128 responses to “Comic: Chuck Schumer Strips His Sleeves and Shows His Scars”
Jimbo
Schumer’s moobs *barf*
juris imprudent
Thank the gods I had dinner before getting online. On the other hand, I am trying to lose some weight – and if I print out this cartoon and put it on the fridge, twenty pounds will be gone in no time.
John Titor
I must say, I am disappointed. Not only did I have to see Schumer’s moobs, but I was hoping the speech was modified to fit current events.
Vhyrus
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“Unlike real restaurants, street-food sellers don’t have to post Department of Health letter grades. They make sidewalks near-impassable on parts of Sixth Avenue, West 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth, and on Broadway south of Fulton Street.
They siphon business from legitimate brick-and-mortar eateries — and serve much of the worst, albeit cheap, food in town.“
Marty Comanche
But are these foreseeable consequences intended?
Vhyrus
HOW DARE YOU SELL REASONABLY PRICED FOOD IN CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO LESS AFFLUENT PEOPLE! WHERE IS YOUR PERMIT?!
straffinrun
I have to disagree, although I get a kick out of watching rich Wall Street guys stand in the cold for 20 minutes to buy lukewarm tacos.
He hates street food and street meat.
Vhyrus
The new Mad magazine has a cartoon spread on food trucks. One shows a truck using an oil leak to cook french fries. (The satirical mag’s offices just happen to be on a Sixth Avenue block full of food vans.) It’s good for laughs, but the issue’s serious.
This guy just used straight up satire as a legitimate talking point. I agree, this has to be Tulpa.
Rhywun
The NY Post has a habit of linking shitty columns on their front page for weeks.
Juvenile Bluster
That would imply that the NY Post has any non-shitty columns
Rhywun
They have a lot of non-shitty columns, actually. This local guy is quite good, and they reprint a lot of national writers the NYT won’t touch. Even Sullum is listed.
Close. I think Hekmatyar Gulbuddin would still be my first choice.
SIV
As Handsome Dick Manitoba so astutely noted:
(about White Castle, IIRC)
“In my book, quantity IS quality”
Akira
“They siphon business from legitimate brick-and-mortar eateries — and serve much of the worst, albeit cheap, food in town.”
So, if they truly are serving terrible food, they’ll all be out of business soon enough, right? Unless, of course, people are actually enjoying the food, in which case your summary as “the worst food in town” would be proven quite inaccurate.
Anecdotal, but whatever: I live in a fairly small town and there aren’t really any food trucks around here. But one time, I went to a food truck rally in a nearby major city, and everything was fucking amazing. Got a wonton pork taco – basically an East Asian version of pulled pork nestled in a fried wonton wrapper. I also had some jerk chicken, fried plantains, and rice from a Caribbean lady. Everything was delicious.
l0b0t
I’ve been doing catering and mobile food service in NYC for more than a decade now. I have never wanted to go down and beat the everlovin’ shit out of a ‘journalist’ more than I do now with this author. The permits are still predicated upon ice-cream trucks, so no vending within x distance from schools in y hours, one is supposed to move about constantly and not park at one location for more than 15 minutes, etc., ad nauseam. The number of permits, as the article states, have not increased since the early 1980s so, quelle surprise, the secondary market is outlandishly expensive; that is, if you can find someone who wants to sell their permit. Most permit holders merely rent access to them. Summer is my favorite time because I set up in Riis Park; it’s FedGov property and NYC has no authority or jurisdiction and the FedGov rules for mobile food service are surprisingly logical and reasonable to follow.
Let it never be said I don’t appreciate Marvel movies, because they’re invariable heinous and entertaining, some better than others but all pretty much guilty pleasure trash. But another Spider Man movie? Is he not the most booted and rebooted franchise hero in the past decade? Fuck, as far as I’m concerned, Tobey Maguire is the only passable Spider Man, not because I especially liked him or his godawful trilogy, but because he was a believable wet-behind-the-ears nerd and it made his presence somewhat passable. AND THAT WAS FIFTEEN GODDAMN YEARS AGO. And he’s the most boring superhero besides Superman, the Mary Sue of the superhero pantheon. Batman has his bitter backstory and his gadgets, Iron Man has his wealthy give a fuck attitude, the rest of them kinda blend into the scenery satisfyingly, but Spiderman’s origin story is so dumb and without any particular impetus on Peter Parker’s part that it robs the franchise of any sense of destiny or becoming. It’s just, I don’t know, goofy and shrugworthy, which can work (Deadpool’s kinda like that, and maybe Antman? I never saw the movie, but I heard good things). But Marvel’s developing Spider Man into a primary character now, and there’s just no undergirding for it.
God, I hate superhero movies. Even as a guilty pleasure it ranks just above porn as something I’ll admit to watching with any particularity.
straffinrun
Unless you count Darkman as a superhero, I agree. Oscar worthy.
Pomp
Ooh Yeah that’s some mighty fine nostalgia.
commodious spittoon
Is that Liam Neeson? ‘Cuz that’s a superhero performance as an American actor.
Gilmore
an American actor.
You mean an irish actor pretending to be american?
commodious spittoon
I want more Watchmen movies: pretentious as fuck, but at least striving to get past the fact that your protagonists are wearing spandex. And maybe deconstructing the genre a bit in the process. Yes, it has its head up its ass in a big bad way, but it didn’t pretend that petty moral dilemmas or insipid interpersonal drama was all that’s needed to sell a character arc. Its characters were all flawed and raw, likable for the same reasons we hate ourselves, because nobody’s really a hero like superhero comics portray them, and every hero hangs up his spandex costume. Not when the fighting’s over, not when the war is won, but every day when he’s ready to go to bed. That was what I liked about Watchmen, they were living, breathing heroes, not sourpuss badasses who somehow manage to save everyone in the nick of time, always and forever, just as long as the issues keep selling.
Kinda like Demolition Man. Not a superhero movie, not in the conventional sense, but it’s one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the greatest heroes ever conceived. Because right off the bat, he makes a mistake. And he pays the price. And then he’s thawed out in the future, and he’s still the same flawed neanderthal character, only he’s the sort of caveman the future needs. Holy shit, did I mention I hate superhero movies? Because this film, and a couple like it (looking at you, Snake Plissken), are so much better at shoring up the superhero genre with genuinely affable heroes than fucking Spider Man reboots deuce through eleventeen will ever manage.
commodious spittoon
I should admit that I don’t rewatch Watchmen often. Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? Well, me, a couple times, but not like I’ll watch and rewatch the original Avengers movie, or Guardians. Those are genuinely rewatchable fodder. But that’s just it: they’re fodder. They’re good for drunken fumbles around the remote. And they are absolutely great movies, classics in fact, at least for a certain mindset. But there are tons of dumb Marvel movies that don’t rise even to that low bar, and while I love every second of GotG, it’s not GotG I’m thinking of when I think of insightful films.
“Interesting” work Pompey. I can only think “my kingdom for eye bleach to cleanse my eyes from these burns.”
Hyperion
So, I played 3 hours of MEA last night. Was really getting into it. The game runs great for one thing. At 1920×1080 I’m getting solid 65-75 FPS with my 2 970s, with the graphic settings totally maxed out. And the game is purty. I was really enjoying the combat also, until I drank one too many beers and I couldn’t seem to hit targets so well. I’m not sure why some are calling it ME Inquisition, unless they’re talking about that vortex thing on the first planet. Besides that, it doesn’t really remind me very much of DAI.
commodious spittoon
Pretty behind on this gaming shit. Been playing the hell out of super modded Minecraft SP. What’s MEA?
Hyperion
Minecraft is a pretty revolutionary game. Before it, there were virtually no games that included crafting/mining/building. Now almost all games have it. I spent a couple hundred hours playing Minecraft when it first came out.
Mass Effect Andromeda.
commodious spittoon
Ja klar! Worth playing if I never got into the original ME?
juris imprudent
At 1920×1080 I’m getting solid 65-75 FPS with my 2 970s
Wasn’t really paying attention and then I had to go back and read for clarity; for a second there I thought you were talking reloading.
The Elite Elite
I’m having to run it in more medium to high settings to get around 60-70ish FPS. But I am running it in 2560×1440 with just a single 980. It is a fairly pretty game (although not as gorgeous as Horizon: Zero Dawn ironically, considering that’s a console only game). But there are definitely areas that seem to hit the framerate really heavily. Whenever I talk to the girl in the cockpit my frames drop to around 22 FPS. Not sure what the issue with that spot is.
FFS. Turkish oil wrastlin’, Moobs. NNTAWWT, but I just got up. I used to work for a broadway theatre complex doing office work. One of the perks was complimentary tickets to all the shows. 18 out of 20 dudes in the office were gay. Saturday mornings were a treat because they would go over in great detail what they did on Friday night. If I happened to a have a bad hangover, they’d up the graphic details.
Trigger Hippie
This place becomes more like classic National Lampoon by the day.
I say this with approval.
Agent Cooper
Posted in the Afternoon links, OT:
Need some advice.
I work at a fairly large private-equity owned (holding company-style) advertising agency. I did something dumb. I signed up for a free trial of a robust and legit online statistical service that provides a lot of research that could benefit the agency. I asked around if anyone else had an account, but no one did, so I tested out the free trial.
After the trial, I mistakenly signed a contract for a corporate account. (I’d love to plead stupidity but I just should’ve known what I was getting into) Well, apparently the cancellation grace period has lapsed, and so I (my company) am on the hook for $3500 for 12 months of service. I’m not in ‘research’ per se (I’m creative) but I do like to get as much information
I asked politely to cancel the account as it did not get through the (several) layers of approval, but that’s a non-starter with them (given my signature)
So, now I need to figure out what to do. Do I go to my boss and basically tell what’s happened and see if we can’t use the service anyways and spread out the cost to multiple clients? I mean, in the long run, $3500 isn’t that much over the year. I’m sure we could bill 30-ish hours of research time to defray the cost of the service.
My other option is that I am considering taking a job at another place, and I could “make it go away” by leaving. That seems dumb but I’m just asking for opinions and this is a smart and capable group. Thanks very much.
juris imprudent
Tell the boss just what you said here – you did something dumb, etc. And have that other job ready to go just in case they have little appreciation for initiative.
straffinrun
I agree. It’s always the cover up that gets you. Bossman more than likely just wants to know that you won’t do it again.
egould310
Cover up bad. Just own it.
Tundra
Another vote for coming clean. Mistakes happen.
commodious spittoon
I disagree. Go for broke. If they don’t catch you, it’s not a crime. CASH BAR!
Jimbo
Come clean. If they want to can you over $3500 they are morons.
Gilmore
I signed up for a free trial of a robust and legit online statistical service that provides a lot of research that could benefit the agency. …. After the trial, I mistakenly signed a contract for a corporate account. (I’d love to plead stupidity but I just should’ve known what I was getting into) Well, apparently the cancellation grace period has lapsed, and so I (my company) am on the hook for $3500 for 12 months of service. I’m not in ‘research’ per se (I’m creative) but I do like to get as much information
Cooper = I used to work for the sorts of companies that provided the sort of research services to ad-agencies (and industry). e.g. Ac Nielsen sort of stuff.
Here’s what you want to do:
call up the vendor and get the name of the person who is your specific company’s account rep. If they don’t have one, they’ll have one who covers “all other” (ad agencies).
say hello, explain to them your issue. You like their stuff, you want to use their stuff, but you don’t actually have purchasing authority to get the stuff. Explain how you accidentally signed up blah blah. Tell them you would love to get full access, but in the meantime need to nix that previous agreement. IOW, get the vendor to cancel the invoice/cancel access.
Insist that you want to try and get a legit deal worked out so that you CAN get access, and be a paying customer, and you would be the internal advocate for that… etc.
Ask if the dude can sort it out nixing the deal w/ their accounts receivable. also get the name of that person and their number
you similarly go to whomever your accounts dept is and and bow and scrape and tell them you done fucked up, and give them the name of the people at the vendor, and say, “if the invoice comes, don’t pay, and here’s who to talk to”
then go to your boss and explain the issue, AND tell them the steps you’ve taken to solve the thing. Maybe add that “going forward, it would be something you could use” and see what steps might be taken to eventually being a paying customer
Call back the vendor-rep and double check shit is fixed.
Much shorter version = Solve the problem (or try to) before you bring it to your boss. “Come to them with solutions, not problems”
Also, the vendor sales-rep will try and use this as an opportunity to get a meeting. if they can’t sell you immediately, they’d rather say, “how about we give you a few months free, then you sign up?” or some similar proposal. Don’t treat the situation as a dead-end, use it as a possible launchpad to get what you want (and help the vendor sell their shit)
Gilmore
just out of curiosity, who is the research-vendor?
Chicken tetrazzini using broccoli and cauliflower is a rather good alternative to spaghetti. Granted, the bulk of the flavor is carried by the cream of mushroom soup, but the texture of the thing leaves me not at all wanting for pasta. Maybe it’s the extent to which I’ve gone all-in for low-carb alternatives, but I rather prefer the hearty crunch of steamed veggies to the mealy mouthful of pasta.
Tundra
I use a spiralizer to make zucchini ‘noodles’. My kids will even eat them.
Spaghetti squash is also good.
commodious spittoon
Love it. Squash is the unsung hero of our modern repast.
Heroic Mulatto
You’re a monster.
commodious spittoon
Just wait till later this week when I blend up a couple yellow squash and some almond flour for a very special episode of shepherd’s pie.
I’ll let you in on a secret. I add a cup of instant mashed potato to the mix. It ups the net carb count, but it’s also a terrific binding agent and I can’t argue with the texture.
I’m not a monster.
Tundra
Yes, a lean one.
Heroic Mulatto
You can be lean without consuming *shivers* squash.
I mean look at that shit. Nature herself designed it in a way to tell people not to eat it.
I was less disgusted when my wife told me she ate a water buffalo’s placenta.
Tundra
How was that prepared? Sautéed with onions?
Heroic Mulatto
Roasted over a campfire and probably served with some spicy dipping sauce.
John Titor
Not going to lie, that sounds pretty good. Replace the water buffalo with a moose though.
Suthenboy
Squash soup (butternut) can be pretty good. Yellow summer squash with salt and butter is excellent.
You can live in squash alone really. It has nearly everything you need nutrition wise. (I dont recommend trying it)
Still, I dont know why all of the trouble to fix fake pasta when you can just have pasta. make sure it has plenty of olive oil (greatly slows digestion) and eat in moderate amounts. Get exercise.
Eat squash the way god intended. Eat pasta the way god intended.
egould310
Thanks! Was looking for something to do with these ingredients for dinner tomorrow.
Deghan’s co-defendants, Sahar Eliasi and Mohammad Nouri, were also convicted of posting anti-Islamic content on social media.
Nouri was issued the death sentence, which was upheld by the Appeals Court, but it is not known if the Supreme Court has issued a final ruling.
Hate speech is not free speech. Take one for the greater cause, Nouri.
Juvenile Bluster
See this twitter thread for a bunch of Pakistani twitter users using a #HangAyazNizami hashtag. It’s a fairly similar case in Pakistan involving a death sentence for “blasphemy”.
“The White House and Senate Republicans are hoping that a multimillion-dollar ad campaign bankrolled by conservative legal groups can help put pressure on [swing-state Democrats]…
“If the pressure campaign doesn’t work, GOP aides privately hope that senior Democrats can prevail upon colleagues to at least help break a filibuster to preserve Senate tradition.”
straffinrun
The senator explained that Gorsuch had failed to win over any Democrats with evasive answers on issues such as campaign finance and gerrymandering.
A judge saying he’d follow the law is “evasive”.
kbolino
When you ask someone whether or not they’ll give you your pony, any answer other than “yes” or “no” may as well be “orange” for all the usefulness it has to them.
The bigger problem seems to be that nobody understands the functions of either the legislature or the courts, least of all the legislators.
chemjeff
Multimillions? Really?
Heck, just give me $100k and I will fly personally to DC and meet with McConnell and/or his staff and tell him personally “kill the filibuster to confirm Gorsuch”.
Suthenboy
So use it already. Quit fucking around you spineless bastards.
dbleagle
Suthern you are correct. Use it for this nominee and let the hate flow forth. That should ease some pressure on caldera chamber. Then when the next vacancy occurs really roll the Dems with Judge N or Volokh.
In honor of Pompey who brought us here consider Vesuvius. When it erupted in 79 ce the ash cloud was largely suspended with survivable ash falls on Pompeii until the pressure started dropping. The debris cloud then collapsed and series of unsurvivable pyroclastic flows covered Pompeii and other towns and cities. Fin. (Not really, but for all practical purposes Fin.)
Let the progs hate flow forth until the exhaust themselves and they cover themselves in their own blanket of lies and shit.
Or a simpler analogy. You don’t wait to pull a rusty nail from your foot. You pull it and load up on medicine. Waiting improves nothing.
Schinderman is gearing up to replace Andrew Cuomo when he makes an ill-advised Presidential run in 2020. So… yeah, he’ll probably try and do something.
chemjeff
I don’t agree with Schneiderman’s politics one bit, and I especially loathe his shakedown of companies in the name of climate change, but I do appreciate that someone is willing to expose Trump’s dirty laundry. Trump himself bragged about bribing politicians in order to get his way in the NY real estate market, but AFAIK nothing substantive has ever been put forth about those claims.
Rhywun
Specifically, Masters will explore taking action against Trump for violating the Constitution by accepting payments from foreign governments.
LOL that’s rich
kbolino
Is that another one of those Constitutional provisions that’s written in invisible ink?
juris imprudent
Oh that’s going to cause some callousing.
BakedPenguin
This was funnier than my one yesterday, but I like the skin I showed a lot better.
Duke is out of the tourney. 2 of the Final Four teams are newbies.
My friends daughter was accepted to UCLA. She’ll probably end up at Wisconsin though.
I spotted a pair of Cassin’s Kingbirds on Saturday. They were pretty cool.
Jimbo
My friends daughter was accepted to UCLA
He asked for good news.
egould310
She’ll most likely end up in MadWis
SIV
Not a bad town despite the communism. If I had to live in Wisconsin year-round the Madison area would be the place. If I had to live in the Badger State for 3 months a year I wouldn’t mind it a bit up in Superior, or even Hayward. So long as I could pick which 3 months.
Rhywun
Still not hearing good news
egould310
She’ll study biology and probably do med school. Based on her upbringing, not a precious snowflake sjw. That’s good news right?
Rhywun
Yep!
Jimbo
I was going to lie and say yes, but then you might ask for examples.
“White people at the 5C’s: we’re all racist. we’re all microaggressive. [W]e are all not only complicit in, but actively perpetuating white supremacy,” states an advertisement for the group. “Pretending that we are not racist and hoping that no one will discover our racism really doesn’t cut it. [W]e need to ACTIVELY be doing work to deconstruct our whiteness (and holding our peers accountable in doing the same).”
Does it hurt to be as stupid as these people are? I hope it does.
egould310
I have a strange sensation that this club will actually devolve into some white supremacy, straight up nazi bullshit. Bank on it.
one true athena
before or after they start beating themselves/each other with flails? This stuff is getting more religious all the time.
“Feel Bad for your Privilege, White Shitlord!” *whack*
egould310
When they finally pile on enough self loathing and hatred, when they reach the breaking point, they will turn that hatred to “the other” that drove them to that point. That other will be minorities. And yet another group if whites will finally start to “own their racism”. It’s psychotic.
thrakkorzog
Welp, it is nice to know that these neo-Flagellants already have a handy uniform they can wear to spot each other.
Damn, how many times does history need to repeat itself? The repeating itself as farce is getting really lame.
Rhywun
I refuse to believe this is real.
__Warren__
What the hell is with comments going to the width of one letter?
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128 responses to “Comic: Chuck Schumer Strips His Sleeves and Shows His Scars”
Schumer’s moobs *barf*
Thank the gods I had dinner before getting online. On the other hand, I am trying to lose some weight – and if I print out this cartoon and put it on the fridge, twenty pounds will be gone in no time.
I must say, I am disappointed. Not only did I have to see Schumer’s moobs, but I was hoping the speech was modified to fit current events.
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How bou dah?
Someone better get over to the other site and tell Crusty he’s missing out.
If you can successfully comment there.
I got a few in before 11am or so when it went completely FUBAR.
I wish this site wasn’t blocked at work. I wonder if there’s any way to fix that….
Tor?
Quit your job?
It was impossible to comment there today.
It is like an overflowing porto-potty on a hot, humid day.
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
Comic sans *barf*
Well, it is a comic. Just sayin’
OT – I think I just found Tulpa Prime FTA –
But are these foreseeable consequences intended?
HOW DARE YOU SELL REASONABLY PRICED FOOD IN CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO LESS AFFLUENT PEOPLE! WHERE IS YOUR PERMIT?!
I have to disagree, although I get a kick out of watching rich Wall Street guys stand in the cold for 20 minutes to buy lukewarm tacos.
He hates street food and street meat.
This guy just used straight up satire as a legitimate talking point. I agree, this has to be Tulpa.
The NY Post has a habit of linking shitty columns on their front page for weeks.
That would imply that the NY Post has any non-shitty columns
They have a lot of non-shitty columns, actually. This local guy is quite good, and they reprint a lot of national writers the NYT won’t touch. Even Sullum is listed.
I’ve never wanted to punch anyone so badly.
Close. I think Hekmatyar Gulbuddin would still be my first choice.
As Handsome Dick Manitoba so astutely noted:
(about White Castle, IIRC)
“In my book, quantity IS quality”
“They siphon business from legitimate brick-and-mortar eateries — and serve much of the worst, albeit cheap, food in town.”
So, if they truly are serving terrible food, they’ll all be out of business soon enough, right? Unless, of course, people are actually enjoying the food, in which case your summary as “the worst food in town” would be proven quite inaccurate.
Anecdotal, but whatever: I live in a fairly small town and there aren’t really any food trucks around here. But one time, I went to a food truck rally in a nearby major city, and everything was fucking amazing. Got a wonton pork taco – basically an East Asian version of pulled pork nestled in a fried wonton wrapper. I also had some jerk chicken, fried plantains, and rice from a Caribbean lady. Everything was delicious.
I’ve been doing catering and mobile food service in NYC for more than a decade now. I have never wanted to go down and beat the everlovin’ shit out of a ‘journalist’ more than I do now with this author. The permits are still predicated upon ice-cream trucks, so no vending within x distance from schools in y hours, one is supposed to move about constantly and not park at one location for more than 15 minutes, etc., ad nauseam. The number of permits, as the article states, have not increased since the early 1980s so, quelle surprise, the secondary market is outlandishly expensive; that is, if you can find someone who wants to sell their permit. Most permit holders merely rent access to them. Summer is my favorite time because I set up in Riis Park; it’s FedGov property and NYC has no authority or jurisdiction and the FedGov rules for mobile food service are surprisingly logical and reasonable to follow.
This helps.
Let it never be said I don’t appreciate Marvel movies, because they’re invariable heinous and entertaining, some better than others but all pretty much guilty pleasure trash. But another Spider Man movie? Is he not the most booted and rebooted franchise hero in the past decade? Fuck, as far as I’m concerned, Tobey Maguire is the only passable Spider Man, not because I especially liked him or his godawful trilogy, but because he was a believable wet-behind-the-ears nerd and it made his presence somewhat passable. AND THAT WAS FIFTEEN GODDAMN YEARS AGO. And he’s the most boring superhero besides Superman, the Mary Sue of the superhero pantheon. Batman has his bitter backstory and his gadgets, Iron Man has his wealthy give a fuck attitude, the rest of them kinda blend into the scenery satisfyingly, but Spiderman’s origin story is so dumb and without any particular impetus on Peter Parker’s part that it robs the franchise of any sense of destiny or becoming. It’s just, I don’t know, goofy and shrugworthy, which can work (Deadpool’s kinda like that, and maybe Antman? I never saw the movie, but I heard good things). But Marvel’s developing Spider Man into a primary character now, and there’s just no undergirding for it.
God, I hate superhero movies. Even as a guilty pleasure it ranks just above porn as something I’ll admit to watching with any particularity.
Unless you count Darkman as a superhero, I agree. Oscar worthy.
Ooh Yeah that’s some mighty fine nostalgia.
Is that Liam Neeson? ‘Cuz that’s a superhero performance as an American actor.
You mean an irish actor pretending to be american?
I want more Watchmen movies: pretentious as fuck, but at least striving to get past the fact that your protagonists are wearing spandex. And maybe deconstructing the genre a bit in the process. Yes, it has its head up its ass in a big bad way, but it didn’t pretend that petty moral dilemmas or insipid interpersonal drama was all that’s needed to sell a character arc. Its characters were all flawed and raw, likable for the same reasons we hate ourselves, because nobody’s really a hero like superhero comics portray them, and every hero hangs up his spandex costume. Not when the fighting’s over, not when the war is won, but every day when he’s ready to go to bed. That was what I liked about Watchmen, they were living, breathing heroes, not sourpuss badasses who somehow manage to save everyone in the nick of time, always and forever, just as long as the issues keep selling.
Kinda like Demolition Man. Not a superhero movie, not in the conventional sense, but it’s one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the greatest heroes ever conceived. Because right off the bat, he makes a mistake. And he pays the price. And then he’s thawed out in the future, and he’s still the same flawed neanderthal character, only he’s the sort of caveman the future needs. Holy shit, did I mention I hate superhero movies? Because this film, and a couple like it (looking at you, Snake Plissken), are so much better at shoring up the superhero genre with genuinely affable heroes than fucking Spider Man reboots deuce through eleventeen will ever manage.
I should admit that I don’t rewatch Watchmen often. Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? Well, me, a couple times, but not like I’ll watch and rewatch the original Avengers movie, or Guardians. Those are genuinely rewatchable fodder. But that’s just it: they’re fodder. They’re good for drunken fumbles around the remote. And they are absolutely great movies, classics in fact, at least for a certain mindset. But there are tons of dumb Marvel movies that don’t rise even to that low bar, and while I love every second of GotG, it’s not GotG I’m thinking of when I think of insightful films.
The best superhero movie.
And maybe deconstructing the genre a bit in the process. Yes, it has its head up its ass in a big bad way,
Welcome to the works of Alan Moore.
Or his warlock nemesis, Grant Morrison.
The Shadow Witchcraft War continues, and we mortals are but pawns in the great game between warlocks.
…
Where are your cites for that comment?
Needz moar moobz.
Nice work, Pomp! You’re a, um… visionary.
Or something.
“Interesting” work Pompey. I can only think “my kingdom for eye bleach to cleanse my eyes from these burns.”
So, I played 3 hours of MEA last night. Was really getting into it. The game runs great for one thing. At 1920×1080 I’m getting solid 65-75 FPS with my 2 970s, with the graphic settings totally maxed out. And the game is purty. I was really enjoying the combat also, until I drank one too many beers and I couldn’t seem to hit targets so well. I’m not sure why some are calling it ME Inquisition, unless they’re talking about that vortex thing on the first planet. Besides that, it doesn’t really remind me very much of DAI.
Pretty behind on this gaming shit. Been playing the hell out of super modded Minecraft SP. What’s MEA?
Minecraft is a pretty revolutionary game. Before it, there were virtually no games that included crafting/mining/building. Now almost all games have it. I spent a couple hundred hours playing Minecraft when it first came out.
Mass Effect Andromeda.
Ja klar! Worth playing if I never got into the original ME?
At 1920×1080 I’m getting solid 65-75 FPS with my 2 970s
Wasn’t really paying attention and then I had to go back and read for clarity; for a second there I thought you were talking reloading.
I’m having to run it in more medium to high settings to get around 60-70ish FPS. But I am running it in 2560×1440 with just a single 980. It is a fairly pretty game (although not as gorgeous as Horizon: Zero Dawn ironically, considering that’s a console only game). But there are definitely areas that seem to hit the framerate really heavily. Whenever I talk to the girl in the cockpit my frames drop to around 22 FPS. Not sure what the issue with that spot is.
No no no. This is how you do it.
FFS. Turkish oil wrastlin’, Moobs. NNTAWWT, but I just got up. I used to work for a broadway theatre complex doing office work. One of the perks was complimentary tickets to all the shows. 18 out of 20 dudes in the office were gay. Saturday mornings were a treat because they would go over in great detail what they did on Friday night. If I happened to a have a bad hangover, they’d up the graphic details.
This place becomes more like classic National Lampoon by the day.
I say this with approval.
Posted in the Afternoon links, OT:
Need some advice.
I work at a fairly large private-equity owned (holding company-style) advertising agency. I did something dumb. I signed up for a free trial of a robust and legit online statistical service that provides a lot of research that could benefit the agency. I asked around if anyone else had an account, but no one did, so I tested out the free trial.
After the trial, I mistakenly signed a contract for a corporate account. (I’d love to plead stupidity but I just should’ve known what I was getting into) Well, apparently the cancellation grace period has lapsed, and so I (my company) am on the hook for $3500 for 12 months of service. I’m not in ‘research’ per se (I’m creative) but I do like to get as much information
I asked politely to cancel the account as it did not get through the (several) layers of approval, but that’s a non-starter with them (given my signature)
So, now I need to figure out what to do. Do I go to my boss and basically tell what’s happened and see if we can’t use the service anyways and spread out the cost to multiple clients? I mean, in the long run, $3500 isn’t that much over the year. I’m sure we could bill 30-ish hours of research time to defray the cost of the service.
My other option is that I am considering taking a job at another place, and I could “make it go away” by leaving. That seems dumb but I’m just asking for opinions and this is a smart and capable group. Thanks very much.
Tell the boss just what you said here – you did something dumb, etc. And have that other job ready to go just in case they have little appreciation for initiative.
I agree. It’s always the cover up that gets you. Bossman more than likely just wants to know that you won’t do it again.
Cover up bad. Just own it.
Another vote for coming clean. Mistakes happen.
I disagree. Go for broke. If they don’t catch you, it’s not a crime. CASH BAR!
Come clean. If they want to can you over $3500 they are morons.
Cooper = I used to work for the sorts of companies that provided the sort of research services to ad-agencies (and industry). e.g. Ac Nielsen sort of stuff.
Here’s what you want to do:
call up the vendor and get the name of the person who is your specific company’s account rep. If they don’t have one, they’ll have one who covers “all other” (ad agencies).
say hello, explain to them your issue. You like their stuff, you want to use their stuff, but you don’t actually have purchasing authority to get the stuff. Explain how you accidentally signed up blah blah. Tell them you would love to get full access, but in the meantime need to nix that previous agreement. IOW, get the vendor to cancel the invoice/cancel access.
Insist that you want to try and get a legit deal worked out so that you CAN get access, and be a paying customer, and you would be the internal advocate for that… etc.
Ask if the dude can sort it out nixing the deal w/ their accounts receivable. also get the name of that person and their number
you similarly go to whomever your accounts dept is and and bow and scrape and tell them you done fucked up, and give them the name of the people at the vendor, and say, “if the invoice comes, don’t pay, and here’s who to talk to”
then go to your boss and explain the issue, AND tell them the steps you’ve taken to solve the thing. Maybe add that “going forward, it would be something you could use” and see what steps might be taken to eventually being a paying customer
Call back the vendor-rep and double check shit is fixed.
Much shorter version = Solve the problem (or try to) before you bring it to your boss. “Come to them with solutions, not problems”
Also, the vendor sales-rep will try and use this as an opportunity to get a meeting. if they can’t sell you immediately, they’d rather say, “how about we give you a few months free, then you sign up?” or some similar proposal. Don’t treat the situation as a dead-end, use it as a possible launchpad to get what you want (and help the vendor sell their shit)
just out of curiosity, who is the research-vendor?
Ashley Madison?
*applause*
All bots, all the time.
Statista. They are based in Munich. I am dealing with the NYC office.
In Civil War News, from New York Newsday’s Real Estate section: http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/2-house-property-is-the-site-of-a-black-civil-war-sailor-s-grave-1.13308147
Plus he’s black. Also, his name is Thomas Jefferson Davis.
I’ll stop there, but if I were Eddie Murphy, I’d probably have a few tasteless jokes to add.
http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/2-house-property-is-the-site-of-a-black-civil-war-sailor-s-grave-1.13308147
Chicken tetrazzini using broccoli and cauliflower is a rather good alternative to spaghetti. Granted, the bulk of the flavor is carried by the cream of mushroom soup, but the texture of the thing leaves me not at all wanting for pasta. Maybe it’s the extent to which I’ve gone all-in for low-carb alternatives, but I rather prefer the hearty crunch of steamed veggies to the mealy mouthful of pasta.
I use a spiralizer to make zucchini ‘noodles’. My kids will even eat them.
Spaghetti squash is also good.
Love it. Squash is the unsung hero of our modern repast.
You’re a monster.
Just wait till later this week when I blend up a couple yellow squash and some almond flour for a very special episode of shepherd’s pie.
I’ll let you in on a secret. I add a cup of instant mashed potato to the mix. It ups the net carb count, but it’s also a terrific binding agent and I can’t argue with the texture.
I’m not a monster.
Yes, a lean one.
You can be lean without consuming *shivers* squash.
I mean look at that shit. Nature herself designed it in a way to tell people not to eat it.
I was less disgusted when my wife told me she ate a water buffalo’s placenta.
How was that prepared? Sautéed with onions?
Roasted over a campfire and probably served with some spicy dipping sauce.
Not going to lie, that sounds pretty good. Replace the water buffalo with a moose though.
Squash soup (butternut) can be pretty good. Yellow summer squash with salt and butter is excellent.
You can live in squash alone really. It has nearly everything you need nutrition wise. (I dont recommend trying it)
Still, I dont know why all of the trouble to fix fake pasta when you can just have pasta. make sure it has plenty of olive oil (greatly slows digestion) and eat in moderate amounts. Get exercise.
Eat squash the way god intended. Eat pasta the way god intended.
Thanks! Was looking for something to do with these ingredients for dinner tomorrow.
Young Man Facing Death for Insulting Islam Online Tricked into Signing Confession
Hate speech is not free speech. Take one for the greater cause, Nouri.
See this twitter thread for a bunch of Pakistani twitter users using a #HangAyazNizami hashtag. It’s a fairly similar case in Pakistan involving a death sentence for “blasphemy”.
Republicans may have to use the nuclear option if they want to confirm Gorsuch
“The White House and Senate Republicans are hoping that a multimillion-dollar ad campaign bankrolled by conservative legal groups can help put pressure on [swing-state Democrats]…
“If the pressure campaign doesn’t work, GOP aides privately hope that senior Democrats can prevail upon colleagues to at least help break a filibuster to preserve Senate tradition.”
The senator explained that Gorsuch had failed to win over any Democrats with evasive answers on issues such as campaign finance and gerrymandering.
A judge saying he’d follow the law is “evasive”.
When you ask someone whether or not they’ll give you your pony, any answer other than “yes” or “no” may as well be “orange” for all the usefulness it has to them.
The bigger problem seems to be that nobody understands the functions of either the legislature or the courts, least of all the legislators.
Multimillions? Really?
Heck, just give me $100k and I will fly personally to DC and meet with McConnell and/or his staff and tell him personally “kill the filibuster to confirm Gorsuch”.
So use it already. Quit fucking around you spineless bastards.
Suthern you are correct. Use it for this nominee and let the hate flow forth. That should ease some pressure on caldera chamber. Then when the next vacancy occurs really roll the Dems with Judge N or Volokh.
In honor of Pompey who brought us here consider Vesuvius. When it erupted in 79 ce the ash cloud was largely suspended with survivable ash falls on Pompeii until the pressure started dropping. The debris cloud then collapsed and series of unsurvivable pyroclastic flows covered Pompeii and other towns and cities. Fin. (Not really, but for all practical purposes Fin.)
Let the progs hate flow forth until the exhaust themselves and they cover themselves in their own blanket of lies and shit.
Or a simpler analogy. You don’t wait to pull a rusty nail from your foot. You pull it and load up on medicine. Waiting improves nothing.
Schumer’s got a couple of “flowing cups”.
The New York Attorney General is gearing up to take on Trump. Here’s how he can win.
Eric Schneiderman could be Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.
Schinderman is gearing up to replace Andrew Cuomo when he makes an ill-advised Presidential run in 2020. So… yeah, he’ll probably try and do something.
I don’t agree with Schneiderman’s politics one bit, and I especially loathe his shakedown of companies in the name of climate change, but I do appreciate that someone is willing to expose Trump’s dirty laundry. Trump himself bragged about bribing politicians in order to get his way in the NY real estate market, but AFAIK nothing substantive has ever been put forth about those claims.
LOL that’s rich
Is that another one of those Constitutional provisions that’s written in invisible ink?
Oh that’s going to cause some callousing.
This was funnier than my one yesterday, but I like the skin I showed a lot better.
Required
I hate everything in the world right now.
Is there any good news? Anywhere?
Nope. You was born to die
Well, the Blackhawks blew a 4-1 lead to lose in OT. That’s a good thing.
But bad for the Bruins fans here. Tampa’s now just one point behind.
Also, the Wild (I almost wrote North Stars, I’m old) already have a playoff berth.
Unless you just hate them, then I understand.
Just hate. Simple. Pure.
*drops gloves*
*FIERCELY SCOWLS*
I saw some geese heading north today which means spring?
Good news:
The Bats released a new album a month ago and it’s pretty good https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh5udGKYA4GRSRyzOTO_rFi4ioX2bVyfz
Duke is out of the tourney. 2 of the Final Four teams are newbies.
My friends daughter was accepted to UCLA. She’ll probably end up at Wisconsin though.
I spotted a pair of Cassin’s Kingbirds on Saturday. They were pretty cool.
He asked for good news.
She’ll most likely end up in MadWis
Not a bad town despite the communism. If I had to live in Wisconsin year-round the Madison area would be the place. If I had to live in the Badger State for 3 months a year I wouldn’t mind it a bit up in Superior, or even Hayward. So long as I could pick which 3 months.
Still not hearing good news
She’ll study biology and probably do med school. Based on her upbringing, not a precious snowflake sjw. That’s good news right?
Yep!
I was going to lie and say yes, but then you might ask for examples.
I guess maybe this guy gets it:
Just repeal it, baby
From Huntsville, the Rocket City which keeps Alabama from falling to 50th in any and all negative state-rankings.
Students at Pomona College created a new club for white people to “work on owning” their racism and “deconstruct” whiteness.
The group is open only to “white people who believe white supremacy exists,” although multi-ethnic students with a white parent would be able to attend.
“White people at the 5C’s: we’re all racist. we’re all microaggressive. [W]e are all not only complicit in, but actively perpetuating white supremacy,” states an advertisement for the group. “Pretending that we are not racist and hoping that no one will discover our racism really doesn’t cut it. [W]e need to ACTIVELY be doing work to deconstruct our whiteness (and holding our peers accountable in doing the same).”
Does it hurt to be as stupid as these people are? I hope it does.
I have a strange sensation that this club will actually devolve into some white supremacy, straight up nazi bullshit. Bank on it.
before or after they start beating themselves/each other with flails? This stuff is getting more religious all the time.
“Feel Bad for your Privilege, White Shitlord!” *whack*
When they finally pile on enough self loathing and hatred, when they reach the breaking point, they will turn that hatred to “the other” that drove them to that point. That other will be minorities. And yet another group if whites will finally start to “own their racism”. It’s psychotic.
Welp, it is nice to know that these neo-Flagellants already have a handy uniform they can wear to spot each other.
Damn, how many times does history need to repeat itself? The repeating itself as farce is getting really lame.
I refuse to believe this is real.
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Awesome! *retches*