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Hey! I wrote that article. I'd love to have included the footage, but the scientific paper hasn't been published yet - just accepted. Once it has been published (which should be in the next couple of months), I'll have a look and if the scientists include the footage in the paper then I'll add it. I want to see it as much as you do!
Edit: The paper is up, and so is an image and the footage. I've added them to the bottom of the article. Spoilers: they're not actually that impressive, because the researchers were about a kilometre away. But hey: doesn't matter, saw ball lightning.
Credit to Matt Bors for the comic.
He ended up winning an award for this comic. [The 2013 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon competition.]
Fellow designer here - thanks for sharing your design I like how you've simplified a lot of the elements and included a LCS schedule but to be honest this feels more like a reskin with the website textures than a new design. I write this to push you to do better, come up with new layout and possibly new elements altogether like the LCS schedule. The sky is the limit when you're doing self work and I think it'd be a better exercise to approach it from a blank slate. Feel free to respond I'd be happy to brainstorm some ideas.
Here's some inspiration [link]
EDIT Nikki has started taking questions regarding her designs [link]
Post a link to the actual comic instead of reposting it on to imgur next time. Considering Erika makes comics for a living and depends on the income, it's pretty shitty to repost it on to another website instead of just posting the original.
Voluntourism.
There have actually been several articles floating around Facebook about the issues with voluntourism.
Basically, it's when white/affluent/first world people feel a sort of "guilt" for their situation and try to clear their conscious by spending a bunch of money traveling to third-world countries "in need" and building orphanages or schools, teaching English, spreading the word of their God, or babysitting a bunch of kids. Sounds really good in theory, right?
Except there are plenty of people IN that third-world country who can do the same thing (probably better), and who would benefit way more than a bunch of youth group teenagers from the job and opportunity. Instead of raising money to buy a plane ticket across the world, why not spend it on hiring local workers who can walk to the construction site, or by hiring educated nationals to train local teachers, thus creating jobs and boosting the country's economy and welfare as a whole?
There're some pretty sound counter-arguments against blindly rejecting voluntourism, but as it currently stands as movement and as a solution to the "white guilt" epidemic, I think it's definitely something people do that doesn't actually help at all.
He's a tech genius, basically modified and cobbled together industrial scanners and things for his still images (which are also amazing) for the video he used a high speed camera he convinced someone to lend him.
Really good article about it all here.
> After months of research, he persuaded the German manufacturer Optronis to lend him one of its $16,000, high-performance industrial video cameras—used in crash tests and robotic-arm studies, and even for analyzing the hind hooves of show-jumping horses.
>Magyar now positioned himself inside the moving subway car, recording stationary commuters on the platform as train and camera rolled into the station. Again, the ghost of Einstein permeates these images, and again, he was warping time: Magyar shot the footage at 56 times normal speed, turning 12-second blurs into nearly 12-minute films of excruciating slowness.
Be respectful and polite to them. Tell them "We need to make things run smoothly and quietly enough that there are no complaints to the administration about X, Y, or Z. You've lived here longer, you know more about what goes on than I do, so you tell me: what should we do so that we have a minimum of fuss, we don't make up a million rules, but we don't get any guff from the University about those issues? I've got some ideas, but you may have better ones, and I want to hear them."
Read this about being polite: [link]
Actually, among SJWs she's a successful and somewhat revered businesswoman.
She even managed to get a relatively sympathetic profile out of Elizabeth Spiers after deliberately attacking and slurring her when she thought there might be any criticism in it whatsoever, and managed to gaslight a large number of online journalists into questioning whether they even had the right to report on women without their express permission.
Of all the utterly toxic professional victims making hay off the outrage industry, she's among the very best at what she does.
This link and a lot of other resources support the idea that UAVs could greatly impact Africa.
Considering the state of the roads there (There was a post in /r/MapPorn that showed how bad it is in some places), it seems to really be a good idea.
I wish you good luck and if you start something, PM me, I'm really interested.
I'm green, red is (was?) one of my good friends. Yellow one of her friends and I have no idea who blue is, but I like him. I hope it's fairly clear, it gets a bit messy towards the end.
This is the article she linked. Shockingly being told I am a vital part of the rape culture machine rubs me the wrong way.
Even old games come under attack in this fashion now and then. "Chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while at the same time it affords no benefit whatever to the body" - Scientific American, 1859
One should also add that this journalist also was/is a staunch conservative, writing for a conservative paper ("Die Welt"), and he had always defended the US and US police. He wrote "my child-like trust in US police has disappeared" (Mein kindliches Vertrauen in die US-Polizei ist dahin).
This is him: [link]
The translated story (he wrote it in German for the German paper), link found on his twitter: [link]
Congrats US, you manage to antagonize even your very own and most loyal allies (I'm talking about individuals like that journalist, not about whole nations because I always find it overblown and meaningless to treat abstract entities like a "nation" like a person).
> Volunteering and tourism need not be mutually exclusive. I just hate when people depict a trip as being the former when in reality it's almost entirely the latter.
The reality though is that the volunteer work of these people is often a sham. I'm not speaking from personal experience, but a while ago there was a redditor who really laid into this, explaining how the 'volunteers' would build walls during the day, then at night actual construction workers quickly tear down their shoddy work and put a real wall in its place, just to create the illusion that the 'volunteers' were contributing.
His/her point was that unless if you've got actual skills to contribute (doctor, teacher, engineer) and stay there for an extended period (half a year or more) you'd help way more if you just stayed home and wired the money over. Otherwise you're really just a tourist in a special "feel good about yourself by helping the poor and destitute"-amusement ride.
Though I guess if the people there are making money of it, it's still helping the locals.
EDIT:
It took some searching but on request I found the links I was referring to:
The problem with little white girls and boys, why I stopped being a voluntourist
Google Scholar seems to be mostly driven by the passion of one man.
I, for one, am very grateful. Google Scholar is a huge help in my work, and I remember the awful database interfaces we had to use before Scholar. And I don't really have any problems with the design. It is functional, and doesn't get in the way. That is all I ask.
There is one small place on the web, for young people who have realized they're attracted to children. As for older folks, I dunno. It's a sad situation to be in.
He obviously has a point when he says that someone who's talking dirty can reasonably be interpreted as giving consent. However, he misses the mark on several other points.
1: Rape by a stranger in an alleyway is an unusual form of rape, and not typical for "real rape". It's real rape even if you invite someone in, and even if you at the moment convince yourself that you weren't raped even though you said "No", because you're shocked and in denial. It's perfectly possible to be raped but not realize it until the next morning.
2: That men despise rapists is actually one of the factors that can work AGAINST rape survivors being taken seriously. Because everyone "knows" that rapists are horrible monsters, if one of your buddies gets accused of rape, the supposed victim must obviously be a lying bitch, because you know your buddy isn't a grotesque monster who lurks in bushes or alleyways.
You've really hit on something there, and it's been remarked on in a couple of pretty solid articles in the last year or so. Maybe these will strike a chord with your engineering bros?
- What (Else) Can Men Do? Grow the Fuck Up
- Your Princess is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, & Nerds
- NYT: Technology's Man Problem
You probably could generate QR codes for those articles and post them around the engineering classrooms on campus. If you wanted to be super-subversive, you could put the QR codes on pictures of women doing engineering things with LOLcat-like captions:
- "Not your lawn ornament"
- "Not just a decoration"
- "Out of your league"
Seriously, an amazing rant. A great look at the emotional perseverance that it takes for a woman to deal with a male-dominated major like engineering. (I gather the biological sciences aren't much better.)
For those wondering why, here's an excerpt from a comparison article:
> In 1993 the Germans made a movie about the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad—a bloody turning point in the vast, apocalyptic German invasion of the Soviet Union. The film is called, simply, Stalingrad. > > In 2013 the Russians also made a movie about Stalingrad and also called it, well, Stalingrad. > > One of the two flicks is an anti-war masterpiece that boldly inverts the tropes of war movies and, in doing so, captures the chilly, Hellish reality of one of history’s most awful armed clashes. > > The other is a silly, melodramatic celebration of war—and shot in shitty 3D, no less. > > The German Stalingrad is the good one. The Russian version is awful—and by all accounts way more successful at the box office.
Yeah, and yet they ~~can't~~ wont spend $300 for a piece of fiber, and $10,000 for a router to upgrade the network that resides in the same fucking building so that Netflix streams properly for thousands of users.
When he retired he invited everyone to follow his successor @TheRealTKTech. Turns out that guy is a big fat crook who stole thousands of dollars from @Evleaks, a man with multiple sclerosis.
Yup.
To answer your question, Evan probably needs the money that was taken from him.
OP, you should really read "Don't Go to Art School" by Noah Bradley before you take the plunge.
I was once like you. I had a dream to be an illustrator but decided to go with the more lucrative route of nursing. I'M SO GLAD I DID. My artist friends had a lot more fun than I did in college but now they are living paycheck to paycheck bagging groceries and stocking shelves. They are just one car accident or broken arm or appendicitis or unplanned pregnancy away from screwing their lives over.
I work 12-hour shifts 3 days a week and have the rest of the week to do whatever I want, including using the internet to teach myself art for free while everyone else is in massive debt for it. Saving money is a cinch and I have plans to travel in a few months. Sometimes I schedule myself to have 5 or 6 days off without needing to use any paid time off at all. It's like I'm having mini-vacations from my job all the time and it's amazing.
One thing that artists don't realize is that you are essentially running a small business. A lot of art graduates think that they can get by with having a strong portfolio but that is only half of the battle. Do you have any business acumen? The ones who have a better chance at being successful artists are the ones who know how to pitch their skills and sell themselves and manage their resources. It's naive to think that work will just come your way just because you can "draw good." You need an entrepreneurial spirit to actually take your career off the ground as an artist.
Another example from yesterday. Car in Lugansk didn't stop at a separatist roadblock and was shot at. The driver was killed, the passenger -- in coma, two passerby women were injured. NTV and Russian press reported that they were soldiers from the Right Sector, who tried to break through the roadblock, killed two women running over them, and only then were shot by "people's militia". People checked that story -- turns out the killed guy actually supported separatists, and didn't stop at the roadblock just because he was drunk. NTV is not a news source, it's just pure propaganda.
Avoid the page in the link. Read the post at it's original source: [link]
I tried to read the article in the title link, but a blinking Andrew Maguire on the right side of the page is the most distracting thing I have seen for weeks. I really hate websites that require the user to push a third of the window off-screen just to read the content (re-sizing the page doesn't help).
I don't think you can ever fix journalism. This is not a problem in gaming specifically, but in the tech industry as a whole.
The best we can do is making the average reader aware of this, so hopefully they're going to switch to better sources
There's a woman who writes about Chinese privilege in Singapore which is described as very much akin to white privilege in the US.
In China there's a related term "Han chauvinism" (大汉族主义) to describe something like Han privilege and the idea that it should exist. This was original a criticism and in many cases still is. But there are plenty of people (see the 汉服 movement) who have a sense of superiority. This would definitely fit in to the idea of Han supremacy, though not with the same sort of militarism of a lot of white supremacy movements.
There's no question that Han enjoy greater benefits than other ethnic groups. I would say that could be called Han privilege in the same sense of white privilege in the West. Uyghurs (to name one example) have a reputation of being criminals, which leads them to have difficulty finding jobs in areas where they're the minority, which leads them to be more likely to turn to other means of making money.
How long have you been in China?
As a side note: There are a lot of people who are Han who might not look Han to you depending on where you live in China. In Shanghai we have a lot of people from Sichuan who still identify as Han but don't look like local Shanghainese. That would be even more striking if you're in a place like Beijing.
edit: I misread "white supremacy" as "white privilege". Still, I think I've also addressed the supremacy part, so I'll leave it. If needed I can clarify points.
I don't have the source on me at the moment, but there was good reason for them to say a quake wouldn't happen (by the way, my understanding was that they said a quake was extremely unlikely, which is not the same thing as "won't happen" but sounds the same to the public.) Apparently there was a dude going around claiming that an earthquake was imminent (I think on the scale of days or weeks or something). This prediction was causing a panic, and of course we can't actually predict earthquakes that accurately so this guy was full of shit. The scientists were told to basically reassure the public that an earthquake that soon was very unlikely, and I believe one of them misspoke and used language that a layperson may have interpreted to mean that an earthquake was not going to happen in the next few days, period. The resulting loss of life was tragic, but it was in no way the scientists' fault; the expected danger of the panic was worse than of the earthquake.
EDIT: here's the article I was thinking of: [link]
As an enginerd I'm reluctant to make transport about people 'giving' things, especially 'respect'. That's a story frame that just begs for continued soap opera drama.
"Cyclists". "Drivers". Meaningless tribal war words. Most people just get around the city by whatever mode is most effective that particular trip.
That the city neglects a mode that's cost-effective, healthy, convenient, quick, and high-capacity for short trips because of identity politics is just dumb civil engineering.
I have to keep reminding people again: "Corruption" is a more attractive topic than "Ethics".
I already collected plenty of dirt on Kotaku in my letter, including an incident that's very sparsely talked about: the blacklisting of David Prassel at Kotaku.
Wow, thanks for all of the upvotes everyone! You might also enjoy this piece I wrote about what it's like being a city dweller going snowmobiling for the first time... [link]
I've been following this whole thing for awhile and it is extremely fascinating. On one side you have the pro-gamergate who will tell you more or less that its a fight between game journalists and gamers and the other side saying that its gamers against feminism. Zoe Quinn really was just the spark that ignited the fire she really is pretty irrelevant to the argument link
This is the correct answer :) Assuming you have a desire to find common interests, there are loads of country bands that are just as much rock bands so if you love something with a little bit more "kick" and she only likes stuff that has a little more "twang", find music that has both!
For years I thought I hated country music aside from a few timeless Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson tunes. Turns out I only thought I hated country music as a genre because I had mainly just heard one particular type of country music--boring radio country pop. I was always more of a rock fan but if all I'd ever heard of rock was Jack Johnson and Maroon 5 I'd have thought I hated rock too!
I think it can be hard to get into different kinds of music because you may have negative associations with certain aspects of it and other parts are just unfamiliar so they don't have any positive associations. It's like learning another language and finding what you like.
At some point I'd been listening to some Old 97's and Supersuckers and I had an older Wilco album and realized that hey...these rock bands are also a bit country. Stuff like Fallout: New Vegas gave me good associations with some of the old western music and stations like Bootliquor just added to the mix. Now I still don't really like pop country but not because it's country, but because (to me) it's boring and unoriginal and overproduced. That's still a bias I haven't been able to get past and I dunno if I'll ever be able to find what's good in that really manufactured-sounding music but I guess anything's possible.
Also, this discussion reminds me of an article I read recently:
hey guys, artist here. thanks for all the love! Here is the article this gif was made for. points to you if you can spot the HTTYD2 reference in this gif (I watched that movie the same weekend I made this.)
Here is Lessig, the creator of Mayday PAC, explaining Super PACs and what's wrong with them. It's a #longread, but worth it if you're curious.
It's a current trend that when discussion are being had about misogyny or sexism women experience, some asshat needs to butt in with "NOT ALL MEN!!".
This is bad because: [link]
I found this one very interesting. Its written by an engineer originally as a joke, but later he wonders if it isn't real as it make more sense than the current system. In the story a fictional general asserts that the massive waste and budget blowouts on weapons systems, the massive delays and screw ups are all deliberate. Basically every time we go to a new generation of weapons the cost increases exponentially, and the volume of weapons decreases as nations cant afford to buy the same amount as they had. So the volume of weapons decreases, and eventually everyone is disarmed. Countries cant afford to build new weapons systems so they have to buy them leading to ever decreasing supplies and ever increasing dependency. Because anyone who tries to copy the US copy's the deliberately dysfunctional and overcomplicated system the world gradually disarms and when war does break out the US just flips a switch, cuts the waste and out produces everyone to win easily.
I also adore this movie (so much!)
...though this is one point where I do have to quote this article:
> [T]he logic behind everyone believing that Oaken (he of the Trading Post — and Sauna) is gay comes from a less-than-a-second shot of a family in the sauna…who may possibly be his husband and four children. Maybe. We don’t know. His page on the Disney Wiki lists his family as “unnamed”, so the blond man in the sauna could be his husband; but he could equally be his brother, cousin, son, nephew, second-cousin-twice-removed or even just a random customer enjoying the sauna with his wife and three children — the figure on the right reads as easily as a petite woman as it does a teenage boy. Disney won’t say.
Here is another article about voluntourism that I found a few months ago. I think it's a good read as well and it got me thinking when I first read it.
Edit: This is actually the article that /u/TomBadombadil references above.
If anyone wants to start volunteering, I would also suggest that people get involved with organizations within their own community and make it a prolonged experience.
As far as I'm aware it's linked to the Zoey Quinn thing. She who made Depression Quest apparently slept with a bunch of Journos who wrote positive things abut the game (allegedly, anyway. I remember reading something pointing out that the main Kotaku Journo supposedly involved never even wrote anything about the game anyway).
There were some legit questions about the integrity of journalists in the gaming industry, but a lot of that has been overshadowed by gamers happily getting involved in huge amounts of hate and harassment of the peoples involved.
It's basically a gigantic clusterfuck from which almost nobody is able to come out of on the moral high ground.
I think the stuff in youtube comments is (correct me if I'm wrong) because the Grumps took the sane perspective of thinking that it's not ok to be spreading information about people's private life all over the internet and the abuse directed at the lady involved is uncalled for. Apparently this upsets some people.
As we know, large portions of the internet are very protective of their privacy, unless breaching it gets them naked celebrity pics or someone they can direct a bunch of hatred at, in which case they'll happily violate other's privacy.
The only thing really worth discussing from the whole fallout is issues of journalistic integrity. Unfortunately it's been drowned by out a gigantic hurricane of piss being flung about in every direction by people accusing each other of being shills/white knights/MRAs/SJWs/other shorthand terms for belittling people you disagree with.
It's culminated in things like this, an open letter signed by thousands of game developers calling for an end to harassment, violent threats and hate speech directed at people within the industry.
JavaScript enjoys a unique position as a language because it is so ubiquitous. It runs on virtually all web browsers, and this includes phones and tablets as well. It's also the only language that runs on all three mobile operating systems: iOS, Android and Windows. It's also used by Node, one of the most popular web servers. Finally it's used by databases like MongoDB. The wide usage base alone is a reason to learn JavaScript.
Now, the fancy parts. It uses one of the simplest data formats: JSON. This format is a mixture of {"key": value} and ["arrays", "like this"]. JSON mimics the object and array literal notations in JavaScript, which is elegant and simple.
Functions create their own nested scope. Functions can also return objects when using the 'new' keyword. Objects have a property 'prototype' which is a way to accomplish inheritance. However this is out of the way unlike Java or C++ where classes and inheritance are required to accomplish much of anything in the language.
Also because you can reference closures you can do things like currying, which is really elegant.
To end on a funny note, this a good lampooning some strange parts of JavaScript: [link]
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger :-)
This is a great read. He basically describes star trek's post scarcity economy. How does a society that has no money, no need for most forms of menial labor to be done by humans, and nothing is rare. When nothing is rare, nearly everything can just be replicated and possessed, what would currency be based off of?
My favorite part about the article is the idea that since you don't have to work, and anything and everything is available to you, to include education, why wouldn't you pursue exactly what you want to do? Want to live your life as a musician? Go ahead, you can't starve from lack of money. Want to be a physicist, but afraid of how well you'll be able to apply yourself, don't worry about it. You can take as long as you want to grasp the lessons in school because tuition is free, lessons are mostly automated (teachers are basically glorified study buddies at that point) and you can take your time.
I love how he suggests a stigma would start to form. And it makes sense. I am personally a useless human being at heart. I work simply because money is a need. But if basic living arrangements were supplied with out the need for work, I would be a slug. Sit at home, playing video games all day every day. Maybe eventually take on hobbies. But if money was no issue, and time no relevance for the exception of how closer you are too death, I would probably become a permanent part time student. So even me, useless human being, would go to school for the joy of learning. Imagine how someone more useless then I would be treated by a population allowed to do ANYTHING.
TL:DR the article attacks your specific question more then my ramblings above. It's a great read.
You are ~98% wrong. 98% being the percentage of #gamergate tweets that do not mention anything about Ms Quinn. Yes she started it, but she hasn't been relative to it since about the first week.
China has 11 different rifles still in service with their military, with their newest rifles being compared to the US military. Such as the ZH-05
If you read the article, the American XM-25 costs $35,000 per unit, whereas according to the wiki reference on the ZH-05, it costs >$3500 per unit.
I can't help but laugh when I run through the details of that crash. However, I asked about how much more it costs to manufacture, but I was also curious if it would increase the cost of the vehicle. Well, it doesn't look like it, according to the article: "Tesla service will also retrofit the shields, free of charge, to existing cars upon request or as part of a normally scheduled service."
...damn. Elon and his company keep impressing me.
Owning a majority share in a company does not guarantee that you'll always have control. Take a look at how Gary Gygax lost control of TSR and D&D. Beware unexercised stock options from 9 years ago!
It is also worth noting that Mr. Fart is the most retweeted user in #Gamergate. He's hardly nobody; he's one of the most prolific members of their movement.
Source: [link] See the "There's little overlap between communities" section.
I'm getting a little tired of these animation libraries that just recreate the same old PowerPoint animations. Give some real thought to your animations and you can have some gorgeous results that people might actually like.
Told you all they were trying to control the market: [link]
Left-libs, take back your free market.
Edit: HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED THE CORRUPTION OF INDIE AWARD SHOWS ALSO TIES INTO THIS!
Video's already been analyzed by professionals. It was predominantly shot on 125th St in Harlem.
The piece of shit who runs tk tech news also ran a fund raiser for evleaks and then stole from it. I think he's referring to that. [link]
You mention having attraction to same-age peers. This is GREAT. It is much easier to help pedophiles who are not exclusively attracted to children. You can get help emphasizing and achieving fulfillment from age-appropriate relationships in your life. You have a bright life and future ahead of you. You're already taking the right step of finding help before offending.
Stay away from child porn, as this will only set you back in terms of helping yourself completely and fully enjoy life with age-appropriate relationships.
Remember that you're not alone! Please read the story on the Medium. Seek out help groups.
Shop around for a psychologist. MOST people (not just pedophiles) need to see different therapist before they find one they feel safe with and can trust.
Look up mandated reporting laws in your country. You may want to wait until you are 18 to see a therapist IF your current area will legally mandate a therapist to tell your parents AND you don't want them to know. However, it sounds from your post that you may value sharing this with your parents. It is important to do this in a safe space with a therapist who can help mediate the situation. YMMV; you don't know how your parents will react. Read the story on Medium for an example of an understanding mother who cannot tell her husband, the dad, because she's afraid of how he will react ([link]).
I can't remember where I saw it, but it was for a startup that was a private photo sharing service. So you'd create a group, share photos and only people in that group could interact and share their own stuff. Maybe somebody familiar with the app could point you to their blog?
Actually, found it: [link]
THIS. OP, whether you decide to report him or not, going public within your social circle can make a huge difference (both in terms of finding support and in protecting future potential victims). One of my groups of friends had to deal with discovering a rapist within our community fairly recently and I think we handled it pretty well, so I wrote about it in the hopes that others could use it as a reference point. Whatever you decide, take care of yourself.
I got it from this Medium post:
And yeah, they are really really cool. I'd love to find more art like this if anyone knows of more.
I think I read an article somewhere about the difference between minimalist and material design. I'll try to find it.
Edit: Not exactly the article I saw, but here, scroll down and you should see something about the Z axis.
Edit 2: Found the exact article.
While the multiple driver protests are indicative of employee dissent at Uber, I don't think it's fair for these articles to criticize Uber's policies without a context. For example, the data suggest UberX drivers make more money than taxi drivers in both New York City and San Francisco.
Why isn't anyone writing any articles on the plight of of the average overworked and undercompensated taxi driver?
>Uber’s attitude is that drivers are free to stop working if they are dissatisfied, but for drivers like Arman who’ve invested serious money in their cars, quitting isn’t an option.
Why can't he quit? This is only true if the alternative to working for Uber is being unemployed or working in a job with worse pay and conditions. And I'm confused why drivers can't work for Lyft or Sidecar instead?
No company should be exempt from valid criticism about their employment policies but these articles feel too much like rabble-rousing to me.
Hiding jokes in my posts is like a fun game for me. I wrote another one before this, The Prospects of CSS on the Backend, that has a few more (I may've overdone it).
I started a collection of dumb posts like these, if that's the kind of thing you're into. Sorry for the shameless self-promotion :) Glad to see people are finding the little details.
Facebook is for older people. Think about it, Facebook is a place to gossip and talk to your friends who don't see everyday. Teenagers these days have a place to see your friends, school. There's no reason for someone to spend 8 hours at school, and then Facebook. It's unneeded. We usually are already texting each other.
Here's a nice essay on the topic that I agree with
He reposted his this to medium. See if there is a way to report him since you are the copyright holder
Being easily-pleased is, in my opinion, one of the more positive side-effects of being abused by an Nparent. Possibly the only positive side-effect. If that's possible.
In today's world, a lot of people might find it really strange that you become ecstatically happy at something like finding a yellow day planner, but you know what? Such joy in small things is something that is getting increasingly rare these days. A lot of people are very materialistic, and can't seem to articulate that sort of experience. A lot of people go to therapy, go to groups, go to subs like these, or spend large quantities of money trying to find the sort of happiness we feel when we find a yellow day planner, or see flowers growing, or when we sit down and have a slice of chocolate pie. We're just happy to be there. We don't need a big new something-or-other to be satisfied, and when we get the big new something-or-other when we want to treat ourselves, we're satisfied with it. We can experience extreme objective happiness. It's not a bad thing.
We're excruciatingly happy with just one piece of candy. We don't need two. We know what it's like to go through life with none.
Hahaha that is total bull shit. $50 billion for one jet? Where the hell did you pull that number from. They actually cost between $150m - $350m. Which is still a lot but no where near the ridiculous number you gave.
the harassment that Anita receives is incredibly inflated for the sake of victimization. and for the record, the "negative" in that graph doesn't mean "threats".
very, VERY few people have actually sent any threats or harassment to any women involved. what is not debatable is that many are taking these rare threats as the norm, that is willful ignorance.
take Anita off of her pedestal, and you'll see that there is primarily criticism, NOT harassment against her.
honestly, at this point, there is just an overwhelming amount of information out there that invalidates her videos, proves that a minority of the reaction to her was threats (pro gamergate people found one of the harassers for her, btw), and just shows that she is a dishonest, manipulative person. she aims to create her image through headlines on mainstream news outlets, instead of actual activism. she gains followers by having the media advertise her image for her, because she can't appeal to enough people with her own message.
>Reason? She's a feminist and is complaining about the portraying of female characters in many video games.
it's because she's wrong. why is it that people just can't consider the possibility that she is actually a liar? the points she brings up aren't new, the reason there is this type of outrage about her is that she actually has a following for some reason, and people are tired of having her twisted version of feminism injected into gaming unnecessarily. she isn't a revolutionary, she isn't going against the grain, she isn't changing society.
I would recommend anyone also read this piece before coming to any conclusions: The Tools of the Enemy.
This person who wrote that article is not a neutral observer, only has one side of the story, and has an agenda. Regardless of Zoe's actions during the relationship, Eron has repeatedly violated his restraining order and continues to stalk her online. He's conning people out of money for help with "legal fees" when he wouldn't have any fees to pay if he would stop violating and trying to appeal the order. He's proven himself to be manipulative, vengeful, and, quite frankly, in need of professional help. I doubt this behavior was triggered solely by her actions or the end of the relationship.
I'm not trying to say Zoe is an angel here either, but the relationship probably wasn't healthy for either of them. I've been cheated on, and I know how much it sucks. In the end, Eron deliberately set up this situation to garner the response it did, and the punishment doesn't fit the crime. You can't hurt other people just because you've been hurt too. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Here's the full comment refereed to in the headline:
"Blocker (Mr. Fart) is the twitter user in question. Like RogueStar, he can get worked up but it at least seems like his heart is in the right place."
Like Roguestar! Another guy with his heart in the right place.
I would like to give you something to consider:
> Everyone is aware of the threats that have been made to the female voices: Quinn, Sarkeesian, Wu, Alexander.
Why is it, in an industry that employes tens of thousands across the globe, we only have four that speak out and appear all the time? I can get the hesitancy that prevents initially people from telling their stories, but as other scandals have shown, once the story is out, others follow pretty quickly. Yet in two months it's always been the same people who all benefit from it financially in one way or the other:
- ZQ: At least 3K/month via her Patreon, who knows what other income she has generated since then with all her media apperances.
- AS: Got 160K out of it, followed by lots of speaking engagements, media bookings etc.
- Wu: Massive media exposure just as a game of hers is released, also lots of media invites.
- Alexander: Lives off of her media appearances and has been heavily booked since all of this started.
To be clear, I don't doubt that some people on the internet did feed the narrative, but as an anti-gger showed us, albeit by accident, going through 1500 tweets (KiA discussion) that were directed at AS and WU they didn't find one threat. The only way they could spin this was the sheer volume of people disagreeing with them as being some kind of a threat.
This was a difficult read but very insightful.
You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?
And was covered on TAL.
Credit to Matt Bors for the comic.
He ended up winning an award for this comic. [The 2013 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon competition.]
There was a story I read a few weeks before True Detective started that I thought sounded very similar. The victims aren't really children, but there is speculation about higher-up police cover-ups. Also, it's Louisiana.
"Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?"
Edit: details
[link] - Here it is (It's nexus 4 btw). She sees people choking on tear gas and getting beaten up, but makes the whole story about man phones and patriarchy.
this was the follow-up: [link]
I used to think it was worthwhile to date girls who traveled. Now it is painfully obvious they travel so they can cock carousel around the world. They're just looking for their latest profile picture and their work ethic is often shit.
I'm finding similar results to this guy: [link]
Basically, you have a core group of people who tweet and their stuff is retweeted a great deal. There's limited dialogue/it's not very horizontal.
It's interesting reading through the comments here, there are some points that I haven't seen mentioned
- Richard and Edward Benyon made statements to the residents of the New Era estate that they would sustain the social housing which was the purpose of the block originally. Having made the promise that they would act in a socially minded way they are now increasing the rent from £600 to £2000
(By the way.. having been to the estate when we protested on Saturday... these aren't luxury apartments. They are basic, blocky homes tucked behind a row of basic, blocky shops. It's not luxury living, it just happens to be in an up-and-coming part of London)
- For those that are saying "Well - if she can't afford it she should move out". If you live in London SHE MIGHT BE PROVIDING YOUR HEALTHCARE ONE DAY. For a workable city we need a community of all types, including people that work on the lower end of the wage scale. It's not practical for her to commute hours to work, especially with the insane rail prices.
Those that show a hard-line attitude might also argue against Living Wage ("screw her! She should get a better job if she don't like her wages!"). Don't you want anybody to staff the jobs that you need in this city?
Supporting a pair of billionaire brothers in their endeavor to screw over local residents, whilst not supporting a living wage is so short sighted. We can't live in a city where the only residents are earning enough to pay £2,000/month in rent.
Anyway - I wrote this after the protest on Saturday: [link]
>Disliking her is fine. Disagreeing with her opinions is fine. Criticizing her methods is fine.
so would you say that you're fine with at least 95% of gamergate?
Nice to meet you too!
I think I am most proud of this piece, lately anyway: [link] It is sad and involves some heavy shit, but that's why I like it.
As a feminist I'm influenced by comedians, actually! Margaret Cho and Sandra Bernhard both shaped my understanding of what it meant to be a woman, a writer, a performer and a comic. I also learned quite a bit from the women's narratives recorded by Studs Terkel and by Howard Zinn's work highlighting underrepresented communities and movements in history.
I am not sure if I will do a follow-up. I feel I need to actually play games for a few months and move around in the community online and perhaps even offline at a con or meet up or something like that. My piece for Playboy was very personal and any follow-up would necessarily have to be personal as well.
I'm actually interested in the discourse here because I want to see what it's like. I'm learning the lingo, so to speak, and am being exposed to more and more perspectives as I go along. It seemed blatantly unfair to just do an AMA with the KiA folks and ignore the other voices. I should note I was never encouraged just to listen to the the KiA folks. But they did reach out to me first and issue encouragement and invitation, which is why I ended up there first. It was a very thought-provoking chat.
To me GG seems a fractured movement not unlike OWS or the Tea Party. Because there is no clear leader, there is no clear message. There is instead a variety of messages from a variety of folks, some of whom speak louder than others. It is a surprisingly (to me) diverse group of people with an array of demands/requests, and I can't call it a cohesive movement.
Really? You really believe that? Just because someone gives you money for your art doesn't mean that you gotta pander to them.
I don't mind War is Boring. Some articles, like this one (re the arms trade in Kurdistan), engage my interest, I don't think it's 'garbage clickbait' at all. I prefer content like this to many picture submissions to this sub but I don't feel strongly about those to the point where I would motion for an entire website to be ruled out regardless of an article's content. I would encourage you and those similarly-minded to just use their hide key to move stuff you've read and/or don't want to see on your feed instead.
It isn't the artists in a lot of cases. (Obviously this being fan-art, it absolutely is.) Noah Bradley talked at length about this on the gathering magic podcast. Often when artists are given a commission to paint women they get it sent back repeatedly with the instructions "bigger tits."
He caused a bit of a stir in the fantasy art community when he released this: [link]
As someone who's not diagnosed but has extremely strong tendencies it really took everyone realizing that I wasn't like everyone else. My wife said "I used to think you were just a jerk, but now I realize you don't even know enough not to be."
I've gotten a lot better by framing things as personal rules. Never, ever lie. Always be sure to be perfectly clear about things, to the point of annoyance. People I'm interested in get made aware of it very early, generally by me telling them to read this article. Believe it or not, Big Bang Theory helped a lot. Sheldon is a caricature, sure, but a lot of what he thinks is similar to me, and seeing that reflection helped me realize that I'm not normal and how I can help people who are to have a better experience.
The important thing is to keep talking. Therapy helps a lot, too. Don't think of it as a medical treatment. More like an emotional personal trainer. For people like us who aren't good with emotions it's hugely beneficial to have some training.
Edit: Last time my crush was in town I told her I really wanted to kiss her and she just said "Oh, TheIcelander..." which I interpreted as her not wanting me to. I'm still not 100% certain if she did or not, but now I know enough to ask her for clarification next time instead of just apologizing.
She's in town this weekend again. * crosses fingers *
That's a straight-up lie, but why would I be surprised you're happy to believe lies over the truth. Here's a post by a woman who was with Eron when he uploaded the post, I'm more likely to believe her than the complicit media.
Well, I said what I had to say about this right here: [link]
Less in the context of 4chan which takes things to the extreme and more in the context of gamers as a whole
It also seems to be about ensuring that critical coverage of games is done by people who like the game in question and will only discuss the mechanics of the game; content is right out. See: [link]
you can get a blog going super quick on a bunch of diff platforms if you dont feel like making one from scratch. Recently I've been a fan of medium [link]
That is sad. Hope you don't let it get you down.
Although in theory I believe that everyone should be treated equally, and women don't have any innate disadvantages in technical fields, maybe sometimes when I first meet a girl who is majoring in or working in software, if I don't know anything else about her, then I may also think "Yeah, she'll be sought after, if only to fill quotas...". I might not imagine her as talented unless she's already got a reputation as a talented programmer.
In the article there's a link to an article about "imposter syndrome". After I graduated college, I got a fairly good job, and if I were female, I think I might feel like it was just because I was a girl. But since I'm male, I feel like I was skill combined with a bit of luck.
Molyneux believes that he is a 'first principles' philosopher, and that the rest of his ideas follow from it, and that thusly he is entirely correct.
Once he has made these 'truth' videos, it has become impossible for him to revisit any part of his philosophy (such as his 'first principles', see one of my critiques here).
I try to answer this in a post at the link below, but the TLDR is 5th dimensional beings exist outside of the 3rd dimension which is bound by time, so aren't bound by it. Yes, from our perspective their existence depends on Cooper and co going thru the wormhole THEY made, but that doesn't matter because from their perspective, all of existence occurred at the same time, not us first then them later. In this way their existence wasn't causal, a result of evolving from ancestral humans, it just was.
It's still a massive paradox, granted, but that's because our minds aren't built to comprehend this stuff. To our 5th dimensional bros, it totes makes sense.
- Sticky Napalm (among other spells, of course) gives vision.
- Terrorblade has enough time to use manta style twice during a level 4 metamorphosis.
- You can activate some invisibility skills (such as Shadow Walk) during your TP/other channels.
- You can target with Death Ward.
- You can still be denied under a level 1 Venomous Gale.
- Dropping items that provide mana before regenerating a fixed amount of mana leads to greater absolute mana regen (once items are picked back up). Most commonly used for bottle/soul ring/arcanes/magic stick/magic wand. Same applies with HP.
- Giving a bottle to a teammate that has immediately TP'd from the fountain will refill the bottle.
- You need to be within 500 units of a lane creep to aggro it.
- Gyrocopter's Call Down provides vision; this is useful for getting a little more out of your Flak Cannon attacks in the jungle.
- Gyrocopter's Rocket Barrage and Enigma's Demonic Conversion apply to siege creeps.
- The minus armor from Desolator and Assault Cuirass applies to buildings as well.
- If you're on the same team as OD, you can see an orange circle expanding from the center to the outside of his Astral Imprisonment. A level 4 Astral ends once the orange circle reaches the outer circle.
- You can squeeze in a right click during Shadow Walk's fade time. The right click gets the bonus damage.
- You can bring enemy heroes closer to your team during Reverse Polarity by first turning towards your team (because your opponents end up in front of Magnus).
- You can get some decent, free HP regen by buying a ring of health and then selling it before the full refund timer expires. Repeat this for some easy regen in side lanes.
Me? If you want to start following a Japanese boxer very early in their career. Not a prospect yet, but with the all Japan tournament coming next year could change soon!
Second fight is coming up in 10 days at Korakuen Hall on the undercard of the Japan Championship match of Naito vs Eto.
Here's a couple links if you're interested:
Boxing photos of first fight: [link]
Trailer for next fight/highlights of first: [link]
My website: [link]
Also I second Naoya Inoue and Kameda (incredible body shots) while Murata is the biggest "star" in Japanese boxing people have been less than impressed with his showings this far…
after reading about how godaddy gave away someone's personal information (interesting read here) i remember people recommending namecheap as a good alternative.
I actually read an article recently called "Writing purple women" about what constitutes a good female character.
Its list of characteristics was a follows:
> 1. A purple woman has an independent emotional and narrative arc. That arc may intertwine with the arcs of other characters, but it does not exist just to support those other arcs.
> 2. A purple woman has weight and presence within the story. If she weren’t there, the story would feel trivial or incomplete without her.
> 3. A purple woman affects the narrative in a fundamental way. If she weren’t there, the story wouldn’t work.
The article also says a good character has something she wants, something she needs, some actual character flaws that are genuinely detrimental to her, she changes over the course of the story, she has to earn her character arc, she has to have or want agency, be active and not reactive... and it goes on.
Here is another article about a US missile cruiser taking part in naval drills in the Black Sea in July of this year (right next to Russia). [link]
And another about a US navy command ship patrolling the Black Sea: [link]
So the US has warships within stone throwing distance of Russia. Tell me again why the US is allowed to do this but Russia isn't? Or perhaps why when we do it it's OK but if Russia does it it's some sort of evil plot.
Here's an article about how Tinder got more people: [link]
Basically they went school to school, kinda like what how indie bands go town to town, building their fan base
As for Grindr-- I guess it's a very niche market?
Some Kluwe quotes:
>wannabe Wikipedia philosophers, drunk on your own buzzwords, incapable of forming an original thought
>paint-huffing shitgoblins
>angry neckbeards
>slopebrowed weaseldicks with zero reading comprehension and even less critical thinking skills
>basement-dwelling, cheetos-huffing, poopsock-sniffing douchepistol
>slackjawed pickletits
>hemorrhoidal gunt stains
>it makes me want to pick you all up collectively and shake you until your rectum leaks out what little brains you possess because YOU’RE SO FUCKING DUMB.
>the mouthvomits you like to pretend are logical trains of thought
>pestilent little toads can’t imagine the concept of friendship. Perhaps you should go watch some Care Bears?
>You don’t even see the complete idiocy of this idea because you’re too busy wargleblargling your face into your keyboard.
>misogynistic mouthbreathers who get off on making rape threats against women
>I hope you all, every #Gamergater, picks up a debilitating case of genital warts.
Yea pretty cool guy.
I don't care if your pro-GG, anti-GG, or nuetral. As soon as you resort to that shit, you've immediately lost the argument. Maybe it's just me...but I realize it's people on the other side reading what I'm writing.
EDIT: here you go
Here is an interesting view on this story (probably from other GitHub employees) [link]
TL;DR her claims are bullshit, she spread vicious lies about the guy and his wife during her time at the company because she was super jelly
I know it's easy to just throw shit out there without reading about the issue at all, but you're not helping either side of the debate.
Here's a write up over at War is Boring: >[Tank expert David Rae] said the movie’s inaccuracies are minor—stuff that only someone >who is already an expert in tank warfare will even notice. “The tactics >employed in the film are pretty spot on,” he said. “The director has >really done his homework.”
UPDATE: And I'm off to the weigh in in just a minute and will be offline until after the fight. Thanks everyone for the support and hope to see your comments on the livestream
Just finished the last day of light training getting a sweat going and ready for the weigh in tomorrow.
After the weigh in tomorrow I'll be offline, so wanted to post this now in case anyone had any questions about it. Know that the time sucks in the USA, but it's a good sign as I got the last match of the 4R fights so am moving up the card
Here's a small promo video that I made for the fight, and a photography blog about my first fight
And here is the charity, Katariba, that I'm donating all of the fight money and ticket sales that I made.
I'll be on one more time tomorrow before the weigh in, in about 12 hours, to answer any questions about the livestream or just anything in general.
** Thanks for the support **
On a personal note/thought, have been thinking about heavyweights and my all time favorite Mike Tyson lately, and how they miss out on a huge part of the fight never going through a real weigh in.
They're definitely the kings of boxing, but never having to experience making weight completely changes the game in my opinion. After the fight I'll probably write a blog about it, but just wanted to get your guys' thoughts on it.
Everyone on Twitter is aware that their tweets are public and searchable. However, part of what SJWs have been doing in recent years is creating a narrative that it's actually abusive and a breach of privacy to use their own public statements to criticise them. Shanley's attacks on journalists for researching her is the example that leaps first to mind, but there's been a lot more.
Here's an interesting essay, "The Economics of Star Trek" that discusses the functioning of a post-scarcity economy such as what Lewis and Duncan are talking about setting up.