Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 493
Grab a sword and do it yourself.
as or self-image is entirely informed by the way others act towards us.
Speak for yourself.
What ever happened to "hey - here's two pairs of boxing gloves - go behind the gym and work it out?"
That stopped being feasible when guys like me got tired of taking shit from other kids, and showed up behind the gym with brass knuckles. The answer to verbal bullies is to punch them in the throat.
...where The Real Housewives of xyz and River Dance end up on the 'Fringe Interests' list, because there's no way in Hell people would admit to either of those of a first date.
I once had a first date with a woman who admitted that she believed that David Koresh was the Second Coming. People will admit all kinds of weird shit on a first date. Of course, after hearing that I called for the check, paid up, and walked out.
But whose sin was greater here? The journal that got fooled, or the guy who did the fooling? This was a major exercise in academic dishonesty, and Sokal should have suffered the consequences. But in fact, everyone was having so much fun punching the hippies at the journal that he got a pass.
I see nothing wrong with what Sokal did; it's the equivalent of standing up and shouting, "The emperor is naked, and he has a small dick!"
Nintendo knows a thing or three about the gaming industry, including that they remember the great video game crash of '84, and more importantly what caused it.
Then why do they keep slapping their seal of approval on blatant shovelware? Oh, that's right: it makes them money.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
