Just Saying -- the soapbox thread

[Muadzin]

I has always boggled my mind how the US has allowed its voting systems to become such a dispersed mess. 3rd world countries like India, which has 4 times as many people and endemic corruptions organizes its elections better. A clear case of of the law of the handicap of a head start if there ever was one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_start

[alanp]

Fascinating analysis of Deadpool from a psych point of view, and the end part honestly reminds me of Granny Weatherwax's headology. (A man is convinced he is being chased by a monster. A psychologist tries to convince him monsters are not real and there has never been any evidence. Granny would give the man a big, heavy stick and a chair to stand on.)

[alanp]

There are times when matching up multiple fictional universes makes for interesting thought experiments. But one fictional universe is the eight hundred pound gorilla in any match-up.

Which faction has the best defended homeworld between Warhammer 40k, Halo, Mass Effect, and Star Wars?

Gee, I wonder. It's more like a competition to see who can come in second place. No matter what the match-up is, Warhammer 40k has the most over the top example of it. Possibly including actual fun and pleasure, given the presence of Slaanesh (although, for the Imperium, they come in dead last for pleasure, apart from worlds dedicated to R&R... oh, for fu--)

[alanp]

https://subsubroutine.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/bayesian-vitalstatistix-what-kind-of-dog-was-dogmatix/#more-128

I'm just throwing this link in to remind myself in future when I think I'm worrying too much about details that are probably quite silly, in the end.

(I'm inclined to think that Dogmatix was a mutt, myself, not a particular breed.)

[alanp]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/table-games-dealer/KB2Q7CGPMZB2T3PTFNYJ6LXSQU/

Huh. I just learnt that tipping your dealer, in a New Zealand casino, is actually illegal, not just "not part of the culture" (for this particular job, at least... if you're a visiting USAian, you can still tip your espresso and flat white distributors.) It's considered a bribe, or an attempt at making the game something other than fair, apparently.

[Muadzin]

There are times when matching up multiple fictional universes makes for interesting thought experiments. But one fictional universe is the eight hundred pound gorilla in any match-up.

Which faction has the best defended homeworld between Warhammer 40k, Halo, Mass Effect, and Star Wars?

Gee, I wonder. It's more like a competition to see who can come in second place. No matter what the match-up is, Warhammer 40k has the most over the top example of it. Possibly including actual fun and pleasure, given the presence of Slaanesh (although, for the Imperium, they come in dead last for pleasure, apart from worlds dedicated to R&R... oh, for fu--)

Pff, your average major world in the Imperium of Man is better fortified then the homeworlds of other scifi universes. Just look at the three wars for Armageddon.

[alanp]

Got a shirt for Christmas, and I think that it's absolutely brilliant. (For the uninitiated, Berserk is a nigh-legendary manga from Japan, and Guts has probably inspired several hundred similar characters.)

[Muadzin]

Better let Lars Ulrich not see that. For he will fire up that one warrior that beats even a berserker, the lawyer.

[Willybomb]

Better let Lars Ulrich not see that. For he will fire up that one warrior that beats even a berserker, the lawyer.

In Lar's defence, he saw the whole mp3 thing coming with Napster.

[jimilee]

Better let Lars Ulrich not see that. For he will fire up that one warrior that beats even a berserker, the lawyer.

In Lar's defence, he saw the whole mp3 thing coming with Napster.

He wasn't looking at the bigger picture. It spurred album sales. People that downloaded, weren't going to buy the album anyway.


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[Muadzin]

Better let Lars Ulrich not see that. For he will fire up that one warrior that beats even a berserker, the lawyer.

In Lar's defence, he saw the whole mp3 thing coming with Napster.

He saw the end of the music industry business model coming. But using repression to prop up a failing business model is not the answer, what's needed is a new business model. In that sense he was more like some middle eastern dictator unleashing his armies on protesters then the next Steve Jobs. And caused unrecoverable harm to the Metallica brand. There are people to this day who hate the band because of what he did and who used to be fans. The only way I can still stomach listening to their music is by pretending Metallica died after the Black Album tour and some tribute band took over. Which IMHO also explained why all successive albums have been shite.

[alanp]

Without Lars going nuts, we wouldn't have gotten the Napster BAAAD! animations, though!

[Bio77]

I've been listening to Led Zeppelin, recently.  I'm not sure if I'm interpreting the lyrics correctly, but I think Robert Plant might be really good at sex.

[thesmokingman]

the blues songwriters he's lifting lyrical content from probably were.

[jimilee]

the blues songwriters he's lifting lyrical content from probably were.

Oh I know, I can't believe how much they lifted. If my calculations are right, there are only approximately 12 original blues songs and every one covered them. I've been listening to bluesville on XM radio. They play early early recorded stuff, and even those guys were ripping each other off.


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