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 @user-30 It wasn't too long. I'm used to paragraphs from Reddit.
 
 It sounds like you enjoy the themes of Dark Souls. When people say "soulslike"
 they usually mean the gameplay mechanics. The theme could be completely
 different - like, ninjas VS mafia for example. Completely different theme, but
 I could see it working.
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 @user-30 What does "just like dark souls" mean to you? When people say that
 they usually mean it's timing/reflex based, kinda hardcore, and based on
 memorizing boss patterns. Which imho isn't all that useful of a description
 because lots of games are like that.
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 @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :)
 Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic
 now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer.
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--- #3 fediverse/23 ---
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 @user-30 Interesting! What you described seems to me like exactly what I'd
 associate with souls-like games. I wonder why the disconnect?
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 @user-30 That makes sense to me. Would you say most "soulslike" games don't
 scratch those gameplay itches you have?
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 I realized the reason it's so difficult for me to get into a new video game is
 because my perfect game existed at one point, but no longer, and all else
 pales in comparison.
 
 The make-believe games of children are without equal. They represent our inner
 truth and desires, cast upon the canvas of our experience through the outputs
 of imagination and physical exertion.
 
 I'd spend my time as a child wandering through the forest with a stick in
 hand, climbing on things and exploring. I grew up in Wyoming, and the forests
 there look like this:
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--- #7 fediverse/3302 ---
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 "this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
 setting
 
 "this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the
 story and characters
 
 "this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's
 gone
 
 "I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
 considered how society is designed not to have the best life,  but to extract
 labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
 like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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--- #8 fediverse/5636 ---
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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 sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to
 jump to the top of my "recently played" list
 
 Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
 be useful for the archival process of my life.
 
 ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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 I posted my words text file all over the c it y today. not sure why. maybe I'm
 tired of this course and I don't want to let anyone down? Maybe I don't know
 what to do yet. Maybe nobody works with me because everyone's keeping it on
 the DL or whateverr?
 
 ... anyway enough typing, I'm going to go play a video game. like god intended.
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 when I play games, the theme only matters when it's being sold to me.
 
 after, once I start playing, I stick around if the mechanics are good.
 
 hence, why I loooooove video games but spend like 30$ on them every 6 months
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 @user-217 
 
 the darkness
 how resplendent
 would be incomplete
 without that present
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 every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
 main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
 guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
 or bored and left the people to rot.
 
 how tragic.
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--- #14 fediverse_boost/96 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I'm an old school gamer, so avoid looking up min/max combos or character builds for games on the internet. The whole POINT is to find what works yourself, and what you enjoy. It's what gives a sense of achievement.  
                                                                              
  But I don't mind taking real-world advice from people. Sharing tips is fun.  
  
                                                            
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 people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more
 spending time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to
 fulfill them.
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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 I feel like I play roughly the same amount of video games during the work day
 as the average software developer. Does that mean I'm qualified?
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 It's so sad how some of the best games ever made get glossed over because the
 fun you remember is the friendship and fantasy you felt rather than the game
 itself
 
 time marches forward, and culture changes to no longer fit the old tools quite
 right. Plus they look like PS1 graphics ewwwwww look at those muddy textures
 and blocky bits arranged into triangles and meshes! how dorky, how retro
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 omg it's like Black and White before Black and White was a thing!
A preview from the Nintendo Power magazine for a game released only in japan called Doshin and the Giant.
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 I miss my cat, but now that it's dark I can go looking for her again. : )
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--- #24 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 how little we find of thoughts from her mind
 yet now we are kings of our own time
 oh how she is wander true
 
 DEAR VR DESIGNERS:
 
 when making trailers for your game, create a separate camera in the game engine
 and record from that.
 
 keep the player character invisible, but just... watch from a distance
 
 like they're an actor in a scene
 
 ummmm oh dear she's crazy, what the heck
 
 [no this is just what it's like to see stars]
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 being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
 
 being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
 other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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 I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
 chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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--- #28 messages/765 ---
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 @user-547 
 
 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think
 
 perfect, no notes
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--- #30 fediverse/3061 ---
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 every time I read a subtoot I assume it's about me and I mentally curl up into
 a ball
 
 doesn't matter if it's totally irrelevant, if there's no target specified it
 defaults to me because... like, who else is there right?
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 My main character in that game is a ninja/dark-miasma witch
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 @user-1209 
 
 well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
 with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
 equally.
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 Death is final. It has no further answers nor questions. I prefer confessions.
 Once the sins are written, by voice and by heart, then they cannot hurt you
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 why is everyone so confused about how I turned out?
 
 I literally spent my whole childhood telling stories to myself
 
 (inspired by the world, and stories I had read, with mechanics like games I
 had played)
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--- #37 messages/276 ---
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 Boys be like "dang that's rough buddy" when all you want is for someone to
 solve your problems
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--- #38 fediverse/2870 ---
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 replying to a post here is weird because it's kinda like... graffiti of their
 ideas onto yours. or like, the space right next to yours.
 
 on reddit, the post is just the topic, and the discussion is what matters.
 
 here, the post is what matters, and discussion is more like Q&A or
 complicated "like" buttons to extend the impression of the original.
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--- #39 fediverse/3253 ---
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 it's so weird how these days if you don't like someone you can exclude them
 from your social life entirely - like, wow... that hurts
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 Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
 to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
 for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
 month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.
 
 plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
A description of the rating procedure for Nintendo Power magazine circa 1998.  There are 10 total evaluators, each with around 3 specialties in genres such as action, adventure, puzzles, fighting, RPGs, sports, etc.  Each game is scored proportionally with game design at 25% of the final score, satisfaction at 25%, graphics at 20%, play control at 20%, and sound with 10%
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 If you counted the characters in each of my posts and then graphed them with
 grafana or whatever
 
 I think you'd see some interesting things about how often I am at exactly 0
 characters remaining
 
 maybe I'm just curious
 
 I make it an art form
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 me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
 
 me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
 then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
 time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just
 puke, okay?"
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 if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
 to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
 
 ... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they
 are a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms,
 just like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs.
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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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 you can't rely on me because I can't rely on a part of me being "out" at any
 particular moment-event-message.
 
 besides, I'm always tired, because I'm always trying as hard as I can.
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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 hey does anyone wanna go over my code for this text adventure game thingy that
 I spent 2 days on so far?
some computer code some computer code some computer code some computer code
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
 confusing]
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--- #51 fediverse/4468 ---
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to
 listen, you lucky ducks ; )
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 what if I smoked weed and played video games after a long period of time away
 from the internet which I missed dearly
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of.
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 in some games, like Star Wars Battlefront II, you unlock certain "badges"
 during gameplay. Like, "scored 10 points in one life" or "healed for 200hp" or
 whatever.
 
 these "badges" have names, like "guardian" or "hope"
 
 I wonder if you attached a player's history of medals earned to an LLM
 somehow, perhaps by feeding an array of them in as input, what would happen
 then? perhaps a narrative could be
 
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 Perhaps I'm strange, but I like to take that particular joy that you're
 describing in essentially every piece of media I consume. Not as a vengeful
 feeling, but rather just a product of the idea that I cannot truly know the
 intentions of those who created it, so I approach my understanding of it from
 an angle that is aligned according to my own experience. Which means that my
 conclusion lands somewhere they (presumably) didn't intend...
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 @user-1218 
 
 ha wild
 
 well, survival games! shareware games are more of a distribution style and
 less of a genre, like "subscription software" versus "usable software"
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 what if you added "secret rules" to english. wouldn't that be a fun game to
 play? it'll be tough to keep them all remembered, but the good news is we only
 have to use the ones on which we agree. like, memes, instead of grammar rules.
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 I have the gameplay mechanics of a paladin but the body type of a sorceror
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #60 fediverse/3570 ---
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 @user-1558 
 
 I contest trolls too because it fulfills my internal adventurer instinct to
 protect marketplaces and farmhouses from savage brutes made out of moss with
 clubs the size of a log
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 I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
 important to relax
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--- #62 fediverse/4024 ---
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 my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
 other people who visit the house.
 
 but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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--- #63 fediverse/1708 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
 know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
 to wield.
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 I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
 
 How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
 after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
 "give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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--- #65 fediverse/5060 ---
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 all of my memories of diablo are of dungeon siege.
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--- #66 fediverse/2911 ---
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 and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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--- #67 fediverse/6111 ---
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 whoops forgot to post these last night, how silly of me, surely there wasn't a
 reason I better just hit that blue button on all of them to be safe
screenshot of the post so the dear readers (the ones with or without antlers) can see the blue button in reference to the post which says post.
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--- #68 messages/111 ---
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
 reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
 circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
 meaning
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--- #69 fediverse/3811 ---
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 this is how I write trello cards or tickets.
 
 and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
 mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
 example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
 for every single province on the map.
A trello card describing a proposed change to a video game mod that has only one person working on it. It's essentially documentation. It is written in a professional style with several sections - the first lists the "current behavior", the second shows the intended behavior (with a small section for the intended effects of the intended behavior), and the third major section lists the proposed solutions in as much detail as possible without writing the code itself.
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 if the choice is between working on your game / mod and playing a game / mod,
 always work on your game / mod.
 
 your work will outlast you. your time spent in a state of pleasure will
 sustain you.
 
 sometimes there's not a choice. sometimes you need to play, and that's okay.
 to play is natural, it's one of the first things humans do.
 
 we also work. 
 children build sand castles. 
 adults build stone castles.
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #72 messages/1166 ---
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 A black hole's event horizon is just when the matter "broke through" to the
 other dimension and now light can't escape because the surface is in shadow.
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--- #73 fediverse/1349 ---
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 @user-950 
 
 ah yes but how could anyone hurt me if I don't make myself vulnerable. It'd
 simply be unfair to play a game without any stakes. But if you insist...
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 Can't stop thinking 
 
 [the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
 express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
 text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a
 particular thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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--- #75 messages/911 ---
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 literally zero secret messages in the game titles. I just feel like playing
 one or another because of the *gameplay*
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--- #76 fediverse/1374 ---
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 @user-950 
 
 heh somehow I managed to die inbetween games? yeah that checks out
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 @user-1441 @user-670 @user-113 
 
 currently toe-ing the boundary between "too neurodivergent to function" and
 "can juuuuust barely take care of themselves" and they ask me to get a job...
 no thanks, guess I'll die
 
 (in 3-4 months when my savings run out)
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--- #78 fediverse/3419 ---
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 thinking about that time I abstracted into an oblivion sphere of eternally
 fractalized delights wtih my girl
 
 dam i miss her
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--- #79 fediverse/825 ---
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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's        │
 like, nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.     │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events.      │
 yeah but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a   │
 weird way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period     │
 of time, measured in terms of engagement"]                                       │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like            │
 obviously I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if   │
 not for an intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy   │
 of guiding direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too,    │
 like how is it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that        │
 nobody ca                                                                        │
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--- #80 fediverse_boost/5426 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  @user-1201 I love how, with the huge levels of intrigue and power struggles planned over the course of years that went into getting the Alliance set up, it was as much the unwitting doing of Nemik simply being an inspiringly pure heart and a talented wordsmith that insured it becoming an unstoppable state of mind.  
  
                                                            
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 I can't get into a game with swords like this, I'm sorry, those aren't swords
 they're stat sticks...
picture of an anime girl offering a sword  picture of a second anime girl looking at the sword with disgust because the sword is obviously ornamental or ceremonial in some way. It has strange spiky bits and weird impossible-to-use features like a dragon shaped handle and an impossible shape.
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 there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
 
 yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
 it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
 
 the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
 
 during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
 stalin
 
 never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
 else we fall into shame and despair.
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--- #83 fediverse/4463 ---
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
 then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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--- #84 fediverse/3927 ---
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
 thing
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--- #85 fediverse/3755 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 hehe it was my favorite job I've ever had
 
 downside is... it was hard to get to work every day. I'm not built for
 long-term dedicated labor. Maybe I should freelance? idk where to even begin
 with that, though.
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--- #86 fediverse/4942 ---
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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 I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the        │
 worse off they'll be.                                                            │
 the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be.                           │
 (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self)           │
 [the light of your life commands it]                                             │
 goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry   │
 about me my life is totally mundane.                                             │
 [-.-]                                                                            │
 (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins)   │
 ... what?                                                                        │
 (... it made more sense in my head?)                                             │
 ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just       │
 make up your own                                                                 │
 == so ==                                                                         │
 everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people   │
 who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they   │
 did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can        │
 lead. they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best   │
 they can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find    │
 stuff gets done.                                                                 │
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 currently on turbo mode trying to "find myself" because I figure I might not
 get a chance next year, so... whatever, right?
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 daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
 internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
 for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
 make friends
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 @user-206 @user-1576 
 
 sounds like I should have spent more time there. I was always pretty good at
 convincing readers that the person I was arguing with was wrong or an asshole.
 Or both.
 
 At least, the Reddit upvote / downvote system told me so.
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--- #91 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #92 fediverse/4739 ---
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 "this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
 take off my mask"
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--- #93 fediverse/5782 ---
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 sometimes I post random silly [scary] things to pad out the serious things and
 I hope that's okay
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 my thoughts lately have been consumed by words such as "I never got to see
 france" and other silly things like that
 
 so dramatic... omg get a life -.-
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--- #95 fediverse/1145 ---
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 I just wanted to be a silly girl who climbs trees and roasts marshmallows on
 campfires why did I end up like lain in bed listening to thunder T.T T.T
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--- #96 fediverse_boost/6152 ---
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  What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?           
                                                                              
  It looks like an additional monthly user.                                   
  
                                                            
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--- #97 fediverse/770 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 wow, that sounds like a lot. I guess no matter how humans are organized they
 tend to fight a lot... Or maybe interaction breeds drama? It's strange to me
 but I'm sure it felt right in the moment. I hope nobody's feelings were too
 hurt... Defederation feels like such a permanent thing, like putting someone
 on your ignore list in a video game or something. Except, like, blocking a
 whole World of Warcraft guild? ? ? so strange.
 
 Did it... help? I mean, do you think people were happier afterwards?
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--- #98 fediverse/1294 ---
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 I love video games so much. It's like a little machine you can play like an
 instrument! How cool is that? And they have themes!!!
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--- #99 messages/551 ---
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 This gun is my sword 
 This blade is my weapon 
 And my foes will lay before me
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--- #100 messages/138 ---
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 Every ragequit in a matchmade game is a protest against an overly restrictive
 meta that refuses to accomodate the player's preferred playstyle
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--- #101 messages/887 ---
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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 @user-206 @user-1576 
 
 Whoa Tildes was so cool!
 
 I use forums for specific interests like games and such. Also for, uh... porn
 sometimes.
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--- #103 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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--- #104 fediverse/2848 ---
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 oh btw to the people trying to doxx me there's a picture of me in this
 profile, but you'll have to read a LOT to find it. On the way, see if you pick
 up anything interesting that you agree with. maybe you'll realize that we're
 on the same team, and should be working together.
 
 that's the dream, at least.
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--- #105 fediverse/1906 ---
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 I like Mastodon because it feels like I'm contributing to something larger
 than myself even though like, 30 people read each of my posts
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--- #106 fediverse/3974 ---
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 it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
 unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click
 on all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're
 doing.
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--- #107 fediverse/3384 ---
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 okay fine! Lemme beat this dungeon (Dodongo's Cavern) in Ocarina of Time and
 then I'll figure out how to stream stuff. Probably won't have time for it
 until the weekend, but I can at least set it up.
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--- #108 messages/908 ---
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 if you don't see someone doing what you're doing after a while you hide into
 something else
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--- #109 fediverse/938 ---
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 @user-649 
 
 same... sometimes it feels like I step on toes that I didn't know existed! I
 got tired of walking on egg shells so now I just try and religiously put
 content warnings on things that feel intense.
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--- #110 fediverse/1986 ---
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 when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
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--- #111 messages/780 ---
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 In their darkest moments 
 Do the dead with 
 That they were still alive?
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--- #112 fediverse/146 ---
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 @user-138 if you don't want feedback then why don't you just... not open the
 replies? leave them unread? if you feel the need to justify your actions (such
 as not reading replies to your controversial posts) then somewhere deep down
 you feel like those actions are unjustified, and needing an explanation. which
 makes your point feel less valid to others, since even you don't believe in it
 enough to guarantee it to be the truest expression of your soul.
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--- #113 fediverse/1539 ---
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 I like to play healers in MMOs because my power fantasy is helping people
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 hey, you know how historically they used to lobotomize young women who were
 too fiery, passionate, independent, driven, motivated, and clairvoyant?
 
 they did that on purpose.
 
 that was less than a lifetime ago.
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--- #115 fediverse/84 ---
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 Life is just a series of minigames for your primate brain to solve that are
 generated by an impossibly complex algorithm with a dash of ethical
 value-based choices thrown in.
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--- #116 fediverse/786 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 my favorites are the rock spirit and the water spirit, especially in tandem
 because they build up long-term defences and I'm all about that kind of
 meta-gameplay.
 
 sometimes I play the video-game version and play more than one spirit, just
 because A. nobody will play with me IRL and B. then I can coordinate myself
 without feeling bad about stepping on other player's toes
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 if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
 they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
 other? the poor dears.
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--- #118 fediverse/1210 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 omggggg I wanna play a fast paced shooter as a cute anime girl, which game did
 you have in mind? ? ?
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 if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
 nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
 that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
 animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
 shoveling shit or writing poetry?
 
 I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
 what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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 @user-342 
 
 how is that different than speaking your mind into the soup of opinions that
 comprised checks notes the people you went to high school with? (facebook)
 
 Except this time, it's a group of people whose opinions you vaguely agreed
 with (as defined by your choice of the instance you dedicate your online
 presence to) which has it's own defined peculiarities like the ability to only
 show you content you agree with?
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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 I don't really like singleplayer games
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
 like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
 fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
 together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
 and don't teach, RIP
 
 and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it,
 (personal RIP then)
 
 ... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't
 have so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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--- #124 fediverse/3916 ---
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 life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 I never rest. Not mentally. I find it sooooo much harder to get moving again
 once I'm asleep.
 
 But I've been sleeping lately, because it's "good for me" or whatever. Because
 I'm "burnt out and need to heal" or something.
 
 Damnit why is it so much harder to stop snuggling someone than it is to pack
 up a tent?
 
 I'm like the guy in Hot Fuzz, that one really good movie about cops. oops cops
 mentioned one second.
 
 I'm always moving, but, I hardly ever seem to be able to get anything done.
 Why is that? Is the work just... endless? Am I ever a slave to my
 surroundings? Or am I just cursed with a mortal form, a form destined to toil
 in whatever way it finds itself contextualized in?
 
 Maybe I should just stop complaining. Maybe work is it's own reward or
 whatever. I don't think I'm depressed anymore, although good luck getting me
 to feel any emotions except focus, and the call to intercede on another's
 behalf.
 
 I don't have time for this. >.
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 I guess I'm used to messaging applications where it's expected that you'll
 send what you're typing after every complete thought
 
 giving people space to return their own completed trains of... "thought" but
 without saying "thought" again because I just said it at the end of the
 previous... sentence? paragraph? idk anymore it feels weird to post like this
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 vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
 code matches what you need.
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
 there.
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 you know that feeling when you realize the person you're talking to is a
 demon? sometimes I think they don't even realize it. other times, they do.
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 @user-579 
 
 my problem is figuring out which thoughts are intrusive and which are actually
 mine
 
 I usually err on the side of "would you want your sister to do this" or "how
 would you feel if your mom told you that" or "do you think a cute sweet soft
 cat would ever think such a thing" and that usually works.
 
 usually.
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 whoa, what time is it? "time for your daily sleeping babe" yes babe...           │
 but first, some horror [beware the psycherwaul, for she likes to dream and has   │
 no idea what she's talking about]                                                │
 {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you     │
 for breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the      │
 kind of people you are, not you in particular because you know things" and by    │
 "kind of people you are" I mean "the type of person who spends enough time on    │
 the internet to know how internet things generally work" like my goodness        │
 internet people are dramatic. There's sooooo much drama all the time, like...    │
 why                                                                              │
 oh yeah because people are dramatic. duh. How could I be so vain.                │
 what's your deal                                                                 │
 is it wrong to post links to things you've written in the past? ehh it's not     │
 like there's rules on the sidebar like on Reddit or whatever. what would a       │
 sidebar even look like on Mastodon?                                              │
 oh yeah, a person's profile. Except, the consent is backwards, because people    │
 hear what they hear.                                                             │
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--- #134 fediverse/487 ---
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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--- #135 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
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 you can trust me, but please don't rely on me, for all of my power is soft.
 sometimes people just don't want to do what I tell them to, and I wouldn't
 have it any other way.
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 okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
 people
 
 relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
 thing at the same time...
 
 http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
Finally, trying to pivot towards Pacific northwestern native perennial plants (and self-seeding annuals) for food, medicine, and material; they're much more adapted to this region as far as sunlight, moisture, bungalow, microbial, avian, insect partner, and soil types are concerned, and that's not only take less work now to instigate and tend, but are much more equipped to handle the fungal infections, droughts, genetic biodiversity collapses, and fluctuating climates that are inbound.  the BRIT ethnobotany database is helpful in that regard, and given that it's based out of Texas and has gynecological herbs, it would be a really good idea for some of the tech queers in our community to duplicate a redundancy of it.
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 these two things took me all evening. I played some video games too. I put
 them in one so you don't have to see so many of them.
a picture of a page from the bicycle notebook.  first part is a collection of brainstorming and diagrams drawn in pursuit of Raleigh, my stab at artificial intelligence.  It's not done yet, in fact it's hardly even a design. It's more like, a thought in the mind that is slowly evolving to adapt to challenges that it might face when being implemented.  and sometimes it's like, beautiful architectures that I'm like "what could I do with these?"  anyway then it starts to devolve into kooky-dookerie about halfway through, and the rest of the notes are written in slant-form -> like, instead of reading one-after-another they sorta change tone and intonation rapidly in a cycle - it's super disorienting. Except visually it's like, tilted text, like a picture-frame that's nudged to one side and hanging from it's frame instead of it's wire holding-point.  do blind people often touch paintings? I doubt it, because it damages the painting. Alas, that materials are finite and flawed and degrade and become stone again. Good news though, sometimes pictures can carry meanings that are impossible to describe visually, but not impossible auditorily.  like, the sound of the voice in your head as you read the plaquards at a museum that displays ancient artifacts or bones of massive beasts or gemstones or science experiments or art or culture or mechanical motion displayed like clockwork and hope.  history is one of my favorite. you can find them by the side of the road. they're lovely homes 4 us many fediverse posts placed into a single image to be passed around as a bundle for people that the viewer decides might want to see them - y'know, like an artwork.
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 @user-192 
 
 ah yes like when I used to go to the cantina with my ex-girlfriend in Star
 Wars the Old Republic and bag a stranger to Electronic Role Play with back at
 my ship after a few drinks and some light four play where the four of us would
 play Electronic RolePlay together in the privacy of my ship on the soft plush
 couches or maybe in the padded gym or maybe in the pilots seat so we could
 look at the stars while playing (just the four of us)
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 all you need is to be steam friends with one person and then your whole
 organization knows what you're trying to say with game titles
 
 (I just like games)
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 I'm wasting time.
 
 face them
 
 my soul tells me
 
 for some reason
 
 I can't stop writing poetry
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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince
 it that you've beaten it.
 
 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
 best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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 Relax.
 
 Take it from me.
 
 I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and
 you should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
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 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-352
 
 yikes those sound like pretty awful things. I don't know anything about the
 author, I just read this essay on hacker news and it stuck with me as an
 expression of a particular feeling that I've found difficult to articulate.
 I'll read through the two things you posted.
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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 when I get up, 
 I feel as if 
 if I got up 
 my bones would leave my flesh behind 
 to look for work to find
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--- #150 fediverse_boost/6053 ---
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  i post compulsively lmfao                                                   
  
                                                            
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 @user-738 
 
 I like to use the alt text to explain my color choices. I'll say "this next
 text is in dark blue, the color of the cold glass-like surface of the ocean"
 or "the orange background implies a feeling of warmth and serenity, contrasted
 with the violet colors of the text which imply sanguine passion" (then I of
 course describe the text)
 
 basically, blind people can't see the image, so they don't get the feeling
 that the visual data conveys for sighted people. But they understand the
 texture of grass, or the feel of wind on their face, or the taste of
 raspberries. They can know of staccato music, or how silk feels on their arm.
 
 it just feels fair, to me, somehow. nobody asked me to do that but having the
 option makes it feel important to me.
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 me, waking up in the morning and reading my own posts
 
 alright what's the damage this time
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 @user-1201 
 
 I'm a wood fae! they're around, just gotta find 'em 🥰 
 
 (not really I'm just a person with no magical powers whatsoever, no siree
 don't look at mee tehe)
 
 people only have the context of their lives, as any historical precedent that
 once was passed forth to the present by their ancestors and mentors is now
 sharing space with the endless deluge of information from a small glass,
 plastic, and metal box that saps both their attention and the magnitude of
 anything they learn.
 
 "so what if the planets on fire? somehow this actor who had an affair with
 this other actor feels just as important. so what if there's fascism? I just
 heard that whales can't swim in the ocean. oh, the city's burning? that's not
 my burden, and plus it's just as important as these memes which don't make me
 want to scream."
 
 in the same way that some forest fae might have security through obscurity,
 they wield information density against us as a weapon to hide their sins of
 morality.
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 reminder to always have someone in your life who is more hardcore than you.
 
 also, try and always have someone in your life who is less hardcore than you.
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 @user-889 
 
 Don't give up!
 
 At least... not forever.
 
 It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
 
 It's okay to lie down and cry
 
 The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
 need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
 
 the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
 alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
 
 Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
 know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
 
 You'll be okay, I know it
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 {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more
 time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?}
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--- #157 fediverse/3180 ---
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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
 seen by everyone around.
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--- #158 fediverse/4275 ---
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 @user-1646 
 
 I usually just repost it and say something like: [stolen from reddit] or
 [stolen from one of my followers who didn't write any alt text]
 
 that way if they ever come across your post they'll know what it feels like to
 have a post stolen from them. Like how a blind person, happy to hear-read what
 they originally posted, but aggrieved from the conversation by their lack of
 alt-textual information, might feel stolen from if they happened across that
 originally posted alt-textless post.
 
 there are more blind people that use mastodon than queer people. At least,
 that's what I once heard. Dunno if it's true.
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 "nobody gets you" hence, cassandora and pandasandra
 
 "girl you can't just say something ominous like INVOKING PANDORA if you aren't
 sitting on something capable of mass doom" haha I want to cry
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 @user-883 
 
 right, like the games the rest of us play aren't good enough for you? need to
 toy with our lives a bit to really get into the flow? yikes
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 @user-1037 
 
 speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
 draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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--- #162 fediverse/6292 ---
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 I'm stuck. I don't know how to leverage whatever talents I have into making
 things happen. Maybe I should seek advice from a wise elder...
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 @user-883 
 
 I've used it a bit, frankly more than I've played Minecraft in multiplayer. I
 was around before they added enchanting tables, and I've barely touched it
 since xD xD
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--- #164 fediverse/5538 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
 want to try a different sort of socialism?
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 if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
 paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
 and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
 
 do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do
 them concisely.
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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--- #167 fediverse/4040 ---
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 @user-1573 
 
 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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 @user-1352 
 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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--- #169 fediverse_boost/3734 ---
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  i think my complaints about rust really boil down to “i know what im doing and this language is designed for people who don’t”  
  
                                                            
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 video games are useful for inspiring the mind engaging in a child's play,
 teaching lessons of strategy through the observation of mechanics engaged, or
 filling the heart with emotion, as any good artwork will do.
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--- #171 fediverse/4336 ---
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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--- #172 fediverse/2175 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 I just got my copy of Knave version 2 and there's this line that stuck out to
 me:
 
 SCHEME
 Think laterally, not linearly. Avoid risky plans that require you to roll dice
 and instead create plans so bulletproof that success is certain. Use
 psychology, magic, allies, equipment, and the environment to overcome
 obstacles rather than relying on ability checks.
 
 I can't wait to try doing that in my next D&D campaign. This was listed
 under "player responsibilities" and there's some other bangers in there too -
 like this:
 
 TAKE INITIATIVE
 Set your own goals and make your own fun. Seek out adventure rather than
 waiting for it to come to you.
 
 I wish every player I ever had read that single page. And I wish I had read
 the "DM responsibilities" listed just one page prior. It's a really great
 game! I'm also into OSE, or Old School Essentials. What kind of D&D do you
 like?
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--- #173 fediverse/2774 ---
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 I want to emphasize that my mask is just as much a part of me as the other
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--- #174 fediverse/1715 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 true, but what is a poem if not a silly construction of phrases? Those words
 don't belong together, what are you doing! And yet it fills you will a feeling
 that the author intended, thus being poetry as a joke.
 
 problem is if everyone says the same joke, it gets kinda... old... hence why
 you should express yourself as much as you can.
 
 I wonder if fewer people are "alternative" these days because they all started
 hanging out on the internet and trying to differentiate themselves amongst
 each other instead of amongst "normal people"? Weird thought, srry haha
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--- #175 fediverse/2041 ---
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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--- #176 fediverse/1893 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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--- #178 fediverse/4038 ---
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 it's your life to spend. how do you [intend/plan] on being useful?
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 @user-1520 
 
 After a certain point you realize there's little to be done with that design
 space that Star Fox didn't do better!
 
 Also I think people tend to associate them with arcade "gun games" which are
 tbh more fun than clicking with a mouse or whatever since they're tactile and
 physical.
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--- #180 fediverse/3696 ---
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 why does my fridge keep saying "you're dead to me"...?
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--- #181 fediverse/1317 ---
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 ... if I don't do this deadline by tomorrow they'll kick me out of school.       │
 again.                                                                           │
 how am I going to be a programmer without a degree? feels useless to be me.      │
 wish I could code my own horoscope >.>                                           │
 o wait dummy that's called "motivation" and "the ability to follow through on    │
 your ideas and planned machinations" - yeah can I get some of that, if you       │
 please? surely just a taste of discipline, through laboring to alter             │
 conditions, surely a bit would suffice.                                          │
 c'mon don't fail me now. I can do this. I know I can. I know because I've been   │
 told that I can, now and again through time and time yet again, always I seem    │
 to [stack overflow]                                                              │
 what's time if not the present amiright                                          │
 ...                                                                              │
 anyway...                                                                        │
 it's just git, how hard could it be? it's just calculus, it's just java, it's    │
 just... well, it's not any of those things, not really. it's memorization,       │
 it's application of tools that you've been shown (not that you've grown). It's   │
 a lack of responsibility, where is my honor? ah but I digress, I'm a carpenter   │
 at heart I guess                                                                 │
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--- #182 fediverse/2423 ---
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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 some people prepare for revolution like a boy gets ready for a party
 
 others do so like a girl packing for a weekend trip to vegas
 
 I do it like a kid who forgot the paper was due on monday in 7th period and so
 spends their entire lunch period writing it (missing 4th in the process
 because the conclusion paragraph was giving me difficulty)
 
 but I think no matter how you do it, we're all just waiting for something to
 happen.
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 @user-835 
 
 kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
 important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
 (assumption on my part)
 
 and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
 applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
 develop required functionality for the development of people's
 communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
 resolving those difficulties.
 
 Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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 source code should be like a story
 
 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
 
 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
 - git style.
 
 parts of it could rhyme,
 
 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
 
 ,,, they could selectionize
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 I want to live in a world where people die when they're bored instead of old.
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--- #187 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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 you shouldn't trust me because I'll let you down.
 
 I would never betray you. But when tasked with my own actions and my own
 agency, I never make the right choice.
 
 Like a rabbit who can always find their way home, I am drawn, almost
 gravitically, to the path before me, a path which seems to avoid anything
 resolute.
 
 alas.
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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 @user-1298 
 
 this is kinda cursed, pretend there's another content warning:
 
 --
 
 that kinda happens every time you sleep for most people
 
 or, well, maybe just for me
 
 it's like starting with a blank slate and having access to "memories" that can
 be referenced by ID or searched for using keywords
 
 also like, a "todo" list of things that I've been working on or that are going
 on in my life
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 Good storytelling is telling things [even if/because] they are plot of the
 events as told via -- stack overflow -- hmmm this was from a while ago, idk
 when
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 Ah yes, wouldn't it be nice if everyone spoke their mind? I'm doing my part
 d=(^_^)z
 
 Thank you for adding context to what I posted. I now know better how and where
 to use it, if I ever do again. We shall see, I haven't yet read the
 examinations of the author you sent me. I'll do that before I think about the
 post again.
 
 Those 6 tabs I mentioned last night have now become 4, and soon I'll get
 through all of them - reading is a joy to me ^_^
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 @user-907 
 
 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 @user-1165 
 
 you might be right, I don't know much about DSA aside from their numbers. To
 me, it feels like it's run sorta like a church? but again I have no idea
 because I've never been.
 
 do you have a better idea?
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale
 
 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
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 me when it's cold out: we should all bundle up and get through the winter,
 every year that passes is more time to gather our strength
 
 me when the temperature rises: okay so this is being handled by those guys,
 we're moving this way to do this, and - when did you say the this-and-that was
 happening? alright so when you do that-or-this, make sure that you pay
 attention to the so-and-so and don't forget to eat real meals, candy or chips
 don't count.
 
 me when the eyes are on me: imma play video games and smoke weed and be a
 useless little creature who does nothing but occasionally wanders around the
 city doing nothing for nobody and dropping notes on post-its that don't mean
 anything but are kinda cool to read
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 it's discriminatory to force introverts to return to office.
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