(and very solid evidence that HIV is innately becoming less virulent, another interesting story in and of itself)
Very interesting indeed.
Could you share this evidence, preferably in a form understandable by someone who knows a bit of biology but is not a medical student?
Robocop?
How is it a comic-based movie?
And yes, Tim Burton's Batmans are good movies, but they take Batman as an archetype to create a new piece of art, they're not really following any comic arc.
Actually, everybody or nearly everybody involved here played dirty.
BTW, anybody who's not an SWJ should be ashamed of that fact (and won't get into Christian paradise as the Christ was crucified for being a SWJ)... but I'm not sure that living-room SWJ* are not worst than those who do not even pretend to care.
I don't understand your point...
Batman Begins was quite a good Batman movie if you can tolerate some incoherences, and Dark Knight is an extraordinary good movie even for non-geeks...
(and I have to confess that I loved the first two X-men movies due to the exceptionnal performance of Wolverine and good performances of many characters like Xavier and Mystique)
A travel ban would kill more people than Ebola ever would.
Panic will always kill more people than the disease. Think critically before you demand action. The cable news networks are reveling in the profit they are making off of your panic.
As much as I consider that the Liberian government is making a recipe for disaster by banning travels without trying to ensure that food and other vital supply still comes from abroad, your statement may not be true.
Ebola is beginning to be no more an epidemic disease but a disease of under-development (that's why it spreads in Texas...), which means it will probably kill millions as nobody in power cares about Africa's underdevelopment. You are right to point the disastrous effects of travel bans in highly interconnected countries, but you should not underestimate Ebola's death toll.
The actual argument against travel bans (which was proposed to Senegal too, which by the way was quite efficient to stop its own Ebola outbreak) is that travel bans make people cheat and so are less efficient than traveler's security measures (external thermometers at each entry point like Senegal and Gambia and other african countries do).
AFAIK, only a very small minority of women became gamers through D&D.
Call of Cthulhu, though, attracted a lot of women to role-playing, mainly because the game was actually about role-playing (and solving mysteries) rather than trying to find who had the bigger sword.
What about the deputy sheriff in Texas?
Who apparently didn't do anything more dangerous than entering an infected man's house without protective gear?
You may want to take into notice that the 7400 cases and 3000 deaths are those of people with identified ebola virus disease.
No one actually knows how much people died (or recovered) in the wild and in the small villages...
The problem in Haïti is not microfarming, it's microfarming done after the destruction of peasantry...
(or to be more precise, destruction of the peasant's "système agraire")
Actually, even if we all here agree that they will not, they could do a good Tetris movie with more than 30 seconds of reference to the game - remember Pi, and Tetris is more about mathematics than it is about cheap electronic consoles...
If true, that would invalidate Alan Moore's theory...
I'm not knowledgeable enough about the era or the facts to have a definitive opinion about the validity of his interpretation, but I do have to say that if the next-to-last victim was using the name of the last victim for her nickname (as Moore says), it is indeed a strong indication that the murders were not random.
Maybe the best part of the show is how it treats the behaviour of scientists in public conferences, with both absurdity and keen observation of actual behavior, however ludicrous be this behaviour.
Are you responsible for this part of the show?
By the way, is there a way to watch the show without the awful canned laughter which ruins the subtlest jokes?
I watched only the first season because I can't stand canned laughters, but some of the humor is very subtle.
That's why canned laughters are particularly awful in this show, only the most obvious jokes get in-tape laughter, and as humans are social creatures it makes a perturbing discrepancy between what one finds really funny and what the laughters tell him to find funny.
Actually, some are very clever and thus quite different from "Ow my balls":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4ZbIKmuvo (cited below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (works better if you know Girl Genius, a very good webcomic actually)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k3PJb4Cc7I
And of course this one: http://www.satirishpress.com/w...
Or make "get out of my lawn" scenarios where new players go in numbers against more skilled players (who will then be "Bosses" requiring cooperative efforts to take down)...
I happened to watch one of her videos last week, and I do share the opinion of the first +5 poster: "her videos are, in places, poorly researched with many leaps of logic mixed with heavy opinions. But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated."
Specifically, and though she clearly does make some points about the way most female NPC are limited to eye candy, her general attitude towards sandbox games reminded me heavily of the Dungeon&Dragons-bashing of the early 80's: "Can you imagine that? In this foul game players can invoke demons! What would be a better proof that it's a satanic plot to enroll our younglings in the Army of Darkness?" without, of course, ever explaining to the alarmed parents that a RPG allows player to do anything they can think of, and that if they don't have a particular interest in the evocation of demons there is no reason for them to do it (BTW at least in AD&D first edition I don' think there even is a rule about demonic invocations)...
In Sarkeesian's videos, it translates as "Female NPC have no agency": Well, they're NPCs - maybe she should figure what the word means. And yes, female NPC are often not treated in the same way than male NPC and when she explains that she has valid points - but it's maybe 10% of her discourse, 90% being "women are NPCs in video games, oh the humanity!".
She even goes as far as saying that no woman NPC is depicted having her own agenda and personality - hellooo, ever heard of Sarah Kerrigan? I'm still in love with her as are probably half of all male geeks ever born, and we have only seen her face!
Similarly, one of her points is that in Sandbox games the hero is allowed to kill female NPCs: does she even understand the concept of a sandbox game?
Or when RedDeadRedemption makes fun of the Pulp trope of rescuing a lady bound on the railway, she uses it as a proof of how vilely misogynistic the game world is, without even acknowledging the parodic intention.
Streaming games would kill any download limits you have on your ISP and pretty much all of them have some sort of limit in place.
Actually... no.
Data caps on wired internet mostly exists in "capitalist" america, where the market is so free that it doesn't mind belonging to an oligopoly.
The rest of the world has competition, and usually no data caps (except on mobile services usually, which sucks too).
Phil and Kaja Foglio made their own report of the Hugo Awards: http://www.girlgeniusonline.co...
They take good note of the award for Time, by the way.
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(and very solid evidence that HIV is innately becoming less virulent, another interesting story in and of itself)
Very interesting indeed.
Could you share this evidence, preferably in a form understandable by someone who knows a bit of biology but is not a medical student?
You don't know how to spin it, is all...
Robocop?
How is it a comic-based movie?
And yes, Tim Burton's Batmans are good movies, but they take Batman as an archetype to create a new piece of art, they're not really following any comic arc.
Actually, everybody or nearly everybody involved here played dirty.
BTW, anybody who's not an SWJ should be ashamed of that fact (and won't get into Christian paradise as the Christ was crucified for being a SWJ)... but I'm not sure that living-room SWJ* are not worst than those who do not even pretend to care.
(*) How do you translate "guerillero de salon"?
I don't understand your point...
Batman Begins was quite a good Batman movie if you can tolerate some incoherences, and Dark Knight is an extraordinary good movie even for non-geeks...
(and I have to confess that I loved the first two X-men movies due to the exceptionnal performance of Wolverine and good performances of many characters like Xavier and Mystique)
A travel ban would kill more people than Ebola ever would.
Panic will always kill more people than the disease. Think critically before you demand action. The cable news networks are reveling in the profit they are making off of your panic.
As much as I consider that the Liberian government is making a recipe for disaster by banning travels without trying to ensure that food and other vital supply still comes from abroad, your statement may not be true.
Ebola is beginning to be no more an epidemic disease but a disease of under-development (that's why it spreads in Texas...), which means it will probably kill millions as nobody in power cares about Africa's underdevelopment.
You are right to point the disastrous effects of travel bans in highly interconnected countries, but you should not underestimate Ebola's death toll.
The actual argument against travel bans (which was proposed to Senegal too, which by the way was quite efficient to stop its own Ebola outbreak) is that travel bans make people cheat and so are less efficient than traveler's security measures (external thermometers at each entry point like Senegal and Gambia and other african countries do).
AFAIK, only a very small minority of women became gamers through D&D.
Call of Cthulhu, though, attracted a lot of women to role-playing, mainly because the game was actually about role-playing (and solving mysteries) rather than trying to find who had the bigger sword.
What about the deputy sheriff in Texas? Who apparently didn't do anything more dangerous than entering an infected man's house without protective gear?
You may want to take into notice that the 7400 cases and 3000 deaths are those of people with identified ebola virus disease. No one actually knows how much people died (or recovered) in the wild and in the small villages...
Even Heretics of the Huge God, probably...
The problem in Haïti is not microfarming, it's microfarming done after the destruction of peasantry... (or to be more precise, destruction of the peasant's "système agraire")
Actually, even if we all here agree that they will not, they could do a good Tetris movie with more than 30 seconds of reference to the game - remember Pi, and Tetris is more about mathematics than it is about cheap electronic consoles...
http://tldrwikipedia.tumblr.co...
"Al-Maliki was so inexperienced he had to get weekly tutorial sessions from George W Bush Jr over video link "
Would you have a reference for that?
If true, that would invalidate Alan Moore's theory...
I'm not knowledgeable enough about the era or the facts to have a definitive opinion about the validity of his interpretation, but I do have to say that if the next-to-last victim was using the name of the last victim for her nickname (as Moore says), it is indeed a strong indication that the murders were not random.
There is footage of a pack of lionnesses taking down an adult elephant. Quite impressive actually...
"Roger Ebert loved movies" is actually his epitaph - so, bad analogy (it's Slashdot, stick with cars)...
Maybe the best part of the show is how it treats the behaviour of scientists in public conferences, with both absurdity and keen observation of actual behavior, however ludicrous be this behaviour.
Are you responsible for this part of the show?
By the way, is there a way to watch the show without the awful canned laughter which ruins the subtlest jokes?
I watched only the first season because I can't stand canned laughters, but some of the humor is very subtle.
That's why canned laughters are particularly awful in this show, only the most obvious jokes get in-tape laughter, and as humans are social creatures it makes a perturbing discrepancy between what one finds really funny and what the laughters tell him to find funny.
Actually, some are very clever and thus quite different from "Ow my balls":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4ZbIKmuvo (cited below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (works better if you know Girl Genius, a very good webcomic actually)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k3PJb4Cc7I
And of course this one: http://www.satirishpress.com/w...
Or make "get out of my lawn" scenarios where new players go in numbers against more skilled players (who will then be "Bosses" requiring cooperative efforts to take down)...
Nobody mentioned StarCraft?
I happened to watch one of her videos last week, and I do share the opinion of the first +5 poster: "her videos are, in places, poorly researched with many leaps of logic mixed with heavy opinions. But, they still contain very valid points and can be civilly debated."
Specifically, and though she clearly does make some points about the way most female NPC are limited to eye candy, her general attitude towards sandbox games reminded me heavily of the Dungeon&Dragons-bashing of the early 80's: "Can you imagine that? In this foul game players can invoke demons! What would be a better proof that it's a satanic plot to enroll our younglings in the Army of Darkness?" without, of course, ever explaining to the alarmed parents that a RPG allows player to do anything they can think of, and that if they don't have a particular interest in the evocation of demons there is no reason for them to do it (BTW at least in AD&D first edition I don' think there even is a rule about demonic invocations)...
In Sarkeesian's videos, it translates as "Female NPC have no agency": Well, they're NPCs - maybe she should figure what the word means. And yes, female NPC are often not treated in the same way than male NPC and when she explains that she has valid points - but it's maybe 10% of her discourse, 90% being "women are NPCs in video games, oh the humanity!".
She even goes as far as saying that no woman NPC is depicted having her own agenda and personality - hellooo, ever heard of Sarah Kerrigan? I'm still in love with her as are probably half of all male geeks ever born, and we have only seen her face!
Similarly, one of her points is that in Sandbox games the hero is allowed to kill female NPCs: does she even understand the concept of a sandbox game?
Or when RedDeadRedemption makes fun of the Pulp trope of rescuing a lady bound on the railway, she uses it as a proof of how vilely misogynistic the game world is, without even acknowledging the parodic intention.
Streaming games would kill any download limits you have on your ISP and pretty much all of them have some sort of limit in place.
Actually... no.
Data caps on wired internet mostly exists in "capitalist" america, where the market is so free that it doesn't mind belonging to an oligopoly.
The rest of the world has competition, and usually no data caps (except on mobile services usually, which sucks too).
Phil and Kaja Foglio made their own report of the Hugo Awards: http://www.girlgeniusonline.co...
They take good note of the award for Time, by the way.