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ParanoidObsessive posted...

(Which is the formula for a lot of human behavior - likelihood of getting caught and the severity of punishment balanced against the advantages of committing the crime/breaking the social taboo. Or, as some people boil it down even further, most choices in life become a cost/benefit or pain versus pleasure calculation.)

I feel I don't often enough express my deep appreciation and admiration for your misanthropy =p

Granted, I feel that it's an oversimplification of the equation which fails to address additional moral concerns unrelated to punishment although, I suppose, you could consider a blot on one's conscience as being a pain "cost" even if the decision-maker doesn't necessarily take that into account because they simply consider it the wrong thing to do and that social training (or possibly inherent trait) completely overcomes the temptation.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is going to become more and more of a problem as games become more and more online-focused, though. GTAO and ESO are stone-cold fucked the moment the servers go down, games like Saints Row III and IV lost minor functionality when THQ went out of business and their servers went away, and every multiplayer game that sacrificed local couch co-op in favor of online-only play basically becomes a drink coaster the moment the servers go down.

Huh. Never even tried the online for either, I think. Guess it'd fuck over any trophy getting.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

Given how many random shoutouts I've given to the musical, it can't be surprising.

The problem with making constant references is that, in order for any of us to understand them, we ALSO would have to have watched it. Which I am guessing most of us have not. Or that the ones who have didn't memorize it enough to immediate recognize lines of dialogue or lyrics

Not necessarily true. In the case of some media, you can contextually determine a reference. And, in the case of many songs, you could certainly recognize that something is a lyric. More importantly, the shoutouts given were embedded videos to songs themselves which clearly are labeled as being from a certain musical and, in other cases, I referenced it by name.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zeus posted...

TIL: Boris Grishenko (the "I AM INVINCIBLE!" hacker in Goldeneye) is played by Alan Cumming. Googled a clip to use as a response and was like, 'holy shit, how did I not notice the last time I watched the movie?'

I'm not sure how you didn't, since literally the very next thing I saw him in, I basically went "Hey, that's Boris!"

Of course, the very next thing I saw him in was Spice World, and the movie after that was Josie and the Pussycats, so now Shadow has learned even more dark and terrible things about people in this topic.

While I assume I saw Josie and the Pussycats and Spice World a few years after, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to actors at the time. Partly because it wasn't a thing I really gave much mind, but mostly because I have terrible facial recognition which, where actors are concerned, has been getting a little better.

And, honestly, it wasn't until Reefer Madness when Alan really caught my attention.
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