Easy, superheroes are part of a subset of "guy culture" even if it is animated. Of course it helps that it was fairly good for an animated superhero show with the whole art deco & noir thing. Basically a modern "Batman in the style of Fleischer"
And after all, comic book superheroes became rather "dudebro-ish" during the "Dark Age" (DAMN YOU LIEFELD!)
Tell me that wasn't an blatant "manly manlyness of BLUD" sort of thing. The whole Dork Age of comics was all about macho posturing with characters with X's, K's and Z's in their names and everyone having DETH, BLUD, SLYCE, or KYLL in their names and everyone having cyborg limbs, swords AND guns. DAMN YOU LIEFELD!
The cool thing is I wrote a chore tracker which they need to fill out every day or they automagically lose internet access on all their devices (except access to the tracker).
I'm reminded of that Jira for kids parody video.
"We have to finish the dishes scrum"
"There, I've commited the last of the dishes to the drying rack"
"We should do some quality control to see if we got them clean enough"
Vel-ex-tech isn't male, why did you think she was....because she goes around talking about "hunnies" and how women should stay away from computers and how "cisfemales" meaning "straight non-transgendered quote unquote normal women" should be shunned and starved in the streets?
You aren't even aware of how much seething hatred there is in the feminist movement for trans women, do you? You don't care, either.
TERFs aren't a majority of feminists. A bunch of them date from the 70's separatist movement and aren't going to live forever. Not even taking into account the number of trans-feminists.
Your cisfemale hunnies demand it. You hate trans women.
What the hell are you talking about. and what is with that "cisfemale hunnies" phrase. Are you autistic spectrum?
I think men self constrain their interests based on "cultural expectations and bias"
Suppose we have a man who likes the Gilmore Girls, do you think he's going to mention that to his buddies? No, because he's afraid they'll call him "pussywhipped". Or say things like "are you turning into a girl on us bro, here, have another brewski" And a lot of that social censure against anything that isn't "knuckle dragging manly" is derived, to a certain extent, from misogyny and homophobia. Basically, and in "man speak"
"Fags are like women so anything that women like will make you a fag if men like it."
And another part of that social censure is artificially created by madison avenue to sell more beer, unhealthy food and oversized gas guzzling vehicles to men. Think about it, american media and advertisers go out of their way to imply that "high culture" like literature, theatre, opera, classical music, and ballet are for women and gay people.
When it wasn't that long ago that MEN took pride in supporting and attending such things. And in fact they're almost all created by MEN in the first place!
Printing and scanning in particular under Linux have progressed but are still not "Grandma easy" to set up.
In most cases, you don't actually set it up. The distro sets it up automatically for you when you plug the printer in. You don't have to "do" anything.
My Fair Lady is one of my favorite movie musicals, even if it's Marni Nixon doing the singing for the Blessed Audrey. I had a cast album of a stage production starring Julie Andrews alongside Rex Harrison and it is made of PURE AWESOME, but I lost it in a flood. Of course we'd have got Julie instead of Audrey in the film, if it weren't for Mary Poppins. Damn you Disney!
"Pygmalion" is one of my favorite plays as well. We did a vocal reading of it in high school english class. I got to pull out my Rex Harrison AND Wilfrid Hyde White impressions. (we switched off roles at either scene or act changes IIRC
IIRC some of us started to sing some of the songs (at the appropriate place in the play) but the teacher gave us a look and said something like "This isn't the musical" (We also watched the musical as part of our reading of the play over a couple of days)
For a long time, I've thought that the movie industry was scraping the bottom of the barrel. Endless sequels and unheard-of shite.
That could describe the movie industry ever since the beginning of the movie industry. You're looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Remember, the term "B Movie" was coined in the 1930's! And you're forgetting studios like AI pictures and Troma. There have always been crappy movies.
What enables us to look at the past with rose colored glasses is how much of the old stuff that doesn't get shown on TV or put on disc. There's a metric fuckton of B-Movie westerns that will never be on video, so all we see is the better quality ones.
Same goes for the gangster films of the 30's, or the Poverty Row "quickies" and the innumerable "short subjects"
The original Xbox Halo doesn't have server support. The first Halo only does same-screen or LAN, you're might be thinking of the PC version which used Gamespy.
Or you might be thinking of Halo 2, which did have online multiplayer shutdown in 2010 after 6 years of operation when Xbox Live was shutdown for the original Xbox.
Sony (and their licensees) tend to keep their servers up slightly longer in some, but not all cases. For example one could play 2002's PS2 game SOCOM online till August 13 of 2012. (SOCOM 2 and 3 have LAN support and can be tunneled with xlink kai)
The last PS2 game with online support was Final Fantasy XI, which had the PS2 support shut off in March of this year. The PC version is still supported though.
Microsoft then went on to charge monthly for XBL, when PC gamers were already getting multiplayer for free for everything but MMOs.
It may seem "free" to the players, but "someone" is paying. Whether it is the publisher or developer, who might shut down the servers if the game doesn't sell very well or when players go on to the "next big thing" Or whether it's some gamer with a well paying tech job who has the skill/money to host a quake server, but who might shut it down if he loses his job or if donations dry up...somebody pays for it.
XBL and PSN just make that more visible and get the actual users of the servers to chip in. I don't mind doing that, if it means game servers stay online for longer periods of time. And alongside the online pay one usually gets freebies and discounts, which adds to the value.
One interesting note. F2P games and subscription based MMOs don't require Playstation Plus.
Don't equate "Linux" with "Fedora" (or whatever distro you have in mind). That's like equating "cars" with "Ford Pintos".
Even with Fedora, installed proprietary drivers and codecs isn't that hard. You can even do it without using the terminal. (Not that I've actually done it that way since the terminal is somewhat faster)
Today's PC (barely a year old) for me noticeably lags during certain photo editing tasks. And don't even ask about significant video processing, I don't even try anymore unless I can let it run overnight.
Perhaps it's your software and OS and not your hardware?
You Eastern European Ayn Rand-ian expats see communism/collectivism everywhere, perhaps your upbringing warped you viewpoint and made you too selfish for your own good.
Go back to the Rodina if you want to live in unregulated crony capitalism...but then you'll have to put up with the Mafiya who run that pure capitalism.
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
We have this thing called Wall Street and the Fortune 500. THEY pretty much own the country and get Congress to write the laws THEY want. Which means, the US is a Plutocratic Oligarchy, not Socialist. Are IBM, Wal-Mart, Google, Exxon, or Bank of America, "social ownership"? Do "councils of workers" boss those company's CEO's around?
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Easy, superheroes are part of a subset of "guy culture" even if it is animated. Of course it helps that it was fairly good for an animated superhero show with the whole art deco & noir thing. Basically a modern "Batman in the style of Fleischer"
And after all, comic book superheroes became rather "dudebro-ish" during the "Dark Age" (DAMN YOU LIEFELD!)
http://assets.sbnation.com/ass...
Tell me that wasn't an blatant "manly manlyness of BLUD" sort of thing. The whole Dork Age of comics was all about macho posturing with characters with X's, K's and Z's in their names and everyone having DETH, BLUD, SLYCE, or KYLL in their names and everyone having cyborg limbs, swords AND guns. DAMN YOU LIEFELD!
But one would think that folks with Aspergers would learn that they should perhaps think twice...or more before making a literal response.
Must resist posting:
You're a COW! You APK Host File Engine using COWS MOO! YOU COWS!
I think it would go something like that.
The cool thing is I wrote a chore tracker which they need to fill out every day or they automagically lose internet access on all their devices (except access to the tracker).
I'm reminded of that Jira for kids parody video.
"We have to finish the dishes scrum"
"There, I've commited the last of the dishes to the drying rack"
"We should do some quality control to see if we got them clean enough"
"No time!"
These are all more reasons to completely shun cisfemales.
But it isn't "cisfemales" doing it...MEN are doing it to themselves! They're the ones enforcing "bro culture" on other men!
It wasn't "cisfemales" who picked on me for being "sensitive" or a "sissy" it was BOYS!
Just let cisfemales starve in the streets.
Really? Do you want to be perceived as a chauvinist "batshit internet tranny" with anger issues? Because that's how you're coming across.
Vel-ex-tech isn't male, why did you think she was....because she goes around talking about "hunnies" and how women should stay away from computers and how "cisfemales" meaning "straight non-transgendered quote unquote normal women" should be shunned and starved in the streets?
You know why trans* folks get so much "but they're mentally ill so don't listen to them about being trans8" backlash? Shit like this.
On a trans message board I frequent, people like vel-ex-tech are referred to as "batshit internet trannies"
Cut it out. I'm beginning to wish you'd have another runin with a TERF and one or both of you end up dead.
Nobody deserves to have to deal with TERFs
You aren't even aware of how much seething hatred there is in the feminist movement for trans women, do you? You don't care, either.
TERFs aren't a majority of feminists. A bunch of them date from the 70's separatist movement and aren't going to live forever. Not even taking into account the number of trans-feminists.
Your cisfemale hunnies demand it. You hate trans women.
What the hell are you talking about. and what is with that "cisfemale hunnies" phrase. Are you autistic spectrum?
I think men self constrain their interests based on "cultural expectations and bias"
Suppose we have a man who likes the Gilmore Girls, do you think he's going to mention that to his buddies? No, because he's afraid they'll call him "pussywhipped". Or say things like "are you turning into a girl on us bro, here, have another brewski" And a lot of that social censure against anything that isn't "knuckle dragging manly" is derived, to a certain extent, from misogyny and homophobia. Basically, and in "man speak"
"Fags are like women so anything that women like will make you a fag if men like it."
And another part of that social censure is artificially created by madison avenue to sell more beer, unhealthy food and oversized gas guzzling vehicles to men. Think about it, american media and advertisers go out of their way to imply that "high culture" like literature, theatre, opera, classical music, and ballet are for women and gay people.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
When it wasn't that long ago that MEN took pride in supporting and attending such things. And in fact they're almost all created by MEN in the first place!
If he's just a limp-wristed cuckold mangina it just won't have the same effect.
For a MTF transperson, you're really quite the misogynist. Maybe misogyny is not the right word...perhaps chauvinist is better.
Either way, the way you talk about women sometimes reminds me of some male chauvinists.
Printing and scanning in particular under Linux have progressed but are still not "Grandma easy" to set up.
In most cases, you don't actually set it up. The distro sets it up automatically for you when you plug the printer in. You don't have to "do" anything.
"What do you tike me for, a fool?"
My Fair Lady is one of my favorite movie musicals, even if it's Marni Nixon doing the singing for the Blessed Audrey. I had a cast album of a stage production starring Julie Andrews alongside Rex Harrison and it is made of PURE AWESOME, but I lost it in a flood. Of course we'd have got Julie instead of Audrey in the film, if it weren't for Mary Poppins. Damn you Disney!
"Pygmalion" is one of my favorite plays as well. We did a vocal reading of it in high school english class. I got to pull out my Rex Harrison AND Wilfrid Hyde White impressions. (we switched off roles at either scene or act changes IIRC
IIRC some of us started to sing some of the songs (at the appropriate place in the play) but the teacher gave us a look and said something like "This isn't the musical" (We also watched the musical as part of our reading of the play over a couple of days)
You should be able to pull a "clean" version from your distro repos. That's how it works with Fedora.
"Hear a yorkshireman or worse hear a cornishman converse I'd rather hear a choir singing flat."
For a long time, I've thought that the movie industry was scraping the bottom of the barrel. Endless sequels and unheard-of shite.
That could describe the movie industry ever since the beginning of the movie industry. You're looking at the past with rose colored glasses. Remember, the term "B Movie" was coined in the 1930's! And you're forgetting studios like AI pictures and Troma. There have always been crappy movies.
What enables us to look at the past with rose colored glasses is how much of the old stuff that doesn't get shown on TV or put on disc. There's a metric fuckton of B-Movie westerns that will never be on video, so all we see is the better quality ones.
Same goes for the gangster films of the 30's, or the Poverty Row "quickies" and the innumerable "short subjects"
There are even Z movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The original Xbox Halo doesn't have server support. The first Halo only does same-screen or LAN, you're might be thinking of the PC version which used Gamespy.
Or you might be thinking of Halo 2, which did have online multiplayer shutdown in 2010 after 6 years of operation when Xbox Live was shutdown for the original Xbox.
Sony (and their licensees) tend to keep their servers up slightly longer in some, but not all cases. For example one could play 2002's PS2 game SOCOM online till August 13 of 2012. (SOCOM 2 and 3 have LAN support and can be tunneled with xlink kai)
The last PS2 game with online support was Final Fantasy XI, which had the PS2 support shut off in March of this year. The PC version is still supported though.
Microsoft then went on to charge monthly for XBL, when PC gamers were already getting multiplayer for free for everything but MMOs.
It may seem "free" to the players, but "someone" is paying. Whether it is the publisher or developer, who might shut down the servers if the game doesn't sell very well or when players go on to the "next big thing" Or whether it's some gamer with a well paying tech job who has the skill/money to host a quake server, but who might shut it down if he loses his job or if donations dry up...somebody pays for it.
XBL and PSN just make that more visible and get the actual users of the servers to chip in. I don't mind doing that, if it means game servers stay online for longer periods of time. And alongside the online pay one usually gets freebies and discounts, which adds to the value.
One interesting note. F2P games and subscription based MMOs don't require Playstation Plus.
Well tell us first where there is an OS where steam is with all the most recent games without exception. Even steamsOS at the moment is not there.
FreeBSD, admittedly it's not Steam, but you can buy the boxes at your local enormo-mart. They look like this:
https://www.playstation.com/en...
It is one way of playing "some" of the "most recent games" without Windows.
Well there ARE distros that ship with propietary drivers and whatnot. But even if they don't installing them isn't that hard.
[code] /etc/redhat-release
[CronoCloud ~]$ cat
Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three)
[CronoCloud ~]$ nvidia-settings -v
nvidia-settings: version 358.16 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-12)
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You can install the Nvidia driver without using the command line
Don't equate "Linux" with "Fedora" (or whatever distro you have in mind). That's like equating "cars" with "Ford Pintos".
Even with Fedora, installed proprietary drivers and codecs isn't that hard. You can even do it without using the terminal. (Not that I've actually done it that way since the terminal is somewhat faster)
This includes video decoding hardware that is not compatible with anything and not good for anything.
What? The NVidia 7xxx series has VP1 and does support some hardware acceleration of VC-1 and h264 (as well as MPEG1 and 2)
Now if that old machine has a PCI-E slot, he could put in a GT220 or something.
What can be done is to play video in an external player : smtube player or a firefox extension that opens/enqueue in VLC.
That can help a little bit, but not much with that old CPU.
Ah, I see why I wasn't seeing ads, Wifi was off. (I don't have a data plan on the phone).
Today's PC (barely a year old) for me noticeably lags during certain photo editing tasks. And don't even ask about significant video processing, I don't even try anymore unless I can let it run overnight.
Perhaps it's your software and OS and not your hardware?
You Eastern European Ayn Rand-ian expats see communism/collectivism everywhere, perhaps your upbringing warped you viewpoint and made you too selfish for your own good.
Go back to the Rodina if you want to live in unregulated crony capitalism...but then you'll have to put up with the Mafiya who run that pure capitalism.
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
We have this thing called Wall Street and the Fortune 500. THEY pretty much own the country and get Congress to write the laws THEY want. Which means, the US is a Plutocratic Oligarchy, not Socialist. Are IBM, Wal-Mart, Google, Exxon, or Bank of America, "social ownership"? Do "councils of workers" boss those company's CEO's around?