Posts made by Auspice

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

I'm not disagreeing with anyone about what they believe the bull means. It's part of my dilemma. The man who created it was pulling from historical sources, out of his own pocket, to honor his adopted nation, I don't believe that anything he did was demeaning to women, so when someone is paid to say that he is, he has every right to be upset. He is essentially being given the middle finger other people co-opting his work. He wasn't even given a chance to clarify before this.

I truly believe that an artist has the right and sometimes the obligation to defend their thesis. Almost every art school drills this into them.

This is why I've been bringing it up when people go into the whole 'the bull is a male banker symbol!' thing. A lot of people had never even heard of it before marketers and bankers paid to put 'Fearless Girl' there. And a lot of those who did didn't give two shits before that. I feel really bad for that artist.

He put his personal time, effort, and money into it. Gender was not a facet of the art when he made it (yes, bulls are male, but wasn't one of the 'points' he was trying to make). His work was coopted for something else. And yes, art is in the viewer's eyes, but it has been just utterly warped into a wholly different message and in a very scummy way, IMO.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

If, for some reason, I want to see 3D, IMAX 3D is the only one I can see without intense migraines (or was, prior to this current migraine misery I'm experiencing).

...holy crap, I thought I was the only person this happens to. (I had always thought it would be worse, but it's so much less evil for some reason.)

You aren't. Active/passive 3D. The instant I put on the passive (the ones that look all polarized) 3D lenses, my head feels like it's going to explode. If I go to official IMAX, which uses active, I can handle it. Only once in a while... I think Samsung TVs are the only ones that use 'em (tho they might've stopped; Active 3D is more expensive).

So yeah, me and 3D? Never gonna be a thing, sadly, unless it's non-glasses like the 3DS. I saw a non-glasses 3D TV at a tech show a handful of years back. It didn't even require that you sit at a very specific spot. I spent like half an hour at that booth just sort of mesmerized. It was pretty goddamn astounding.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@ThatOneDude said in RL Anger:

How come these have not gone the way of the drive in movie (yes I know some are around but they are now a novelty).

There is no substitute for watching Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 on a screen that is roughly double the size of my house's walls in a comfy chair away from my children.

Not all of us can afford surround sound. Or have a nice TV.

Or want, like Gany said, a night away from kids.

If, for some reason, I want to see 3D, IMAX 3D is the only one I can see without intense migraines (or was, prior to this current migraine misery I'm experiencing).

There's plenty of reasons for theaters.

Last Friday, I gave in to the migraines (well, I was at a point of just sort of lying there in and out of consciousness so it was kind of... necessary) and went to urgent care. Got the toradol injection.

It wore off on Monday. Yesterday I had a mild... well, fairly sure it was a seizure. Just took it easy through the day. Had a hydrocodone so I could relax enough to sleep.

I can't afford to go to ER/Urgent Care on a regular basis. That's $50 a visit. And I'd be going twice a week just to manage. But my neurologist is still hella insistent that the Trokendi is totally gonna work. Except it hasn't. It's working even less now that I'm up to 150mg. Like it was kinda sorta helping maybe a little at 100mg and now at 150, I'm worse.

While I was waiting the month and a half to get in to see him, I already tried shopping around for another neurologist and couldn't find any who were taking patients, so I don't know what the shit to do.

@Coin said in RL things I love:

On the other hand, Charging Bull is a symbol for the USA and especially Wall Street's "indomitable spirit", which in this case pretty much means (and cannot be more accurately represented) "we will rampage and thrash all over anyone in our way".

That wasn't Charging Bull at all.

http://chargingbull.com/chargingbull.html

"Arturo Di Modica first conceived of the Charging Bull as a way to celebrate the can-do spirit of America and especially New York, where people from all other the world could come regardless of their origin or circumstances, and through determination and hard work overcome every obstacle to become successful. It’s this symbol of virility and courage that Arturo saw as the perfect antidote to the Wall Street crash of 1986."

He made it to sort of mock Wall Street, if anything.
It was made for the people, not for the banks.

My big issue with all the 'YAY LET'S PUNCH NAZIS!' stuff is... some people seem to also have decided that they get to decide what defines a Nazi now?

(Note: I'm not saying 'everyone,' just 'some people.')

I know one person (and promptly distanced myself) who went 'Anyone who does/says anything I don't like is a Nazi, therefor I get to punch them.' And that's... well, that's kinda fucked up and wrong.

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Auspice

I know. I mentioned it elsewhere, but it's still seen a guerrilla installment by many in the art community and news reporters. I think it's astroturfing, something meant to be grass-roots in style but is fake. Maybe you were replying when I was updating my post with that comment.

Also wanted to share a link (there's plenty more out there) in case others weren't aware of the backstory. I know Fearless Girl really upsets the artist of the Wall Street Bull, which makes me hate it more. I wish it'd be taken down.

@Thenomain

Fearless Girl is not guerilla art. It was installed, with permits, by an advertising firm: https://hyperallergic.com/364474/the-sculpture-of-a-fearless-girl-on-wall-street-is-fake-corporate-feminism/

Where I find it funny is that Alamo Drafthouse has been doing 'women's night out' events for a while and until now, these dudes have had no shits to give.

Which means they only care because it's butting in on the realm of dudebro, aka superhero films.

I also find it funny because one guy decided to go 'What if they did a 'clown only' viewing for IT?!' and the reply was 'We might steal that idea!' They've also said hey, if you want to do a men's only event, here's our private event page. Plan one. Have at.

@HelloProject

I got one so I could give it a try to compare to my Fidget Cube.
The cube is better (at least for me).

And all the jokes/memes aside, it has done wonders for me. Both in the anxiety and focus arenas.

Apparently a poor diet makes you gay. What the shit.

(It's a self-published 'study' but jesus christ people.)

Gregg Allman

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Tonight I was out with a white friend of mine, he treated me to Pho. But like, he kept walking up to people's houses in the middle of the night, picking plants and shit. I was like, "Dude are you nuts we shouldn't be walking up to someone's house in the middle of the night?" and he was like "Nah it's fine".

That sort of blows my mind. o.o I mean, I'm white, so I get the 'yeah I could get away with it,' but I grew up in a heavily mixed population area (outside of DC), so it just... wasn't really A Thing so much.

There's a lot of "white" behavior that baffles me just as much as there's a lot of African American or Asian American etc culture that I don't comprehend.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

@Auspice I like African-American for specifically referring to my own culture separately from other black cultures. But I like black as a casual term. So I think there's a place for both. I don't really necessarily lump myself in with British black people, or Jamaicans, or Nigerians. We're all distinctly different cultures who have our own shit going on.

But yeah, there are black people who will 100% take offense if you don't use African-American. I mean, I somewhat understand? But eh, it's whatever to me.

Culturally, for sure. And I think we need a place for both? Because yeah, I can't go to England and refer to someone as African American because... they... aren't American. Hell they might not be British. They might be visiting from Africa or Jamaica or even elsewhere (Canada!).

It's sort of landmine-y, but I appreciate people like you who are willing to discuss it because I want to be able to find terms that are acceptable. Because as a writer, esp. one who writes articles from time to time, it's important to know these things.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

@Auspice said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

I remember seeing a tweet once from a black guy in Britain. It went 'I am sick of being called African American. I'm British. #FML.'

Belatedly, I think it's dumb as shit when people try to be so overly PC that they call British people and Jamaicans and shit, "African-American". I use African-American when I don't want there to be any mistake about which culture of black people I mean, I use black when being so specific isn't as important. But that's just my particular way that I use the words.

I just recall a period of time when 'black' was offensive. It didn't last long, but there was a stretch where it was, so people were sort of floundering for ways to identify those who were... and 'African American' was all they could generally land on.

It's sort of nuts at times, I guess. I mean there are def. offensive terms, no one's gonna disagree. But 'people of color' is hella broad. African American sorta cuts out, well, a massive chunk of the world, yo. So yeah, black works? But that tweet has always sort of made me laugh and it's an example of humor that identifies race without being racist.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

The whole point was to be able to afford college.

The 90s are gone, man. Gone.

Except in Portland.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

I've heard interesting stories of African-Americans going to foreign countries and suddenly experiencing being seen as an American before being seen as a black person. It sounds like an absolutely fucking mindblowing experience, which is a part of why I want to travel soon.

I remember seeing a tweet once from a black guy in Britain. It went 'I am sick of being called African American. I'm British. #FML.'

It's a joke I've always been able to well appreciate.

I yearn for a 2nd monitor.

But I am poor.

Not personal RL anger, but more on behalf of this poor guy:
https://www.quora.com/Im-not-allowed-to-comment-my-code-so-what-are-other-ways-to-make-my-code-descriptive-but-not-annoying-to-write-out

Also 1st set.