metaltao's favorite notices, page 53
This is a way to share what you like.
-
So the iOS version of Vice City censors every use of the word "Haitian" because some anti-defamation group threatened to sue back in 2003. Well, they adjusted the audio, but not the cutscenes, so I just got treated to a full three seconds of Avery Carrington flailing his arms about with nothing coming out of his mouth because they straight-up just removed the word "Haitian" from the audio file, meaning all his dialogue was out of sync from the video.
-
@mrmattimation Meanwhile, I'm sitting here playing tetris on an original gameboy...
-
those ants are under arrest http://rainbowdash.net/url/823906
Tuesday, 09-Jun-15 00:31:26 UTC from web -
I'M COMING FOR YOU SIX-LEGGED batcaveERS
-
I can appreciate Atlas Shrugged as a well constructed narrative, but I disagree with a lot of its philosophical framework. The system of Objectivism is incredibly reductive of the nature of art, promotes a presumptuous and obstinate engagement of epistemology grounded only on loose empiricism, and effectively romanticizes the prospect of being a totally selfish jerk to everyone around you.
-
@rarity Essentially, yeah. Libertarianism prides itself on being a school of thought structured around this idea of "I do what I want and live life how I want! Yeah!" but when applied to a broader real world context it comes off as incredibly misguided, immature, and self-obsessed. It tries to ground itself with this notion of humans all being in this hypothetical race at the same starting point, with ostensibly the fastest being the most successful and the most "objectively" good person, ethically or otherwise. But this view of the world is awfully childish and reductive, because it COMPLETELY neglects the concepts of privilege, class, race, gender, cultural climate, and several other legitimately influential components of the likelihood for a person's supposed "success". It's because of caveats like those that the only people who can really abide by Libertarianism are people who have advantageous placements in many of those components and are too naive to see otherwise.
-
@metaltao Braeburn Network http://rainbowdash.net/url/823818
-
@metaltao Honestly my policy is avoiding talking spoilers in public places (unless it's a platform like this where it can be censored), and when talking in groups ask before you divulge. If I'm the receiving end, more often than not I don't care about spoilers, but it's something I've been specifically very excited for I'll probably try and avoid them.
-
@metaltao Actually, yeah! Especially in an age where media is a more active part of our culture than ever before, it makes sense that how we engage with our media would become crucial to our culture. For some people spoilers can bitter their media engagement experience, while for others it can heighten their ability to bask in their media more critically due to foreknowledge.
-
@metaltao With the dawn of the internet, it is continually becoming harder and harder to hide from spoilers for your favourite shows.
-
@metaltao Night Metal
-
@metaltao I am an HVAC doctor. Interestingly enough, I have an interview next week for a job doing HVAC and maintenance work in a hospital setting. :D
-
Saturday, 06-Jun-15 02:34:51 UTC from web
-
@tiffany *grabs riding crop*
-
@nerthos metal's weird
-
Only Braeburn can save us
-
@metaltao My weakness is having guns and ammunition sent to me.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/267/3/f/liarjack_scrunch_by_reuniclus-d4asxab.png -
Friday, 05-Jun-15 06:35:36 UTC from web
-
Harsh opposition to homophobia.
