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@user-693
I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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blocking people is an artifact of corporate social media.
whatever happened to "vote to kick"? I'm sure there's no way that could go wrong
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║ the reason I say that is because if you block someone, they can continue to │
║ alter the dynamic of the environment you're in even if you don't personally see │
║ them. │
║ │
║ this is fine if you want to maximize ad views, but on the fediverse nobody │
║ cares about buying products. │
║ │
║ this is fine if you want to maximize engagement, because new people (who havent │
║ yet gotten upset with the person) will engage and fight them. As they should. │
║ But eventually, if the person's a troll or a goon, they'll get tired of it and │
║ block them too. Thus the goon never has to face more than a few at a time, │
║ especially if there's quite a few trolls on board with their target. │
║ │
║ this is fine if you don't mind the water slowly acidifying, like the fish who │
║ have no choice because they don't know how to grow legs and walk like real │
║ animals (what a bunch of scrubs) │
║ │
║ some people don't want to invest time in figuring out where to go next. How │
║ many people will hear of Mastodon when Twitter is fully vacated of cool people? │
║ │
║ Tell your friends IRL about us │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: for-cats-only │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the │
║ introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys │
║ [to play whack-a-mole with] │
║ │
║ also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough to │
║ keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel │
║ like it's easy. │
║ │
║ That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands │
║ *always* hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of │
║ attention but also success. │
║ │
║ 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65 │
║ is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players │
║ have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that, │
║ they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a │
║ delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted per │
║ player. That way you could get maximum engagement and │
║ =============== stack overflow =================== │
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║ how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to │
║ play it when you boot it up. │
║ │
║ "I want to play for an hour and a half" │
║ │
║ after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you │
║ use a password. │
║ │
║ It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a │
║ -f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an │
║ application. │
║ │
║ Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is │
║ their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use │
║ one or two apps in their phone. They *might* change the background, if │
║ they're the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults. │
║ │
║ "Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always │
║ so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even │
║ doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting "wifi/connections", │
║ picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going back to uber eats]" │
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side note, but the reason PINs were invented was so that people didn't have to
type in a long-ass password.
"it's only more insecure when it's on a network" - someone who didn't design
every product after that
(actually no that's bullshit because the first PIN numbers were probably used a
long-ass time ago, and besides it's not like a short password was all that
uncommon - when asked "what's the password" usually people will say something
like "applesauce" or "butterflies" but really the better way is "10, 16, 26,
46, 99, butts")
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would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going
to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've
been kicked out into the cold.
or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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║ for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next │
║ beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a │
║ habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done. │
║ What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for │
║ the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done. │
║ │
║ considering the amount of people who are *really* into some culture │
║ like "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like │
║ fishing or guns" │
║ │
║ ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed │
║ throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun. │
║ │
║ "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers, │
║ then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?" │
║ │
║ I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling myself │
║ one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns because │
║ they reflect my softness of c │
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║ I wish I could hire someone who was into business or something who would │
║ analyze the things that a non-neurotypical did and identify places for them to │
║ apply themselves in a way that was personally fulfilling. Like, a guide or a │
║ mentor, except not teaching. More like... the part of the job where you guide │
║ someone because you care about them, and you want to do well. Now, how to │
║ translate that into an economic reward? Well, that's the hard part isn't it. │
║ Any kind of social impact you want to have must be carefully considered, and │
║ unfortunately a lot of people recently have started to poison the well. Like, │
║ optimizing for the types of human behavior that generate the most profit, but │
║ aren't necessarily the kind we want to bring forth to the future in all of our │
║ kind. Like, lowered attention span, quickness to anger, that kind of thing. │
║ Those are symptoms of the internet. │
║ │
║ there's quite a few good things about it, like wikipedia and BASH scripting and │
║ local communications (local to the planet 99% of the time) (: │
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║ a "post privacy" option that's private to everyone in your hemisphere. │
║ │
║ or "anyone on the antipode https://www.antipodesmap.com/ of where I'm at" or at │
║ least, that half of the map │
║ │
║ something that's basically "I don't want people nearby me to read this" like, │
║ having a penpal on the other side of the world. │
║ │
║ could add a way to filter by them, and only for example show you people who are │
║ somewhere completely remote. that way you could have conversations that took │
║ place one message per day. │
║ │
║ design it such that it's encouraged to make posts, and then (like Reddit) you │
║ can have a back-and-forth conversation that's kept closer to home. │
║ │
║ Twitter was all about tweeting, about shouting into the cacophany of noise. │
║ Have you ever heard a flock of birds? │
║ │
║ Reddit was like "yeah I, a denizen of the internet, am communicating using the │
║ power of lightning-powered-technology to talk to someone in uzbekistan" │
║ │
║ errrr that's how it felt to me. Each subreddit was less a home, and more of a │
║ topic list. but then discord happened, and : \ │
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║ normalize compiling the game from unencrypted text the first time you run it │
║ using the included compiler and the provided source-code │
║ │
║ "please wait while we are building the game. Estimated time remaining: who can │
║ say, but would you like to play tetris while you wait? I have every ROM │
║ included, and it seems your savegames are stored in the standards suggested │
║ location. would you like to use a different folder? If you'd rather be playing │
║ tetris by now I'm assuming you're not reading this and are instead focusing on │
║ clearing lines - don't worry, I'm just included output as the compilation │
║ process is ongoing. You can tell approximately how close I am to the end of the │
║ process because inbetween every step I print out another character. Errrr, I │
║ add to a time value, that is roughly proportionate to the expected duration of │
║ the installation process, as calculated form your industry determined specs. If │
║ you had a better system then odds are you already knew to change the included │
║ config file to reflect the greater s │
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│ CW: psychosis-symptom-right? │
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construction noise outside my window always seems to sound like screaming and
gunshots.
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@user-696
to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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@user-699 @user-78
I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
thoughts
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@user-702
everytime you see one put a post it there that says "can't read braille without
stopping"
~~draw it in permanent marker~~ (oh wait that's advocating a crime,
my b look I crossed it out)
find the inefficiencies of the system and label them for everyone. Wiki style?
otherwise how will they know.
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what else would you expect from a witch
50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than
zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind,
instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright
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normalize horror games that don't show the player being killed, instead just
cutting to blank to represent the severity of an ended life
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║ @user-707 @user-708 │
║ │
║ using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a │
║ prosthetic interacting with real life :O │
║ │
║ minus the physicality of course, but that's next. │
║ │
║ can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point │
║ them at a dying unit with my mouse. │
║ │
║ or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song. │
║ │
║ maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to │
║ the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could │
║ make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully │
║ think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would │
║ pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw... │
║ │
║ could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and │
║ playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and │
║ whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta │
║ like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings │
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Don't be afraid. You will overcome every challenge that becomes you, it's just
a question of how. That's up to your expression, so do as you will.
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You scared off all the cool people >: (
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The whole time I was camping on Wyoming, I never once felt scared. As a kid I
was a hero, an adventurer, a warrior and a director. I'd plan out engagements
and fight as an actor. It was fun! And I never was afraid, so I never got
possessed by a forest spirit or anything like that. No evil witches either. No,
the witch came later I think.
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What's WRONG with you? You're such a greek player! So dramatic.
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Geek prayer? Preach brothers and sisters >.>
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║ sometimes, rarely, you have to make decisions* against human nature. │
║ │
║ to do otherwise would be to invite destruction through the slow and measured │
║ application of the flaws of humanity magnified through society and harming for │
║ all time all of posterity. │
║ │
║ errrr sounds kinda fashy, kinda genocidally, yeah... that's not what I meant at │
║ all. │
║ │
║ I meant like hatred and bigotry, the kinds of things that cause the kind of │
║ things you might see in this, if you take the least charitable interpretation │
║ of what I say. │
║ │
║ and what is the far right if not for "least charitable"? │
║ │
║ every time I see a mutual aid post I can't help but think "there's no way to │
║ know if this is real or if it's just some guy siphoning away our money" │
║ │
║ I usually trust the people I've followed, so if one of them boost it then I go │
║ for it. │
║ │
║ but still, charity is not an efficient means bywhich to organize society. │
║ │
║ back on point - decisions* against human natures like hatred and bigotry. the │
║ kind that cause oppression. the things that disrupt our functioni │
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Quanetetrick Seleo, aka the witch (I think) wielder of fire, blade, and martial
arts (also throwing knives) through projections of the self.
She's a cloud of sentient blood mist given form through her telepathic
suggestions received by her viewers. Perception, begets reality and lo! You
only see what she wants you to see. Well, what she expresses herself as. That's
how it goes, after all... Will show a picture tomorrow
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║ ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: plagues-zombies-layoffs │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the reason they warn you about zombie viruses is it's a plague that's confined │
║ to a specific location. they can say "oh it's moving, oh no now it's over your │
║ town, sorry about that" and then everyone whos been evacuated suddenly loses │
║ their homes. │
║ │
║ error also war and devastation, but there's more sinister reasons for that than │
║ renovating. │
║ │
║ economic plagues are known as layoffs, and "bad economies" and such. their │
║ culture is enforced through their rules for how you get things done like "do │
║ what you're told" and "don't go in that room" and "stop talking to people on │
║ other teams" and "you're wasting time" and "this isn't good enough (unless it's │
║ literally not)" that kind of thing │
║ │
║ see you at 8am or worse, clock out by 6:30 │
║ │
║ at least if everyone starts at the same time in the morning they can eat lunch │
║ together and work together when they're at similar parts of their days work. │
║ but when they're done, why keep them around? it's much safer to bet your │
║ economic simulation on predictable bhavyr │
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Also crossbows, though she prefers to fight with bow and arrow. Also shadow
powers themed after her connection to "viscera" or "materia" however you want
to pronounce it
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In the game her expression is Japanese because the game's closest approximation
uses ninjas. But she's closer to a dynamic rather than an instantiation.
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Also she's just a person, a cursed person but hey she's just trying to do
right. So am i. I believe in goodness, and so does she (even though she can be
a bit evil about it) (without trying, I might add, it just comes naturally to
her) (she's better now though)
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Maybe I'm just woefully arcane?
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║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: cursed-scary-pol-doomer-misinformation │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-713 @user-714 │
║ │
║ the american military is going to be too busy fighting it's far right that it │
║ won't be able to meaningfully contribute to ww3 │
║ │
║ both sides are slavers. we just don't see it. │
║ │
║ I don't anticipate war taking place on a battlefield, that setting is │
║ forevermore dedicated to video games and kaiju. │
║ │
║ rather, a silent war where everyone just goes around killing their opposition. │
║ │
║ for once, the citizens can't help but be armed. │
║ │
║ and in the dark of night, for every time we let plight from our sight, another │
║ of us is harmed. │
║ │
║ I don't know many people who've died. but maybe they're just working through a │
║ different part of the social network. It's not like any of their technology │
║ needs to perform as it's been advertised? well, open source does, but open │
║ source means insecure (as long as you don't get caught, then you need to adjust) │
║ │
║ of course, sometimes corporate software... kinda sucks. so it's not like theyre │
║ very configurable away from what capital wanted. │
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adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
formatting or grammar.
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Gonna take a break from this whole thing. I got a sign that I'm a bad person,
twice. To confirm. I need to change, and since I don't know what I'm just going
to try and do nothing for a bit.
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