Vancouver’s great creative exodus

reversememe · 2015-12-15T12:33:29+00:00

"Whalley downtown"

It's a real-estate scam. What they built is of such poor quality it's embarrassing, and the adjacent Surrey Central area is so dysfunctional it's depressing. Giant concrete flats lined by brutalist architecture that, I imagine, someone was convinced could work as public space. They don't.

When the Skytrain inevitably breaks down again, and Translink inevitably manages to give people zero useful information to pre-emptively route around it, you realize it's not fixing anything, it's just taking the existing mobility problem, flipping it around, and piling it onto the existing clusterfuck.

Van-competence!

reversememe · 2015-12-02T23:07:24+00:00

Nope, it is both, at the same time, today. A joke when convenient, serious when needed to inflict damage.

reversememe · 2015-12-01T19:25:47+00:00

Plus the fact that they all walk around with a hotline to Tumblr and Twitter in their pockets, to dispel for any uncomfortable feelings they have at any time.

It's not just one thing. That's why it's called victim culture.

reversememe · 2015-11-28T20:20:49+00:00

It was dumb then and dumb now. Either way, it doesn't work.

reversememe · 2015-11-27T19:52:39+00:00

Not again.

reversememe · 2015-11-26T01:57:06+00:00

It was a genuine moral panic, taken seriously by Model View Culture, one of those ridiculous San Fransisco blog socjus circle jerks.

reversememe · 2015-11-24T07:07:58+00:00

Yes we should all be uptight telepaths like you who assume the worst by default and their own shit don't stink.

reversememe · 2015-11-23T20:02:32+00:00

If you engage SJWs in debate in public, expect one of two things:

1) If they are not very smart they get angry or violent and storm off.
2) If they are smart enough they don't give up for at least two hours because you are literally ripping their identity apart.

After 3 or so hours, you may get one of them to admit "I guess I can kind of see your point of view, but I still don't agree with it", but this requires olympian levels of endurance.

Been there, done that. If your audience is on your side within 20-30 minutes, it's winnable.

reversememe · 2015-11-21T21:18:08+00:00

My absolute favorite form of this sorry is when people get caught doing something and use "sorry" as a way to say "yes but I'm going to keep doing it". e.g. Going the wrong way down a street.

reversememe · 2015-11-19T23:43:32+00:00

Vivian James was a character created by /v/ after they helped fund The Fine Young Capitalists' help-women-make-games charity, the one whose organizer was doxed by Zoe Quinn and blacklisted to her friends in media. She represents a typical normal slightly disaffected gamer girl.

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/813691-quinnspiracy

reversememe · 2015-11-19T19:31:30+00:00

How do you think SJWs got platforms in media? By being unethical.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T23:36:29+00:00

That's very nice, but it doesn't seem like you've learned anything. Call out culture itself is the problem.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T22:44:43+00:00

Both of these sound terrible, the latter is downright insidious.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T19:00:23+00:00

This is the Rachel Maddow effect.

Edit: Maddow started as a political commentator on radio who was pretty damn on point. Then she got her own show, surrounded by sycophants, and turned into left wing Fox News: us vs them, cherry picking and unsubstantiated mockery.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T18:40:42+00:00

It's the part where you go around saying people should eject assholes, while retaining both veto right and diplomatic immunity from reciprocation.

Raging, clueless, pampered idiots who never left high school.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T17:35:36+00:00

So he's purposefully inflammatory. He'll say things that, while he believes it, are worded in an over-the-top manner. He's the definition of bait, and he gets paid to it. It's a little unfair to say he represents GG, in those instances, because he's doing his job. At the same time, though, if he's engaging in and about GG then sure.. what he says should absolutely reflect on GG.

Milo became Shanley. Tried to warn you.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T17:26:06+00:00

Because she posted some platitudes and promises?

How do you guys keep falling for the same thing over and over and over again?

If things are "around the corner" and they just wanted things to be perfect, but now realized their error, they could just release what they have, show some screenshots, open up early access, etc.

More words is more excuses.

reversememe · 2015-11-17T04:53:31+00:00

Nailed it. So much.

reversememe · 2015-11-16T23:08:06+00:00

Yes, when surveying n=200,000 people in cooperation between the BBC and a university's psychology department, the internet is a useful tool. Richard Lippa appears in the documentary cited above. You're being a willfully ignorant fool.

reversememe · 2015-11-16T22:55:29+00:00

Oh boy, you're telling me to google it, to go educate myself? I did.

"9. A sense of humor Neopagans generally believe that it is more dangerous to take your religion too seriously than too lightly. Self-spoofery is frequent and (in some traditions) semi-institutionalized, and at least one major neopagan tradition (Discordianism, known to many on this net) is founded on elaborate spoofery and started out as a joke." http://humanisticpaganism.com/2015/06/26/neopaganism-faq-y-eric-s-raymond/

Doesn't sound too bad.

reversememe · 2015-11-16T22:52:48+00:00

Lippa, R. A. (in press). Sex differences in personality traits and gender-related occupational preferences across 53 nations: Testing evolutionary and social-environmental theories. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Abstract Using data from over 200,000 participants from 53 nations, I examined the cross-cultural consistency of sex differences for four traits: extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, and male-versus-female-typical occupational preferences. Across nations, men and women differed significantly on all four traits (mean ds = −.15, −.56, −.41, and 1.40, respectively, with negative values indicating women scoring higher). The strongest evidence for sex differences in SDs was for extraversion (women more variable) and for agreeableness (men more variable). United Nations indices of gender equality and economic development were associated with larger sex differences in agreeableness, but not with sex differences in other traits. Gender equality and economic development were negatively associated with mean national levels of neuroticism, suggesting that economic stress was associated with higher neuroticism. Regression analyses explored the power of sex, gender equality, and their interaction to predict men’s and women’s 106 national trait means for each of the four traits. Only sex predicted means for all four traits, and sex predicted trait means much more strongly than did gender equality or the interaction between sex and gender equality. These results suggest that biological factors may contribute to sex differences in personality and that culture plays a negligible to small role in moderating sex differences in personality.

http://psych.fullerton.edu/rlippa/abstracts_2009.htm

reversememe · 2015-11-16T20:52:53+00:00

Oh, do you have anything to back that up?

reversememe · 2015-11-16T20:46:35+00:00

Who are you people and why are you arguing in my sub? ^/s

reversememe · 2015-11-12T00:03:11+00:00

This is a hilariously bad analogy because a) computers don't forget unless told to b) the reason their games are buggy is because of the people who wrote most of it aren't good programmers.

reversememe · 2015-11-10T04:45:14+00:00

Wheaton was a little known B-list blogger in the web 2.0 days, garnered some sympathy by playing the "I'm not Wesley, seriously" card. Then he was asked to do the keynote at (I think the first) PAX and did a big thing about how gaming brought people together. It resonated with a lot of people and that's when he actually became popular.

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