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"Here's a health to the ship's designer and the welders of her seams
And all who man the radar scan to watch our dawning dreams.
To all the unknown heroes, sing out to every shore!
What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
Leslie Fish, "A Toast to Unknown Heroes"
"Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong." -Karl Popper
Ayn Rand- "The philosopher-in-chief to the intellectually bankrupt." Sherlock Holmes, Elementary
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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." John Rogers
"Here's a health to the ship's designer and the welders of her seams
And all who man the radar scan to watch our dawning dreams.
To all the unknown heroes, sing out to every shore!
What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
Leslie Fish, "A Toast to Unknown Heroes"
"Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a language which has reached a particular degree of development through the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong." -Karl Popper
Ayn Rand- "The philosopher-in-chief to the intellectually bankrupt." Sherlock Holmes, Elementary
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Fallout: The TV Show
3 weeks agoTo its credit it made it all the way to episode five.
I was put off in episode one by that jackass Maxon's fascist death ship the Prydwen stinking up the skies when it should be rusted and blown to pieces at the bottom of Boston harbor. But I went on. The enslavement of the Commonwealth by Maxon's anti-humanist, human-chauvinist Brotherhood isn't really my business. I never had a chance to play Fallout 4.
No spoilers, and that last part was in the trailer. But, I gave up. And from the start I kind of knew I would. I suspected, from minute one of hearing about it, that since they were setting it in a location used in active games they were going to be pathetically pandering to their bro-iest, stupidest fans. The ones who will pay lots of money to rep a technology cult and post memes about their love for rich guys and power armor. I get it, get that bag. Their MMO is a mess, the next game is slow in coming, and they need the dim folks to go back to remembering the series exists and buying lots of easily available merch, like their new synergistic card deal with Magic: The Gathering, $99.99.95 order now, phone lines are open.
I'm genuinely impressed with what they did with a TV budget, they really nailed the aesthetic, random details included like some of the junk outfits and the oddly still standing flimsy buildings next to complete destruction. The acting was perfect, the thriller elements were perfect, it has a great, interesting mystery. And they did a great job with the FEV mutant axolotl/centaur. Though... that's not how you stop a ghoul from going feral; you actually can't. Oswald the Outrageous had to learn that second-hand the hard way.
It was good what I saw of it, but going in I saw the writing on the wall. The writers needed brand worship and to pander desperately to their most loyal demographic to sell figurines, cards, and other stuff to keep them liquid and solvent. That's the poison chalice that is capitalism. It makes a lot of great extra stuff, but it will make you pay, and not just in trade tokens representing stored work, it makes you do things. At least the things they did had quality.
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