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by Rojava Free State » Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:37 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Rojava Free State » Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:38 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by The Free Joy State » Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:47 am
Ethel mermania wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:Film adaptations rarely match up to the books in my experience (this is most true, I find, if it's a book you love). To fit the length, they always have to cut storylines, merge characters, change things that you find vital for the plot (although, TV adaptations that allow for expansion can match expectations: The Handmaid's Tale series was much better than the 1990 movie; and I still hope for a series adaptation of the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, rather than a glossy film).
There are some film adaptations of books that are very good (I think Dickens, for most modern audiences, works better adapted), but some others range from "fine" to "why, God, why did you let them do this" (the 90s adaptation of Brave New World springs to mind)
I hope it goes well. Stay safe.
Thanks, I am wandering aimlessly about the city today.
So far the bus is empty.
Immoren wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:Film adaptations rarely match up to the books in my experience (this is most true, I find, if it's a book you love). To fit the length, they always have to cut storylines, merge characters, change things that you find vital for the plot (although, TV adaptations that allow for expansion can match expectations: The Handmaid's Tale series was much better than the 1990 movie; and I still hope for a series adaptation of the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, rather than a glossy film).
True, but it still baffles me, because source material ought to be simple in this case to adapt.
Especially if you focus on first book and not like try to nuclear fusion 2-3 first books of the series into single 90min movie.
by Izandai » Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:18 am
The Free Joy State wrote:
I'm going to guess, one of the bots (Bing, Google, etc...) was probably scanning that thread when someone checked the "Who Is Online" page, and someone looked at the thread and posted (not realising how old it was).
It's a mistake that's easy enough to make, if you don't realise the bots go through the site's ancient history (on the other hand, the bots sometimes boost some quite entertaining threads if you're just bored and browsing).
Always advisable to check the last date of the last post, of course; but I can see how it might be done.
by Immoren » Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:19 am
discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there
by The Free Joy State » Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:46 am
Izandai wrote:The Free Joy State wrote:I'm going to guess, one of the bots (Bing, Google, etc...) was probably scanning that thread when someone checked the "Who Is Online" page, and someone looked at the thread and posted (not realising how old it was).
It's a mistake that's easy enough to make, if you don't realise the bots go through the site's ancient history (on the other hand, the bots sometimes boost some quite entertaining threads if you're just bored and browsing).
Always advisable to check the last date of the last post, of course; but I can see how it might be done.
Ah, I see. Never looked at that page before, but I get it now. What are those bots? Are they just the crawlers the search engines use to do what they do?
by Izandai » Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:55 am
The Free Joy State wrote:Izandai wrote:Ah, I see. Never looked at that page before, but I get it now. What are those bots? Are they just the crawlers the search engines use to do what they do?
Yep, as far as I can gather, the bots just create searchable indexes of webpages for the various search engines.
Here you are: Googlebot.
by The Cosmic Mainframe » Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:00 am
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by Auremena » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:22 am
by Dumb Ideologies » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:29 am
Auremena wrote:Oddest thing about my new laptop is I can pick it up without it falling apart...
I've like, not put the RTX to good use yet, not really got any software to do it with.
Probably just FS2020 when it comes out. Ray tracing on that is gonna be fabbbbbb
by The Cosmic Mainframe » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:30 am
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Auremena wrote:Oddest thing about my new laptop is I can pick it up without it falling apart...
I've like, not put the RTX to good use yet, not really got any software to do it with.
Probably just FS2020 when it comes out. Ray tracing on that is gonna be fabbbbbb
ray just messaged me, he doesnt want to be traced
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by Valentine Z » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:42 am
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by Hurdergaryp » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:45 am
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by Rojava Free State » Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:54 am
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.
by Valentine Z » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:05 am
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by Hurdergaryp » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:28 am
by Auremena » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:33 am
I even remember the 5.25" even though at my age I definitely should *not.* I found most 3.5" cases to be rather rigid and the 5.25" to be the "actual" floppy one (yes I know it was about the internal film disc)
by The Cosmic Mainframe » Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:35 am
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by Hurdergaryp » Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:05 am
by The Village Green SSR » Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:43 am
Valrifell wrote:Accidentally shared my NationStates tab on a lab meeting with the research professor who pays me to analyze data
brb gonna kill myself.
by Valrifell » Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:45 am
The Village Green SSR wrote:Valrifell wrote:Accidentally shared my NationStates tab on a lab meeting with the research professor who pays me to analyze data
brb gonna kill myself.
Please don't end your life, Valrifell.
by Luziyca » Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:55 am
Infected Mushroom wrote:Luziyca wrote:If it's a WebEx lecture, I do. I don't do as well if they're like "here's the material we didn't cover, here's the essays due, read on your own, and we'll give you final exams :3" like my profs did when my uni switched to online learning at the start of this.
I do prefer in-person classes, and I hope in January 2021, I can go back to campus and learn in person, because that way, I won't be as distracted by the internet. That is also why I don't do well notetaking on a laptop during class.
Well, at least with WebEx you can replay the lectures if you miss something on one hearing right?
This gives me nightmare flashbacks to law school. It was such a struggle in so many classes to stay awake. Somehow I still graduated. Bad times though.
The Free Joy State wrote:Luziyca wrote:If it's a WebEx lecture, I do. I don't do as well if they're like "here's the material we didn't cover, here's the essays due, read on your own, and we'll give you final exams :3" like my profs did when my uni switched to online learning at the start of this.
I do prefer in-person classes, and I hope in January 2021, I can go back to campus and learn in person, because that way, I won't be as distracted by the internet. That is also why I don't do well notetaking on a laptop during class.
I am so glad we didn't have e-lectures back when I was a student. Internet distractions were enough of a problem during all my assignments, and my dissertation.
I hope you can get (safely) back in the class soon. University education is expensive enough as it is.
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