To me, having a strong opinion means I have thought about the problem space enough to understand what I believe are the important aspects and what optimizes them. Remembering to hold them weakly in the light of previously unconsidered or under appreciated arguments prevents me from becoming overly rigid.
Repelle
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Make it work, then make it work right.
And it’s companion for understanding how things came to be- every complex working system invariably developed from a simple working system
Have strong opinions that are weakly held.
Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”
Now that I think about it, my principles like my life may be all about engineering…
Not at all, I really like Boromir’s story, but that’s why I’m surprised. I feel like his development got a lot of attention, and even though Faramir was around for longer in the story, he never seemed quite as prominent to me. I guess that duration made up for the attention boromir got early on, though.
Sure, that’s why I qualified with “for its intended purpose”. It’s not a great classroom map but it is perhaps the most historically important projection. The problem is this idea of “Mercator bad” has entered public consciousness. For example, the start of this thread mentioned “how not-great the mercator is” without any such qualifications.
https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?si=EJI98A0zZR6zkURc Im sure there were people who felt this way before this episode, but it really exploded in public consciousness afterward.
Yeah, it’s actually a really great map for its purpose of navigation, which is a pretty damn important aspect of map usage. I’m tired of everyone shitting on it because of that scene in west wing.
It was only delayed by the writers strike AFAIK. I would be super disappointed if it was killed, I adore the first two.
Sadly, he appears to be canonically dead by the time of lower decks.
I loved the Ms. Marvel tv show, but the marvels movie wasn’t fantastic. Kamala was still a bright spot there, and actually all the characters worked, but the writing just didn’t do it for me.
America Chavez, too, worked for me as a character but that movie was terrible. I hope Marvel can figure out how to right this ship, as right now the only superhero content I’m looking forward to is spiderverse 3.
Biggest surprise to me is that Faramir has more mentions in the books than Boromir.
I don’t care, as long as it’s Squirrel Girl.