genquerdeer:

erikkillmongerdontpullout:

vague-humanoid:

sevenmoths:

full offense but the increase in cop shows in recent years being concurrent with the more widespread condemnation of the police is not a fucking coincidence

‘Dragnet’ was straight up LAPD propaganda, on national TV for years

Police Dramas on Television – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology

Some history, cop shows exist to make the public like cops.

Remember when I said this and people where mad because I would kiss the ground B99 walked on?

  • Original detective stories of Sherlock Holmes: depict police as stiff and lacking imagination
  • Later developments from early 20th century (Agatha Christie and such): similarly, police is stupid and easily tricked by criminals, and smart amateurs have to save the day
  • around 1930s ‘hardboiled’ and noir fiction: police are every bit and corrupt and detestable as criminals, and sometimes ARE the gangsters. These are almost entirely realistic, as they’re often written from actual experiences of real private detectives
  • 1940s, vigilante detective fiction like Batman and the Shadow: where as always, police is portrayed as at worst corrupt and at best useless, and it’s up to brilliant people in masks to solve crimes
  • 1950s: SUDDENLY with Dragnet, police are all brilliant crimefighter heroes who solve all the crimes, and are Always Lawful Good, and criminals are Always Chaotic Evil
  • onwards: 80-90% of detective fiction is about cops, and usually follows the Dragnet formula (e.g. stuff like CSI)

Thesis: police procedural is a predatory creation that has co-opted the notoriously anti-cop genre of detective fiction, whose primary starting idea was that cops were little more than thugish brutes, unsuited to subtle scientific art of solving crimes, and turned it into shallow propaganda.

Thesis point 2: Scooby Doo are the only unproblematic modern detective stories.

xcaliburmyte:

miyku:

Massive, bug filled game and day 1 patch, broken game play that won’t let people load or even launch once opened even after patching and fixing via various forums and message board user fixes.  a player found and used God mode for a while, too many nukes crashes a server, lack of apparent support, and now… reneging on the ability to refund after the download was already complete and only able to refund if it was a physical product?  Like… just… 

How dare anyone keep giving this terrible and horrible business money.  Why do people just keep getting duped into thinking this time is going to be any better than the last 5 times.  THEY HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME GRAPHICS ENGINE SINCE TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING TWO PEOPLE!  

Bad games, bad practices, unwillingness to let developers internally work with tools that work?  Like… If You went to McDonald’s okay?  and you asked for a Big Mac, right?  and you were told, “that’ll be 49.99 US, please.” and hand them the money, then proceed to tell you.  “It will be 30 minutes before we can get you the burger patties, the buns are in the back, you can’t get lettuce because its bad, but the tomatoes are fresh, the condiments are empty, but you can see about creating your own with these tools from 5 years ago and squeezing the Ketchup from the tomatoes and were out of sugar, so its basically just going to be salsa on your burger if you decide you want to finish that.  Also, the beef is about 10 years old, and stuck to the side of the freezer, so there is that.”