Hey there pal! Nice to see ya! I'm an 22 year old Canadian dude who loves shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls. I art on occassion. SFW (mostly)
Anyone notice that this flier does not mention Jason Kenney, UCP or the United Conservative Party once.
I think the UCP’s brand is damaged and their candidates know it.
Also the fact that they put out a flier saying that the NDP turnout is higher than expected might indicate that Conservatives know that the NDP still has a shot.
I finished up my work at the music shop toda by falling down a flight of stairs, as you do, and now I cant put any weight whatsoever on my left butt cheek. I’m dying. I can’t live like this.
Avoid video games that use extrinsic motivation. A video game should at least mostly rely on intrinsic motivation, meaning that the playing of the game itself is the fun part, not the reward you get for playing the game. If you don’t enjoy the gameplay, but you want to earn lootboxes, you’ve fallen into the intentionally exploitative system operating within so many games nowadays, and you need to find another game, because you’re not having fun.
It doesn’t sound serious, but this kind of thing can make depression way worse if you’ve already got depression.
This post got me to stop playing Overwatch and I’m eternally grateful.
That’s also a core difference between a game trying to exploit the human brain’s tendency toward gambling addiction and a game that exists to entertain.
Like, it may sound like I’m reaching, but op described (pretty closely) the operation of gambling addictions. It’s also why the depression aspect is so real. You’re feeling a withdrawal, of a sort, when you can’t play the game.
it fucks me up so much that every day for like 7 years i’d travel an hour on the bus to school, study for 6 hours with only a 45-minute break at lunch, attend 2 extra-curriculars afterwards, travel home again, do my homework, meet up with or text my friends, then spend like 5 hours online doing jackshit before finally falling asleep at like 3am and waking up 3 hours later and do the same thing all over again all while battling anxiety, depression and hormones and somehow manage not to die prematurely of exhaustion or suffer a permanent nervous breakdown. nowadays i cry from the sheer effort of getting out of bed every morning.
actually wait i’m not done bc i just realised that the fact that i had no choice but to force my body beyond its limits pretty much every single day for a period of several years during a crucial stage of my development in order to maintain a balanced work/social life is literally the reason why i’m now so ill and depressed that getting out of bed every morning is a herculean task all on its own. the expectations placed on me and millions of others during our teenage years is literally making us sick.
Unfortunately due to TV shows that stress forensic investigation, juries are demanding this kind of evidence at trial, and have little idea of how untested and unreliable it really is.
Hair analysis alone has been used in thousands of trials. The FBI is reviewing 2500 cases out of “21000 federal and state requests to the FBI’s hair-comparison unit between 1972 and 1999″. Even if this review exonerates some of those convictions, that doesn’t even begin to cover the hundreds of state and local “experts” trained by the FBI in this bogus “hair analysis” technique to do things like this:
Santae Tribble served 28 years for a murder based on FBI testimony about a single strand of hair. He was exonerated in 2012. It was later revealed that one of the hairs presented at trial came from a dog.
So anyway remember anytime you hear about “forensic evidence” that a lot of it is bullcrap and not scientifically validated and a lot of so-called experts are just pulling conclusions out of their ass.
the forensic hair analysis thing is terrible, the FBI literally invented a branch of forensic psuedoscience with no evidence behind it in order to boost conviction rates, then taught the bogus technique to thousands of forensic investigators in the us and around the world. we have no idea how many people have been wrongfully convicted, and this is just one in a very long list of forensic techniques that lack rigorous scientific evaluation
I know most of you don’t give a fuck about writers unless they’re pissing you off but this is a big goddamn deal.
The headline here is garbage.
The Writer’s Guild, which is the union for writers working in tv and movies, has required agencies to sign on to a code of conduct that would ensure the agents are acting in the best interest of their clients, WHICH IS WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The agents guild rejected the code of conduct. Writers are not required to fire their agents. The WGA is telling its members to contact their agents and see if the individual agents/agencies will agree to the code of conduct and recommending that if they say no, the writers part ways.
Hollywood agents have been double dipping for years and since our government stopped caring about stuff like this long before the current nightmare nobody has stopped them. The best analogy of what’s going on is this:
Imagine you were in a car accident and you hire a lawyer. Then you find out the lawyer is also working for the guy who hit you, but your lawyer hasn’t disclosed that info to you during the negotiations. Your lawyer is incapable of acting in your best interest because she or he has a financial stake in a certain outcome of the case for themselves. What makes them the most money may not be what’s best for you.
Lawyers can’t do this without risking losing their license to practice, I’m pretty sure, so they don’t. Agencies have been on the honor system without any mechanism in place to keep them from double dealing, until now. That’s what this is all about.
This is absolutely true and disgraceful. As I understand it, another thing agencies do is ‘package’ talent together and try to sell it as a unit. So eg if you, as a writer, have a script you want to sell, your agent might package it together with one of their directors or one of their producers. And if you’re the less profitable person in your package, you can bet it won’t be your interests the agency is representing.
