[Dutch]

Dancer's Lament is making me happy.

Just a chapter in yet, but I'm already enjoying myself.

[Mentalist]

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 05:28 PM, said:

Non-Entitled Millenial lays it down for REALLY-entitled Millenial

Reading that made me joyous.

The author said she's turning 30. Aka, she's a 90s kid, not a millenial.

I'm her age (actually, no: a year younger), I'd be insulted if someone called me a "millennial".

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 25 February 2016 - 07:52 PM

[QuickTidal]

 Mentalist, on 25 February 2016 - 07:50 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 05:28 PM, said:

Non-Entitled Millenial lays it down for REALLY-entitled Millenial

Reading that made me joyous.

The author said she's turning 30. Aka, she's a 90s kid, not a millenial.

I'm her age (actually, no: a year younger), I'd be insulted if someone called me a "millennial".

Technically, Millenial definition is usually "born after 1982" Thus, she's a Millenial, and so are you?



Millenial just seems to denote people who reached adulthood around the turn of the century/millenia

For myself, I missed that window by about 5 years and therefore I am a tail end Gen-Xer instead.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 25 February 2016 - 08:13 PM

[Mentalist]

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 08:13 PM, said:

 Mentalist, on 25 February 2016 - 07:50 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 05:28 PM, said:

Non-Entitled Millenial lays it down for REALLY-entitled Millenial

Reading that made me joyous.

The author said she's turning 30. Aka, she's a 90s kid, not a millenial.

I'm her age (actually, no: a year younger), I'd be insulted if someone called me a "millennial".

Technically, Millenial definition is usually "born after 1982" Thus, she's a Millenial, and so are you?



Millenial just seems to denote people who reached adulthood around the turn of the century/millenia

For myself, I missed that window by about 5 years and therefore I am a tail end Gen-Xer instead.

My (probably skewed) perception of the Millenials is those who grew up post-Y2k. They tend to take technology for granted (and lots of other things besides)

80s and 90s kids actually got to see the evolution of high-tech and the explosion of the Information Age, catching the tail-end of the values of a "slower-paced" era.

I was growing up in the 90s on the other side of the Iron curtain (which meant we got culture influences from the West with 2-5 year delay). I came to the West @ 12, at the end of 1999. By then I've formed a lot of fundamental opinions about the world.

[Andorion]

 Mentalist, on 26 February 2016 - 02:45 AM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 08:13 PM, said:

 Mentalist, on 25 February 2016 - 07:50 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 25 February 2016 - 05:28 PM, said:

Non-Entitled Millenial lays it down for REALLY-entitled Millenial

Reading that made me joyous.

The author said she's turning 30. Aka, she's a 90s kid, not a millenial.

I'm her age (actually, no: a year younger), I'd be insulted if someone called me a "millennial".

Technically, Millenial definition is usually "born after 1982" Thus, she's a Millenial, and so are you?



Millenial just seems to denote people who reached adulthood around the turn of the century/millenia

For myself, I missed that window by about 5 years and therefore I am a tail end Gen-Xer instead.

My (probably skewed) perception of the Millenials is those who grew up post-Y2k. They tend to take technology for granted (and lots of other things besides)

80s and 90s kids actually got to see the evolution of high-tech and the explosion of the Information Age, catching the tail-end of the values of a "slower-paced" era.

I was growing up in the 90s on the other side of the Iron curtain (which meant we got culture influences from the West with 2-5 year delay). I came to the West @ 12, at the end of 1999. By then I've formed a lot of fundamental opinions about the world.

This terminology has always confused me. Born in 1989, never been to the West, but heavily influenced by the West. Am I a millennial? Also I don't take things for granted, except waterlogging. You can always count on waterlogging

[worry]

Look, if you liked Ren & Stimpy most you're Gen-X. If you liked Rugrats most, you're a Millennial. If you liked Doug most, you're a 21 Jump Street style narc in your 50s.

[Andorion]

 Dumbledude, on 26 February 2016 - 03:08 AM, said:

Look, if you liked Ren & Stimpy most you're Gen-X. If you liked Rugrats most, you're a Millennial. If you liked Doug most, you're a 21 Jump Street style narc in your 50s.

What is Doug?

[worry]

Definitely something a narc would ask.

[Mentalist]

 Dumbledude, on 26 February 2016 - 03:08 AM, said:

Look, if you liked Ren & Stimpy most you're Gen-X. If you liked Rugrats most, you're a Millennial. If you liked Doug most, you're a 21 Jump Street style narc in your 50s.

I liked the original Transformers and Voltron

they started broadcasting back home "Rugrats" when I was... 10? so didn't watch that much.

[Andorion]

 Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

[Maark Abbott]

Got a release date. Am excite. Stay tuned.

[EmperorMagus]

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

[Mezla PigDog]

 Andorion, on 26 February 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

 Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

Erm no. I was 10 when the www was invented so cyber stuff most certainly did not feature in my childhood viewing. Thundercats was the pinnacle of childrens entertainment in my book.

[Maark Abbott]

 EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Well and good, Jensen, but there's trouble over at one of our factories and I need you to go check it out.

[Mezla PigDog]

Friday. Works out. Best moment of the week or is that waking up on Saturday morning.....?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Two tickets for Springsteen bought for myself and Dad!

[Silencer]

 Mezla PigDog, on 26 February 2016 - 07:58 AM, said:

 Andorion, on 26 February 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

 Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

Erm no. I was 10 when the www was invented so cyber stuff most certainly did not feature in my childhood viewing. Thundercats was the pinnacle of childrens entertainment in my book.

I think a lot of the "Gen whatever" and "millenial" type distinctions are pretty arbitrary these days, and are often Western-/American-centric as it doesn't take into account that some countries (even Western ones) were not exactly at the same rate of adoption of technology as the frontrunners.

Case in point, in NZ even though I was born in the early 90s, I didn't have internet at home until after I was 10, or a mobile phone until I could buy one myself. That isn't true of every 90s NZ kid, of course. But what is true of NZ 90s kids is that Transformers was still on TV, as were things like the Mighty Ducks and Go Bots, and so on.

People just like to draw lines in the sand, and it's really not that practical. What's even less practical, is typecasting people based on when they were born. Doing it by generation perhaps has slightly more merit due to, you know, actual cultural factors, but it's still almost as silly as doing it by birth month or star sign. When you start doing it across countries like the world all moved at the same pace at the points is just...ugh.

[Gredfallan Ale]

 EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Yeah, it's amazing, it truly is.

It makes you wonder where the possibilities end and what we are willing to do.

For now, we're mainly tweaking the input side of things; we are basically hacking the sensory system to do something it doesn't normally do, in this case routing visual information through the tactile system by using a device that "converts" visual information to tactile information. However, on the perceptual side of things, we're stuck with what we've got for now. I wonder if we'll ever be able to extend our cognitive system by adding a totally new perceptual modality, one that is as intertwined and distributed as the others, but is not just a slight modification of a current perceptual system. I can't image what it would be like to experience such a modality, but how do you explain "vision" to someone who has never experienced it or how do you tell someone who's deaf what it's like to listen to Bach's inventions? What's it like to have a dominant perceptual modality for echolocation or magnetism?

Now, "perception" isn't just an isolated process in the brain, a separated box that you might connect or disconnect, but it's actually the result of a large distributed and intertwined network which you can arbitrarily extend to include almost the whole brain, so it won't be as easy as connecting a new modal box to a couple of "connectors" in the brain, but rather a modification that modifies a huge part of the current cognitive system. That means I can't really imagine how it would work, but, hey, I'm no genius and it's fun to philosophize about what it's like to be something you're not (like a bat ), even from a monistic perspective.

[Solidsnape]

Bloody hell, I'd forrgotten all about Doug.
It was shite anyway.
But Thundercats? Now there was a cartoon


No TV and lots of Music make SS a happy chap.
With the exception of my marvel movie collection, which I've waited FAR too long to catch up on, never watched a screen on over 2 weeks.
Awesome.
Also, News?
What's that?
Cypher was right, Ignorance is bliss!!

[Andorion]

 Silencer, on 27 February 2016 - 10:07 AM, said:

 Mezla PigDog, on 26 February 2016 - 07:58 AM, said:

 Andorion, on 26 February 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

 Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

Erm no. I was 10 when the www was invented so cyber stuff most certainly did not feature in my childhood viewing. Thundercats was the pinnacle of childrens entertainment in my book.

I think a lot of the "Gen whatever" and "millenial" type distinctions are pretty arbitrary these days, and are often Western-/American-centric as it doesn't take into account that some countries (even Western ones) were not exactly at the same rate of adoption of technology as the frontrunners.

Case in point, in NZ even though I was born in the early 90s, I didn't have internet at home until after I was 10, or a mobile phone until I could buy one myself. That isn't true of every 90s NZ kid, of course. But what is true of NZ 90s kids is that Transformers was still on TV, as were things like the Mighty Ducks and Go Bots, and so on.

People just like to draw lines in the sand, and it's really not that practical. What's even less practical, is typecasting people based on when they were born. Doing it by generation perhaps has slightly more merit due to, you know, actual cultural factors, but it's still almost as silly as doing it by birth month or star sign. When you start doing it across countries like the world all moved at the same pace at the points is just...ugh.

We got dial up at home in 2005, broadband in 2007. I used my first mobile phone in 2006 and first smart phone in 2013. I don't think tech should be a defining phenomenon, its more of a mentality thing. Like how fast somebody adapts to the internet.