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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353
Oh what a life, wouldn't that be grand? Video games are a complex subject, and
require complex analysis - the likes of which could only be shared through an
extended explanation and exploration - perhaps in the context of a university
course, might a particular genre be plumbed? We have art history degrees for a
reason. People discuss the history of math and physics in much the same way.
Thank goodness for YouTube, I have no idea how we'd share the history of
computers and gaming if not for the people making retrospectives on obscure
hardware from 1988.
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@user-353 @user-370 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367
Some things I lived through, some things I lived through a retelling of, and
some things I sought out recollections of and incorporated into my knowledge
banks such that I might more adequately and efficiently approach future
situations.
... am I a computer or just autistic? /shrug
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353
Hate is corrosive, and self-hate is self destructive. I'm glad you aren't
feeling that way anymore!
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@user-246 @user-353 @user-370 @user-366 @user-367
Might have to read these tomorrow, I have 6 new tabs that are begging for my
attention. Yet somehow the comfort of my bed feels more inviting. BRB napping
for 8 hours
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-353 @user-370 @user-366
Ah, the limitations of our mortal forms. But dreams are most beautiful, so
perhaps it's worth it to be a little constrained to our conditions ^_^
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@user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353
These three images are the same, I just needed 3 pictures to fit all the words
into the low-vision description box.
I'm cheating the system! Nobody can stop me! Rules are fake! The system is
fake! Nothing will hold me back! Something something
![I ran out of text characters, both in the original post and in the description that I'm writing right now, so please listen to the description of the 2nd picture as well. It's the same picture, just with the 2nd half of the content of the post added to the screenreader description. Begin content of post: Your perspective is valid and I can understand how hearing the words that he spoke would unnerve you. I'd say that topically it's less similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh, and more similar to... -- CW content warning -- dot dot dot a particular piece of writing called dot dot dot mein kampf? not just because of the connections to genocide and racial... stuff... that I don't really want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Maybe a 15 foot pole but tbh I just don't have the core strength to wield such a long pole, so I think I'll just not. Err.... what was I saying oh yes. I wouldn't want to remind you of the times when a particular person wrote terrible things. I wouldn't repeat those things, as I feel that would imply that I believed those things. And I try my best to believe the least terrible things, which as far as I can tell is a decent way to go about it ^_^ so I guess I'm saying I wish I could extract words written by another and express them through my own mouth rather than implying the perspective of the author, which is necessarily displaced from my own. [out of characters, see second picture]](../media/786ff4e86336aed2.png "I ran out of text characters, both in the original post and in the description that I'm writing right now, so please listen to the description of the 2nd picture as well. It's the same picture, just with the 2nd half of the content of the post added to the screenreader description. Begin content of post: Your perspective is valid and I can understand how hearing the words that he spoke would unnerve you. I'd say that topically it's less similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh, and more similar to... -- CW content warning -- dot dot dot a particular piece of writing called dot dot dot mein kampf? not just because of the connections to genocide and racial... stuff... that I don't really want to touch with a 10 foot pole. Maybe a 15 foot pole but tbh I just don't have the core strength to wield such a long pole, so I think I'll just not. Err.... what was I saying oh yes. I wouldn't want to remind you of the times when a particular person wrote terrible things. I wouldn't repeat those things, as I feel that would imply that I believed those things. And I try my best to believe the least terrible things, which as far as I can tell is a decent way to go about it ^_^ so I guess I'm saying I wish I could extract words written by another and express them through my own mouth rather than implying the perspective of the author, which is necessarily displaced from my own. [out of characters, see second picture]")
![[begin text of 2nd picture] I mean, if a particular german dictator who lived in the 20th century (was it really so little time ago?) wrote some interesting and novel essay on the art of impressionistic painting or... whatever he liked to paint... I don't think we'd have any right to use it to express ourselves. It'd feel immoral and strange, because it's impossible to excise the magnitude of the beliefs that would later go on to define that man. But I also wouldn't want to unnecessarily condemn a person to infinite reprisal because the path of their thoughts carried them down a dark road - if, perhaps, he had written a piece about all the genocide and racial stuff and whatnot... But then immediately recanted it, explained why he believed what he did and why he now believes something better, and carried the shame of his cognitive failure with him forward into the future, until all those he had wounded with his words had forgiven him... Then maybe he would have been redeemed. Obviously that's not what happened, and bringing it back to the essay I posted, should the author of that essay deny the words he spoke and claim they were a mistake that he has since learned from... Perhaps he could be forgiven. But such things are controversial for a reason, and so we are not compelled to grant him any succor or mercy in our reprisal and vehement resentment. [ah nuts ran out of space again, see... third picture? teehee]](../media/267f209126ee5d2e.png "[begin text of 2nd picture] I mean, if a particular german dictator who lived in the 20th century (was it really so little time ago?) wrote some interesting and novel essay on the art of impressionistic painting or... whatever he liked to paint... I don't think we'd have any right to use it to express ourselves. It'd feel immoral and strange, because it's impossible to excise the magnitude of the beliefs that would later go on to define that man. But I also wouldn't want to unnecessarily condemn a person to infinite reprisal because the path of their thoughts carried them down a dark road - if, perhaps, he had written a piece about all the genocide and racial stuff and whatnot... But then immediately recanted it, explained why he believed what he did and why he now believes something better, and carried the shame of his cognitive failure with him forward into the future, until all those he had wounded with his words had forgiven him... Then maybe he would have been redeemed. Obviously that's not what happened, and bringing it back to the essay I posted, should the author of that essay deny the words he spoke and claim they were a mistake that he has since learned from... Perhaps he could be forgiven. But such things are controversial for a reason, and so we are not compelled to grant him any succor or mercy in our reprisal and vehement resentment. [ah nuts ran out of space again, see... third picture? teehee]")
![[begin description of 3rd picture] [they're the same pictures btw it's just a way to "cheat" and add more words into the description box that you're listening to right now] [phew that was a lot] I guess I just want to reiterate that what I was trying to do was express a thought that required a lot of typing to explain, and it mostly aligned to what was expressed in the essay I posted. Like, a leaf node on the tree of my expressive argument : ) as to your question, I don't really remember being included in any internet beefs. I think I was swept up in the pop-leftism + pop-feminism of the mid 2010s, but that quickly matured as I engaged with people who knew much more than I and I could see the cracks and fissures in the stuff I had learned from the internet. I really do learn more from engaging with a person than by reading... I think perhaps it's due to the back-and-forth nature of conversation? You can temper and refine your ideas by striking them against the hammer and anvil of another. It's fun! Anyway I'm way over the text limit. [finished with all pictures]](../media/d5a8f543d51eca0e.png "[begin description of 3rd picture] [they're the same pictures btw it's just a way to \"cheat\" and add more words into the description box that you're listening to right now] [phew that was a lot] I guess I just want to reiterate that what I was trying to do was express a thought that required a lot of typing to explain, and it mostly aligned to what was expressed in the essay I posted. Like, a leaf node on the tree of my expressive argument : ) as to your question, I don't really remember being included in any internet beefs. I think I was swept up in the pop-leftism + pop-feminism of the mid 2010s, but that quickly matured as I engaged with people who knew much more than I and I could see the cracks and fissures in the stuff I had learned from the internet. I really do learn more from engaging with a person than by reading... I think perhaps it's due to the back-and-forth nature of conversation? You can temper and refine your ideas by striking them against the hammer and anvil of another. It's fun! Anyway I'm way over the text limit. [finished with all pictures]")
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@user-95
Perhaps it might be! The spectrum of my rainbow is diffuse I suppose ^_^
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