I have decided that there should be several Gunslinger movies, which will all begin the same way and end differently depending on the karmic choices that Roland makes.
I would wait on a Wii U. There are not many good games for the money, and it is a pretty failed system so it probably won't get much future support and will probably be hard to get much resale value as well. Even if you are buying one just for the new Zelda I would wait to check out Nintendo's new system that is coming out loosely around the same time as that Zelda game that is tentatively codenamed "Nintendo NX". Pretty bad name but whatever. Nintendo is going to have to put a lot of eggs in that basket and it will probably be a pretty neat little entertainment system. Also, that Zelda game will, more than likely, look way better on it than on a Wii U. They made a crazy sum of money on the original Wii and so pretty half-assed the Wii U I think because they got lazy or something. I read somewhere that they made enough money on original Wii that they could run all their operations comfortably for 10 years making no profit at all. So yeah, they've been kinda coasting and doing stuff with their mobile platforms, but will hopefully nail this next console.
FIRST OPEN WORLD ZELDA GAME THOUGH! It is going to be pretty badass.
Also, No Man's Sky...that game looks amazing. Hopefully it lives up to it's hype of something like "Compelling almost infinite space exploration + Minecraft".
Oh yeah No Man's Sky!! I read a New Yorker article about it ages ago & was so intensely compelled. Didn't know it was finally/actually coming out. It's like ultimate zelda
Yeah, it is pretty cool that games are getting so big on trying to satiate wanderlust and exploration and in a lot of ways that would never be conceivable in real life. Like, I can save up to go to Greece, but pretty hard to save to become a space archeologist or a magical elf prince who talks to giant rock creatures, but I would totally ride my bike and buy some shittier groceries for a while if those possibilities were real. Now they sorta are, and for way cheaper than Greece.
Arguing with old guys about politics by the ocean over a cup of yogurt sounds pretty cool too though. That's what happens in Greece right? I would play a game of that as well.
"What America faces instead is what we might describe as capitalism’s “Piketty problem,” after the French economist Thomas Piketty, known for his magisterial “Capital in the 21st Century.” This problem can be summarized by four propositions: First, the basic dynamic of the system tends toward higher inequality. Second, this tendency makes economic growth less effective at raising living standards. Third, faster overall economic growth, even if unequally distributed, could potentially solve the problem. Except that, fourth, rising inequality slows down economic growth, rather than speeds it up.
Result: a vicious cycle of rising inequality, stagnating living standards and slowing economic growth. That’s the Piketty problem. And American capitalism, left to its own devices, appears highly unlikely to solve it, which is why a solidly left program of spending and regulation seems eminently sensible under the circumstances."
Does it seem remarkable to anybody else that basically the WSJ just admitted that capitalism doesn't work??
Reminds me of Donald Trump's brutal anti-war takes, where he sounds like the most left-leaning radical of all. Those tweets where he's like "why do we spend all our money and send all our young people to die for no reason, it's stupid, under Trump, NO MORE WAR, EVER, I'M CANCELING THE MILITARY" lolol imagine a legitimate politician saying that shit! He's obviously flopped around on this, as on all his takes (now I believe he's saying he'll build up the military and kill everyone) but there was this weird period last year where his anti-war hot takes were blowing my mind.
To paraphrase Voltaire describing the works of Shakespeare, sometimes we discover pearls in immense dung heaps
Awwwww I missed it!!! What was it like?! What is the MUSIC like?? Are they getting that asshole Howard Shore to do it or what, I bet it'll be all banjo
"No one knows for certain how we deal with this new race with and against machines, but I can assure you it’s not Trump’s way — build walls, restrict trade, give huge tax cuts to the rich. The best jobs in the future are going to be what I call “STEMpathy jobs — jobs that blend STEM skills (science, technology, engineering, math) with human empathy. We don’t know what many of them will look like yet."
When you go back to teaching classes, will you have office hours? Will you have a phone in your office? Would you be open to us calling you to ask questions? This idea just popped into my head while reading your most recent blog post. I felt like there are probably lots of people I know, where if I knew every Wednesday from 4-6pm they would be waiting for phone calls, I would probably call them for a five minute convo.
OMG what a fun idea!!!!!!! They actually are taking our phones away (to save money! Lol higher ed is in dire straits (not the band unfortunately)) but what if I had Skype office hours??
Wow, it does seem brutal to take the phones away, although I wonder what the cost of such a large phone system is. If you decide to do the Skype idea, let us know :)
We all have to cut our budgets AND charge students more. Tuition is raised constantly plus now students are going to start getting charged additional things like "arts fees" to cover the budget cuts to actual arts departments. Meanwhile the governor continues to complain to the newspaper that faculty are underworked and overpaid, and our students go to class all day long in a basement with no windows, meanwhile the business school is getting a new $62 million extension campus
Aaaah life in the privileged ivory tower, truly I love how I don't have to live in "the real world"
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Yes
It looks great!!!!!
Is this for the Wii? Is there a new system or is it still the Wii
I will buy one
Excited
ZELDAR
FIRST OPEN WORLD ZELDA GAME THOUGH! It is going to be pretty badass.
Also, No Man's Sky...that game looks amazing. Hopefully it lives up to it's hype of something like "Compelling almost infinite space exploration + Minecraft".
"What America faces instead is what we might describe as capitalism’s “Piketty problem,” after the French economist Thomas Piketty, known for his magisterial “Capital in the 21st Century.” This problem can be summarized by four propositions: First, the basic dynamic of the system tends toward higher inequality. Second, this tendency makes economic growth less effective at raising living standards. Third, faster overall economic growth, even if unequally distributed, could potentially solve the problem. Except that, fourth, rising inequality slows down economic growth, rather than speeds it up.
Result: a vicious cycle of rising inequality, stagnating living standards and slowing economic growth. That’s the Piketty problem. And American capitalism, left to its own devices, appears highly unlikely to solve it, which is why a solidly left program of spending and regulation seems eminently sensible under the circumstances."
Does it seem remarkable to anybody else that basically the WSJ just admitted that capitalism doesn't work??
Reminds me of Donald Trump's brutal anti-war takes, where he sounds like the most left-leaning radical of all. Those tweets where he's like "why do we spend all our money and send all our young people to die for no reason, it's stupid, under Trump, NO MORE WAR, EVER, I'M CANCELING THE MILITARY" lolol imagine a legitimate politician saying that shit! He's obviously flopped around on this, as on all his takes (now I believe he's saying he'll build up the military and kill everyone) but there was this weird period last year where his anti-war hot takes were blowing my mind.
To paraphrase Voltaire describing the works of Shakespeare, sometimes we discover pearls in immense dung heaps
What is the MUSIC like?? Are they getting that asshole Howard Shore to do it or what, I bet it'll be all banjo
STEMPATHY!!!!! This is Thomas Friedman of course.
Also the implication/acknowledgment that current STEM jobs do not entail human empathy
We don't know what these jobs will look like!!!
LOLOLOL
How can he be SO stupid
They actually are taking our phones away (to save money! Lol higher ed is in dire straits (not the band unfortunately)) but what if I had Skype office hours??
We all have to cut our budgets AND charge students more. Tuition is raised constantly plus now students are going to start getting charged additional things like "arts fees" to cover the budget cuts to actual arts departments. Meanwhile the governor continues to complain to the newspaper that faculty are underworked and overpaid, and our students go to class all day long in a basement with no windows, meanwhile the business school is getting a new $62 million extension campus
Aaaah life in the privileged ivory tower, truly I love how I don't have to live in "the real world"