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I didn't say worst, just the densest prose. You could cut it with a metaphorical knife. I remember my college English 101 professor claiming that when we wrote papers for class, he'd sit down and ty to grade our papers fairly. Then any he couldn't read he gave to his neighbor's kid to read and grade, and after that he'd take any essays the neighbor's kid couldn't read and sit down with a bottle of wine to read and grade them. I never had to read student prose, but I did at one point have to record professors ratings for some essays for a few years (it was a standardized essay prompt that was graded by three readers; the faculty would convene in a room to read and grade them and I kept track of which were graded and which needed another reader) and while I wasn't a grader, I did see some of the essays that were written. And of course, read all the creative writings done in the creative writing classes I took as we all had to critique them. Oh yeah, ObTV: The US adaption of the UK Ghosts series is kind of a cute fun comedy.

Never read him either - I'm not super familiar with him either, since I haven't really delved into military history (assuming a bit that we're talking about Carl von Clausewitz), I've heard in passing of Vom Krieg - is that's what you read?

Never tried to read any of his works. The densest prose I've read and liked was from Herman Melville, so... Someday I'm going to come back to Dune and try to read it again, but right now my reading time is so limited so it'll have to keep (ditto anymore Melville).

Dune's one of the few books I've started and never been able to finish. I think I just don't connect with Herbert's prose, ultimately, but I just couldn't get into it, any of the times I've tried.

Did they do a referendum before they put it up? And if not, why do they need one to take it down?

By that logic, no decision for government should be made without a referendum. The point of governmental committees is that not everything needs to be a referendum. IF the people are upset about the decision of the committee, they can make their voices heard in the polls by electing officials who would convene a new PDC who would, theoretically, review the decision.

Hellsing has been one that I've wanted to see, I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually. Had I thought of it, I'd have looked for it for October, but I had a 'durrrrr' moment. I've seen one of the Vampire Hunter D movies ages ago, I think the earlier one (there is only 2, right?) I'm a huge fan of Junji Ito's manga, but haven't seen any of the anime adaptions (Gyo and...Junji Ito Collection I think are the only ones out now? With the new Uzumaki adaption forthcoming?) Are there any good Yokai animated series that veer towards horror (as opposed to the Yokai Watch adaptions that are essentially Pokemon, as I understand it)? Is Ghost Stories also known as Ghost School (Gakkō no Kaidan aka School Ghost Stories)? I have the first volume of the manga of Berserk, which is in my reading queue. Dunno why, but I think I'm more interested in reading the manga than seeing the anime adaptions (I think a tv show in the 90s and a movie trilogy in the early 2010s?). Its on my queue of translated manga to read. Trying to catch up with Glepnir, then I'd planned on Disappearing Classroom (trying to get it in before the end of the month). Then either Berzerk's first volume or the complete Dororo...leaning towards Berzerk.

It was by vote of the Public Design Commission to relocate the statue to a museum.

It was me, I forgot the 'edited by' doesn't show up on these forums anymore. I think it was a little much, even as a link hidden in spoiler tags. Meanwhile, been thinking about anime. Looking forward to getting to Cobra (October is pretty much horror films for me when I watch anything, so I won't get to it until November - maybe I should have planned better and got a horror anime when I went looking). Its been awhile since I've watched any (an incomplete run through the Fist of the North Star tv show that I really need to finish someday was the last thing I watched....yatatatatatatatatatatatata), but I remember back in the 90s how hard it was waiting for the next release of one of my favorite OAVs ever... 3 years for that final episode! Harsh. Might rewatch this during my Christmas break if I get time.

There are criticisms of Mother Teresa. The one I remember off the top of my head was that she used her charity to help poor people in India not to truely help them, but the convert them to Christianity. The community should be able to decide who they want to celebrate; in a time like today, maybe the ability to be objective about a figures good & bad side isn't possible, so isn't it better to allow the community to move a monument aside, provide it with historical and educational context. As long as the monument isn't destroyed, it can always be restored to a place of celebration if, after wrestling with the totality of a person, they decide that its worth doing. And perhaps after they've decided on having a wider array of people being celebrated, rather than fixating on deifying a precious few.

Explains it.

But Jefferson also was a slave owner who had fathered children with at least one of his slaves* and had very mixed messages about slavery during his political career, fighting for its continuance while also stating he thought it was a bad idea; he ignored Washington's caution against creating political parties, and IIRC was pro-removal of native tribes to take their land for European settlers when he was a Virginia politico. One important thing to consider is, (a) does the community want to continue to celebrate the person (b) is the ability to celebrate the good things possible at this time in light of the bad things? If the answer to either is 'no', then perhaps its time to move the statue to a museum which can, perhaps, offer an education on the complex history of the person and what good an ill they did and allow the community to decide if they want to move the statue to a place of prominence after they've wrestled with the totality of the person's legacy. National myths are also where you get justification for things like the Divine Right of Kings, Manifest Destiny, the New South and...well slavery in several cases (the religious justification in the US south was often the same we see in Muslim countries - that it was better for a heathen to be a slave in a Christian/Muslim house where their souls could be saved than to be free, for example) and many other destructive concepts that are taken for granted because the myth is pushed upon the population. A unifying myth isn't really unifying if it only speaks to a part of the population. The nice thing about the US is that we have the ability to reassess our myths and decide if we want to hold onto them or not. We weren't, and aren't forced to worship anyone or anything (despite what some groups may think we should - and fair enough, free speech be upon them). *Some people do argue, and fair enough, that all the genetic matching does is connect the Hemmings family to a male Jefferson relative - so his brother and nephews could be responsible. I'm not sure I feel better about Jefferson allowing his family to have sex with his enslaved people than if he did it himself, personally.

Those usenet debates about whether that was the end of society as we knew it or not was fun.

Dino Crisis?

Adamant refusal to conform with societal norms. There's a number of reasons why; it may change as streamers become more attractive, but right now they haven't tipped into the 'gotta spend money on' category.

Oh I don't remember what I had, I just remembered hating trying to figure out why stuff wasn't working together - my least favorite aspects of PC.

You may not get mods with consoles, but you know what you also never get with consoles? To spend hours troubleshooting why your audio driver and your graphics card decided to start fighting with your OS when you booted up a new game to play. Shocking and terrible indeed!

I was on the math team in high school, and competed in state wide tournaments, and we lost. And we didn't get any medals or awards. And it didn't scar me for life. Being on a math team in high school, however...

I never finished MotB either, but I'm not a big fan of 'eating' mechanics in console games, either. Not really a fan of them in PnP either, and usually played where you only paid upkeep in town and as long as your visits weren't infrequent to town, the assumption was made you were repairing equipment and restocking food/water. So food, water and equipment status only mattered if you were away from town for a significantly long time.

I liked it, personally. I have a copy so will probably rewatch after the tv series.

If C64 games count, I remember loading games from tape. Slow process. Dunno which was first, I remember Spy vs Spy, Bruce Lee and Phantasie. But my first C64 game I bought was Datasoft's Black Magic.

Yeah, I recall that. I saw the movie years ago...also have a high tolerance for trippy scifi...

The original Space Adventure Cobra series from 1981 (cue disappointment it isn't a magical girl series). I saw the movie years ago, but I know the story is a bit more involved than the movie could show and have been curious to see the original anime series which I think is a more straight adaption of the manga, while I think the movie trades on a certain understanding of the characters you could get from the show. I have a few other anime series around so may roll into one of those (the Galaxy Express 999 tv show or Future Boy Conan if it's released by then on the upcoming new bluray release in the US) afterwards. EDIT: I don't have a streaming or cable service, so rely on rentals, borrows or purchases fir anime.

I had an uncle who had a PC, and not counting C64 games, those were the first PC games I ever played. Which would make Duke Nukem (1991), Wolfenstein 3D (1992) and I think MS Flight Similator 4.0 based on the age of the first two the first true PC games I played.