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Eh... high quality isn't something I usually see appended to "person". Worker, admin, CEO, chef, etc., etc., etc., sure. It can get involved with a lot of person related things fairly easily. But just person actually is a bit off.  Quality is for qualities not people, heh. It's english enough, it's just not something that I've seen much of from an english dialect.

Can sorta' see why people would avoid it even... it kinda' sounds less like a complement and more like evaluating a chattel slave. You can evaluate the quality of a skillset or an object without it getting iffy but when you're evaluating a person vis a vis what their relative worth is, you start getting a little odd. High quality long pork odd.

Still using upl.co as my go-to for image-y things. Thing's still just kinda' painless to use, no need for an account (Actually don't know what registering does or involves, heh), if there's expiration dates on anything I haven't noticed. So far as the major hosting sites -- photobucket, imagur, etc. -- they can frankly all go die in a fire. Some of 'em started out alright, but all of them have steadily devolved into UI and usability hell, more than one not just on the upload front.

Meanwhile upl, near as I can recall, has had the same (or near enough) front page and general UI bits since day 1, back in 2010. Consistent, lightweight, little to no bullshit, barely any service hiccups, and so on. Just one of the better image hosting sites, at the absolute least for general use.

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I don't know why the desire to reify Iraq and Afghanistan as if they were the same war.

Didn't do that, though I did link the 'success' of the former (based upon undue optimism as to the trajectory of the incomplete action) as an encouraging factor to open up a second front against an enemy, using "they're basically all the same, and we can handle both just as efficiently as one" as the misguided but sufficiently soundbitey public justification.

Yeah... something along these lines. They were different wars, in a sense, but they were very much part of the same wave of sentiment, largely the same rhetorical basis, sent on targets that might as well have been the same so far as most of the country was concerned, overlapped a fair bit so far as the chronological aspect goes, etc., etc., etc. So far as the shit the stateside domestic (and a fair bit of the diplomatic, I guess) side of things got hit with related to them, they were functionally contiguous. Contributed to the same well of war fatigue, et al.

Only makes so much of a difference to differentiate, basically, and for most considerations of the two that aren't actually in theater military concerns, you probably have at least as good a grounds to treat them as a single thing as separate. Iraqi invasion, afgahn invasion, both part of the same segment of the "war" on terror.* Something along those lines. Kinda' like the local enforcement of the prohibition had different particulars and the work for it in cali or colorado were different things, but both were part of prohibition. If I had to mangle up a rather terrible equivalent on the spot.

* Seriously has to be a term more accurate to use there, though. The Last Major Shitkicking of the Middle East (TLMSME) or somethin'.

Strange, when I shake my magic politics eight ball on that getting dealt with early or whatever comes of it being clean (at the start, anyway), the eight ball just laughs and laughs and laughs.

It doesn't have anything that would allow it to laugh. It also doesn't exist, and yet when I imagine shaking this hypothetical eight ball you can hear a laugh track going off in reality. Damnedest thing. Scares the hell out of the dog.

Quote from: Folly on July 05, 2017, 02:02:04 pm

Chicago high school will require students to have college-acceptance or job offer before allowing them to graduate.

victim blaming at it's finest.

cuz it's totally the MILLENIALS fault when you can't find a job right out of high school

For what very, very little it's worth, for all there's a great deal of utterly staggering stupidity involved in that particular pants-on-head proposition it's not really victim blaming, exactly, as near as I can parse. There's an out involved in that acceptance into some of the local collages is guaranteed, and acceptance, not attendance, or anything of the nature, is what's required, ferex. Seem to recall a few other things like that, though the details are ahaha no. Something resembling the vague shape of effort to make sure there's not actual harm/blame/etc. dumped on the ones everyone with a functioning visual cortex could tell would be fucked by the policy.

Basically for all it's a really, really stupid idea like holy shit goddamn y'all need to stop raiding the cops drug stores, and I'm still mildly boggling a good handful of hours later after first hearing about it that local teachers didn't straight up lynch whoever suggested it, it's, like. Well intentioned? Not really blaming anyone so much as trying to make sure all students are getting post-graduation prep stuff instead of just the better off ones; the requirement's supposed to force the schools to devote resources to making sure the students are able to fulfill it, not punish the ones most likely to be burdened by the thing.

If you squint real damn hard you can see what they're trying to do on a conceptual level, and why someone with a great deal of brain damage might think that was a way forward. It's just holy hell how did you people look at chicago of all goddamn places and think this was going to end well? Or that it would end well ever, anywhere, under any circumstances, sweet zombie rhesus monkey god what the hell were you thinking.

... though all that said, at the absolute least it's supposed to be limited to a single city-like area, and is actually something that, so far as I'm aware, hasn't really been done (mostly because it's really, blatantly, incredibly stupid to anyone that's even been even tangentially involved with ground level education work). So, cynically/sociopathically speaking, the policy could serve as a working data point for just how badly a trainwreck implementing it is for an education system and local economy. That kind of experimentation is kinda' why US is decentralized to the extent it is, so someone can look at something, pave a road to hell, and then everyone can thereafter point to them and demand we cut funding to infernal infrastructure projects when someone proposes that particular brand of sweet goddamn at some point afterwards. And if it fucks over a generation or two of the population in the area, well hell, that's what we have welfare and freedom of movement for <insert kefka laugh here>

That's been kinda' a theme with the sideline stuff regarding the ACA, really. GOP was trying to drum up signs of a massive problem with the thing since before day 1, and failing. Persistently and cross country. Every once in a bit there's that one critter that got screwed over or left out because of stuff related to it (particularly if you're in one of the jackass states regarding program expansion), but generally folks that have actually ran into much related to the stuff the ACA did have came out in pretty good shape. Especially relative to the before times, heh.

I don't like hours played as a measure of review.

Which is why it'd be per review (as in, total number of hours across every user tracked, not just those reviewing) or along those lines, not total hours invested by the userbase or whatev'. It's not supposed to be a metric of anything resembling worth, just looking for outliers on a user/playing scale, or (in the case of the word count thing) individual investment in review. Things with abnormal stats on stuff like that. It would indeed spit out passive stuff or things folks leave on in the background for whatever reason or any number of other things that mean little, but... that's fine. You'd just be using it to check for oddities, after which you can filter for your own preferences.

Basically, it'd be neat to see if the amount of time the userbase as a whole plays before someone reviews, or the amount of (lazily measured) effort any particular reviewer is putting into their spiel, is out of whack (either way, mind you) for whatever reason. If you're already doing stuff like the mentioned article did, not much reason save the effort to not plug in a bunch of other variables and see what pops out, y'know?

Only *band I can recall playing much of in the last few years was steamband, heh. Maybe ToME 2 or furyband, a bit, and one or two of some of the heng/entro line. Did look at Sil at some point since it was released, but it didn't really hook me for whatever reason.

There was a point I had played as near as I could tell literally every *band variant that was existent at the time for at least a little (up to and including ones that were outright not in english, the only thing I'm particularly able to read), but somewhen after that I realized I really just kinda' don't like the core mechanics most foobands work off of.

Flat out never enjoyed playing vanilla, though. Not when I first found it and the *bands that spawned from it, not after I had sunk dozens (maybe hundreds, really) of hours into playing variants, at no point after I had started playing the things less. Plenty of respect to give for the effort involved and what it managed to inspire but blegh, actually playing the thing, no, no thanks. Even when I first encountered it, it was, well. Vanilla. Well put together and whatnot but gods alive as bland and uninteresting a set of fantasy setting and mechanics gets without approaching outright shovelware, even considering the tolkien influence. Can't blame someone for enjoying it or some crap like that but keep it away from me, eesh.

E: Though, that said, from what I recall the latest ones might at least be somewhat less samey so far as dungeon layout and such goes. Not nearly on the level of at least a half dozen of the variants, but improved from the days of nothing but featureless terrain and the occasional vault that was effectively nothing but featureless terrain with certain creatures and/or a bunch of loot in it.