Of recent superhero stuff, the ones I liked best (in no real order) were:
Incredibles (if animated stuff counts) Iron Man Wonder Woman Spider Men (various) Hellboy X-Men future past Original Bat Man movie and Dark Knight
It could well be, the reason I don't put Wonder Woman at the top is that I have seen so many superhero movies at this point...
The reason is because it has an actual theme that ties the scenes together.
I think some of the other ones manage that (Spider Men movies better than most). But it is rare and most of them come off as showcases of fancy scenes.
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living?
That might be what she was doing for this article, but why continue after - when I'm saying saying it's better not to read, I am mostly responding to her expressed concern that it would affect what she chose to write going forward. If that's a concern, stop reading the content that might affect you in that way.
Just like some people won't drink coffee at night, if you know something affects you in a negative way, don't consume it - mentally or physically.
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint
That's where you need to learn to distinguish between complaint and ingenuous complaint. With most online hate as I said, it's very clear within the first few words what kind of complaint you are facing. You can't "fix" someone's obviously fully-baked opinion, or something made up, so why make an effort to do so?
I also in general enjoy the Marvel stuff more, I think the relationships between the characters are more interesting, or possibly have a bit more depth? Or as much depth as they can have in a. superhero movie anyway.
I did like Wonder Woman, but why not as much as some other Marvel movies, I really can't quite say...
I totally agree with you about both Captain America: Civil War and BvS. I had the same issue.
One thing I will say about the value of all the DC movies if they have accidentally led to the greatest spin-off of all time, the Batman/Superman cafe stuff that How It Should Have Ended puts puts out. I honestly probably have derived more enjoyment from that series of video than all of the Marvel and DC video content put together.
It's almost at the point to where I judge the value of something more on spin-offs generated than on the base material. The Star Wars prequels and newer movies for example while being quite terrible, led to a resurgence of Star Wars related video content by fans who thought (rightfully) they could do better... either humor or new original content. So much stuff would not exist without a terrible base to found it upon, you pretty much have to thank the person who produced that base even if you dislike it...
he recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity.
Online threats are the very opposite of "masculine". Raging hormones in men say "let's take it outside then", not "let's step into my basement with the wall full of Hentai statues and DVD rips".
Online threats are the very domain of beings that are neither masculine or feminine; indeed they have chosen to strip themselves even even the most basic levels of humanity or physical attributes.
.. why a threat to kill someone, anyone, would not be a violation of their terms of service.
Sure, it's against terms of service.
But the problem is how do you find that balance of, letting as many people as possible provide feedback and thus feel more engaged - vs. locking down the system so much no-one wants to contribute, and they feel unwelcome.
If you really want to control things via "terms of service" you need to have a system locked down enough you can actually manage to control it. But then you are shutting out a lot of people who would just casually comment.
It does seem to me like a good modern compromise would be for comments on something to be wide open, but be auto-filtered by an AI to recognize spam and/or extremely derogatory or hate filled content. Semantic understanding has gained a lot of ground to where you could probably have an effective neutral network police comments that would mostly work, or work well enough for manual moderation to pick up any remaining slack.
One aspect of such a system I've been thinking about for a while is, you could probably start by looking for users who block/mark comments with 100% accuracy. Going forward you should probably trust their markings automatically rather than waiting for a moderator to examine what they marked, and you could base training for filters on what they mark. Sure that has potential for abuse, but if you do not let them know they have that automatic power it probably would not be abused or someone veering into abuse could be quickly recognized and be removed from an automatically trusted list.
Given how well Aquaman did financially, I can almost assure you we will see that. They will leave no corner of the Marvel universe undisturbed, it will just take time to turn over every rock.
No - I'm saying it's in her ability to not feel bad about it. Big distinction, which I'm sure will elude you but I think the smarter among us will grok it.
(2) She should be thankful for the attention.
The term "thankful" is incorrect. However as long as anyone is able to shrug off negative comments, in fact there is a net positive - especially for someone writing for publication, what the "corporate machine" as it were sees is a LOT of comments on something you wrote. Score!
See what a lot of people don't seem to understand here is that the saddest thing on the internet is to write something, which no-one pays any attention to. Hate or Love are signs that you have moved someone, which is valuable either way - because you have changed the universe in same way, at least a little bit.
(3) Her level of fame is undeserved.
I'm not sure how you get there from where I was, her level of fame simply IS. How anyone could state a particular level of fame is "undeserved" makes zero sense to me, as it is what they have and "deserved" does not enter in the equation.
Going back to specifics, I think her review was probably about right (not having seen the movie yet it's hard to be sure, but it sounds right from what I've heard).
Generically, I'm just giving everyone advice on how to live, so as to lead a happy and productive life that elevates humanity as a whole instead of being lowered by a small fragment of it. Going back to that Love/Hate thing, both are energy and all energy can provide fuel for your own creative efforts. Nuclear material is powerfully destructive, but energy from a nuclear plant can power a million greenhouses of the finest flowers...
I'm not particularly tied to any brand of superhero - I've watched most of the Avengers stuff, and a lot of the DC stuff.
I've not yet watched Aquaman but from the previews, and from some reviews I've seen it seems like Aquaman at least took things a bit less seriously - so maybe Aquaman is a bit more like the Spiderman movies in that regard?
So I could easily see between that and some large showpiece effect pieces how it could gross a billion. Or maybe it's because underwater fights in movies are much more rare and so this is visually "fresh" compared to standard superhero space/ground combat.
"I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
So then, why are you reading it?
It's usually apparent in the first few words what is going on. Just stop reading and move on. It's not even worth the effort of writing up a rebuttal, unless maybe you use the effort for a writing exercise or just for the lols.
But if you do read it, just remember that death threats on the internet are absurdly hollow. No-one wants to actually get up from a chair and do anything about anything (in that regard, possibly people with standing desks should be taken slightly more seriously - they will definitely let you know if they have a standing desk).
If you have more of your public info known maybe take steps to give the local police a heads-up about possible swatting attempts, but that's as far as you need to think about it.
The internet has seen people issuing all manner of death threats or creepy vibes since the dawn of time. Taking any of it even a tiny bit seriously makes zero sense. Just think of them as a write-only form of fan and happily keep doing what you do. There a special irony these days in people that hate follow you, in that they are inherently increasing your internet "attention metric" which makes you numerically more important than you would be otherwise!
I've heard so many stories similar to your that at this point there's no way I would put original content on YouTube.
Have you thought about putting the same content on Vimeo? I know it's not as popular but the way people are being screwed over at YouTube, eventually there's going to be a shift somewhere and that seems the next most likely platform people would go to.
There's just too much Star Wars crap being put out.
That's what I think as well. I think a Star Wars movie of some kind about every two years is about right... much more than that and you start burning people out.
I also liked Solo quite a bit and thought it was a shame that it seemed to be the movie that made them pull back so heavily, when really Last Jedi should have been the movie to cause them to re-think things...
I still look forward to the third movie though just for closure. But I'm glad it's not coming this year.
You should see Solo as I think it will un-burn you in that a lot of it is just fun.
Given than half the current members of Congress would happily give any communist anything they wanted, seems like rather a waste of good hacking talent to try and come in through the front door.
Why does Facebook have anyone's credit card on file in the first place?
If you read the first part of the article (ahem), it says:
The child, referred to as âoeI.B.â in the case, did not know the social media giant had stored his momâ(TM)s payment information. As he continued to play the game, Ninja Saga, Facebook continued to charge his momâ(TM)s credit card, racking up several hundred dollars in just a few weeks.
But unlike iOS or Android, where often kids overcharging without parents knowing about it and they get refunded, Facebook was apparently a lot less lenient about refunds.
But I seem to remember not liking the design much. Didn't the edges cut into your hands when open? And I seem to remember something about the side buttons being maddening...
Maybe this rebirth will address physical issues from the past model.
Sad for them my hobby is wandering into jungles and planting cheap electronic devices that randomly play sounds of motorized vehicles and/or chainsaws.
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Of recent superhero stuff, the ones I liked best (in no real order) were:
Incredibles (if animated stuff counts)
Iron Man
Wonder Woman
Spider Men (various)
Hellboy
X-Men future past
Original Bat Man movie and Dark Knight
It could well be, the reason I don't put Wonder Woman at the top is that I have seen so many superhero movies at this point...
The reason is because it has an actual theme that ties the scenes together.
I think some of the other ones manage that (Spider Men movies better than most). But it is rare and most of them come off as showcases of fancy scenes.
and sifting through crap you and I would find abhorrent for the sake of reporting and chronicling things is what she does for a living?
That might be what she was doing for this article, but why continue after - when I'm saying saying it's better not to read, I am mostly responding to her expressed concern that it would affect what she chose to write going forward. If that's a concern, stop reading the content that might affect you in that way.
Just like some people won't drink coffee at night, if you know something affects you in a negative way, don't consume it - mentally or physically.
If you're going to try and fix somebody's complaint
That's where you need to learn to distinguish between complaint and ingenuous complaint. With most online hate as I said, it's very clear within the first few words what kind of complaint you are facing. You can't "fix" someone's obviously fully-baked opinion, or something made up, so why make an effort to do so?
I also in general enjoy the Marvel stuff more, I think the relationships between the characters are more interesting, or possibly have a bit more depth? Or as much depth as they can have in a. superhero movie anyway.
I did like Wonder Woman, but why not as much as some other Marvel movies, I really can't quite say...
I totally agree with you about both Captain America: Civil War and BvS. I had the same issue.
One thing I will say about the value of all the DC movies if they have accidentally led to the greatest spin-off of all time, the Batman/Superman cafe stuff that How It Should Have Ended puts puts out. I honestly probably have derived more enjoyment from that series of video than all of the Marvel and DC video content put together.
It's almost at the point to where I judge the value of something more on spin-offs generated than on the base material. The Star Wars prequels and newer movies for example while being quite terrible, led to a resurgence of Star Wars related video content by fans who thought (rightfully) they could do better... either humor or new original content. So much stuff would not exist without a terrible base to found it upon, you pretty much have to thank the person who produced that base even if you dislike it...
he recent Gillette commercial where the company said men should tone down their toxic masculinity.
Online threats are the very opposite of "masculine". Raging hormones in men say "let's take it outside then", not "let's step into my basement with the wall full of Hentai statues and DVD rips".
Online threats are the very domain of beings that are neither masculine or feminine; indeed they have chosen to strip themselves even even the most basic levels of humanity or physical attributes.
.. why a threat to kill someone, anyone, would not be a violation of their terms of service.
Sure, it's against terms of service.
But the problem is how do you find that balance of, letting as many people as possible provide feedback and thus feel more engaged - vs. locking down the system so much no-one wants to contribute, and they feel unwelcome.
If you really want to control things via "terms of service" you need to have a system locked down enough you can actually manage to control it. But then you are shutting out a lot of people who would just casually comment.
It does seem to me like a good modern compromise would be for comments on something to be wide open, but be auto-filtered by an AI to recognize spam and/or extremely derogatory or hate filled content. Semantic understanding has gained a lot of ground to where you could probably have an effective neutral network police comments that would mostly work, or work well enough for manual moderation to pick up any remaining slack.
One aspect of such a system I've been thinking about for a while is, you could probably start by looking for users who block/mark comments with 100% accuracy. Going forward you should probably trust their markings automatically rather than waiting for a moderator to examine what they marked, and you could base training for filters on what they mark. Sure that has potential for abuse, but if you do not let them know they have that automatic power it probably would not be abused or someone veering into abuse could be quickly recognized and be removed from an automatically trusted list.
Sub-Mariner
Given how well Aquaman did financially, I can almost assure you we will see that. They will leave no corner of the Marvel universe undisturbed, it will just take time to turn over every rock.
I'm sure the guys who are making internet death threats aren't deterred by getting up from a chair. It's the long climb up the stairs
Yes, that is directly related to the computer security concept of...
Defense in Depth
(1) It's her fault for feeling bad.>
No - I'm saying it's in her ability to not feel bad about it. Big distinction, which I'm sure will elude you but I think the smarter among us will grok it.
(2) She should be thankful for the attention.
The term "thankful" is incorrect. However as long as anyone is able to shrug off negative comments, in fact there is a net positive - especially for someone writing for publication, what the "corporate machine" as it were sees is a LOT of comments on something you wrote. Score!
See what a lot of people don't seem to understand here is that the saddest thing on the internet is to write something, which no-one pays any attention to. Hate or Love are signs that you have moved someone, which is valuable either way - because you have changed the universe in same way, at least a little bit.
(3) Her level of fame is undeserved.
I'm not sure how you get there from where I was, her level of fame simply IS. How anyone could state a particular level of fame is "undeserved" makes zero sense to me, as it is what they have and "deserved" does not enter in the equation.
Going back to specifics, I think her review was probably about right (not having seen the movie yet it's hard to be sure, but it sounds right from what I've heard).
Generically, I'm just giving everyone advice on how to live, so as to lead a happy and productive life that elevates humanity as a whole instead of being lowered by a small fragment of it. Going back to that Love/Hate thing, both are energy and all energy can provide fuel for your own creative efforts. Nuclear material is powerfully destructive, but energy from a nuclear plant can power a million greenhouses of the finest flowers...
I'm not particularly tied to any brand of superhero - I've watched most of the Avengers stuff, and a lot of the DC stuff.
I've not yet watched Aquaman but from the previews, and from some reviews I've seen it seems like Aquaman at least took things a bit less seriously - so maybe Aquaman is a bit more like the Spiderman movies in that regard?
So I could easily see between that and some large showpiece effect pieces how it could gross a billion. Or maybe it's because underwater fights in movies are much more rare and so this is visually "fresh" compared to standard superhero space/ground combat.
No joke, supposedly named after a fungus.
And you know the answer is right, since it comes from Stack Overflow!
Which on the other hand references Reddit, so... hmm.
"I worry that reading volumes of hate mail is starting to get in my head and cause me to consider the potential angry male ramifications while I'm writing my reviews, thereby compromising my integrity."
So then, why are you reading it?
It's usually apparent in the first few words what is going on. Just stop reading and move on. It's not even worth the effort of writing up a rebuttal, unless maybe you use the effort for a writing exercise or just for the lols.
But if you do read it, just remember that death threats on the internet are absurdly hollow. No-one wants to actually get up from a chair and do anything about anything (in that regard, possibly people with standing desks should be taken slightly more seriously - they will definitely let you know if they have a standing desk).
If you have more of your public info known maybe take steps to give the local police a heads-up about possible swatting attempts, but that's as far as you need to think about it.
The internet has seen people issuing all manner of death threats or creepy vibes since the dawn of time. Taking any of it even a tiny bit seriously makes zero sense. Just think of them as a write-only form of fan and happily keep doing what you do. There a special irony these days in people that hate follow you, in that they are inherently increasing your internet "attention metric" which makes you numerically more important than you would be otherwise!
I've heard so many stories similar to your that at this point there's no way I would put original content on YouTube.
Have you thought about putting the same content on Vimeo? I know it's not as popular but the way people are being screwed over at YouTube, eventually there's going to be a shift somewhere and that seems the next most likely platform people would go to.
There's just too much Star Wars crap being put out.
That's what I think as well. I think a Star Wars movie of some kind about every two years is about right... much more than that and you start burning people out.
I also liked Solo quite a bit and thought it was a shame that it seemed to be the movie that made them pull back so heavily, when really Last Jedi should have been the movie to cause them to re-think things...
I still look forward to the third movie though just for closure. But I'm glad it's not coming this year.
You should see Solo as I think it will un-burn you in that a lot of it is just fun.
I think, therefore I am; I doubt, therefore I feel.
I'd sue my parents for giving me a name that won't render properly on Slashdot.
I just figured he was related to Prince.
Given than half the current members of Congress would happily give any communist anything they wanted, seems like rather a waste of good hacking talent to try and come in through the front door.
An interring thing to look at, would be to say - now that it has accelerated, where will it be pointed at when it leaves our solar system?
Also if we see further erratic acceleration as it moves outward, that would seem to indicate it was not related to solar activity on the comet.
Why does Facebook have anyone's credit card on file in the first place?
If you read the first part of the article (ahem), it says:
The child, referred to as âoeI.B.â in the case, did not know the social media giant had stored his momâ(TM)s payment information. As he continued to play the game, Ninja Saga, Facebook continued to charge his momâ(TM)s credit card, racking up several hundred dollars in just a few weeks.
But unlike iOS or Android, where often kids overcharging without parents knowing about it and they get refunded, Facebook was apparently a lot less lenient about refunds.
So all we have to do is get all the kiddie fiddlers to buy $500 plates.
So the next obvious step is to mandate all sex offenders registering in the state, must in fact buy these plates... who would vote against that?
Then from there you do felons, then from there anyone who gets arrested for any reason, then from there everyone.
You can see it coming...
Like everyone, I had one at the time.
Like everyone, I thought they looked cool.
But I seem to remember not liking the design much. Didn't the edges cut into your hands when open? And I seem to remember something about the side buttons being maddening...
Maybe this rebirth will address physical issues from the past model.
It'd be better to go around playing sounds of animals that could be there but probably have gone extinct.
I have found just the website to complete that mission!
Sad for them my hobby is wandering into jungles and planting cheap electronic devices that randomly play sounds of motorized vehicles and/or chainsaws.
A whole bunch of whiners here seem to be worried about this - not one post on super awesome positive human mutations that may occur.
Live it up a little and stop worrying so much!
This is just the kind of thing I would think especially the trans-human community would be super into.
considering they just released the third generation of their thermostat product within the last month.
Just 'cause the limbs a-twitchin, don't mean it ain't dead friend.
I wouldn't mind using such an app if I liked the ads I saw from it.
Or if the ads were useful, like the app hunted down coupons related to stores I searched for and took a cut.
This ad overlay on Google Maps doesn't come anywhere close to me as being as bad as things Google themselves do all the time.