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We give you a woody, you think about is after you see us, and you spend way too much time with us? Got it.

What a b****.

This is like going after Kevin Hart instead of Pence.

Sure Sarkessian, rag on the classy and good hearted Obama. I am sure that 45 and his incel cult will be much nicer to you crazy feminists who fantasize about rupturing testicles for fun.

Philoktetes posted...

My perception is that they say this but don't really mean it

Serious answer: it's more like this situation:

mooreandrew58 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

AmericaTheBrave posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/responding-homophobic-tweets-kevin-hart-draws-more-ire-013502169.html

Congrats Twitter mob, you got another one.

yeah his jokes and comments were inappropriate. But the guy isn't a Mike Pence-style homophobe.

The SJW justice mob always gets the not-so-bad people but doesn't do shit about the real bigots.

See it's a whole different ball park when they are in the government. They have real power.

Agreed.

But also, guys like Pence are legit hateful vs LGBT. Even if he weren't in government, there's a difference between Hart's "lulz dun be gay, son!" jokes vs Pence's "I want to give electroshocks to them all and try to electrocute the gay out of them, BTW they're all going to hell".

Yeah but he'd be less issue if not in government. As said in another post I like bigots being transparent. As long as it's just words I'll be fine ill just know they ain't anyone I'd want to have any dealings with.

Like chic fil a I don't think they should shut down but I definitely don't give em my money

makes sense, yeah

BruceWayneJr posted...

He could have been modern about it, apologized, and hosted the Oscars.

But if this shit is that important to him, then he can go fuck himself. Get hip, little man.

I don't think he could, man.

The Oscars people probably told him to step down but gave him the chance to say he chose to step down so he can save face. Had he hosted the oscars you can bet something would have happened too: maybe booing, and throwing tomatoes at him or something.

He did say he has evolved and no longer holds those views too.

Evol posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

AmericaTheBrave posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/responding-homophobic-tweets-kevin-hart-draws-more-ire-013502169.html

Congrats Twitter mob, you got another one.

yeah his jokes and comments were inappropriate. But the guy isn't a Mike Pence-style homophobe.

The SJW justice mob always gets the not-so-bad people but doesn't do shit about the real bigots.

What does that even mean? Are you literally pulling a whataboutPence? He has faced a lot of backlash as well, FYI. And theres not much people on social media can do about an elected politician...they can complain but that doesnt mean shit.

Not "what about Pence". It's more about the twitter SJW justice squad going after not-so-bad guys siply because they're the low hanging fruit. It's like beating the shit out of a 10 year old for throwing an empty soda can to the street (littering) while ignoring the MMA fighter taking a dump in the middle of the same street and leaving the toilet paper he used to wipe right there too

mooreandrew58 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

AmericaTheBrave posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/responding-homophobic-tweets-kevin-hart-draws-more-ire-013502169.html

Congrats Twitter mob, you got another one.

yeah his jokes and comments were inappropriate. But the guy isn't a Mike Pence-style homophobe.

The SJW justice mob always gets the not-so-bad people but doesn't do shit about the real bigots.

See it's a whole different ball park when they are in the government. They have real power.

Agreed.

But also, guys like Pence are legit hateful vs LGBT. Even if he weren't in government, there's a difference between Hart's "lulz dun be gay, son!" jokes vs Pence's "I want to give electroshocks to them all and try to electrocute the gay out of them, BTW they're all going to hell".

Genocet_10-325 posted...

I'm replaying it for the first time in years and it's still just as fun as it was when I was a kid. Next I plan on replaying the best 2D zelda, LttP

agreed

AmericaTheBrave posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/responding-homophobic-tweets-kevin-hart-draws-more-ire-013502169.html

Congrats Twitter mob, you got another one.

yeah his jokes and comments were inappropriate. But the guy isn't a Mike Pence-style homophobe.

The SJW justice mob always gets the not-so-bad people but doesn't do shit about the real bigots.

Coastal_elite posted...

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/media/library/images/movies/superman-lives-nicolas-cage.jpg

^ yes it's real

not one comment?!

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/media/library/images/movies/superman-lives-nicolas-cage.jpg

^ yes it's real

babyeatermax posted...

But people stay reminiscing about the good old days of gaming when publishers weren't greedy

examples?

FLUFFYGERM posted...

According to the same type of test, I'm more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American.

You fail the 1 drop test too? Hahaha you've been hating yourself all this time XD

EdgeMaster posted...

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refmon posted...

Caution999 posted...

Most of CE has more native american blood than Warren does lmfao

So, since YOU PEOPLE (trump guys) are fans of the 1 drop rule, that means most of CE isn't white?

Checkmate, MAGA peeps

Not a fan of the 1 drop rule, but this could certainly explain why I dont get any white privilege.

What's your background?

GameboyTroy posted...

Ic3Bullet posted...

What is her name?

Elliot Jones

COVxy posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

COVxy posted...

This is absolutely the least accurate depiction of the process I've ever read.

Why do people just talk out of their ass?

I love how people like you don't give any information when requested but then criticize when others do. Then go and reply to TC's questions instead of attacking me for doing so.

I mean, I just don't understand why you would respond at all if you were just in the dark and guessing?

For science PhD programs in the US, the first few years vary a lot depending on a few factors.

The major factor is whether or not the program has rotations, where you rotate into working in different labs temporarily for the first year, before settling into a position that works both best for you and the corresponding PI (principal investigator). If it doesn't have rotations, you start off working in your lab, and typically you have interviewed specifically for that lab rather than the program.

The second factor is course load, which differs depending on the program and university. On average, there's 1-2 years of courses that are required. These classes are usually taught A-B-Fail, and usually the advice given to you is to do the least amount of work possible for them. Your focus should always be on the research. Classwork is secondary.

After that, the experience is usually very similar across programs, as similar as research is across different disciplines. At the end of your programs courseload, you typically have some sort of comprehensive exam that allows you to advance from a PhD student to a PhD candidate, which essentially means you can start working towards your dissertation work. This means preparing a dissertation proposal which you present to a committee and they either approve or request modifications for. Then you do your dissertation research, which is usually a series of experiments meant to get at some central question, though this has evolved to be more practical in a lot of departments, and they accept less cohesive work, essentially allowing students to package together their publications with maybe an experiment or two extra to tie them together.

Then you write your dissertation, and send it to your committee, who then agrees to meet, when you defend and they decide a pass/fail. Typically, failing is very unusual because there are many gates prior to the defense that prevent you from going forward unless you are going to pass.

That'd doesn't directly contradict what I said. You just added more detail.

HydraSlayer82 posted...

This is fact. Honestly in industry I have yet to meet a PhD that wants to be called doctor.

I have met one. And he IS a blowhard. He is a broke teaching assistant who has a PhD on gender studies

Darkman124 posted...

still had to write a thesis, but yes.

master's thesis is even less srs bzns than dissertation defense. mine was submitted and approved without comment (granted, that was after 500 revisions with my adviser)

basically the real challenge to finishing a PhD is convincing your adviser you are "ready" since he chairs the approval committee

It sounds to me like a lot of this revision stuff and convincing your adviser that you're "ready" is just gate keeping to keep the PhD status rare-ish and elite...

@refmon posted...

@Caution999 posted...

Most of CE has more native american blood than Warren does lmfao

So, since YOU PEOPLE (trump guys) are fans of the 1 drop rule, that means most of CE isn't white?

Checkmate, MAGA peeps

Darkman124 posted...

either i leave the university with him and hope he finds another, i give up my current project (as it is his property) and start over from the beginning, or i quit and take a terminal master's if i can.

Interesting.

So you could get a terminal master's because you had already covered enough credits (or close to) by the time your PI had to leave?

Sunhawk posted...

Interesting.

You said that a lot of PhDs are largely for "academic purposes", but what does this actually mean? So you can work on obscure research projects, just for your own enjoyment?

You need a PhD for certain things in the world of academia. Your research will carry much more weight if you have one too.

A Sillicon Valley firm may not care that much that you have a computer science PhD if someone else has a master's and a kick ass portfolio and several years of industry experience and employer recommendations....

But it largely depends on the field too

COVxy posted...

This is absolutely the least accurate depiction of the process I've ever read.

Why do people just talk out of their ass?

I love how people like you don't give any information when requested but then criticize when others do. Then go and reply to TC's questions instead of attacking me for doing so.

Darkman124 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

I believe Darkman is a STEM PhD, for example

i dropped out after my adviser failed to get tenure

mixed emotions about that

mostly positive

Yeah... because you're probably making more money this way, right? Since PhD is so academically-oriented?

Darkman124 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

-They present you a series of topics you could do your dissertation on and you choose one.

hahahahaha

no

when i was a candidate i was told day 1 that since i was being paid to be here, this is my topic, better hope i enjoy doing it for the next couple years

most of my peers worked whatever research their PI told them to, and dissertations were often weirdly cobbled together combinations of their publications.

my PI didn't get tenure year 2, so i lucked out and got a free masters.

wow that's far worse.

What does PI mean? Also, so your ability to get the PhD also depends on your PI not getting fired or whatever?

Sunhawk posted...

Calm down Coastal, I was just saying. I thought perhaps you had taken a long, hard, annoying PhD, and the unpleasantness of it had gotten to you. I appreciate the information you have given me.

Do you go to classes every day, or is it less? Is your PhD advisor a professor, or just another person who has already gained their PhD in the same subject? I assume you were joking about the lack of career prospects for PhD holders. I mean...those people must have a lot of options (read: ways to make money) ahead of them.

You also didn't answer my other questions I asked later. That made me feel sad. ;_;

Ok, here goes:

1) It depends a lot on the PhD.

A STEM PhD might be lucrative. I believe Darkman is a STEM PhD, for example, and he's a rocket scientist or something cool like that. A humanities PhD? Those are the ones who have bad job prospects, and many do end being teaching assistants.

PhD's are considered more for academic purposes, generally, but a PhD in the "right" discipline can indeed help your career. This is a very case-by-case basis.

2) Duration, I guess it also depends on the PhD, I am not too sure. It takes considerably longer than a Master's, generally speaking. You need a Master's before you can take the PhD in many cases.

3) How does it work: You do have to have a set program, but it's much more flexible than in a bachelor's or master's. Nobody will force you to take "philosophical thinking" or "American History" if you're doing a neuroscience PhD, while that may happen if it's a bachelor's. You get to choose your subjects and workload, but it has to be relevant and reasonable.

4) As far as I know the adviser is a professor.

Sunhawk posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

Sunhawk posted...

Wow, that really hurt. And I'm not thinking about taking a PhD.

I should've also asked, how does the dissertation work?

-They present you a series of topics you could do your dissertation on and you choose one.

-You research the fuck out of it and write your dissertation.

-You meet up with your academic adviser periodically so he can tell you that your dissertation is shit and you need to change everything because he is having a power trip and this is the one bright spot of his miserable existence.

-You finish your dissertation years later and now you have to "defend it" in person in front of a bunch of angry academics trying to poke holes in it in front of everyone.

- Your dissertation is archived and nobody will read it. You're now a PhD, which means you get to call yourself doctor and you have a lot of debt. Congrats! You can now be a teaching assistant.

@Coastal_elite

Sarcasm and extreme bitterness aside, is that basically it?

So, is there no going to class at all? You basically spend several years engaged in heavy research, and then you sit down for however long, and write the thing? At the end, do you get a grade, or is it just binary - pass / fail? Also, can you explain about this defending it thing?

Dude, I was trying to be humorous. Nobody was giving you the time of the day and I decided to respond in an accurate, albeit humorous way. And this is how you come back to me? Dang. No wonder nobody else bothered.

And yes, you still have to go to class, Mr. Congeniality. The dissertation is just part of the package, but you still have to study the PhD course.

El Mexicano Texano posted...

https://imgur.com/a/fgbDM1i

She's got a weird belly but lovely boobs

Sunhawk posted...

Wow, that really hurt. And I'm not thinking about taking a PhD.

I should've also asked, how does the dissertation work?

-They present you a series of topics you could do your dissertation on and you choose one.

-You research the fuck out of it and write your dissertation.

-You meet up with your academic adviser periodically so he can tell you that your dissertation is shit and you need to change everything because he is having a power trip and this is the one bright spot of his miserable existence.

-You finish your dissertation years later and now you have to "defend it" in person in front of a bunch of angry academics trying to poke holes in it in front of everyone.

- Your dissertation is archived and nobody will read it. You're now a PhD, which means you get to call yourself doctor and you have a lot of debt. Congrats! You can now be a teaching assistant.

Squall28 posted...

Trade wars baby!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/investing/stock-market-today-dow-jones-huawei/index.html

American companies are such traitors LOL.

"Chinese CEO arrested for doing shady stuff to American companies"
American companies: "The chinese are getting punished for messing with american companies!! THIS SUCKS! SELL STOCK NOW!!"

bump

Name: Haagen (as in, Haagen Daaz)

Question -what's with the sudden popularity of labradoodles?

AlCalavicci posted...

Apollo Creed's prime, which was either in his fights with Rocky, or maybe even prior.

I don't think so.

Creed beat Rocky. Then Rocky barely edged a hyper-focused, well trained Creed.

Then Rocky benefited from Creed's training and coaching, so he became a better fighter and beat Clubber Lang.

This better version of Rocky barely beat Drago...

A_Good_Boy posted...

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Coastal_elite posted...

ASithLord7 posted...

As I always say, Anarchys descent from menlightened centrist to straight up altright white nationalist has been equally fascinating and disturbing to watch

most centrists are simply far right people trying to masquerade as moderates

This is just a lie leftists tell themself when they encounter a centrist and can't use their usual "everyone who disagrees with me is an alt-rightist" resort.

This is quite the odd hot take when you've got a video of a self avowed neo-nazi right in your fucking face. If anything centrists are stupid as shit if they can't identify tiki torch wielding, sieg heiling motherfuckers as nazis.

*claps*

SauI_Goodman posted...

Why can't CNN just leave the Bush's alone?

I mean they do have to cover this, it's a huge news event. And it deserves coverage. It's the whole "lololol he cry" stuff that the media (not just CNN) are doing.

MwarriorHiei posted...

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Coastal_elite posted...

- The six axis controller was an attempt to cash into the Wiimote motion control craze

what about the PS Move? you know, that thing that totally isn't a Wiimote

very true

codey posted...

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Muffinz0rz posted...

That's embarrassing

they really shit this thing out quickly to capitalize on the NES classic, huh

as successful as they are, Sony are pretty much scum in the videogame industry.

- The PS was supposed to be the SNES-Playstation first.
- The PS1 controller was the SNES controller with two extra buttons and handles
- They came up with the dual shock after seeing the N64'a analog stick and the Saturn's Nights controller
- The six axis controller was an attempt to cash into the Wiimote motion control craze
- The PS3 controller was going to be a damn boomerang (literally shaped like a boomerang), but once they saw the wiimote they went back to the drawing board and added six axis and other stuff

The PS Classic is just the last iteration of this sort of behavior

None of the controller stuff makes them sound bad, tbh. It just sounds like they looked at what was working and tried to emulate it. Besides, that Saturn controller was hot garbage, and I can't honestly say I ever liked the N64 controller.

The point is they never emulate themselves, they wait for others to do it, then they steal the idea

They're basically showing the clip of GW Bush crying on repeat. Every single pundit out there is like "look here is the clip where GW Bush breaks down crying in front of everyone ^_^"

Yeah because people looooooveeeeee seeing themselves crying on national TV 24/7. Give the man some fucking privacy, he went through a very rough time. You don't have to make sure that everyone and their neighbor sees him cry.

I asked a question once in a subreddit about questions.

My post got deleted and the mod sent me a message saying "that was no quesition (sic)". I decided to troll him asking about "quesito" (spanish for little queso) and asking if there was "nachitos" for "quesitos".

He threw a fit and banned me from like, other 10 subreddits I didn't even knew existed,

Muffinz0rz posted...

That's embarrassing

they really shit this thing out quickly to capitalize on the NES classic, huh

as successful as they are, Sony are pretty much scum in the videogame industry.

- The PS was supposed to be the SNES-Playstation first.
- The PS1 controller was the SNES controller with two extra buttons and handles
- They came up with the dual shock after seeing the N64'a analog stick and the Saturn's Nights controller
- The six axis controller was an attempt to cash into the Wiimote motion control craze
- The PS3 controller was going to be a damn boomerang (literally shaped like a boomerang), but once they saw the wiimote they went back to the drawing board and added six axis and other stuff

The PS Classic is just the last iteration of this sort of behavior

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

TheRealDill2000 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

TheRealDill2000 posted...

Keep it in the general. He's already been punished.

realdill defending supremacists? Color me surprised! lmao

I'm not defending that ideology. In fact, I've mentioned my opposition to it in this topic.

such a dishonest reply.

I said supremacists, as in, individuals with that ideology, not the ideology itself

lmao people like that have a long history of being dishonest. selective reading is part of that trash ass package.

true, true

Tyranthraxus posted...

short answer: a guy decided a long time ago that there weren't enough electrical engineers in the world and knowledge of how the hardware of computers work was being lost, so he wanted to create a computer that was simple enough to be built by hand by one person and could also be super cheap so that schools and colleges could order them in bulk. The Raspberry Pi is what he came up with. The original model cost just $25 and you had to build it yourself, like one of those radio kits.

Then you also had to do the programming and such for it.

It started the DIY electronics craze today.

how?

TheRealDill2000 posted...

Coastal_elite posted...

TheRealDill2000 posted...

Keep it in the general. He's already been punished.

realdill defending supremacists? Color me surprised! lmao

I'm not defending that ideology. In fact, I've mentioned my opposition to it in this topic.

such a dishonest reply.

I said supremacists, as in, individuals with that ideology, not the ideology itself

TheRealDill2000 posted...

Keep it in the general. He's already been punished.

realdill defending supremacists? Color me surprised! lmao

Another possible topic title would be "Republican carrying 'It's OK to be white' sign gets dunked on in public street."

Patrick Little ran for office in IL as a republican, with an R next to its name, and the RNC did nothing to stop him, and he got like 10% of the vote or something like that

Questionmarktarius posted...

TomNook20 posted...

How did the term WASP even become a thing? I'm guessing just a bad understanding of history?

It pretty much evolved over the course of several immigration waves:

White: pretty obvious
Anglo-saxon: mostly to exclude German immigrants, probably also Jews and eastern-Europeans as well.
Protestant: mostly to exclude Irish immigrants.

It came to be because it was meant to exclude other white immigrants, especially Irish and Italian (Catholic).

ASithLord7 posted...

As I always say, Anarchys descent from menlightened centrist to straight up altright white nationalist has been equally fascinating and disturbing to watch

most centrists are simply far right people trying to masquerade as moderates

@Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

"Trust us, it's sooo okay to be white that we'll attack you for suggesting that it's okay."

Let's use simple analogies that are the same case to exemplify why your point is amazingly stupid, and you know it:

"guys! "blood and soil" is fine! Plants grow in soil and we all have blood in our bodies!"
"guys! the phrase "final solution" is not offensive! It simply talks about solutions that are final!"

No, nobody has a problem with land, with solutions, with final things or with having blood. But the phrase above are still offensive because of their meaning and hisorical context. But YOU KNOW THIS, you're just playing dumb.

So this is what the admiral has been up to since he got sent to purgatory on gamefaqs...

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Phantom_Nook posted...

About this shokan person, I remember an exchange he had with someone (don't remember who) a couple of weeks ago.

Shokan: I'm a Nazi.
Other person: Okay Nazi.
Mod: I'm modding you for calling him a Nazi.

I trimmed it down, but that's the gist of it.

Yeah, the dude literally outright admits to agreeing with Nazi ideology but somehow he literally never gets modded for this shit ever

even worse, YOU get modded if you confront him about it.

Wow.

He literally uses the death of 41 to promote his racial anxiety bullshit. And then he whines about how "WASP rule is over" when the presidential cabinet and intern and aide pool are the WASPiest they have been in decades.

He also says meritocracy is bad and that SAT scores shouldn't be used in lieu of recommedations from powerful friends.

This guy is an idiot and a racist, and the fact that the NY times publishes this bullshit says a lot about them