@Tyranexx Church of the Monkey God. Stay focused, Ty. Stay focused.
And yes. He will love TMNT. Because everybody loves TMNT. Cowabunga! If he does not love TMNT it's best to just dispose of the defective unit and look into warranty options. A reaper/replace plan would be ideal.
@bimmy-lee I suppose the pitchfork preparedness thing depends on what she said. If it was, like "Pew-Die-Pie is awesome" then she should be skewered, then set on fire, then re-skewered, then forced to play Starfox Zero non-stop without sleep for 128 hours, then thrown in a sewer. If it was just like "all Buddhists should die" then it's just overreaction and the Internet needs to cut her a break.
@ThanosReXXX Well that's some fancy artwork to avoid a text wall. Didn't know you could draw like that, let alone full scale comics. I recall a conversation between you and Anti about drawing quite a while back, but I hadn't realized you were on that level!
On the other hand, it sounds like you're still an S&M guy. Which means I don't have to treat you as a real human being still. All's well that ends well!
Seriously, though, that sounds like quite the saga. Can't imagine what you were trying to switch to that required all that certification etc....sounds nasty. If that's what you had to do to get in, imagine how ugly it would have been once you were in? Blech.
@Heavyarms55 Yeah, those Rogue Squadron games were pretty good, and also quite ahead of their time, in some respects. I've installed my entire GameCube collection on my Wii, including those Star Wars games, and they definitely still hold up pretty well, both in gameplay and in the graphics department.
As for ICQ, I actually wasn't that surprised that you didn't know it. It's probably too old for you to know, and it's popularity had more than likely all but waned, before you ever actively started chatting. Or maybe it was just a case of it being more popular in Europe as opposed to other areas.
@NintendoByNature Well, I've already played all of them before, seeing as especially the first two games have already been releases on just about any device under the sun, and I own the third game both on PC and I've got the steel book limited edition on Xbox, so I was already familiar with all of them, but for that kind of money, I simply didn't want to miss out on getting them on the Switch.
@Zuljaras Thanks very much. And it's good to BE back...
@HobbitGamer There were SOUNDS?
All I remember is ICQ's message/notification bleeps and so on, so if you mean those then yes.
Other than that, it's too long ago for me to remember. I may have to look it up now, to satisfy my curiosity...
As for the whole Brie Larson and/or famous actor thing, I can relate to some extent to what some of you have said, not wanting to break that illusion of who what person is or what they do in real life, but on the other hand, I sometimes do want to know a bit more about them, especially if I like their performance, so at the very least, you'd want to know in what other movies or series they star or have starred. And some of them being socially involved in good ways is also never something that I personally frown upon.
In my view, it's actually far better than them remaining seated on the lofty pedestal that so many people and media always want to put them on, making them more human in the process, which is never a bad thing.
As for ms. Larson herself, she really isn't all that bad. To some, her acting may be a bit stiff or forced, so I suppose that side of her is either an acquired taste or a matter of opinion, but as a person, she's just fine. In some media, she either comes across or is presented as aloof and/or distant, and as is so often the case with people in the spotlight saying all kinds of stuff and commenting on all kinds of topics, some things are bound to either be taken out of context or blown out of proportion. But as can be seen in some of the pictures and Twitter posts in that article, she's actually a relatively normal person, and she genuinely likes Nintendo and their games. And from what I can see, that smile in that one picture is also pretty genuine. And it's my job to read people, so either she's a REALLY good actress, or she isn't nearly as evil as some people would like to make us believe...
She's pro-women, but not extremely feminist, and she once made some comment about more women needing to be in jobs in the industry that she's in. Nothing wrong with that if you ask me. If someone makes a black superhero movie with an almost all black cast and all black crew, then people are clapping and cheering and handing out Oscars, but if someone even dares to propose that something similar should happen except with an all women cast and crew, well... then the gates of hell have apparently opened, and someone needs to be thrown to the wolves. It's pathetic, basically.
And also a bit weird, seeing as we've already got movies like Wonder Woman, which basically IS all women, for the most part, and which also has a female crew. All Brie ever said that this should not be an exception but more of a rule, or rather a more common thing, instead of the industry being dominated by men. And what happened with that statement is that it was taken out of context, then changed into "Brie doesn't want to work with men", a statement which subsequently was bastardized/demonized even further, by someone or some medium changing it into something along the lines of "Brie hates men", which is DEFINITELY something she never said...
That is also why I mentioned the pro-women/feminist bit at the beginning. All she wants is more rights for women, which is nothing to get all mad or insulted about. And yet, several years later, she is still judged and/or convicted for that single statement. There's plenty of actors that have both said and done FAR worse over the last couple of decades.
So, now you know why people gather up their torches and pitchforks whenever she is mentioned in an article...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@Heavyarms55@Tyranexx I hated the transition to broadband. I was stuck on dialup and then cellular up through the first year of the Switch. But even early on websites started to change to all this media rich garbage and I just wanted to go back to text on a white background with a simple 8bit header image. It was the only thing that worked and they were breaking everything for all those broadband people. It was horrid.
Video buffering can still be enjoyed though. Just watch a Nintendo Direct whenever it airs. Relive the magic!
@ThanosReXXX@NotTelevision When did we become a paper driven meritocracy? It's not the world I come from. It's not the world I was raised for. It's not the world I will ever accept or be part of. I'll never understand it or really be cable of of existing in it. I don't do "tests" or "studying" - even in school I was never good at that "skill", as a self contained skill of "doing school" (which is the only skill you actually learn in school) - I still don't understand the concept of "study". Never worked for me. Never will. I either know something or I don't. No amount of staring at a book will give me one ounce of information I didn't have before I opened it. No point. 2 minutes, 200 hours....I'll walk away with no more information than I previously had with no more test passing ability than I did before I started. I'm a great learner, and I have a constant need to learn everything about everything.....but.....I can't "study", "cram" or anything else for predicted questions. I either learn and understand something intrinsically so you just walk in and answer questions from own-knowledge, or there's really no point bothering at all. I was weird like that in schools. It was either A or F. Basically nothing between other than margin of error from guesswork/random answers. I either knew it with complete understanding or didn't. I'd fail open book tests. I either knew it or didn't. The book won't help while taking a test if I don't already know and fully understand it.
That all fell apart when teachers declared they had zero intention of actually teaching (verbally stated when questioned!) and the entire class was just memorizing the book. Really shouldn't have even bothered showing up again at that point. Those people shouldn't get a paycheck.
But the beauty, the true beauty of meritocracy is it's an exercise in incompetence. "Doing school" is it's own skill, and is unrelated to almost any other skill. It rewards short term memorization of trivia without an internalized understanding of concept. Very, very many people are certified for doing things, by means of being able to memorize the right trivia at the right time, that they are wholly incompetent at doing because they don't actually understand it at all, they just know the right words to use at the right time like Pavlov's Theory applied to competence. I regularly encounter, as normal, people far, far more "merit" credentialed than myself who don't even have the slightest grasp of the absolute basics of the entire field. They're good at "studying" and taking "tests" - they just have no idea what the actual material is based on. They can just respond with the right answer to test type questions without knowing what it means. They can apply nothing. They just know how to take tests about it. Could be about subatomic particle theory...doesn't matter, they have a skill of test acing and get far in life. They don't actually understand much of how anything works at all. They coast on a broken system. This applies as far as medical. Which is a special kind of horrifying.
When you realize that the people who run every aspect of the world don't actually know what they're doing at all, but are just really good at taking trivia tests about it, you start thinking Vaultec has the right of it.
It wasn't always like this, but I'm not sure when it changed and when "professional bureaucrat/academic" became the sole measure of success. I didn't notice it as it happened, and then one day it was there.
@NEStalgia I’m the same way about consuming knowledge. I’ll listen, look, do. If I haven’t at least understood the concept by then (since some things are practical knowledge), I’m not going to git gud by rehashing it. I actually got in trouble quite often in school because I would pick up on something, zone out, and do all the paperwork associated with it. So I wasn’t “paying attention “ or I was “working ahead” or “not following instructions”. College was worse; Once I learned what we were doing, I simply didn’t go to class for the remaining duration of that segment. Of course, since college is about being told something as opposed to sharing knowledge, my gpa tanked because I wasn’t a seat warmer. I had it out with an administrator once, politely, after pointing out that by restricting my ability to pursue additional courses strictly because I had to be present they were hindering my educational opportunities. And then I pointed out that they already had my money up front.
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@NEStalgia Haha, you give me WAY too much credit. I just downloaded those pictures, rearranged them like panels on a comic book page, and added the script/text. I didn't draw any of them. I could have done a pretty reasonable rendition of some of the more old art, such as the one on the lower left of that page, but my skills are rusty, and it would have taken me way too long to finish the page like that. But even though I didn't do ALL of the work on that page, being busy with it did help me convert some of my negative energy concerning the past week into something positive and creative, which is never a bad thing.
As for the meritocracy thing: yeah, all true. I'm not much of a theory guy either. Put me in an actual on the job situation though, and I'll learn almost any skill faster than the average Joe. That's how I've always managed, and how I've succeeded in climbing up the ranks of sales & marketing, to ultimately ending up being a team lead and going on to work for myself.
But, as they like to say over here, the world has gone "diploma horny", so every bit of paper you can add to your resumé, regardless of whether or not you actually have any practical knowledge and/or experience to go with it, is preferable to people who actually know what to do, or who will be able to apply it quicker. And let's not forget: inexperienced staff with a papers only resumé are FAR cheaper to hire than people like you or me...
I'm not quite ready to talk about the entire experience yet, but the short version of part of it, is that I wanted to switch careers because my current one isn't doing so well, so it necessitated me to update both my skills and knowledge. And because working in the industry I was in wasn't working for me anymore, I decided to change course, and I chose the banking/finance business.
Now, over here, that's all VERY strictly regulated, and any and all companies or industries working in that business fall under the department of finance, so to be able to work in that industry/sector, you need to pass a state-regulated exam, which upon success, grants you a license that allows you to do so. And you also need a proof of good conduct, another certificate, but that's one that you simply pick up at any regional/communal office, provided you haven't been at odds with the law at some point during the last 5 years, otherwise you also won't be able to get a job in finance...
So, now that I failed this f'ing test by a meager half point, I'm kind of in limbo for now: no new job, and no old one to really go back to, because it would simply take me too much time and energy to get that up and running again, because I'd have to do it all from scratch.
So there, that's the business part of the story that the comic alluded to. And then there's a whole bunch of personal issues on top of that, but that's something that I'll keep to myself. Suffice to say that I've got more than enough on my plate to deal with right now.
@ThanosReXXX Well you did what you could. There’s going to be that lingering feeling of what could’ve been, but remember that just a test and not an accurate measurement of your wealth of experience and knowledge in the field. There are greener pastures ahead.
@Heavyarms55 Well I can’t speak for everyone, but there is this really persuasive side of the Internet out that out there that preys (knowning or unknowingly) on lonely, disenfranchised young men (a lot are gamers). The message is that the media is a Marxist, feminist conspiracy that seeks to corrupt your mind with PC information. I’m like you and see celebrities opinions for what they appear to be. Someone clearly out of the loop and not well researched on the topic. But for some people this is the war. The war of information. And they want to give you the straight, unfiltered “truth”.
So that’s where the antagonism comes from for a harmless Marvel movie.
Anyway it’s not worth discussing these sorts of individuals. It’s just Hollywood entertainment. It has always followed the general audiences and cultures views, and now is no different.
@NotTelevision - I fully agree with what you just stated to Heavyarms55, and would only add that the group you mentioned seems to feel a certain, unearned ownership over mediums like comic books and video games, so she really stirs up a passionate, “never forget” response.
@NEStalgia I guess it’s just efficiency. It’s a lot easier to read which candidate got the highest number, than pursuing a more time-consuming route.
You’re right about the teaching profession. That’s the extreme end of the meritocracy because it’s all about studying to get degrees and learning about theories that you’ll never use. Theory could in theory (haha) be worth it, if your particular school committed to an idea was able to see it through. But it always conflicts with the larger goal of standardized testing and having a broad range of curriculum that doesn’t invite critical thinking or creativity. So it ends up being the same old thing in the end with a new theory word labeled to it.
@HobbitGamer We sound very similar there! I spent almost a grade year in early elementary where the teacher was pure garbage (or absent most of the time with a myriad of subs assigning only busy work) ignoring the actual assigned work and doing my own reading aside. I STILL retain tons of knowledge from that exercise. I can guarantee the assigned work had no value but keeping children quiet and seated. Though I was perfectly happy as a seat warmer. I could do my best learning with a quality teacher able to convey information in a meaningful way and/or by doing.
That accounted for about 6 teachers, ever.
College was worst. HS has some percentage of staff that cares about learning for the sake of learning rather than career advancement checklists for themselves. That's where they officially declared they actually had no intention teaching. I confronted them.... why am I paying them tens of thousands of dollars for no function but to be told to read a $50 book I could read without paying them tens of thousands of dollars. They were used to kids where mumsy and dadsy pays for their presence not caring. They weren't used to someone footing 100% of the bill alone and demanding product. They had no product to show. They had no answers and walked away. I was pretty much trying to get thrown out as hard as I could. I had so much pure hatred for those people I'd have been giddy at making a media spectacle lawsuit of the entire system. Lesson learned: As long as you're giving them money they won't touch you. You'd have to maul someone to get thrown out. Or sleep with teachers. That was apparently effective. That was not going to be a viable option with any of the teachers I had, though...that's for darned sure.
Most of the time from elementary through college, I sat in the seats as they spent an hour each day demonstrating a lack of skill in their chosen profession and just spent the time analyzing and assessing how the tapestry of their total failure unfolds to cause further problems and the methodologies behind their failure. I understood precisely what was flawed with more clarity than their bosses did. I researched and was aware of the commercial shell game between regulation, political/administration, the non-profit for-profit "independent" evaluation organization and the schools rigging of standardized test scores and rankings/evaluation. Shame that wasn't actually worth credit. I could have been the dreaded school auditor. Who'd suspect the harmless kid toiling in the classroom was spending the time staring into their souls, cataloging all their flaws and results manipulation?
I'd have been very happy, to, instead of whatever garbage work they were doing in the classes, to have been assigned as the official school efficiency monitor, and I'd have been happy to put together a 3000 page report analyzing, detailing, and explaining the myriad level of their total failure as a system, and on an individual basis. I could have done it. I would have done it. And it would have brought me joy overwhelming to have done it. "Oh, I didn't get and F on that geometry test because I'm stupid. I got an F on that geometry test because I've spent the last 3 months of class documenting every failure in your technique, ability, methodology, attitude, and the entire school district's curriculum and approach to the subject. Thank you for the F. Here's the report I sent to the newspaper during your boss's reelection campaign."
Is that a bad student, or a student that gets hush money in Swiss bank account? We shall never know.
I suppose my true calling in life is Congressional Special Prosecutor.
@ThanosReXXX Ahh, I thought you drew it. Still, that was a heck of a presentation, Mr. Marketing.
"But, as they like to say over here, the world has gone "diploma horny", so every bit of paper you can add to your resumé, regardless of whether or not you actually have any practical knowledge and/or experience is preferable to people who actually know what to do, or who will be able to apply it quicker."
Ultimately I (and you perhaps) need to find the bits of the world that work the old way. The new way does not, and will never exist to me. I have to work around it because I cant work through it. I don't know when it happened or how it happened. It's like the USSR consumed the Earth after all. Beedy eyed bureaucrats requiring hoop jumping for no reason and treating it as the only rewardable activity is not a world I can exist in.
"And let's not forget: inexperienced staff with a papers only resumé are FAR cheaper to hire than people like you or me..."
Now that part probably explains a lot. Mostly I think it comes down to the people that do the hiring are themselves wholly incompetent via the same system and only know how to checkbox from requirements. Paper requirements are an "easy button" they can understand. Figuring out if someone has aptitude is something they can't even comprehend. And the paper conveniently is a CYA trail. Back when I was in HS we were told college was dying and would soon be obsolete.... Costs were going up and enrollment was declining rapidly. Their agenda was to get people into alternative methods of learning and preparedness. Then somehow this happened.
The Communist/Socialist regimes have always been meritocracy. Demonstrating that being "average" and just following the steps of "the system" is the way forward, and actual skill, talent, or perceptiveness is best left at the door and forgotten entirely. We are now them. I don't believe for an instant that's a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences.
Booo, banking/finance. No wonder. I realize that's where the big money is (at the top, in the investment sphere), but there's a reason half of Wall St "accidentally" plummets out of 40 story windows on a regular basis. Ironically, at least here, unless you're in the actual investment sphere, you make no money in banking. Turnaround is faster than at Nintendo. Yeah the investment people make tons....or "accidentally" fall from sky scrapers. Either way. And always one or the other. But the normal level banking is valueless churn.
It's up there with law, here. It's where the big money is, but it also routinely surveys as the most miserable/unhappy occupation. If you get somewhere you can get rich, but it's mostly to compensate the fact that you hate your existence and wish it would end. Maybe that's an America thing. The poor are miserable because they're poor. The rich are miserable because their money just is the "reward" for submitting to an otherwise miserable life so they can pay other people to take care of their lives and dedicate their actual lives to the misery of the company/firm for 100+ hours a week. So everyone's miserable and envious of everyone else. The poor see the rich as occupiers, the rich like to flaunt their excess to make them feel better because they're miserable and see the poor as time-rich freeloaders. And the middle is nearly extinct, funneled into one or the other.
NOW can we support rampant accessibility of guns?
Seriously, though, that's a tough spot with the career. I expect that will be me at some point simply by the way of things and the pace of change in everything across the board. Though I expect the bulk of the human race is going to be there sooner than later. Automation is replacing things fast, and, ironcially, your salesman skills are not easily automated. Finance is in the cross-hairs. Why need people for that...computers can do it faster, better, and more accurately. Finance is the first thing I keep hearing in the white collar automation crosshairs, right behind truck drivers on the blue collar side. Technically you may have dodged a bullet you didn't know was coming. BUT I realize that still leaves you in limbo at the moment.
@NotTelevision "t the media is a Marxist, feminist conspiracy that seeks to corrupt your mind with PC information. "
That part is actually true though, really. Still not related to the internet reactions, but can't throw the baby out with the bath water regarding legitimate observation and like-mindedness.
@bimmy-lee Yeah. Very good point. It’s like their domain has been infiltrated by a feminist upsurper. Not the case but that was the message some were projecting.
@bimmy-lee i just told them a bear jumped out and wanted to wrestle. I obliged, and this was the only Mark he left on me. @thanosrexxx got it. 3 is pretty awesome Imo.. I like the survival horror aspect just a little more than the first 2 games. I still like the first 2 though.
Hoe Carnival is a great place to find stilettos. Not that I’ve been there myself... a... friend told me. Yep. That’s it. A friend went there once. But it was an accident. He didn’t do it on purpose.
@NotTelevision - Yep, it’s just a little extra fuel for the fire, but every little bit counts.
@NintendoByNature - Ha, nice one! The bear got one in on you, but they should have seen the bear after you got done with him. Actually, in 2019, I’m not sure if we’re still allowed to talk about punching bears in the snout.
@NEStalgia Thanks for the compliment. I was already wondering about that "you're still an s&m guy" part of your comment. What gave it away, the sell at the end of the page?
Concerning the whole diploma debacle, I forgot to mention that besides companies being more eager to hire younger people because they are in possession of more papers and are cheaper than older, potentially more accident-prone employees with more experience, they're also more malleable than us. We're either too old to completely change to the tune a company is playing or we simply don't care to bow, which may or may not sometimes be true in my own particular case. I only bow or give in to those who deserve it or who are clearly more knowledgeable than me, and if they aren't... well, I didn't choose this particular avatar for nothing...
As for why I chose banking: not to get rich, because I know, like you said, that the money is only up there in the highest echelons, but it was a pretty decent offer nonetheless, and the mediator/agency that got me in there paid for my studies and exam, so it could have been interesting. But I found it typical to read your view on it. You're either a pretty decent judge of character, or banking/finance in general is just not a place you want to be in, in America, apparently. Why I said typical is because one of my closest friends told me that although he was sad to not see me succeed, he was all but sure that I was never going to be happy working at a bank, so according to him, it was probably for the best, regardless of the fact that it definitely didn't really feel like that at that moment.
@HobbitGamer Have you already started modding your Wii? In case you're in need of any tips or help, let me know. I'll gladly point you in the right direction. And there's literally only one guide you should follow, which is this one (edit: select the "LetterBomb" option in the tutorial, then go from there). All others are variations of that one, or use methods not entirely in line with the established modding community and/or knowledge, most of which can be found on GBATemp, by the way.
Oh, and the SD card you'll need, MUST be a non-HC 2GB card. The Wii does support higher capacity cards when used normally, but for the softmod, it is highly recommended to stick to a normal 2GB card. You can get one here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=non+hc+2gb+sd+card&ref=nb_sb_noss
Personally, I always use Transcend cards. They're pretty good, and I've already modded around 15 Wii's, and not one of them has had any problems with this cheaper SD card.
As a game/USB loader, I prefer and recommend Configurable USB Loader over Wiiflow or USB Loader GX, because of a cleaner and more user-friendly UI and it's the only one I've never had any problems with, personally. And if you go with that Loader, then you'll also need a forwarder channel, which you can get here.
Speaking of education, Anti just provided us a reminder of prom night.
...I'll show myself out.
@ThanosReXXX I think I'd rather become a janitor than work in banking. The money is worse. Marginally. But you at least see interesting places, meet interesting people, hear interesting things, and get to keep your hands busy.
In banking you just stare at your cube/office and have to hold the company line in unfair advantages, and smarmily lie as you take people's money knowing it's a bad deal for them, while someone else above your pay gets rich off the deal. At the end of the day you're still just cleaning up sh** for minimal money.
Yeah, companies hiring younger for a variety of reasons is nothing new, of course. Credentialing isn't really one of the main reasons there....everything else you mentioned is. Presents an interesting conundrum though. What do you do when around half of society is "too old for society?" We're winding up with a lot of surplus humans in many different areas. I still imagine this is going to end very very ugly, quite possibly in our lifetimes. It just needs a catalyst to make the downturn acute.
I don't know about "more accident prone" - the young people seem to be the ones constantly in medical debacles far as I can see. Except a certain titan with a penchant for Peterbilt Ribs.
@NEStalgia Well, you may still just be cleaning up sh**, but I'm pretty sure the smell in a banking office will be far less overpowering than anything you could encounter on a porcelain pony...
As for what to do with older people: I don't know that much about what's happening over there, but over here, ageing (or as the Dutch call it: "greying") is already a thing. People in general are getting older and live healthier lives, far as their budget allows them, and we're starting to have/create a problem where fewer people are now working for the pensions of the many. Back in the day it was something like 4 people for every pensioner, and by now that's half or even less, so it's becoming a real problem.
Some temporary band aid solutions have already been implemented, such as making people work longer before they're allowed to retire, so at 67 instead of at 65, and by the time I reach that age, it'll probably be 68 or 69...
As for the accident prone bit: I should have phrased that a bit better. Of course, it's just about liability, and older people recovering slower/staying sick for longer periods, making them cost even more than they already do, as opposed to the younger employees.
Wish I had Peterbilt ribs, though. Sounds considerably more sturdy than the ones I've got to work with...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX The smell of corruption and greed and the smell of moldy poo are more similar than different.
Heh, this is America. If you're one of those upper tier bankers you retire like Reggie and live it easy. If you're not, you work until you die at your desk, or if they fire you because you're old (spoiler: they will) you live in an RV and travel from seasonal job to seasonal job, 4 at a time with nonspecific hours, until you die there. No dead weight here! Everyone pulls their weight! (Except for politically designated exempt classes that change with the need for voting blocks in various locales.)
When we run out of SS money (mostly because it was earmarked and spent for highway expansion projects and bailing out random countries in remote foreign jungles back in 1974) we import new people by the tens of millions to work for cheap to feed the SS funds, forcing the old people against even more young competition!
But with the rising ages it sounds similar there as to here overall.
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