Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "TheQuartering"
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@brazwen - It's what I meant to type in the first place. Autocorrect is a thing, you know? The point was toward George Orwell's 1984. If you really want to be a nit pick about it then it really ought to be nineteen eighty-four, as the 1949 1st edition, and almost every other edition ever since has done. Sure, there are variations on capitalization, be it just the nineteen, as in the 1962 Penguin reprint, or the nineteen, eighty, and four, as has been done since the 1969 modern series cover. The only cover of the Penguin publishings that actually has 1984 in numerics, though as graffiti over the title that spells out the numbers, is in the 2009 publishing of the Modern Series redesign by Jim Stoddart. But originally, the first edition was without capitalization as nineteen eighty-four. That's if you really want to be a technical nit-pic about it, anyways. 😝😏
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And if you really want to show that you're not racist, go read actual slave narratives, or research the Civil Rights era. In both instances, it was Democrats fighting hard to keep control of the plantation, be it the literal ones that held slaves, or the political one that to this day still uses race baiting and fear tactics to keep people of color voting for them. Yet what has BIpig Tech, neo-liberal Dems done other than maintain the status quo of high crime, high taxes, high poverty, and turned their cities into crap? They don't care about people of color, save for keeping control over them to keep power. But sure, a black mermaid is really going to change all that. Nope, they just toying with you like a fish on a hook!
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As for whether pixels = $$$, well, consider how much it cost even to buy Atari and NES games back in the day. The popular games went for between $25 to $30 for Atari 4-bit cartridges, and $45 to $50 for 8-bit NES carts. Before this in arcades, the games were made simple for short, addictive game play, to push as many quarters into the machine by as many arcade gamers as possible. Heck, many of the commercials for Atari and NES games were all about how addictive the game play was, while also claiming to be family entertainment.
Beyond that, being able to modify or power up your character in a game has always been an appealing element. For the arcade, it added an extra element to keep you engaged and plucking down more quarters. At home, it was to keep the game play from getting too mundane. The microtransaction, pay to play aspect can be bad, especially when the game is built on the only way to finish the game, or to have fun with it is in having to pay for better optimizations. Having an option to be able to beat a game without having to buy stuff, or to be able to earn it, as in the old RP monster grinding, that would be a better option. But, really, pay to play has, in a sense, been around since as long as people have been trying to buy their way into Heaven. Not saying it's right, but that's part of free will. Even so, regulating the choice for moral and ethical issues is the very reason that we have laws. Otherwise, it's a lawless society where anything goes.
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Accept the BS? Sorry, but this smack by Will Smith has been the best thing to happen to the Oscars whose ratings would have tanked without it. No one would be talking about the Oscars right now if this BS didn't happen. Trying to take a reasonable man argument here is just playing into it more. We went through a whole 'summer of love' in 2020 where people had done worse than smack someone and got away with it. There are still people getting randomly attacked in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, not to mention Chicago's continuous black on black shooting crime spree, and very few of them are brought to justice.
Whether Will Smith's career will be over for smacking Chris Rock is mostly dependent on Will Smith. Jim Carrey, who may or may not have led to one of his girlfriends to commit suicide has no room to talk on this whatsoever. He's as much a scum bag as any of these Hollywood elites are. For all we know, Carrey might be among the vampire child molesting cult that is said to rule Hollywood. Will Smith, is no victim, nor saint here, but among all those who want to be outraged by his sin, none of them could cast the first stone. But it still hits Will the hardest because he was supposed to be one of the good guys. He probably still could come back, but why? Hollywood is a toxic environment. The entertainment business as a whole is full of some of the worse scum on the earth. Anyone who wants any shred of sanity would be a fool for going into it, and would be wise to jump ship out of it.
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