ElderWendigo

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[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm totally guessing here. They probably changed the definition to include groups that had been previously exclude because those groups had previously disguised themselves as politically conservative or religious groups. Once the conservatives started saying the quiet parts out loud across she country they became easier to identify as hate groups.

[–] ElderWendigo 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who else is betting the album just isn't very good?

Either way it feels like Wu-Tang is on the wrong side of the class war on this one. The fine art comparison is bullshit. At least fine art owned by individuals is often showcased for public viewing because everyone knows that a print, photo, or public exhibition is not the same as owning the original.

I'm sure Wu-Tang thought they were just exploiting the upper class money laundering system for their own gains, but that just makes them court fools, not revolutionaries.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 8 months ago

Just watch them in order by air date. There's no need for spreadsheets or wikis.

[–] ElderWendigo 4 points 8 months ago

I wonder whatever happened to Knoppix. All I've been able to find online is speculation and questions.

[–] ElderWendigo 10 points 8 months ago

Lars ruined Napster. BitTorrent came around some time later after Limewire, Soulseek, and DirectConnect. Lars might have had something to say about Bit Torrent, but by that point no one was listening.

Besides, back then, we really were using BitTorrent mostly for Linux ISOs. At the time it was more reliable than http. It really sucked having to download an entire ISO again because it failed the checksum. BitTorrent alleviated that.

[–] ElderWendigo 4 points 8 months ago

I'm not a nice person. I'm not a kind person. I'm not even a good person. I try to be all of those things and sometimes it feels like a struggle. I don't think I'm evil or a total asshole or a sociopath or something. I just think it a metric we have to constantly check-in on and adjust. I don't really trust people that think of themselves as nice, kind, or good. I don't think I really agree with those people about what it really means to be nice, kind, or good. For example, I do believe the song got it right, sometimes you do need to be cruel to be kind in the right measure.

[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I get a particular kind of headache. Listening to loud music with heavy bass can help ease the headache. Singing along to my playlist of songs I might sing at karaoke from my belly loudly also can help ease the pain a bit. So yes, I guess it can be relaxing.

[–] ElderWendigo 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The 2005 reboot is where everyone else will tell you to start because it's more accessible to today's audience. And I'm not gonna lie, some of the older series episode arcs from the original run are hard to watch for various reasons. But, if you do decide you're ready to check out some older Who it matters almost not at all where you start. The sprawling narrative format of the early show is more like a soap opera than Star Trek.

If you can get access to the episodes on demand, the check out the wiki. My old who episodes total about 200GB, but you may find DVD sets of individual specific story arcs at the library. Pick a Doctor or story arc that looks interesting and try them out. Hop around in the Doctor's timeline. Go check out the introduction of UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. For the camp, watch a few episodes with K9 his robot dog or Bessie, his hi-tech yellow edwardian roadster. See how awful the original Cybermen and various alien or lizard people costumes are. Who's this guy in the scarf with the Jelly Babies that everyone's always talking about? The time lords weren't always a dead civilization locked away in the Doctor's backstory, they were the story. As you're watching the new Who, you may notice other callbacks to people or places in the Doctor's past, check the wiki and find the original series arc.

My personal suggestion though is to at least give the very first Doctor a real chance. He's my favorite and not just because of nostalgia. He was way before my time. It's almost a completely different show. It's in black and white. Some of the episodes are just missing. But that Doctor is a bit wild in a way the others can't touch. He has a grand daughter for a companion, not a potential love interest. He's a snarky, witty, and sometimes mean old man. He lies. You're not always convinced that he is actually the hero. His series has the first appearance of the Dalek's and their origin story. The pacing of the earliest episodes seems a bit less sprawling than some of the later series before 2005.

[–] ElderWendigo 3 points 8 months ago

Yes. Life is stressful enough without screaming in the void at "Internet debators" with the reading comprehension skills of a meatloaf. Blocking is better than getting hounded by their straw man arguments and trolling. If you don't understand this, you're part of the problem.

[–] ElderWendigo 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only water that I would normally add to a chocolate chip cookie recipe would have been in the form of butter. The water wasn't omitted, it's addition is the oddity.

[–] ElderWendigo 23 points 8 months ago
[–] ElderWendigo 3 points 8 months ago

Well then, say hi to the ghosts for me, just don't sit down for a drink with them. Do read that book if you haven't already; it's one of my favorites and none of the movies do it justice.

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