Not only were they missing a bunch of their better writers, but they were trying to do feature length movies, which Futurama just isn't well-suited for. It was almost as bad as the Aqua Teen Hungerforce movie (great in 15 minutes chunks, torture for a full 90 minutes).
I'm trying very hard to imagine something more annoying than twitter and it's making my head hurt. I can only picture a guy actually following me around all day, tapping me on the shoulder and saying "Hey, hey, hey--pay attention to me!" 24-hours-a-day.
It was a peculiar form of narcissism that ever led people to think anyone gave a crap about their day-to-day lives in the first place. These are the same people who think I need to be updated every few seconds with a tweet detailing every single piece of inconsequential minutia from their lives.
If it's any consolation, the exact opposite is happening with the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. The Xbox *made* KOTOR, with consoles sales at double what the PC sales were. And how do they repay us? By making the new "The Old Republic" PC-only. Thanks Bioware.
I was a philosophy minor and even I find these arguments to be silly. Most of the upper-level philosophical arguments I've seen against "bias" were usually written by scholars who just didn't realize their OWN bias. There is no such thing as an "unbiased" argument or perspective--even in hard science (much less something as "soft" as politics). In history, we used to call the pursuit of objectivity "the noble dream" (after Peter Novick's excellent critique That Noble Dream).
As for the "one way hash" argument: while it's certainly true that laymen can be duped by impressive credentials (pretty much anyone can be duped under the right circumstances, layman or not), the whole argument reeks of a peculiar variety of arrogant elitism (really more a kind of paternalism) which has plagued academia in general and philosophy in particular for a very long time. In the field of philosophy, this whole argument reminds me of one of the great masters himself, Plato. Plato argued in the Republic (through Socrates) that only philosophers were suited to be rulers. This was, of course, a very convenient argument for Plato and his fellow academy members. And it was also evidence that his own arrogance had clouded his vision of his OWN biases (though he could still clearly enunciate in great detail the biases of the tyrant, democrat, oligarch, and monarch).
When he almost laments that "a democracy can't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics," Sanchez seems to critique democracy in the same way that Plato does. But anyone who has ever been a part of an academic department can damn well tell you that the politics among scholars is every bit as silly and immature as the politics of the rest of the world (perhaps more so). Sanchez's hidden assumption that cloistered academics would naturally make the better leaders or judges in arguments is as ultimately deluded as Plato's contention that only philosophers are suited to be kings.
It's more of a symbolic act than anything. wikipedia knows they can get around it. But by openly calling them out, it makes an important public statement about the kind of thuggery that this group engages in. Too many members of the general public don't know just how far these people have gone in the past to silence dissenters and critics.
Actually, it's more like $40, but the point is taken. Netflix should be open to silver members, not just gold. Still, I gladly pay the $40 each year for Live. Live is still by far the best and most consistent online service out there for gaming (for the console anyway). PSN and Nintendo Online, by contrast, are all over the map.
Just when we had solved the "getting first run of some great new BBC show years before everyone else" problem with good old Pirate Bay, now we have a new reason to be jealous of the Brits.
You guys had better be careful. You keep getting stuff like this and people will begin to resent you as much as the Americans.
The last time I went into my local comic book store, the clerk actually had to break away from a dungeons and dragons game they were playing in a side room to help me. I kid you not.
Calling something a "stereotype" only means it's not ALWAYS true. That's not to say it's not true 90% of the time.
"Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise," still one of the funniest lines in that movie--in light of the fact that we spend the rest of the movie observing that stormtroopers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if they were right in front of it. Either someone forgot to tell Alec Guinness that that line was meant to be delivered sarcastically, or it was a major stupid oversight in the script itself. I suspect the latter.
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Not only were they missing a bunch of their better writers, but they were trying to do feature length movies, which Futurama just isn't well-suited for. It was almost as bad as the Aqua Teen Hungerforce movie (great in 15 minutes chunks, torture for a full 90 minutes).
I'm trying very hard to imagine something more annoying than twitter and it's making my head hurt. I can only picture a guy actually following me around all day, tapping me on the shoulder and saying "Hey, hey, hey--pay attention to me!" 24-hours-a-day.
It was a peculiar form of narcissism that ever led people to think anyone gave a crap about their day-to-day lives in the first place. These are the same people who think I need to be updated every few seconds with a tweet detailing every single piece of inconsequential minutia from their lives.
Not to worry, our California governor has extensive experience dealing with political problems on Mars.
I'm confident that they'll investigate it every bit as thoroughly as the Bush Admin's DoJ investigated the Republican Party's power.
The new girl was Sandra Bullock in a pre-Speed role. Still not as hot as the original model, though.
Damn. All that digging for nothing.
If they're anything like the art major girls I went to school with, you might want to get deloused afterward.
Fortunately, I was already digging up Jaime Sommers' corpse for other uses.
Not just anyone can make an elephant that easily.
It's a carriage house!
"packed with zombies that want to party"
Just like Hollywood.
If it's any consolation, the exact opposite is happening with the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. The Xbox *made* KOTOR, with consoles sales at double what the PC sales were. And how do they repay us? By making the new "The Old Republic" PC-only. Thanks Bioware.
If you don't mind the risk of your computer exploding, you could try it under Wine.
Reminds me of an answer I overheard at a local game store a while back.
Customer: "I have the latest system running the latest processor and the latest videocard. How much memory do you recommend I add for Crysis?"
Clerk: "How ever much you got."
Only if you brought it back from the distant future.
I was a philosophy minor and even I find these arguments to be silly. Most of the upper-level philosophical arguments I've seen against "bias" were usually written by scholars who just didn't realize their OWN bias. There is no such thing as an "unbiased" argument or perspective--even in hard science (much less something as "soft" as politics). In history, we used to call the pursuit of objectivity "the noble dream" (after Peter Novick's excellent critique That Noble Dream).
As for the "one way hash" argument: while it's certainly true that laymen can be duped by impressive credentials (pretty much anyone can be duped under the right circumstances, layman or not), the whole argument reeks of a peculiar variety of arrogant elitism (really more a kind of paternalism) which has plagued academia in general and philosophy in particular for a very long time. In the field of philosophy, this whole argument reminds me of one of the great masters himself, Plato. Plato argued in the Republic (through Socrates) that only philosophers were suited to be rulers. This was, of course, a very convenient argument for Plato and his fellow academy members. And it was also evidence that his own arrogance had clouded his vision of his OWN biases (though he could still clearly enunciate in great detail the biases of the tyrant, democrat, oligarch, and monarch).
When he almost laments that "a democracy can't make ethics and political philosophy the exclusive province of cloistered academics," Sanchez seems to critique democracy in the same way that Plato does. But anyone who has ever been a part of an academic department can damn well tell you that the politics among scholars is every bit as silly and immature as the politics of the rest of the world (perhaps more so). Sanchez's hidden assumption that cloistered academics would naturally make the better leaders or judges in arguments is as ultimately deluded as Plato's contention that only philosophers are suited to be kings.
She's busy on her new series "Mavis Beacon Teaches Unemployment."
It's more of a symbolic act than anything. wikipedia knows they can get around it. But by openly calling them out, it makes an important public statement about the kind of thuggery that this group engages in. Too many members of the general public don't know just how far these people have gone in the past to silence dissenters and critics.
Actually, it's more like $40, but the point is taken. Netflix should be open to silver members, not just gold. Still, I gladly pay the $40 each year for Live. Live is still by far the best and most consistent online service out there for gaming (for the console anyway). PSN and Nintendo Online, by contrast, are all over the map.
Just when we had solved the "getting first run of some great new BBC show years before everyone else" problem with good old Pirate Bay, now we have a new reason to be jealous of the Brits.
You guys had better be careful. You keep getting stuff like this and people will begin to resent you as much as the Americans.
They have heroin carriers.
The last time I went into my local comic book store, the clerk actually had to break away from a dungeons and dragons game they were playing in a side room to help me. I kid you not.
Calling something a "stereotype" only means it's not ALWAYS true. That's not to say it's not true 90% of the time.
Maybe they should sentence him to imaginary time.
"Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise," still one of the funniest lines in that movie--in light of the fact that we spend the rest of the movie observing that stormtroopers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if they were right in front of it. Either someone forgot to tell Alec Guinness that that line was meant to be delivered sarcastically, or it was a major stupid oversight in the script itself. I suspect the latter.