Sure, but they're so easily distracted.Sumez wrote:Yeah well there are people who hold Adolf Hitler in high regard as well XDorange808 wrote: Ask any conservative and you'll discover they are demigods.
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Sure, but they're so easily distracted.Sumez wrote:Yeah well there are people who hold Adolf Hitler in high regard as well XDorange808 wrote: Ask any conservative and you'll discover they are demigods.
I don't know about Thatcher's public opinion in the UK, but Regan has always had a very high approval. Compared to W. Bush he was practically loved, even among many democrats. Regan had that whole "the 80's is the future" thing going for him that really captivated people, and politics as public relations became much more sophisticated. He was the first Republican after Nixon to look good and come off charismatic in front of a camera.Sumez wrote:Yeah well there are people who hold Adolf Hitler in high regard as well XDorange808 wrote: Ask any conservative and you'll discover they are demigods.
For some time now I've been similarly bombarded with links to articles by the Washington Examiner on both my laptop and my phone, despite their stock and trade being pants-wetting temper tantrums like this from all I've seen of them.Mischief Maker wrote:Doesn't matter what I just watched, even if it's a trans left-wing youtuber, the algorithm REALLY REALLY wants to autoplay old Peterson videos.
Noticed a lot of that in the last 3 years and yes it's a bit annoying.Steamflogger Boss wrote:Actually a small thing this time.
People that go to videos talking about upscaling/linedoubling old consoles etc to drop a comment about just how cool they are because they emulate instead. It's so fucking weird and something I noticed as I've been watching Retrotink 5X reviews and some other content from the channels where I thought their review was interesting.
I think it's like any other form of outdated or obsolete technology. Why would someone want to still use a VHS tape? Why cassettes? Why old radios?FinalBaton wrote: it's like these people don't understand that some want to play on the OG consoles.
That's two good hypothesis indeedvol.2 wrote:
I think it's like any other form of outdated or obsolete technology. Why would someone want to still use a VHS tape? Why cassettes? Why old radios?
Some people just don't get it.
On the other hand, there is probably a number of them who simply can't afford real console stuff, or don't want to spend the money on it, and it's all sour grapes.
I'd point the arrow in a different direction. The establishment types you're attributing this to are the exact type of people who'd look back on him admiringly. He was the Kobe Bryant of the game they're all playing (Elba was his Colorado hotel). Hated for much of his own career, in retrospect he might not have been winning rings for their team, but damn if they don't respect the talent & drive.orange808 wrote:Are there any figures in history that are smeared more often (or more effectively) than Napoleon Bonaparte? Now, you want to blow smoke up my ass and judge him based on woke 2021 values? What other famous figures are judged this way? The monarchs of Europe smeared him viciously, because they loved their privilege and money. Napoleon threatened their corrupt lifestyles.
Even if the net result was a transfer of power from one band of grifters to another, I don't feel sorry for the losers. Napoleon helped end your free ride? Well, sorry bout your luck. *shrug*
The smear campaign continues. Fair criticism is fine and there's plenty to criticise with Napoleon, but using woke 2021 values is nothing more than a continuation of a 200+ year smear campaign. Napoleon was a product of his time and there's plenty of blame to go around.
Reagan, and particularly Reagan's CIA is widely seen as one of the worse actors of the latter half of the 20th century. It's only US conservatives who've deified him for 'defeating' the Soviet Union.Here's an idea: Let's use this woke criteria on some other leaders: starting with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. This isn't really about feminism or racism, is it? No. It's about a smear campaign.
RegalSin wrote:Street Fighters. We need to aviod them when we activate time accellerator.
If the shot fits, you must acquitmamboFoxtrot wrote:it also for whatever reason gave me the horrible idea of a hori where the terrain tiles all have undersized hitboxes, allowing you to literally squeeze between the bricks of a wall
Konami quality hitboxes strike again.BIL wrote:If the shot fits, you must acquit :mrgreen:mamboFoxtrot wrote:it also for whatever reason gave me the horrible idea of a hori where the terrain tiles all have undersized hitboxes, allowing you to literally squeeze between the bricks of a wall
I actually forgot the laser wheel part scrolled horizontally, I was thinking the bit at the end of the stage that scrolls to the left.mamboFoxtrot wrote:well yeah that's the laser-wheel part
I remember the giant crates in Ikaruga actually do this; you can just barely squeeze through them in a pacifist/Dot Eater run without having to actually shoot them.the terrain tiles all have undersized hitboxes, allowing you to literally squeeze between the bricks of a wall
Ah yes, married life.BulletMagnet wrote:I generally get along decently with my supervisor at work, but one thing she regularly does that drives me nuts is suddenly telling me to drop what I'm doing in favor of something unrelated when I'm literally a minute or two away from finishing my current task, and overruling me when I tell her as much. This usually means that I need to put away whatever equipment I'm currently using to make room for what I need for the new assignment, only to have to switch everything back out again later on just to finish my last two minutes of work from earlier, which adds insult to injury.
It gets even worse if she says she'll take over something I'm halfway through, which results in me attempting to give her a quick summary of how I've set things up and what my process is so she doesn't unintentionally screw up the end result, only to be shooed away before I can finish because my attempt to explain the situation is "wasting time".
The kicker is that she's both knowledgeable and a hard worker, so she's definitely not someone I'm generally inclined to badmouth, but I honestly wish I had some empirical way to measure how frequently her efforts to save time (which, to be fair, are almost certainly coming from above her) end up wasting it.
Yeah, things tend to go something like that: when asked to switch gears when I'm close to finishing something I'll ask if I can tie things up beforehand, but if she says "no, I need this first" I do it, any resistance beyond that point is frankly more trouble than it's worth. As I mentioned in my first post we do tend to get along pretty well all things considered, no need to let one point of contention overpower everything else.Rastan78 wrote:That being said, my thinking is that in a work scenario you have two good options.
Could be, though I should also note that she, unlike myself, is married with kids, and thus presumably more accustomed to "seat-of-pants chaos" as a modus operandi in general, heh.Blinge wrote:Maybe that's a career of being used to stepping in and fixing messes, then?