Echinoderm

joined 2 years ago
[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 48 points 3 weeks ago

Autism as a diagnosis is relatively new, but people would have always had traits that would be thought of as nowadays as autistic. As an example, Rube Waddell was a professional baseballer in 1897 who was so fascinated by firetrucks that he would run off the field mid-game to chase them.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago

Mine is similar. A barrister once told me that you should be nervous before an important event like an interview or court appearance. If you aren't, all it means is that you aren't taking it seriously.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

The joke is rape. Ghost rape, but rape.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you mean no as in yeah nah, or nah yeah?

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Making a movie is a team effort and everyone that say otherwise is an asshole

Sure, but why not in other industries? I assume at some point this became an issue that was resolved by having comprehensive credits, what was the problem it was seeking to solve?

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not complaining, I'm wondering why no other industry feels it's necessary to do this.

 

Movies have huge credit rolls that tell you everyone involved from the director down to the person who made the cups of tea. But why? I can understand why actors, who need exposure to maintain a career, would want this. But is it important for the person who drove the truck full of props around to be credited for their future prospects?

You don't see a plaque when you walk into a building listing everyone who laid a brick as part of the construction. I assume there's a historical reason why the entertainment industry, and only the entertainment industry does this.

Edit: To all those that took my geniune question about what historically lead to this, and turned it into accusations of me being some sort of thoughtless "asshole", what is even the point of someone trying to contribute to these online communities if you are just going to be made to feel horrible?

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The roundabout will be fine.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's only a problem if you have a lazy assessor who just takes the similarly score and runs with it.

When I was marking essays 10 years ago, I saw Turnitin as a manual review tool. You feed an essay into the program, and it would give a percentage for similarly. It would panic students to see that the program was finding some similarly, but unless it was very high, the score was mostly useless.

The useful part is where it highlights the passages that it thought were problematic. Almost all the time those highlighted passages were properly attributed sources, so not plagiarism. If you had an excessive amount of cited material, I might give a lower mark because of less original thought, but it's still not plagiarism.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That chain is also... definitely something.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 44 points 3 months ago

I fully agree. If you want to be able to cast subtle spells, invest in the abilities required to do so. Otherwise I say someone starting to cast a spell without warning will be treated the same as someone pulling out a knife without warning: sure they might be planning something on doing something harmless like peel an apple, but without context, you're going to assume the worst and react accordingly.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo's lawyers are probably preparing a patent application right now claiming they invented the farming sim game.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh damn, I might be gay?

 

As long as I'm enjoying myself it's not a bad thing, right?

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