I didn't do the modding. But this line of commentary is TIRED. There are radical feminists out there. Their POVs are marginalized and do more damage to the real feminist cause than good. We all know about environmental terrorists and jihad-crazy murderers, it takes more imagination to come up with a moderate solution than a radical one. So why do so many people feel the need to bring up the radical fringe any time 'real' issues are even casually discussed. In short, you didn't actually bring anything to the discussion. Sorry, but the fringe is 'out there' for a reason, and they don't nullify feminism's best ideals.... and you're not witty or interesting for guffawing about it.
I wasn't insinuating that you're uneducated. Yes, you deserved the condescension. You put out an obtuse opinion and used obnoxious language to get attention. I'm not being 'sensitive' because I challenged your opinion. It seemed to me that 'horrible' was unreasonable by any measure, and that you were just being contrary for its own sake. Which very well may be true. I always find that a contrarian's first defense is to belittle the debate.
I never found the prose to be clunky. Verbose, but maybe you had problems with some of vocabulary that others didn't (read: big words, ha, cheap shot). He's an "illustrative" writer. If you prefer a more minimalist style, fine. This wasn't written that way. You wouldn't confuse P.K.Dicks' idiom with that of Perdido. Why would you? The story just isn't told that way. It fits the scene.
China wrote a big bold story and was very specific about what images he wanted you to see. This isn't the kind of sci-fi that makes you fill in the holes your self (like Gibson). It wants you to see it his way. As with the scenery it was the same with the characters. But then, you were too busy trying to relate with the characters to let him tell their story. Had a hard time? I found it refreshing. I don't read sci-fi for the archetypes. Those get boring. Try to picture myself loving a bug-headed woman? Alright, there's a challenge I'll take.
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Horrible? Even if you didn't like it I think that's far too strong of language. Sounds more like it overwhelmed your imagination and you found yourself incapable of enjoying the story being told. There's this word see, "zeitgeist" roughly it refers to something that's the made of the best of everything popular or of quality. Perdido is such a book. And please, it's a damn fantasy novel. The characters will find themselves in "fantastic" situations, having "fantastic" adventures. Noone read LOTR for it's "realistic" character developement. Meiville wrote an amazing adventure in a far more illustrative way than anything I've read.
The majority of political talk radio shows are on AM. There are very few FM talk radio shows that aren't also on AM. That's why people refer to AM radio as conservative radio. There are plenty of conservative media outlets out there. There's a very simple rul of thumb about this rediculously conflated issue. If you ever feel compelled to consider the bias of the media please follow The Money. Most all major media organizations are owned by conservatives. Most of them are publicly controlled companies. How many industries do you know go out of their way to confound their employers? Many press outlets are known for doing so, but not nearly as many as you think. BTW, news and media, like people, do not easily fall into your convenient liberal/conservative buckets. Most people have very complex feelings about most issues. Just like people, the media often tries to portray issues as a series of "grays". I find that the people most willing to become irrationally angry about "liberal media" are the ones that don't really understand the industry and would prefer a world perfectly in-line with their own world view. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way.
Because Kill Bill didn't suck. It entertained on every level. The only people I know who didn't love that film were people who were not into cinema in general. It was the best of several genres of film that havn't been seen in decades. If you didn't enjoy it, you didn't know what you were supposed to enjoy: a witty director and his stylish film. It was at least as good as Pulp Fiction... or are you too easily entertained?
I own a new zen 30gig. It's not cheap or nasty. It's inexpensive, and a generally better deal than the IPOD for my money. It has at least as many features as the ipod, and, if macintosh does the smart thing, it may someday support itunes. the software it comes with isn't the best, but http://www.redchairsoftware.com has your hookup there. I don't think it's particularly homely, though I prefer the iPod's design. I do think the Zen has a sexy metal look to it.
Stop touching yourself in public. If tolkein knew you were being so slavishly devoted to the text instead of enjoying the film for what it is, he'd get a restraining order out against you.
Apparently you didn't see the same film the rest of us did. The battles were exciting with more than substantial plot development. All themes were addressed with due recourse, except maybe for Farahmir's temptations (which only disappoints purists who are in luuuuv with Faramir OMG! and want to have his children XOXOXOXO). The battles were set pieces, they didn't overwhelm the film at all. Anyway, how could the ents be anything BUT very interesting?
You could not be more correct. There are so many easily entertained people in this world. Responses to parent are evidence enough. Reloaded was a horrible film by any measurements. It was dull, overlong, full of insipid dialog and pot-addled ramblings. The fight scenes were inexplicable dull and useless. I'll never see Revolutions and deny the sequals ever existed. It's nonetheless entertaining to watch the easily amused masses fill in the massive plotholes with their own imaginations. I think that's both cool, and insipid. Once the koolaide buzz wears off they're probably going to be very embarassed.
Conkers is SO bad. Slow, unfunny, horrible graphics, terrible mechanics. It's incessant pop-culture references will date the game faster than pong. It failed as a 3d platform game. Rare's never put out anything very interesting frankly.
Yeeeeah. It was too hard. boo hoo. It was still an amazing title with tremendous wit. I'd always give Pratchett mad props for laughs, but Sam&Max was a real gem.
Nice rhetoric. "Is it art or not" debates are tiresome. More tiresome are the legions of the easily offended, blithering endlessly about all the bad art that threatens their fragile sensibilities. So what if it's tacky, grotesque, shallow or useless. If that's the worst anyone can say about it, then Jesus H. Christ in a bottle of piss, that's better background noise than having to hear another pathetic pedantic paladin of good taste. Don't fucking go on about bad art. It skull fucks us every goddamn time we turn on the tv, walk through a mall, look at a crying-eagle bumper sticker. And that's just the shit that's supposed to be innocuous. This project could be (and prolly is) a godawful waste of human time, but you could have just rolled your eyes and filed it away under "shite, damned shite". Instead you had to go and piss me off and dredge up old conceits. It's like a slippery slope for the limbless strapped to a sled. Bad art flatulates in our direction, and another art critic is borne.
The game's backgrounds are nice, but it has the ugliest, most uninteresting character designs I've seen. The spandex clad, power ranger meets masked wrestler aesthetic is the child of 2 already ugly parents. If you're going to source on some kitchy fun Japanese imagery, the movies and media that inspired power rangers is better than it's progeny.
There's a VG music inpired band called Minikon out there you must check out. Also there's a SF group called The Advantage (as in Nintendo's controller) and they've warped some NES classic songs into very decent surf-guitar jams. Finally of course there's Super Madrigal Bros.. these three are probably the best VG bands out there now. Please check out these groups.
OR, if you want to read a good book that's funny, read any of the Terry Pratchett books. They all turn fantasy conventions on their heads. That and they're not nearly as offensive (RAPERAPERAPE) and lowbrow as Peter David's boring drek.
He hardly changed the subject. Either way you didn't have to bite. His comment was vaguely related, since complaints about the liberties taken by pop-culture media usually come from hyper-sensitive religious types, who push a type of Political Correctness so obtuse even their counterparts on the left are aghast. In a God-less world we still have morals, and TV is anything but the downfall of American morality. It's tacky sure, loud, crass, but easily ignored.
Well, of the responses to my questions, yours was the most reasonable. I'm quite familiar with the topic at hand and love a dose of gallows humor when it's actually funny. Though like all good humor it's context is human suffering (it's true) a good joke still has a hook. There's a laugh in there somewhere, but I don't really think you nailed it. Really in the end you're left with a not-funny joke in bad taste. I'm sure a few/.ers out there got real yuks, but they're amongst the 'easily amused'. So, I'm the first to comment. You surely think me a hypersensitive PC drone like that other replier did, but the opposite is true. I'm really interested in why you thought your lame joke was funny enough to make you look both like an embarassing cheeseball to some and like an insensitive asshole to others.
I'v read the article several times before thanks. I wasn't knee jerking, and I'f you closely read my response you'd see that I wasn't passing judgement. I was asking why he had it, what his point was, and placing the question in context of the issue at large. You're the one who's knee jerking. Help me out here, I asked a reasonable question... how does that make me a loser? You ass.
Why do you think that sig of your is funny/interesting? What's your agenda here? Do you have to be reminded that Aids is a deadly disease crippling sub-saharan nations? I've seen your sig several times, and I can't fathom what your point is.
Which itself is another red herring. It itself is a symptom of greater problems, not the problem itself. There's a real crisis of the individual going on that leads to ruined homes. THAT needs to be addressed long before people wed/breed/etc.
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I didn't do the modding. But this line of commentary is TIRED. There are radical feminists out there. Their POVs are marginalized and do more damage to the real feminist cause than good. We all know about environmental terrorists and jihad-crazy murderers, it takes more imagination to come up with a moderate solution than a radical one. So why do so many people feel the need to bring up the radical fringe any time 'real' issues are even casually discussed. In short, you didn't actually bring anything to the discussion. Sorry, but the fringe is 'out there' for a reason, and they don't nullify feminism's best ideals.... and you're not witty or interesting for guffawing about it.
And... this is a problem because you don't like the way women look?
I wasn't insinuating that you're uneducated. Yes, you deserved the condescension. You put out an obtuse opinion and used obnoxious language to get attention. I'm not being 'sensitive' because I challenged your opinion. It seemed to me that 'horrible' was unreasonable by any measure, and that you were just being contrary for its own sake. Which very well may be true. I always find that a contrarian's first defense is to belittle the debate.
I never found the prose to be clunky. Verbose, but maybe you had problems with some of vocabulary that others didn't (read: big words, ha, cheap shot). He's an "illustrative" writer. If you prefer a more minimalist style, fine. This wasn't written that way. You wouldn't confuse P.K.Dicks' idiom with that of Perdido. Why would you? The story just isn't told that way. It fits the scene.
China wrote a big bold story and was very specific about what images he wanted you to see. This isn't the kind of sci-fi that makes you fill in the holes your self (like Gibson). It wants you to see it his way. As with the scenery it was the same with the characters. But then, you were too busy trying to relate with the characters to let him tell their story. Had a hard time? I found it refreshing. I don't read sci-fi for the archetypes. Those get boring. Try to picture myself loving a bug-headed woman? Alright, there's a challenge I'll take.
Horrible? Even if you didn't like it I think that's far too strong of language. Sounds more like it overwhelmed your imagination and you found yourself incapable of enjoying the story being told. There's this word see, "zeitgeist" roughly it refers to something that's the made of the best of everything popular or of quality. Perdido is such a book. And please, it's a damn fantasy novel. The characters will find themselves in "fantastic" situations, having "fantastic" adventures. Noone read LOTR for it's "realistic" character developement. Meiville wrote an amazing adventure in a far more illustrative way than anything I've read.
The majority of political talk radio shows are on AM. There are very few FM talk radio shows that aren't also on AM. That's why people refer to AM radio as conservative radio. There are plenty of conservative media outlets out there. There's a very simple rul of thumb about this rediculously conflated issue. If you ever feel compelled to consider the bias of the media please follow The Money. Most all major media organizations are owned by conservatives. Most of them are publicly controlled companies. How many industries do you know go out of their way to confound their employers? Many press outlets are known for doing so, but not nearly as many as you think. BTW, news and media, like people, do not easily fall into your convenient liberal/conservative buckets. Most people have very complex feelings about most issues. Just like people, the media often tries to portray issues as a series of "grays". I find that the people most willing to become irrationally angry about "liberal media" are the ones that don't really understand the industry and would prefer a world perfectly in-line with their own world view. Sorry, it just doesn't work that way.
Because Kill Bill didn't suck. It entertained on every level. The only people I know who didn't love that film were people who were not into cinema in general. It was the best of several genres of film that havn't been seen in decades. If you didn't enjoy it, you didn't know what you were supposed to enjoy: a witty director and his stylish film. It was at least as good as Pulp Fiction... or are you too easily entertained?
I own a new zen 30gig. It's not cheap or nasty. It's inexpensive, and a generally better deal than the IPOD for my money. It has at least as many features as the ipod, and, if macintosh does the smart thing, it may someday support itunes. the software it comes with isn't the best, but http://www.redchairsoftware.com has your hookup there. I don't think it's particularly homely, though I prefer the iPod's design. I do think the Zen has a sexy metal look to it.
Stop touching yourself in public. If tolkein knew you were being so slavishly devoted to the text instead of enjoying the film for what it is, he'd get a restraining order out against you.
Apparently you didn't see the same film the rest of us did. The battles were exciting with more than substantial plot development. All themes were addressed with due recourse, except maybe for Farahmir's temptations (which only disappoints purists who are in luuuuv with Faramir OMG! and want to have his children XOXOXOXO). The battles were set pieces, they didn't overwhelm the film at all. Anyway, how could the ents be anything BUT very interesting?
That's great. I for one would like to have my ticket money back from Reloaded as well. That's $9.75 I'd rather blown up my nose than have suffered.
You could not be more correct. There are so many easily entertained people in this world. Responses to parent are evidence enough. Reloaded was a horrible film by any measurements. It was dull, overlong, full of insipid dialog and pot-addled ramblings. The fight scenes were inexplicable dull and useless. I'll never see Revolutions and deny the sequals ever existed. It's nonetheless entertaining to watch the easily amused masses fill in the massive plotholes with their own imaginations. I think that's both cool, and insipid. Once the koolaide buzz wears off they're probably going to be very embarassed.
Conkers is SO bad. Slow, unfunny, horrible graphics, terrible mechanics. It's incessant pop-culture references will date the game faster than pong. It failed as a 3d platform game. Rare's never put out anything very interesting frankly.
Yeeeeah. It was too hard. boo hoo. It was still an amazing title with tremendous wit. I'd always give Pratchett mad props for laughs, but Sam&Max was a real gem.
Nice rhetoric. "Is it art or not" debates are tiresome. More tiresome are the legions of the easily offended, blithering endlessly about all the bad art that threatens their fragile sensibilities. So what if it's tacky, grotesque, shallow or useless. If that's the worst anyone can say about it, then Jesus H. Christ in a bottle of piss, that's better background noise than having to hear another pathetic pedantic paladin of good taste. Don't fucking go on about bad art. It skull fucks us every goddamn time we turn on the tv, walk through a mall, look at a crying-eagle bumper sticker. And that's just the shit that's supposed to be innocuous. This project could be (and prolly is) a godawful waste of human time, but you could have just rolled your eyes and filed it away under "shite, damned shite". Instead you had to go and piss me off and dredge up old conceits. It's like a slippery slope for the limbless strapped to a sled. Bad art flatulates in our direction, and another art critic is borne.
The game's backgrounds are nice, but it has the ugliest, most uninteresting character designs I've seen. The spandex clad, power ranger meets masked wrestler aesthetic is the child of 2 already ugly parents. If you're going to source on some kitchy fun Japanese imagery, the movies and media that inspired power rangers is better than it's progeny.
I rather like the board game based on the movie. Light RPG elements and high replayability.
I guess you think you're interesting. Challenging the PC establishment. You're look like a jack ass.
There's a VG music inpired band called Minikon out there you must check out. Also there's a SF group called The Advantage (as in Nintendo's controller) and they've warped some NES classic songs into very decent surf-guitar jams. Finally of course there's Super Madrigal Bros.. these three are probably the best VG bands out there now. Please check out these groups.
OR, if you want to read a good book that's funny, read any of the Terry Pratchett books. They all turn fantasy conventions on their heads. That and they're not nearly as offensive (RAPERAPERAPE) and lowbrow as Peter David's boring drek.
He hardly changed the subject. Either way you didn't have to bite. His comment was vaguely related, since complaints about the liberties taken by pop-culture media usually come from hyper-sensitive religious types, who push a type of Political Correctness so obtuse even their counterparts on the left are aghast. In a God-less world we still have morals, and TV is anything but the downfall of American morality. It's tacky sure, loud, crass, but easily ignored.
Well, of the responses to my questions, yours was the most reasonable. I'm quite familiar with the topic at hand and love a dose of gallows humor when it's actually funny. Though like all good humor it's context is human suffering (it's true) a good joke still has a hook. There's a laugh in there somewhere, but I don't really think you nailed it. Really in the end you're left with a not-funny joke in bad taste. I'm sure a few /.ers out there got real yuks, but they're amongst the 'easily amused'. So, I'm the first to comment. You surely think me a hypersensitive PC drone like that other replier did, but the opposite is true. I'm really interested in why you thought your lame joke was funny enough to make you look both like an embarassing cheeseball to some and like an insensitive asshole to others.
In short: HAHA..er..
I'v read the article several times before thanks. I wasn't knee jerking, and I'f you closely read my response you'd see that I wasn't passing judgement. I was asking why he had it, what his point was, and placing the question in context of the issue at large. You're the one who's knee jerking. Help me out here, I asked a reasonable question... how does that make me a loser? You ass.
Why do you think that sig of your is funny/interesting? What's your agenda here? Do you have to be reminded that Aids is a deadly disease crippling sub-saharan nations? I've seen your sig several times, and I can't fathom what your point is.
This poster isn't actually saying anything. He's certainly not bringing anything to the conversation that wasn't there before.
"The destruction of the household."
Which itself is another red herring. It itself is a symptom of greater problems, not the problem itself. There's a real crisis of the individual going on that leads to ruined homes. THAT needs to be addressed long before people wed/breed/etc.