losthighway wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 12:07 pm

jfv wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 8:56 am New vinyl record purchases that don't include a digital download. Dicks.

Yeah, it seems like the labels are starting to cater to a popular transition from cultivating an iTunes library to streaming instead.

Got a nice reissue LP by Helene Smith (Florida soul singer) from Numero recently, and there was no download card. And even though I bought it through their website, there were/are no apparent files to download there either, unless I just can't detect where they are. The LP was about $30 shipped. Very good listen, but some sort of digital files should have accompanied the wax.

According to the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook, one should "italicize titles if the source is self-contained and independent. Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, databases, and websites are italicized."

However, in the poster for Wes Anderson's 2023 movie Asteroid City, he has placed the film's title in quotation marks instead:



I find this deeply upsetting.

Anonymous37 wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:52 pm According to the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook, one should "italicize titles if the source is self-contained and independent. Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, databases, and websites are italicized."

However, in the poster for Wes Anderson's 2023 movie Asteroid City, he has placed the film's title in quotation marks instead:

I find this deeply upsetting.

I guess it is AP style. But fuck Wes Anderson and the overwrought horse he rode in on.

This new Wes Anderson movie seems to be taking the piss.

It's like he saw all those AI images "in the style of Wes Anderson" and said "FUCK THAT, not Wes Anderson enough. I want to make THE most 1960s, teal and salmon, yellowed Kodachrome, perfectly symmetrical tableux... WHAT DO YOU MEAN BILL MURRAY IS SICK? Right, we'll need a stop motion Bill Murray."

zorg wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:54 pm

Anonymous37 wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:52 pm According to the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook, one should "italicize titles if the source is self-contained and independent. Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, databases, and websites are italicized."

However, in the poster for Wes Anderson's 2023 movie Asteroid City, he has placed the film's title in quotation marks instead:

I find this deeply upsetting.

I guess it is AP style. But fuck Wes Anderson and the overwrought horse he rode in on.

Huh, no way.

Okay, I find the AP Stylebook deeply upsetting.

Pfffff MLA is just the K-12 version of APA (my bias: social work uses APA).

ErickC wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:46 pm Pfffff MLA is just the K-12 version of APA (my bias: social work uses APA).

Okay, that's wild. APA style is italicized, but treats the capitalization as if it's a sentence. So it it's more than one word and the later words would not normally be capitalized, you make them lowercase. So Asteroid city.

Yeah, APA is a little weird and ultra-specific about everything, but on the plus side it's very clear and aims to reduce bias to an extent (e.g., no first names so you can't pick and choose the male-authored citations to take seriously). Because it's so clear, I've occasionally used APA style to write documentation for PC simulator add-ons.

My major grievance for today is confirmation dialogs. "OOooooh, ARE YOU SURE you want to do the thing you told me to do?" Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have told you to do it. 99% of the time, confirmation dialogs are annoying and a waste of time, unless you're overwriting a file or doing something that can mess the system up. When I am doing a large amount of small, repetitive tasks in an app, every extra unnecessary mouse click is 100% a waste of energy. Some of you are probably programmers - so fucking stop it already!

cool of this auto shop to tell me they only accept cash after doing a thousand dollar catalytic converter installation (original was stolen)

gonna look badass getting on the bus with a briefcase full of cash handcuffed to me though

Talking about "punching down" is basically a form of ad hominem. It's not a rebuttal, it's just one of the many variants of "shut up, you" which stand in for public debate these days. You can always find an angle that looks like down. It's been so abused as a critique, I'd rather avoid any talk about punching down that doesn't involve Super Mario.