Citadel News Relay: Top Story for 5/23

zyberion · 2012-05-23T23:08:20.255449+00:00

I think the Council is just finally coming around to making the distinction between police officers and high-level bodyguards - just as we have a distinction between city cops and the Secret Service.

solinvictus01 · 1 day

Ladies and gentlemen, a milestone in Internet history: an appropriate and effective Nazi analogy.

Inflatable_Sheep · 2 days

"I think we should legalize marijuana in this country, so potheads have nothing to talk about ever again."

- Daniel Tosh

junibo · 3 days

Make your own tie-down points! Zip-tie anchors are wonderful things. You can pick up ten of these and a solid hundred zip ties at Lowe's or wherever for maybe four dollars total. They're usually around the electrical equipment.

Nikola95 · 3 days

My point is simply that an extensive and thorough universe alone doesn't justify mining a franchise for further projects, as history has shown that's no guarantee of creative (or financial) success.

Nikola95 · 3 days

Why are people so upset about this? I understand that it's just them trying to make more money, but I love the Star Wars universe, and I think it'd be awesome to see all corners of it instead of just Luke's.

What about a prequel, maybe with a young Anakin Skywalker?

Nikola95 · 3 days

They created this immense universe with all of these different races and history it would be silly for them just to abandon all of that.

I would have said the same thing before I saw The Phantom Menace.

Diagoras11 · 3 days

The LDraw system is great. Could use a UI makeover, but it's a damn powerful toolset.

Diosjenin · 4 days

Source here.

stormfury27 · 4 days

Race/class combos you play: Primarily run a Claymore Salarian Infiltrator against Cerberus/Geth; can snipe with the same. Can hold my own with Asari Adept v. Cerberus, Human Sentinel v. Reapers. Currently trying out a CQC Justicar Adept, but I wouldn't call that Gold-ready yet. WARNING: I promote fairly often, so there's no guarantee any of my classes are L20 at any given time.

Country: US (Central)

Languages (fluent): Just English, sorry.

Time you play: Usually evening/late night.

Do you have a mic?: Yes, but I usually don't use it unless I have to (especially later at night when others in the house are asleep). I'm always listening, though.

Level of interest (please see note): Plenty of Gold experience. Wouldn't mind breaking out of the Geth farming box a bit more often, but pubbing usually means an increased risk of losing those delicious Wave 10 credits. ;)

Experience with Gold: Unless I'm leveling a character and/or trying out a new one, I'm always on Gold.

Interest in playing rounds besides FBW/Geth/Gold: Don't mind Cerberus. Would like to beat Reapers at least once just to say I did, but unless I can find a really solid Reaper-killing team, I don't plan on making a habit of it.

monkeysniffer08 · 4 days

Airport security != TSA

zyberion · 4 days

NOOOO not LaGrande Jatte!

GnarlyNerd · 5 days

Effort needed to write your comment: 157 keypresses

Effort needed to just hide the post: 2 mouse clicks

satisfyreality · 6 days

One, you're right, hands down. Show your buddy this, and maybe this. If he's really a writer, he'll relate to these two in particular.

Two, if you're really a writer, double-check your theres/theirs/they'res. ;)

foureyesbat · 6 days

It means "here's some eleventh hour foreshadowing we shoehorned in so we can say the Starchild's bullshit doesn't come totally out of the blue."

Nikola95 · 7 days

Nah, the floor and lighting on #5 are definitely from Peak 15. The conversation perspective on both are correct, too.

capnlane · 7 days

Too late.

Varo112 · 7 days

No eating species with members capable of calculus. Simple rule - never break it.

Vurba · 7 days

Since when do we attack other peoples religion and beliefs?

Do you really not know what subreddit you're on?

thegoldenavatar · 7 days

It depends somewhat on how quickly you kill them. Killing certain enemies earlier in a wave will cause them to respawn during the same wave, but saving them for later will effectively limit their numbers.

This Asari Vanguard gold solo run put up a Phantom kill counter. Final count: 53.

esesentimientocuando · 7 days

They claim to be the majority because 91-97% (depending on which poll you look at) does happen to be a majority.

esesentimientocuando · 7 days

From what is by far my favorite piece about the ME3 ending:

There’s a recurring tune being played by Bioware in response to this outcry, and it goes something like this: “We might respond to these complaints, and we might flesh out the ending we presented, but we’re not going to change anything, because this is art — this is the product of artists — and as such it is inviolate and immutable in the face of outside forces.”

Which is, speaking as a working artist, complete and utter horseshit.

If you make a movie, and you put in front of focus groups, and they categorically hate the ending, you change it. If you’re writing a book and your first readers tell you the ending is terrible, you fix it. (Ditto your second readers, your second-draft readers, your agent, your editor, your copy editor.)

Or maybe you don’t — maybe you say “this is art, and it is inviolate and immutable in the face of outside forces”, which is certainly your choice — but don’t expect anyone to help you bring that piece of crap to print.

Anyone can tell a story. You can sit in your special writing nook and turn out page after page of perfectly unaltered, immutable art and be quite happy — you’re welcome to, in fact.

But when you decide you want to make a living off it? Even if you want to just make a little spending money?

Then the rules change. Then it’s work. Then it’s a job. More importantly, then it’s part of a business model, and those golden days of your art being inviolate and immutable blah blah blah are well and truly behind you. Name me a story that saw print, or a movie that saw the Big Screen, and I’ll show you art that changed because of input from someone other than the the original creator — from someone looking at it from the point of view of the consumer.

Bioware is a company. Making their stories into games is their business model. Hiding behind some kind of “but it’s art, so we’re not changing it” defense is insulting, disingenuous, and flat-out stupid. Worse, it perpetuates the idea that the creator’s output is in some stupid way sancrosant and, as art, cannot be “wrong” or “bad”. If you as a creator imagine that to be the case — if you think that kind of argument is going to defend your right to never do a rewrite or a revision or line edits or to ever alter, in any way, your precious Artistic Process — discard that notion.

Or become accustomed to a long life as an “undiscovered talent”.

esesentimientocuando · 7 days

From what is by far my favorite piece about the ME3 ending:

There’s a recurring tune being played by Bioware in response to this outcry, and it goes something like this: “We might respond to these complaints, and we might flesh out the ending we presented, but we’re not going to change anything, because this is art — this is the product of artists — and as such it is inviolate and immutable in the face of outside forces.”

Which is, speaking as a working artist, complete and utter horseshit.

If you make a movie, and you put in front of focus groups, and they categorically hate the ending, you change it. If you’re writing a book and your first readers tell you the ending is terrible, you fix it. (Ditto your second readers, your second-draft readers, your agent, your editor, your copy editor.)

Or maybe you don’t — maybe you say “this is art, and it is inviolate and immutable in the face of outside forces”, which is certainly your choice — but don’t expect anyone to help you bring that piece of crap to print.

Anyone can tell a story. You can sit in your special writing nook and turn out page after page of perfectly unaltered, immutable art and be quite happy — you’re welcome to, in fact.

But when you decide you want to make a living off it? Even if you want to just make a little spending money?

Then the rules change. Then it’s work. Then it’s a job. More importantly, then it’s part of a business model, and those golden days of your art being inviolate and immutable blah blah blah are well and truly behind you. Name me a story that saw print, or a movie that saw the Big Screen, and I’ll show you art that changed because of input from someone other than the the original creator — from someone looking at it from the point of view of the consumer.

Bioware is a company. Making their stories into games is their business model. Hiding behind some kind of “but it’s art, so we’re not changing it” defense is insulting, disingenuous, and flat-out stupid. Worse, it perpetuates the idea that the creator’s output is in some stupid way sancrosant and, as art, cannot be “wrong” or “bad”. If you as a creator imagine that to be the case — if you think that kind of argument is going to defend your right to never do a rewrite or a revision or line edits or to ever alter, in any way, your precious Artistic Process — discard that notion.

Or become accustomed to a long life as an “undiscovered talent”.

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