Username checks out. You sound like a grumpy old man that never adapted to the times. GET OFF MY LAWN
PSA - THIS is why AX Pilots ALWAYS use gauss cannons
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Love Stephen King as a person. Can't stand most of his books. Too much cheese for me. His best works were when he didn't focus on horror imo, like Shawshank Redemption. I still love Dolores Claiborne though (the book and the film with Kathy Bates - who is a god).
Kubrick on the other hand was kind of an ahole irl, but a genius in film direction. 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange,Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, etc. Many of his films were adapted from novels, but his artistic vision and ability to dwell on a scene was only rivalled by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. But Kubrick had some stinkers as well. Eyes Wide Shut was visually impressive but fell off at some point trying to convey it's message.
borges said "playing chess develops intelligence to play chess". of course he had no background in neurology or psychology whatsoever, but he was famous for writing good fiction so he surely would know better. turns out youtube did not invent influencers ;-)
i would respectfully disagree with all of the above. mind you, i think reading, writing and even calligraphy are excellent exercises for body, mind and spirit, but when it comes to communication and intellectual process all platforms, each with its own specificities, are equally valid. what can be often numbed down is the actual content and process but that's rarely the fault of the language or the medium.
reading is pretty much a passive thing, much like watching a movie. then again, there are books and books, and movies and movies. not all audiovisual production is youtuber or industrial grade entertainment, and many a book is a load of crap. both reading and watching you might be just passing time or playing with thoughts or, you know, going nuts and following the chase of the perfect form of expression in the creator's mind etcetera. it's all about the attitude.
This was fairy easy to debunk. Book publishing revenues have gone up steadily. To say nothing of the explosion of Kindle/Ebooks etc etc.
U.S. trade book publishing industry revenue 2022| Statista
In 2022, the estimated net revenue of the U.S.www.statista.com
Not sure what's with the old man "get off my lawn darn video kids!" attitudes here, but people are reading just as much - if not more - these days.
Not sure how a revenue chart proves more people read per capita.
Keep it up people we‘re a few posts away from some adult literacy statistics.
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The thing that King does so well in his books is that schizophrenic behaviour, this is abundantly evident in the Shining. A character is smiling to the world, even saying pleasant things but the book puts us in the character’s head, and we also hear the often violent things they are thinking as they say those pleasant things. No film can do that, not as well as a book.
Imagine David Braben giving a piggy-back to John Lennon. Chasing them is Bill Hicks playing a trumpet.
Your brain just painted that picture better than any film or digital manipulation could do it. Better yet, it created tons of stuff I never suggested, a background, their clothes, possibly even the tune Hicks was playing, what time of day it roughly was, where it was, the weather. It made your brain work. That has to be good, right? TV and film can make you lazy (and of course there are exceptions) by feeding you all of that.
That is what I meant about participating.
To show I’m not a total meanie however, I can reveal that I had to sit for a couple of days and just think about stuff after my first (and only) viewing of The Deer Hunter. So I know film can do it but it has limits. Reading, for me, has none.
ok. it still depends on the content.
watch kurosawa's kagemusha. it's all about a brutal battle that never ever appears on screen.
a collection of photographical frames, with sound, that's just an incredible overhaul in communication storage and retrieval capacities. it does not necessarily rule out more basic gymnastics and just makes better acrobatics possible ;-)
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well, it seems to be your limit.
A little thread drift is normal, but this is a bit much.
Despite the title its not actually about AX pilots always using gauss cannons.
You're not?
Unless Ikea has uneven legs on all their furniture, do you think it's reasonable to assume people are buying more and more books so as to read them?
Total revenue is affected by prices and number of consumers who purchase a product, but the population is rising, and nothing is getting cheaper.
I used to buy DnD core rulebooks for $20. 5th Edition books are $45-50 nowadays. That's a revenue increase.
I used to read a lot of comic books too. The amount of people I talk to nowadays who say they watch the Marvel and DC films but never read one of the comics is staggering. Does that make it bad/good? It's entirely subjective. I'm just going by what I experience myself. I just don't think people read like they used to. They might say they do in polls that ask a question like "Do you read books?", but people lie in polls. A better question for polls would be "What was the last novel you read?" and then ask them to give a brief description of the story.
I don't trust polls or charts (which are usually designed to give false impressions... Especially when they deal with budgets and revenue). On the Internet, anyone can go to I'm Right Dot Com and reinforce their side of a debate. I just try to make common sense points based on my own knowledge, and I rarely claim to be smarter than someone else. If I come across that way it's not my intention. I consider myself a philosophical braggart, rather than an intellectual. I know I annoy people.
This whole argument aside,
It might sound like I'm a "get off my lawn" type, but it's actually the opposite. I started off trying to defend people who would rather watch a film or video than read a book or text wall for information. It seems to me that there is an attitude among some people here that reading books somehow makes you a smarter person. It depends on what you read. You can get valid information, or you can get indoctrination. It's the same thing on YT.
I'd definitely rather watch a YT video than read a YT comment section.
not to mention that all this posting keeps the thread at the top of the forums
Like i said earlier - the best course of action to those that do not like video threads would be to block me so you no longer see my posts
this will happen again, many times - this is how i share my insights with the community
You have the tools available to curate me out of your online experience if you want to
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Great video again Katie!
I really wish Frontier would fix the tracking cookie problem (and work with the third parties if they need to), with no excuses, so we can see the videos without compromising our security more!
I really wish Frontier would fix the tracking cookie problem (and work with the third parties if they need to), with no excuses, so we can see the videos without compromising our security more!
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A 15 minutes long video is the "best most convenient way" to explain why 'AX pilots always use gauss cannons"?
Seriously? It's a goddamn railgun, a fixed hitscan, literally the easiest to use kind of fixed weapons, especially since you are supposed to snipe out modules ("hearts") with it. This, and a few stats of said weapon, compared to other AX weapons.
A few lines' worth of information, not a wall of text. It takes only a couple of seconds to type or read. How is it more convenient to watch a 15 minutes long video to learn the answer to that simple question in the title of the thread?
on occasions where i am posting, yes
you cant demonstrate the difference in action via text - like i said dude just block me, you'll never see my posts again
Content creators create content. The clue is in the name. They're welcome to post their content on the forums and always have been.
As for the original post, I've seen lots of Katie's videos and I'd like to say that it's really made me want to get better at Thargoid combat, but that's not happening because I'm rubbish. Completely rubbish. I just can't hold a target like Katie does, she never seems to miss. Or get hit. Or overheat.
It's incredible - and incredibly depressing - to watch
As for the original post, I've seen lots of Katie's videos and I'd like to say that it's really made me want to get better at Thargoid combat, but that's not happening because I'm rubbish. Completely rubbish. I just can't hold a target like Katie does, she never seems to miss. Or get hit. Or overheat.
It's incredible - and incredibly depressing - to watch
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To you and me maybe. You would be surprised to know how many people don't listen to that kind of argumentation and need to be taught either by trying themselves or actually showing them. Having been an AXI mentor for 6 months I have seen both types, people who suck up information like a sponge and go on to implement it well as well as people who are stone set in their ways and want to kill a hydra in a T10 using just AX multicannons. The AXI homepage has this to say about weapons:
"Due to the current state of Anti-Xeno weapons, the Guardian Gauss Cannon is a clear winner and the only recommended weapon for AX combat. The damage-per-second, armour penetration, hitscan, precision and range makes this a significantly superior weapon to all other Anti-Xeno weapons which currently suffer severe drawbacks that make them sub-optimal and very difficult to use."
Short and concise and you would think it would suffice as explanation. Alas, for many, it doesn't and we find ourselves explaining this over and over. Sometimes it is like hitting your head against the wall. Having a video with actual gameplay showcasing the different weapons certainly helps.
I'd also argue that burst lasers are the easiest-to-use fixed weapon due to the lack of charge-up time.
You're welcome over to AXI discord at any time. Plenty of nice people to show others the ropes. We were all rubbish at the beginning. (Just see Katie's first Thargoid video that I linked earlier in the thread ...Content creators create content. The clue is in the name. They're welcome to post their content on the forums and always have been.
As for the original post, I've seen lots of Katie's videos and I'd like to say that it's really made me want to get better at Thargoid combat, but that's not happening because I'm rubbish. Completely rubbish. I just can't hold a target like Katie does, she never seems to miss. Or get hit. Or overheat.
It's incredible - and incredibly depressing - to watch
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