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You are being emotionally manipulated to feel. That's all cinema, really. That doesn't, on its own, make it high or low-brow (and I'm not ascribing a good or bad quality to this emotional manipulation). What makes art Art is conveying a profound aspect of the human condition. A recognition superseding the mundane.

"But I just want a good yarn, there's nothing wrong with that," you protest. OK, fine but at some point, preferably not right at the moment of your death, you ought to challenge the conditioned mind you've been born and raised into because otherwise we find ourselves living out the story that we've been living since the dawn of humanity. It's this story that rapes the earth and covets possession.

Art should challenge. That can happen at any age. These two dimensional superheroes duking it out with transparent villains don't do much more than the manipulating.
> Her statements have been coherent, extensive and detailed; however, my overall assessment is that the evidential situation has been weakened to such an extent that that there is no longer any reason to continue the investigation.

I used to think Sweden was "woke" and progressive but I was mistaken. A statement like this by law enforcement in California would be unacceptable.
Since you use to work for Amazon, I would suspect that your bar for acceptable support would be a lot higher. Even on the business support plan, opening up a ticket and starting a live chat is close to immediate with AWS. I’ve used them as the “easy button” plenty of times when I probably could have figured out the issue myself but didn’t want to waste time. They are batting close to 100.

The one exception was a weird ECS error I kept getting that they couldn’t figure out. I realized later on that I hosed the permissions trying to do something cross account.

I’m sure they would have eventually figured that out.
Is it possible for a youtuber to switch their videos to silence/mute/delete the audio, while leaving up the video?
I have a theory that this obsession with superheros is part of a greater obsession with continuity. Whether it's TV shows or cinematic universes, people crave a sense of continuity in their narrative. Right now there's a lack of continuity, a lack of semantic cohesion within the world. Values have disintegrated. Stuff that would have been otherwise meaningful, whether that be working class life, or the institution of the presidency or the guarantees of a college degree, are now meaningless or less meaningful.
And programmers in particular are taken with the notion that they are exceptional. They are, or aim to be, "10x programmers" who deserve multiples of their coworkers. They're already paid multiples of workers with comparable skills and comparable working hours -- though they do like to reinforce the myth of their superiority by working long hours.

They're not the usual temporarily embarrassed millionaires. They're temporarily comfortable billionaires.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was only compatible with more recent VR sets. They are giving a shot at an engine that could set the pace for the next decade, the same way CryEngine 3 and Unreal Engine 4 couldn't run on current generation average rigs when they came out.
Funny that the most durable stories of all time (Gilgamesh, Greek Myths, Norse Myths, the Bible) are all basically superhero stories.
Of course if you buy the XBox bundle, you pay once and you can play Red Dead Redemption 2 as long as you want in 4k. If I get Stadia and want to keep playing my game in 4k a year from now, I have to sign on to a monthly fee.
I agree and I think we've lost the ability to be our own heroes. We're all walking around with massive anxieties and not facing them only makes us more anxious. And don't get me wrong; there's a place for escapism. Everybody needs and deserves a break every now and then. But what I think most people don't realize is that facing those anxieties and fears is far more rewarding and enriching than watching a movie for 90 minutes.

It's ironic that we choose to watch something impossible like a guy who can shoot rays out of his eyes because we think overcoming our own fears is impossible.
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Why, for smoking weed on the Joe Rogan show?

Weed and security clearances are such a non-issue. I had a TS/SCI for years but opted to not get it renewed. Why? I like to smoke weed and don't wish to cause issues with my employment if it were ever to be discovered or found out.

Meanwhile a guy I know who still has a TS/SCI gets blackout drunk weekly.

Go figure.
I don't think there's anything wrong with erring on either side, but at least the appeal process should be better vetted. If you know your system is going to fail, which YouTube has so often it generates drama every month, at least avoid putting more salt in the wound by auto-rejecting everything.
Not everything needs to be a deep exploration of our intellectual and emotional destitution, not for everyone.

I think Moore's criticism and your push-back kind of dovetail into Martin Scorsese's critique[1][2] that comic book movies aren't cinema. It would be fine for comic book movies to be the escapist entertainment they are if they weren't the overwhelming majority of type of movie that is getting made these days.

I wonder if Moore would be as critical if instead of there being 20+ Marvel Character Universe movies in the span of 10 years there had only be say 4 or 5?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m...

[2] The article lightly touches on Scorsese's critique but doesn't go into depth, probably because Moore is critiquing the "matter" and Scorsese is critiquing the "medium", but they intertwine heavily.
Most likely is that Epic will eventually raise their commissions, or never reach feature parity with Steam. Steam's networking, workshop, et al aren't cheap to run.
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We are not representative of the general population, so our anecdotes are almost worthless.
> 1. False Positive -- Video is brought down despite it being technically legal. Creator is mad, but YouTube suffers no more liability.

Solution: Create a law that makes it possible for the creator to sue YouTube for a false positive for the same sum that a media company could sue YouTube for for a false negative. This would counterbalance the scales of both types of errors.
Okay but the one time you might expect "teachers" to get the documentation right is when they're throwing their kids into solitary confinement.
It is indeed sad to see MMOs go though they are a bit special in that they are inherently about their communities. Meridian 59 - the first MMO, at least over the Internet - was opensourced a while ago yet if you connect to it now, it is a shell of its former 90s shelf since most people have moved on.
We had them at Case, too, but they weren't that popular.
> similar to what assange would be accused of

That's oddly specific, but still be careful what you're asking for. "Police torture suspect" gives a lot of results, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge

There's a good chance some of those 200 cases were rape cases.

Then there is also the torture of terrorism suspects, if you wish to take that angle since Assange has repeatedly been labeled a terrorist.

Here's two more Wikipedia articles that may be interesting to you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and_the_United_State...

Especially interesting may be the "Domestic Torture in Modern Times" section if you wish to focus on what happened domestically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techn...

Always worth a read.
I'm having a hard time imagining a living situation where you don't have enough space to stand up and move your arms. Could you describe one? At worst it could only be a tiny number of people, maybe people living in their cars, and definitely not the target audience of electronic entertainment.
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Moore seems to be implying they escape in their free time instead of working to improve the world. So they gripe, feel powerless to do anything, and comfort themselves with movies and comics where powerful people like them improve the world.
He couldn't have left whenever he wanted.
Not the OP, but my Apple Watch has changed my life. Being able to track, manage, and be challenged on my exercise habits has helped me lose 30 pounds in 7 months.

Plus the convenience of knowing who’s calling without pulling my phone out, answer the call or text message directly from my Watch, check the temperature at a glance...

And it’s pretty good at telling time, too.
> Stadia costs $129 with no games.

Stadia is a service which Google says will be free in 2020.

The $129 "Stadia FE" is a controller ($79 a la carte) and a Chromecast Ultra ($69 a la carte). "Stadia FE" also comes with two games: Destiny 2 and Samurai Showdown.
While you do have a point, there's a very simple way to collapse comment threads that you don't care about. And instead of commenting on an existing thread about the design (sparing those who have already muted that), you chose to create your own comment thread and further clutter the post discussion.
There's no timelier follow up to Alan Moore's stance on superhero culture than Damon Lindelof's Watchmen which is currently in the middle of its first (and likely only) season run on HBO: https://www.hbo.com/watchmen

It's not only a high-flying feat of television writing, acting, and directing. It's something Moore will likely never endorse or even see (he's apparently denounced any adaptation/continuation of his work) and yet embodies the spirit of Watchmen better than anything I've ever seen in the genre.

Lindelof and Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin records an hourlong podcast (https://www.hbo.com/watchmen/watchmen-listen-to-official-pod...) for HBO talking about the genesis of show, its relationship with the Zach Snyder movie (respect for the form, detachment from the execution and alterations), and the very subject of this BBC piece: people who wear masks to enact vigilante justice are and should be concerning.

The parallels between 1985 and 2019 malaise, worldwide unrest, and that awful feeling that something's not quite right with the way the world is running are incredible well capture by the show.

Whether you've read the graphic novel or not, I can't recommend watching HBO's Watchmen enough. Even if you dismiss it as an unworthy heir to Moore and Gibbon's work, you will without a doubt be blown away by the show and how impeccably crafted it is.

For detail-hungry folks, the show's writing staff is release ancillary material that expands on the world (re)building within the show at https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia. Obviously don't read this before you watch each specific episode.

PS: I found the premise of the Amazon's The Boys interesting but beyond some impressive sequences and shocking twists, the show's writing is a bit too cynically shallow for its own good. There's not much commentary beyond the rottenness of (almost) every character in the show and that ends up feeling a little too much of one-note throughout the whole season.
I have the same thing. When I'm aware of it, it's really loud and annoying. Probably 90%+ of the time I'm not aware of it though. Was never sure if this qualified as tinnitus.
I don't see it any differently than the rise of science fiction as a genre. Science fiction can be a platform for storytelling, but it can also be a dumb excuse to use special effects, or to fantasize about the future, or any other amount of vapid justifications. If you blow it off completely due to the few movies you've seen, you're gonna miss out on a lot of excellent storytelling. For example, if you've dismissed The Watchmen or The Dark Knight because you think Iron Man is dumb, you're missing out.
This is valuable context I have not seen posted in an Assange thread here before, thanks.
They will be in the IA, I think they're in staging right now, someone has said they'll upload them soon
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I've seen that pattern too, and perhaps I'm a little guilty of it.

But if you say:

> we want to encrypt this field with your public key before sending it to you

and they respond:

> yeah, we can handle that

and then contracts with deadlines and penalties are signed... Wouldn't you expect there to be somebody on the other end that is willing/capable to generate a GPG keypair?

At what point is it worth holding their hand through the technical bits, and at which point would it be better to replace them?
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> I think his point is that escapism is fine for kids, but we're adults now and we're hindering ourselves by always escaping to a black-and-white good-and-evil fantasy land where there's no need for compromise or understanding as long as you have a big gun and supernatural powers.

One of the most popular entries in the Marvel universe was about a moral argument between Captain America and Iron Man regarding the appropriate use of power, and the limits of personal autonomy versus international law.

Yes, it was dressed up in bright colors and had plenty of pew-pew-pew, but it was very much not a black and white story. To this day you can find people who agree with either side.

> But there's precious little of that in the kind of simplistic, violent, nuance-free "win" that continues to be perpetuated in this material.

Stephen Strange's first outing featured him having an emotional breakdown over causing the death of someone who was actively trying to kill him, and saw him save the world through cleverness, not violence.

Are comic book movies the pinnacle of moral debate? Of course not. But they aren't always punch-hard-save-day simple, either.
"There’s plenty of ‘deep’ art in this world, and fantasy escapism isn’t preventing that from existing."

But even you quote 'deep' as if it isn't deep at all. By this rhetoric there isnt any deep art, whatsoever, in existence. And I think that bolsters the point that we need less escapism and that actual real critical thought needs to be applied.
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I think that would be missing the point. With Half-Life 2, you could buy the game as a disc but it still required Steam to play. They leveraged their legendary IP to bring users into a system that is way more profitable for them than selling copies of any particular game, even a Half-Life game. They've been sitting on that IP for a while now, not tarnishing their repuation from the release of a title that could potentially not live up to expectations. Now they're launching a new platform, and they're leveraging the IP to get people to buy into the platform. If they can own the best VR platform and get enough people to buy in on it, the game sales that come after that will overshadow whatever return they make on a new Half-Life game. Supporting other platforms would hurt them, if I'm correct about their intentions. Years ago a friend suggested to me that Valve might do a combined HL3/in-house-VR launch, and I've been expecting it ever since; it makes too much sense as a business strategy, and fits in with their prior method of operations.
I honestly wonder how people get this perception when both reddit and HN are so overwhelmingly pro-HK and anti-China. The only way you would ever see a pro-China comment on reddit is by explicitly searching for it, either by sorting by controversial on China-related topics, or by searching for pro-China subs (which are super small compared to reddit, or even just r/HongKong).
Why can't a BLT just be a BLT? Seems like a reach.
I think his point is that at a certain point we should start questioning why we need so much escapism, and work to fix that.
IMHO if you assume it'll be ephemeral but will still benefit then this is the service for you. I'm in the same place you are: I don't have the time, energy, interest or space to invest in a powerful gaming computer. Investing in a machine that'll take up space and power for the few times I can spend playing a game just doesn't make sense for me. At present I can either chose to go without or go with Stadia.

To be honest I think Nintendo has the low power, low end gaming market locked up with the Switch and people who love to game will have a mix of consoles and possibly PCs. Even so I think there's a swath of people in the middle who aren't interested in buying a console but want something more powerful than a Switch. I don't understand complaints about the cost of using Stadia since the Xbox and PS4 also require subscriptions to make the most of the devices.

What's interesting to me is if actual 5g (not marketing 5g) becomes a reality then it becomes easier to be untethered from an ISP. I doubt Google considers it much of a market but think of minimalists: van campers, small house types and people who simply want to reduce clutter.
One reason I like sharing smaller slices of my privacy with smaller companies is that it makes it harder to correlate everything.

I have no doubt Google can tie together every aspect of my life if I let them.
> [..] as a medium it looks more healthy in term of living with your online persona (compared to insta-models and travel vlogging).

I think that is the core to its success (and was for Vine). Instagram became a platform for people to promote themselves or some product and people are fully aware of that nowadays.
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Tech in the west has been complacent for years, and it's not just leadership either. People whine constantly about "work life balance" and spend all day demanding that employers ban everything that offends them. The Chinese, meanwhile, are killing it. Only in the west do we indulge bizarre and self serving ideas like "you do more when you work less" and "what people contribute is less important than the way they make others feel".

Turns out that these beliefs don't actually work. They're self indulgent nonsense. We could afford them for a while, but now that we have actual competition, we can't. We need to go back to old school attitudes, buckle down, get our heads out of our asses, and compete.
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>the most unfixable pieces of hardware possible

Except the huge part that you're missing is that, when they do a swap or a replacement at an Apple store, they don't just throw away the hardware. They send it back to be disassembled, tested, and remanufactured. They re-use a vast amount of these components and all of their warranty devices are remanufactured from good, tested components that were pieced out of larger components. Just because they don't do individual component repairs at the stores doesn't mean it's unfixable hardware.
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Those are products that only exist on streaming platforms, though - as far as I know, Netflix hasn't negotiated any deals to have movies go from cinemas to Netflix and not get a physical release at all. Even some of Netflix's properties have physical releases, such as Stranger Things. So there's still just as much or more physical media available as there would be without streaming platforms.
That may just be Chase. A person I know uses a credit union for federal staff in Washington, DC and their wire transfers can be done in the currency of your choice, completely online. She recently did an international transfer in a non-USD currency and the email confirmation was immediate. The money was available in the foreign acct within 48 hours.
If you have not read it and don't mind reading, I'd like to direct you to Worm: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

People with powers have their behavior explained, the good guys are far from perfect. The world is a dark place, dead protagonists stay dead (and it's not the worse which can happen) and the cause of the powers is explained. This kind of take on superheroes make the Marvel and DC universes bland.
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Oh... yeah, those make sense. I already do a lot of those things so that I can be sure I don't forget anything.

And I'm not even "old" yet...I guess it will pay off in the long run.
I also tested Project Stream, and the vision then made a lot more sense, that you were playing a game with cloud saves that could then be continued on your own hardware. This is the model Microsoft is creating with their xCloud while Stadia is forcing you to pay full price for a game for a diminished experience.
Superman was created by two Jewish guys who would have been quite unpopular with the Klan. His costume was inspired by circus strongmen, not the Night Riders.
> The major offshoots of the series, Portal and its sequel, were explorations of the possibility-space created by combining “beams” of matter or energy (lasers, hitscan gunfire, tractor beams, paint), gravity, and wormholes.

This isn't a technology, rather it's a set of game mechanics.
It's funny that when it comes to Assange, suddenly the UN group's findings become "non-binding". Did you read what they had to say about it?

> The Opinions of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention are legally-binding to the extent that they are based on binding international human rights law, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The WGAD has a mandate to investigate allegations of individuals being deprived of their liberty in an arbitrary way or inconsistently with international human rights standards, and to recommend remedies such as release from detention and compensation, when appropriate.

> The binding nature of its opinions derives from the collaboration by States in the procedure, the adversarial nature of is findings and also by the authority given to the WGAD by the UN Human Rights Council. The Opinions of the WGAD are also considered as authoritative by prominent international and regional judicial institutions, including the European Court of Human Rights.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

Journalist John Pilger also made the point that Britain and Sweden participated in and have previously supported this UN group:

> The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - the tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations - last year ruled that Assange had been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden. This is international law at its apex.

> Both Britain and Sweden participated in the 16-month long UN investigation and submitted evidence and defended their position before the tribunal. In previous cases ruled upon by the Working Group - Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Burma, imprisoned opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia, detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian in Iran - both Britain and Sweden gave full support to the tribunal. The difference now is that Assange's persecution endures in the heart of London.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/getting-julian-assange-the-un...

You write "Should we really accept a case that's made because of the authority making the argument rather than the argument itself?"

What makes you think that Britain and Sweden's refusal to accept the outcome has anything to do with the evidence presented? The UN group found against Britain and Sweden, and they didn't like that outcome. Isn't that a likely explanation?
That's what I described in my comment. And while it is ture that you might feel cheated because something else happened on the screen (your character was hit while already in cover). This is 'rare' event in terms of perception. Client makes a lot of predictions but most of those misses are invisible to user.

What is visible and perceivable is the lag effect and it is constant and unavoidable.

The client - server differences are handled differently depending on the game. AFAIK there is a trend of 'attacker' advantage ie client input is more favored when resolving delta, incentivizing active play vs camping. In that case Stadia fares worse then local.