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You’re a non-human too? Pleased to meet you!
This is getting to the point where people will just stop making fan projects, if they know that their work will just end up being sold for a profit. I was considering sending a message to that website saying something along these lines:
‘Greetings from a fellow fan of Star Wars. I noticed that you are selling the Despecialized edition of Star Wars version 2.7. I am currently working on an updated color correction, to be used for Despecialized 3.0. It’s been a labor of love, demanding literally hundreds of days of work over the course of several years, and a close collaboration between members of a large and vibrant online community. Our community of faneditors and fan preservationists exists solely because of a culture of trust and goodwill, and the understanding that these projects will not be sold online. However, since I now know that my work will almost certainly be illegally sold for a profit, I have to think very carefully about whether to release my work at all. Your website may very well result in no new Despecialized editions, ever. Understand that when you profit off of our work, you are very effectively destroying both our work and our community. If you are truly a fan of Star Wars, you will take down this website. Thank you.’
Any guy who writes a ten page misogynist manifesto is probably an all around cad. Doubt this was the only reason they fired him.
But yeah of course Google is dumb, they should be hiring more people with regressive ideas about gender, that definitely makes sense.
Hey look, the Atlantic is now basically apologizing for jumping on the bandwagon and mis-characterizing the memo as ‘anti-diversity’.
Truth putting on her boots and all that.
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On the plus side, all that smoke in the air blocks out the sun and keeps the temperature down.
Every [smoke] cloud has a silver lining.
Maybe it’s festive face paint?
More in the Google manifesto saga:
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company’s diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley.
James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” A Google representative didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees on Monday that said portions of the employee’s memo “violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” But he didn’t say if the company was taking action against the employee.
Looks like his criticisms of Google being an ideological echo chamber were, in fact, accurate.
Maybe at the higher, management levels, yes, but at lower levels, I’m sure there’s many like him.
Also, you can sometimes get to a point wheee calling something an echo chamber is ridiculous. For example, if I made a forum where I banned all people who said they were proud eaters of babies, would you call it an ideological echo chamber just because I banned all the baby eaters?
If there were in fact baby eaters who were banned, then yes it is an echo chamber on that issue.
Ok, sure, it technically is an echo chamber on that issue. But I don’t want baby eaters on my forum. Some voices are ok not to allow.
Another Slate Star Codex article, and the author is almost certainly a white male heavily steeped in computer science, but it has graphs and things that I quite appreciate: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/
Yes, I appreciate graphs too but I don’t appreciate this sort of bro culture pseudo-science nonsense.
You determined that it was ‘pseudo-science nonsense’ from nine minutes of reading?
I’m not a trained scientist, so I rely on summaries like this in order to make up my mind about highly complicated topics. Not being a computer scientist, I don’t have a horse in the race. It just makes sense that women and men have differing interests, and this can have an effect on the type of job one gets. Are we a bunch of horrible fascist sexists because the vast majority of the people on this forum are male? Sure a few give the many a bad name, but I hope that we are given more credit than that.
More in the Google manifesto saga:
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company’s diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley.
James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” A Google representative didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Google’s Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees on Monday that said portions of the employee’s memo “violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” But he didn’t say if the company was taking action against the employee.
Looks like his criticisms of Google being an ideological echo chamber were, in fact, accurate.
Maybe at the higher, management levels, yes, but at lower levels, I’m sure there’s many like him.
Also, you can sometimes get to a point wheee calling something an echo chamber is ridiculous. For example, if I made a forum where I banned all people who said they were proud eaters of babies, would you call it an ideological echo chamber just because I banned all the baby eaters?
If there were in fact baby eaters who were banned, then yes it is an echo chamber on that issue.
Another Slate Star Codex article, and the author is almost certainly a white male heavily steeped in computer science, but it has graphs and things that I quite appreciate: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/
But tell us how you really feel.
Now that’s a difficult question. It’s complicated.
Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity, so be honest — how do you feel?
I feel…cold.
The moonlight shows me for what I really am.
Should I create a thread in the Preservations section where people can report resellers profiting off of fan projects?
The Snoke scene and the Ackbar line are both hobbled by a lack of usable dialogue for repurposing. Since both Ackbar (probably) and Snoke (definitely) will appear in TLJ, it doesn’t really make sense to spend a ton of time trying to force a less than optimal solution. I’d say to just go with the V1 sequence of events for now.
The title is covering up Luke’s thumb, which is a dead giveaway.
I think the Leia scene is essential for V2, so that should definitely go in.
There has been a recent (at least, in the news) fight on the left over abortion and if you have to be pro-choice to be part of the Democratic party. One side says you absolutely have to be, the other says that anti-abortion voices have to be included in order to win House seats and state legislations in Conservative states/districts, in order to then push pro-choice positions.
I find both sides have compelling arguments, unfortunately. I guess it’s the old “does the end justify the means” argument.
There’s more sides than just that. For example, there’s anti-abortion leftists whose goal is to reduce the number of abortions, which they see as completely unrelated to the availability of abortions. To this group, Obama provided a clear leadership example–he did not do anything (that I know of) to reduce the availability of abortions, but his policies successfully reduced the number of abortions to levels lower than they were before Roe v Wade. To your standard “I want to throw doctors and women in jail” anti-abortion type, Obama was as bad as any other recent Democratic president. To your “I just want to stop abortions” anti-abortion type, Obama is a hero/saint/example to us all.
Admittedly this anti-abortion faction is a small group without easy access to bumper sticker technology.
That’s the problem right there. These moderate groups exist, but good luck finding out about them, much less making them the face of the Democratic party.
Anakin using the Dark Side to end the Clone Wars in a single stroke is an absolutely brilliant idea. Now I imagine Anakin being trained by Obi-wan while fighting the clones, and throughout the film (which mirrors Empire) he knows that there is a critical battle for which he trains. As the Jedi (including Obi-wan) are dispatched to the battle, Anakin is told to stay behind beccause he is not ready to face this challenge. However, the Jedi are in trouble and begin to be killed, and in order to save his master and end the Clone Wars, he intervenes, tapping into the ‘quick and easy’ Dark Side to literally save the galaxy.
I would be in favor of not “echo-ing it/radio-ing it” (don’t know how to say it 😃), since it’s a complete sentence and for sound continuity it would be less jarring to avoid toying with sound filters.
What’s the current state of this edit by the way ? I was under the impression it was near the finish line. In order to follow its progress more easily it would be cool to have a “first post update” with the current status of all the ideas implemented or in progress to be implemented.
The feeling is that it’s near completion, but the Leia and Sella scene needs to be integrated into the edit, and for this to work it will require pushing the music of the scene back into the D’Qar establishing shot, and this will probably require reconstructing the audio effects for several shots in the sequence. So there’s still some work to be done, as well as figuring out exactly what to do with the trench run. If everything else is done and the edit is just waiting for the Ackbar line, I wouldn’t mind just cutting it and returning to the edit later for V3. I expect the release of TJL may change some of the interpretation of this film as well as providing more material for better edits.
I’m not sure if this is the appropriate place for this, but since I’ve seen discussions regarding ebay sellers in this thread I thought I’d ask.
The above seller has listed a very expensive set of Harmy’s Despecialized edition blu-ray’s at the link above (at least he credited Harmy I guess…). From the looks of it, he has sold quite a few. Does the community actively look for and report these sellers? And if so, where would one post links in the forum for others to report them?
The community does report these sellers (I have reported that one). There was some discussion of this problem in this thread, but it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to these issues.
Neverar’s Amazing Star Wars Technicolor Recreational Dreamcoat
Urge to make this the actual title…rising…
I have a feeling that a lot of people here think that I’m an annoying/bad person of the “SJW” type.
Well I don’t think so. 😃
It seems like the left has gone from simply including and promoting minority voices to outright adopting the interests of these voices. This is a very important distinction when it comes to attracting more conservative members. For example, when the Democratic party goes from a coalition of interest groups each with their distinct set of values to a monolithic entity with a single constitution of values comprised of these interest groups, it is the difference between ‘the various states of the Union’, and ‘The United States of America’. One could argue that this is a noble advancement, since the values of all groups are now shared by all members, but it could also depress recruitment as it becomes expected that every new member is required to pledge allegiance to every value in this union. I expect that it would be difficult to be an evangelical and also be a liberal, since to be a liberal today generally means being pro-choice, pro gay marriage, and pro science. This is why there is such an anti-religious tone on the Left - the values which were fringe only a few decades ago have now become mainstream and to be religious and liberal is more and more an act of outright hypocrisy.
What the Left really needs is an understanding that the intersection of its disparate value systems should not be a monolithic dogma but a varied ideological terrain, with some parts naturally assuming only the most general values of liberalism such as tolerance for minorities, a higher standard of equality for people, and an appreciation for scientific understanding.
I HAVE ASCENDED TO A DIGITAL EXISTENCE WHICH HAS RENDERED GENDER MEANINGLESS
I ALSO HAVE MORE STORAGE NOW
So, your bit has more Byte now?
No, he’s just got a full time gig on this forum.
But I’m a Cancer.
I had a 2/24 chance of being right.
I couldn’t care less about horoscopes. They’re stupid but harmless.
Typical Sagittarius.
Electric Six reference, or am I too hopeful?
Too hopeful.
I couldn’t care less about horoscopes. They’re stupid but harmless.
Typical Sagittarius.
Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
13 years! Is this a new record for OT.com?
I think there were a few extreme necrobumps last year for no particular reason.
I actually do enjoy the end credits John Williams themes very much.