How im also raising my little guy
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I don’t like being so seen.
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I rewatched Mythbusters recently. It's pretty disturbing, especially in the early seasons, how often they use actual human remains for what is essentially light entertainment. Like, they'll destroy an actual human skull for shits and giggles. They had disproved the myth on setting off an airbag with a slim jim and firing it into the head of a would be car jacker, but still had to replicate the results, so just shot a slim jim into an actual human skull, cheering and laughing as it's decimated. That was an actual person's skull. How they sourced it, and where the source acquired it, who knows. I'm fairly certain there is a family somewhere though that would be mortified.
I'm fine with that. I mean, bodies aren't really people anymore. The people part flickers out to nothingness, leaving the meat husk.
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You can't see the applicability in investigating the creation of surface indications of handheld objects on skin being subjected to various degrees of force, or demonstrating a method of investigating that question to the general television viewing public? Not even being slightly sarcastic or insincere here, I'm very curious what qualities qualify something as being 'science' to you. Not being in a lab excludes archaeology, and not publishing your findings to Nature excludes
methe unfathomably vast majority of scientists from counting as 'scientists'.wrote on last edited by [email protected]The priority on Mythbusters is always entertainment first, not science. It's not best practices, it's what is visually appealing. It's not data driven, it's shooting schedule. The skulls are not necessary tools, they are props. Adam Savage himself states that the goal is to "replicate the circumstances, then duplicate the results", or in other words, create a spectical. Which again, is fine, but is not hard science. If you can't tell the difference between hard science and television I don't know what to do for you.
But I suspect you understand this already, and are motivated more by the excitement of eliciting a response by adopting a posture of "enlightened" objectivty, blowing the minds of us lesser beings, us superstitious cave dwellers, than by legitimately considering the finer points of profiting off of human remains or the needless destruction therof.
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I fear that he won’t get many friends this way
Mainstream might be boring but it’s an easy way to connect with people
This was the argument I used in high school when I wanted an Xbox 360. My parents were super reluctant given the cost, and then I told them I have nothing to talk about with friends in the hallways and I'm left out of conversations (I was). They reconsidered and eventually folded, and I was very appreciative
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Needs more BattleBots.
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I didn't get many friends the old fashioned way and I turned out fine in the end.
maybe you could have had an even better life had it happened
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you don't need to try so hard, just don't let him have weird ideas about gender and hope he befriends at least one girl. that'll be enough. all these idiots need is a female friend going "don't be an idiot that's not how things work".
Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you "your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that's why people won't kiss you, go to the dentist"
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I'm not
deadextinct yet!I'm making a note here: Huge success
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Cosmos (the original)
Connections with James Burke
Secret Life of Machines
All of David MacAulay’s books
Man, Connections was such a good show. I gotta rewatch that sometime.
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If you want to put a little note saying 'the movies are overrated' sure, we can have a debate about that. Fantasy films really aren't for everyone, and adapting LotR is definitely not an easy task.
If you genuinely mean the books as well, idk what to tell you. The history of the fantasy genre after LotR proves you're wrong.
Modern fantasy owners might be standing on the shoulders of giants, but to extend the metaphor, it means their heads are higher than those giants.
LOTR could be overrated as a piece of fantasy writing for a modern audience, even if it is absolutely key to establishing the modern fantasy genre. For me, LOTR was good, but it was unsatisfying in some ways. Like, Gandalf and Saruman were obviously powerful "wizards", but what is it that they could do? How did their powers work? And there were characters like Tom Bombadil who were confusing and had me flipping pages.
I greatly respect Tolkien's work. But, unlike some more modern authors, I don't devour everything he wrote. For example, I absolutely couldn't read the Silmarillion.
So, yeah, I can see how someone would say that LOTR is overrated, even if it was key to establishing an entire genre.
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Don't forget futurama and star trek
Star Trek is a difficult one. The oldest stuff is very dated, even TNG has some things that are very weird for a modern audience. But, some of the modern stuff is basically unwatchable.
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Star Trek is a difficult one. The oldest stuff is very dated, even TNG has some things that are very weird for a modern audience. But, some of the modern stuff is basically unwatchable.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yea there's some dated episodes but there's also measure of a man, past tense and a bunch of others that still absolutely slap
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Even if you dislike the story, its impact on the fantasy genre is hard to argue against. I personally dislike the series too, but I refuse to call it overrated because it influences basically every aspect of modern fantasy writing.
Having a massive influence is just proof of it being overrated, imagine how much more creative stories would be if everything didn't have to force in elves and dwarves and goblins
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Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you "your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that's why people won't kiss you, go to the dentist"
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I always wonder where are the mothers of these shitty young men?
Like.
If I even thought of going into a misogynistic phase during my younger years, my mother would have put me in my place, yanno?
Are anglo mothers less sprited than latin american mothers?
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Having a massive influence is just proof of it being overrated, imagine how much more creative stories would be if everything didn't have to force in elves and dwarves and goblins
wrote on last edited by [email protected]My point wasn’t that fantasy needs elves, but rather that when a fantasy setting does include elves, you likely have a rough expectation of what kind of stereotype they’ll fit. That stereotype is the influence I’m talking about.
The “elves are old, somber, magical, close with nature, tall and thin, magically graceful, pale, have pointy ears, have delicate swooping architecture and designs, etc” stereotype is what you’d likely expect from elves if they get brought up in fantasy… And that stereotype is largely influenced by LOTR. A setting can still be fantasy without elves, but including elves in your story will have the reader automatically setting certain expectations about how those elves will fit into your world. You as the writer can choose to conform to (or rebel against) those expectations, but there’s no denying that the expectation exists, and is heavily influenced by LOTR.
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I fear that he won’t get many friends this way
Mainstream might be boring but it’s an easy way to connect with people
That's the trouble with gamers these days, they're only in it for the friendship. Fucking posers.
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I rewatched Mythbusters recently. It's pretty disturbing, especially in the early seasons, how often they use actual human remains for what is essentially light entertainment. Like, they'll destroy an actual human skull for shits and giggles. They had disproved the myth on setting off an airbag with a slim jim and firing it into the head of a would be car jacker, but still had to replicate the results, so just shot a slim jim into an actual human skull, cheering and laughing as it's decimated. That was an actual person's skull. How they sourced it, and where the source acquired it, who knows. I'm fairly certain there is a family somewhere though that would be mortified.
I don't see what's disturbing about that. As long as the bodies come from a legal, reputable source, what's the big deal?
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Needs more BattleBots.
Robot Wars.
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I always wonder where are the mothers of these shitty young men?
Like.
If I even thought of going into a misogynistic phase during my younger years, my mother would have put me in my place, yanno?
Are anglo mothers less sprited than latin american mothers?
They're at home, suffering their husbands abuse while their son learns to be just like Dad.
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I fear that he won’t get many friends this way
Mainstream might be boring but it’s an easy way to connect with people
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Column A, Column B
The trick is to introduce your kid to your taste in gaming while they're young
And then when they are in their tweens and want to game online with their mates, you set them up for it (with proper supervision and such, of course)
And they WILL develop their own taste in gaming -- But they will have some common ground with you still.
.... It worked for me and my dad (avid PC gamer, mostly plays strategy games and management sims though) anyway. Years later I convinced him to get Civ V and he completely destroyed me in it.
