I'm slightly disappointed you didn't lead off with "naked aggression". Seriously though, clearly we are going to get a mental health angle here, especially if his reported criminal history turns out to be accurate.
no, it is not. Magazine was the term he should have went with there. "Proper Nomenclature" social media is second only to "Spelling/Grammar" social media in swiftness to correct so no dount he's barraged by now.
When my oldest did her college tours her top choice was VT (ended up going else where do to better scholarship offers), but I remember how much they pushed safety and all the upfront things they talked about that had changed since the shooting. It was quite impressive. There is a good write up on it and the changes both there and nationally (such as amending the Clery Act) found here https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/clery/virginia_tech_shooting_anniversary_emergency_preparedness/
Hard to believe that was over 10 years ago now.
8-tracks did go down the memory hole, but I did see a rather creative DIY youtube video where someone had figured out how to rewire the old 8-track cassette converters so they could play their IPhones through their super '70s car audio systems. Ingenuity is an amazing thing.
I was born in 80 as well. I did buy tapes but it was because they were so much cheaper as CD's were taking over, then all CD's of course. A few of the "chain" record stores came and went but nothing that really captured the imagination. Nothing in my hometown like Budget Tapes & Records, which still is stereotypical of the classic record store, so it was always a treat to get to go there.
We didn't rate a blockbuster in our little town, but had locally owned so you had to behave or you folks got a straight phone call. I distinctly remember my father renting a VCR and bringing it along with movies home to watch, the first time I ever saw one. Top loading VCR, with westerns for the folks and Lucky Luke in Daisy Town for me. How in the world I remember that I don't know, but I do. Brought it home in a padded bag that looked like the pizza delivery bags do now. Few times of that he finally bought our own.
If anything, I think music videos and more interactive mediums like that have improved. MTV was the initial platform, but also was a chokepoint and arbiter of what was acceptable and going to be seen. No doubt the Artist that treasure their expression and freedom now would have chaffed at the days when negotiating with Viacom about what they would/would not show on air was part of the creative process.
My metal cased I-pod mini that I got for a deployment in '05 still works just fine, just cant update or interface with it any longer. It is almost like my own little music time machine in some ways, frozen in that period of my life since I cannot alter the music on it. I'm not a huge fan or member of the Apple cult, but that thing did two long tours to Iraq, lots of other travel, and has been darn near bullet-proof.
I'm roughly ten years younger than you. I agree that something is lost, but the flip side is there is also a positive. Streaming opens up a lot of music I would have otherwise never been exposed too. My children fall in love with the most amazing array of music since a Pandora or Spotify will throw out random stuff. Its gratifying to me, anyway, when like all kids that age they are singing along to whatever pop hit is popular but then they are like "Oh I like this" to some Chi-lites and start singing along to "oh, girl" or a GunsNRoses song. It isn't all bad, just different.
I enjoy stick shifts and hardback books, I just generationally missed having that same connection to records as I was tape and then CD's in my teens. Streaming has all but killed album covers and booklet work, so it is a good point to raise there. Pre-internet that was about the extent of information on an album you were going to get.
Vinyl had pretty much given way to tapes by the time I was growing up, and then CD's of course. But my dad still had the old record stereo system down in the basement that works. It say on top of this old dresser, and the drawers were full of records: early rock-n-roll, lots of the vocal groups like Temptations, Platters, Spinners, a ton of 70's R&B music with some country thrown in. It contrasted so much to the music I was hearing in the late 80's and through the 90s it made an impression. I know the vinyl enthusiast long insisted the records sounded better, and that no doubt was true with early 8-track/cassett tapes, but these days with the quality of streaming my philistine ear cannot tell a difference. So like you if I got a record it would mostly be decoration or collection.
From my understanding it, the term literally means "parallel policy" of economics and nuclear weapons. That was a departure from military first, but not an inconsistent one. It was a 5-year economic plan, as socialist dictators are so found of. Thus the rationalization that if DPRK is satisfied in its nukes it will focus on the economics.
I think you are probably right on most of that. I wonder and worry that we, meaning the US, have already promised them something significant to get this amount of public backtracking from them, even though it's mostly rhetoric that they can mostly ignore later on. Statements like "suspending nuclear testing" sound great but is meaningless if they have the weaponized warhead. We haven't tested a Nuke in some times, but no one doubts us having it. It's words to elicit one response, while conveying another meaning entirely.
It is as good point. So much of the gaming I did as a kid progressing from Atari to 8-bit, 16-bit and so on was to "beat the game" and mostly involved memorizing the patterns of whatever the gameplay was. So it was far more fun usually to play a 2-player game. TMNT was a big one. For some reason I remember a game called Marble Madness that was mostly playing co-op, and my friends we played Rescue Rangers a bunch since you could literally just pick up your buddy and throw them to the bad guys, which had IRL consequences usually. Online will not ever have that same feel of sitting beside someone, and blaming the controller when you lost.
As of now, I think your third option there is closest to reality, and Trump & Co. will spin it as if they did something epic diplomacy wise when it was really just the DPRK getting what they wanted and declaring victory.
Agree with you. One thing that has me questioning, and it has been this way for a few weeks before this, is South Korea was disseminating all this positive stuff about the North. We now know that the US was working behind the scenes at that time, but it was very odd the sudden shift. Too much to just block quote but the political and commentary folks seem to be way out in front with hope while the actual analyst, the experts if there can be on the Hermit Kingdom, seem much more unconvinced.
Its a good point. I suspect their dropping US withdrawl would lean more towards them having, or at least thinking they have, weaponized their nuke to the point of being a deterrent from any aggression from the south. I'm like you, maybe they are just being uber-benevolent, but I doubt it.
Speaking only for myself here, I try to differentiate the politics here in the US with the international part, though they overlap. DPRK has broken promises with Clinton, Bush, and Obama with various congressional makeups. Their agenda runs despite our current political makeup. I am ever hopeful, but skeptical that things have changed that drastically that quickly. It may be as simple as they have, to their satisfaction, the level of weapon development from their nuclear program and are content that gets them their seat at the big kids table. Or maybe the non-existent economy finally forced action. Or China finally reigned in their neighbor. There is much here, so we will see. Trust but verify.
I think you hit exactly on the point I drive at, just better than I can word it. I know its a gamer and tech thing foremost, but I wonder if the demarcation on VR is really the immersion factor, as you lay it out. There is just going to be a swath of the population that cannot breach that barrier. Although not completely analogous think on how 3D/4D movie experience comes and goes with a new bit of technology, but never really goes "mainstream". We've had IMAX for 20+ years now. No doubt technology will improve but we probably need to also have a conversation of that technology pushing the limits on senses, and for some people that's just too far. I'll probably try it at some point, but the immersion factor, which is admittedly an issue for me, will probably be the make or break far above the actual game experience. Believe me with a household of 9 right now a helmet sounds good most of the time, but impractical.
I appreciate your thoughts and sharing that. You have a very unique perspective on this indeed and I am glad you are sharing it with us. I should have, but didn't think to, look up the actual people behind just the statistics on how rare commercial flight deaths are. It is a good reminder those numbers, rare as they are, are very important to the people they represent.
As you rightly point out Harris was a sociopath, and while it is valid to examine that, a lot of these things come down to a very uncomfortable place: we are trying to fit logic and reason onto something that will probably never fit into those forms. The outliers like Harris are just not going to be very applicable to the general population. Lessons to be learned, but few rules that can be universally applied.
@jaybird so honest question, in light of your previous post on Skyrim VR, with just a brief background so you know where I'm coming from:
I'm probably a just-below average gamer: have a Steam account, no particularly special equipment other higher-end graphics card on PC to keep up, ect. play maybe an hour or two average a day.
What is the argument for someone like me to make a jump both physical equipment and time investment to VR? Or do you foresee it as an all-in type change in your gaming habits? Do you see VR expanding past "hardcore gamer" stereotype?
On “Waffle House in Tennessee Scene of Fatal Shooting *Updated*”
I'm slightly disappointed you didn't lead off with "naked aggression". Seriously though, clearly we are going to get a mental health angle here, especially if his reported criminal history turns out to be accurate.
On “National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine”
no, it is not. Magazine was the term he should have went with there. "Proper Nomenclature" social media is second only to "Spelling/Grammar" social media in swiftness to correct so no dount he's barraged by now.
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When my oldest did her college tours her top choice was VT (ended up going else where do to better scholarship offers), but I remember how much they pushed safety and all the upfront things they talked about that had changed since the shooting. It was quite impressive. There is a good write up on it and the changes both there and nationally (such as amending the Clery Act) found here https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/clery/virginia_tech_shooting_anniversary_emergency_preparedness/
Hard to believe that was over 10 years ago now.
On “Record Store Day 2018”
8-tracks did go down the memory hole, but I did see a rather creative DIY youtube video where someone had figured out how to rewire the old 8-track cassette converters so they could play their IPhones through their super '70s car audio systems. Ingenuity is an amazing thing.
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I was born in 80 as well. I did buy tapes but it was because they were so much cheaper as CD's were taking over, then all CD's of course. A few of the "chain" record stores came and went but nothing that really captured the imagination. Nothing in my hometown like Budget Tapes & Records, which still is stereotypical of the classic record store, so it was always a treat to get to go there.
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We didn't rate a blockbuster in our little town, but had locally owned so you had to behave or you folks got a straight phone call. I distinctly remember my father renting a VCR and bringing it along with movies home to watch, the first time I ever saw one. Top loading VCR, with westerns for the folks and Lucky Luke in Daisy Town for me. How in the world I remember that I don't know, but I do. Brought it home in a padded bag that looked like the pizza delivery bags do now. Few times of that he finally bought our own.
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If anything, I think music videos and more interactive mediums like that have improved. MTV was the initial platform, but also was a chokepoint and arbiter of what was acceptable and going to be seen. No doubt the Artist that treasure their expression and freedom now would have chaffed at the days when negotiating with Viacom about what they would/would not show on air was part of the creative process.
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My metal cased I-pod mini that I got for a deployment in '05 still works just fine, just cant update or interface with it any longer. It is almost like my own little music time machine in some ways, frozen in that period of my life since I cannot alter the music on it. I'm not a huge fan or member of the Apple cult, but that thing did two long tours to Iraq, lots of other travel, and has been darn near bullet-proof.
On “Return of the Rudy”
Made me laugh, first of all, but reminded me of a conversation with a NYC friend over the weekend: this really is a totally in character Rudy move.
On “Record Store Day 2018”
I'm roughly ten years younger than you. I agree that something is lost, but the flip side is there is also a positive. Streaming opens up a lot of music I would have otherwise never been exposed too. My children fall in love with the most amazing array of music since a Pandora or Spotify will throw out random stuff. Its gratifying to me, anyway, when like all kids that age they are singing along to whatever pop hit is popular but then they are like "Oh I like this" to some Chi-lites and start singing along to "oh, girl" or a GunsNRoses song. It isn't all bad, just different.
"
I enjoy stick shifts and hardback books, I just generationally missed having that same connection to records as I was tape and then CD's in my teens. Streaming has all but killed album covers and booklet work, so it is a good point to raise there. Pre-internet that was about the extent of information on an album you were going to get.
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Vinyl had pretty much given way to tapes by the time I was growing up, and then CD's of course. But my dad still had the old record stereo system down in the basement that works. It say on top of this old dresser, and the drawers were full of records: early rock-n-roll, lots of the vocal groups like Temptations, Platters, Spinners, a ton of 70's R&B music with some country thrown in. It contrasted so much to the music I was hearing in the late 80's and through the 90s it made an impression. I know the vinyl enthusiast long insisted the records sounded better, and that no doubt was true with early 8-track/cassett tapes, but these days with the quality of streaming my philistine ear cannot tell a difference. So like you if I got a record it would mostly be decoration or collection.
On “North Korea, Kim Jong-un Reportedly Making Big Promises”
From my understanding it, the term literally means "parallel policy" of economics and nuclear weapons. That was a departure from military first, but not an inconsistent one. It was a 5-year economic plan, as socialist dictators are so found of. Thus the rationalization that if DPRK is satisfied in its nukes it will focus on the economics.
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I think you are probably right on most of that. I wonder and worry that we, meaning the US, have already promised them something significant to get this amount of public backtracking from them, even though it's mostly rhetoric that they can mostly ignore later on. Statements like "suspending nuclear testing" sound great but is meaningless if they have the weaponized warhead. We haven't tested a Nuke in some times, but no one doubts us having it. It's words to elicit one response, while conveying another meaning entirely.
On “Saturday!”
It is as good point. So much of the gaming I did as a kid progressing from Atari to 8-bit, 16-bit and so on was to "beat the game" and mostly involved memorizing the patterns of whatever the gameplay was. So it was far more fun usually to play a 2-player game. TMNT was a big one. For some reason I remember a game called Marble Madness that was mostly playing co-op, and my friends we played Rescue Rangers a bunch since you could literally just pick up your buddy and throw them to the bad guys, which had IRL consequences usually. Online will not ever have that same feel of sitting beside someone, and blaming the controller when you lost.
On “North Korea, Kim Jong-un Reportedly Making Big Promises”
As of now, I think your third option there is closest to reality, and Trump & Co. will spin it as if they did something epic diplomacy wise when it was really just the DPRK getting what they wanted and declaring victory.
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They will give it to Kim Jong-un and I'm only half-way kidding about that.
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Agree with you. One thing that has me questioning, and it has been this way for a few weeks before this, is South Korea was disseminating all this positive stuff about the North. We now know that the US was working behind the scenes at that time, but it was very odd the sudden shift. Too much to just block quote but the political and commentary folks seem to be way out in front with hope while the actual analyst, the experts if there can be on the Hermit Kingdom, seem much more unconvinced.
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Its a good point. I suspect their dropping US withdrawl would lean more towards them having, or at least thinking they have, weaponized their nuke to the point of being a deterrent from any aggression from the south. I'm like you, maybe they are just being uber-benevolent, but I doubt it.
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Speaking only for myself here, I try to differentiate the politics here in the US with the international part, though they overlap. DPRK has broken promises with Clinton, Bush, and Obama with various congressional makeups. Their agenda runs despite our current political makeup. I am ever hopeful, but skeptical that things have changed that drastically that quickly. It may be as simple as they have, to their satisfaction, the level of weapon development from their nuclear program and are content that gets them their seat at the big kids table. Or maybe the non-existent economy finally forced action. Or China finally reigned in their neighbor. There is much here, so we will see. Trust but verify.
On “Saturday!”
There is that...
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I think you hit exactly on the point I drive at, just better than I can word it. I know its a gamer and tech thing foremost, but I wonder if the demarcation on VR is really the immersion factor, as you lay it out. There is just going to be a swath of the population that cannot breach that barrier. Although not completely analogous think on how 3D/4D movie experience comes and goes with a new bit of technology, but never really goes "mainstream". We've had IMAX for 20+ years now. No doubt technology will improve but we probably need to also have a conversation of that technology pushing the limits on senses, and for some people that's just too far. I'll probably try it at some point, but the immersion factor, which is admittedly an issue for me, will probably be the make or break far above the actual game experience. Believe me with a household of 9 right now a helmet sounds good most of the time, but impractical.
On “1 Dead in Southwest Emergency Landing”
I appreciate your thoughts and sharing that. You have a very unique perspective on this indeed and I am glad you are sharing it with us. I should have, but didn't think to, look up the actual people behind just the statistics on how rare commercial flight deaths are. It is a good reminder those numbers, rare as they are, are very important to the people they represent.
On “National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine”
As you rightly point out Harris was a sociopath, and while it is valid to examine that, a lot of these things come down to a very uncomfortable place: we are trying to fit logic and reason onto something that will probably never fit into those forms. The outliers like Harris are just not going to be very applicable to the general population. Lessons to be learned, but few rules that can be universally applied.
On “Saturday!”
@jaybird so honest question, in light of your previous post on Skyrim VR, with just a brief background so you know where I'm coming from:
I'm probably a just-below average gamer: have a Steam account, no particularly special equipment other higher-end graphics card on PC to keep up, ect. play maybe an hour or two average a day.
What is the argument for someone like me to make a jump both physical equipment and time investment to VR? Or do you foresee it as an all-in type change in your gaming habits? Do you see VR expanding past "hardcore gamer" stereotype?