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I feel like I've seen this particular movie a million times. Here is the plot: Evidently-educated fellow enjoys trashy movies, seeks to justify tastes at some

I feel like I've seen this particular movie a million times. Here is the plot: Evidently-educated fellow enjoys trashy movies, seeks to justify tastes at some length (>5K words) with reference to usual movies (Plan 9), usual critical touchstones (Hume, Foucault, Sontag). In the final scene, no firm conclusions are drawn, and the author wanders off. We are secretly afraid he will return some day, perhaps to ponder further. You'd think the immodestly-named "Institute for Advanced Critical Studies" would prefer a new take on a stale discussion, or indeed have an editor on hand. Evidently not.

coldtea 7y ago
I feel like I've seen this particular comment a million times. Here's the recap: Facile dismissal, no content.
- justin66 7y ago
  Right, like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418864
  - smiddereens 7y ago
    That's how he knows.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    Yes, like this... Did you think that me having made the same thing magically absolves others?
    - justin66 7y ago
      No, I think your posts are often unnecessarily unpleasant and I thought the obvious hypocrisy here might cause a brief moment of self-awareness.
      - coldtea 7y ago
        >I think your posts are often unnecessarily unpleasant Some might be. By generally I go at length to explain my points, even devolving into long threads and summing up things to make my point better understood. And while I might characterise some person in the news or some industry figure, I never name call others in a discussion. I try to rephrase what I wrote to make my point clearer, in sub-thread upon sub-thread, even when I am called names. Thought a certain "fuck the poor" mentality in some comments does grind my gears. It doesn't help that in usually to the left, continental European, and conservative side of things, which it's triply unpopular with a large part of HN demographic. Though in regular programming/tech things I'm fairly vanilla (though people have thought of me as an Apple shill). That said, I had a look at your comments to see if I rubbed you off the wrong way in some thread. Are these representative of the non "unnecessarily unpleasant" way we should be writing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21225106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21225106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026695
booleandilemma 7y ago
Don’t forget The Room!

coldtea 7y ago

I feel like I've seen this particular comment a million times. Here's the recap: Facile dismissal, no content.

justin66 7y ago
Right, like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418864
- smiddereens 7y ago
  That's how he knows.
- coldtea 7y ago
  Yes, like this... Did you think that me having made the same thing magically absolves others?
  - justin66 7y ago
    No, I think your posts are often unnecessarily unpleasant and I thought the obvious hypocrisy here might cause a brief moment of self-awareness.
    - coldtea 7y ago
      >I think your posts are often unnecessarily unpleasant Some might be. By generally I go at length to explain my points, even devolving into long threads and summing up things to make my point better understood. And while I might characterise some person in the news or some industry figure, I never name call others in a discussion. I try to rephrase what I wrote to make my point clearer, in sub-thread upon sub-thread, even when I am called names. Thought a certain "fuck the poor" mentality in some comments does grind my gears. It doesn't help that in usually to the left, continental European, and conservative side of things, which it's triply unpopular with a large part of HN demographic. Though in regular programming/tech things I'm fairly vanilla (though people have thought of me as an Apple shill). That said, I had a look at your comments to see if I rubbed you off the wrong way in some thread. Are these representative of the non "unnecessarily unpleasant" way we should be writing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21225106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21225106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026695

booleandilemma 7y ago

Don’t forget The Room!