@Roz said in MSB alias/username:
Years ago when I got asked to join staff on X-Men Movieverse MOO, I took the staff bit name Rosalind. (It was a Shakespearean theme.) Which shortened to Roz, which has become my regular online alias.
Years ago, I read As You Like It, and I found myself taking the name "Ganymede" from it.
It has a more specific, personal meaning, but there you have it, as you like it.
That's the part that's worrying me. The 'mini-stroke' symptoms are becoming more frequent.
You really need to get to a doctor, if you haven't. Please. I don't mean to worry you, but these don't seem like common "migraines" to me.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
This isn't exactly anger, but I can't call it something I love. More something that makes me wince with all the wincing: the husband sent a link to a show we watched as kids back in the 80s.
You watched Tales of the Gold Monkey? Bravo.
@Misadventure said in RL Anger:
As long as your smoke doesn't travel outside where you sit, its all good.
You ever look downwind?
If you fucking sit on a patio next to someone who smokes, you accept the consequences. Failing to do so makes you the fucking nuisance.
Think of a company where everyone gets their lunch break at noon, and suddenly you have people rushing to get there first to 'tag' the resting area for themselves.
Most companies provide resting areas indoors. Some provide them outdoors as well. In the case of the latter, the smokers have one place to go; the non-smokers have two. And you are a thorough asshole if you, a non-smoker, decide to park your ass in the outdoor area and bitch when the smokers come out to the only place they are allowed to take a break and do something legal.
Be fucking considerate. I am. When I smoke (which is not often during the day), I do it somewhere that few people are bound to bump into me, except for other smokers. And it does piss me off a bit when people wander on through and complain because, those fuckheads are invading my smoking space.
It bugs me a bit more when it comes to vapers because those motherfuckers think they're the cock of the walk for engaging in a behavior that is likely just as damaging to others, and yet act like they are God's fucking gift to the world. Like, let me see if you vape when you fart after I kick that fucking device twelve-inches up your ass, fuckface.
Don't even get me started on vapers who walk into places with a NO FUCKING SMOKING SIGN, and then bitch about how it's not illegal for them to vape around others and that their rights are being trampled on. Like fucking join the club, assholes, and take it fucking outside you saprophytic shitwipes.
I just looked at him (I'm about twice his age) and said, "Violent is when you're being beaten in an alley by a group of people calling you 'fucking queer' ... it is not in any way a 'look'". He actually had the balls to respond, "But my violence is just as valid as yours."
It's not exactly the same per se but it made me feel just the way you did per se.
@surreality said in State of Things:
Welp. That covers the rest of the class, pretty sure, somewhere or other in there.
Other pre-existing conditions:
FUCKING BEING ALIVE. BECAUSE IT LEADS TO DEATH.
@Vorpal said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:
I'm playing it on the PC. But honestly, my biggest issue is with the story, the way the story is told, the shamefully restricted relationship choices for gay players, and the lack of polish and appearance are only secondary issues to me. I don't care if they make the game look prettier and more polished if it's still the same narrative shit sandwich, if you catch my drift.
I guess? Last time I checked, this wasn't a homosexual/heterosexual free-for-all game, so I honestly can't give two shits as to who or what you can go after. Isn't it reasonable to believe that someone doesn't want to nail Ryder?
(Except Suvi, of course. She and I, we shall be magical.)
The backgrounds are prettier, but the textures are not. I'm playing on the PS4, and what I'm getting looked very polished to me -- far more than Fallout 4, at least. The game's enough to keep me locked into it.
But, sure, FF15's smoother -- much smoother. And The Last of Us has a better story. And I prefer the game controls of ME3 over this overly-complicated hokum-poke-um.
Truly, if I want perfection, I just go and MU*.
@Arkandel said in State of Things:
- Isn't this assuming that given such a massive number of documents human beings would have had a significantly better rate of success reading the numbers?
It may, but the use of the program does not absolve the attorneys from their duty to keep client information confidential. The program, to a certain extent, encourages the sort of laziness and complacency that has led to the dullness in legal minds that I have noticed over the past few years.
Most attorneys use the software and then comb over the documents again to check for accuracy. This means the attorneys have to review the documents anyway.
- With humans there are tiny margins to improve the failure rate; you can offer better training, fire employees and try to hire better next time, but you might or not be successful. With software you can identify potential problems (is it the camera? the lighting? the OCR algorithm?) specifically try to fix them.
You can try. The responsibility for failure ultimately falls on the attorney, not the software company. Ergo, it is better for the attorney to do their own checking, which obviates the need for the software as a tool to accomplish the task.
- Accuracy might be important but so is speed. If processing all those millions of documents takes 100x the time machines do it then the end result might be worse than having to deal with the failure rate (and always factoring in (1) above). Oh and cheaper. Much cheaper.
Cheaper, yes. But cheaper isn't always better. Not for the client; not for the justice system; and certainly not for an attorney's malpractice carrier.
Take a moment to read this article. Like, 10 minutes. You'll thank me, once you're done crying.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/?utm_source=fbb
@SG said in Random links:
Wonder Woman is pretty much DC's last chance. Especially with the major fumble of having Jason Momoa playing fucking Aquaman instead of Lobo.
You could always get Danny Trejo to play Lobo.
@Miss-Demeanor said in Random links:
I wanted Ron Perlman to play Cable in Deadpool 2. But noooooooooooooo... lets NOT go with the guy that's voice how many superhero/villains, is a comic nerd himself, has already played at least ONE superhero/antihero in movies, and is INFAMOUSLY capable of being gruffly sarcastic at the drop of a dime. >.>
While I realize it will likely never happen, I've held out hope that someone out there will make a Batman movie with Clayface in it.
On Cora Harper:
BioWare / EA needs to get better, smarter writers. This was a storyline that just failed from top to bottom. Why? Because it failed to incorporate themes evident in the first trilogy.
One question nagged me: why would the Asari ever allow a human to run with their elite commandos? The only answer I could think of: they wouldn't have.
Asari are assimilative, but, cruelly, extremely prejudicial and seemingly arbitrary. They understand prejudice because they must assimilate all races; yet they are ironic because they marginalize "pure" Asari and those they consider to be "dangerous" aberrations. They also enforce their traditions harshly, as evidenced by Samara.
So why? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The entire idea of it was jarring.
So, I figure: maybe Cora had a shit time of it. But, no: she apparently was a liked-and-well-respected member, even if she was removed from the order eventually. And she never gets into why, really, but I suppose you're just supposed to believe that it's because she's a beta, not an alpha.
I felt like the writers missed an entire angle that would have made the character deeper and richer. Of all the races, the Asari are the most interesting to me (if only because I adored Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness as a kid). Yet they do the least with them, whereas they can obviously create richness with other aliens, like the Krogan. (Drack is, by the way, the best.)
sigh
As for the use of 'Asian' as a descriptor - fair enough. Though in general many people (not all, I am definitely making a generalization here) aren't good at telling the difference between a Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai/Viet person, especially at a first glance.
Us "Asian" folks aren't always good at it either, but that does not mean that we appreciate it when people use the term "Asian" or "Oriental" to describe us.
Try "South-East Asian" or "Pacific Asian."
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
And here I thought you'd just latch onto the 'boobs' part and glaze over the rest.
He does have two hands.
All the recent talk of Jews made me spew my drink when I saw HEB.
Unfortunately, Wal-Mart draws the ignorant and the desperate, which are not in short supply in most of the United States.
The way landlords assume that a disabled couple isn't worth renting to because all they must make is social security and thus can't be expected to pay rent on time.
I never really understood this. My landlord clients like people who get guaranteed payments every month; they are the ones that generally pay on time, all the time.
