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  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, Jerek said:

    Ill take the bait. Professional athletes are paid millions, are sponsored by many different brands, have their medical bills paid for and are well known enough not to have to pay for a lot of stuff the general population does have to pay for. They are overpaid. You MIGHT be able to find sports or leagues that don't overpay their players (CFL, college sports who underpay black players), but we're talking MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA etc. My opinion, and a very valid one. Once nurses are paid for SAVING LIVES as much as we pay for entertainment, then talk to me. 

     

     

    where are all these losers crawling out of the woodwork from?

     

    Literally all of college athletes, the WNBA, even end of the bench guys in the major male team leagues make very little given how much money is poured into sports and doesn't make it into the hands of the people whose labor make leagues and teams rich. LeBron James is under paid by the NBA given how much money he makes the league world wide.

     

    Paying health care workers, retail workers, teachers more money doesn't have to come at the expense of fairly compensating athletes for the money their bodies make their organizations & it's disingenuous to argue otherwise. You're not brave for thinking nurses should be paid more, and you're kind of a jerk for creating a false dichotomy when there is none.

     

    I wish I could only talk to you when nurses were paid as much as athletes, but you inserted yourself into a week old thread to grandstand.

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    Lots of sports teams have been investing in esports for years now http://foxsportsstories.com/2018/04/28/professional-sports-teams-investing-esports/ which lends credibility to the idea that this is just accelerating & bringing those investments to the fore.

     

    People develop affection and like for players for their favorite teams/their favorite athletes. People will watch them stream their sport's game, but they'll also watch them stream COD or Fortnite or whatever game, because there is a lot of demographic overlap between mainstream/popular video game ass video game players and sports fans.

     

  5. Posted

    On 5/1/2020 at 11:23 PM, AndrewCC said:

    Athletes are overpaid anyway.

     

     

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL. I can't even imagine looking at the landscape of sports and saying this. College athletes, female athletes, even end of the bench guys in majors.

    The ones that do manage to ever make any money out of it are well paid because they have like 5 years to make all the money they're going to make in their entire careers, especially because most of them have no prospects for a career after dedicating the first 20 years of their life to being a professional athlete. The average athlete is drastically underpaid , especially given how much money leagues as a whole make. The best players in the world don't even make the bulk of their money from their salaries, they make their money from external endorsement deals.

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    My favorite podcast right now is dunktown, a basketball podcast hosted by 2 women who are new to taking their fandom seriously, but not too seriously. Great banter, great guests, super fun to relive learning about basketball for the first time

     

    plus they have the great url https://dunk.town

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    On 9/6/2019 at 3:49 PM, Patrick R said:

    When they refer to "sprints" they're talking about crunch, right?

     

    'Sprints' is a concept that comes out of a software design/programming/implementation methodology called 'agile.' The idea is that you think about the work you can complete in the amount of time that's in a sprint (2 weeks in many cases) and then have larger goals to accomplish over the course of larger amounts of times, usually called releases (4 to 5 releases per year, so roughly quarterly). So you break down features you want to implement (a map system, a specific menu, music, etc) into accomplishable tasks: make a proof of concept, estimate the amount of work things will take, debug a problem, implement part of a feature, etc. The idea is that you can mark your progress toward implementing features by breaking down larger tasks into smaller ones and it facilitates collaboration with your teammates when you can point to a specific task that you're 'blocked' on, or that you can't make progress on without help/feedback with someone else.

     

    For the record I think the agile methodology is a really good way to think about problems and breaking them down into smaller pieces that you can deliver on in reasonable amounts of time. It is unfortunately applied to lots of non-software work and it doesn't work as well there. This is a very inside baseball thing.

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    2 hours ago, Gormongous said:

    I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday. It's (almost) the end of a grueling three-month process where I was promised another year's extension on the program deadline, denied that extension by the university administration, and then given the chance to defend an abridged version of my dissertation, after much bargaining and pleading with my department. I have a lot of feelings: pride that I was able to write almost 25,000 words in the space of a month while also working full time in order to finish a draft for submission, disappointment that my dissertation couldn't be the full work that I'd envisioned, relief that I got it all done anyway, humiliation that I was forced to spend weeks begging for professors and bureaucrats to suspend arbitrary and often informal rules that they'd always tell me they didn't personally agree with, and anxiety that... well, that feels a lot like low-grade PTSD, like I'm on the plane home but I'll always be ass-deep in that jungle muck.

     

    I've been incredibly lucky to have a lot of friends, not a few of them from this community, who've supported me in this decade-long process, and I owe each and every one of them my thanks. Whether or not I use my doctorate to teach, as I had planned, I'm incredibly happy to have achieved a lifelong goal of mine, against such odds.

     

    I'm so glad that you got a happy ending out of this gorm! You worked so hard and accomplished something great!

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    I went and saw Peter Spiderman Far From Home this weekend. I liked it!

     

    Favorite parts: 

    - Non-spoilers

    1. I was absolutely immediately impressed with this movie when the open happens and the Columbia pictures logo superimposes and then transitions into the statue to open the movie. A+

    2. Lots of great jokes!

     

    Spoilers



    1. I saw someone talk about 'Mysterio's illusions' and that tiny bit was enough for me to unravel the whole movie which mostly bummed me out. I was excited when i first saw the trailer and asked my husband about Mysterio and he told me that it would be more fun for me to see the movie not knowing what his deal was and someone took that from me.

    2. Even knowing what the twist was going to be, i enjoyed trying to pick up on any foreshadowing they do of the betrayal. When peter meets jake gyllenhal he stands over the table that did the projection of his other earth story and is lit from below which gives a very ominous tone to this scene, like when you hold a flashlight up under your chin

    3. The jokes with Ned & Betty were great. I love the whirlwind dating that can only last for a school trip. I loved JB Smoove's obsession with witches. 

    4. I love Zendaya as MJ. She's so deadpan and funny. Great casting, great performance.

    5. The in memoriam for the avengers cracked me up. I loved the touch of the super low res picture of vision and the getty images watermark. A+ joke

     

    I have skipped multiple marvel movies that didn't interest me. the last few have been at least interesting enough that I haven't felt the desire to skip one, but I don't really feel like outside of infinity war + endgame there's any set of movies you have to see in order to see any of the others, as long as you're willing to just trust that anything you don't get was addressed by one of the many other films. They do a fairly good job, I think, of letting the audience dip in and out at will. You don't have to watch the dr strange movie to understand his character, you just need the 30 second intro at his house. i'm a very easy movie watcher though. i just walk into a movie and let it wash over me for however long it takes and then do all my critical thinking afterward. i'm willing to give up a little handholding in exchange for multi franchise world building. you can do more interesting and complicated things if every movie doesn't have to reintroduce you to the world and characters every time

  11. Posted

    Long Shot is the best romantic comedy I've seen since The Big Sick.

     

    I'm so glad you watched and enjoyed Minding the Gap. I want everyone to watch it because it's so good.

     

    3 hours ago, twmac said:

    Minding the Gap - Documentary about 3 skater kids in Colorado and what skating and family mean to them. This film hit me so fucking hard, in the life thread a while back I talked about the dissolving of a friendship and one of the guys in the documentary I just immediately identified as him. Really simple story telling, well put together and equal parts deflating and reaffirming.

     

     

    I also watched Minding the Gap back in December. These kids are from a hometown 2 hours from mine in Illinois and this movie made me feel so much. here's what I wrote about it at the time:

     

    On 12/13/2018 at 11:16 AM, jennegatron said:

    I watched Minding the Gap last night. It is a documentary about 3 young men who became friends through skateboarding and is a movie all about cycles of abuse & poverty in the dying city of Rockford Illinois. I love my home state and have been to Rockford many times for school events in high school. I saw so much of people I knew in this film. It's on hulu and I can't stop thinking about it. I highly recommend it for a look into what it's like living in a rust belt style city in the US as a young person.

  12. Posted

    my husband and I went and saw Long Shot this weekend, and if you have any affection at all for romantic comedies, I couldn't not recommend it more. It does what Knocked Up failed to do: make Seth Rogan an interesting, believable, and endearing male romantic lead. I already want to watch it again. Up there with Say Anything & To All The Boys I've Loved Before as my favorites.

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    8 hours ago, BigJKO said:

     

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    It's convoluted and contrived, but the movie spends time explaining its rules and it *does* follow them. The only question I have left, because I wasn't paying attention to it, is where is Gamora. Was she on the ship at the end? I agree they just hand-wave Black Widow away because they don't want the can of worms of "can we just bring back all the dead Avengers, then?"
     

     

     

     

    at the very end Peter is using the ship to search for her, scanning to try and find her because he loves her, but she is not the Gamora of his memory. I assume that's what GotG 3 will be about, is reuniting Gamora with the team

     

    the 2 deaths I was most interested in coming into this movie were Loki's and Gamora's because they were killed before the great dusting. I think that the Loki time travel pranking show that they listed on the Disney streaming service is probably the Loki we saw get the tesseract and he's still dead in the MCU timeline. Obviously Gamora's back but at the expense of Black Widow (whose movie will be a prequel.)



     

    I liked that they used a measured hand with deploying Captain Marvel. Having her helping and protecting all the other planets gives her a purpose for not being on Earth. I like that she is the one Thanos headbutted and just no reaction. Similar complaints get leveled at her as Superman, and I thought they pretty elegantly sidestepped much of what people don't like about characters like that by deliberately bringing her back in. I like that they communicated her power by single handedly sinking the giant ship and having all the guns turn on her tells us that she alone is a bigger threat than the entire army of heroes and warriors on the ground. I assume someone called her, but because Dr Strange didn't know her before dusting, she had to fly back on her own rather than be summoned by a space wizard.

     

    Where did Nebula end the movie? I honestly don't remember where she ends up. Was she on the GotG ship? Did she disappear with Gamora? 

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    given that there's a Spiderman movie this summer it's very possible that they explicitly address it. Also it seems, from Peter's telling of what he remembers to Tony, that they remember being dusted, so it may just be the joy of reuniting after a mutually traumatic and confusing event.

     

  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, Erkki said:

    Today is quite weird. It's my last day at ZeroTurnaround RougeWave Perforce and I'm joining a new company after 8 years of working here. Last post from work laptop :)

    At my new employer I will travel to San Francisco occasionally so maybe I can join some thumb meetup some time if any is happening there. Haven't been paying attention.

    🎉 congratulations Erkki! NorCal thumbs sometimes meet up, especially for GDC, but we are known to hang out together for other events/get-togethers.

     

    Even if you don't frequent the slack, popping in to tell people you'll be in town might be the best way to get something organized. We have a '#straightwestcoastin' channel that is nice for organizing people

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    Every part of this show is so deeply considered that I don't think that they didn't think about this, especially when the podcast revealed that

     

    the writer's room has known since season 2 that no one has gotten into the good place in 500 years. I don't disagree that her case is weird and that's what mostly got her to the medium place. I think that they can say some interesting things about the fundamentals brokenness of this system of point totaling because of Mindy, and I hope they do.

     

     

  22. Posted

    The conclusion of the most recent season left me with this question:

    no one has gotten into the good place in 500 years, which means that everyone has gone to the bad place EXCEPT for coke and sex fiend Mindy St. Claire going to the medium place. this means that the person with the highest point total in that time was Mindy and therefore the best person in that time. What implication does that have for the world? I'm fascinated by that idea. It's merely implied and never explicitly commented on in the show. I wonder if they acknowledge or grapple with the ramifications of that. Was that an intended conclusion we were supposed to come to?  

     

  24. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Cordeos said:

    I have only played Blue and Lets Go Eevee because I didn't own a Nintendo handheld between the Game Boy Color and Switch. I'm excited to play a new Pokemon game.

    That being said I am sad to see that the game will have random encounters instead of the Lets Go style of having the pokemon visible on the map. Hopefully they keep some form of Lets Go's xp sharing so you don't have to do tons of swapping in and out to level your team.

     

     I am under the impression that very little has changed in Pokemon since Blue.

     

    Exp Share has been a feature for a long time that you could turn on or off to increase/decrease difficulty. I think you'll find a lot more has changed than you thought. Things like abilities: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ability#List_of_Abilities

    Which can do things like, make eggs hatch faster or give passive boosts to stats or increased chance to inflict status effects. Breeding for stats, easier online trading & head to head matchmaking, team fights, and held items. Also things like day/night cycles and weather

     

    I think it's easy to say nothing's changed because generation to generation little changed, but over the course of 20 years the game has a lot more complexity if you're looking for it!

  25. Posted

    Past trends have given us mainline pokemon gams around American Thanksgiving, so end of nov/beginning of december tracks

     

    I think the fact that pokemon games are mostly games for children they don't raise the floor of difficulty/complexity for the game very high. I'm excited to get more details over the coming months!