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andrewducker) wrote2017-12-01 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-12-01 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 01-12-2017
- Hands on: Superhot VR on PlayStation 4 (really fancy this)
- (tags: games VirtualReality playstation )
- Theresa May reveals plan to get one million more disabled people into work
- (tags: disability work uk Conservatives )
- Artificial life breakthrough after scientists create new living organism using synthetic DNA
- The final line indicates that the authors have, perhaps, not read Jurassic Park.
(tags: life Technology ArtificialLife ) - Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?
- (tags: austerity uk LifeExpectancy )
- Why is the Northern Ireland border question so hard?
- (tags: NorthernIreland ireland trade europe uk )
- Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
- (tags: bitcoin tax )
- How to flirt safely (by a guy who is definitely not about to be fired for harassment)
- (tags: abuse work satire women relationships flirting )
- DUP threatens to pull support from Theresa May's government if she backs down over post-Brexit Irish border
- Hilarious largely because the Conservatives called another election that they didn't need - which made them dependent on the DUP in the first place...
(tags: Ireland NorthernIreland UK Europe politics funny ) - A (very competent) friend of mine has gone into the web design and software consultancy business. If you know someone who needs that take a look at their portfolio
- (tags: web design computers advert viaKirsty )
- Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't
- (tags: photography history death myths victorian )
- Speaking up against bigotry can reduce bad behavior
- (tags: bigotry argument communication psychology )
- How Doctors Deal With An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo
- (tags: healthcare ethics )
- Conspiracy thinking less likely with greater news media literacy
- (tags: media conspiracy psychology )
- Bryan Fuller And Michael Green Leaving American Gods Season 2
- (tags: tv neilgaiman )
- Turning workers into 'super workers' with robotic suits
- (tags: cyborg automation technology )
- A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speaking People to Learn Foreign Languages
- (tags: language learning )
- Marvel and DC's supervillains are a joke – and it's all Heath Ledger's fault
- (tags: movies superheroes viaSwampers )
- There is no coming software apocalypse
- (tags: software GoodNews design )
- Why your programmers just want to code
- (tags: work software management organisation )
- “Significant loss of neurons is a normal part of ageing” and other brain cell myths
- (tags: brain myths )
- Canadian province trials basic income for thousands of residents
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome canada )
Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't
Re: Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't
Re: Victorian ‘Post-Mortem’ Photographs Aren't
It also happens that I saw another article about victorian novelty photos at some point, so I was much more primed to think "these are people having a lark on camera" than "this is some serious custom".
Marvel and DC's supervillains are a joke – and it's all Heath Ledger's fault
I agree Heath Ledger was awesome, because they focused on having an amazing villain. And MCU focused on having great, fun, uplifting, heros, and got those. Which was great, because we'd had enough grimdark. But didn't spend as much effort on the villains.
But I don't see the connection between: MCU has some great villains, e.g. Loki. And some grimdark series have no memorable villains.
It seems more like, it's hard to have a film which is good at EVERYTHING, there's only so much budget and so much screen time.
I'm not sure about CGI either. I agree there's a trend to half-arse cgi. Think of the stunts in Indiana Jones (generally really convincing even if ridiculous) compared to LOTR, where you can SEE actors not flinching inches from dragon breath. But nobody says CGI means boring characters or forgettable villains: look at pixar! I'm sure they could do a great thanos, if that was their priority.
Re: Marvel and DC's supervillains are a joke – and it's all Heath Ledger's fault
(Perhaps the only excellent hero/villain balances were Superman I & II.)
Re: Marvel and DC's supervillains are a joke – and it's all Heath Ledger's fault
Re: Marvel and DC's supervillains are a joke – and it's all Heath Ledger's fault
How Doctors Deal With An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo
But I can also see, that by itself, isn't completely convincing (what if someone changed their mind? or it was a prank or something?)
I'm glad they *do* have ethics boards for that sort of situation...
Re: How Doctors Deal With An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo
Re: How Doctors Deal With An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo
But people might really get into a situation where they can't -- if they're dying, they might be broke, or addicted, or unable to get it together, or draw it on in marker and then it fades, etc. Or (worst case) it's some bizarre prank or something.
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Oh, I am everday fluent. I could work in any mundane job, converse on the bus, and manage my IT job fine. I could probably pass the C1 exam (the one you have to have to study at University). But I am 46. I have a HUGE English vocabulary, and near-perfect grammar (most of the time). This extends over serveral technical areas (computing, biology, health, science, music, sailing, motorbikes). I am NEVER lost for words and use multiple alternatives and alternative phrasings all the time. To get to that level in German - god knows how long it will take - if ever.
Native German speakers still routinely use words I do not know and phrasing I could not reproduce.
So I think the figures are wildly optimistic!
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And, yeah, not to sound like a local - just enough to have conversational skills and not embarrass yourself. More interesting for comparison purposes (i.e. which languages are easier/harder) than thinking that most of us would be able to learn them that quickly.
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I'm not certain it would be possible for me to disagree with an article more. Sure, the later DC villains have mostly sucked - because the later DC films have completely sucked - except for Wonder Woman, which was quite good, and had an OK (but not vastly impressive villain). I enjoyed Ledger's performance, as the Joker, it was brilliant, but that's about the only thing I liked about that grim, brutal, ponderous, and mostly dull film, which also managed more misogyny than most supers films. In part, it was also a film about yet another amazing, inhuman serial killer (the Joker), and I'd be happy to never see another bit of media using any of those tropes - they've been done to death. Of course, I also loathe Frank Miller's The Dark Knight and am overjoyed that Marvel at least hasn't allowed that vile aesthetic to infect their films.
In vivid contrast, Iron Man was actually enjoyable to watch, Captain America I, was even better, and even Thor I (which I expected to really suck) had a brilliant villain in Loki. Continuing on from there, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is IMHO the best supers film ever made, and I'm loving Runaways. Marvel has had some missteps with Avengers: Age of Ultron, which was bad, and Captain America: Civil War, which was only OK, but overall they've been quite good. I'm also baffled that the author thinks that Loki and the Vulture weren't good villains - unlike the Joker, they actually had characters and motives, not tired, deeply annoying serial killer tropes played with truly amazing skill.
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