Everything posted by Amentep
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The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
- Obituary thread
- The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
TNG The First Duty. Solid episode. I wish Wesley had stood up to not-Paris without, essentially, being blackmailed by Picard, but it was over-all a strong episode.- General movie thread!!!!
- The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
The trailer for Finding Ohana made it seem like it would be a bit Goonies-esque. Would you think that a fair assessment?- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
I wasn't talking about the former Sakartvelo, no... I thought this was obvious... 😐- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
I promise you, there actually are people in Georgia who know something about Guam.- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
It's an expanded re-release edition, so surely they edited the ass shots out?- PS4 bug reports
Amentep replied to forest's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)Per the Deadfire support page: These forums, while developers do show up from time to time (more so right after launch) tend to be peer-to-peer support which may be more useful for PCs than console issues.- What You've Done Today - As the World Turns
I remember you talking about her on the BIS boards. Now I feel old by proxy.- What Are you Playing Now: Living the Good Life
I have a terrible track record with refreshing this thread...- Weird, random, interesting - now with 100% less diacriticals
I didn't know she had a tie with an emag; my understanding was that she'd expanded a media studies paper into a kickstarter to create videos for a youtube channel and that kickstarter caused controversy since she initially abandoned what was promised to do other things. That said, I wouldn't know about her at all if it wasn't for people who hater her magnifying her reach by retweeting that they hate her.- What Are You Playing Now: The meaning of life
New thread:- What Are you Playing Now: Living the Good Life
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New thread:- Anime: Emotions on a Rollercoaster
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New thread:- Funny Stuff: Revenge of the Funny
Old thread: Last few posts -- Weird, random, interesting - now with 100% less diacriticals
Thing is Sarkeesian shouldn't have even been on the radar of what GamersGate claimed to be about (she wasn't a game journalist, but an academic researcher). The fact that they kept bringing her up demonstrated that what they claimed to be about had nothing to do with what they actually felt aggrieved over. And honestly most of the attention Sarkeesian gets is from the people who don't like her magnifying what she's said.- Anime - A Rollercoaster of Emotion
The main character is a boy who fell into a cursed hot spring while training with his dad. He is cursed by the cursed hot spring of a drowned girl so when he is touched by hot water he becomes a girl, and cold water a boy. Similarly his dad is cursed to be a panda (and who, to get out of trouble, pretends to be a literal panda) and a large number of the cast for a variety of reasons end up at the same training springs and cursed by various drowned entities. Also everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, can be boiled down to a vaguely martial arts-like competition. Ice skating, dance competitions, chess, whatever. Add in that the main character cannot turn down a challenge and will always end up in the wrong body for what he's trying to accomplish and comedy ensues.- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
Jessica Rabbit. She took her husband's last name. He was Roger Rabbit. Re: Pepe Lepew - never liked the character much, so won't miss him. Supposedly they'd filmed a scene (where he gets comeuppance, of a sort) but with the production juggling and changing directors it isn't going to be in the finished film.- The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
I never really got her being out of uniform or being treated as a quasi-civilian, to be honest. TOS had already established Psychiatry as part of Life Sciences in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
This is the official statement from Seuss Estate - https://www.seussville.com/statement-from-dr-seuss-enterprises/ No studies or events are cited at all. No particular conclusion is made, however these titles have been controversial for years.- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
The problem with your argument is the Seuss estate does not cite the 2019 study, nor did they commission it. As near as I can tell, it is an independent study published in the journal Research on Diversity in Youth Literature and was only added to the CNN article for context by the reporter. The study in question was committed to answering the question of whether Seuss' oveure was anti-racist as had been claimed by others in the youth literature field (particularly within context of The Sneetches and Horton Hears a Who specifically and without a broader context for the works). In that sense, the statement that Seuss didn't address non-whites in his human characters makes contextual sense (whether you agree with the conclusion or not). The important thing, again, is that the Seuss estate does not cite that 2019 study as their rationale for their decision to pull the 6 books (nor, for that matter, was the library reading program saying they wouldn't count Seuss books towards their reading event cited).- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
Your argument is apparently that once a creator creates something they (or their agents) cannot voluntarily withdraw the creation from the marketplace of ideas (or at the very least, cannot voluntarily withdraw if you deem the study they commissioned that led to the decision to withdraw flawed and there exists statistically invalid polls that fell on the side of non-withdrawal).