while i think thor 2 and iron man 2 are worse films in terms of like, editing and writing and even VFX
i think doctor strange made me more angry because it was just... banal
i can't really shit on the film from a technical perspective, but that's why judging film (or television, or video games) as purely technical consumer products is fuckin' stupid
because as a piece of film it's a waste of time
a lot of nothing
and that's far more infuriating than a movie that tried to do something and just did it poorly
both had cutaways and both had Yeardley Smith in them
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Nova_CI have the needThe need for speedRegistered Userregular
So, I've got 30 hours into Conan: Exiles now. I'm playing just locally by myself because I don't like playing with randos and my friends are all still waiting for it to bake longer.
ANYWAY
So, gender equality in gaming is progressing because finally we have dick physics in addition to breast physics, so that's nice. The game is gorgeous, but is also kinda visually boring? Like, it's another wasteland. We've seen a lot of those. The map seems big at first, but is smaller than I'd like even though I haven't explored it all yet. One thing that is super awesome is the environment lighting is stellar. The transition from dawn to day to dusk is super real and the shadows of faraway cliffs and rock formations stretching across your buildings as the sun sets is a treat. Torchlight is decent, but shines through walls and the flames and sparks animate up through floors and roofs, which has always bugged me. Hopefully that's something they have on the list of things to address. It's a small thing, but it's something I would love for them to deal with.
The crafting system is p good for being so early in the game's early access cycle. There's not a lot of help for figuring things out, and I don't like the leveling system being used to provide points to purchase recipes (Like ARK), but it's serviceable. What I would like is a game that starts you off with all the basic stuff: You can make basic building stuff, basic clothing, rudimentary weapons. As you make, say, rudimentary swords, you unlock higher levels swords so the game rewards your chosen path of crafting with the higher level stuff. The idea that it will lock me out of recipes by simply restricting the maximum number of points you can get is super irritating to someone like me who doesn't like having to choose a path and then rely on other people for all the stuff I can't make. Even when playing with other people in ARK I found that really, really annoying. It's so arbitrary. I've downloaded a mod that allows progression to level 75 instead of 50 which should let me get everything eventually.
Hey, since the game is modable, maybe I should mod in a change to the system that I'm proposing.
The Thrall system is both cool, fresh and new, while also being rather disturbing with the implied morality. Not a big deal, but the system needs some development. Simply placing thralls that just stand there repeating the same animation as if they were just another item to be placed is rather boring, but maybe they have bigger plans. Thralls are skilled in specific tasks like Fighter or Archer or Blacksmith, so you have to find specific ones to fill specific roles. That's a nice change to the regular resource gathering as it makes you interact with the local tribes (Albeit, as a merchant of death and slavery, but whatevs).
I'm at the point of the following routine;
- wake up
- setup play mat for baby
- turn kids stuff on the tv
- bring in the rest of the baby supplies I may need
- bring in the baby
Passive babysitting gooooooooooooooooooo.
idk how old bab is but you may want to consider these AAP recommendations
The AAP is full of reactionary old farts that haven't actually done any long-terms studies on this.* They also made similar recommendations for television and radio use way back when, and it turned out to have little/no effect. The screen time thing is overblown.
* For a good reason, mind you. "Let's set up a bunch of monitors in front of kids, force them to watch it, and then see if it stunts their mental health!"
television is screen time though so these are the same recommendations
please show me where they found little to no effect
Like, the entire generation of Generation X and Millennials?
o.0
people turning out fine, on average, does not mean they couldn't have turned out better, on average
nor does it prove there's no ill effects associated with kids and too much screen time....
True, but honestly kids stuff like reacts, overreacts and then corrects to the overreact. I mean shit I've been a parent for only a year and a half and I swear recommendations on food stuff has changed at least 3 times. And that's not even taking into account difference between doctors/dentists/specialists at various things.
You still listen to what the doctors recommend though right?
Doctors being sometimes wrong is not an excuse to throw out their recommendations! That's the same line of reasoning many anti-vaxers use!
I'm really hypercritical of what doctors say, mostly due to my education level. But I know when a doctor is bullshitting and when they are telling me something that is well-studied... I cribbed off the same pages! But I'm also heavily biased when it comes to interactions with doctors, obviously.
Doctors make the worst patients. The Worst.
What's your education level? I forget
MD. I stopped being a doctor a decade ago, but I keep up, much like a Lady Who Lunches keeps up by clutching a copy of Life. :-P
It's less "I'm so SMARTZ" and more of "I've seen how the sausage is made "
Oh yeah!
What would you recommend for parents looking for advice on screen time and that type of stuff for raising babbies? Any good child development books?
Most of the stuff that I've read is at the Research Paper level or "paper club" level, and I have no idea in terms of the application or a good book for it, sadly. I do know a couple of child development experts, though, and I will ask them then next time they swing through town (there's actually a series of talks in the Bay Area every year, which they participate in).
It's appalling how much of medicine is a Jedi Mind trick, using the authoritarian power of a white coat to make a recommendation. And we roll with it, because it WORKS. People aren't well-equipped to deal with facts, and even knowing the facts is detrimental for their healing, often.
I have no allies here. Some of you don't like zootopia and some of you don't like iron man 3 and you're not always the same people.
but allies can have differences...
ludious, it takes all kinds
You don't like the original Star Wars trilogy. What did you think I forgot you agent provocateur
nobody likes the OT. they just pretend to like it because of nerd pressure or because they can't bear to let go of what they liked as children, wrapped in their own nostalgia like a kitten in yarn
in fact i believe nobody has even watched the OT in over ten years, they've just pretended to
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Now I've got the dawson's creek theme song stuck in my head.
IDONWANNAWAIT! FOR OUR LIIIIVES TOBE OVER!
are YOU on the beer list?
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
I'm at the point of the following routine;
- wake up
- setup play mat for baby
- turn kids stuff on the tv
- bring in the rest of the baby supplies I may need
- bring in the baby
Passive babysitting gooooooooooooooooooo.
idk how old bab is but you may want to consider these AAP recommendations
The AAP is full of reactionary old farts that haven't actually done any long-terms studies on this.* They also made similar recommendations for television and radio use way back when, and it turned out to have little/no effect. The screen time thing is overblown.
* For a good reason, mind you. "Let's set up a bunch of monitors in front of kids, force them to watch it, and then see if it stunts their mental health!"
television is screen time though so these are the same recommendations
please show me where they found little to no effect
Like, the entire generation of Generation X and Millennials?
o.0
people turning out fine, on average, does not mean they couldn't have turned out better, on average
nor does it prove there's no ill effects associated with kids and too much screen time....
True, but honestly kids stuff like reacts, overreacts and then corrects to the overreact. I mean shit I've been a parent for only a year and a half and I swear recommendations on food stuff has changed at least 3 times. And that's not even taking into account difference between doctors/dentists/specialists at various things.
You still listen to what the doctors recommend though right?
Doctors being sometimes wrong is not an excuse to throw out their recommendations! That's the same line of reasoning many anti-vaxers use!
I'm really hypercritical of what doctors say, mostly due to my education level. But I know when a doctor is bullshitting and when they are telling me something that is well-studied... I cribbed off the same pages! But I'm also heavily biased when it comes to interactions with doctors, obviously.
Doctors make the worst patients. The Worst.
What's your education level? I forget
MD. I stopped being a doctor a decade ago, but I keep up, much like a Lady Who Lunches keeps up by clutching a copy of Life. :-P
It's less "I'm so SMARTZ" and more of "I've seen how the sausage is made "
Inside Out was okay but has too many weird questions for me to like it. Zootopia is delightful but also hilarious when you think about it. There's a tiny town of tiny animals, how the hell do the police work with that? One rabbit as a cop becomes an all seeing eye of super government oversight because they can literally see the entire town standing in one spot and just crush anyone who dares oppose them.
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Firefly was okay and everyone just needs to let it go and move on.
I'm at the point of the following routine;
- wake up
- setup play mat for baby
- turn kids stuff on the tv
- bring in the rest of the baby supplies I may need
- bring in the baby
Passive babysitting gooooooooooooooooooo.
idk how old bab is but you may want to consider these AAP recommendations
The AAP is full of reactionary old farts that haven't actually done any long-terms studies on this.* They also made similar recommendations for television and radio use way back when, and it turned out to have little/no effect. The screen time thing is overblown.
* For a good reason, mind you. "Let's set up a bunch of monitors in front of kids, force them to watch it, and then see if it stunts their mental health!"
television is screen time though so these are the same recommendations
please show me where they found little to no effect
Like, the entire generation of Generation X and Millennials?
o.0
people turning out fine, on average, does not mean they couldn't have turned out better, on average
nor does it prove there's no ill effects associated with kids and too much screen time....
True, but honestly kids stuff like reacts, overreacts and then corrects to the overreact. I mean shit I've been a parent for only a year and a half and I swear recommendations on food stuff has changed at least 3 times. And that's not even taking into account difference between doctors/dentists/specialists at various things.
You still listen to what the doctors recommend though right?
Doctors being sometimes wrong is not an excuse to throw out their recommendations! That's the same line of reasoning many anti-vaxers use!
I'm really hypercritical of what doctors say, mostly due to my education level. But I know when a doctor is bullshitting and when they are telling me something that is well-studied... I cribbed off the same pages! But I'm also heavily biased when it comes to interactions with doctors, obviously.
Doctors make the worst patients. The Worst.
What's your education level? I forget
MD. I stopped being a doctor a decade ago, but I keep up, much like a Lady Who Lunches keeps up by clutching a copy of Life. :-P
i know lots of lawyers who don't practice. don't think i've ever in my life heard about a doctor! that is bananas to me. what do you do for a living?
i know several former doctors
they were all gen-pracs who got tired of essentially being small businessmen and all the pressures that go with that, and just stopped keeping up with their license or practicing medicine
most of them are writers nowadays, one of them's an actor
The pharma consulting company I worked for had a lot of people like that: physicians who burned out on dealing with patients for one reason or another.
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 "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Inside Out was okay but has too many weird questions for me to like it. Zootopia is delightful but also hilarious when you think about it. There's a tiny town of tiny animals, how the hell do the police work with that? One rabbit as a cop becomes an all seeing eye of super government oversight because they can literally see the entire town standing in one spot and just crush anyone who dares oppose them.
What does the rodent mafia do when they need to knock over some establishment run by elephants? What weapons do they even take to that fight?
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I have no allies here. Some of you don't like zootopia and some of you don't like iron man 3 and you're not always the same people.
but allies can have differences...
ludious, it takes all kinds
You don't like the original Star Wars trilogy. What did you think I forgot you agent provocateur
nobody likes the OT. they just pretend to like it because of nerd pressure or because they can't bear to let go of what they liked as children, wrapped in their own nostalgia like a kitten in yarn
in fact i believe nobody has even watched the OT in over ten years, they've just pretended to
That could have only been more condescending if you ended it with "BTW, Senator Sanders would have won."
I have no allies here. Some of you don't like zootopia and some of you don't like iron man 3 and you're not always the same people.
but allies can have differences...
ludious, it takes all kinds
You don't like the original Star Wars trilogy. What did you think I forgot you agent provocateur
nobody likes the OT. they just pretend to like it because of nerd pressure or because they can't bear to let go of what they liked as children, wrapped in their own nostalgia like a kitten in yarn
in fact i believe nobody has even watched the OT in over ten years, they've just pretended to
back when we started dating porp made me watch the OT cuz id never seen it
I remember finding the story interesting but thinking a lot of the acting and dialogue being p cringey bad
I haven't gone back and re-watched it since, but that's true of just about every movie that isn't Houseguest or Uncle Buck or one of porp's rom-coms she loves (Enchanted, literally any Sandra Bullock Movie, Bridget Jones)
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Inside Out was okay but has too many weird questions for me to like it. Zootopia is delightful but also hilarious when you think about it. There's a tiny town of tiny animals, how the hell do the police work with that? One rabbit as a cop becomes an all seeing eye of super government oversight because they can literally see the entire town standing in one spot and just crush anyone who dares oppose them.
What does the rodent mafia do when they need to knock over some establishment run by elephants? What weapons do they even take to that fight?
I mean elephants are scared of mice so
...more mice? I don't know.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
There's just too much wrongness being expressed about various subjects in this thread, and I can't process it like an adult, so I'm just going to ask you all to line up nice and orderly and prepare to fight me 1 on 1, okay?
Herman's Head was more relatable than Inside Out. Mostly because I never saw Inside Out and neither wife nor kids though it was anything other than "not bad".
Plus Hermans Head had nudity right? Or am I thinking of Dream On?
That was Dream On.
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.
I'm at the point of the following routine;
- wake up
- setup play mat for baby
- turn kids stuff on the tv
- bring in the rest of the baby supplies I may need
- bring in the baby
Passive babysitting gooooooooooooooooooo.
idk how old bab is but you may want to consider these AAP recommendations
The AAP is full of reactionary old farts that haven't actually done any long-terms studies on this.* They also made similar recommendations for television and radio use way back when, and it turned out to have little/no effect. The screen time thing is overblown.
* For a good reason, mind you. "Let's set up a bunch of monitors in front of kids, force them to watch it, and then see if it stunts their mental health!"
television is screen time though so these are the same recommendations
please show me where they found little to no effect
Like, the entire generation of Generation X and Millennials?
o.0
people turning out fine, on average, does not mean they couldn't have turned out better, on average
nor does it prove there's no ill effects associated with kids and too much screen time....
True, but honestly kids stuff like reacts, overreacts and then corrects to the overreact. I mean shit I've been a parent for only a year and a half and I swear recommendations on food stuff has changed at least 3 times. And that's not even taking into account difference between doctors/dentists/specialists at various things.
You still listen to what the doctors recommend though right?
Doctors being sometimes wrong is not an excuse to throw out their recommendations! That's the same line of reasoning many anti-vaxers use!
I'm really hypercritical of what doctors say, mostly due to my education level. But I know when a doctor is bullshitting and when they are telling me something that is well-studied... I cribbed off the same pages! But I'm also heavily biased when it comes to interactions with doctors, obviously.
Doctors make the worst patients. The Worst.
What's your education level? I forget
MD. I stopped being a doctor a decade ago, but I keep up, much like a Lady Who Lunches keeps up by clutching a copy of Life. :-P
It's less "I'm so SMARTZ" and more of "I've seen how the sausage is made "
*Thinks about it for a minute*
Are you the oldest person here?
No. Spool is older, but not by much.
I'm older than Chanus.
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Marvel movies are like fast food, taste good because they're created in a lab to be appealing. But they lack the soul of a good home cooked meal.
rogue one is a rote series of events that banks almost entirely on structure and imagery with no characterization and paper thin plot
the prequels are disasters, but at least they fuckin' tried
rogue one farted out the laziest bullshit and slathered it in enough nostalgia to choke patton oswalt and kevin smith if they were mouth-to-mouthing a double-ender
i don't hate rogue one
but "i felt cold and emotionless" accurately describes what watching it made me feel
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I'm at the point of the following routine;
- wake up
- setup play mat for baby
- turn kids stuff on the tv
- bring in the rest of the baby supplies I may need
- bring in the baby
Passive babysitting gooooooooooooooooooo.
idk how old bab is but you may want to consider these AAP recommendations
The AAP is full of reactionary old farts that haven't actually done any long-terms studies on this.* They also made similar recommendations for television and radio use way back when, and it turned out to have little/no effect. The screen time thing is overblown.
* For a good reason, mind you. "Let's set up a bunch of monitors in front of kids, force them to watch it, and then see if it stunts their mental health!"
television is screen time though so these are the same recommendations
please show me where they found little to no effect
Like, the entire generation of Generation X and Millennials?
o.0
people turning out fine, on average, does not mean they couldn't have turned out better, on average
nor does it prove there's no ill effects associated with kids and too much screen time....
True, but honestly kids stuff like reacts, overreacts and then corrects to the overreact. I mean shit I've been a parent for only a year and a half and I swear recommendations on food stuff has changed at least 3 times. And that's not even taking into account difference between doctors/dentists/specialists at various things.
You still listen to what the doctors recommend though right?
Doctors being sometimes wrong is not an excuse to throw out their recommendations! That's the same line of reasoning many anti-vaxers use!
I'm really hypercritical of what doctors say, mostly due to my education level. But I know when a doctor is bullshitting and when they are telling me something that is well-studied... I cribbed off the same pages! But I'm also heavily biased when it comes to interactions with doctors, obviously.
Doctors make the worst patients. The Worst.
What's your education level? I forget
MD. I stopped being a doctor a decade ago, but I keep up, much like a Lady Who Lunches keeps up by clutching a copy of Life. :-P
i know lots of lawyers who don't practice. don't think i've ever in my life heard about a doctor! that is bananas to me. what do you do for a living?
i know several former doctors
they were all gen-pracs who got tired of essentially being small businessmen and all the pressures that go with that, and just stopped keeping up with their license or practicing medicine
most of them are writers nowadays, one of them's an actor
The pharma consulting company I worked for had a lot of people like that: physicians who burned out on dealing with patients for one reason or another.
It's different than leaving with your MD but without your residency though! There isn't, as far as I can tell, a very defined offramp at the MD stage (...we definitely looked into it since husband was so miserable...)
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i think doctor strange made me more angry because it was just... banal
i can't really shit on the film from a technical perspective, but that's why judging film (or television, or video games) as purely technical consumer products is fuckin' stupid
because as a piece of film it's a waste of time
a lot of nothing
and that's far more infuriating than a movie that tried to do something and just did it poorly
both had cutaways and both had Yeardley Smith in them
ANYWAY
So, gender equality in gaming is progressing because finally we have dick physics in addition to breast physics, so that's nice. The game is gorgeous, but is also kinda visually boring? Like, it's another wasteland. We've seen a lot of those. The map seems big at first, but is smaller than I'd like even though I haven't explored it all yet. One thing that is super awesome is the environment lighting is stellar. The transition from dawn to day to dusk is super real and the shadows of faraway cliffs and rock formations stretching across your buildings as the sun sets is a treat. Torchlight is decent, but shines through walls and the flames and sparks animate up through floors and roofs, which has always bugged me. Hopefully that's something they have on the list of things to address. It's a small thing, but it's something I would love for them to deal with.
The crafting system is p good for being so early in the game's early access cycle. There's not a lot of help for figuring things out, and I don't like the leveling system being used to provide points to purchase recipes (Like ARK), but it's serviceable. What I would like is a game that starts you off with all the basic stuff: You can make basic building stuff, basic clothing, rudimentary weapons. As you make, say, rudimentary swords, you unlock higher levels swords so the game rewards your chosen path of crafting with the higher level stuff. The idea that it will lock me out of recipes by simply restricting the maximum number of points you can get is super irritating to someone like me who doesn't like having to choose a path and then rely on other people for all the stuff I can't make. Even when playing with other people in ARK I found that really, really annoying. It's so arbitrary. I've downloaded a mod that allows progression to level 75 instead of 50 which should let me get everything eventually.
Hey, since the game is modable, maybe I should mod in a change to the system that I'm proposing.
The Thrall system is both cool, fresh and new, while also being rather disturbing with the implied morality. Not a big deal, but the system needs some development. Simply placing thralls that just stand there repeating the same animation as if they were just another item to be placed is rather boring, but maybe they have bigger plans. Thralls are skilled in specific tasks like Fighter or Archer or Blacksmith, so you have to find specific ones to fill specific roles. That's a nice change to the regular resource gathering as it makes you interact with the local tribes (Albeit, as a merchant of death and slavery, but whatevs).
All in all, p good, hoping for more.
*removes mission impossible esque mask to reveal sir landshark's wholesome, hitler youth good looks*
what did you forget? what did you ever know? is any of this real?
It's appalling how much of medicine is a Jedi Mind trick, using the authoritarian power of a white coat to make a recommendation. And we roll with it, because it WORKS. People aren't well-equipped to deal with facts, and even knowing the facts is detrimental for their healing, often.
nobody likes the OT. they just pretend to like it because of nerd pressure or because they can't bear to let go of what they liked as children, wrapped in their own nostalgia like a kitten in yarn
in fact i believe nobody has even watched the OT in over ten years, they've just pretended to
IDONWANNAWAIT! FOR OUR LIIIIVES TOBE OVER!
Rogue One is EASILY the worst "Star Wars" film.
*Thinks about it for a minute*
Are you the oldest person here?
God damn I wish I would have seen this first.
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i love prozd so much
I have good news for you:
Dark Tower will be bad, but you're going to like it anyway.
The pharma consulting company I worked for had a lot of people like that: physicians who burned out on dealing with patients for one reason or another.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
What does the rodent mafia do when they need to knock over some establishment run by elephants? What weapons do they even take to that fight?
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
This is easily the most incorrect thing anyone's ever said about Star Wars and I'm including midichlorians here.
Like seriously, it's 100% wrong. Yes, I know it's an opinion. Yup, still wrong. There's zero way to justify this bullshit.
That could have only been more condescending if you ended it with "BTW, Senator Sanders would have won."
Chat is full of intelligent, smart, lovely people.
Firefly's lesson: Don't bother going to the stars it'll all just be filled with rednecks anyway
back when we started dating porp made me watch the OT cuz id never seen it
I remember finding the story interesting but thinking a lot of the acting and dialogue being p cringey bad
I haven't gone back and re-watched it since, but that's true of just about every movie that isn't Houseguest or Uncle Buck or one of porp's rom-coms she loves (Enchanted, literally any Sandra Bullock Movie, Bridget Jones)
Vermin who've figured out how to tame alligators!
I mean elephants are scared of mice so
...more mice? I don't know.
That was Dream On.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That's the correct position.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I'm older than Chanus.
dammit em
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I hope number one isn't true, but I really hope number two is true regardless.
It's just gonna make me really sad, I know it.
it's not that hot a take
rogue one is a rote series of events that banks almost entirely on structure and imagery with no characterization and paper thin plot
the prequels are disasters, but at least they fuckin' tried
rogue one farted out the laziest bullshit and slathered it in enough nostalgia to choke patton oswalt and kevin smith if they were mouth-to-mouthing a double-ender
i don't hate rogue one
but "i felt cold and emotionless" accurately describes what watching it made me feel
it's easy to understand why you wouldn't like it but I think it's my fav movie
Ep 2 might be my second fav. I'd have to rewatch eps 4-6 to really know cuz it's been so long and I'm not likely to do that.
It's different than leaving with your MD but without your residency though! There isn't, as far as I can tell, a very defined offramp at the MD stage (...we definitely looked into it since husband was so miserable...)
This is ridiculous. You're ridiculous.