I read Valis. Probably a waste of time as I can't remember any of it now, other than that two of the characters are actually both Phillip K Dick himself, and there was a space alien cult. That and most of it was really boring and didn't seem to have a point. I read the whole thing for some reason though. Can't remember why, I must have enjoyed it at least a little to do that. But I don't remember enjoying it at all.
The book is like a fever dream.
Do Androids was very good as the unfocused bits added to the atmosphere, and induced a confusion in the reader that I believe was intentional.
I'll have to read Ubik
Strange. Sometimes good strange sometimes so much strange that it's just confusing.
In general, his best works are the ones with a bit of grit to drag the whole thing down and provide something concrete for the characters to interact with. Otherwise I've noticed that his tendency to have multiple plots going on at the same time, and frequent episodes of surrealism makes it hard to keep track of things or figure out the point of the story.
Not that his weirder stuff is objectively bad, he's definitely a talented writer, but I don't get much out of it.
I would watch a movie about Guion Bluford. I'm an easy sell for astronaut movies, and it's a period of NASA's history that hasn't been done to death.
There's unfortunately the "hidden figures" problem where it would be likely that hollywood lefties would create fictional racist white people and segregation issues that never happened to "add" to the movie.
I disagree. On the contrary I think it is more important for women to develop discipline in a focused manner as they seem far less inclined to do so by natural inclination, especially in times of peace. When times are hard women's behavior changes significantly.
The problem is that society stops treating them like adults when times are not hard.
I think it's been well been well established at this point that women (as much as women are worth anything in a combat situation) do okay at situations that involve holding steady, but are terrible at anything involving explosive action or quick decision making (or anything where their smaller size and inferior muscle mass are obvious disadvantages).
Bomber Pilot, Copter pilot, sure. There are probably enough capable men that it isn't necessary, but it isn't an explicitly terrible idea like making a woman a fighter pilot is. I'm pretty sure even male fighter pilots have to have excellent cardiovascular health to avoid readout, and they've got bigger hearts that pump more blood, and beat slower at rest.
I'm torn when it comes to women in combat. There's the obvious point that it lowers survivability of troops in general when women are present on the battlefield, but combat training is excellent at promotion of discipline and physical health, something we could all use a bit more of in this day and age. Maybe reserves only?
That's a succinct way of describing it. I was thinking about this myself a while back, and "maintaining coherence" was basically what I determined was the most important function of gatekeeping, but I hadn't been able to describe it in so few words.
Who said anyone's life is focused on sex?
I don't think you'll find much pushback here if you point out that Pride parades are degenerate public displays of sexuality, but I'm all for people watching sexy anime alone in their own home.
It is possible to jack off to hentai twice a week, and be a functioning member of society with numerous other non-sexual hobbies, and a full time job.
You sound like a bible-thumping relic from a bygone era. I don't know know about anyone else here, but if ever a day comes that the lefties are well and truly defeated, I won't hesitate to start rallying against people on the right who want to tell me my hobbies are satanic, immoral, or whatever else is against their weird cult's worldview. Same annoying pieces of shit, just wearing a different coloured shirt and the buzzwords swapped out with a different set.
I don't think most people here want Right-Wing Puritans fucking with what they can and can't consume any more than they want the lefties doing it.
It's just that the lefties are a more pressing issue.
I'm sure you'll find people who agree with you, but the community's core premise is still "Stop fucking with our shit. Leave us alone. Stop telling us what we can and can't watch." So I doubt you'll find that the community at large is sympathetic to restricting anime under the guise of "Promoting Masculinity"
Yep. That's why this board is mostly political, with a bit of nerd slant. As opposed to KIA Prime which is forcibly focused on political subversion in gaming and nerd hobbies. KIA2 accepts that these people are ruining fucking everything and must be pushed back wherever they can be.
Mostly people who just want leftists to stop fucking with [video games, comics, anime dubbing, open source software, tv, science-fiction, movies] but have mostly now accepted that we will have to defeat them politically, because they just can't stand to leave anything the fuck alone.
So as long as they have power, and are destroying our hobbies, we're here.
I remember hearing a discussion of the doctor that stuck with me.
"He needs to be whimsical, a wise old man of the universe, and just a little broken."
Men want to be him, but Women both want to be whisked away by him on an adventure, and also want to try to fix him.
The gentlemanly aspects of the doctor are intrinsically linked to the structure of the show.
This is thrown out with a woman doctor.
Men generally don't fantasize about being whisked away on an adventure by a mysterious wise woman.
This structure can work switched, but you have to weaken the supernatural character more, make her a rather ordinary girl fleeing from supernatural forces using the power of a machine she doesn't really understand, and in desperate need of protection. There's your waifu bait.
Of course that wouldn't fly with a progressive board of approval, and also would be even more of a character break making it even harder for audiences to accept.
It would have been so much easier to go back to him being a dapper British dude with a face off the cover of a teen magazine. It wouldn't guarantee the show would be good, but it would have likely been a steady source of profit with a built in "thirsty teen girl" demographic.
Why wouldn't it make sense? Native Americans and Chinese don't riot, and there are only a handful of black people in Canada outside of Toronto and Vancouver.
Unsurprisingly, there's less racial tension other than from white leftists, and occasionally the "Residential Schools" or "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women" from the natives. Certainly nothing like in the US.
In many places most of the cultural tension is French vs English.
Zapp Branigan: "I sent wave after wave of my own men at them"
It's easily understandable why a strategy that boils down to zerg rushing with poor or missing equipment would result in heavy losses.
It is also understandable why a country that subscribes to an ideology that places very little value on the individual and has a large population would pick such a strategy.
Believing that such a strategy is a morally correct thing is another matter entirely.
What this chart does show is the discrepancy between the different war conducts. Namely that the Ostfront was a horrific meat grinder where life had no value, and there was no point in taking prisoners.
I guess we should just put the Queen on all the money then.
It's not there has ever been a Prime Minister who would fulfill their criteria.
Speaking of Canadian money I remember a story about how when they were designing art for the back of the hundred as a tribute to Canadian Medical Research, they put a woman scientist in the middle. In the article they talked about how heavily focus tested this woman was in order to be inoffensive, but also sufficiently "diverse". I think they decided she looked too Asian in the original version, so they decided to change it to avoid the Asian doctor stereotype. Just pathetic. Heaven forbid we actually put a famous Canadian scientist or doctor on the bill.
They feature insulin on the bill, so you'd think Banting and Best would be a natural choice, but they're both white men, so of course that's unacceptable. Generic focus tested scientist woman is so much more deserving to be on the bill.
Fucking clown country.
No it's almost the opposite. The wordiness was always a way to justify illogical positions, but now they've decided to try a new tactic and just deride logic itself.
Think about anything for more than 2 seconds? Lol conspiracy theorist.
Do any research? Lol you're not at expert, don't you know experts have already come to the correct conclusion. If you realized how stupid you were you'd know that it's impossible for you to even comprehend this situation.
That kind of thing. Is it projection? Probably. But it's so basic and malicious that I don't understand why normies wouldn't call them out. It's not like they're hiding their point behind a wall of text like usual. Just covid paranoia.
I've just recently decided to sit down and work through Heinlein's entire catalog. Seems like the time to do it. I've been reading a lot of old sci-fi lately. It's so refreshing reminds me of when I wasn't so jaded and sci-fi was about asking open ended, big questions, and not space socialism.
I got the water propaganda too, second hand form.
Teacher said: "When I was a kid my teacher told me that we could run out of water, and we said how could you run out of water, you turn on the tap and there's tons of it. Now we're not so sure."
It's now over 20 years since then, and likely around 50 since you and my teacher were originally sold the line.
You can still turn on the tap and get tons of water. Water levels in the great lakes are higher then they've been in decades. Probably more beachfront property got damaged by the fresh drinkable water than rising sea levels.
Seems to overly prioritize tall and skinny. The 100s have plenty of girls that are cuter imo but not as tall and thin as the top scorers.
Around 4000+ they seem to be either genuinely ugly, fat, or androgynous. The androgynous ones come off as attractive relative to their direct competition to me. I'm sure tomboys in baggy jeans hold more appeal than whatever system this is giving them. (Though maybe a chubby chaser might be saying the same about the fat ones.)