I wound up going to a reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
P fun except the room was stifling hot and the chairs were massively uncomfortable and a couple people kept talking loudly even tho the MC kept being like uh hey shut up and one half of the gay couple sitting in front of me kept using his phone
he wasn't even, like, doing anything on his phone
just randomly swiping around on the apps screen. thru the entire play. what the heck guy
...The video didn't really touch on some of the hot-button issues surrounding genetic engineering of people.
For example: It is difficult to quantify age-related death as a bad thing from an impersonal / long term perspective. The way that social progress tracks with generational turnover is very problematic here; by significantly putting the brakes on that turnover, we are also likely to stall out the erosion of social mores.
It's less a problem of 'What if the Kim dynasty made super soldiers?' and more of the problem of, 'What if the Kim dynasty was literally eternal, barring violent intervention? What if simply waiting-out a bad era was no longer an option?'
I'm not sure if we can count on the relationship between social progress and generational turnover to stay constant in the world as we move forward. I think concurrent with a lot of these technological advances will be necessary systemic changes to how we govern ourselves and deal with social change. Putting a shorter time limit on human lives isn't necessarily the only way to deal with the fact that old people become stuck in their ways.
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Someone I follow on twitter who runs a Final Fantasy site is getting treated with absolute disrespect because they reported on the Final Fantasy 15 delay. It's so fucking pitiful people will attack someone cause they reported on a fucking video game being delayed.
on the subject of Wii U games I just bought Super Mario 3D World I should play it
*never plays it*
Well I played a little bit of it. I dunno, like the "New" Super Mario games it feels pleasant enough but profoundly unambitious. It's like Nintendo's like, "yeah, here's another game where you jump on things and rescue folks from Bowser or whatever"
The cat versions of the characters are p adorbs tho
Someone I follow on twitter who runs a Final Fantasy site is getting treated with absolute disrespect because they reported on the Final Fantasy 15 delay. It's so fucking pitiful people will attack someone cause they reported on a fucking video game being delayed.
twitter is designed to breed toxicity IMO
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Someone I follow on twitter who runs a Final Fantasy site is getting treated with absolute disrespect because they reported on the Final Fantasy 15 delay. It's so fucking pitiful people will attack someone cause they reported on a fucking video game being delayed.
twitter is designed to breed toxicity IMO
Twitter should not be 140 characters.
It should be a 140 character headline that you can click on to expand to a much larger post where all nuance doesn't go to die.
The flowers that were being used to turn the predators savage smacked of PKD's A Scanner Darkly.[/spoilers]
oh yeah
right
ironically i think when they revealed
the flowers, I said
"A blue flower... for my friends"
but I never really saw it as more than a coincidence
but I guess the whole idea that
the establishment is secretly creating the drugs in a deliberate plot to divide the populace
is pretty similar
though IMO looking at A Scanner Darkly as a literal dystopian government story kind of misses the
psychological metaphors for inner conflict and addiction and self-destruction
but isn't racism a sort of inner conflict, addiction, and self-destruction?
ehhhhhhhhmmmmehhhhhhhhhh
A Scanner Darkly directly compares both the fascist state and drug subculture to multiple personality disorder
Zootopia isn't doing anything remotely like that.
though as smart as Zootopia is, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the producers and writers were in a storyboard meeting and somebody said "hey, wouldn't it be cool if the flowers were blue, kind of a nod to A Scanner Darkly?"
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
The flowers that were being used to turn the predators savage smacked of PKD's A Scanner Darkly.[/spoilers]
oh yeah
right
ironically i think when they revealed
the flowers, I said
"A blue flower... for my friends"
but I never really saw it as more than a coincidence
but I guess the whole idea that
the establishment is secretly creating the drugs in a deliberate plot to divide the populace
is pretty similar
though IMO looking at A Scanner Darkly as a literal dystopian government story kind of misses the
psychological metaphors for inner conflict and addiction and self-destruction
but isn't racism a sort of inner conflict, addiction, and self-destruction?
ehhhhhhhhmmmmehhhhhhhhhh
A Scanner Darkly directly compares both the fascist state and drug subculture to multiple personality disorder
Zootopia isn't doing anything remotely like that.
though as smart as Zootopia is, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the producers and writers were in a storyboard meeting and somebody said "hey, wouldn't it be cool if the flowers were blue, kind of a nod to A Scanner Darkly?"
Like as soon as the blue flowers showed up I went "OH FUUUUUCK"
@bowen with you in mind, i noted to myself when i opened my most recent thing of toilet paper (costco brand, $15 for 30 rolls). it's been 30 days and i have used 14 rolls and maybe half of another. call it 15 rolls.
so my monthly toilet paper cost, as someone who can't often poop at work and who has mild IBS or something, is ~$7.50
get fkd
edit: note also that i use way more than i need because i persoanlly enjoy the sensation of a 3-times-folded firm wad to really scrape up in there
i started hearing dark whispers and it gave me a new ability bar to cause hysteria and turn invisible and shit, I made some people fight the guards at the bank and then I got killed by the town because invisibility was on cooldown
I guess you can turn into a demon if you keep it up long enough
neat
override367 on
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i have an urge to drive back cross country. to just spend hours in that emptiness
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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It's a commentary on middle class privilege and the need for its beneficiaries to convince themselves that they do not perpetuate an amoral lifestyle that provides nothing of value.
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Nudist colony scene.
...well played
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
P fun except the room was stifling hot and the chairs were massively uncomfortable and a couple people kept talking loudly even tho the MC kept being like uh hey shut up and one half of the gay couple sitting in front of me kept using his phone
he wasn't even, like, doing anything on his phone
just randomly swiping around on the apps screen. thru the entire play. what the heck guy
I'm not sure if we can count on the relationship between social progress and generational turnover to stay constant in the world as we move forward. I think concurrent with a lot of these technological advances will be necessary systemic changes to how we govern ourselves and deal with social change. Putting a shorter time limit on human lives isn't necessarily the only way to deal with the fact that old people become stuck in their ways.
hmm
yes
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
No no you're thinking Heinlein
oh yeah
right
ironically i think when they revealed
"A blue flower... for my friends"
but I never really saw it as more than a coincidence
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
this is my life now
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
TILL NOW
but I guess the whole idea that
is pretty similar
though IMO looking at A Scanner Darkly as a literal dystopian government story kind of misses the
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I ALWAYS GOT BY ON MY OWN
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL ORGANICHU
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The cat versions of the characters are p adorbs tho
twitter is designed to breed toxicity IMO
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
but isn't racism a sort of inner conflict, addiction, and self-destruction?
BROTHERRR
Twitter should not be 140 characters.
It should be a 140 character headline that you can click on to expand to a much larger post where all nuance doesn't go to die.
ehhhhhhhhmmmmehhhhhhhhhh
A Scanner Darkly directly compares both the fascist state and drug subculture to multiple personality disorder
Zootopia isn't doing anything remotely like that.
though as smart as Zootopia is, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the producers and writers were in a storyboard meeting and somebody said "hey, wouldn't it be cool if the flowers were blue, kind of a nod to A Scanner Darkly?"
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Feral you wrought this
Feral I blame YOUUUU
Like as soon as the blue flowers showed up I went "OH FUUUUUCK"
Because to me it was such an obvious shout out.
And then I farted
...Now I'm watching other video for this channel.
...Now I'm reading the comments on the channel's Refugee Crisis video.
so my monthly toilet paper cost, as someone who can't often poop at work and who has mild IBS or something, is ~$7.50
get fkd
edit: note also that i use way more than i need because i persoanlly enjoy the sensation of a 3-times-folded firm wad to really scrape up in there
Feral stop
This is madness
I
I need to pack my Artcryx, I need to
GO
i started hearing dark whispers and it gave me a new ability bar to cause hysteria and turn invisible and shit, I made some people fight the guards at the bank and then I got killed by the town because invisibility was on cooldown
I guess you can turn into a demon if you keep it up long enough
neat
not juice
just a pressed turnip
...even with the supposedly helpful labels, I do not get it.
Couches will be ruined.
I'm marking this date and making a savings account
VITAMIN SEE!
liberal noobs
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades