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Olive Garden tonight! posted:Everything I like is for mature, reasonable adults and everything I don't like is for idiot thumb-sucking babies. But unironically!
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If you don't move away from childish things naturally and organically as you turn into an adult, you are developmentally stunted.
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Dec 24, 2016 13:48
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Jerry Cotton posted:Scientists say the opposite, though. I wonder who is right, goon or the science community? You are posting in the A/T, so presumably you trust goons to have all the right answers.
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Dec 24, 2016 14:46
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veni veni veni posted:Lol you are too good for the entire medium of comics but think it's a travesty that people don't respect Stargate SG1 or Babylon 5 or whatever enough. Seems like the pot calling the kettle black. All comics are bad. Only most TV shows / movies / novels are bad.
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Dec 24, 2016 21:43
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areyoucontagious posted:Qft They should just kill all the olds. Except for me, I'm a pillar of community and too highly regarded to be disposable. lol, go gently caress yourself.
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Dec 28, 2016 10:03
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Theatre and music halls were the foremost gathering places for all classes prior to the advent of recorded picture and sound. The first time the police in America were armed with firearms was due to a massive deadly conflict between two factions of theatre goers (populists vs elitists), the Astor Place Riot. In London in 1809 people rioted for two months over the increase in admission fees (Old Price Riots). Illustrated song books with lyrics and sheet music, with themes ranging from religious to humorous to titillating, were incredibly popular wares at markets, and pretty much the equivalent of modern records. So were cantastories, storyboards used to guide audiences throughout popular songs as the performer combined musical and dramatic elements to entertain a crowd. Etc, etc. 
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Dec 28, 2016 11:48
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WampaLord posted:Here's my unpopular opinion: I think that's because music is actually the easiest to judge objectively, and the truly awful artists don't get anywhere. If a musician / singer can't play any chords reliably or hit a note, he either fails, or gets digitally altered to fit the pretty rigidly defined norm which has been formalized over centuries of musical practice. If an actor "cannot act", it often isn't a real obstacle. So in the end the mainstream music industry is full of competent content, and any argument is over style rather than substance (similar to having an argument that Godfather is trash because it is boringly literal and conventional, while Space Odyssey is good because it is experimental - while clearly both movies are technically excellent)
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Dec 28, 2016 17:03
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veni veni veni posted:Is that really that hard to understand? Yes, the obsession with getting everything the moment it comes out - be it movies, games, music - makes no sense. The world is flooded with preexisting entertainment you can enjoy in the meantime, why would you constrain yourself to watching stuff RIGHT AWAY instead at your leisure, whenever it becomes most convenient for you?
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Dec 29, 2016 08:18
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Maybe you want to participate in the conversations everyone you know is going to be having about it for the brief time after it comes out You can talk about the older things as well. It is certainly going to be more interesting than "Did you see that new superhero flick?" "Yup." "Yup." "So see you later." It's not bizarre, but people are in general way too obsessed with immediate consumption. Personally I have a hard time juggling all the things I want to do so I often end up playing or watching something I was enthusiastic about a year or more after release, and don't feel any worse off for it. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 08:42 on Dec 29, 2016 |
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? There's nothing wrong with waiting to see it especially if you're not enthusiastic about it, but it's not some bizarre impossible to understand phenomenon that some people prefer to see it as soon as they can. Haven't you ever really wanted to see a movie or play a new game? Why wait if you don't have to?
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veni veni veni posted:I'd love to take a bet on that one. Nobody is buying VR anymore. Maybe there will be a new generation a couple years from now that will do better, but it will most likely remain a very niche product, like flight simulator sticks and other dedicated gamer crap.
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Dec 29, 2016 21:14
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veni veni veni posted:Wanna provide some stats on that? Afaik the Sony one has consistently sold extremely well. The other ones are super expensive and as niche as you'd expect. Don't know about Sony, but the Steam VR adoption rates have enjoyed effectively zero growth since the summer. I remember during the height of the VR craze people on tech podcasts were raving about converting entire rooms into VR playpens. Well, I guess if you are an ivory tower West Coast professional with that sort of resources to throw around, I guess I see why you would think VR was the light, but just lol. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 08:23 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Dec 30, 2016 08:19
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Any poll I can find has most of the respondents disinterested, and mind you those are on sites with audiences self-selected to be composed of people most likely to be VR enthusiasts and early adopters in general. This poll comes closer to having some sort of parity of positive and negative views, and that's only because the ambiguous / negative vote is eroded into a bunch of options. https://slashdot.org/poll/2731/how-interested-are-you-in-virtual-reality-tech You seem to have little perspective on what is actually popular in the wider population that isn't part of the tiny enthusiast gamer segment.
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Dec 30, 2016 10:03
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Sorry that not everybody is going to slobber all over your dumb toys.
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Dec 30, 2016 10:58
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veni veni veni posted:Sorry I tried to actually engage you on some level sad, angry loving loser. I mean, you can pay me those five bucks if you insist, I don't care.
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Dec 30, 2016 11:14
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You seem to be very mad, red and nude over a toy. Sometimes it's good to just kick back and relax.
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Dec 30, 2016 11:29
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Imo the successful AR/VR products of the future will be conceptually derived from stuff like the Hololens rather than the Oculuses etc.
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Dec 30, 2016 12:28
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It was pretty hilarious when there was a media storm prior and immediately after the election to crucify Taylor Swift for not educating her audiences about politics and who to vote for.
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Dec 30, 2016 17:02
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Pick posted:You say that, but the bottom-shelf vodka in the Czech Republic was like $3 a liter, and you do not want it Still better than the rum-flavored spirits sitting next to it. 
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Jan 4, 2017 18:41
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Tattooing and piercing are either older than, or as old as, writing. Humans have been modifying our bodies in various weird ways for ever. Acting like it's some kind of moral failing that only bad people get is absurd. We've always done it. People have always been poo poo. We have also always partaken in ritualistic cannibalism, but Jeffrey Dahmer isn't walking free.
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Jan 5, 2017 00:20
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You Are A Elf posted:Henceforth, I shall now refer to hamburger[s] as "cow mash." After all it's a diner smash.
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Jan 6, 2017 17:29
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All Disney movies end with the villains getting their way because royalty is the greatest evil of them all. E: gently caress you, Little Mermaid, feudalism is not acceptable any more E: Or would Little Mermaid be theocracy? That's even worse.
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Jan 7, 2017 18:35
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If I know Disney, Tramp was probably some exiled archduke from Eastern Europe, cursed into the form of a dog, arrrg
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Jan 7, 2017 18:40
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Check out The Unbelievable Truth with David Mitchell for how to host this sort of show properly. Fry was too much of a smug blowhard, and it wore on me fast.
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Jan 7, 2017 21:12
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I don't think I've ever run into somebody that's considered Speedy Gonzales racist nor have I seen that on the internet, ever. He's a mouse from Mexico that wears a big hat and goes fast. Big deal. I have, however, heard comments on his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez being a racist character. He's slow, lazy, and carries a gun. Kind of matches some negative stereotypes. In a shocking twist, nations can have negative stereotypes / views of themselves, and even enjoy laughing at them. Also see: My avatar, to an extent.
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Jan 8, 2017 10:23
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Americans are totally better than almost all other tourists, but their demeanor is still that of uncanny valley robots.
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Jan 9, 2017 23:32
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IMHO politicians, lobbyists and accredited journalists should be banned from posting on Twitter. It should be a social media platform, not a loving political psy-op arena. OTOH, Twitter has been great for breaking news from largely out of reach areas abroad like Syria, so maybe I'm wrong.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:26
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It's fine for a private service to enforce arbitrary rules. That's why Twitter should not be used as a place of public discourse with potentially grave consequences. Anyway Twitter is gonna go bankrupt soon, so it's not like this debate is going to matter. Unless President Trump buys it out and establishes it as an extension of the White House staff.
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Jan 13, 2017 23:31
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What the gently caress are their expenses. They don't own anything, except for an app. Are they subsidizing their drivers from their own (well, their venture capitalist pals') pockets?
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Jan 14, 2017 00:02
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yes, actually. So the worst I suspected was charitable. Jesus loving Christ, this piece of poo poo is literally just a timed bomb designed to destroy traditional employment and crush labor activism, with no real goal of creating a viable alternative.
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Jan 14, 2017 00:08
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THere should be no expectation that anybody without a share in an enterprise would do more than precisely the amount of work stated in his contract.
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Jan 15, 2017 18:18
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Pro-wrestling is an inherently immoral, barbaric form of entertainment that represents the decadence and downfall of American culture, and its toxic influence on the world.
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Tiggum posted:How so? Selling senseless violence to children as entertainment is wrong.
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Jan 16, 2017 09:04
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Aesop Poprock posted:This argument has been done over and over again but that describes any sort of fight or action scene in a movie, show or play ever. Do you think it's weird that people pretend to do things for entertainment Unlike other form of media, wrestling has no other purpose (artistic, narrative, symbolic) than to show people hitting each other. It uncritically embraces and commercially exploits the darkest aspects human nature like a gladiatorial arena of today. It's a "sport" for sociopaths and stunted people, no matter if it is nominally "fake" (the culture it promotes certainly isn't fake, and neither is the fact that pretty much everybody involved in it professionally seems to be a terrible person on some level). steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 09:11 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Jan 16, 2017 09:08
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Aesop Poprock posted:Are you familiar with professional wrestling even as a concept because it sounds more like you're describing a (again, totally flawed) version of MMA At least MMA promotes athleticism and has some semblance of sportsmanship, instead of building "narratives" around violence. Just being "cartoonish" or garish isn't a defense, if anything it just is more troubling because it attempts to trivialize and conceal the underlying issues.
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Jan 16, 2017 09:13
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Aesop Poprock posted:How is it different than a comic book, tv show or movie where the good guy beats up all the bad guys None of those things are nearly as braindead and direct in placing the bouts of violence itself as the centerpiece to be admired, while actually physically damaging the "performers" in the process (and it's not like there is something to be admired about loads of other media - just because I only mentioned one form of perverse brutishness doesn't mean I advocate for others). As I said, even MMA carries with it positive connotations, but not wrestling, which is just the face of depravity laid out as bare as modern society allows.
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"It's just like my animes" is not an endorsement, hth
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Jan 16, 2017 14:59
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Talk shows would be vastly improved if they had no live audience.
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Jan 20, 2017 22:08
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It's a well-written, well-acted show that is about the kids, not about the monster and the mystery. It's more like a character drama than a horror show. I'm talking about Seinfeld, just to be clear.
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Jan 21, 2017 17:09
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Ready Player One is an awful novel whose only point is "GUYS, DO YOU REMEMBER THAT VIDEO GAMES ARE A THING"
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Jastiger posted:Anyone that marched yesterday but doesnt vote in EVERY upcoming election for the next 10 years (if eligible) is a massive piece of poo poo and just as bad as Trump supporters. Ive told all my friends this to my face and im dead serious. The marchers are right, but if you dont vote on it when you can, then you're useless. What are YOU going to do, Jastiger, besides masturbating to Lena "Left's Greatest Enemy" Dunham and whining about Jefferson Davis.
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