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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152595 on: July 30, 2020, 03:50:02 pm »

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« Reply #152596 on: July 30, 2020, 06:07:17 pm »

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« Reply #152597 on: July 30, 2020, 06:14:44 pm »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152598 on: July 30, 2020, 06:48:16 pm »

Knowledge is power, as the saying goes. What are we getting to know more about? To where does the rainbow trail gold eagle fly?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152599 on: July 30, 2020, 06:53:28 pm »

You've never seen starship troopers NG?

You are missing out.
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« Reply #152600 on: July 30, 2020, 07:28:33 pm »

"Starship Troopers NG" sounds like Starship Troopers Next Generation, a spin-off weekly TV series.

Let's just say if you did agree to find out more when they said "would you like to know more" it will probably end with you being dead or a cripple.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152601 on: July 30, 2020, 07:59:09 pm »

it involves'volunteering' into the army, or 'volunteering' in a blind study.


most of the citizen's rights in the ST lore are tied to you actually being a citizen, which is dependent upon successful completion of a term of service.


the book was cooler though, and a better explanation of itself.
.the movie is known for being top noch b-movie fodder
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« Reply #152602 on: July 30, 2020, 09:11:15 pm »

Specifically, in the Starship Troopers book you could get citizenship from any form of service, the sole and entire perk of citizenship was the right to vote, the and they actively tried to prevent people from enlisting in the military just to get it. Also, the government was an ordinary republic of the sort anyone today would recognize. Both wars we see are defensive, with one being negotiated to a peace and the other heading toward an extermination war only because the bugs refuse to coexist. There's also at least one alien race that is on friendly terms with Earth.


In the Starship Troopers film the military was the only path to citizenship, you lost a lot of rights (up to and including easily having children) without it, and the entire system was designed for the purpose of indoctrinating people into cannon fodder for the entirely military government's wars, which are implied to be started by said government for the purpose of keeping the populace in line. The only war we see is a war of extermination, which is implied to be merely the latest, and the bugs are the only aliens.


The book was principally an examination by Heinlein of the all-volunteer military taken to extremes and applied to all society via a "restricted universal suffrage", where only people who were invested in making the system work had the vote.


The film was an unrelated schlocky movie that had elements of the book's plot pasted on after getting the license,led by a director who declared the book fascist at a quick read of the early chapters and never finished the thing.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152603 on: July 30, 2020, 09:25:20 pm »

Specifically, in the Starship Troopers book you could get citizenship from any form of service, the sole and entire perk of citizenship was the right to vote, the and they actively tried to prevent people from enlisting in the military just to get it. Also, the government was an ordinary republic of the sort anyone today would recognize. Both wars we see are defensive, with one being negotiated to a peace and the other heading toward an extermination war only because the bugs refuse to coexist. There's also at least one alien race that is on friendly terms with Earth.


In the Starship Troopers film the military was the only path to citizenship, you lost a lot of rights (up to and including easily having children) without it, and the entire system was designed for the purpose of indoctrinating people into cannon fodder for the entirely military government's wars, which are implied to be started by said government for the purpose of keeping the populace in line. The only war we see is a war of extermination, which is implied to be merely the latest, and the bugs are the only aliens.


The book was principally an examination by Heinlein of the all-volunteer military taken to extremes and applied to all society via a "restricted universal suffrage", where only people who were invested in making the system work had the vote.


The film was an unrelated schlocky movie that had elements of the book's plot pasted on after getting the license,led by a director who declared the book fascist at a quick read of the early chapters and never finished the thing.

The book was principally anti-Marxist and Heinlein has been accused of being a fascist sympathizer since it was published six decades ago.

The director of the movie grew up during WWII in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, so it’s unsurprising he’s not particularly interested in glorifying the right wing parts of something that is still debated - to this day - over its political leanings.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152604 on: July 30, 2020, 09:28:15 pm »

I think Heinlein was too politically exploratory in his work to be accused of being a fascist outright, but Starship Troopers is absolutely a book that glorifies fascism. It's ironically one of the best examinations of fascism's seductive nature for that purpose, and I imagine that's why the director of the film took it the way he did.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152605 on: July 30, 2020, 10:20:13 pm »

Learned today that you can launch Half-Life 2 without Steam. Literally the first game ever on the platform doesn't use it as DRM. Where'd the meme of steam being inherently DRM come from?

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #152606 on: July 31, 2020, 12:28:21 am »

Oh god.

I got myself a cheap 4k TV, and went and hooked it up to my computer to optionally use as a second monitor.

I have... an absolutely silly amount of screen real estate. More than I can reasonably do with.

It's just, programs need to take a journey to distant lands of the left side of the screen.

I can have.... so much code open at once.

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« Reply #152607 on: July 31, 2020, 12:53:18 am »

That's why "multiple monitors" is in the Programmer Bill of Rights.

Whatcha censoring?
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« Reply #152608 on: July 31, 2020, 01:05:04 am »

Not censoring anything in the screenshot.
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« Reply #152609 on: July 31, 2020, 04:01:07 am »

"numerOfItems" :P
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