*blink* but D&D novels were in libraries in 80s. I know my high school library and local public libraries carried them, alongside Eddings, Prachett, and so on. Maybe in the 50s it was the case, but high fantasy novels were rather prevalent from early 80s onwards (at least that I saw).
You are entirely right on D&D lifting from Tolkein (and other places)...their halflings were just (legally forced/threatened) renames of hobbits IIRC. And there are definitely people who love remakes...just ask the market for "Sports Game! {current year}". Or "This interpretation of classical pierce by so-and-so, as preformed by this-orchestra". To each their own.
A lot of people seem to. His haters cannot seem to keep themselves from immediately going ad hominem on every tweet, and echoing to each other how great their tweets are. If his account is removed, where will they find something with which to pass the time?
Not to mention, people are filing suit over being blocked. So yes, some people seem to care. Too much so.
"Though these early travels expanded the realm of European exploration, to many they also marked a time that forever changed the world for the indigenous peoples of North America. Previously unseen disease, devastation, and violence were introduced to their lives ".
Apparently the Yanomami (to use just one) were pacifists, it's all on Columbus now.
The difference is has anyone ever pretended the old europeans were anything but warmongers? Knights, vikings, centurions, hoplites, Crusades II+, etc. The blood spilt is acknowledge and in arts 'celebrated'.
Contrast this with the bullshittery of the 'noble defenceless tribes, that came with open arms and were betrayed, for they had no concepts of lying, violence, or theft'. You can make an HBO series of Viking Butchery, but try and make an accurate series about pre-whiteman Americas and see if there isn't some outrage. Amusingly, I only hear the denials from white people, the 'natives' I know eyeroll at it.*
Caveat: not saying the Canadian government hasn't fucked them over in the past - they have, harshly. I'm saying it wasn't the land of hippies certain people try to pretend they were.
Everyone knows the natives are native. That's why they call them Native! This is just trying to paint them as immigrants like everyone else in North America.
Not being able to go to the gym is immaterial. There are plenty of ways to exercise from your own apartment/home, without the need equipment or weights. Some without leaving your chair. It doesn't even require that much time either.
Actual health issues though are certainly valid excuses. As could also be an inability to obtain affordable, healthier foods. Seems though that a large (pun unintended) vocal section of the 'body positivity' group are indifferent to actual attempts to be in shape, and rather just change society to favour them. Cries of 'Obese doesn't mean unhealthy' and spewing vitriol at anything not as massive as they are ('She isn't plus sized, she's only 170 lbs!') certainly don't help their position.
Entirely my point. While Disney has a large vault, a lot of the older content wouldn't be PC enough. Black centaurs serving white centaurs in Fantasia. Jim Crow, the 'blackvoice' inner-city crows in Dumbo, etc. Old Disney was rather 'eurocentric stereotypes of other cultures'....can you just imagine if they aired Cannibal Capers during kiddie hours?
What about majority of say, northern asia and upper (haha, okay, all of) canada? Pretty sure the Shield is above sea level, being the remains of mountains. That said, no clue on the soil quality.
Wait, you're telling me Universal didn't read all 400 pages of the EULA before clicking 'okay' when using the font? It was clearly explained on P231.23.7. Doesn't matter, P435.1.2 explicitly surrendered their right to contest the matter.
Sure it is. It entirely depends which branch/type of ethics you subscribe to. 'But that is unethical' is really a meaningless decry, it just means it isn't by THEIR set of ethics. People confuse it as clear-cut when it is just a field of philosophical debate.
It's like that in Ontario..at least the speeding tickets and demerits. The demerits go to increasing your car insurance though. Registration last I checked was merely an optional 'in case it is stolen' thing with the police.
Spin that. You also need every classic villain to be female too. I'm still waiting for the outcry to make blockbuster-budget movies with Ada Hitler (and I don't mean those fetish porno, I mean a 'serious' WW2 reimage with the Reich lead by women).
I don't know about preexisting as in 'before youtube went up', as that is aeons ago. There are however agreements of some nature: c.f. https://youtube-creators.googl...
I *think* initially Youtube did the DMCA dodge of 'if you report it we take it down, until then we didn't know, we didn't do bad, we'll pull THAT upload'. Around the time google acquired it(?) they switched to the automated detecting and either 'royalties or yanked' method. Some groups don't offer the choice - video is taken down regardless. I know with japanese music groups there are lists of the ones that permit uploads and take the revenue from; while others seek to have your account banned if you try, no mercy. So does seem there are agreements with the artists...but that might be the RIAA's issue: maybe they aren't getting their 'fair share' for doing nothing.
One thing I love about soundcloud is the waveform 'position bar' with tagged comments. When a band hosts XFDs there, you can easily, visually skim the album and check the samples for each song in the mix. You can quickly can determine if you want to buy the album or not that way. I find it a lot more convenient than some mp3 or youtube version.
On the other hand, searching for stuff on the site I find a horrid experience.
Not even remotely. When a kid pees in the pool, I'm not wanting it cleaned because I fear it will become a hot tub. I just don't want to swim in pee.
Spoiler: where I am, the air quality is rather good. Still want HK to have blue skies and Batou Steel to stop making apocalyptic landscapes. I just don't ascribe to the Cult of Big Oil (nono, atmosphere is infinite, we can add whatever to it and makes NO difference) or the Cult of the Hockey Stick (If i scream it's settled even louder, it makes it more true!).... or Paris's "Only in My Backyard" unfairness (or 'trading carbon credits' for that matter).
I on the other hand don't believe in AGW alarmism...but will happily support green alternatives to polluting factories and power generation. I vividly recall driving into Hamilton back in the 80s and seeing the yellowed haze enveloping the city.
Environmentalists would probably get more supporters were they to focus on smog and tailing ponds and such, than polar bears and half-degrees that extinguish all life.
Over 35 by many years here, and have created my own content and watched it 'borrowed' by others. Something something flattery.
The only bullshit is what you're spewing. Most famous art in galleries, most famous musical composers and their compositions, the works of Shakespear and others...existed without the benefit of those copyright laws. Street performers, buskers, coffee shop poetry nights and the like. Which is probably how Hollywood managed to even get its feet off the ground, having a wealth of others ideas to 'borrow' upon. Between that and 'cultural appropriation', you'll have a keystone of our entertainment.
Sites like fanfiction.net, deviant.art, pixiv prove people will create without direct cash incentative. Things like Bandcamp, M3 and Comiket prove people can profit without needs to have armies of lawyers and giant corporation backing in the 'digital age'. Things like Patreon show that the 'original ways' artists can be supported still work. All that copyright seems to show (with regards to art) is that people want Formula Movie Part 27, and games with extending copyrights on stuff that should long since fallen back into the Public Domain they were taken from in the first place.
Because they are hypocrites that only read headlines and internet tabloids? (Not that he wasn't a sensationalist either that was loose with opinion).
But a gay jew man that has an extreme preference for black partners, talking about his childhood situation... is hardly a 'homophobic racist promoting pedophilia' like he's portrayed - but that's okay because he's 'Literally a Nazi'. Meanwhile a certain lesbian 'heroine of the year' is lauded, though in her book she talks about grooming and effectively raping her sister, and supported blissfully unironically by those that have on record said the exact thing Milo is being damned by them.
Cognitive Dissonance should be the word of the year.
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Aside: there are some of us who type pure random shit into google just because we know they love to overanalyse everything to try and figure out the user. Between that, random searches on (mis)heard song lyrics, movie quotes, crap from news and so forth? Not sure the validity of any data you could mine based on searches.
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*blink* but D&D novels were in libraries in 80s. I know my high school library and local public libraries carried them, alongside Eddings, Prachett, and so on. Maybe in the 50s it was the case, but high fantasy novels were rather prevalent from early 80s onwards (at least that I saw).
You are entirely right on D&D lifting from Tolkein (and other places)...their halflings were just (legally forced/threatened) renames of hobbits IIRC. And there are definitely people who love remakes...just ask the market for "Sports Game! {current year}". Or "This interpretation of classical pierce by so-and-so, as preformed by this-orchestra". To each their own.
A lot of people seem to. His haters cannot seem to keep themselves from immediately going ad hominem on every tweet, and echoing to each other how great their tweets are. If his account is removed, where will they find something with which to pass the time?
Not to mention, people are filing suit over being blocked. So yes, some people seem to care. Too much so.
Meanwhile I had a DOA video card I returned and had had replaced, all within 4 days. Zero problems. YMMV
"Though these early travels expanded the realm of European exploration, to many they also marked a time that forever changed the world for the indigenous peoples of North America. Previously unseen disease, devastation, and violence were introduced to their lives ".
Apparently the Yanomami (to use just one) were pacifists, it's all on Columbus now.
The difference is has anyone ever pretended the old europeans were anything but warmongers? Knights, vikings, centurions, hoplites, Crusades II+, etc. The blood spilt is acknowledge and in arts 'celebrated'.
Contrast this with the bullshittery of the 'noble defenceless tribes, that came with open arms and were betrayed, for they had no concepts of lying, violence, or theft'. You can make an HBO series of Viking Butchery, but try and make an accurate series about pre-whiteman Americas and see if there isn't some outrage. Amusingly, I only hear the denials from white people, the 'natives' I know eyeroll at it.*
Caveat: not saying the Canadian government hasn't fucked them over in the past - they have, harshly. I'm saying it wasn't the land of hippies certain people try to pretend they were.
Everyone knows the natives are native. That's why they call them Native! This is just trying to paint them as immigrants like everyone else in North America.
Not being able to go to the gym is immaterial. There are plenty of ways to exercise from your own apartment/home, without the need equipment or weights. Some without leaving your chair. It doesn't even require that much time either.
Actual health issues though are certainly valid excuses. As could also be an inability to obtain affordable, healthier foods. Seems though that a large (pun unintended) vocal section of the 'body positivity' group are indifferent to actual attempts to be in shape, and rather just change society to favour them. Cries of 'Obese doesn't mean unhealthy' and spewing vitriol at anything not as massive as they are ('She isn't plus sized, she's only 170 lbs!') certainly don't help their position.
Entirely my point. While Disney has a large vault, a lot of the older content wouldn't be PC enough. Black centaurs serving white centaurs in Fantasia. Jim Crow, the 'blackvoice' inner-city crows in Dumbo, etc. Old Disney was rather 'eurocentric stereotypes of other cultures'....can you just imagine if they aired Cannibal Capers during kiddie hours?
Well Zip-a-dee-doo-dah-day.
What about majority of say, northern asia and upper (haha, okay, all of) canada? Pretty sure the Shield is above sea level, being the remains of mountains. That said, no clue on the soil quality.
I don't know...maybe they plan on making their money back on repair/maintenance? Full refits per run could be rather lucrative.
Wait, you're telling me Universal didn't read all 400 pages of the EULA before clicking 'okay' when using the font? It was clearly explained on P231.23.7. Doesn't matter, P435.1.2 explicitly surrendered their right to contest the matter.
Same group that has cellphones and hot drinks as (maybe) carcinogens?
Sure it is. It entirely depends which branch/type of ethics you subscribe to. 'But that is unethical' is really a meaningless decry, it just means it isn't by THEIR set of ethics. People confuse it as clear-cut when it is just a field of philosophical debate.
It's like that in Ontario..at least the speeding tickets and demerits. The demerits go to increasing your car insurance though. Registration last I checked was merely an optional 'in case it is stolen' thing with the police.
Spin that. You also need every classic villain to be female too. I'm still waiting for the outcry to make blockbuster-budget movies with Ada Hitler (and I don't mean those fetish porno, I mean a 'serious' WW2 reimage with the Reich lead by women).
I don't know about preexisting as in 'before youtube went up', as that is aeons ago. There are however agreements of some nature: c.f. https://youtube-creators.googl...
I *think* initially Youtube did the DMCA dodge of 'if you report it we take it down, until then we didn't know, we didn't do bad, we'll pull THAT upload'. Around the time google acquired it(?) they switched to the automated detecting and either 'royalties or yanked' method. Some groups don't offer the choice - video is taken down regardless. I know with japanese music groups there are lists of the ones that permit uploads and take the revenue from; while others seek to have your account banned if you try, no mercy. So does seem there are agreements with the artists...but that might be the RIAA's issue: maybe they aren't getting their 'fair share' for doing nothing.
The same people who think they'll be setting up a colony on mars in the next few years and are competing to go. That'd be my guess.
That would be too bad.
One thing I love about soundcloud is the waveform 'position bar' with tagged comments. When a band hosts XFDs there, you can easily, visually skim the album and check the samples for each song in the mix. You can quickly can determine if you want to buy the album or not that way. I find it a lot more convenient than some mp3 or youtube version.
On the other hand, searching for stuff on the site I find a horrid experience.
It's the first time the BBC has had four minutes of honesty in years?
Not even remotely. When a kid pees in the pool, I'm not wanting it cleaned because I fear it will become a hot tub. I just don't want to swim in pee.
Spoiler: where I am, the air quality is rather good. Still want HK to have blue skies and Batou Steel to stop making apocalyptic landscapes. I just don't ascribe to the Cult of Big Oil (nono, atmosphere is infinite, we can add whatever to it and makes NO difference) or the Cult of the Hockey Stick (If i scream it's settled even louder, it makes it more true!).... or Paris's "Only in My Backyard" unfairness (or 'trading carbon credits' for that matter).
I on the other hand don't believe in AGW alarmism...but will happily support green alternatives to polluting factories and power generation. I vividly recall driving into Hamilton back in the 80s and seeing the yellowed haze enveloping the city.
Environmentalists would probably get more supporters were they to focus on smog and tailing ponds and such, than polar bears and half-degrees that extinguish all life.
Over 35 by many years here, and have created my own content and watched it 'borrowed' by others. Something something flattery.
The only bullshit is what you're spewing. Most famous art in galleries, most famous musical composers and their compositions, the works of Shakespear and others...existed without the benefit of those copyright laws. Street performers, buskers, coffee shop poetry nights and the like. Which is probably how Hollywood managed to even get its feet off the ground, having a wealth of others ideas to 'borrow' upon. Between that and 'cultural appropriation', you'll have a keystone of our entertainment.
Sites like fanfiction.net, deviant.art, pixiv prove people will create without direct cash incentative. Things like Bandcamp, M3 and Comiket prove people can profit without needs to have armies of lawyers and giant corporation backing in the 'digital age'. Things like Patreon show that the 'original ways' artists can be supported still work. All that copyright seems to show (with regards to art) is that people want Formula Movie Part 27, and games with extending copyrights on stuff that should long since fallen back into the Public Domain they were taken from in the first place.
But protesting the protesting of a hunt you lack a dog in is a good use of your time?
Because they are hypocrites that only read headlines and internet tabloids? (Not that he wasn't a sensationalist either that was loose with opinion).
But a gay jew man that has an extreme preference for black partners, talking about his childhood situation... is hardly a 'homophobic racist promoting pedophilia' like he's portrayed - but that's okay because he's 'Literally a Nazi'. Meanwhile a certain lesbian 'heroine of the year' is lauded, though in her book she talks about grooming and effectively raping her sister, and supported blissfully unironically by those that have on record said the exact thing Milo is being damned by them.
Cognitive Dissonance should be the word of the year.
----
Aside: there are some of us who type pure random shit into google just because we know they love to overanalyse everything to try and figure out the user. Between that, random searches on (mis)heard song lyrics, movie quotes, crap from news and so forth? Not sure the validity of any data you could mine based on searches.