You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Eddie's homemade forum software choked on a couple years of old threads, leading him to purge it every so often.
Something Awful, on the other hand, keeps forum archives of the past 14 years, handles thousands of simultaneous users, and still performs decently well.
Granted, SA has more money to throw at maintenance and server costs than Eddie did, but the point is running a forum the size of TVT's is feasible.
actually the something awful search was really horrible and they lost at least a few months of archives by accident
Even so...losing a few months of archives by accident vs. deliberately purging your archives because your forum software chokes when you have more than a couple years of threads...
Chris Pratt: Building a super-dinosaur is a stupid move that didn't need to happen.
Dr. Byron J. Thinkpiece from the audience: What is this misogynist dreck? I spit on it, and all its children.
Odradek they don't think it's misogynist because it has super dinosaurs they think it's misogynist because Chris Pratt is a leering dudebro we are expected to like and the film is expects us to hate the female lead essentially just for being a career woman.
Chris Pratt: Building a super-dinosaur is a stupid move that didn't need to happen.
Dr. Byron J. Thinkpiece from the audience: What is this misogynist dreck? I spit on it, and all its children.
Odradek they don't think it's misogynist because it has super dinosaurs they think it's misogynist because Chris Pratt is a leering dudebro we are expected to like and the film is expects us to hate the female lead essentially just for being a career woman.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
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If you want to make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist, make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist. Don't lie in my goddamn face and tell me that it's a cash-in on a deeply intelligent art film, because it's not, and you know it's not.
"Jurassic Park is calculated, well-crafted and intelligent, and Jurassic World is a dumb, slapdash and nonsensical nostalgia cash-in because the ’90s kids have kids of their own now. " You fucking hack of a Content Consumer, go the fuck away back to kidtown.
If you want to make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist, make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist. Don't lie in my goddamn face and tell me that it's a cash-in on a deeply intelligent art film, because it's not, and you know it's not.
...did I make this argument?
Because IIRC the most I said to this respect was that with the heavy marketing and cynical meta stuff it seems like World could be easily construed as the Content you rail against so heavily.
And I never implied Park was a genius art film but it was a well made movie that, while not exactly intelligent, was not outright stupid.
If you want to make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist, make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist. Don't lie in my goddamn face and tell me that it's a cash-in on a deeply intelligent art film, because it's not, and you know it's not.
...did I make this argument?
Because IIRC the most I said to this respect was that with the heavy marketing and cynical meta stuff it seems like World could be easily construed as the Content you rail against so heavily.
And I never implied Park was a genius art film but it was a well made movie that, while not exactly intelligent, was not outright stupid.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Jurassic World is definitely content. It's just that everyone's lost their perspective so bad that they rail against it being content while consuming it, and everything like it
the original jurassic park is probably less content-tastic than jurassic world (i will probably never see jurassic world, but i have seen park)
that said, that does not make it good
addendum: the Jurassic World peanut butter cookie dough monster blizzards are very tasty and i highly recommend consuming that delicious, peanut-buttery Ice Cream Content
If you want to make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist, make the argument that Jurassic World is sexist. Don't lie in my goddamn face and tell me that it's a cash-in on a deeply intelligent art film, because it's not, and you know it's not.
...did I make this argument?
Because IIRC the most I said to this respect was that with the heavy marketing and cynical meta stuff it seems like World could be easily construed as the Content you rail against so heavily.
And I never implied Park was a genius art film but it was a well made movie that, while not exactly intelligent, was not outright stupid.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
I don't like this line. I don't agree with what it implies. I consider it a flaw.
I haven't seen the original Jurassic Park but I can't imagine it being more Content™ than Jurassic World.
I was not denying that the original was Content™, but I don't think the word of a man who died in 2008 is the right way to respond to a comparison between a 1993 film and its 2015 sequel.
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i think sometimes some of us have difficulty telling when you're talking about insight wank and when you're talking more generally.
Like i hope Kex will forgive me if i'm speaking out of turn, but i think i can say with confidence that he was not defending insight wank there, merely the claim that Jurassic World was sexist.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
CAN'T YOU PEOPLE SEE
THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO PUT US UNDER MARTIAL LAW ANY DAY NOW
AND NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE ME BY MAKING ME TAKE THE FALL FOR THAT GUY'S DEATH
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Go me
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Because IIRC the most I said to this respect was that with the heavy marketing and cynical meta stuff it seems like World could be easily construed as the Content you rail against so heavily.
And I never implied Park was a genius art film but it was a well made movie that, while not exactly intelligent, was not outright stupid.
Because IIRC the most I said to this respect was that with the heavy marketing and cynical meta stuff it seems like World could be easily construed as the Content you rail against so heavily.
And I never implied Park was a genius art film but it was a well made movie that, while not exactly intelligent, was not outright stupid.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
I don't like this line. I don't agree with what it implies. I consider it a flaw.I do not, however, think it ruins the film.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Like i hope Kex will forgive me if i'm speaking out of turn, but i think i can say with confidence that he was not defending insight wank there, merely the claim that Jurassic World was sexist.
THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO PUT US UNDER MARTIAL LAW ANY DAY NOW
AND NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE ME BY MAKING ME TAKE THE FALL FOR THAT GUY'S DEATH
WAKE UP AMERICA, THE END IS NEAR
Do you dislike that name? Did you say this already and i forgot?
I guess I have been called that recently it just stuck out this one time in particular.
I like you, usually. I was just referring to your defensive tendencies there.
If it helps, I can relate to those feelings myself.