Is this based on the Harlan Ellison treatment, or is it a new story?

I loved Adam West delivering lines from Dark Knight Returns and the '89 Burton movie.

Thanks. I actually have Affordable Space Adventures from a Humble Bundle I bought awhile back; I'll check it out.

If you go to Maui and are interested in zip lining, my brother works at a place called NorthShore Zipline Co and, family connection aside, it's got pretty good Yelp reviews.

I bought a Wii U and plan on setting it up tonight. No games yet except the Nintendoland pack-in, so what I end up playing will depend on what's for sale at my local independent used game store(s), but I'll be keeping an eye out for Breath of the Wild, Mario Maker, Splatoon, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Yoshi's Woolly…

Dude, that's the meaning that everybody but you read into it, and I daresay the meaning that the guy who wrote it intended.

For sure. But processor cycles were always going to get cheaper than person-hours; it's less a question of "How much cheaper would cycles have gotten if programming were still female-dominated?" than "How much less would programmers' salaries have increased by if programming were still a female-dominated field?"

"If a, then x, while if b, then y" does not imply "if a, then not y" or "if b, then not x." Focus does not imply exclusion; that's "all lives matter" shit.

But then how is it empathy? How is a lack of empathy, empathy?

Sorry, I thought we were having a conversation, not playing Pretend Context and Subtext Don't Exist and Posts Only Mean the Things They Overtly Say. Let me take a moment to recalibrate.

I already referenced the Rule of Goats elsewhere in the thread, but it probably bears referencing again.

Hm. I'm not sure I agree, but on the other hand, Lee's strength always was more in recognizing and wrangling talented people than in writing.

He was talking about using facts over subjective opinion, in order to make analysis.

I worked as a temp in IT-related jobs for a decade, so I can relate.

That you are suggesting that conservatives face equivalent dangers to the ones that women, PoCs and the LGBT community do is an apt demonstration of the problem.

I really should finish playing those games.

I've said this before, but I think it bears repeating: the thing about the Internet is that it shows you you're not alone. I grew up as a kid in a small town who liked Nintendo and Lord of the Rings, and it was a tremendous comfort to me to find other people who shared those interests online since I couldn't find any…

It's probably worth noting that it started to become a male-dominated field around the time it started paying better. There's probably a chicken-and-egg thing there, but of course programmers became more valuable as processor cycles became cheaper.

Yes.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to empathize with a point of view that believes you shouldn't empathize with other points of view.