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Re: 10 Best Alternate Justice League Costumes From Flashpoint, Ranked

michaeljpastor — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:14:58 -0000

Element Woman existed long before Flashpoint Do your homework. What's the point of talking about the costumes if you're not going to show pictures of them. You can hardly see any of them in the partial shots.

Re: The X-Men Krakoa Era Never Reached Its Full Potential

michaeljpastor — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 23:24:07 -0000

X-Factor doesn't even get a mention? The ultimate failure of the Krakoa era was the way that they ended it. Why does everything always have to end up a giant cataclysmic kerfuffle?

Re: The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

michaeljpastor — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:50:07 -0000

Then you obviously didn't get it.

Re: Fantasy Robot Fighter - More Manimals for MCC

michaeljpastor — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:44:50 -0000

I noticed that on the megafauna line, you repeat the amphibians instead of listing megafauna

Re: Comments - D&D Executive Producer Kyle Brink Speaks About OGL, One D&D, & More - BoLS

michaeljpastor — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:07:07 -0000

I think that Kyle is very fluent with the word "retcon"

The timeline is too pat. Additionally, why has *nobody* asked at which C-Level (wotc or hasbro) was this molded?

Re: The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

michaeljpastor — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 14:58:40 -0000

Hiero's Journey and its sequel

Re: What is Synchronicity?

michaeljpastor — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:48:30 -0000

Synchronicity without meaning is merely coincidence. One cannot have meaning without consciuosness. Therefore synchronicity is merely a consciuosness observing coincidence. In your interviews you keep talking about all of the coincidences that never happen, which is inherently contradictory. If two things didn't happen simultaneously, then they didn't coincide, and therefore there is nothing to observe to which to give meaning.

You kept talking about the complete randomness of the universe which is also a false concept, because the universe has rules, which are predictive, and regular, and create patterns which repeat, if not rhyme. So coincidences happen all of the time. Whether we observe and notice them is another matter entirely, as we have finite perception and attention (two different things), so we cannot assign meaning to things we aren't noticing. Frequently it takes others to point out the synchronicity in our lives.

Re: Typing about Type: Archetypeture: Beebe's psychological model structure: Part One (draft)

michaeljpastor — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:42:12 -0000

To the Ego, the seat of consciousness, it feels negative. But the Ego isn't the Self.

Yes, I emphasized the 'bad' part of negative and unconscious a bit much. I attempted to rectify that a little bit with the later descriptors. I'll add some other descriptors later.

Negative isn't completely synonymous with bad - but it's correlative. -5 and +5 have the same absolute value |5| and in a bipolar system. "If you aren't with us, you're against us."

The unconscious can't be the objective psyche if it's primarily anchored through Introversion - introverted is subjective and extraverted is objective. I have a post on InternetPsyche that describes the differences as done by Alan Hoch. I highly recommend it. The "collective unconscious" is objective however, as it's a shared communal unconscious.

Rational/Judging and Irrational/Perceiving are synonymous. The MBTI J/P types are only indicating the Je and Pe types. Every trainer worth one's salt I know states that I__P and I__J are "closet Js" and "closest Ps" respectively.

Re: Typing about Type: How Many Types Are There?

michaeljpastor — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:20:08 -0000

Thanks so much for your very thoughtful reply, Andi. I have a longer response on which I am working, but have a quick question: do you have a reference for the works of Jolande Jacobi (hopefully online) that one could reference?

Re: Google Is Trying to Beat JPEG & PNG Images with WebP

michaeljpastor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:14:54 -0000

Is there an xml layer in this format that will allow for tagging a picture, allowing the tag to carry over wherever it goes (and allow it to be edited)?

Re: Facebook Hasn't Ruined Sharing, It's Just Re-Defined It

michaeljpastor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:58:32 -0000

Yet again, Facebook violates my privacy, doesn't provide an opt-in feature and clogs up my feed with meaningless drivel.

Re: All Google Chat Now Uses Google+ Circles

michaeljpastor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:29:46 -0000

Now if they'd only 'port over the groups/tags I have in my Gmail contacts as Circles, my life will be complete. Having to re-tag my contacts on yet another network is really really annoying, especially since it's essentially the same service. They're not alone - http://bit.ly/rAo0Zf

Re: The Myers-Briggs Alternative for Small Business

michaeljpastor — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:08:44 -0000

Ugh. I've never seen so many poor suggestions for the use of psychometrics in the workplace in one article.

1) The MBTI should never be used as an employment pre-screener; it's unethical.
2) Psychometrics results should never be forcibly shared - that's also unethical, not to mention a sure-fire way to instill distrust from the very beginning.
3) Psychometrics should never be used to staff an ad hoc group either. It's just as bad as using it as an employment pre-screener.

Re: Amplify and Four Views

michaeljpastor — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:34:14 -0000

I wouldn't mind if he used the above diagram as a clickable interface to easily navigate between the views ;-)

Re: It's Time to Stand for Something Better (Again)

michaeljpastor — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:46:36 -0000

The reciprocity of transparency is the other half of the equation that Fuckerberg is missing from what I think is his warped lessons from the Transparent Society. If the watchers of the watchmen can't be watched too, they're just as bad.

Re: Can a “Head of Social” help Google fend off Facebook?

michaeljpastor — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:52:44 -0000

I blogged about the same topic, and had similar views as you, but used Jungian terminology to describe their lack of empathy. Basically, they're geeks, with no social skills, because they lack Feeling and reinforce Thinking to a fault: http://internetpsyche.blogs...

Re: Is Twitter Over?

michaeljpastor — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:32:22 -0000

From what I'm seeing on your site, you're the ones doing the parsing, sorting, separating, etc

I just want the tools to do it myself..

Re: Is Twitter Over?

michaeljpastor — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:37:53 -0000

Both Facebook and Twitter suffer from the same problems. The inability to sort, separate, segregate, mitigate the "volume" and contextualize the conversation. While Jung's theory of psychological type was dichotomous in nature (you're either being introverted or extraverted at any given moment), once you have more than one person involved, it becomes much more gradient and granular. My buddy lists on both services are completely public (extraverted), everyone on them can see each other (extraverted) and you're given an either/or in regards to "everything you do is public" or "everything you do is private" when real life isn't that black and white. I don't necessarily even need to tweet/update to *everyone* on my buddy lists either. There are quite a few things on Facebook inappropriate for my niece to see, or things you don't want your mom to see. But as long as we depend on these hosted/server-based systems, we're stuck with what social tools they design.

Re: Microblogging vs. Blogging: 5 Ways to Create an Open Twitter Alternative

michaeljpastor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:49:49 -0000

Sounds to me like you're describing IM and an XMPP + RSS feed. Didn't realize we needed a special service for something like that.

Re: Business Networking Service Viadeo Adds 5 Open Social Apps

michaeljpastor — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:40:54 -0000

The phrase is "neck and neck" not "neck in neck" by the way

Re: Privacy Reset for Google Buzz Coming Later Today

michaeljpastor — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:45:22 -0000

If only the privacy faux pas were the only fault of the Buzz rollout. It should have never been foisted onto the users' email without permission to begin with (it's not email, get it off). Google has repeatedly done things like this, and it seems that most social networking sites just don't seem to understand that private is the DEFAULT setting for any new feature and that everything on the web should be opt-in.

Re: Open Thread: Where Do You Go When Twitter Goes Down?

michaeljpastor — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:09:31 -0000

Twitter's (repeated) failures show the underlying fundamental flaw with the service itself - person-to-person communications through a central server can never be depended on. Twitter is basically a bastard hybrid between IM and chat rooms, and as long as it is channeled through one point, it is subject to bottlenecks. Asynchronous IM is best handled through a federated service plan, which would allow for p2p communications with little chance of complete failure.

Re: Cracking Facebook's Dominance: New Cross-Network Commenting Protocol Could Be a Game Changer

michaeljpastor — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:14:56 -0000

There's a mistaken idea in the world of Web 2.0 that social networks have to be these public, objective and hosted things. We've always had social networks since we've had email and IM - address books and buddy lists. That's all you need. Whatever happened to just using XMPP for all of this stuff?

Re: Open Thread: Are You Still Using Google Buzz?

michaeljpastor — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:56:05 -0000

Google is damn lucky I am still using Google after they pulled that ill-considered stunt. After attempting to use Google Wave, and then having Buzz come out of NOWHERE, and given their previous presumptions with iGoogle, Google has proven to me that they no longer "get it." The denizens of Land of Geek have shot themselves in the collective foot because they do not seem to understand that to create social software, one must have a clue how to be SOCIAL. Launching something and interfering with one's (perceived) intimate desktop is RUDE. But not surprising given that Google rewards anti-social behavior, intentionally recruits anti-social researchers and intentionally thumbs their noses at social niceties as unVulcan distractions. You must be social to create social!

Re: T.A.P. Q#339 – Unethical or Illegal for Hiring Manager to Give Certain Tests?

michaeljpastor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:41:17 -0000

It is unethical to use the MBTI in the hiring process, period. If it is the MBTI (and not something *similar* to the MBTI), then he is abusing it.