Hey, I've been out of the loop on sci-fi literature for awhile and I'm looking to dive back in. Can you tell me roughly what year Hugo and the rest of them jumped the shark in terms of wokeness? I'd like to use them as a guide for past years, but I want to know when I can safely ignore their opinion on things.
Also, do you have any other resources you would recommend for finding new, good stories and books?
The original film wasn't bad, it was a George Lucas produced film at the height of his powers and had Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones vibes decades before they came on the scene as films. I'm not super into fantasy stuff, but a lot of people who are love that film.
Of course, but it was a fairly subtle allegory (compared to Current_Year), and as other people here have pointed out there were other valid interpretations of it.
Men... does not sound subtle from what I'm hearing.
It's "Person of Gun", bigot!!!
What was woke about Devs?
I hate Nu-Trek more than anyone, but didn't hate those three movies. Star Trek has never really been a movie franchise (1 and a 1/2 good movies pre-2009 out of ten attempts?) so if they went the big blockbuster route in 2009 to try and bring in new fans, but paired it with a traditional, optimistic, thoughtful TNG or DS9-style TV series set 20 years after Voyager, I think the franchise would be in really great shape now.
They were never going to sell $1B in tickets with Smart Trek movies, and I think the three films were about as good as you could hope for given the constraints of the modern movie-going public. They just happened to be released in the middle of a huge Smart Trek drought, that ended in the death of Star Trek w/ STD and Picard.
Okay, gotcha.
It was an origin story, though, and didn't they show him kind of maturing and mellowing by the third one?
I think his bridge troll ex-wife got him started down this path (she is insufferably woke, arrogant and entitled) with her quest to win the Nobel.
The Federal government had already taken the fun out of his one true passion - growing his company. He could no longer compete like he used to. He had become Tiger Woods with his gimpy legs and cracked back.
Once Bill turned toward philanthropy, all of a sudden the same news, entertainment, and government entities that had been demonizing him for decades were blowing smoke up his ass. It created a hell of a positive feedback loop, especially for an obsessive competitor (seriously, read about his childhood) who was also, paradoxically, still considered a "loser" at the time as far as his public image was concerned.
Thus Saint Bill of Davos was born.
Honestly, it could just be a billionaire pissing contest at this point.
Marc Andressen was one of the main sources the writers of Silicon Valley hit up for "local color", and it sounds like the stupidity of Gavin Belson's schemes to one-up his fellow "3 Comma Clubbers" were pretty typical.
Same here. I had built up quite a little list of things I was going to buy the day they announced Kennedy's firing (a couple of the newer games, but mostly old school books, comics and games, and was looking forward to watching The Mandalorian) but it's now too late for that, even if they do come to their senses.
They've killed it.
Just curious, what European indie cinema are you referring too? I thought they had all drank the Kool-Aid by now?
Sorry, what do mean about Kirk? Just curious.
I can't prove this, but within months of #MeToo, I believe Pitchfork adopted an official policy where 3 out of 5 daily reviews have to be female artists, or at least female fronted bands. They had already been quickly shifting to black artists, so the remaining 1 or 2 are almost always minorities, gay, trans, etc. Finding a white, straight, male artist in one of their reviews, let alone one of their best of lists, is nearly impossible especially if they aren't an established act.
I'm not saying that's a prerequisite for making good music, but when Pitchfork was primarily Indy Rock and Electronic music a few years ago it was predominantly white males that happened to be featured because that's who most of the good artists in those genres were.
It's like if MIT suddenly decided to fix STEM disparities, and accepted almost no white or asian males. You wouldn't miraculously get a diverse AND qualified graduating class in four years.
I can't tell you how many thoroughly mediocre female bands and artists I checked out before I figured out what was going on.
The site was already going to shit, but it is now almost worthless for finding new, good music. It's all just politics with a thin veneer of art.
I don't understand the hatred for the Abrams movies. What was there, 1 and 1/2 good Star Trek movies in over a dozen attempts before then? Star Trek was always a TV franchise, and the only way to have it be a viable film franchise was to do exactly what they did.
The movies weren't what killed the franchise - it was Discovery, Picard and the rest.
In fact the movies could have reinvigorated the franchise had they been paired with another TNG, Voyager or DS-9 style series set 30 years after TNG which was in that same cerebral, thoughtful, hopeful vein as classic Trek. The dumber, flashier movies would have been a great "gateway drug" to "Real Trek" on the TV to keep the "True Trek" fans happy, and probably would have subsidized the whole operation. Those movies were pretty decent for what they were.
They wouldn't be taking him down if he was controlled opposition.
you missed a zero or two. Those flights are still ongoing, and not just out of Afghanistan from what I've heard. Almost anyone from any neighboring country can claim to be an "afghan refugee" and get flown to an air base in the U.S. and basically let loose.
Google got ahold of YouTube for a pretty cheap price.
Powerpoint, Visio and Hotmail were all successful acquisitions for Microsoft, and GitHub and LinkedIn may still prove to be.
She's usually in a wheel chair, but puts on artificial legs when it's line dancing time!
I disagree on it's first few seasons. It has a "heightened reality", sure, but it's meant to be a dark comedy. It's not going for hyper-realism, and I don't think it reaches CW levels of cheesiness.
I only wish I was joking.
Seasons 1 and 2 are legitimately great TV. 3 and 4 are a little weaker, but still pretty decent. I would still watch it with the intention of bailing at some point in season 5 or at the beginning of 6. There's a few natural stopping points.
Check out GOG for deals on older games if there's anything you're missing or even things you wanted to check out back then but never got around to. Better deals than steam, and they are copy protection free, so you can download your own installer to use permanently. Also, they are updated to run (almost) flawlessly on new PCs.
That's what I thought, but apparently it went off the air in 2013.
Awesome, thanks man. I'll check it out.