While it may have been "matter of fact", it served no purpose in the story other than "hey! look! I'm a lesbian character!".
Can you cite specific examples? It just seems like if a gay character mentions that they have a same-sex love interest, it's somehow an overt "hey! look! I'm a lesbian character!" move.
The original Star Trek and earlier Dr Who pulled off the ability to normalize such things specifically because they didn't make a deal out of it.
The original Star Trek made a huge deal out of it constantly. They did entire episodes about racism, were constantly pushing the boundaries with things like the first on-screen interracial kiss, and often it just got silly like the "planet of the Nazis" episode or the space hippies.
I always thought that Torres was more interesting than Janeway. She was a nerd, an engineer, but also struggling with anger and prejudice. She managed to have a relationship and even become a mother while continuing to work for much of the time.
Seven was interesting too as she got a lot of development. But Torres is the underrated one.
Your memory is faulty. Captain Jack did make a big thing of being gay, especially in he spin off Torchwood, but in their main series as well. Davies, the show runner at the time, was terrible for it.
By comparison, Bill has been very subtle and matter of fact. If anything they avoided bringing it up by refraining from her having a love interest in any situations where it might be an issue, like the past (where her being black at a time when black people were property was something they couldn't avoid).
Heimdall well written? He is supposed to be the lookout. His one job is to see things coming, and he regularly fails to notice the giant threat literally looming over him.
The real reason is that British TV shows tend to be written by the show creators, a relatively small team. In the US the creators outline the plot and characters, but most of the episodes are written by others. Lots of others in fact, and different groups for each episode.
Time Lords changing gender when regenerating is canon, and not just The Master / Missy. And the Doctor's personality changes with every regeneration, as well as his age and apparent nationality (English / Scottish). Becoming female breaks nothing, it's certainly no bigger change than going from a very young English man to a mid 50s Scottish man.
The Doctor has never really been interested in his male gender anyway - he doesn't really form romantic attachments and seems positively afraid of sex. There isn't really anything about his personality that is particularly masculine so becoming female is unlikely to alter his basic motivations or philosophy, or even the way he interacts with his companions.
Much more likely to bring a big change is the departure of Moffat as show runner. But hay, the anti-SJWs have gotta complain about something, and no point waiting to see how it actually turns out before writing it off as trolling and predicting it's failure.
Judging by his they handled Bill, I can't see it being an issue. Davies did tend to make too much of those kinds of issues for them to seem natural, but Moffat is pretty good at it.
Criminal court is a lot harder for the victims. They will often be forced to testify or face almost certainly losing, and if they get on the stand the defence lawyer will of course try to destroy their reputation and make out that they were leading the attacker on etc. That lawyer will want to go through their sexual history, talk to ex-lovers, basically anything to make out they are promiscuous and were probably asking for it before changing their mind.
This is bad for both the accused and the alleged victim. The accused deserves their day in court, to face their accuser and to question them. Equally the alleged victim deserves justice.
... and right on cue, just to prove my point, we get an anti-intellectual -1 "overrated" mod. I can hear the poor moderator whining "waaah! stop posting things I disagree with!" now.
SJWs are just the latest imaginary enemy for people to blame. The subject of endless clickbait articles and ranting videos/radio shows. Everything would be great if it wasn't for the damn SJWs / immigrants / commies. Naturally, the bastards target your kids and try to convert them.
Universities and colleges have always been left leaning, as have the young in general, and always full of radicals.
Populism has always been right leaning, often pretty far right, and anti-intellectual. In fact anti-intellectualism is fundamental to populism, because anyone who really understands the problems will tell you that the solutions are more complex than the populist is claiming.
Threadripper has some other nice features. Loads of PCIe lanes, great if you want multiple NVMe SSDs or RAID cards etc.
For me one of the biggest is encrypted RAM. Ryzen has is too to some extent. RAM is encrypted in real-time with very minimal performance loss. VMs can also have their own private keys for RAM encryption to make them more secure (even the host OS can't spy on them).
Heâ(TM)s said to have consumed alcohol aggressively, danced inappropriately with female co-workers and draped his arm over a female employee inappropriately. At one point, the CEO is said to have entered a cabin and while dancing, chest-bumped a female employee repeatedly until she fell down, causing Kim to leave for another cabin.
and
One of Plaintiffâ(TM)s co-workers intervened and pulled Plaintiff away from Duggan. Duggan then left the room.
Sounds like there were witnesses. So I guess the next stage of denial is to upgrade from "bitch trying to get paid" to "conspiracy of men-hating bitches trying to get paid", right?
You mean you don't see a part where a group of pro-trans individuals are talking and then one in the threaded chain says "let's kill her instead"?
No. It's literally not there. A search of the page text shows that the only person who said that is the one posting the fake quote (the linked tweet). The screenshot they posted does not contain any suggestion to kill anyone either.
Green is such a nobody that she has millions of followers on social media
Er... She has 250k followers on Twitter, and many of them are probably following her on other platforms... So not quite the superstar you think she is.
Well that sure explains how literal nobodies like Wu and Quinn were all over the news right?
They were in the news because they were victims of gamergate. By the way, "literal nobodies" is part of gamergate's attempt to dehumanize them. Using that phrase, along with "literally who", reveals your true colours.
You can't judge BLM
Bringing them into it now... Is this some bizarre conspiracy theory where they are all part of some vast social justice oppression movement or something?
In Europe children have human rights, and those rights include things like the right to an education and the right to basic healthcare. Parents can't override those rights, they can't decide to not educate their children or deny them the same basic medical care that is available to all other children.
As such, children may have a right to vaccines. Different EU countries have interpreted that right in different ways... I think you can still opt your kids out in the UK, but you might end up in court trying to defend your decision and your parenting abilities if you do. France has decided that vaccines are safe and that there would need to be a good medical reason for a child not to have them, so like mandatory schooling the state has an interest in enforcing the child's rights.
... which is itself based on the observation that black people are more likely to carry illegal items.
That's a circular argument. We stop more black people so we find them carrying illegal items more often, which must mean they carry more often so we should stop them more often.
It's easy to provide AI with data. It's hard to make it understand the limitations and biases of that data. For example, the data shows more black people carrying illegal items, but mostly because the police stop and search them more frequently than white people.
I find it ironic that the people who complain the most about people taking offence and trying to censor over it then use their mod points to do the same to others.
My theory is that if they accuse you of doing something, it's probably because they thought of doing it to you first.
Actually, according to the report the problem is that the AI fails to correctly predict future actions, and fails in different ways for black and white subjects.
By "fault" I just mean it's a mistake in the way it was designed, not that there was deliberate negligence or something. We can't have a "there are no wrong answers" culture when these are the stakes.
These are more aimed at workstations than gaming. For workstations having more PCIe lanes (64, standard Ryzen has 24 and Intel's Skylake-X competition has 44) means plenty of bandwidth for multiple GPUs, RAID cards and NVMe SSDs. They have more cores than Intel's parts too, which while they have slightly lower single core performance and clock speeds will perform better overall in anything that can make use of them like video encoding, CAD/raytracing and simulations. Oh, and code compilation of course. Also handy if you have a lot of VMs.
AMD hardware tends to last longer than Intel too. By that I mean that it won't suck in 5 years time, not that Intel hardware is less reliable. 5 years down the road AMD will probably still be releasing CPUs for the socket, and supporting the old chipset reasonably well.
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While it may have been "matter of fact", it served no purpose in the story other than "hey! look! I'm a lesbian character!".
Can you cite specific examples? It just seems like if a gay character mentions that they have a same-sex love interest, it's somehow an overt "hey! look! I'm a lesbian character!" move.
The original Star Trek and earlier Dr Who pulled off the ability to normalize such things specifically because they didn't make a deal out of it.
The original Star Trek made a huge deal out of it constantly. They did entire episodes about racism, were constantly pushing the boundaries with things like the first on-screen interracial kiss, and often it just got silly like the "planet of the Nazis" episode or the space hippies.
I always thought that Torres was more interesting than Janeway. She was a nerd, an engineer, but also struggling with anger and prejudice. She managed to have a relationship and even become a mother while continuing to work for much of the time.
Seven was interesting too as she got a lot of development. But Torres is the underrated one.
Your memory is faulty. Captain Jack did make a big thing of being gay, especially in he spin off Torchwood, but in their main series as well. Davies, the show runner at the time, was terrible for it.
By comparison, Bill has been very subtle and matter of fact. If anything they avoided bringing it up by refraining from her having a love interest in any situations where it might be an issue, like the past (where her being black at a time when black people were property was something they couldn't avoid).
Heimdall well written? He is supposed to be the lookout. His one job is to see things coming, and he regularly fails to notice the giant threat literally looming over him.
The real reason is that British TV shows tend to be written by the show creators, a relatively small team. In the US the creators outline the plot and characters, but most of the episodes are written by others. Lots of others in fact, and different groups for each episode.
Time Lords changing gender when regenerating is canon, and not just The Master / Missy. And the Doctor's personality changes with every regeneration, as well as his age and apparent nationality (English / Scottish). Becoming female breaks nothing, it's certainly no bigger change than going from a very young English man to a mid 50s Scottish man.
The Doctor has never really been interested in his male gender anyway - he doesn't really form romantic attachments and seems positively afraid of sex. There isn't really anything about his personality that is particularly masculine so becoming female is unlikely to alter his basic motivations or philosophy, or even the way he interacts with his companions.
Much more likely to bring a big change is the departure of Moffat as show runner. But hay, the anti-SJWs have gotta complain about something, and no point waiting to see how it actually turns out before writing it off as trolling and predicting it's failure.
It would be worth doing just to watch the heads explode. All the right wing comment sections are going nuts.
Judging by his they handled Bill, I can't see it being an issue. Davies did tend to make too much of those kinds of issues for them to seem natural, but Moffat is pretty good at it.
Criminal court is a lot harder for the victims. They will often be forced to testify or face almost certainly losing, and if they get on the stand the defence lawyer will of course try to destroy their reputation and make out that they were leading the attacker on etc. That lawyer will want to go through their sexual history, talk to ex-lovers, basically anything to make out they are promiscuous and were probably asking for it before changing their mind.
This is bad for both the accused and the alleged victim. The accused deserves their day in court, to face their accuser and to question them. Equally the alleged victim deserves justice.
... and right on cue, just to prove my point, we get an anti-intellectual -1 "overrated" mod. I can hear the poor moderator whining "waaah! stop posting things I disagree with!" now.
SJWs are just the latest imaginary enemy for people to blame. The subject of endless clickbait articles and ranting videos/radio shows. Everything would be great if it wasn't for the damn SJWs / immigrants / commies. Naturally, the bastards target your kids and try to convert them.
Universities and colleges have always been left leaning, as have the young in general, and always full of radicals.
Populism has always been right leaning, often pretty far right, and anti-intellectual. In fact anti-intellectualism is fundamental to populism, because anyone who really understands the problems will tell you that the solutions are more complex than the populist is claiming.
They have a great business model. Commit fraud, and their customers are too embarrassed and have too much to lose to admit they were victims.
Threadripper has some other nice features. Loads of PCIe lanes, great if you want multiple NVMe SSDs or RAID cards etc.
For me one of the biggest is encrypted RAM. Ryzen has is too to some extent. RAM is encrypted in real-time with very minimal performance loss. VMs can also have their own private keys for RAM encryption to make them more secure (even the host OS can't spy on them).
Heâ(TM)s said to have consumed alcohol aggressively, danced inappropriately with female co-workers and draped his arm over a female employee inappropriately. At one point, the CEO is said to have entered a cabin and while dancing, chest-bumped a female employee repeatedly until she fell down, causing Kim to leave for another cabin.
and
One of Plaintiffâ(TM)s co-workers intervened and pulled Plaintiff away from Duggan. Duggan then left the room.
Sounds like there were witnesses. So I guess the next stage of denial is to upgrade from "bitch trying to get paid" to "conspiracy of men-hating bitches trying to get paid", right?
Slashdot is suffering from a lot of troll moderation these days. Something needs to change.
You mean you don't see a part where a group of pro-trans individuals are talking and then one in the threaded chain says "let's kill her instead"?
No. It's literally not there. A search of the page text shows that the only person who said that is the one posting the fake quote (the linked tweet). The screenshot they posted does not contain any suggestion to kill anyone either.
Green is such a nobody that she has millions of followers on social media
Er... She has 250k followers on Twitter, and many of them are probably following her on other platforms... So not quite the superstar you think she is.
Well that sure explains how literal nobodies like Wu and Quinn were all over the news right?
They were in the news because they were victims of gamergate. By the way, "literal nobodies" is part of gamergate's attempt to dehumanize them. Using that phrase, along with "literally who", reveals your true colours.
You can't judge BLM
Bringing them into it now... Is this some bizarre conspiracy theory where they are all part of some vast social justice oppression movement or something?
In Europe children have human rights, and those rights include things like the right to an education and the right to basic healthcare. Parents can't override those rights, they can't decide to not educate their children or deny them the same basic medical care that is available to all other children.
As such, children may have a right to vaccines. Different EU countries have interpreted that right in different ways... I think you can still opt your kids out in the UK, but you might end up in court trying to defend your decision and your parenting abilities if you do. France has decided that vaccines are safe and that there would need to be a good medical reason for a child not to have them, so like mandatory schooling the state has an interest in enforcing the child's rights.
... which is itself based on the observation that black people are more likely to carry illegal items.
That's a circular argument. We stop more black people so we find them carrying illegal items more often, which must mean they carry more often so we should stop them more often.
It's easy to provide AI with data. It's hard to make it understand the limitations and biases of that data. For example, the data shows more black people carrying illegal items, but mostly because the police stop and search them more frequently than white people.
In sentencing it should be entirely objective, nothing to do with population data because it's an evaluation of an individual.
I'm struggling to think of a really good example of where this "good racism" would actually be good.
I find it ironic that the people who complain the most about people taking offence and trying to censor over it then use their mod points to do the same to others.
My theory is that if they accuse you of doing something, it's probably because they thought of doing it to you first.
You actually believe SJWs are real.
Actually, according to the report the problem is that the AI fails to correctly predict future actions, and fails in different ways for black and white subjects.
By "fault" I just mean it's a mistake in the way it was designed, not that there was deliberate negligence or something. We can't have a "there are no wrong answers" culture when these are the stakes.
These are more aimed at workstations than gaming. For workstations having more PCIe lanes (64, standard Ryzen has 24 and Intel's Skylake-X competition has 44) means plenty of bandwidth for multiple GPUs, RAID cards and NVMe SSDs. They have more cores than Intel's parts too, which while they have slightly lower single core performance and clock speeds will perform better overall in anything that can make use of them like video encoding, CAD/raytracing and simulations. Oh, and code compilation of course. Also handy if you have a lot of VMs.
AMD hardware tends to last longer than Intel too. By that I mean that it won't suck in 5 years time, not that Intel hardware is less reliable. 5 years down the road AMD will probably still be releasing CPUs for the socket, and supporting the old chipset reasonably well.
I think you are confusing "equitable" and "equal". Several other posters seem to have made the same mistake.
Equitable means fair and impartial, not the same. Do you really object to fair and impartial sentencing?