You are not taking crazy pills, its premise does suffer when watched with a “critical eye” (i.e. thinking about it even a little).
The reason it’s remembered so fondly (imho) is two fold. It is one of the first “thought provoking” episodes. And the first couple of seasons were… not the best to put it mildly.
edit: admittedly, I do enjoy it, but I really have to turn my brain off to do so.
Caring about these bench marks is how you find one to last another 12 years.
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They already do Hideo, they already do.
“Alright boys, I want you to break into that warehouse and steal all the cheddar!”
“On it Boss!”
A few hours later
“What do you mean you stole 22 tonnes of cheese!? I meant the money you numbskulls!”
“But Boss, I can feel my skull just fine?”
“Aaarrrgggg!!!”
I would much rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!
So we should start telling our family and friends good stories about being able to change your mind based on evidence and facts
hmmm… that’s a good point.
Oh, wait a minute, no it’s not! Knowing the demographics of a group is extremely relevant.
Would you say it’s irrelevant if 79% of people who got a specific disease were men, just because less than 0.01% of the population ever got the disease?
What about if 79% of a prison population was of a certain ethnicity, even though only 1 out of 100 people were incarcerated?
What about if 98% of school shooters were men, even if they are only a tiny fraction of the population?
Obviously not, these are key data sets to understanding the underlying causes. Sure, it helps to know how those stats compare to the general makeup of the population, and understanding what percentage of a population is effected is another useful piece of data depending on the questions you want answered. But to write off the makeup of a group as irrelevant is… dumb.
For half a second there, I was like “yeah, so glad Lemmy is more rational than that site”.
Few comments later, folks be talking about “Ukranian Nazis”…
Irrelevant to what? It’s fair to say she is clearly Pro-Choice, so understanding the demographics of those who are anti-choice is very relevant. Especially if your point is that “since 4 out of 5 people opposed to abortion rights are men, who will not be directly affected by these laws, their opinion is functionally irrelevant”.
Or are you just upset that this fails to acknowledge that just because men are more likely to be anti-abortion then women, that does not mean that men are likely to be anti-abortion in general? Because I would argue the latter is irrelevant to the fact that the majority of people who are against abortion rights will never be directly affected by it.
Well, assuming the 79% statistic is accurate, you could start from that discrepancy and extrapolate from there?
I didn’t expect him to do anything. But does he expect anecdotal evidence provided without context to change my mind on horse armor? Come on man!
Outspoken Gamers™ are not a monolithic block either. That’s the funny thing about people.
Nesmith said he no longer remembers the exact sales figures for the add-on, but he remembers it being a lot. “It must have been in the millions, it had to be millions,” he said.
So… No accounting for how many of these sales came from bundles/GOTY editions, and we are just going off his memory of the sales numbers?
Great reporting, this really vindicated Horse Armor’s legacy…
Non-political meme huh? I recognize the political compass when I see it.
Auth Right void will tread on you, Lib Right void doesn’t want to be tread on, Auth left void will sit on you, and Lib left void just wants to be seen.
How much of a problem it is will vary by how much it impacts and upsets a customer. For you, sounds like it’s not that big of an issue.
But the fact that they pulled out the “review bombing” exscuse means that it qualifies as a problem to a significant percentage of customers.
Somehow I think everyone missed your joke…
So if a cheater wins hard enough, it can be called “fair and square”? Not sure what specifics could get me on board with that.
Perhaps, but with all of the voter suppression and election rigging that has been done by the Republicans, can you really say he won “fair and square” at this point?
lol, no kidding. Even watching it as a kid my first thought was, “the fate of Data’s rights can be determined in an impromptu court session with bridge crew acting as lawyers!? Shouldn’t they have… real courts for this?”. At the time I didn’t consider the limitations of the show of course, and I do think the willingness to tackle high concepts was what made the show so special. But damn did the limitations show in this one.