Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This may be a weird thread to ask in, but the search function is letting me down with too many irrelevant hits, but does anyone know of a thread on here where people share battle maps for VTT use (like Owlbear Rodeo) or links to free ones?

Other than Dyson's thread of his maps? No.

 

[trappedslider]

I don't want to repost the Don't Build the Torment Nexus meme, but there is literally a Black Mirror episode about why digital ghosts are a terrible idea.

Has there been an episode of black mirror in which something was given a positive outlook or is it not that type of show?

 

[Scribe]

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Congrats, easily the dumbest call of the year, and I just cannot wait to suffer your stupidity for the rest of the year.

 

[Ryujin]

I learned how to edit, and I do it very well. A lot of stuff across all fields is under-edited.

And I’m seeing more errors in places you’d expect to see decent editing done, such as in journalism. As the big companies have started shedding staffers, mistakes have risen. For example, I saw an article recently in which certain paragraphs had been copied & pasted instead of cut and pasted, resulting in duplicate passages in the published version.

Editors are frequently the first on the block. If any are retained then they are massively over worked. Too many expect spell check to do everything.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I learned how to edit, and I do it very well. A lot of stuff across all fields is under-edited.

And I’m seeing more errors in places you’d expect to see decent editing done, such as in journalism. As the big companies have started shedding staffers, mistakes have risen. For example, I saw an article recently in which certain paragraphs had been copied & pasted instead of cut and pasted, resulting in duplicate passages in the published version.

Yeah, I've seen that in digital journalism more than once.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Has there been an episode of black mirror in which something was given a positive outlook or is it not that type of show?

There have been a few with upbeat endings, but the premise of the show (which is an anthology) is all the ways technology, especially digital technology and related, can screw things up, so its not going to have too many things that don't start with that premise.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Has there been an episode of black mirror in which something was given a positive outlook or is it not that type of show?

There are episodes where the technology isn't inherently the problem, people being terrible are the problem. I'd say the show portrays the technology as an irredeemable problem about two-thirds of the time.

Contrast the debut episode, where there's high-tech blackmail with the episode where someone unknowingly has signed away their likeness rights and not-Netflix creates a whole show about her that ruins her life.

Whether or not someone runs with the technology in the real world seems independent of the episode's argument, though. Black Mirror predicted tying social media clout to real world access to jobs and status, etc., years before China briefly implemented something like that for real, for instance.

 

[billd91]

Ah, good ol' stubbornness. That never gets old.

 

[Thomas Shey]

There are episodes where the technology isn't inherently the problem, people being terrible are the problem. I'd say the show portrays the technology as an irredeemable problem about two-thirds of the time.

Contrast the debut episode, where there's high-tech blackmail with the episode where someone unknowingly has signed away their likeness rights and not-Netflix creates a whole show about her that ruins her life.

Whether or not someone runs with the technology in the real world seems independent of the episode's argument, though. Black Mirror predicted tying social media clout to real world access to jobs and status, etc., years before China briefly implemented something like that for real, for instance.

Ironically, while that overall episode was pretty dark, the ending was, in its way, slightly upbeat.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ironically, while that overall episode was pretty dark, the ending was, in its way, slightly upbeat.

Yeah, Charlie Brooker does seem to believe in the fundamental resilience of human beings, even in dark times.