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the twins in bioshock infinite seemed really lazy to me
How so?
it felt like it was aping rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead + it was really obviously pointless
also their twee personalities didn't fit the actual personalities of the characters from the audio log which was dumm
yo, i'd probably go a bit more twee* if I was removed from space/time
*Im guessing at what "twee" means from context.
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
i'm not going to read an entire 17 page paper right now, but did that paper just use every speaking character? it sounds like it did
i'd be much more interested in people with a % or set minutes of screentime to show primary/secondary actors
the data may not be at all different, but shows up on screen interests me less than carries the film
reducing studies to memes seems like the most intellectually destructive way to synthesize a concept
honestly
Females are grossly underrepresented on screen in 2012 films. Out of 4,475 speaking characters on
screen, only 28.4% are female. This translates into a ratio of 2.51 males to every 1 female on screen.
2012 reveals the lowest percentage of on-screen females (28.4%) across the 5-year sample. Only 6% of
the top-grossing films in 2012 featured a balanced cast, or females in 45-54.9% of all speaking roles. Just
over a quarter of all narrators (27.5%) are female.
Only 16.7% of the 1,228 directors, writers, and producers are female across the 100 top-grossing films of
2012. Women accounted for 4.1% of directors, 12.2% of writers, and 20% of producers. This calculates
to a 2012 ratio of 5 males to every 1 female behind the camera. Almost no changes are observed in
female employment patterns behind the camera across the 5 years studied. Together, the findings show
that the gender needle is not moving on screen or behind the camera in popular films.
its not like the abstract is giving off a diff vibe...
'totes backsliding' is not the same as 'not moving' soooo. the narrative of a steady slide against women is why the meme weaselly hops between 'worst in all years studied omg' to 'less than in the 1990s' when convenient. increases or decreases within that time period are elided.
discarding the note of 'top 100 grossing fiction films' is also troubling
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
the twins in bioshock infinite seemed really lazy to me
How so?
it felt like it was aping rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead + it was really obviously pointless
also their twee personalities didn't fit the actual personalities of the characters from the audio log which was dumm
I mean, I figure your personality might change a bit after becoming unstuck in time.
And honestly I can't really fault a game for aping Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
the twins in bioshock infinite seemed really lazy to me
How so?
it felt like it was aping rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead + it was really obviously pointless
also their twee personalities didn't fit the actual personalities of the characters from the audio log which was dumm
yo, i'd probably go a bit more twee* if I was removed from space/time
*Im guessing at what "twee" means from context.
the twins from the audio logs are who the hell knows how far back in the past from the point of view of the twins you see who are basically time lords now
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
yeah, 2012 is the year highlighted because it was the worst yet there's no clear trend in the data i'm looking at
reducing anything to a politically didactic line and a picture is a betrayal of everything free humans have ever hoped for in a democracy
it's of course useful in short-term coalition-building and such - but tends to fall apart when people start actually examining the "why" of the coalition. you hope for a more complex discourse by that point, even with all the risks that brings ... or you do the fun thing and just start robespierring
bush/paul 2016
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
+1
OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
memes win all the time because of one easy thing, and this is a true neuro-fact, hope your bholes are ready
when you get a piece of data, you will believe it and internalize it before your skepticism will kick in
i learned this because it's actually extremely effective when you're hit by an anxiety attack or you need to do something really stressful to just say to yourself, regardless of religion, 'god will take care of it.' or 'whatever created me or force will handle it, no big, not in my control'
your brain will release all the good feels even if you don't believe it
mazeltov, you stupid meatbags. propaganda always wins.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
A vote for Narwhal is a vote for everyone to shut up for a few minutes
reducing anything to a politically didactic line and a picture is a betrayal of everything free humans have ever hoped for in a democracy
it's of course useful in short-term coalition-building and such - but tends to fall apart when people start actually examining the "why" of the coalition. you hope for a more complex discourse by that point, with all the risks that brings
Female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years, according to a USC report. And when they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing. That's the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue. The same goes for behind-the-scenes work-only 16 percent of all key movie production jobs in 2012 were held by women, which is actually less than in the 90's.
There! The words aren't on top of a picture now! Happy? :P
socioeconomic status, a common acronym in sociology
which presumably correlates p hard with the hours of television consumption (which afaik is now associated with lower-SES groups - poorer households consume more rather than less TV)
there's a lot of bullshit going on with 'baseline levels of esteem' there and i'd be suspicious of the causality being sketched
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
socioeconomic status, a common acronym in sociology
which presumably correlates p hard with the hours of television consumption (which afaik is now associated with lower-SES groups - poorer households consume more rather than less TV)
there's a lot of bullshit going on with 'baseline levels of esteem' there and i'd be suspicious of the causality being sketched
Maybe people's self-esteem drops when they watch TV because TV is shitty, and white dude's self-esteem goes up because it just always goes up because they're white dudes.
Female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years, according to a USC report. And when they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing. That's the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue. The same goes for behind-the-scenes work-only 16 percent of all key movie production jobs in 2012 were held by women, which is actually less than in the 90's.
There! The words aren't on top of a picture now! Happy? :P
*eyes glaze over*
*downvotes*
*moves on to cat pictures*
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
socioeconomic status, a common acronym in sociology
which presumably correlates p hard with the hours of television consumption (which afaik is now associated with lower-SES groups - poorer households consume more rather than less TV)
there's a lot of bullshit going on with 'baseline levels of esteem' there and i'd be suspicious of the causality being sketched
ronya, i am pretty turned on by you right now
im always turned on by econodog, even though many of his econoposts hurt my self esteem.
Another interesting thing that Bioshock Infinite did was directly challenge player agency
Like especially by the end you have to do things you don't want to do (and that Booker doesn't want to do)
And the characters straight up tell you, "Yo, too bad. You can try to wait around forever, but eventually you're doing this thing."
In a lot of games that wouldn't work, like it'd piss me off in DA:I, but it totally works with that dreamlike sensibility of Bioshock.
Same with the like sort of arbitrary, This or That choices you can make through the game. They even tell you straight up that nothing will change based on your decision there, and yet you feel compelled to go uuuugh but what if I picked the wrong waaaaay?!
Kana on
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
here's an easy one which I thought up in thirty seconds: lower SES households are also more culturally conservative and nonwhite nonmale kids who grow up in more culturally conservative backgrounds have progressively lower self esteem as they grow up
ta-dah. the tv has disappeared. but then a communications student couldn't have written it.
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yo, i'd probably go a bit more twee* if I was removed from space/time
*Im guessing at what "twee" means from context.
i'd be much more interested in people with a % or set minutes of screentime to show primary/secondary actors
the data may not be at all different, but shows up on screen interests me less than carries the film
'totes backsliding' is not the same as 'not moving' soooo. the narrative of a steady slide against women is why the meme weaselly hops between 'worst in all years studied omg' to 'less than in the 1990s' when convenient. increases or decreases within that time period are elided.
discarding the note of 'top 100 grossing fiction films' is also troubling
it does cover that, women are half of the movie going population roughly
I mean, I figure your personality might change a bit after becoming unstuck in time.
And honestly I can't really fault a game for aping Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
the twins from the audio logs are who the hell knows how far back in the past from the point of view of the twins you see who are basically time lords now
but the data overall is shitty, i suppose
Orgasm lowers blood pressure which if it gets too low can mess with vision.
This is why people smoke cigarettes after sex, to replenish their precious blood pressure levels.
But not too much, because if it gets too high that is bad as well.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
it's of course useful in short-term coalition-building and such - but tends to fall apart when people start actually examining the "why" of the coalition. you hope for a more complex discourse by that point, even with all the risks that brings ... or you do the fun thing and just start robespierring
bush/paul 2016
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
when you get a piece of data, you will believe it and internalize it before your skepticism will kick in
i learned this because it's actually extremely effective when you're hit by an anxiety attack or you need to do something really stressful to just say to yourself, regardless of religion, 'god will take care of it.' or 'whatever created me or force will handle it, no big, not in my control'
your brain will release all the good feels even if you don't believe it
mazeltov, you stupid meatbags. propaganda always wins.
#PeaceAndQuiet2016
Fat chance, sea unicorn
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
There! The words aren't on top of a picture now! Happy? :P
socioeconomic status, a common acronym in sociology
which presumably correlates p hard with the hours of television consumption (which afaik is now associated with lower-SES groups - poorer households consume more rather than less TV)
there's a lot of bullshit going on with 'baseline levels of esteem' there and i'd be suspicious of the causality being sketched
Don't pretend you wouldn't vote for the person running with that slogan next presidential election
#EveryoneJustRelaxFor4Years2016
ronya, i am pretty turned on by you right now
each clam deserved its own bite you uncaring consumerist son of a
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
give them to me
Stop finding sexually attractive clothing sexually attractive, pervs
Now it's just regular clothing
Boom, on to the next one
*reads the actual important information*
Oh god
I can't nonsense my way out of all of this
*eyes glaze over*
*downvotes*
*moves on to cat pictures*
i'm thinking some sort of pasta and bacon
You're a bit far from the ocean to be eating seafood.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
is it your wrist
you need me to rough it up a lil
im always turned on by econodog, even though many of his econoposts hurt my self esteem.
That chili looks delicious!
Like especially by the end you have to do things you don't want to do (and that Booker doesn't want to do)
And the characters straight up tell you, "Yo, too bad. You can try to wait around forever, but eventually you're doing this thing."
In a lot of games that wouldn't work, like it'd piss me off in DA:I, but it totally works with that dreamlike sensibility of Bioshock.
Same with the like sort of arbitrary, This or That choices you can make through the game. They even tell you straight up that nothing will change based on your decision there, and yet you feel compelled to go uuuugh but what if I picked the wrong waaaaay?!
I have this conversation with my brother once a month
Man really wants his fresh seafood
ta-dah. the tv has disappeared. but then a communications student couldn't have written it.
This is your theme song
it's elbows and shoulders and general arms and I am procrastinating on going to the doctor
I wonder how long I have been going easy on everything and trying to let them heal and stuff
more than a month by now
I am pretty mad about it
I want to go HAM in yoga all the time every time
*sits patiently in the car, awaiting the beginning of the crime spree*
*checks watch*
*checks mirrors*
*sips energy drink*
*slips lower in seat*
I'm prettier than desc
feed me