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by periphrasis 5y ago
If you think all art is bullshit I pity the emptiness of your life. No wonder you defend the MCU. We have nothing further to discuss.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
How about this: MCU movies begin production with the VFX work for the major action scenes. This happens before they have a script or even a director. Have you ever noticed how MCU movies feel like a completely different movie once the CGI a
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by periphrasis 5y ago
If you think it’s elitist to ask adults to like adult things rather than things for children, have at it. I should note that the poster I responded to, in listing the merits of MCU films, discussed only technical details and the baseline o
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Have you considered the possibility that critics of the MCU are not elitist and that you merely have underdeveloped taste? That ostensibly educated adults will go to bat for the cultural dominance of stories that are thematically simple en
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by periphrasis 5y ago
Obese people do not directly affect your health. I get that you’re trolling and don’t really believe what you say, but at least show some creativity here, rather than repeating nostrums that grew tired 250k dead ago.
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by periphrasis 5y ago
One who understands that those “informed” strangers are making a decision that puts others at risk. Frankly, I do not understand why someone who presumably understands why second hand smoking and drunk driving are bad cannot transfer the sa
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by periphrasis 5y ago
The New Hollywood era is generally considered to begin with 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, following the accidental but hugely successful US mainstream release of the 1966 British film Blow Up. Kubrick’s career straddles the eras, so he doesn’t b
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by periphrasis 6y ago
Regular use gradually bent the pins in the NES cartridge slot. Without really good pin contact, the NES10 lockout chip wouldn’t authenticate the cart, and the flashing red light and blanking screen were the indicators for authentication fai
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by periphrasis 8y ago
>> The ancient Greeks seem to have been incredibly xenophobic and negatively disposed towards other peoples. I don't know that they were any more xenophobic than is inherent in all peoples. While Barbarian is a Greek word, it&#x2
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by periphrasis 9y ago
My understanding is that it's not that significant in terms of lines of code in the codebase, but it is significant in terms of its official support and its rate of growth.
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by periphrasis 9y ago
> It's a story about a man trying to get home, and a woman staying faithful in the face of uncertainty. Anything else is reading too much into it. Of the 24 books of the Odyssey, Odysseus' famous seafaring wanderings account fo
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by periphrasis 10y ago
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
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by periphrasis 10y ago
While a different program, Google's Engineering Residency reportedly pays about $100k, depending on location. I would imagine that the Brain Residency pays something comparable.
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by periphrasis 10y ago
You misunderstand my final comment. Under the original system there was no popular vote for President. If we still adhered to the original system, the main candidates for President in 2016 would be Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, and if the s
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by periphrasis 10y ago
As I understand it, the Constitution was designed to provide several layers of indirection when selecting federal officials. In the original design before subsequent amendment, voters only directly elected their congress person and their st
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by periphrasis 10y ago
Sure, it's called The Ruin, and is available in the following collection: https://archive.org/details/anglosaxonnorsep00chadrich It had been a while since I read it, and on rereading it, I'm not convinced the
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by periphrasis 10y ago
Maybe. On the other hand if the place is visibly menacing, and anyone who visits it gets sick and/or dies, then wouldn't a culture otherwise ignorant of the dangers of nuclear waste quickly put two and two together and stay away f
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by periphrasis 10y ago
Admittedly, I haven't read the article, but the tone of the message suggests that it's not meant for future generations of our civilization, but for future generations of whatever cultures come after our civilization is gone. Ther