25Bitch slap a la Sony.
Sony… already winning the console war…
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jafars-legs was all draw yo fav oc in lingerie so I drew my fav oc to draw and if I have balls I’ll draw my fav oc to rp tomorrow or today idk
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Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.
#CANNOT UNSEE
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i had to present my preliminary final paper topic for my fan culture and celebrity class to a room full of people who knew very little about game of thrones. this was my resulting power point (with me using lots more words then what is shown, obviously, but this gives you the general idea). i‘m sure my actual paper will end up on here eventually and we can see how much my argument has grown!!!! it’s not due for a whole week tho, so everybody calm down.
I wish that this had also covered the fan reception to Dany, which I’ve seen be super duuuper mixed for really weird reasons (the weakest thing I’ve heard was someone who didn’t like daenerys because “all she does is yell at people”). I totally wanna read this paper once it’s up!
yes excellent
Equally as important to the fan reaction is the writers’ intentions. As great as the ladies in GoT are, it can be very difficult to watch the tv adaptation and how it routinely strips most of the lady characters of respect and power they held in the books.
Several characters such as Asha/Yara Greyjoy and Brienne Tarth are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum that is established from the very start by Sansa and Arya, and what it means to be a woman in Westeros -and what it means to rebel. They do not suffer from the internalized misogyny that affects characters like Arya and Cersei. They are comfortable being outside the realm of typically and acceptably feminine.
In the books, Asha muses on why men use the word cunt as an insult against women. In the show, she throws the slur around herself. In the show. Brienne compares Jaime to a woman as an insult, when in the books she believes that all women are strong and heroic, even those who do not take up arms. She compares childbirth to battle. The Mormont ladies get no attention on the show at all, but are women of the North who have trained and taken up arms and fight for Robb Stark. Even their allies look on them with scorn.
Catelyn Stark is a hugely divisive character as many book fans know -but she is reduced to barely a side character, constantly berated by her son and often gaslighted for the sake of making her son’s deeds look More Heroic, instead of her being his rock and anchor during a time that weighed heavily on him.
I loved the first season of the show -the changes were fun and new and exciting, but kept to the overall narrative and tone. I’m not just complaining because IT’S NOT LIKE THE BOOOOKS (and the books have their own issues) but I can barely stomach how the writers take every opportunity to strip the lady characters of the depth and power they had in the books. They won’t even let Dany have her own ideas -half her plans somehow come out of Jorah’s mouth instead.
Melisandre is stripped down from a powerful sorceress that everyone with sense on Dragonstone fears or idolizes to being there to provide Stannis with an heir??? He has an heir and her name is Shireen. His wife is now a sickly waif obsessive over the loss of her stillborn children, because Lysa Arryn filling the creepy unhinged mother of stillborns wasn’t enough. Selyse Baratheon is a sharp, political minded woman who is the reason Melisandre was ever able to get to Stannis. He’s an atheist. He doesn’t care about the red god. Selyse may not have the power Melisandre does, but she is not to be trifled with.
I can do this for so many other characters, major or minor, that it’s just sad. I’m sorry to have made such a large aside on this really good post, but I can’t say I’m shocked the fanbase reacts the way it does. Look at how the show’s writers behave towards the lady characters themselves :/
Alright, if you’re a consumer and you’re considering picking up the new Xbox One console, then please, take a moment to listen to me. Before we begin, no, I am not a fanboy or a hater. I have no console Bias. I have a PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and a Gaming PC. Each has their pros and cons but now onto business.
DO NOT BUY AN XBOX ONE. Why? See the reasons below:
Xbox Requires an internet connection. Here’s how it works: Every 24 hours your Xbox will try to connect to Microsoft’s servers for verification. If it is unable to connect, sucks to be you. You’re blocked from playing even single player games until it can connect.
Source: http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-509164109
Do you like renting games, lending them to a friend, or even borrowing them from a friend? No longer possible. Every Xbox One game you get must be registered to your Xbox live account to be played. After that point it will only work for you. No one else can use it unless they pay a fee. Essentially it works like this. You pick up a used Xbox One game from somewhere or someone, pop it into your console. The system verifies it’s been registered to your account. Uh-oh, it isn’t! In order to play it, you have to pay Microsoft a fee, which is currently slated to be full retail price. Doesn’t matter how scratched up it is or how cheap you got it at gamestop or from a friend. You aren’t just buying the physical copies anymore. You’re paying Microsoft for a LICENSE to be allowed to play that game.
It is worth mentioning Microsoft is exploring ways for you to trade in and resell your used games. This is rumored to mean that you can sell your digital license to play the game (registration) back to microsoft, likely for microsoft points. You can then trade in the game at gamespot for some cash if you like. Either way, as it currently stands, the new owner would still have to pay a fee on top of the price of actually buying the physical copy.
Source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-fee-for-buying-used-games-full-retail-price/
Is it worth mentioning that Microsoft if shafting Indie Developers as well? Where as on Playstation Network or (whatever the Wii has) Indie Developers can self publish their content easily. Playstation even encourages this. Microsoft however forces these Indie Devs to enter publishing deals with them to be allowed to market their content. You don’t go through them, you don’t get to sell what you developed.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/indie-devs-cant-self-publish-on-xbox-one
I’m not quite done yet! Now, I’m sure you heard a lot about “TV TV TV TV SPORTS TV TV SPORTS SPORTS TV.” Yes, the Xbox is slated to be able to stream live tv, live sports, etc. So let me ask you this. You obviously already have something like cable or DirecTV. Do you really want to shell out hundreds of dollars more and pay a monthly subscription fee to have another television provider? Yes, I said hundreds of dollars, and I don’t mean the cost of the console. To view live TV from the Xbox you are required to purchase ANOTHER separate device for it to work. Why would you even consider shelling out more money for something you already have anyway? Even if you didn’t, DirecTV is cheaper. Or you could even subscribe you Hulu.com and watch live tv on your computer. FOR MUCH CHEAPER. You essentially have to buy another cable box if you don’t have one. And if you do… what do you need the Xbox One for?
Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-in-us-only-at-launch-requires-separate-device/
So far we’ve discovered that the Xbox One is not really a gaming console, at least… not a consumer friendly gaming console. It’s being marketed as an all-in-one home entertainment system. Something to replace all of the other devices in your house. But there are drawbacks even to that. Put on your tin foil hats for this part folks. Take from it what you will, all I’ll say is… possibilities…
The Xbox One’s features will not function unless the Kinect is plugged in and active. This is not an optional piece anymore.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached
So imagine your Kinect piece breaks? Tough luck, no more Xbox for you. But you know what’s worse?
Pay attention, because this is important. The Kinect is always watching. Always listening. Even when the system is off.
Yes. One of the ways to turn the system on is to audibly say: “Xbox On” while the system is off. The Kinect, which is always on, hears you and turns it on. Now this might seem like a cool feature, but did you know Microsoft patented a feature that would allow the Kinect’s camera (It’s no longer just a sensor, but a camera) to spy on you for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America?) While they may not actually do this, it is actually possible for them to do this now. It has a camera, and a microphone. The Kinect is always on. It is ALWAYS listening, ALWAYS watching.
An idea has been tossed around that by using this feature, it will allows game developers and movie produces to set a limited amount of how many people can be allowed to view the entertainment. So as a hypothetical example, you and three friends are watching a movie, which is the maximum allowed. A fourth friend enters the room and the Kinect’s sensor registers the fourth individual. The movie stops and you a prompted to pay a fee so that the extra individual may also view the film. Again, that is NOT currently the case, but these are the ideas currently being tossed around with the system’s current capabilities.
Source for listening: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352596/the-xbox-one-is-always-listening
Source of spying: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa
Now, just two more things and I’ll be done here!
This isn’t really a good or bad thing, but it’s annoying. It also explains how they can prevent you from playing a used game if you didn’t pay their fee. Xbox one no longer plays games off the discs, you HAVE to install them to the hard-drive in order to play them. I believe PS3 also has you do this (on a number of games but not always it seems), except that PS3 isn’t trying to Nickle and Dime you at every corner. It also seems according to this article there is something related to the Online portion at the beginning of this post. The option is there for Developers to require the Xbox to always be online to play their particular game. Well, it seems PC gamers and console gamers have one thing in common now… DRM.
(At least pirates on PC can bypass DRM easily. Not an option for Consoles.)
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs
And last but not least, another annoyance… Xbox One will not be compatible with any and all current headsets. Nope, companies will either have to make new headsets altogether specifically for the Xbox One, and they have to adhere to what Microsoft wants. Look forward to price gouging.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-incompatible-with-current-gaming-headsets
Oh, one more thing… If you have an Xbox 360, don’t get rid of it. Why? Well if you want to keep playing your old 360 games you’ll need it. The Xbox One isn’t backwards compatible. At all. Not only that, but President of Microsoft’s Xbox Division Don Mattrick insults the very notion of backwards compatibility! He calls it: “Backwards thinking.”
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty
Source of insult: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355984/xbox-one-backward-compatibility-backwards-thinking-don-mattrick
That is all I have to say currently folks, and I hope you took the time to read this far. I’ll conclude with the following… please… PLEASE do not buy this console. Paying for this supports greedy and anti-consumer business practices. Speak with your wallet, and pass up the Xbox One. No matter what games it might have that you want, even if they are exclusive. Do the right thing and make a statement. Refuse to be nickle and dimed like this. Refuse to be seen as a mindless consumer who will buy anything tossed to them.
We won’t know much else until after E3, but as it stands now, the PS4 or a decent gaming PC is the best way to go.
If you are willing to do so, please spread this post around. Liking is not even remotely necessary, but do please share it if you agree with and acknowledge what you’ve read here. The more people know, the fewer of them waste their money.
Thank you, kindly.
~Dylan Jordan
(Originally posted on Facebook by one of my friends. He brings up many valid points. Mind you, I haven’t been a fan of Xbox in a long time and I will most likely get a PS4. But this confirms further for me that I won’t be getting an Xbox one any time in the foreseeable future.)
TL;DR —The XBOX One is going to be a piece of shit and you really shouldn’t even remotely think about getting one.
This makes me physically sick
fucking ridiculous. If I have a console, I want to be able to take it from house to house, I want to play games when my internet is down or i don’t have it. like. fuck. they’re seriously taking the piss.
Not only don’t i agree with the fact that you have to pay to play online NOW, but… wow, i guess they’re going to eliminate people who don’t have a good internet connection! and what about people who can’t afford to buy NEW games?? in Australia games are fucking expensive! This… really is just taking the piss.
Glad I’m a playstation person. (never had the opportunity/money to buy an xbox.) but really, it makes me glad at the moment because I definitely wouldn’t be buying the xbox one if all this is true.
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Is that an official X-men logo? Why yes I believe it is…
This variant cover for the first issue of Brian Wood’s X-Men wins all the Internets today.
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yell:
Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class
Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer.
^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things.
Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you…
I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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this is the best thing that appeared on my dash today
I’m giggling like an idiot help.
ding dong you are wrong
pen in German is kuliNo pen is definitely Kugelschreiber, my housemate is German and I was laughing about how long the word was with her the other day.
Maybe kuli is slang but damn ding dong you are wrong is irritating.
You guys don’t even know how much of this is my life now.
wetting myself
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Are you tired of feeling like your art just isn’t improving? Do you want to do a 30-day challenge that’s actually useful? Welcome to 30 Days of Improvement Hell. >:D
I made this because I’ve been feeling super ‘blah’ about my art these days, and I needed something to kick-start…
