That article was also written in 1998, when the movies in question were still relatively new and hadn't had much in the way of discussion yet. I think it's telling that most of the movies he mentions are considered classics now (if only for for the camp factor, in ID4's case).
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
He likes to use the word "cyborgian" to describe Arnold Schwarzenegger at every possible opportunity, I notice.
And I didn't know accents could be like car engines. 16 r.p.m. Austrian accent? Where exactly does that come from?
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I'm guessing he's talking about how most porn nowadays cuts out all the fluff and gets straight to the action in the first 5 or 10 minutes.
Huh, from the "you learn something new every day" department:
.LIB files under Visual C++ 2008 are ar(1) archives, just like .a files under UNIX. It makes sense, seeing as most of the hardcore techies at Microsoft used Xenix until NT was ready for prime-time.
Also, I knew this already, but it also makes sense considering: NT "PE" files are actually UNIX System V COFF files with an EXE header tacked on, meaning UNIX tools can work with them -- another sign that NT was probably bootstrapped on Xenix.
Over the past decade and a half, this situation seems to have reversed. The problem people talk about now is not scarcity but glut: a glut of music available to consume, a glut of media to tell you about it, a glut of things that desperately want your attention. Somewhere along the way, the default mode has taken a hard shift in the direction of showing your discernment by not liking things-- by seeing through the hype and feeling superior to whatever you're being told about in a given week. Give it the attention it wants, but in the negative.
This extends far outside of music. There's an entire Arch Snarky Commenter persona people now rush to adopt, in which they read things on the Internet and then compete to most effectively roll their eyes at it. And there's nothing inherently terrible about that; a lot of the phenomena we read about every day can afford that kind of skepticism.
It's interesting, though, just how overclocked a bullshit detector can get-- to the point where we're verging on a kind of paranoia about things that are, in the end, mostly trying to offer us pleasure. There's some kind of whiff of it in just knowing that some artist couldn't possibly be what she seems, and must be part of an elaborate plot to trick people less savvy than you are. Or maybe that line of thinking just makes us feel more clever than saying something sucks.
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
Microsoft Xenix...So is there any major software company that didn't dip their hands in Unix at some point? I know Apple had A/UX around the same time...
I was thinking about the "glut" effect the other day. It didn't seem that way in the internet-less days of my childhood, when stuff was generally harder to come by...
Naney, I don't have the right to own a gun without a license :( so I have to defend myself and my family with other means like a tactical nuke or mustard gas.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Sorry to hear that. I can definitely see how it would be annoying if you're not quite sure what it is.
CA: Yeah, Unix was really popular with OS geeks in the mid-1980s. It also had a lot of the same reputation it does now -- the hypercompetent everyman that's not really good at that one thing some bigmouth on the Internet wants. :P In particular, it got a lot of both frustration and smug chuckles from people using more corporate-friendly stuff like VMS, or even geekier stuff like LISP machines; those just happened to be the three main midrange-systems geek currents back then. PCs didn't count yet.
The 1990s changed everything. The internecine warfare over the future of Unix stopped, and they actually started fixing the problems the UNIX-HATERS list pointed out. VMS faded into obscurity and NT more-or-less took its place, and the LISP machine has been replaced by a whole smorgasbord of experimental OSes and environments to play with.
This must be why internet-peoples are sometimes so very quick to condemn fans of My Little Pony, or Homestuck, for liking something that they have never given a chance themselves. :p
Or perhaps they have tried them and simply not liked them.
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
Alton Glenn Miller was born in Clarinda, Iowa on March 1, 1904. He started his musical career when his father brought home a mandolin. As soon as possible, he traded the instrument for an old horn, which he practiced diligently.
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He likes to use the word "cyborgian" to describe Arnold Schwarzenegger at every possible opportunity, I notice.
And I didn't know accents could be like car engines. 16 r.p.m. Austrian accent? Where exactly does that come from?
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
that ever plucked a mother pheasant.
Man, what a loser.
I dunno about T2, but "special effects porn" does seem to be a genuine film genre these days...
on in school again.
Finished with my Env. Sci. presentation, just gotta do the paper now.
cultural avalanche
more to see than can ever be seen
more to do than can ever be done
Naney's got a gun
In the meantime I must go off to work.
"Could that Kroger sign possibly look any more tacked-on?"
Yeah, that picture's pretty tacky.
Or perhaps they have tried them and simply not liked them.
A shocking thought, I know.
The article does have a point though.