I will make my best effort to be excited… trying… trying…

Hrm… battery prices are dropping and EVs are becoming more practical, and mysteriously, just as auto manufacturers commit hard to EVs, gas prices drop and hold down low for months at a time. It’s almost like there’s some kind of cartel that controls oil prices and uses them to sabotage anything that’s against their…

“Early” stages, he says, like we didn’t play this exact game twenty years ago…

I am not arguing the second position you accuse me of arguing. I am arguing that: a) we should cast fewer white people, by b) casting more non-white people, c) without jumping from the assumption that because a character is of a certain race, the actor should be the same race.

“If you meet an asshole in the morning, well, it happens. If you keep meeting assholes all day, maybe you’re the asshole.”

Rules exist for a reason. By following the rules, you can get a serviceable end product. It may not be great, or inventive, but it will likely accomplish some modest goals.

I still like the show, but I agree: its cynicism isn’t clever or interesting. It has too dim a view of human nature. That said, it’s still interesting to watch its explorations of “big” ideas.

I’m gonna take a bunch of salt, and I’m gonna dissolve it in water. Then, I’m gonna boil off that water. Then I’m gonna take the salt deposits and mix them back into fresh water.

Being an experienced force user turns you into a hermitic, non-intervening, hyper-conservative dicknostril, at least based on every experienced Jedi we’ve seen in two trilogies…

I actually liked Ultron better than the first Avengers. Mostly because I really, really hate the Helicarrier sequence, and wasn’t too jazzed about the unending Battle of NY. God, that sequence was so damn long that I feel like I’m still watching it.

I wouldn’t say Ant-Man stank. It was formulaic fluff, and it hit its beats well, and managed to pull off a few inventive sequences. At worst, it’s okay.

God, the first fucking line has nothing to do with the rest of my post, and I sincerely regret dropping it in there.

An engineer or a programmer without any artistic skill is generally a bad engineer or programmer. But what do I know, I got a CS degree but actually had more credits in Philosophy.

I am advocating the exact opposite of “color-blind” casting. I am arguing against casting white people as some kind of “default”, and I’m arguing against taking our perceptions of a historical period or a source material and letting that determine our casting based on our preconceived notions. I’m advocating a…

Well, it’s largely okay. I am arguing against casting white people, specifically though, because for too long that’s been the “default”. I’m not arguing for color blind casting- I’m arguing against casting white people in everything, and I’m simultaneously arguing against casting just because the “source material” or…

We’ll set aside the Persian history (which I picked up from Iranian relatives), but focus on my core argument, because, no, I’m not subtly arguing the reverse racism angle. In fact, I’m arguing that we should be casting far fewer white people. I don’t care who you cast, just don’t cast nothing but white people.

Because Philippine folklore is awesome. Wolverine was (once upon a time) kinda awesome, and the combination would be great tastes that taste great together. Myth mashups are the best. Fuck, let’s just have Zeus and Vishnu have a smackdown with Godzilla. That’d be amazing.

That still doesn’t make it easy to instrument your caching layer. Generally, if you’re tracking stats on your cache, you’re quantifying hits and misses, you’re not auditing accesses, because there’s no point to auditing accesses on your cache, since mostly the stuff that you’re caching can be happily reused across…

Actually, that is exactly the point I’m making, I think we’re just reaching different conclusions. I’m arguing that we need to destroy whiteness.