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Needs Cleaning Up: Humans Are Bastards get usage counts
According to Square Peg Round Trope, "Humans Are Bastards is supposed to be about how humans are complete jerks and worse compared to other sentient species. Humans being horrible people in general does not count as this trope. " I'd imagine that there's been some misuse of the trope term in the past, but taking a casual look at examples that are on the page now, it would appear that this trope is as unwieldy as ever. Several examples on the page have nothing to do with another sentient race of people viewing human actions as being evil, the trope's original function, and are just examples of human characters doing bad things to each other. Some examples only try to apply the trope to a single human character in a story that only features humans interacting with each other. Misattributed examples include:
edited 9th Sep '10 8:53:09 PM by SeanMurrayI
I'd also want to point out that a related trope page like Aliens Are Bastards has a notice, "This trope does not apply to animalistic aliens without intellect. Violent as they are, they aren't knowingly being bastards." Strangely, anything resembling a notice like that has been absent when describing how human actions qualify as bastardry, especially when Humans Are Bastards is overlapping with things that are already filed under Humans Are Morons for no clear reason.
edited 9th Sep '10 8:36:42 PM by SeanMurrayI
4 Meophist, Thu, 9th Sep '10 8:28:44 PM from Toronto, Canada
As you've noticed, I kinda pointed out this problem before. I'm not sure if simply cleaning it up will fix the problem of the trope itself being confusing. I think something needs to change, but I don't really have any ideas of how to fix this.
5 Tyoria, Thu, 9th Sep '10 8:41:39 PM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insaneIs there a "people are inherently evil" trope? Crapsack World doesn't seem to quite cover it, since it's about more than than just human behavior and because there are also occasionally good people - they're just in the minority. I must confess I've misused this one myself. The title doesn't help — humans are considered the "default" species so if they're the only ones mentioned, it's not clear that they're actually being contrasted with the behavior of other beings.
...it's not clear that they're actually being contrasted with the behavior of other beings.Right near the top of the page description: "When compared to other civilizations, or another species, Humans are a bunch of bastards. They are all greedy, heartless, violent, cruel, selfish, egotistical, thoughtless, and in extreme cases, evil, as opposed to the other species, which will be better if not far superior: they are all peaceful, live in harmony with nature, are naturally good, floss after every meal, etc. Ironically the species in question almost always looks and acts just like humans anyway." After that paragraph though, the description does appear to warp at the edges.
7 Tyoria, Thu, 9th Sep '10 8:52:31 PM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insaneRight, but I'm talking about the title. From what I've seen most trope misuse seems to come from an ambiguous title and Humans Are Bastards is kinda ambiguous in that regard. Humans Are The Bastard Species might be clearer.
Personally, I'd like to try to salvage the current title as is, if at all possible. If we can just work to clean up the misattributed wicks and buff up the description to enforce the trope's true purpose, it should be in a decent shape.
9 Meophist, Thu, 9th Sep '10 9:06:16 PM from Toronto, Canada
Well, hopefully anyways. I won't be opposed to that course of action.
10 Tyoria, Thu, 9th Sep '10 9:23:01 PM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insaneWell then again I'd ask if there is a trope that means essentially what people seem to think Humans Are Bastards means — that humans default to evil, but not that humans in particular default to it where other races live in sacred holy harmony with nature. If so, the article should point people in that direction if that's the trope they're thinking of. If it doesn't exist, one could be made — and I'd suggest Rousseau Was Wrong, which currently exists as a redirect for THIS trope, which seems pretty misleading in and of itself. Okay so granted I don't know all that much about the guy's philosophy, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't "humans rule, other species drool."
edited 9th Sep '10 9:26:39 PM by Tyoria
Basically, the purpose of Humans Are Bastards is that, when other sentient life forms enter the picture, we're the bad guys. A lot of what some people are confusing it for, however, is something more like, People Are Evil To Each Other, and I'm not really sure if that can actually be a trope. Incorrect examples where humans are bastards in stories that are just about humans should be treated individually and categorized as whatever already existing tropes best fit it (be it Magnificent Bastard, Neutral Evil, Tested On Humans, or whatever other Evil Tropes work best).
edited 9th Sep '10 10:04:46 PM by SeanMurrayI
12 Tyoria, Fri, 10th Sep '10 11:51:52 PM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insane
A lot of what some people are confusing it for, however, is something more like, People Are Evil To Each Other, and I'm not really sure if that can actually be a trope. Incorrect examples where humans are bastards in stories that are just about humans should be treated individually and categorized as whatever already existing tropes best fit it (be it Magnificent Bastard, Neutral Evil, Tested On Humans, or whatever other Evil Tropes work best).ISTM that the misuse of the trope is more along the lines of "people's basic instinct is to be evil, unless they have the strength of will to fight against it" which is definitely tropable seeing as there are several real-life philosophies that take that stance. Calvin Was Right, if you will. Although people would probably confuse that for another Calvin...
edited 10th Sep '10 11:54:17 PM by Tyoria
The Demon SlayerI'm also in favor of splitting this trope, being that there is definitely a trope in humans being evil in nature in regards to their dealings with each other (it's a hallmark of the cynical side of the Sliding Scale). Perhaps use Humans Are Bastards for that trope and use Humans Are The Enemy, Humans Are Bad Guys or some other name for humans being bastards to other species.
edited 11th Sep '10 3:26:58 AM by TwoGunAngel
14 Tyoria, Sat, 11th Sep '10 4:13:39 AM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insaneWell, the other thread dealing with Humans Are Good / Rousseau Was Right seems to becoming down on the definition that Humans Are Good means humans > aliens while Rousseau Was Right means people (not necessarily exclusively human) are good by nature and only made evil by their environment. So if we were to split the trope it would probably be better to keep Humans Are Bastards as it is (humans < aliens) and make up a new name for "people are intrinsically nasty to each other, far more than the reverse." That way Humans Are Bastards and Humans Are Good are diametric opposites.
15 Meta Four, Sat, 11th Sep '10 7:37:23 AM from mistletoe and molasses
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUNJohn Calvin (or at least his followers) referred to the idea of humans being intrinsically bad as Total Depravity, which might make a good title. Or could just be confused with Complete Monster.
16 Dragon Quest Z, Sat, 11th Sep '10 9:03:36 AM from Somewhere in California
The Other TroperYeah, Humans Are Bastards does look like what it's been misused for. This should have a name that makes it clear there are other species for comparison.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
If it comes down to renaming Humans Are Bastards, I feel Humans Are The Bad Guys or Humanity Is The Evil Race could make the original trope's focus better understood. Also, what does anyone think should become of the Humans Are Misguided concept on the page? It doesn't really fit with the trope's theme all too well, and most examples on the page that are considered this just sound more like something to file under Humans Are Morons, anyway.
18 robert, Sat, 11th Sep '10 10:10:35 AM from Ynys Prydain
PendingHobbes talked about the natural state of society being a war of all against all, with only the state preventing people from slaughtering each other at whim, so he's the obvious contrast with Rousseau, if he's well known enough - Hobbes Was Right. If we want more obvious names, how about Humans Default To Evil and Humans Default To Good? Since which is actually true is one of the dividing lines between left and right, the real life section of these tropes will definitely need watching.
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Hobbes Was Right could possibly be retooled to better reflect what robert is getting at, as it's currently written up like an addendum of Democracy Is Bad, anyway.
edited 11th Sep '10 10:15:02 AM by SeanMurrayI
20 Meophist, Sat, 11th Sep '10 10:53:35 AM from Toronto, Canada
One this to note is that the Humans Are tropes are supposed to be about how Humans measure up to other species. At least, that's the impression I get.
Indeed, the Humans Are Indexed index is part of Speculative Fiction Tropes.
22 Deboss, Sat, 11th Sep '10 5:06:18 PM from Awesomeville Texas
I see the Awesomeness.Would People Are Asssholes work better as a title since it simply uses the generic "people" instead of the species equivalent human?
That's it... Humans Are Bastards should be split; make one trope Humans Are The Villains and another People Are Bastards.
^^First of all, the word "Assholes" immediately rules that one out as an option as we try to avoid using swear words in titles. Second, examples don't define a trope.
edited 11th Sep '10 6:03:48 PM by SeanMurrayI
25 Tyoria, Sat, 11th Sep '10 9:16:54 PM from Portland, Oregon
rationally insaneHumans Are Misguided sounds like Humans Are Flawed, to me. For the sake of simplicity I would suggest keeping the title Humans Are Bastards for now, since we can change it later once all the definitions have been ironed out. Repurposing Hobbes Was Right to be Rousseau Was Right's antithesis sounds like a good idea to me too.
edited 11th Sep '10 9:24:00 PM by Tyoria
At issue:What do we rename Humans Are Bastards, the trope meaning "humans are bastards compared to other sapient species"?
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Heres the most recent sketches for an animation project we're working on. Feel free to comment, and suggestions or post concepts. There will be only 2 characters... the zombie and the human. The song we'll be using is a shortened version of the song "Wake The Dead" by The Used. Here's the concepts thus far.
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3 comments:
- kwistin said...
What animation project is this?
- October 8, 2008 at 3:01 PM
- joe said...
We are working on making a short film that we will probably use for our portfolios. It's aprox. 1:30 long. We're looking for any concepts for our zombie thriller.
- October 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM
- Shelly & Scott said...
Hey Joe,
I liked seeing the art work you've done. Did you see Ryan's new game he got for Christmas called "Zombies"? You'll have to check it out you might get some ideas from it. Take care, Thanks for having our family over for Thanksgiving!!!
- January 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM
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Members of the Senior Advisory Committee (SAC) expressed a great deal of disappointment and dismay over the fact that the Town Council rejected a requested budget increase. The request was for $16,725, an increase of $11,725 over last year's budget. That rejection, members believed, was a result of a misunderstanding and some trivialization of their work by members of the community and the Town Council.
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Reviewing its work over the past six years, committee members highlighted a number of specific ways in which the group has been serving the senior community on island.
The SAC, officially formed in 2007, asked the town for — and received — $1,000 for the years 2011 and 2012 to underwrite the expenses of running programs. For fiscal year 2013, the SAC requested and received $5,000.
Of the latter funding, $1,000 was allocated to sustaining programs and $4,000 for a part-time senior coordinator whose job it would be to identify, develop and oversee needed programs and to provide advocacy services for seniors, among other tasks. Kathleen Mitchell was hired for that position.
Miitchell's salary was predicated on a five-hour work schedule; however, the demands of the post quickly ran way beyond that allocation, and she found herself putting in 20 or more hours weekly, the members said.
"We can't expect an employee to continue to work at a half-time job for $4,000," said Graham. Believing that Mitchell should not be expected to volunteer her time, the committee increased its budget request, which was then rejected by the council.
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With a senior population that is largely dependent on volunteer services, SAC members also spoke about FISH (Friends in Service Helping), which the committee has sponsored and maintained for a number of years. FISH is an organization connecting individuals that can provide assistance to those who need it.
The committee also related its role in advocating a raise on the cap on household incomes — from $15,000 to $30,000 and later to $45,000 — as the minimum requirement for tax relief eligibility.
"It's important to remind people of the annual group driving course we sponsor that's offered for seniors by AARP; it allows individuals to apply for discounts on their auto insurance," SAC member Linda Spak said.
Pierce reminded the committee of the brochure called "Senior Moments" that board members created as a resource directory for seniors — providing a list of agencies and services available on island and off.
"I'm also very proud of the Block Island Bulletin Board; it's something we created and continue to administer," Spak said.
According to Sandra Kelly, who along with Janet Merritt administers the communications network, "the Bulletin Board has close to 225 members and to date has put up some 1,100 postings." Kelly called it "a great success."
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Graham pointed out that the 2010 United States Census indicated that seniors made up a significant portion of the island's total population. She said, "The census showed 265 persons over 65. The report also showed the population growing older, with 529 islanders over 50," she said.
Kathleen Mitchell pointed out the importance of the committee's role in health and wellness promotion, which she saw as a significant part of her responsibilities. To serve those ends, she said it was important to "promote activities in which individuals interact with others and engage in activities promoting communication."
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Justin Maruri was raised in London, England and Westchester, NY where he performed with the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts. After several years training with Tony-nominated actor Steve Bookvor, Justin attended Ithaca College as a BFA Acting major and upon graduating moved to New York City. During his stay in NYC, he has toured nationally with TheatreWorks USA and performed as a rep member of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival. His New York theatrical credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Gay Slave Handbook and the popular EATFEST series with Emerging Artists. He has also auditioned and won an invitation to train with Alec Baldwin and Michael Disher in their premiere acting workshop. Founding member of Nylon Fusion since 2008.
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Jacob Troy is from Woodstock, New York, where he began acting, writing, and directing at a young age, as well as training in the Lee Strasberg method with a teacher from that institute. Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied drama and filmmaking, Jacob has worked professionally on stage, on screen, and on Wall Street. He has played many of Shakespeare's characters throughout the U.S. on tour, regionally, and Off-Broadway. His original work has been selected to appear in the New York International Fringe Festival, and featured on CNN. Jacob plays in sketch comedy for sites like CollegeHumor.com and in award winning independent films, most recently starring in a feature shot on location in Patagonia, Argentina. He currently resides in Brooklyn and regularly performs in original radio plays before live studio audiences there. Member of Nylon Fusion Collective since 2009.


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Despite the fact that the average customer wants to interact via social media, 30 percent of companies don't have a program in place to handle the demand. That's according to a study by Yankee Group and it's not really surprising. Many companies still see social media as a time-waster that keeps their employees from getting their work done. Some companies have even gone so far as to block sites such as Twitter and Facebook, but in cutting off their employees, they could be cutting off their virtual noses to spite their user profiles.
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Cowboys side to face Warriors
THE NQ Toyota Cowboys side to face New Zealand in Auckland this weekend has been announced.
Bowen brilliance rescues Cowboys
THE North Queensland Cowboys have continued their unbeaten start to the competition with a last minute 25-24 victory over a gallant Wests Tigers side in Townsville tonight.
Cowboys side to clash with Tigers
NORTH Queensland Toyota Cowboys coach Graham Murray has named his Round 4 side for their match against the Wests Tigers this Saturday evening at Dairy Farmers Stadium.
Tigers name outfit for Cowboys clash
WESTS Tigers coach has named his side to take on the Cowboys in Townsville on Saturday.
Cowboys hang on to defeat Dragons
THE North Queensland Cowboys have withstood a second half comeback from the St George Illawarra Dragons to win 22-18 at WIN Stadium tonight
Head & Poore Named in Dragons side for Cowboys clash
MATHEW Head and Justin Poore returning from injury and suspension respectively have been named in the Dragons starting side for the match against the Cowboys at WIN Stadium this Saturday
Cowboys team to face Dragons
NORTH Queensland Cowboys coach Graham Murray has named the starting lineup for Saturday clash against the Dragons in Wollongong.
Bowman returns to Cowboys lineup
INAUGRAL Cowboy Paul Bowman will return to the first grade line up this Saturday night when the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys take on the Roosters at Dairy Farmers Stadium.
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THE North Queensland Cowboys have withstood a spirited Brisbane Broncos comeback to run out 23-16 victors at Suncorp Stadium tonight
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COACH of the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys Graham Murray has announced the Team which will play Brisbane on Friday Night.
Manly tie up Cowboys in Cairns trial
THE Manly Sea Eagles have defeated the North Queensland Cowboys 14-12 in tonight's NRL trial match in Cairns
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THE North Queensland Cowboys have defeated the New Zealand Warriors 32-14 in their NRL trial match in Mackay last night
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If you have trouble sleeping at night without your phone by your side, this Handsfree Bluetooth Pillow Phone should provide you with the peace of mind you need to really get a good night's sleep. Connecting to your phone via Bluetooth, it's basically a huge and extra-comfy Bluetooth headset, albeit one that you'd have trouble using while walking down the street.
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MPAA may let Megaupload users retrieve non-copyrighted files, does it for the Armed Forces
Megaupload's still immersed in hot water, but there are signs the legal temperature could be cooling… slightly. Don't breathe a sigh of relief just yet though, as a significant portion of that confiscated cache of cloud-stored files remains somewhat indefinitely under lock and key. A minor reprieve may be on the way, however, owing to a much more "sympathetic" MPAA which has asked the court to consider releasing non-illegally obtained content to previous users. And lest your evil eye be trained too heavily upon the Hollywood group behind the shutdown, the association's made it quite clear that, under the site's TOS, users were never guaranteed continued access to uploaded content anyway.
The change of heart comes in response to a motion filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on behalf of a member of the U.S. military, petitioning the return of personal, non-IP infringing files. According to the now-defunct site's founder Kim Dotcom, that group of "legitimate" users comprised nearly 16,000 accounts utilized primarily to share photos and video with far away family and friends. Of course, should this retrieval request be granted, a requisite procedure will need to be put in place to filter out copyrighted media — a system that's sure to pose countless headaches for those involved. Nothing's yet been decided so, for now, the fate of your lost files rests firmly in the court's hands. Such are the perils of the cloud.
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Movie Streaming Service Zediva Shuttered Over Legal Battle With MPAA, Vows To Keep Fighting
There goes Zediva. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the video streaming start-up by ruling that the company violates copyright infringement. The injunction will effectively shut down Zediva, but due to a legal technicality, it won't officially be issued for another week.
Zediva should have seen this coming. The company billed its streaming service as a DVD rental over the Internet and proudly proclaimed "New Movies before Netflix and Redbox." They were essentially working (or so they thought) around several IP and copyright laws by streaming DVDs purchased at retail and then allowing customers to rent the physical DVD and DVD player. They said, this practice was essentially the same method of transmission used by video rental stores. The MPAA disagreed. (so did the judge)
The judge rejected Zediva's claim that the service was akin to having a DVD player with a really long cable attached. The MPAA's hounds argued that Zediva was serving up a public performance and did not have the proper pay-per-performance license. Judge John F. Walter agreed and stated, "Defendants are violating Plaintiffs' exclusive right to publicly perform their Copyrighted Works." and later, "Plaintiff's argument that On Command's system involves not "transmissions" but "electronic rentals" similar to patrons' physical borrowing of videotapes is without merit."
The MPAA praised the victory in a statement, "Judge Walter's decision is a great victory for the more than two million American men and women whose livelihoods depend on a thriving film and television industry."
Zediva isn't going to roll over, though. The company vowed to keep fighting for those "looking for an alternative to Hollywood-controlled online movie services."
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The Protect IP Act: Google's Eric Schmidt squares off against RIAA and MPAA
Protecting intellectual property sounds like such a noble cause that you'd have to be a anarchistic free-market extremist to be against the idea, right? Actually, we don't think Google CEO Eric Schmidt is particularly extreme in any definable way, yet this past week he spoke with gusto, railing against the proposed Protect IP Act, which is was designed to "prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of intellectual property." If passed into law, it would give the government the right to shut down any "Internet site dedicated to infringing activities" — "infringing activities" largely being of the sort that allows dude A to download copyrighted item B from dude C when it's unclear whether dude C has legal rights to be distributing B in the first place.
So, you know, it's targeting the Pirate Bay and its ilk, giving government officials greater power to sweep in and snag the domains of such sites. Schmidt calls this approach a set of "arbitrarily simple solutions to complex problems" that "sets a very bad precedent." The precedent? That it's okay for democratic governments to go and kill any site they doesn't like, something Schmidt says would only encourage restrictive policies in countries like China. While we don't think China really needs any sort of encouragement at all to keep on building up its Great Firewall, we tend to agree that this is a much more complicated problem than the Act makes it out to be. That said, one must admit that Schmidt's opinions are necessarily somewhat swayed by the knowledge that any such law would also have a negative impact on the business of search engines in general.
But of course no such volley of words could go unanswered from the two shining knights of copyright protection, the MPAA and RIAA, which mounted up their corporate blogs, rode down from twin castles full of lawyers, and collectively told Schmidt he's full of it. The MPAA spun Schmidt's comments into some sort of act of civil disobedience, saying that "Google seems to think it's above America's laws." Meanwhile, the RIAA called the statement "a confusing step backwards by one of the most influential internet companies." Obviously it's only going to get nastier from here, so buckle your seatbelts, place your bets, and hang on to your BitTorrent clients.
The Protect IP Act: Google's Eric Schmidt squares off against RIAA and MPAA originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 May 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MPAA sues Zediva for streaming DVDs, no one is surprised
We told you to get through that 10 pack of rentals quickly didn't we? As pretty much anyone could have predicted, the Motion Picture Association of America (in case you've forgotten, that's these guys) doesn't think Zediva has the right to rent access to DVDs for streaming across the internet. Specifically, the MPAA calls Zediva for not being the traditional rental service it claims to be, and claims streaming the output of a DVD player across the internet even to one user amounts to public performance of the movie. There's no response yet from Zediva, but in the meantime armchair lawyers can check out the MPAA's statement in PDF form at the source link.
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FCC will let the MPAA disable analog outputs, kind of
The Motion Picture Association of America has been trying to get a waiver for the FCC Selectable Output Control (SoC) ban since it went into effect — the ability to only allow content to flow from a HDCP protected HDMI port. Up until now there has been lots of debate and no action. The bad news is that the MPAA can now use SoC to protect high value content, the good news is the FCC really locked down exactly when it can be used. Basically any movie that's never been released on disc (DVD or Blu-ray) can be protected with SoC for 90 days. The reason the FCC granted this partial waiver was because the content effected isn't currently available to cable and satellite anyways — in other words consumers who own older HDTVs, without HDMI ports, don't currently expect access to these movies. So for those with older hardware nothing changes, and for those with the latest and greatest, you'll be able to rent newer movies from home. And for everyone else there's the HDfury2 — no, they'll never learn that DRM is a big waste of time and money. Full waiver after the jump.
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RIAA, MPAA would like to scan your hard drive for infringing content
I don't get it either, mister
There really isn't any particular point to the following story other than to get you riled up as your begin your weekend. The U.S. government is actively trying to figure out how best to handle intellectual property rights, so it has asked the concerned parties to submit all sorts of information in order to better understand what's going no. The person in charge of this is the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, and what the RIAA and MPAA have submitted borders on the insane. Well, it would border on the insane if it weren't totally their modus operandi. The most glaring "suggestion"? That computer users install software that would scan the contents of their hard drives, looking for examples of "infringement." If the software discovers what it thinks it infringement, bam! Deleted! I'd be surprised if this were the year 2001, but after so many years of insane RIAA/MPAA stories it's hard to be shocked anymore.
The exact verbiage of the suggestion reads:
There are several technologies and methods that can be used by network administrators and providers…these include [consumer] tools for managing copyright infringement from the home (based on tools used to protect consumers from viruses and malware).
So, the same technology that protects you from Internet nonsense—"hey, knucklehead, that 1MB DVD rip of "Avatar" you've got there is a trojan, delete it—would instead be used to spy on you. A sort of, "Well, look at that, the new LCD Soundsystem album before its official release date? Where did you get that from? No worries, we'll just delete it right now… OK, as you were."
That's not a world I want to live in.
Then again, this is a world where volcanoes are exploding left, right, and center; meteorites are falling from the sky; and Manchester City might actually get fourth place, so who knows what's going on anymore.
The funniest is that the RIAA/MPAA expects federal agencies, like the FBI, to keep an eye out for pirates on opening weekend.
Yes, because our nation's law enforcement officials have nothing better to do than make sure people aren't recording Kick Ass for later CAM distribution…
Again, it would be funny if weren't utterly predictable.
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Heroes on Demand: Kirry Blen, Force-Sensitive Exile
Welcome yet again to Heroes on Demand, your weekly source for ready-made and ready-to-play PCs for a variety of RPGs. Once again we'll be traveling to the Outer Rim Territories, seeking to escape the Empire's determined efforts to enslave or extinguish those sensitive to the Force. While some of those born Force-sensitive have it within them to perhaps one day become carriers of the Jedi legacy, not all are so lucky. So don't think, but instead feel as we introduce…
Kirry Blen
Game: Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beta
Species: Human
Career: Explorer
Specializations: Fringer, Force-Sensitive Exile
Obligation: Favor (+10 for +10 XP)
Motivation: Childhood Friend
Brawn 2
Agility 3
Intellect 2
Cunning 2
Presence 3
Willpower 2
Charm 1, Cool 1, Negotiation 1, Perception 1, Streetwise 1, Vigilance 1, Ranged (Light) 1, Knowledge (Outer Rim) 1
Rapid Recovery, Street Smarts, Uncanny Reactions, Uncanny Senses
Force Powers
Influence (Basic Power)
Move (Basic Power)
Soak/Defense: 3/0
Wound Threshold: 12
Strain Threshold: 12
Force Rating: 1
Equipment: Blaster pistol (Ranged [Light], Damage 6, Crit 3, Medium, Stun Setting), heavy clothing (Soak 1), comlink, stim pack, 90 credits
Background: Kirry's a survivor; she's had to be ever since she found herself living on the streets after her father got caught on the wrong side of a violent argument between two rival swoop gangs. She probably wouldn't have lasted past the first month had an older street kid named Quinn not taken the little girl under his wing; a lot of what Kirry knows about surviving on the galactic fringe, she owes to Quinn's guidance. It certainly wasn't the sort of life that a young girl should have, but to Kirry it was better than becoming "just another casualty of an uncaring galaxy," and there were some good times mixed in with the rough times, so it wasn't all bad.
But all that changed when Quinn got press-ganged into service by the Empire as fodder for its ever-expanding war machine. For the first time in close to a decade, Kirry was once more alone and on her own, but she wasn't the helpless little child like she'd been when she'd lost her parents. Determined to find where they'd taken Quinn and get her friend back, Kirry has left the streets she grew up on, though at the cost of a future favor of an unspecified nature to a smuggler baron to get a ride off-world,. The trail to Quinn's current location has proven a lot harder for the plucky young street rat to follow, but she's not going to give up on the one person in the galaxy that she cares about.
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Kirry is at heart a plucky street urchin, able to survive on her own and just full of surprises. She's handy to have in a fight and has some pretty decent people skills as well, thanks to her ranks in Charm and Negotiation. Kirry's also got a a couple unexpected surprises by way of her Force powers, and, though she's going to have to develop that talent in order to make it something impressive, it certainly does provide her with an extra option that most people won't be aware of.
She's probably not the sort to be openly trusting, particularly about her little "gift", but Kirry will prove to be a loyal ally once her trust is earned; the fact that she's trying to track down her childhood friend from the Imperial Army to help him go AWOL should be proof enough of that. Kirry's got no real clue about Jedi or the Force, as those are just a couple of meaningless words to her, but an interesting story arc could be made out of her starting to discover more about the Force and expanding upon her basic abilities, generally by purchasing more upgrades for the powers she does have or perhaps even just picking up some ranks in Discipline so she can make better use of the offensive aspects of her powers.
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This weekend saw the opening of Todd Snyder's first stand-alone shop in the way of a collaboration with Champion dubbed "City Gym." Along with their debut sportswear collection, the pop-up retail space is stocked with some of Snyder's favorite sporting goods.
Reclaimed steel lockers and cubbies are lined with watches/bicycles from Detroit's Shinola, Ebbets Field felted ball caps, Hoosier bats and Leather Head balls. In addition to an exclusive assortment of goods curated by Kaufmann Mercantile, ranging from pocket-size titanium tools to hand-stitched Japanese notebooks.
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Todd Snyder has been the guy to know lately.
Exhibit A: May's footwear collaboration with SeaVees, where the man selflessly helped us start the summer off on the right foot.
And now, exhibit B: Snyder's exclusive new sportswear line with Champion, available online starting today.
Designing the collection in conjunction with Champion's own design team, Snyder's goal was to bring modern tailoring to the brand's classic 1950s gym-issued items. And, well, he seems to have hit that goal spot-on, promptly transporting us back to undergrad with a whole range of team-color-accented, vintage-inspired sweats. Or maybe it's prep school we're remembering? Either way, there's a distinct memory of us going to town on a speed bag in something just like the collection's signature pocket sweatshirt, and we're pretty excited for the opportunity to run that back.
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