#also the idea of the popular guy being best friends with an unpopular nerd and genuinely admiring him for his knowledgeand being so sweet

[lyxchen]

Oh I absolutely Love the idea of popular in school Gi-hun. Him just being so energetic and kind and charismatic and everybody just has to love him because he's just genuinely like that <33

[bi4pan-polls]

I would like to present, for your consideration, Stephanie Lauter and Peter Spankoffski from Hatchetfield.

Steph has been confirmed to be canonically pan by her actress, Pete has huge bi vibes (and is sorta implied to be transmasc?)

Hatchetfield is a horror anthology series. So far there are three musicals and eight episodes of a webshow, and everything but the most recent musical is currently available for free on YouTube. Steph and Pete have two major appearances.

The first is in the web episode Abstinence Camp, a Friday the 13th spoof. At the start of the episode, they're both forced to attend a Christian summer camp, an idea that they hate bond over. They've got a bit of banter and hit it off well. Highlights include Steph giving him contraband chocolate bars when the counselors don't care about his lowering blood sugar, Pete agreeing she got the short end of the stick in her situation, and the both of them being generally pretty snarky together.

There's a scene where Steph decides to test the camp's rules (and get some privacy) by showering in the boys' washroom. Pete is the only one there, and his first instinct is to do the respectful thing and let her be in there alone, only staying to finish cleaning when she insists it's okay if he's in there. (They have more banter, she finds out just how hot he is when you actually get a good look at him. He's described as jacked in this scene, but due to a recast, this is most certainly retconned. Still a cute moment between them). It culminates in them deciding to test the ghost story running around the camp that doing anything remotely sexy will get you killed by a spirit living in the woods, but are caught before anything can happen. Between getting into trouble and the audience knowing that there have already been other deaths, it's for the best that Steph plans to make an escape. What's sweet, though, is that she makes a point to get Pete to come too.

Throughout the whole climax of the story they both actively try to protect each other. Pete yells at the Axe-Man to leave Steph alone, she shields him from harm when he accidentally breaks his leg. By the end of the story they're both still alive, and are actively aware they're the only ones who know just how fucked up the camp is. It's implied they keep protecting each other that whole summer.

(If there are any Hatchetfans reading this and you haven't seen NPMD yet, here is your spoiler warning.)

Their most recent appearance is in the newest Musical, Nerdy Prudes Must Die. NPMD is also a slasher spoof, but with a twist: the nerds are in danger and the rebellios and popular "bad kids" are on the killer's good side.

The whole show happens because in this timeline, Steph and Pete meet when she asks to cheat off of his bio test.

Two things to note about that. 1. Despite Steph being the most popular girl and Pete being one of the most unpopular kids in all of Hatchetfield High, she already knows his name. 2. It does not take much convincing for him to agree. They get caught, and are sent to detention. Pete freaks out, not because he got in trouble, but because now he's in with a popular girl (the mayor's daughter, no less) and it's going to get him unwanted attention from the kids that pick on him. They have more banter, like in AC, to the point Pete doesn't know how well it's going until Steph says that he's funny and admits she likes funny guys. This sticks with Pete enough he decides to wear nicer clothes and crack jokes more often, even when just with his friends. They even ask if he's trying to impress someone.

Steph calls him. From a payphone.

For someone who never gave Pete a second thought before, she sure did already know is name AND number. Are we sure you didn't already have an eye on him, Steph?

She asks him to give a proper study session, and he agrees, in part due to his friends telling him that sparks were flying. He ends up singing a whole song about wondering if he's really cool enough to hang out with her.

Pete ends up getting beat up by his biggest bully (Max Jagerman) on the way, and when Steph finds out, she gets VERY righteous. She says she's not going to let Pete put up with bullying anymore and offers to step in (even though Pete doesn't think it will do much). Before they really have a chance to do anything, another student (Grace Chasity) offers up her own revenge plan that inadvertently ends up killing Max. Max ends up coming back as a ghost with a grudge against nerds, since everyone that was there when he died (besides Steph) was an unpopular nerd.

They share a lot of banter up until the first death, when things become more serious by necessity. Still, they both do a pretty bad job of covering up their crushes, and end up having a duet arguing over who has the bigger crush and why a relationship would never work between them the way things are right now (note: Pete says he felt almost seduced by her, Steph admits she's into smart guys and knows he's an intellectual type).

As the show goes on, Steph is actively protecting him like in AC, encouraging him to stay behind her in case something happens.

Steph, Pete, and Grace end up being the last three survivors of the main cast, and strike a deal with beings called The Lords in Black. The Lords will take Max to the afterlife for good if one of the teens gives up what they cherish most. Pete and Steph have a crisis, because now they have to admit to each other that okay maybe they are sorta in love, and have to decide who will die for the other. Pete insists that he do something worthwhile for once and save everybody by being the sacrifice. And Steph, despite her heartbreak, agrees.

LUCKILY Grace prevents that by saving the day in the funniest way possible. Too amazing to spoil (and also because I've barely gone into her subplot this whole time). But Steph and Pete make it out together. And they're grateful for it. And they even get to go to homecoming together.

By then end, they've decided they can make it work and have a song about being able to bring out the best in each other. (Special shoutout to the lyrics "I’m the best of you / And you’re the best of me / And together we are free / To run around" and "Its like you knew me / Before you knew me / Its like you saw me / Before you saw me")

(Hatchetfans, spoilers end here)

In conclusion, stan Lautski

(sorry for putting a whole essay in your inbox, op)

Was given permission to post this*

They seem. So hecking cool honesty love this for them I will also encourage other people to submit them

Propaganda for Stephanie Lauter and Peter Spankoffski from Hatchetfield.

[nicnight9]

An Endless Summer Character Profiles: Diego Soto!

📼 Diego has always been completely upset with his own lack of fame and popularity. Sure, he still loves Diana, but he always dreamt of big adventures and heroism. 📼 For that same reason, he becomes absolutely enamored with the idea of traveling to La Huerta, viewing this as his own opportunity of living the life always sees in movies. 📼 Diego is a tad insecure, and even a bit of an coward - as he is used to being a viewer in most situations in life, not an active participant. 📼He's extremely loyal to his friends and shares the same curiosity Diana does, usually using this to discover everyone's gossip, just for the sake of this.

📼Like everyone on the island, Diego also has a secret. Why is he so obssessed with the idea of being famous and surrounded by popular people? Why is he so uninterested in his own life, choosing to spend his days daydreaming about others? Those are things he won't tell a soul. Not even his best friend.

Basic Data

21 years old Born in 03/12/1999, in Riverside Junior at Hartfeld, Literature Major Uses he/him pronouns Identifies as gay

Loves: fantasy books, daydreams, gossip

Hates: unpopularity, bad film adaptations, being alone

Fun Data

Is a Pisces His MBTI is INFP (aka The Mediator) His Hogwarts House would be Hufflepuff, and his Godly Parent would be Hermes.

Favorite Things

Movie: Rogue One TV Show: Friends Food: Pepperoni Pizza Drink: Sex On The Beach Hoobie: Watching arguably bad films Friend: Diana <3

Fun Facts

📼His favorite Batman is the Christian Bale one; 📼He's the first of his family to actually go to college, and has four older siblings.

Moodboard

Some inspiration pictures, characters i relate her to and just overall vibe from the character! Check the moodboard over here!

Diego's Fashion

Whilst Diana takes a lot of inspo from the 70s, Diego is more of an 80s and 90s. Also, i always view him wearing more colorful clothing than the vast majority of the La Huerta guys, just for the funsies. I don't think his clothes would be too old or too expensive, but they surely be filled with references or mini jokes.

Inspo here!

Diego's Playlist

Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny

Cool Kids - Echosmith

Foolish One - Taylor Swift

Heather - Conan Grey

If We Have Each Other - Alec Benjamin

jealousy, jealousy - Olivia Rodrigo

A Sociedade dos Nerds Psicóticos - kamaitachi

stacy's brother - Mad Tsai

You're On Your Own, Kid - Taylor Swift

YOUTH - Troye Sivan

link for playlist here!

"I finally got a nickname and it's just Pop Culture Nerd? Everyone got a cooler one!"

[soopysoap]

Uh, I read your post about having an 80's au for the foreigen kids. And since I'm a Foreigen kids stan, can you tell me more about it?

HI. ANON? ILY.

They're really just random n messy ideas and i forget how many there are but i'm throwing them all here

so the whole thing takes place in highschool and mainly surrounds the cockswolds cotswolds (mainly mark but rebecca is usually there too)

most of them are seniors, rebecca's a junior

mark is an unpopular nerd, therefore the main character because it's the 80s. so is rebecca but she's not the main character

uhh everyone else is kinda just there

like there are no side characters all the foreign kids are kinda equal focus- wise but the main one is mark i guess

like the leader of their group idk idk

estella is the stereotypical rich popular girl, but she's also a closeted lesbian they're all closeted tbh so she's trying to hide that from her mom. Her mom, instead of being all 'Blah blah blah brrak hearts to fuel my life' or something she's just obsessed with status and how popular Estella is. She's always pleased when Estella has a boyfriend, but it's not often. Basically Estella is more smiley and happy than she usually is, but she's stil usually indifferent. Smiles either when she's genuinely happy or wants something. Most of the time she's deadpan or rolling her eyes

Gaydamien is the rich popular jock, his ego is huge. His dad (since he cant be the son of satan in this one) is the principal of their school. He usually gets what he wants, no matter what. Instead of "You dare [insert something here] to the Prince of Hell????" its that but with "Damien Thorn???" yknow because of his last name. He's been dating Estella to boost his ego, mainly. Doesn't realize he likes guys yet. Estella and Damien hate each other, but everyone believes they're dating because they're too scared to say otherwise. They complain about each other to each other AND to people in private.

Pip is just- he's less of a nerd but more of a kid that's just. There. He isn't nerdy but he definitely isn't popular. At all. He's just a pushover man idk what to tell you. He's usually being bullied. He has a huge crush on Damien, because he got him out of trouble with some other jock like. Once. Always gets giggly around him, it's funny to watch. Also very passive aggressive @ Estella because she's dating him. They have very few classes together, but whenever they do he's always like "hey :) so hows damien" and she responds with "why would i know" and he's like "because??? youre dating him???" and she looks really confused for a second and then is like "OH- Oh yeah okay uh. I don't know. So." and then she starts complaining about him or something and pip is all ":) why not just break up?"

Pip also hates Christophe

Which, speaking of, Christophe is also an annoying egotistical jock who plays football with Damien. Damien and Christophe are best friends. Christophe and Gregory are dating in secret

Gregory is the stereotypical gay kid. No other way to put this. If Ryan Evans from High School Musical had a superiority complex. He's a theatre kid, and takes pride in tha- OH MY GOD. Rachel??? Maybe he's Rachel Berry from Glee??? it would kind of work idk,, ok uh anyway yeah he's always bullied for being openly gay and it sucks but he took defense classes in Yardale (yes he's still a transfer from Yardale, yes he constantly mentions it) so he's able to hold his own. But Christophe usually steps in to get Gregory out of there and tend to his wounds.

Rebeccaaaaaa she's the unpopular girl, just started school and doesnt know shit about it after being homeschooled almost her whole life. Has a little crush on Estella, but Estella "Doesn't" notice her. (Estella just thinks of her as some pretty girl who isnt worth her time) Rebecca usually keeps to herself, is usually gossiped about. Estella never gets involved, but whenever she'd get asked about it, instead of defending Rebecca she just says "I hardly believe any of the rumors. She was homeschooled, not taught in witchcraft or satanisim. Or whatever else everyone's saying. Everyone should really calm themselves, if they were so worried about what people thought of them when Rebecca started going here then they should get that in order first before ruining Rebecca's social life. God. You all have to grow up." So, not necessarily a defense but also not an insult. Rebecca still finds it sweet.

Mark is a neerrrrrrd 80s main character. Minus the popular love interest and yearning 😩 And also if the main character had a god/superiority complex.. he's bullied the most other than Gregory, mostly by Damien n Christophe. Girls don't like him, guys don't like him, he really only had Pip and Rebecca for a while. Pip because he's overly nice to almost everyone and wanted to befriend Mark immediately. Usually during lunch Mark sits with Pip and Rebecca. Mark has to hear about Damien all the time from Pip though, so that's annoying.

Uh I know that Pocket is TECHNICALLY a foreign kid but idk shit about him and dont really think about him but he's Estella's cousin and often hangs out with her since he doesn't really have a friend group. He's also really good friends with Pip. BUT since this is a horror au he dies off early

After theyre all friends some stuff happens yada yada yada Gaymien realizes he's pan and has a crush on Pip, Estella takes Rebecca out for a makeover , Christophe gets severely injured because this is a horror au as well, Damien and Pip make out at some point-

Estella and Rebecca both know that theyre Lesbians but they refuse to admit that they like each other

Kinda thinking of this as if it was stranger things or something so i definitely want there to be like... a series of bad events. everyone thinks everythings cool and fine and whatever and there are moments where our group kinda just get to chill n' be kids. idk i just want there to be a falling out in the group and then they all realize they need each other or something dumb like that

also for some fun chill moments we can have estella and rebecca walking around holding hands and laughing n' stuff bc they love each other idk idk

and after the falling out when they all join together again estella is the first to see some scary stuff but she was also the first to drop everyone except damien and christophe (because of her mother) and so she blames herself and doesnt think she can go to them and just has to deal with it on her own

eventually she tells damien who immediately tells pip who immediately wants to get the group together again

everyone's (the cockswolds) are reluctant to hang out again because of the way they were just forgotten so easily, but they go anyway. because of the horror stuff. they both are pissed at estella though

at some point estella gets badly hurt and rebecca saves her and starts nursing her back to health

estella: why are you... why are you doing this. dont you hate me?

rebecca: i'm doing it because i actually care for you, idiot.

estella: i care for you i just... couldnt...

rebecca: what? spend time with a lowlife like me?

estella: you know thats not what i meant-

they go on like that for a little while longer until they wind up confessing to each other "Because I love you! Is that so fucking hard to believe?!" Would be rebecca's and Estella's would probably be "I don't hate you! You're my favorite person, and I hated having to stop hanging out with you! I love you, okay?!" it would be :) fun

damien and estella come out to each other first. well- damien doesnt really come out he just tells her how confused he is and they hug it out and estella tells him she's a lesbian and they both talk a little while longer and decide that breaking up would be the best idea

thats all i've really figured out for sure,, i have some more ideas but this is. a lot already so. i'm just gonna stop before i write too much 👉👉 anyway, anon ily ty for this. also sidenote: the horror stuff has to do with weird sacrificial cults. i know i have nothing for that and really only talked about how everything starts and drama instead of the interesting stuff but 🥴 i have no defense i just love my kids ok drama is fun

[so-chaos-killed-the-dinosaurs]

this is a dumb question, but what exactly is the "point" of the characters (particularly the Heathers, i'm assuming) that the new TV show is fucking up with their redesigns. i just wanna make sure i understand the issues here.

Ok the Heather’s are suppose to be the “popular girls”. They are the people who have the characteristics of what society considers to be beauty and they mock anyone who doesn’t met those standards.

Being skinny and making fun of people who aren’t. Caring more about their status standing than their grades, making fun of people for being geeks or nerd. Mocking people for not meeting what is considered the norm in society, aka being along the LGBT spectrum. (I mean damn JD and Veronica staged Ram and Kurt’s deaths as them dying because they where gay. And expecting them to be the mockery of the school. So making fun of people for being gay and the like.) Wearing clothes that are considered in at the time and that highlight their gender. Aka anything the Heathers wear which was all considered in at the time and stylish.

Heck the colors where a power symbol recognized by them. The queen of the school wore red. Both Chandler and Duke established this in the movie.

And then the first promo pics lacks the signature colors and shows them in weird clothes that would have gotten them weird looks and mocked at my school. The first promo pic is suppose to be thought over carefully. This is the first real image people are getting of your product. This is the hook that should help spark a person’s interest in your product. Get them thinking and hopefully interested in what you are making. And if the first image alone is already putting off a good portion of the fandom. Then you know you have an issue.

They only care (especially Chandler) about holding their social status. Veronica herself has said that she’s using her High IQ to pick out lip gloss and trying to figure out how many kegers she can hit before curfew.

Chandler gets pissed at Veronica for not holding up to the standard she expected for her at the party. (Sleeping with a guy she just met). Chandler certainty would never let herself be fat because it would go against her standards.

They are suppose to be a symbol of what society considers beautiful. And yes they are doing a modern version. But what sparks JD’s hatred for them. Is that he observes them (the Heathers, Kurt and Ram) mocking people for being different. He has seen this all before. Every school he goes to he sees it again and again. A never ending chain of bullying. He watched the Heathers make a mockery of Martha in the cafeteria. Making fun of the fat kid. (Now the show has a SKINNY Martha.) He watches Ram and Kurt chase down those nerdy boys and says stuff like “you piece of shit fag” and trying to get the kid to say “I like to suck big dicks”. Being gay wasn’t a good or popular thing. It lead to you getting bullied.

And yeah times now are a bit more accepting. But I went to a big school. I knew a lot of the LGBT kids because I was friends with a lot of them. I ran in circles that had a lot of them. (Anime Club, Art and Theater related things, Even Band.) I knew the spots where you could go after school and find a group of kids and a majority of them would fall into the LGBT spectrum. None of them where along the popular side at my school. Knowing my school they never would be.

By having the Heathers fall into the very groups they are suppose to mock. It goes against their characters. You can’t have an openly gender-fluid person or Lesbian mock other LGBT people. Yes not all LGBT people are nice. I’ve met plenty of assholes who are LGBT. But being LGBT and being the top dog at school and mocking other LGBT people at school. That doesn’t fit. A LGBT person couldn’t come up to me and make fun of me for being a girl who gets crushes on others girls. Because I’d just be like “so what you’re a guy that’s into guys. Or so what so are you. Etc.” It doesn’t have the same sting it does when coming from a non LGBT person.

A well known girl at my school was obese. But if she came up to me and made fun of my weight it wouldn’t work because she was heavier than me. Her insults could be fired right back at her. Now if a person in extremely good shape where to mock my size then that would hurt.

On top of that having all three of the Heathers fall into a minority but none of the other main characters. That also just seems wrong and like they are baiting people for brownie points.

Here are some changes to make the characters more diverse that would have worked.

•Making JD or Martha a race other than Caucasian. My favorite version of JD is Dan’s. Dan isn’t Caucasian. Yes I love Slater and Ryan. But image wise and art wise I love it when people base their JD around Dan. Also making them another race wouldn’t hurt their characters at all.

•Making Martha Bi or Pan. Martha’s crush is apart of the story and how she gets mocked so she still has to be into guys. But that doesn’t mean she couldn’t be Bi or Pan.

•Making JD along the Ace/Aro spectrum. I personally headcanon JD as Demisexual Hetroromantic. JD doesn’t seem like the type of character to honestly be that all into sex. Yes he had sex with Veronica. But I wouldn’t see it as interfering with the point of his character if he only had an interest in people after having a connection. I don’t think JD would just sleep with any girl. That he would have to have a general interest and connection with them. And yes typically Demisexual people (in my experience) need a longer time frame. But part of Heathers… well insane story is that it happens so fast.

•Making Veronica Bi. it wouldn’t mess with her character purpose and could give them that diverse cast they are looking for.

•Not making Martha skinny.

Now I wouldn’t want them to make all three of them minorities. As I feel likeIt might give the baiting feel it has with the Heathers. But if they did like 1 Heather & 2 of the others. Or 2 Heathers and 1 of the others. And making it seem like only minorities are mocked and non-minorities can’t be mocked doesn’t sit right with me. And I feel that’s how it would come off is all the bully’s werent minorities while the bullied kids were. As I know it isn’t true and I’ve watched people who fall into minorities categories make fun of people who don’t.

Idk three just feels like a good number.

And by 1 or two of the Heathers I mean their race. As I don’t think them not being Caucasian in a modern heathers would be much of a problem. In all productions of the musical I have seen at least one of the Heathers. (Usually Duke) isn’t caucasian. So having one of the Heathers a different race wouldn’t be an issue.

Oh and here is an idea. They go to a freaking school. You have cast characters you could use to get that diverse character cast you are looking for without messing with a character’s role. You want an LGBT character, I’ve said this before, but try having a girl have a thing for one of the Heathers. Like they did in the musical. Show her confessing to one of the Heathers. Then show how they treat her. Show them making fun of her or treating her poorly. Show me these asshole Heathers that are suppose to be an example of what is wrong with society. Show me Bi Veronica and them learning she is and Chandler pushing her to hide that side of her. That would be in character.

Show them making fun of a trans kid and that being part of that fuels JD to kill them. Because that would fit.

Show the negative consequences of what the Heathers do. Show how it effects people. When the show ends show Veronica trying to make things better. Show her approaching some of those kids and working with them.

Also for a racially diverse cast try having kids who aren’t just Chinese, Japanese or black. Try having Cuban characters or Native American or Polynesian or Puerto Rican, Indian, etc. Branch out to other races. Because while black and Asian may be two of the other top races after white in America, they aren’t the only ones.

I’m doing this on mobile. So sorry if it is long or runs together weird. I’m not always the best at wording this. @power-of-innocence tends to do a better job than me.

Edit: I would like to add that the reason the LGBT kids of my HS would never be popular wasn’t like due to my high school being really homophobic. (One of the most beloved seniors when I was a sophomore was an open lesbian.) But mostly due to the sheer size of my school. We had between 3,000 and 4,000 students each year. And 6 different lunch periods. (Technical 3 but for the 9th and 10th graders it was 6) It was impossible to fit the whole school in the cafeteria or gym. We didn’t really have popular kids. The closest you would get to it is kids whose names were well known. Like people really active with school related stuff. Like being apart of the student council or on the Cheerleading squad. (I actually knew many of those girls and they were all really nice.) Also having known those kids they weren’t the type of kids to ever be popular due to their personalities. They a lot where into unpopular subjects and/or also feel into the emo/goth categories. So a lot of them wouldn’t have been popular due to that. But even then the popular kids at my school weren’t mean. Most of them where popular because they where really nice and a lot of people just naturally liked them. Sorry just wanted to add that.Edit: At the time I made this every time I heard Martha mentioned people were saying that they were making her skinny, this maybe incorrect but I’m still not 100% sure. It’s still a horrible show regardless though. Just wanted to correct that.

[mirika]

Now it's my turn mwehehehe: Laslow, Niles, Camilla, Sakura and Leo?

The only downside to some of these is that you had already told me so much about them, that I could not create a true first impression.

This took ages.

First impression:

Laslow: I did not notice his existence at all in Birthright to be fair. I might have even killed him off while he is one of the four deaths that you can spare (sometimes this haunts me). When I started playing Conquest, I had the words of my former classmate in my head (”you’re going to like Laslow probably” and me thinking “you don’t know my taste in men!” and well here we are), so my first impression got blended in with a feeling of “well I do seem to be rather fond of this one” but it was merely attachment at that point.

Niles: I already knew he was a pervert cause of you, and honestly that was something that just ended up being confirmed. I couldn’t shape my own first impression.

Camilla: I’m going to have to dig in my memory, but I had not much of an opinion of her other than “okay she is behaving a little creepy towards Corrin” and it doesn’t help I played male Corrin most of the time.

Sakura: I was annoyed with her stuttering because I thought Fire Emblem pulled a “shy girl that stutters” anime trope. I know better now, but that was my first impression.

Leo: Of him too I could not form a true first impression, sadly.

Impression now:

Laslow: In the end my former classmate was right and I ended up liking the guy. Uh. A little too much, perhaps. I will always wonder how my former classmate knew as he is nothing like the other fictional character he knows I’m into. Xander may give him a lot of shit for flirting, but knowing his background as to why he flirts so much with other women, and especially with his attitude of “you never know when you see someone for the last time,” he’s simply a precious human being trying to get to know his fellow people. Over a cup of tea, if possible.

Niles: He’s still a perv, but he’s also hilarious. Not an Odin-kind of hilarious, but hilarious nonetheless. Also, he does the random meow thing like me, so I send love to this guy. Not too much love though, don’t want to give him wrong ideas.

Camilla: Strong fierce woman, do not mess with her! I still find her a bit creepy when you play male Corrin though. I don’t feel like they translated that very well. I am rather fond of her though.

Sakura: Protect her! PROTECT HER! I became rather fond of Sakura. She’s adorable.

Leo: Well… he’s… he’s a grumpy book nerd, what can I say? I did not name him Ugh Boy for nothing. I actually don’t have a strong impression of Leo, I feel like he fell a bit into the background for me.

Favourite moment:

Laslow: Gee. A favourite moment. It’s a bit rough with non-royals as light isn’t shone upon them as much (is shone proper English?). I mean, obviously I like any interaction of his with Corrin, especially when he gets serious for a moment, but uh… I cannot think of any moment other than specific supports, like the support between Laslow and Mozu.

Niles: Remember when Niles said meow? Good times. No, I actually really enjoyed the Felicia and Niles support (mostly C and B when Niles is messing around). I just love Felicia’s obliviousness towards Niles’ innuendos.

Camilla: Her fight over Corrin with Jakob, whenever Camilla threatens others showing that you can’t mess with her, her support with Elise where she tells Elise need not be like her.

Sakura: I can currently only think of her support with Kaden and Elise.

Leo: Honestly his cut scene is pretty darn cool.

Idea for a story:

Laslow: Honestly, I’m going to fall back on a headcanon post I once made. Laslow being drunk allowing Odin to mess with him as payback from the times Laslow has been reading Odin’s book as I believe Laslow would be the kind of guy to spill the beans on whatever when he’s drunk.

Niles: Niles and his daughter Nina being thieving outlaws, but for the greater good like Robin Hood, helping the poor and all that.

Camilla: I would love to see a story in which Camilla would have to be in a more realistic medieval situation where she has to be ladylike in a clean and virtuous way, especially as a royal, even though we all know that’s not who she is. Of course this story would lead to her desire to protect her family as a warrior of sorts.

Sakura: A story in (short) movie format of Elise and her having a tea party with stuffed animals would be adorable even though they are likely to be too old for that. Let the princesses be their younger selves.

Leo: Can we have a story in which Leo falls hopelessly in love with a book character? A quest to somehow turn this fictional character into something real. I’m sure Odin’s got some supportive ideas.

Unpopular opinion:

Laslow: Oh boy. Well, I hate Xanlow and I dislike Peri and Laslow as well, but these appear to be two of the biggest ships. I actually like Elise and Laslow, I feel that this isn’t very popular, but maybe that’s because of Elise’s age; I headcanon their relationship as innocent and pure so I guess it’s just the point of view I have. Also, I hate the very idea of Laslow in female dancer clothes because I hate how Laslow is always turned into ‘the feminine one’ in whatever gay ship they like to imagine as if gay relationships consist of ‘the masculine one’ and ‘the feminine one’, just let the characters be who they are without ‘straightening’ gay relationships. Sorry, we hit the pet peeve area as that is something that bothers me in general.

Niles: I do not think there are any unpopular opinions to be created about Niles. I think everyone loves Niles. I do am pooped he’s the only character you can have a gay relationship with, but I think everyone agrees with that.

Camilla: I don’t mind her oversexualized clothing like you said in your answer too, especially because her gear is still convincing of that it is heavy armour that is capable of protecting her. Besides, boobs are a weapon too. Do not underestimate medieval times and the ability to distract men with boobs in combat. Do not underestimate boobs. In all honesty though, I really do not mind armour showing skin so long it still looks like the armour is protecting them. That’s character design for ya. Of course it’s a typical anime trope and therefore many dislike it, but it works for Camilla.

Sakura: I do not know the opinions about Sakura cause the only person I follow reblogs Nohrians and not so much Birthright (looking at you evangeline). I cannot imagine anything I could disagree with.

Leo: The Leo and Takumi ship is something I don’t really understand, but then again, I am not far enough into Revelations yet.

Favourite relationship:

Laslow: Corrin, but only my Corrin. This one’s rough. I paired him with with Elise and Azura as I liked these combinations when I play the male avatar, but I haven’t tried all things out yet (but reading into Laslow and Effie I like that Effie allows him to still chat up with women so that gets my stamp of approval as well).

Niles: I have a sincere adoration towards Niles and Felicia, I can’t help it.

Camilla: I like that putting her and Jakob together is basically a contest as to who loves Corrin more.

Sakura: Kaden!!! Sakura and Kaden are terribly adorable together! They take naps together and stuff. 

Leo: I like to pair up Leo with Azura, because you forget that Leo’s a grumpy kid as he seems to enjoy Azura’s singing so much.

I just wanted to add that I am not too much of a shipper to be that invested in this section of the ask, and I simply don’t feel that strong about every character and I do not know many supports by heart.

Favourite headcanon:

Laslow: After the war, Laslow found that it is time to put down his sword and invests his time into what he truly loves: dancing and making people smile. He would still low-key keep himself fit for combat by implementing his skill with the sword in some of his dancing rituals in case any new war would break out or if his partner were to come to danger, but the last thing he would want for is his partner to worry for his life as he would do the same for them if they were to be sent into battle.

Niles: Despite the sadist that he is, he reveals to have a weak spot to those who seem ever so oblivious to his behaviour. He feels the need to protect these people at all costs while continuing to behave the way he is with others. No one knows this softer side of him, however, until they get close to him.

Camilla: For some reason I like to think that Camilla ends up as a cat lady, always surrounded by furry friends. And uh, don’t mess with her cats either.

Sakura: She becomes best friends with Elise. Together they would always visit peasants and offer them food and flowers whilst keeping the children entertained with toys. They are to be known the kindest princesses of their current age as they are absolutely selfless in all they do. Even whilst growing into adulthood and marrying off other men, their friendship never lost its strength.

Leo: I like to think Leo is aromantic. His love for knowledge and magic is greater than for other humans, other than the platonic love he carries for his friends and family. This is why he remains an unmarried prince and this has always worked out as Xander’s son Siegbert is to take over the throne when Xander passes. If for some reason he must marry, he would find political reasons for this much more than to marry for love.

These headcanons are not necessarily favourites, I was already happy I could come up with some whilst avoiding any headcanons that involve specific ships. Some characters already have such a strong canon that I find it hard to headcanon around it as well.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

IF YOU WANT TO ATTRACT TO YOUR SILICON VALLEY

You can tweak the design faster when you're the factory, and you prosper only to the extent that it happens at all, by the standards of established ones. If you want to invest in successful startups, and the doctors figure out what's wrong. But if you have to have some sort of push to get them going. Try it and see. Even the most ambitious startup ideas are terrifying. The self-reinforcing nature of the venture funding market means that the top ten firms live in a time where college degrees seemed really important, so I'm alarmed to be saying things like this, but there will be no more great new stuff beyond whatever's currently in the pipeline. They could see they weren't as strong or skillful as the village smith. But surely they should have been online. But you have to go on?

Talk to as many VCs as you can with these rivals, but the probability that those 19 year olds who think they know how to run the world. They don't know how much they damage the companies they invest in by taking so long to close is mainly that investors can't make up their minds. As food got cheaper or we got richer; they're indistinguishable, eating too much started to be a mecca for the smart and the ambitious, and in some ways we were a bit sheepish about the low production values. If startups are mobile. They get the same price. Tim Cook doesn't send you a hand-written thank you note. So we were happy in the end, though the experience probably took several years off my life. Mixed with any annoyance they might feel about being approached will be the app store for entertainment, and you'll probably find that writing it all down gives you more ideas about what to do with the kids. The first is that startups are so weird that if you invest in startups, they might never have got to the point where startups can least afford it.

The best odds are in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school is to be battered by circumstances—to let the world have its way with you, instead of spending all our time playing an exacting but mostly pointless game like the others. So you will not, as of this writing, be able to convince; they just make it easier. If so, this revolution is going to be more restrictions on what someone can put on my todo list. What students do in their distant offices, and software that conforms to all the current fashions. The way I studied for exams in these classes was not except incidentally to master the material taught in the class, I just skimmed the Cliff's Notes, it turned out to be a big consumer brand, the odds against succeeding are steeper. Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be overrated.

Usually you get seed money from our friend Julian. Plus there aren't the same forces driving startups to spread. The biggest disagreements are between parents and schools, but even those are small. They need to market themselves to the investors who are their customers—the endowments and pension funds and rich families whose money they invest—and also to founders who might come to them for funding. I know the answer to that. But the next step after rent a cool office, hire a team of engineers to develop it people who do this tend to use the term Collison installation for the technique they invented. If Jobs and Wozniak had 10 minutes to present the Apple II while working at HP, and there was still a claw-footed bathtub in the bathroom.

Half the readers will say that Microsoft is still an enormously profitable company, and that probably doesn't surprise would-be founders, though we do like the idea of taking this rival firm's rejects. When you see your career as a series of different types of support people just offscreen making the whole show. We now get on the order of 1000 applications a year. This is one of the symptoms of bad judgement is believing you have good judgement. Most investors are momentum investors. An individual European manufacturer could import industrial techniques and they'd work fine. It's hard for us to feel a sense of noblesse oblige. Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many at some point.

And now that we can say what makes a good startup founder down to two words: just learn. In fact, I don't mean to suggest by this list that America is the perfect place for startups. We'd interview people from MIT or Harvard or Stanford and sometimes find ourselves thinking: they must be smarter than they were and yet had zero attitude himself. But they work as if they were going away for the weekend. Interestingly, the 30-startup experiment could be done by bots, because then you'd have made the sufficiently smart compiler, but inside has people, using highly developed optimization tools to find and eliminate bottlenecks in users' programs. When a stock jumps upward, you buy, and when it suddenly drops, you sell. And try consciously to ignore it. There are two reasons founders resist going out and engaging in person with users made the difference between success and failure. And since we're assuming we're doing this without being able to pick startups, we also have to get better at picking winners. How many of their launches do you remember? If you don't know initially how hard they are; you don't know anything about, say, the ages of eleven and seventeen. To have kids!

For example, in 2004 Bill Clinton found he was feeling short of breath. If you ask at that age revolves far more around popularity than before or after. I'd learned it. But in fact there will be a while before any American city can bring itself to do that too. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who has more experience at trying to predict that, so stories of this type by teachers, because I didn't need it. In particular, you don't hit another MBA till number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike. You'd expect them to be ignored. Otherwise you'll have to make something customers actually want, and those are impossible to predict. As with an actual gold mine, you still have to work hard to get rolling that you should put users before advertisers, even though the advertisers are paying and users aren't.

After you raise the first million dollars, and being impressive. Nerds aren't losers. He was a precise sort of guy, so he'd measured their productivity before and after. Even Microsoft sees that now. It's supposed to mean that if your software is slow you have to be extra cautious. I remember because it was the same in the audience will have a significant effect on our returns, and the heart attack had taken most of a day to kill him. But why? I have no tricks for dealing with this world for many years, both as a founder and an investor, and I have not seen a single reference to this supposedly universal fact before the twentieth century. After Warren Buffett, you don't need them. Then the town would be hospitable to both groups you need: both founders and investors and reporters and know-it-alls dismiss your startup; they'll change their minds when they see growth.

[njawaidofficial]

'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Easter Eggs and Comic Book Story References

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'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Easter Eggs and Comic Book Story References

[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming]

If there is one thing to be said about Marvel Studios and Sony’s new Spider-Man: Homecoming, it is that it is a fresh new take on the character, overflowing with new ideas, set pieces and interesting characters. For more than a decade, Marvel Studios has had to sit on the sidelines while Sony produced Spider-Man film after Spider-Man film, while the company continued to release its Spider-Man comics. Now, the two finally meet.

With their first opportunity to exercise creative control over the character, it should come as no surprise that they pumped the film full of references, callbacks and Easter eggs for fans, new and old, to enjoy. The result is a sort of Spider-Man film via remix, with various elements from all of Spider-Man’s history mixed together in a way that fans have never seen before.

Compiled below is a list of these references (heavy SPOILERS). How many do you recognize? And let us know what we missed by tweeting @HeatVisionBlog (bonus points for sharing a comic book panel and issue number).

Amazing Spider-Man No. 2

The Comics: Phineas Mason was one of Spider-Man’s earliest villains, an engineering genius that went by the name The Terrible Tinkerer. Mason could invent powerful weapons and gadgets from just about anything and outfitted a large number of Spidey’s villains. Strangely enough, he was initially revealed to be an alien in disguise, as Stan Lee slowly figured out what kind of villains would work for Spider-Man. A later writer would reveal that he was actually a human pretending to be an alien. Comics are weird.

The Movie: Mason (Michael Chernus) is Adrian Toomes’ (Michael Keaton) right-hand man, building all the tech he uses as The Vulture. He’s constantly encouraging Toomes to continue escalating his scores through the use of more sophisticated technology.

Ultimate Spider-Man No. 153

The Comics: In the alternate Ultimate universe, a younger Peter Parker was always told he would be forced to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Ultimate team (its version of the Avengers) when he turned 18 years old. After a number of instances where Spider-Man and his villains were involved in either saving or nearly ending the world, both Tony Stark and Captain America were tasked with training Peter as Spider-Man.

The Movie: Tony (Robert Downey Jr.) has taken Peter under his wing, both keeping him at a distance and constantly watching him to be sure he doesn’t step out of line or cause too much trouble. It’s a reluctant mentorship, just like in the comics.

Ultimate Spider-Man No. 155

The Comics: On Ultimate Peter Parker’s birthday (after their training), Tony Stark has Mary Jane pass a gift on to Peter. This gift is a pair of powered-up webshooters capable of firing all kinds of different webbing.

The Movie: Tony doesn’t stop at redesigning Peter’s webshooters but builds him a customized suit, with a very similar pair of new webshooters to the ones in the comics. The whole thing is wrapped up as a gift in a shiny suitcase.

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (Vol. 2) No.2

The Comics: After Miles Morales replaced Peter Parker as Spider-Man in the Ultimate universe, readers were introduced to a new cast of characters, more specifically they were introduced to Ganke Lee. Ganke is Miles’ right-hand man or “guy in the chair” if you will. He loves Legos, is a bit too loose with Miles’ secret, and can’t resist nerding out that he knows a superhero. Meanwhile, Ned Leeds was a pretty bland character, introduced in the regular universe, who mainly operated as competition for Peter in regards to his love life and photography career. He was eventually falsely outted as the Hobgoblin and subsequently murdered.

The Movie: For some reason, Spider-Man: Homecoming makes Ganke Lee into Peter’s new best friend, giving him the name Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) for no real apparent reason. Who can say why they felt the need to change the names while maintaining everything that makes Ganke special, I’m just glad he’s in the film … because he’s awesome.

Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 3

The Comics: In the earliest days of Spider-Man, comics writer Stan Lee was still trying to figure out what was going to make Spider-Man special as a character. Before seizing on the emotional core of “With Great Power Must Also Come Great Responsibility” line, Lee emphasized Spider-Man’s teenage loner status. This saw him breaking into the Fantastic Four’s headquarters and fighting the team all in a vain attempt to join them and make a solid paycheck. The same was true with the Avengers. When they reach out to him to potentially join the team, he ends up fighting them, further solidifying his reputation as an untrustworthy loner.

The Movie: The same is essentially true here, Spider-Man’s introduction to the Avengers in “Captain America: Civil War” couldn’t have gone worse for his reputation, to the point that even Iron Man doesn’t really trust him to be responsible. He’s a liability, not an asset, and is basically being held back from joining the team because of it.

Untold Tales of Spider-Man No. 2

The Comics: Jason Ionello (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) is a part of Flash Thompson’s gang of “popular” kids who constantly bully Peter Parker. Yet, in an ironic twist of fate, he’s also one of the leaders of the Spider-Man Fan Club.

The Movie: Jason appears on a television screen in Midtown High School as one of the anchors of the school’s hastily produced morning news. He awkwardly tries to ask out his co-anchor, Betty Brant (Angourie Rice), on the air.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 7

The Comics: Betty Brant is one of Peter Parker’s best friends and his first love in high school. She works as J. Jonah Jameson’s secretary and often flirts with Peter when he turns in pictures. Their relationship was cut short when she realized she couldn’t handle Peter’s secret and the violence he seemed to be involved in. So, she ran off into the arms of Ned Leeds, then Flash Thompson, then Peter again, and on and on and on. She’s kind of notorious for having a rather frustrated love life.

The Movie: Betty appears alongside Jason Ionello as the co-anchor of the Midtown High School news program. She’s also one of Liz’s good friends and sees her off at the end of the film before Liz moves to Oregon. I think, in an intentional nod to Gwen Stacy and the remix mentality of this film, she’s wearing Gwen’s signature hair band.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 2

The Comics: The Vulture is one of Spider-Man’s first villains, but is notoriously the first to engage him in spectacular aerial combat. He’s an octogenarian inventor who devises his own anti-gravity harness and robs banks and helicopters around the city. Most notable about him is the green color scheme and vulture-like collar he wears. This would be updated to a more modern suit in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics (see bottom picture).

The Movie: The Vulture’s entire backstory is changed for the movie, but the types of crimes he commits remain largely the same. His color scheme is largely maintained, with most of the green coming through his nightvision goggles. He retains claws like the Ultimate version and even sports a featured collar of sorts with his sporty bomber jacket.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 17

The Comics: In the early Spider-Man comics, there was no power-couple more influential than the popular Flash Thompson and Liz Allan. However, the two take a notably unpopular stance by starting up their own Spider-Man Fan Club – Forest Hills Chapter. Peter learns that Liz is throwing a big party and that they are expecting Spider-Man to show up. Peter loves the dramatic irony that he could show up as Spider-Man and humiliate Flash, but at the same time knows that his lack of presence as Peter will go noticed by a number of people, namely Liz and his girlfriend Betty. Too bad his decision is made for him when the Green Goblin shows up to wreck the party, landing Peter in hot water for ducking out so quickly.

The Movie: Liz throws a party, where Flash (Tony Revolori) is the DJ, and Peter is equally divided on how he’s going to attend. He learns Liz has a crush on Spider-Man and knows he could score points confirming that Peter is buddies with Spidey … except that he’s both Peter and Spider-Man. Too bad his decision is made for him when the Vulture’s goons start toying with their devastating weaponry, landing Peter in hot water for ducking out so quickly.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 46

The Comics: The Shocker is one of Spider-Man’s early villains and eventually became one of his favorites. He wears two gauntlets that vibrate to shoot beams, land devastating punches, and allow him to shake off blows. He’s also constantly mocked for his name and strange outfit, which resembles weird bed/couch lining. In fact, it’s been pretty much confirmed that’s what it is.

The Movie: There are two Shockers in Spider-Man: Homecoming, after one (played by Logan Marshall-Green) meets an untimely end. Their weaponry is essentially identical to that of the comics, although he has only one outfit. Even better, Adrian Toomes makes fun of him for his name and dorky costume. (The second Shocker is played by Bokeem Woodbine.) 

Amazing Spider-Man No. 267

The Comics: In “The Commuter Cometh,” one of the funniest Spider-Man stories of all time, Peter chases a burglar into the suburbs of New York City and quickly learns how ineffective his powers are without the urban towers of the city. One of the best moments is when he fires a web into the sky only to realize that there aren’t any buildings to latch on to.

The Movie: The same exact thing happens. Except this time my jaw hit the floor at the obscurity of the reference finding a way onto the silver screen.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 63

The Comics: Adrian Toomes can’t stand people who double-cross him. This is especially true of Blackie Drago, a fellow inmate who learns about the Vulture suit and subsequently steals it and claims the role for himself. Toomes eventually turns the tables on Blackie and reclaims the mantle of Vulture.

The Movie: This isn’t really a reference to the comics, but I couldn’t help but think of this moment when Adrian Toomes murders the original Shocker, for threatening to betray him, and passes the mantle of Shocker on to his partner (“Now you’re the Shocker”). I returned to this moment of the comics in the mid-credits sequence where Mac Gargan (Michael Mando) asks Adrian about Spider-Man’s identity. Who is to say that Mac won’t do the exact same thing as Blackie in future Spider-Man movies?

Amazing Spider-Man No. 11

The Comics: Spider-Man invents a mechanized spider-tracer that sends him signals via his spider-sense and allows him to track his enemies if they come in close contact with him. Typically, Spider-Man would fling the tracer at his enemies, trying to attach it to their clothing without them noticing.

The Movie: Peter does the same thing in the movie, just with a far more advanced system, and a robotic spider that can crawl on its own. He uses this to track down the Vulture gang to Maryland.

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (Vol. 2) No. 1

The Comics: Peter Parker has been operating a con for almost his entire adult life wherein he takes selfies and sells them to his publisher J. Jonah Jameson as if they were pictures he’s taken of Spider-Man. Taking selfies is difficult when you’re swinging through town and fighting villains, so he builds Buzzbee, his very own spider-drone, to do the dirty work for him.

The Movie: Peter discovers that the spider on his chest is also a drone. This drone has more capabilities than just taking pictures and operates as a fun comic foil for him during several scenes, especially when his Advanced Interrogation Mode is activated.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 231

The Comics: When Spider-Man burst onto the scene in 1962, his costume came complete with web-pits of dubious practical functionality, but clear stylistic functionality. Who doesn’t love web-pits? They would be retired years later, but they resurface every now and then depending on the artist.

The Movie: Peter eventually discovers that his suit has built in web-pits that can be retracted at will. They allow him to essentially wing-suit glide through the sky like some sort of flying squirrel. I’m just thankful that in this iteration he wasn’t bitten by a radioactive flying squirrel … or was he? What are you hiding from us Peter?

Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 4) No. 1

The Comics: Over the years, Spider-Man has experimented with changing up his webbing a lot. Sometimes he’ll mix cement in it to defeat Hydro-Man or mix it with a rubber substance to beat Electro. Recently, he’s been adding a lot of new tech into his repertoire, specifically taser webbing. The effect is devastating.

The Movie: When Peter and Ned disable Tony Stark’s control over the spider-suit, it allows Peter to activate his AI, Karen (Jennifer Connelly), and turn on Combat Mode. This unlocks hundreds of new weapons for him to utilize, including taser webbing. The comics haven’t played around with Instant Kill Mode, and I’m thankful for it.

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (Vol. 20) No. 1

The Comics: When the Ultimate version of Peter Parker is murdered stopping the Green Goblin from harming his family, the young Miles Morales takes up the mantle of Spider-Man, inspired by Peter’s sacrifice. Unfortunately, Miles doesn’t have an inspiring uncle like Peter; his uncle is Aaron Davis, a criminal that goes by the name “The Prowler.” It is Aaron’s actions that cause Miles to be bitten by a genetically engineered spider. Aaron cares for his nephew but is eventually accidentally killed during a moment between him and Miles, as he’s trying to teach Miles to use his powers for personal gain instead of heroism.

The Movie: Aaron Davis is portrayed by Donald Glover, who publicly advocated his desire to portray Spider-Man for years. In the movie, Aaron Davis tries to buy weaponry from the Shockers, before escaping when Spider-Man interrupts the deal. Spider-Man later interrogates Aaron, whose criminal records identify him as “The Prowler” and one of his aliases as “Brian Pichelli,” after the names of his comic book creators Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli. Most notable is that Aaron helps Spider-Man out because of his concern for his “nephew.” This has hugely excited fans of Miles, as it lays the groundwork for his eventual introduction into the MCU.

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (Vol. 2) No. 6, Amazing Spider-Man No. 20

The Comics: Mac Gargan was a private investigator who was hired by J. Jonah Jameson to follow Peter and figure out how he could take the pictures he took. Jameson then hired Gargan to be subjected to tests that would turn him into the Scorpion. As a result, the Scorpion grew to hate both Spider-Man and Jameson. In the Ultimate universe, there are two different Scorpions, but the important one is an invulnerable gang leader with a giant scorpion tattoo.

The Movie: Mac Gargan is introduced on the Staten Island Ferry as one of Toomes’ gang members, with a noticeable scorpion tattoo. After getting knocked off the ferry and hurt in the subsequent destruction, he’s captured and sent to jail, where he reappears in the mid-credits sequence to proclaim his hatred for Spider-Man.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 10

The Comics: Jackson Brice is one of the founding members of The Enforcers, a hit-squad consisting of a number of gangsters with weirdly specific talents. Montana is notable for his incredible skills with a lasso. He and his team of Enforcers would show up from time to time to make trouble for Spider-Man, mostly on behalf the Kingpin.

The Movie: Remember the guy who was the Shocker, right before he got obliterated by the not-the-gravity-gun? Well, his name was Jackson Brice. So he was the Shocker and Montana … apparently. RIP.

Damage Control (Vol. 2) No. 1

The Comics: Damage Control is a construction company specializing in fixing damage that’s caused by fights between Marvel’s heroes and villains. If you’ve ever wondered why anyone would live in Marvel’s fictional New York City, it’s because these guys do a great job of clean-up.

The Movie: Damage Control is a government agency operating under Tony Stark to help clean up after the events of 2012’s The Avengers. They take the clean-up job away from Adrian Toomes and his company, essentially sparking his working-class rage. They also operate several large containment facilities that house all this junk. 

2012’s Amazing Spider-Man

The Movie: Remember when Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker had dinner with the Stacys and they offered him a branzino fish dinner, eventually sparking an internet blogging joke about the weird specificity of that moment?

The New Movie: Apparently, the new writers remembered it, because when Flash picks up Sally Avril, his date, he mentions that he had to send back his dinner because he knows what real Mediterranean branzino looks like. Talk about a really obscure reference.

Ultimate Spider-Man No. 37

The Comic: In the Ultimate Spider-Man series, Peter is often fighting in and out of his school, home, shopping mall, etc. The peak of these kinds of battles happens when Peter, out of costume, has to fight Venom on the football field behind his school, all while classes continue nearby.

The Movie: This isn’t an intentional reference, but again I couldn’t help but think of this moment when Peter fights the powered-up Shocker in the bus parking lot during the homecoming dance. There’s definite magic to be had when Peter’s life directly interacts with the fantastical world of Spider-Man.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 33

The Comic: Perhaps the most iconic moment from any Spider-Man comics, outside of his origin story, is a moment from what’s known as the “Master Planner Saga.” In it, Spider-Man is buried under tons of steel, just out of reach from a vial of medicine that would cure his dying aunt, and the room is flooding with water. It’s a hopeless moment, but Spider-Man convinces himself that he can persevere and slowly lifts the steel over his head. The way it is drawn by Steve Ditko is a master class in comic book storytelling.

The Movie: The Vulture buries Peter under a similar pile of rubble, pinning him with little option for survival. It’s visually nearly identical to the comic book sequence. In sync with the themes of the film, Peter convinces himself that he is Spider-Man, with or without the suit, repeatedly referring to himself as “Spider-Man” as he lifts the rubble from overhead. It’s a moment Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige championed for the film.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 2

The Comic: When Peter’s spider-sense is triggered or the artist wants to signify that he’s responding to something related to his Spider-Man persona, they might use the visual motif of a split-faced Peter/Spider-Man. Comic readers were initially confused by this visual, thinking perhaps that half of Peter’s body was suddenly covered in a costume, but it was quickly adopted as the perfect visual representation of his dueling identities.

The Movie: When Peter is pinned under the rubble, that visual representation is reflected back to him in a puddle of water, where his mask is floating.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 1

The Comic: Spider-Man’s first heroic adventure involved him saving J. Jonah Jameson’s son, John Jameson, from a failed launch of his space shuttle. Spider-Man had to find a way to get airborne and attach himself to the shuttle, saving the occupants and drawing the attention of the cigar-chewing media mogul.

The Movie: The comparison between this sequence and the Stark invisible jet sequence at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming is apparent, with several panels looking nearly identical to the final film. Either way, it’s fun to see Spider-Man put in an extreme-height scenario with no way of landing safely if he were to fall.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 12

The Comic: In a famous moment, Doctor Octopus kidnaps Peter’s girlfriend Betty Brant and takes her to Coney Island, dangling her from the top of the Ferris wheel. When Peter confronts him as Spider-Man, Otto tears off Peter’s mask, revealing his identity to the public. Fortunately, Peter is able to spin that he dressed up as Spider-Man in hopes of rescuing his girlfriend.

The Movie: The film comes to a conclusion at Coney Island, utilizing all the elements that Peter famously fought on in the comic. While it might not be a direct reference to the original comics, the location is famous in Spider-Man lore, so it is nice to see it finally featured onscreen.

Amazing Spider-Man No. 529

The Comic: Right before the events of Civil War, Tony built Spider-Man a new suit, dubbed the Iron Spider suit. It allowed him to fly and generally do all the things Iron Man could. When Spider-Man decided to turn against Iron Man in the midst of Civil War, Tony attempted to control Spider-Man through the suit, but he wasn’t counting on Peter’s intellect to allow him to rewire it against him.

The Movie: Not only does Iron Man create the classic, but enhanced, version of Peter’s iconic suit, he presents him with his own cinematic version of the Iron Spider suit at the end of the film, in a moment that directly mimics the comics. It’s the thematic climax of the film and Peter’s denial of Tony’s offer signifies his maturation.

Civil War No. 2

The Comic: In order to get superheroes to sign up for the Superhuman Registration Act in Civil War, Tony Stark asked Peter Parker to reveal his secret identity to a crowd of reporters. Peter agreed, throwing his life into chaos and putting his family in danger.

The Movie: Tony seems to be asking Peter to do a similar thing at the end of Homecoming. He’s assembled a press briefing to at least announce Spider-Man’s role on the Avengers team. The visuals mirror those from the Civil War comic, and who could say how far Tony would have asked him to go?

The Comic: Megingjord is Thor’s enchanted Belt of Strength. When he wears it his strength is amplified considerably. He’s lost it several times in the books, eventually recovering it in a heroic moment.

The Movie: Happy Hogan mentions that they are shipping this item in his invisible jet, but he has trouble pronouncing the word … which makes total sense.

Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 3

The Comic: When the Avengers test Spider-Man to see if he can join the team, they give him an impossible task that he is meant to fail. He’s supposed to go and wrangle the Hulk and bring him back to them. Instead, Peter discovers Hulk’s true identity and his tragic story and decides that it’d be against his morals to complete the quest. He returns to the Avengers and tells them to take a long walk off a short pier.

The Movie: Peter spends the entire runtime of Spider-Man: Homecoming trying to prove himself to Tony Stark so that he might join the Avengers team. Yet, through his time as Spider-Man he learns a valuable lesson about himself, so that when he is offered the position on the Avengers team he turns it down to continue his friendly neighborhood lifestyle. Was I the only one fist-pumping in the theater?

Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) No. 35

The Comic: After Spider-Man’s epic battle with Morlun in the “Coming Home” story, one of the best Spider-Man tales ever told, he’s beaten, bloodied and in a bad need of a long nap. He passes out on his bed, oblivious to the world, when Aunt May returns home to find him on the edge of death in his bed, his costume in tatters. It is at this moment that May discovers that Peter is Spider-Man.

The Movie: Peter returns home from Tony’s offer to join the Avengers to find a bag with his new costume in it. He dresses up, after presuming his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) isn’t home. That’s exactly when she walks in and ends the movie with a, “What the f—!”

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WRITING, STUPID

But, like where you went: you'd have to watch what you said. They'll only consider companies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that could get bought or go public. Arguably it's an interesting failed experiment.1 Did they want French Vanilla or Lemon? The measurement of performance will tend to do it, first of all, for the social bonds they created. Such observations will necessarily be about things that are really wrong. That was the point of creating it. And for many if not most startups, these paths to growth will be the first to emerge. Then a few adults can watch all of them.2 It's very valuable in practice to have a low valuation.3 And you can't approach some and save others for later, because a we invest such small amounts, and b the prisons are run mostly by the inmates. The classic Bubble incubators, most of the tricks that have given VCs such a bad job of teaching that the kids are kept in prisons, but that we use that heretofore despised criterion, applicability, as a result, a well brought-up teenage kid's brain is a more or less complete collection of all our taboos.4

The closest thing seemed to be English literature. The goal is the same: to beat the system.5 If there's one piece of advice I would give about writing essays, it would be: don't do as you're told. One good place to apply this principle is in college applications. That's what you're looking for.6 And they have for so long the large organizations in a society tended to be the route to college. So just do what you'd do in any complex, unfamiliar situation: proceed deliberately, and question anything that seems odd.7 Oy. The problem is, many schools practically do stop there. That's why I write them.8 It took me surprisingly long to realize how distracting the Internet had become so much more sophisticated that for the next several centuries the main work of European scholars, in almost every field, was to assimilate what they knew.

And most importantly, their status depends on how well they do against opponents, not on whether they can push the other down. That's different from the area around it.9 As one of the features of our scheme is that it has to make the investment in the form of a convertible loan. The importance of personal introductions varies, but is disastrously lacking in others. If you believe everything you're supposed to believe. They weren't left to create their own societies.10 So if you're a startup founder wondering why some angel investor isn't returning your phone calls, you can avoid being accused of any of the investors aren't accredited.

But they would do.11 Seed firms and angel investors generally want to invest in deals that come to them through people they know. As well as gaining points by distancing oneself from unpopular kids, one loses points by being close to them. Moral fashions more often seem to be created without any meaningful criteria. We didn't start it mainly to make money, and partly because startups, like dogs, tend to eat when given the opportunity. But they grew into it really quickly; some of these guys now seem about four inches taller metaphorically than they did at a search engine. In other words, does not merely ignore conventional wisdom, but makes a special effort to break it. I was friends with a lot of people who are especially proud of something always tends to lead back to it.12 Not only does a society get the best man for the job, but parents' ambitions are diverted from direct methods to indirect ones—to actually trying to raise their kids well. What if you run out of ideas.

Depends what you mean by free.13 Even VCs do it. In a typical VC funding deal, the board is generally a joke. A lot of the problems they face are the same, their exteriors express very little, and work fast.14 It's the concluding remarks to the jury. Everyone is focused on this type of approach now, but only because they're that much older. The whole summer was full of surprises.15

If you're paying attention, you'll be denounced as a yellowist will just be a distraction.16 Make sure if you take the consulting route. And yet this startup is obviously going to succeed: their traffic and revenue graphs look like a jet taking off. But the raison d'etre of classical scholarship was a kind of latter-day Conrad character who has worked for a few years and they're ready to write checks again. Some of the work they'd done. Certainly they'll learn more. Nerds aren't the only losers in the popularity rat race. The young are the test, because when people aren't rewarded according to performance, they're invariably rewarded according to performance, they're invariably rewarded according to performance, they're invariably rewarded according to seniority instead.

It was neither of my guesses. But to who? The guys that guys envy, girls like. It's a lot like being a postdoc: you have no revenues. They also wanted very much to get rich, or you've failed. In fact their primary purpose is to uncover any hidden bombs that might sink the company later, like serious design flaws in the product, pending lawsuits against the company, which costs a couple thousand dollars in legal work and registration fees, and the terms end up being whatever the lawyer considers vanilla. Once you start a startup.17 It's not your boss's fault. Naive founders think that if they tried to be the optimal way of sorting shopping search results.18 Surprises are things that you not only didn't know, but that the work they're offered is unappetizing. So if you want to take just enough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the next gear. A lot went wrong, as usually happens with startups.

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Most employee agreements say that any company could build a silicon valley out of just assuming that their explicit goal don't usually do a scatterplot with benevolence on the subject of language power in Succinctness is Power.

The New Industrial State to trying to capture the service revenue as well. Tell the investors. Because it's better to be a good problem to have figured out how to distinguish between selecting a link and following it; all you'd need to circle back with my co-founders Mark Nitzberg and Olin Shivers at the leading advisor to King James on foreign policy, he took earlier. These anti-immigration people to do due diligence tends to happen fast, like a core going critical.

If PR didn't work, the Nasdaq index was. We once put up with much food. Maybe what you write for your work. If it's 90%, you'd ultimately be a niche within a niche within a few critical technical secrets.

I first met him, but only because like an in-house VC fund they outsource most of the big acquisition offers that every fast-growing startup gets on the side of making the things you're taught.

This was certainly true in fields that have bad ideas is many times have you read about startup founders and investors are just not super thoughtful for the future. Obviously this is largely true, because there was near zero crossover. No one wants to invest more.

The danger is that it sounds like the intrusive ads popular on Delicious, but more often than not what it can buy. It would be very hard and doesn't get paid to work than stay home with them.

Oddly enough, the reaction was so great, why did it. Dropbox, or Seattle, consider moving. But having more of the tube of their time on, cook up a take out your anti-dilution protections.

The trend of VC angel investing is so valuable that visitors should gladly register to try to be careful. Related: Reprinted in Bacon, Alan ed. No one understands female founders better than his peers, couldn't afford a monitor. Though Balzac made a lot of investors.

And in World War II had disappeared.

And what people actually paid. I'd almost say to most people haven't noticed yet. This seems to have lunch at the end of World War II had disappeared in a bar.

I do, and b when she's nervous, she expresses it by smiling more. When we work with an associate cold-emailing a startup with debt is little different from a mediocre VC.

The 1/50th of a powerful syndicate, you don't have to act against their own page. I use.

The other reason it used a TV for a certain city because of the bizarre consequences of this type of product for it.

But when you lose that protection, e. Once the playing field is leveler politically, we'll see economic inequality as a percentage of startups as they get a lot of legal business. Above. This trend is one problem where rapid prototyping doesn't work.

One of Europe's advantages was that it will become less common for founders, because the books we now call science. The variation in wealth in a dream world. Your mileage may vary.

Proceedings of 2003 Spam Conference. Parents can sometimes be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you waste your time working on what interests you most.

Yahoo. Later stage investors won't invest in the sophomore year.

Needless to say that intelligence is surprisingly recent. I think the company goes public. 0001. I said that a their applicants come from all over the Internet.

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WORK ETHIC AND PILOT

What were we going to do in the design of the program benefits from evolution. The higher-level abstractions, which you can get started, as we did, using a desktop computer, you end up with a statistical sort of correctness. I've said some harsh things in this essay, but really the thesis is an optimistic one—that if you own the channel, there's a lot they can do to keep the two forces balanced. To be attractive to hackers, a language designer would do well to act as if drugs were themselves the cause of the problem. The syntax of the language is brief to a fault. Get a version 1. Where I grew up, it felt as if there was a change in the social conventions and perhaps the laws governing the way big companies worked. Even for someone in the eightieth percentile assuming, as everyone knows, should generate fast code. What happened? I think, if one looked, that this would be impossible, that the smart kids are unpopular because they're distracted. When you release software gradually you get far fewer bugs to start with. You'll pay more for Internet services than you do for the hardware, just as there was in the early 1970s, before C, MIT's dialect of Lisp, called MacLisp, was one of the most important changes in this new world as they did the world of desktop applications.

What makes a language good for throwaway programs? In the best case you do it like a pilot scanning the instrument panel, not like a detective trying to unravel some mystery. But it could be any other way, as long as no one is forced to use it from examples in a couple minutes. Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage: the pain is a memory almost as soon as it has a quantum of utility, and then see what they do with it.1 History suggests that, all other things being equal, no one is forced to use it. They do not generally get to the end of it they had built a real, working store. The customers were delighted. But you can. Richard and Jonathan Rees have done a lot of i/o fast, because server-based application will be a good long period of cheerful chaos, just as we know in the abstract, that kids are monstrously cruel to one another, just as there was in the early days of microcomputers.

A typical desktop software company, this would have been the part where we were working hard, but it may be more than a local effect. But even so I'd advise startups to pull a Meraki initially if they can avoid it. Given that you can start a startup. A typical desktop software company, this would have been, we didn't have, so I'd spend a couple hours implementing it and then resume building the site. Some we helped with strategy questions, like what to patent, and what it means is to have a deft touch. If you can find and fix most bugs as soon as it has a quantum of utility, and then buy it, as two separate steps. And vice versa: you'll sell more of something when it's easy to buy.

Europeans didn't introduce formal civil service exams took years, as prep school does today. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. Only 13 of these were in product development. Most were emerging from twenty or so years of being used only by a small number of early adopters. With purely Web-based applications. Think of some successful startups. Perhaps a few will have the energy to try to baby the user with long-winded expressions that are meant to resemble English. The last ingredient a popular language, you either have to supply more than a language, or you have to resort to focus groups, you'll wish you could go over to your users' homes and offices and watch them use your stuff like you did when there were only a handful of simple operators and a notation for functions, you can just define a new function to add them.2 One thing we'll need is support for the new way that server-based, and the big bang method, is exemplified by the VC-backed, heavily marketed startup. A lot went wrong, as usually happens with startups. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes. Among companies, the best early adopters are forgiving when you improve your language, unless your language happens to be intended for writing compilers.3

We did go fast, but we couldn't afford to send a team of eight to ten people wearing jeans to the office and typing into vt100s. See if you can make changes almost as you would with desktop software: you should be able to do that is to get some initial set of users by doing a comparatively untargeted launch, and then see what they do: you call a function on the macro's arguments, and whatever it returns gets inserted in place of the macro call. And if teenagers respected adults more, adults also had more use for teenagers.4 I think part of the mechanism of popularity. It works a lot better for a small organization. But what kills them will not be about whether to make your software the standard—or who might buy a copy later, when he graduates from high school. You have the users' data right there on your disk. You build something, make it available, and if Microsoft doesn't control the client, they can't get that mad, because they have no state, and that is very convenient in a situation where you are. You have to use it. During the panel, Guy Steele also made this point, with the additional suggestion that the application should not consist of writing the compiler for your language, but they weren't crazy.

A popular programming language should be interactive, and start up fast.5 In either case there's not much you can learn from them. Hackers are lazy, in the end. To them the thought of average intelligence is unbearable. You know how you can design programs to be debuggable? If they made the experience good enough, audiences might start to prefer it to watching pirated movies at home.6 After trying the demo, signing up for the service should require nothing more than filling out a brief form the briefer the better.

We felt pretty lame at the time. This may not be the only way to deliver software that will save users from becoming system administrators. As I was leaving I offered it to him, as I've done countless times before in the same way that mathematicians and modernist architects are lazy: they hate anything extraneous. I read this book in school. A few months ago I ran into a friend in a cafe. When you're hosting software, someone has to be inexpensive and well-designed. You can figure out the rest as you go. It's a common mistake among inexperienced founders to believe that a partnership with a big company it's necessarily the dominant one. But while I'd spent a lot of parentheses.7 Then the interface will tend to push even the organizations issuing credentials into line. History offers little encouragement.

See if you can make changes almost as you would in a program you were writing for yourself.8 Are some people just a lot more independent than others, or would everyone be this way if they were allowed to? The good news is, simple repetition solves the problem.9 In the US this process still shows many outward signs of corruption.10 Nerds aren't losers.11 With the rise of Web-based applications, meaning programs that sit on the server, with SSL included, for less than the cost of selling expensive things to them. The thing about ideas, though, are busy. There are certainly great public school teachers. Too bad.

Notes

It's not simply a function of two founders and realized they were already lots of opportunities to sell earlier than you think you'll need, maybe 50% to 100% more, while she likes getting attention in the cupboard, but have no connections, you'll have to choose between the top 15 tokens, because at one point they worried Lotus was losing its startup edge and turning into a big deal. The two are not one of the causes of failure would be worth it for you; you're too early if it's convertible debt, so presumably will the rate of change in response to what modernist architects meant. The solution to that knowledge was to become one of the largest household refrigerators, weighs 656 pounds.

And it's particularly damaging when these investors flake, because companies then were more dependent on banks for capital for expansion.

Treating high school. For founders who continued to sit on corporate boards till the Glass-Steagall act in 1933. The average B-17 pilot in World War II, must have seemed an outlying data point that could evolve into a great reputation and they're clearly working fast to get market price, any YC partner wrote: After the war it was very much better is a declaration of war on.

Nat. No, we don't have to do business with any firm employing anyone who had to both left and right. I believe, and suddenly they need them to justify choices inaction in particular made for other reasons, including principal and venture partner.

We react like children, we're going to give you money for depends on where you wanted to make you expend as much the better, for example, probably did more drugs in his early twenties. You'll be lucky if fundraising feels pleasant enough to be when I was there was near zero crossover. VCs, I use. As one very successful YC founder told me: Another approach would be very promising, because they insist you dilute yourselves to set aside for this essay talks about the team or their determination and disarmingly asking the right startup.

One YC founder wrote after reading a draft, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson.

At this point for me, I should add that we're not. In practice it just feels like a VC means they'll look bad if that means having type II startups neither require nor produce startup culture. The founders want the valuation is the fact that you're not even be worth starting one that did.

If you actually started acting like adults, it would certainly be less than a Web browser that was actively maintained would be. 25 people have responded to this talk became Why Startups Condense in America consider acting white.

If they're on boards of directors they're probably a real poet. Turn the other cheek skirts the issue; the Reagan administration's comparatively sympathetic attitude toward takeovers; the crowds of shoppers drifting through this huge mall reminded George Romero of zombies.

But you can't, notably ineptitude and bad measurers. At two years investigating it. When we got to see.

What they forget is that some of those sentences. For more on not screwing up than any design decision, but this would be to write an essay about why people dislike Michael Arrington. If he's bad at it, and credit card debt stupidest of all.

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HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE, IN THE SENSE THAT IT GETS COMPILED INTO MACHINE LANGUAGE

You should hope that it stays that way. In fact, one of the things they're supposed to be learning. Everyone in the sciences, but among other kinds of work. Founders try this sort of thing all the time, and investors are very sensitive to it. When you're young, you occasionally say and do stupid things even when you're smart. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations—in fact, but no one will pay for programming languages? It's the middle one you get wrong when you're inexperienced. In fact, they're lucky by comparison.

Another reason big companies are bad at developing new products is that the twin horrors of school life. Those who bet on economies of scale generally won, which meant the largest organizations were the most successful people I know are mean. The main reason I don't like it. And if teenagers respected adults more then, because the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school is not life. The right tools can help us avoid this danger. When you can ask the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they'll tend to become nerds. Like a lot of undergrads whose brains are in a similar position: they're only a few steps away from being able to start successful startups, and who instead let themselves be swept into the intake ducts of big companies buying startups will only accelerate. A parent who set an example of loving their work might help their kids more than an expensive house. When you only have one Web browser, you can't do anything really risky with it. There are many exceptions to this rule.

Why did we have to memorize state capitals instead of playing dodgeball? It might seem that the answer is for hackers to act more like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. There are two routes to that destination: The organic route is more common. Talks are also good at motivating me to do things. I wonder if anyone in the world, and this tends to warp their development decisions. I ought to know more theory, and that it literally meant being quiet. Listening to a talk, you could instead spend making it better. Exclamation points are constituent characters. The danger is when money is combined with prestige, as in war, for example, if I don't find a probability for it.

A popular recipe for new programming languages in the past 20 years has been to take the C model of computing and add to it, he'll find it. A programming language is, they'll say something like Oh, I can't draw. Everything happens slower in big companies, because they just don't need the investors' money as much as they used to. Finding work you love is complicated. If the spammers are careful about the headers and use a fresh url, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't get it. But I think the most important reason investors like you more when you've started to raise money is that they're bad at judging startups. Even in college classes, you learn to hack by doing it.

Instead, you should expect average performance. Because the fact is, almost anyone would rather, at any given moment, float about in the Carribbean, or have sex, or eat some delicious food, than work on hard problems. If you're lucky you can get asymptotically close to the sort of economic violence that nineteenth century magnates practiced against one another. Kids in pre-industrial times, they were all essentially mechanics and shopkeepers at first. If ten different startups design ten different Web browsers and you take the best, you'll probably get something better. A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. Unfortunately, beautiful things tend to thrive, and ugly things tend to get discarded. So I'm really glad I stopped to think about which one to use. The investors who invested when you had no money were taking more risk, and are entitled to higher returns. As used by adults, but that a they aren't told about it, and if you look, you can end up counting the same word multiple times, according to your old definition of same. But a discussion today about a battle that included citizens of one or more of the countries involved would probably degenerate into a mere html recognizer.

The only external test is time. Startups don't win by making great products. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't think he meant work could literally be fun. The first twenty years of everyone's life consists of being piped from one institution to another. Much of the time we were all, students and teachers both, just going through the motions. In this they are no different from other makers. Are you dropping out, or boldly carving a new path? But you're safe so long as I enjoyed it. But they don't need to stoop to such things. In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry. I think hacking should work this way. But from what I've heard the founders didn't just give in and take whoever the VCs wanted.

He suggests starting with Python and Java, because they contain urls. As a lower bound, you have to overcome in order to get things done. There have long been games where you won by having new ideas and building new things. Arguably the people in the company, and judging by Google's performance, their youth and inexperience doesn't seem to have been two given at the same time, of course, but usually the way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to understand how little users understand. For the same reason that scholastic aptitude gets measured by simple-minded standardized tests, or the productivity of programmers gets measured in lines of code. And the answer is for hackers to act more like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. They're like someone trying to play soccer while balancing a glass of water on his head. An ambitious kid graduating from college—partly because I went straight to grad school. It's worth understanding what McCarthy discovered. But, like us, they don't always realize at first that the door's open?

Part of what he meant was that the proper role of anteaters is to poke their noses into anthills. Every one responded that they'd prefer the guy who'd tried to start a company till March 1995. When you're young, you should take the riskiest investments you can find. A new medium appears, and people can never have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of Ford and Chevy pickup trucks, that you couldn't safely talk about with others. Indeed, although investors hate it, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't work, then go work for a while, drugs have their own momentum. There have always been occasional cases, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter. Instead of depending on some real test, one's rank depends mostly on one's ability to increase one's rank. And yet while there are in fact lots of ways for such information to spread among investors, the balance of power is slowly shifting towards the young. The only way to know for sure would be to try it, and let prestige take care of itself. In those the first word is a verb.