Your argument could be used to justify literally anything, from theft to gang rape to murder to genocide. That has to be worthy of some kind of award in horribleness. Congratulations.
I know, right? When MS does it, it's anticompetitive, when Apple does it, it's "vertical integration" and they have an "interest in maintaining the quality of the ecosystem".
There's no link so who knows how valid or authoritative this is.
I'd like to know the median. If 37 is the average, and most people who I think of as gamers are 7-17, then there should be just as many 57-67yo gamers, but that's a proposition I find hard to believe. I wonder if the submitter is just making up random shit or if the study is of a poor quality and one person skewed the mean by putting in "One million" as their age.
In the time it took you to chide him for not providing the above information you could have helpfully provided it yourself. I'm only saying so because you essentially did the same thing you are criticizing parent of doing.
Did you RTFA? The poor woman and everyone he knows are being harassed night and day by a national media circus frenzy that's caught the scent of that most precious of stories, a Democratic sex scandal. Through no fault of her own. She has absolutely nothing to do with the targeted Congressman, she was probably just a Twitter fan selected at random.
"Sounds like a good way to alienate old fans. "What, you mean the decades of backstory I've been following is now entirely irrelevant?""
This argument is, frankly, bullshit. Of course it isn't irrelevant. That back story isn't going anywhere. The series is just done. And it's about damn time, too. Enjoy rereading it, like everyone still enjoys rereading and rewatching stories told in every other medium. Write fan-fiction if you like.
DC should alienate the old fans. Or rather, they should stop trying to accommodate the old fans. The old fans who complain about canon are snobby curmudgeons who are more and more far removed from the industry's potential audience as they age and die off.
Marvel became wildly successful in the 1960s is because DC was already old and stale. DC was trying to apply character archetypes that were a generation old and no longer relevant to the people who were buying comics. They still do, even though they've adapted enough to survive. Marvel came in with Spider-Man and X-Men and characters that had an audience, characters that were relevant and not stale. The same is true of the reinvented, darker Batman of the 80s, Image in the 90s, and Ultimate Marvel in the 00s. Let the canon go and let the companies and characters write stories that relate to their audience.
If you want true canon and continuity all the characters from the Golden Age are dead of old age, all the characters from the Silver Age are in retirement homes, and all the characters of whatever they called the 90s have settled down with kids and a house and are "too old for this shit". Plus, it gets increasingly ridiculous and increasingly uninteresting the 3468th time that Batman faces off against the Joker. I mean really, how many times can you keep writing that and expect it to sell?
"If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek."
The only reason this worked with Doctor Who, and nothing else, is that there are few constants. The TARDIS is a police box that's bigger on the inside, the Doctor rides around in it and is incredible, and picks up traveling companions that act as the conduit for the viewer, and that's about it. Everything else is subject to revision, and always has been. The companion changes, even the Doctor changes, not just the actor that plays him but his temperament and personality. If Doctor Who was American, this would be an outrage, and the series would have ended when William Hartnell died or left the series.
Oh and the premise of this incredibly dangerous acid that's useful for what exactly? And needs humans exposed to or near it why? They didn't even bother to make the acid pit room believable as anything more than a death trap.
They need to explain how he even remembers being an Auton in the first place. That barely makes any sense. Hopefully that's planned for a future episode of this season. That would be nice. He could remember those 2000 years and become much cooler in the process.
I agree, I couldn't stand that story. I think I have to put it on top of the list of worst Doctor Who stories ever.
"It felt like a cop out that those two gangers *had* to stay behind and stop the monster coming through the door."
I *hated* that. It was so goddamn obvious that everyone could easily run to the TARDIS door instead of holding shut that door. Monster-ganger-Jennifer would just pound away on the TARDIS door while the Doctor made everyone stable as he later did after the danger passed, then open the door and use the screwdriver on Monster-Jennifer. Or leave behind two originals to hold the door and use the screwdriver while the gangers hide in the TARDIS?
And why did they have to melt ganger-Amy? What was the point of that? Did I miss something? Didn't we just spend two whole episodes talking about how the gangers are as real and as human as the originals?
Just like you said, the whole conflict was very poorly contrived. Everyone should have been like "Cool! I have a double!" just like all the viewers felt. From the forced conflict to the unbelievable sacrificial crisis to the killing of ganger-Amy (by the pacifistic Doctor, no less!!!) nothing about that two-parter made any goddamn sense.
"Russel T. Davies was infamous for "Doctor Ex Machina" plots, in which the Doctor would pull technobabble solutions out of his ass at the last minute."
That was always a characteristic of the Doctor, at least as far back as Tom Baker. What really irritated me was the fairy-Jesus-Doctor that always resolved the season finales during Davies' run. That's not science fiction, that's fantasy. The only finale where he didn't employ that was Doomsday, which was really good (especially when the Doctor turns the wrong way in the Torchwood HQ. Awesome.)
The Daleks started out as a laughing stock. That was their whole appeal from the beginning, because they were so ridiculous. They went Laughingstock -> Feared Nemesis -> Laughingstock.
Thank goodness. The Daleks were getting so overused. They need to preserve their impact by making their appearances more rare.
Maybe we can also stop getting linear appearances too? They are time travelers after all. Why do they keep encountering each other in the same order? It wasn't always the case, and River proves that it's much more interesting when they don't meet in the same order.
Yeah, the Iran-Contra affair. It's one thing to trade arms to a country while you have an arms embargo against it, but quite another entirely to give weapons to an enemy that you are at war with. That is as treasonous as treason can get.
My overall point is that we are not, nor have we ever been at war with Iran. Such claims (such as the frequently debunked claims of Iranian weapons entering Iraq) are obvious fabrications meant to gin up support for another unprovoked and unjustified war against a peaceful country. (And while they support terrorists the Iran-Contra episode helpfully illustrates that we have no problem dealing with them as well, so that's also BS.)
"If you don't want to eat that shit, don't buy it, or grow your own disease ridden organic food."
Only that's impossible. GM food is usually not labeled, and GM food is frequently used as livestock feed, which will not get labeled as "GM-food-fed". Additionally, if you have a problem with consuming GM food, rather than simply supporting companies that trade in it, it's impossible to know what otherwise non-GM food has been contaminated by nearby GM crops.
It's like, say you date a guy for a while and he's really great in bed, prince charming, the whole nine yards, and you fall in love and want to get married and have babies. So you get married, but it turns out he's sterile. It doesn't matter how earth-shattering those orgasms are, his sperm are incapable of fertilizing your ova.
Only you're a plant so you only get one shot at this, so you're fucked, you die childless and alone. That's how being sterile and cross-pollinating works. Thanks, Monsanto!
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It's a good thing that iPhones are the only devices that can take photographs.
Let me introduce you to something that may be foreign to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization
Your argument could be used to justify literally anything, from theft to gang rape to murder to genocide. That has to be worthy of some kind of award in horribleness. Congratulations.
When it comes down to stopping rape or protecting business, those guys chose business. That shows you how sociopathic they are.
If Bush killed bin Laden, why didn't he tell us about it? And why did Obama announce it at the worst possible time electorally?
Lots and lots of articles that get posted to Slashdot are opportunistic self-aggrandizers or just trolling for hits. This isn't any different, is it?
I know, right? When MS does it, it's anticompetitive, when Apple does it, it's "vertical integration" and they have an "interest in maintaining the quality of the ecosystem".
"(it's like going from the great black & white movies, to the trashy color movies that came out)."
How about "It's like going from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Mission To Mars"?
"without the need for achievement for picking up your own shit (read the review: that's really in DNF)."
I thought this was a joke. After reading the review it sounds like the only funny one in the game.
There's no link so who knows how valid or authoritative this is.
I'd like to know the median. If 37 is the average, and most people who I think of as gamers are 7-17, then there should be just as many 57-67yo gamers, but that's a proposition I find hard to believe. I wonder if the submitter is just making up random shit or if the study is of a poor quality and one person skewed the mean by putting in "One million" as their age.
That's right, she's a genius who reads every single newspaper. I forgot about that.
Irvin Kershner.
In the time it took you to chide him for not providing the above information you could have helpfully provided it yourself. I'm only saying so because you essentially did the same thing you are criticizing parent of doing.
Did you RTFA? The poor woman and everyone he knows are being harassed night and day by a national media circus frenzy that's caught the scent of that most precious of stories, a Democratic sex scandal. Through no fault of her own. She has absolutely nothing to do with the targeted Congressman, she was probably just a Twitter fan selected at random.
"Sounds like a good way to alienate old fans. "What, you mean the decades of backstory I've been following is now entirely irrelevant?""
This argument is, frankly, bullshit. Of course it isn't irrelevant. That back story isn't going anywhere. The series is just done. And it's about damn time, too. Enjoy rereading it, like everyone still enjoys rereading and rewatching stories told in every other medium. Write fan-fiction if you like.
DC should alienate the old fans. Or rather, they should stop trying to accommodate the old fans. The old fans who complain about canon are snobby curmudgeons who are more and more far removed from the industry's potential audience as they age and die off.
Marvel became wildly successful in the 1960s is because DC was already old and stale. DC was trying to apply character archetypes that were a generation old and no longer relevant to the people who were buying comics. They still do, even though they've adapted enough to survive. Marvel came in with Spider-Man and X-Men and characters that had an audience, characters that were relevant and not stale. The same is true of the reinvented, darker Batman of the 80s, Image in the 90s, and Ultimate Marvel in the 00s. Let the canon go and let the companies and characters write stories that relate to their audience.
If you want true canon and continuity all the characters from the Golden Age are dead of old age, all the characters from the Silver Age are in retirement homes, and all the characters of whatever they called the 90s have settled down with kids and a house and are "too old for this shit". Plus, it gets increasingly ridiculous and increasingly uninteresting the 3468th time that Batman faces off against the Joker. I mean really, how many times can you keep writing that and expect it to sell?
"If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek."
The only reason this worked with Doctor Who, and nothing else, is that there are few constants. The TARDIS is a police box that's bigger on the inside, the Doctor rides around in it and is incredible, and picks up traveling companions that act as the conduit for the viewer, and that's about it. Everything else is subject to revision, and always has been. The companion changes, even the Doctor changes, not just the actor that plays him but his temperament and personality. If Doctor Who was American, this would be an outrage, and the series would have ended when William Hartnell died or left the series.
Oh and the premise of this incredibly dangerous acid that's useful for what exactly? And needs humans exposed to or near it why? They didn't even bother to make the acid pit room believable as anything more than a death trap.
Not trolling here but you should tell us what you think that is. I'm interested in listening and we get few enough Doctor Who conversations here.
Lawl. Thanks for that. Enjoy your extermination.
They need to explain how he even remembers being an Auton in the first place. That barely makes any sense. Hopefully that's planned for a future episode of this season. That would be nice. He could remember those 2000 years and become much cooler in the process.
I agree, I couldn't stand that story. I think I have to put it on top of the list of worst Doctor Who stories ever.
"It felt like a cop out that those two gangers *had* to stay behind and stop the monster coming through the door."
I *hated* that. It was so goddamn obvious that everyone could easily run to the TARDIS door instead of holding shut that door. Monster-ganger-Jennifer would just pound away on the TARDIS door while the Doctor made everyone stable as he later did after the danger passed, then open the door and use the screwdriver on Monster-Jennifer. Or leave behind two originals to hold the door and use the screwdriver while the gangers hide in the TARDIS?
And why did they have to melt ganger-Amy? What was the point of that? Did I miss something? Didn't we just spend two whole episodes talking about how the gangers are as real and as human as the originals?
Just like you said, the whole conflict was very poorly contrived. Everyone should have been like "Cool! I have a double!" just like all the viewers felt. From the forced conflict to the unbelievable sacrificial crisis to the killing of ganger-Amy (by the pacifistic Doctor, no less!!!) nothing about that two-parter made any goddamn sense.
"Russel T. Davies was infamous for "Doctor Ex Machina" plots, in which the Doctor would pull technobabble solutions out of his ass at the last minute."
That was always a characteristic of the Doctor, at least as far back as Tom Baker. What really irritated me was the fairy-Jesus-Doctor that always resolved the season finales during Davies' run. That's not science fiction, that's fantasy. The only finale where he didn't employ that was Doomsday, which was really good (especially when the Doctor turns the wrong way in the Torchwood HQ. Awesome.)
The Daleks started out as a laughing stock. That was their whole appeal from the beginning, because they were so ridiculous. They went Laughingstock -> Feared Nemesis -> Laughingstock.
Thank goodness. The Daleks were getting so overused. They need to preserve their impact by making their appearances more rare.
Maybe we can also stop getting linear appearances too? They are time travelers after all. Why do they keep encountering each other in the same order? It wasn't always the case, and River proves that it's much more interesting when they don't meet in the same order.
Yeah, the Iran-Contra affair. It's one thing to trade arms to a country while you have an arms embargo against it, but quite another entirely to give weapons to an enemy that you are at war with. That is as treasonous as treason can get.
My overall point is that we are not, nor have we ever been at war with Iran. Such claims (such as the frequently debunked claims of Iranian weapons entering Iraq) are obvious fabrications meant to gin up support for another unprovoked and unjustified war against a peaceful country. (And while they support terrorists the Iran-Contra episode helpfully illustrates that we have no problem dealing with them as well, so that's also BS.)
I bet that now they wish they never made that deal with The Devil Microsoft.
"If you don't want to eat that shit, don't buy it, or grow your own disease ridden organic food."
Only that's impossible. GM food is usually not labeled, and GM food is frequently used as livestock feed, which will not get labeled as "GM-food-fed". Additionally, if you have a problem with consuming GM food, rather than simply supporting companies that trade in it, it's impossible to know what otherwise non-GM food has been contaminated by nearby GM crops.
It's like, say you date a guy for a while and he's really great in bed, prince charming, the whole nine yards, and you fall in love and want to get married and have babies. So you get married, but it turns out he's sterile. It doesn't matter how earth-shattering those orgasms are, his sperm are incapable of fertilizing your ova.
Only you're a plant so you only get one shot at this, so you're fucked, you die childless and alone. That's how being sterile and cross-pollinating works. Thanks, Monsanto!