bloodied but unbowed, battered but never broken (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xenoflare) wrote,@ 2009-06-28 10:54:00 |
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upgrade: parallel processors for better fire control, faster lock on and field acquisition.
weapons: twin plasma cannons, twin knuckle shots on front.
stabilizers: fins on arms, legs, heads (all front), elbow and core (left)
engines/ generators: hybrid of rapid response and air strike systems.
chassis/ frame: hybrid for energy/ ballistic resistance.
the center of gravity is heavily tilted towards front and left. inherent bias towards left lol. well, easy to rush in, and then maintain ideal close range, while bursting speed to maintain distance for plasma. boost to left is faster, but turning to right is slightly slower, so keep at optimum distance is important, but not that far too. if come too close, can wait it out and punch.
hmm, damn dueling unit.
field radar: (general target acquisition) writing is privilege of the rich and powerful, dominated by class of elites. writing as Djehuty's gift, that is a mark itself of wealth and sophistication. people who write are themselves part of the modernist project; this postcolonial nightmare.
wait, what is central focus? is this a siege unit, or recon racoon? No, it's a duelist and fast strike craft, so reconfigure.
larger radar scope is to see the missiles coming in so you can dodge them, not so you can RUN into them, boyo.
stance switch: apparent "culturelessness" is actually culture. no sense to essentialize culture as high or mass or folk or pop, back to working definition => culture as process. if the rich and powerful have access to means of resources, they have higher degree of control over culture, back to Rajaratnam's social engineering and historical switcharoo policies.
The cultural elites within this system aspire to a reification of the ang moh standards as being timeless, the standard for all else to aspire to. an abstraction is granted free-standing ontic status.
people write about what they want, about what they fear, etc. Together with the remodelling of people into mobile suits to help mine the ore the state needs, there's some kind of hoppity hoppity hop situation at work. Chua's application of Gramsci to look at the situation, where there's mutual cooperation, even in the forms of apparent resistance.
WAIT. if the state is made up of people who want to become elite, whether it's in civil society or political society, and this general society is built on encouraging elitism - LKY's "slender resources needs to be given to top 2 percent" theory...
some people will always seek to become the elite, and apply their technologies towards transforming their status into the elite. of course, there's different kinds of elite. Via my education, i have to acknowledge that now i am a elite in terms of my acculturation, but i am no Big Shot. Hence, i am not a socially acknowledged elite. (though the auntie who sells nasi lemak is impressed i read so much, lol, that is also a kind of acknowledgement, more ikan bilis, thanks)
ok away away from subjectivity as illustration.
so => rambling long thing is, people who seek to become elites will become some kind of elite, but then they'll always be smaller than some other guy who even lagi zai than them. (correspondence to leet culture? interesting thought but not too useful at this point)
boundaries are drawn in order to create clear, bounded units of ethnicity. "our people do it this way." this guy is the smart guy, that guy the strong guy. classification fever.
clear schematics!
rework!
1, writing is fiercely guarded privilege of the rich. and this rich tends to be consolidated in a few classes/ industries and their ideas are representative of their class/gender/religion biases. Yeah la, and most of them are old men (or young women wishing they were old men). Whether it's professors, teachers, feminists, govt officials, liberal humanists, Catholics, Marxists, or whatever. in that sense, they maintain the cultural hegemony, and the horizon of knowledge that can be easily reached by most people is controlled by them. Likely also to breed resentment, so people feel these ppl are irrelevant to them, and find other elites to emulate.
2, the big problem: in a state where writing/ reading is the ang moh pai's gold card, the oral tradition is gutted with a vibro knife. The "i want to be writer" syndrome. Haha. Writing has such a powerful fetish bound to it. even this one. *pokes* hmm. this reality seems rather stable.
3, english-educated people look at english writings and see that world of writing as za worldo.
4, these english-educated people are either well-placed cultural producers in their fields, or cultural producers in the schema of everyday life. your "normal joe".
5, ideological blindness, because in that way, they see one thing (a particular) as representative of all (the whole)...
6, these games are themselves created by the ang moh pai, either becos they have access to social networks or other capital.
ok go eat la. come back later.
weapons: twin plasma cannons, twin knuckle shots on front.
stabilizers: fins on arms, legs, heads (all front), elbow and core (left)
engines/ generators: hybrid of rapid response and air strike systems.
chassis/ frame: hybrid for energy/ ballistic resistance.
the center of gravity is heavily tilted towards front and left. inherent bias towards left lol. well, easy to rush in, and then maintain ideal close range, while bursting speed to maintain distance for plasma. boost to left is faster, but turning to right is slightly slower, so keep at optimum distance is important, but not that far too. if come too close, can wait it out and punch.
hmm, damn dueling unit.
field radar: (general target acquisition) writing is privilege of the rich and powerful, dominated by class of elites. writing as Djehuty's gift, that is a mark itself of wealth and sophistication. people who write are themselves part of the modernist project; this postcolonial nightmare.
wait, what is central focus? is this a siege unit, or recon racoon? No, it's a duelist and fast strike craft, so reconfigure.
larger radar scope is to see the missiles coming in so you can dodge them, not so you can RUN into them, boyo.
stance switch: apparent "culturelessness" is actually culture. no sense to essentialize culture as high or mass or folk or pop, back to working definition => culture as process. if the rich and powerful have access to means of resources, they have higher degree of control over culture, back to Rajaratnam's social engineering and historical switcharoo policies.
The cultural elites within this system aspire to a reification of the ang moh standards as being timeless, the standard for all else to aspire to. an abstraction is granted free-standing ontic status.
people write about what they want, about what they fear, etc. Together with the remodelling of people into mobile suits to help mine the ore the state needs, there's some kind of hoppity hoppity hop situation at work. Chua's application of Gramsci to look at the situation, where there's mutual cooperation, even in the forms of apparent resistance.
WAIT. if the state is made up of people who want to become elite, whether it's in civil society or political society, and this general society is built on encouraging elitism - LKY's "slender resources needs to be given to top 2 percent" theory...
some people will always seek to become the elite, and apply their technologies towards transforming their status into the elite. of course, there's different kinds of elite. Via my education, i have to acknowledge that now i am a elite in terms of my acculturation, but i am no Big Shot. Hence, i am not a socially acknowledged elite. (though the auntie who sells nasi lemak is impressed i read so much, lol, that is also a kind of acknowledgement, more ikan bilis, thanks)
ok away away from subjectivity as illustration.
so => rambling long thing is, people who seek to become elites will become some kind of elite, but then they'll always be smaller than some other guy who even lagi zai than them. (correspondence to leet culture? interesting thought but not too useful at this point)
boundaries are drawn in order to create clear, bounded units of ethnicity. "our people do it this way." this guy is the smart guy, that guy the strong guy. classification fever.
clear schematics!
rework!
1, writing is fiercely guarded privilege of the rich. and this rich tends to be consolidated in a few classes/ industries and their ideas are representative of their class/gender/religion biases. Yeah la, and most of them are old men (or young women wishing they were old men). Whether it's professors, teachers, feminists, govt officials, liberal humanists, Catholics, Marxists, or whatever. in that sense, they maintain the cultural hegemony, and the horizon of knowledge that can be easily reached by most people is controlled by them. Likely also to breed resentment, so people feel these ppl are irrelevant to them, and find other elites to emulate.
2, the big problem: in a state where writing/ reading is the ang moh pai's gold card, the oral tradition is gutted with a vibro knife. The "i want to be writer" syndrome. Haha. Writing has such a powerful fetish bound to it. even this one. *pokes* hmm. this reality seems rather stable.
3, english-educated people look at english writings and see that world of writing as za worldo.
4, these english-educated people are either well-placed cultural producers in their fields, or cultural producers in the schema of everyday life. your "normal joe".
5, ideological blindness, because in that way, they see one thing (a particular) as representative of all (the whole)...
6, these games are themselves created by the ang moh pai, either becos they have access to social networks or other capital.
ok go eat la. come back later.
