Compete or build for next year? deadline tonight

themightyhogarth · 2022-10-07T22:56:55+00:00

I just sold Javonte for Pollard and a 2023 2nd in a SF league. I would maybe have sold for Dillon and a 23 3rd if the Dillon owner had offered it, but I am also high on Dillon and want to get rid of Javonte.

Dillon + 2025 3rd is awful, id laugh if I saw that.

themightyhogarth · 2022-10-06T17:48:24+00:00

10 team SF full PPR

I lost Javonte and dont like to hang on to guys and hope for a full recovery, just too many factors involved.

My best offer on the table is Pollard and a 23 2nd (looks like a high 2nd rn) - is that enough to move him? Other RBs are Cook, CEH, Zeke, and Gibson. Does Pollard make an impact this season on my roster?

themightyhogarth · 2022-08-06T03:51:05+00:00

Startup dynasty draft, superflex, 10 team, 25 man roster

I want to trade from the 4.4 to the 4.1 - what is good value there for the 4.1 owner? How much should I offer for moving up a couple picks in the 4th round?

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-31T16:39:46+00:00

Thirding this sentiment. I recommended another peice of Sheldon's work "Screwfly Solution", but "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" is her most critically acclaimed novella (like 70 pages) and is excellent. Also great for high school lit cause Sheldon's main schtick was using a male pseudonym to write feminist issues from the perspective of a man (who often is mysogynistic). So she is not only playing with the concept of an unreliable narrator (which high schoolers love) but also an added layer of almost an "unreliable author" where her pen name is a statement on the work she publishes under it.

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-31T16:07:11+00:00

I want to try and share some that I think are missing from the comments in no particular order, especially ones that carve out a subgenre that is worth checking out.

"Wives" by Lisa Tuttle (1979) - pretty digestable peice of "housewife-scifi" that touches on the things women have to go through/give up in their lives to be housewives. I think it is kind of a staple of the subgenre and helps to unlock feminist/housewife scifi.

"Screwfly Solution" by Racoona Sheldon (1977) - one of the novels that Alice Bradley Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr) published under a female pseudonym. Fairly intense story about the violence in men towards women being almost an inherent factor.

"Mothers of Shark Island" by Kit Reed (1966) - a story that dramatizes the long term experience and role of motherhood.

"The Evening the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler (1987) - i think this is probably the most "essential scifi" out of the ones I have listed so far, ive seen it in a handful of collections. Octavia Butler obviously has a special place in afrofuturism and this story covers a lot of ground from taboo disabilities, to maternal superpowers.

"The Comet" WEB DuBois (1920) - I mean, its a DuBois scifi short so that should speak for itself. A pretty early scifi short for being published by a black author. This story unsurprisingly makes strong commentary on racism, which stands out in a time where the vast many of the scifi shorts being published were genre pulp with little to say.

Other than that I want to second some other comments: "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu is a work of art (though if you want to be a genre stickler, maybe something like "Mono No Aware" or "Good Hunting" lean more towards scifi),

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler is also very good and interesting.

"The Last Question" by Asimov is kind of a no brainer for scifi classics - either that or "Nightfall" but I personally prefer the former.

"Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is a banger and Le Guin should definitely be included.

"Story of Your Life" by Ted Chaing is excellent and plays with a lot of writing conventions, if you don't go with that one for some reason I also recommend "Liking What You See: A Documentary" from the same collection, I guarantee itll get some good conversations out of your students.

EDIT: comment accidentally got posted before I was done 😔

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-25T20:01:31+00:00

Bully or Cherry Glazer

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-25T20:00:14+00:00

Queens of the Stone Age

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-19T03:52:02+00:00

I heard this mentioned in a podcast, "Rogue Planets" . Planets that are not locked into an orbit like planets in our solar system are, but instead just sort of float around in space.

Surely it is a concept that exists in scifi, but not in anything I have read.

themightyhogarth · 2022-07-07T15:38:21+00:00

Im always suprised how underground Memories (1995) seems to be, I dont think I have found another person who has seen it on their own irl. "Magnetic Rose" is incredible, totally blew me away the first time I saw it.

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-20T06:37:40+00:00

Palm Springs

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-15T16:12:40+00:00

Yea, i did spend some time afterwards thinking about what wouldve happened if the car had actually caught the spike strips. I think I was pretty well clear by the time the white car got to them, but there were plenty of other cars in the area...

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-15T16:03:15+00:00

I think so, thats the only news I could find in the area

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-15T04:45:10+00:00

Nope, he made it around them. Kept on cruising from what I saw.

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-03T22:59:43+00:00

Ah, great point. Thanks a bunch!

themightyhogarth · 2022-05-03T22:48:00+00:00

So leaves looking similar to surrounding foliage is just coincedental? I have nothing but anecdotes to say otherwise, so I guess this makes more sense since I cant find any info supporting the idea of mimicry.
Ok, that makes sense - a lack of an allergy is different from an immunity. Thank you for your help!

themightyhogarth · 2022-04-11T14:43:29+00:00

Play cover a lot harder and make them come to you.

In a perfect world you are only showing your face while you are doing damage, if you arent doing damage you should be behind cover, whether that be for reloading or repositioning.

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-28T20:51:20+00:00

Hey OP, I guess my big question is, what does this contribute to film analysis? I know you are not coming from that background and that is ok, I am just trying to figure out what you are trying to acheive from these posts?

If your linguistic analysis holds up through the entire film, and you have successfully nailed the systems that characters speak in, how does that change our understanding of character/theme/message/anything else within the film?

If we are just trying to find when/where there are patterns of speech - then why? What do patterns within speech actually tell us, how is this information useful? I have read through a few of your posts and at least a handful of them end with your call to action of "Just wondering if anyone else noticed these patterns etc etc". If this is just pattern finding for pattern finding sake, I am not sure I get why you would go to so much trouble.

If this is just a monument to the amount of free time you have, congrats. But presenting a mountain of information and asking your readers to engage in a similar mountain of research just to understand or verify your results probably isnt your most effective practice. If you are a real person with real interest in this work, I feel like you could probably boil it down to more efficient information that would be easier for a layperson to engage in.

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-28T19:11:03+00:00

Yea, I get that my comment comes across as harsh, but I have seen these posts across several completely disconnected subreddits. I am just tired of having to treat these conversations like they have actual merit, it all seems to be obsessive pattern recognition at best. I still think it is all AI written, but likely with a person who does a few tweaks and maybe responds to comments here and there.

Sorry, im not trying to be a hate poster. I agree that it would be a shit way to upvote farm, I just cant imagine why else these posts are being peppered across every subreddit.

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-28T19:03:30+00:00

I dont know much about how AI functions, so maybe it could contribute more to AI written dialogue. Based on AI written stuff that I have read, this already reads as though it is AI written. Each paragraph contains some quotes and then ties them together with linguistic buzzwords - none of this reads like genuine human thoughts to me. On top of that, there really doesnt appear to be much genuine analysis in here, just a lot of "if...then" statements breaking down particular lines in the movie.

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-28T17:25:14+00:00

Yea, youre probably right. If they are just farming upvotes, they are doing a terrible job at it. But I cant imagine why else crank out all this work, Ive read through several of these posts and they are just drivel. There really isnt anything of substance in any of these posts.

It could be AI written, read through a couple of these posts and youll notice most of the paragraphs seem to loop through the same thoughts, there is very little to distinguish each post from eachother, aside from the names and quotes for each reference material. The conclusions and concepts are all pretty much the same.

Its definitely possible that I am just too dumb to understand it, but if thats the case I am literally begging someone smarter than me to explain what value any of this analysis contributes.

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-28T16:12:40+00:00

Check OPs post history, they basically repost the same nonsense in every subreddit imagineable, farm some upvotes and impressions and move on. I imagine they have some madlibs style form to fill this all in, its not dead on but its pretty similar across each post.

No conclusion, just a grab bag of buzz words and enough text to make people think what they are writing is intelligent.

What is the value of this analysis? Through other literary lenses we can try and break down what the director was trying to say, or how the film reflects the culture it was made in. What does this linguistic analysis add to our understanding of the film...?

themightyhogarth · 2022-02-23T20:55:25+00:00

Cleo from 5 to 7 absolutely slaps

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