felt like the team never did anything but squabble and twiddle their thumbs. The villains were lackluster, as again, I don't think Waid is particularly strong, overall, at coming up with new characters-- that team of goofballs they kept fighting were so, so forgettable.
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I think it had more to do with waid being clueless at best at times with stuff like viv asking about microagressions and at worst having really horrible poo poo like kamala saying you can't punch the Nazi after he burns down a mosque because that makes you just like the Nazi and having Amadeus say as an Asian American I know about internment camps but maybe we need to let these people stay locked up in one after inhumans tell the champions THEY WANT TO STAY FORCIBLY LOCKED UP IN A HYDRA INTERNMENT CAMP
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Samuel J Jackson is a comic fan, but, did you know?...
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Yeah. I got a lot of emptyquotes from posting it in PHIZ a year ago  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVQtlQtxCs&t=155s Edit: Speaking of him and Anime/Manga, anyone see that apparently terrible Kite adaptation he was in? Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 03:14 on May 14, 2018 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Yeah. I got a lot of emptyquotes from posting it in PHIZ a year ago What's kite? Only anime I've ever seen him in is Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai Resurrection. We were all 13 once.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Edit: Speaking of him and Anime/Manga, anyone see that apparently terrible Kite adaptation he was in? no. Literally no one saw it
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