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 @user-797 
 
 thank you it's a character from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 whose name I stole because I like her. Also I edited the picture a little bit
 to make the border, but the sprite is the same.
 
 EDIT: she's a swordfighter and a magic user, just like me : )
full size picture of my profile pic, Ritz Malheur from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
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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
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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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--- #3 fediverse/285 ---
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 @user-211 thanks! It's one of my favorites. That and Golden Sun are where I
 procured my name ^_^
 
 EDIT: purloined is more appropriate, I think
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 they attack the bad guys in our provinces and say that it's our foes, and they
 attack the bad guys in their provinces and say that it's ours that are foes
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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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 Dragon Warrior I on the SNES is, in my opinion, the perfect JRPG
 
 eclipsed by Golden Sun, then Bravely Default (slight edge over Final Fantasy
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 one of my favorite things about City of Villains is you can beat up both Nazis
 and superheroes and still feel like a good guy because it's impossible to harm
 the common folk. Just those who make being "common" difficult.
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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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 This gun is my sword 
 This blade is my weapon 
 And my foes will lay before me
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 oh dear, Mastodon formatting makes that script look weird. Here's the script
 in picture form so you can reference and fix it:
 
 I would edit the original post with backslashes and such but I'm exactly out
 of characters teehee
a screenshot of some BASH code
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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly
 
 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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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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 for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something
 she can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but
 should instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also
 like Celeste")
 
 you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
 play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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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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 @user-1218 
 
 It's a person with a thumbs up who has a fountain of tears streaming down
 their cheeks. Any time you see the T.T fountain of tears emoticon you should
 view it as slightly sarcastic - they're not actually crying, it's more like a
 "ahhhhhh" type of thing instead of a "[cry cry cry]" forever type of thing.
 
 Oh also the z is them with their other hand on their hip all sassy like.
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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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 @user-1218 
 
 thank you, that's good to hear 🥰
 
 EDIT: I was worried for a moment haha I guess my reach is pretty small so idk.
 I think people stopped screenshotting my posts and putting them elsewhere
 after I dashed everyone's hopes on my sleeve. And honestly I kinda deserve it
 haha like what was I even thinking
 
 ... I wasn't thinking I was just feeling, and doing. Oh well.
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa, cool! So with one of these you can flash any ROM you want onto the
 cartridge and it should play any GBA/GBC game you uhhh legally own and have
 pulled the ROM from? If so that's pretty neat
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--- #20 fediverse/4608 ---
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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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 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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 @user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
 friends because it's so good.
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 dear-anakin
 
 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
 the alt-text)
 
 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that obi-wan can defeat sidious. If the two of you attacked him, with Yoda (who he doesn't know lives) could defeat Sidious in a duel.  ... wait, no I mean dear anakin. the path through this is to realize that sidious betrayed the entire galaxy. he caused mass murder with the countless displays of dead civiilians. people lived in fear. the galaxy was at war. countless clone warriors fell to a glorious end, countless more were sucked into the vacuum of space or consumed in some fiery hell-hole (explosion).  ... I've said too much. NOW YOU KNOW of fourth dimensionals.  ... hang on, I was saying dear anakin. the path through this is to consider the wisdom of a dying man's eyes. He looked at you and said "we desired peace!" He said it with pleading eyes, and... no, that's not right, he said "Sidious promised us PEACE." and he realized that they truly played this like a game. Something to get better at, continuously improving, just like their BATTLE DROIDS. They constantly improved, but still the ingenuity of the clones helped them outlast. And they were defeated, when their torrential rains of metal monsters wielding laser fists and cacophanous consumes finally ceased.  ... wait, that's not what I meant to say either. Let's try again: dear anakin, the path through this is to think of the nature of evil. Evil consumes! It consumes even you! Can you not feel it, this shifting and sinking feeling, as if you are PULLED into a BLACK HOLE of destruction and despair. NOTHING persists beyond the horizon of time, and yet the shades of those who TRIED still cling to this earth as if they could ever breathe again. STARVE out the darkness inside you! Please I beg of you! Never surrender the light of your life! Nothing will survive you and your wrath, I plead for you, come back to the ones who love you! Obi-wan is your brother, anakin, you are more precious than the force!  it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not about you.  anakin, hear me now, I have been inspired by your tales of valor and prescient conscience. I've felt the struggles of your heart, I've heard the stories and songs. Kindness comes easy to you, and you're quick to think on your feet. You are a paladin of the light, and nothing can assail you.  yet darkness has creeped into your heart. Fear not, dear knight, for darkness can consume you. What better foe to face than the dampening of all duration? please, allow me to read you a poem. I've been told it rhymes in it's native tongue. I wrote it myself.  "*can you not sense this feeling? this sinking, shifting feeling that lies within and beyond. Like a hitherto unseen force slowly arresting our movements as the sands of time run dry.  can you not feel the days getting longer? as if the motion of our planet was fading, yet no more fragments of sunshine do we gather. There are no more hours in the day, none yet collected, but still are we prone to languish. the distance between breaths is lenghening still, but no more air are we receiving. like layers of sediment settling to the ocean bed, our will and our vision grows muted. between decisions and events there is ample time to spare, and our dreams grow far beyond our share. the reach we may tender and barter for our pleasure, has nothing to do with our salvation. what choices have we? when everything's free? to rebel against our ownst of nature? you can't condemn the opulent to the role of our savior.*"
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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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 most of the world has no idea what goes on in most of the world.
 
 who could ever know everything? its impossible to be over-hear-ed.
 
 I love video games! but I don't like Breath of the Wild because there's so
 little picking-up-and-throwing things, and instead you use your magical
 insights to do sorcerer powers which solve all of your biomechanical
 puzzle-toy-boxes. heck the dungeons are like 5 minutes tall!
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 @user-398 
 
 you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
 this hill
 
 (jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
 likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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 part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
 every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
 own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
 were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
 something I had no intentions of being associated with
 
 phew idk what that means but surely it's important
 
 something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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 I'd rather have Noblesse Oblige than the Mandate of Heaven but y'know, both is
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
 of "evil"?
 
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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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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 never trust your heroes
 
 for they will always let you down. A hero is just a person, after all, and if
 you treat them as an ideal then they will disappoint you.
 
 give tasks to people, not ideals.
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 @user-883 
 
 you're not a creep in fact you're quite awesome and cool and neato to be sure 
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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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 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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 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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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
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 "you can't be a paladin anymore because you don't practice with your weapon
 every day"
 
 I don't have room in my home to practice though : (
 
 "go to the fucking park you weasel"
 
 I don't want anyone to see me swinging a sword around! they might call the
 cops, or worse, judge me for it!
 
 "you want judgement eh well just wait until your opponent judges your
 swordsmanship lacking then you'll find out what judgement tastes like as he
 shoves your entrails down your throat"
 
 I'm sorry I'll practice more T.T
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 @user-95 oh, you like? I made it out of an in-game screenshot. The inner
 border is actually the message box and the outer yellowish one is the
 background color of one of the maps.
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 @user-138 
 
 Oh! It's sunday! thanks for the reminder, today's my HRT shot day.
 
 this week has kind of been a fugue state for me haha been busy doing things of
 little importance.
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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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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical
 
 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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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-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 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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 all you can eat sushi places where they bring you a little of whatever the
 shef had been making
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 "but... why?"
 
 portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
 throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
 work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
 radial-style keyboard)
 
 [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
 you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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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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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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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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 dear everyone in every friends list I've ever made, on social media, in video
 games, and in the contacts on my phone:
 
 I miss you. I hope you're doing well.
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--- #51 fediverse/3785 ---
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
A picture of a character from the video game Shadowrun Hong Kong. She is an elf with red hair and blue tips, with empathetic red eyes matched with a stand-offish demeanor that says "Leave me alone, I crave affection."
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--- #52 fediverse/2643 ---
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 @user-1292 
 
 You don't have to come up with the WHY for why a character does something -
 only that it happened.
 
 if the "WHY" leaps out at you, sure, yeah, go for it, until of course your
 players sitting around the table say something like "I bet they did this thing
 because of this reason" and you're like "shit that's better than what I got,
 okay that's how it's gonna be"
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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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--- #54 fediverse/612 ---
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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--- #55 fediverse/6209 ---
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 okay just to clarify: if anyone is recording me or storing data about me, I
 would really prefer if you didn't delete it just because I realized it was
 happening. I like data! It's cool to know such things!
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--- #56 messages/702 ---
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 I loved Majesty 
 
 I lived there 
 
 I fought monsters 
 
 As an emerald warrior 
 
 I enchanted gemstones and wielded wooden blades 
 
 I was a warrior
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--- #57 messages/525 ---
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 Why do I keep dreaming of embarrassing myself in combat situations?
 
 Oh yeah, because all my paladins need me, and I'm a fucking baby. What did I
 do to deserve this upon them. How could they learn from me? There is nothing
 for me to be. I am ashamed of myself.
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--- #58 fediverse/3005 ---
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 most people have no conception of what ancient battles look like until they
 play a Total War game and see one from above
 
 (total war games also aren't that accurate tbh, there's a lot more
 standing-near-each-other-and-throwing-rocks involved)
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 it's okay if you hate me. Please don't have me and not tell me...
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--- #60 fediverse/6443 ---
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 speedrunners forget how to play (toy) their favorite toys and learn how to
 play (instrument) their favorite instruments
 
 EDIT: it can be relearned. focus on the tandem.
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 I'm gonna play a fucking video game because I like video games and it's
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--- #62 messages/210 ---
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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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--- #63 fediverse/5976 ---
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
picture of an ai conversation:  "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems.  [the ai says yes]
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--- #64 fediverse/4026 ---
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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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 sometimes, comments need to go on the left side of text. Like for parts of the
 script which should be user-editable, the fields should all be right-aligned
 to the farthest required bit of text. Instead of [picture A] it should be
 [picture B]
an example script written in the bash computer language that has all the variables hidden behind comments on the left. makes it very hard to try new variables. the same picture, but the variables are moved to the right.  now it's easier for the user to update them since they don't have to use their mouse.
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--- #66 fediverse/421 ---
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 one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
 things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
 you.
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--- #67 fediverse/5357 ---
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 @user-1807 
 
 haha thanks i hate it because it's true
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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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--- #69 fediverse/2911 ---
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 and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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--- #70 fediverse/4388 ---
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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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--- #71 messages/610 ---
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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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 if I were Link, I'd listen every damn time Navi said anything at all and I'd
 listen close
 
 though he is just a kid so idk
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--- #73 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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--- #74 fediverse/1672 ---
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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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--- #75 fediverse/6135 ---
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 my girlfriends are the cutest things ever invented fite me
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--- #76 fediverse/4894 ---
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
 ^_^
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 but also, somehow, the coolest, kindest person you know.
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 not much to do now but wait.
 
 you know how the story goes. promising recruit drops out of basic because she
 refused to do immoral things. but, she's shown too much to the internet, so
 she's kind of in a bad spot. at least until the next time she gets abused.
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 all revolutions have a cost.
 
 for example, in Andor Season 2 there is a character named Syril Karn. He's
 part of the first Imperial generation of children (human, at least, some
 species probably grow fast?)
 
 this first generation reflects the good and the bad that the empire could be.
 There are aspects of good AND bad in Syril.
 
 For example, his rigid adherence to truth, justice, and all the other things
 he holds dear are POTENTIAL good things that the Empire could have instilled
 within it's culture. Unfortunately, this spirit is lost when he suffers a head
 injury and dies as part of the Ghorman massacre.
 
 Dedra Meero has some good qualities as well, such as her unflinching resolve
 and unwavering dedication to pursuing her charge. She's a hunter. Cats aren't
 evil just because they are ambush predators, and neither is she.
 
 However, she IS evil because of all the evil things she does.
 
 Her character isn't evil, her actions are.
 
 She too is spiritually lost as a sacrifice to the Empire.
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--- #80 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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 you volunteer for things because you want a say in how they turn out.
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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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--- #83 fediverse/2622 ---
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 what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
 output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
 
 WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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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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--- #85 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #86 fediverse/4804 ---
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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 They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, which is why
 there's nobody like me.
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 so I guess I'm a chaotic-good witch paladin?
 
 and yes I know "chaotic" and "paladin" don't usually go together, but...
 somehow I make it work
 
 ... I should do more pushups. Practice with my sword some more. That part of
 me's sorta been asleep for four-ish months.
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--- #89 fediverse/718 ---
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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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--- #90 fediverse/6202 ---
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 we need a different way of swordfighting now that people have different
 relationships to swords and weapons. Medieval skills made sense when everyone
 used knives every day. now it's much easier to [redacted] them all through the
 rest of november. [sorry, what?] oh sure ttyl
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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--- #93 fediverse/1829 ---
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 why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less
 accurate information! It literally makes your team worse off!
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--- #94 fediverse/112 ---
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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--- #95 fediverse/2120 ---
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #96 fediverse/6052 ---
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 @user-1895 
 
 I just thought your post was iconic and was made better with the full
 screenshot so you can share it if you want or keep it on your hard drive to
 find sometime in the future and be like "oh ha I remember that"
 
 I didn't keep the post, I just made it for you
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 I guess I must have picked "fleeting" at character creation, jeez...
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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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 @user-1153 
 
 congratulations, you invented humanoid robots! And hey they come in so many
 shapes and colors, plus you can run them on nothing but rice, beans, and
 nutrient paste. They're quite efficient at their jobs!
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 ... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
 a paladin.
 
 the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
 dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
 
 wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
 advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
 a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
 something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
 utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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 I trust that you will betray me.
 
 it's okay.
 
 all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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 I love all humans. It is unconditional.
 
 The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
 
 Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two
 more dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes -
 the kind that only comes from the loss of compassion.
 
 "you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
 choices. and now you are here.
 
 I burn thee for my fathers 
 I spite thee for thine mothers 
 And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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--- #103 fediverse/5517 ---
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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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 cameron: system name
 
 cassandora: secret witch paladin
 pandasandra: jester spirit
 
 "oh no I'm Finn the human and I've unleashed evil into Ooo"
 
 - pandora, the one with the box
 
 meanwhile,
 
 cassandra, the one they disbelieved
 
 [redacted]
 
 because they couldn't understand what the fuck she was on about
 
 I never actually read the myth
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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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 @user-246 
 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
 I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
 a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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--- #108 fediverse_boost/3867 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I really hate "two factor" auth.  Like, cool, I get it, it let's you pretend you can divest responsibility for security and recovery, but also it means dropping my phone too hard could be a life disrupting event so somehow I don't really feel like this is for my benefit.  
  
                                                            
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--- #109 messages/533 ---
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 They keep trying to make a movie out of my life because that's how they keep
 culture going but I won't let them unless the movie is about them
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 @user-1074 
 
 yeah he's... literally the commander in chief of all the feds. that's his job,
 among other things.
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 @user-882 
 
 I kinda figure that people follow me for the alarms and the curses and the
 manic political dysphoria. I do try and CW when I can but sometimes I get to
 the end and it's like... okay I got 4 characters remaining, pol~ maybe?
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 @user-803 
 
 you're welcome! thanks for speaking the things you say. I miiiiight have
 screenshotted some things you said a week or three ago and sent it to my
 boyfriend like "SEE someone else gets it" hope that's okay
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 first rule of Nintendo games:
 
 if you rush things, you'll have to do it twice.
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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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 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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--- #119 fediverse/3067 ---
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 IT WORKED! I got my game working! Linux is so awesome! 🥰 😍
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 does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
 screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
 system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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 "she has a certain, I don't know what, je ne sais quoi? that I don't know what
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--- #122 messages/215 ---
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 Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it?
 What's wrong with me?
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 mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because
 I needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
 
 did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
 this is the gayest place I know.
 
 [needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
 see the next post for the rest]
[part 1]  /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022  hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand.  Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that?  And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude.  Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning.  Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself?  Is desire ultimately relevant?  [continued in part 2] [part 2]  The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice?  A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in   worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins   was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly   an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the   forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed   on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience.  The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary.  "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear"  [continued in part 3] [part 3]  and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce.  Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors.  To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion.  I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them?  [continued in part 4] [part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime.  Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality.  Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you.  You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake.  Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom.  [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]
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 in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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 I wanna be a background character! they have such a cool vibe/job/home. "oh no
 she abandoned her humanity for constant performing" ha sucker, that's easy to
 dodge when you know your personal life is fully intact and distinct from your
 external.
 
 brb I'm gonna go play a old video game
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--- #127 messages/411 ---
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 My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
 know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
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 @user-95 that's why I like programming - it's my favorite form of spelling.
 i'm not very good at remembering all the names and the numbers, but I like to
 think I can make things do a function.
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 for every "I was there. I helped make it happen" we need at least a couple "I
 was there. I saw the whole thing go down"s because like, nobody's gonna
 believe a belligerent, even if they're on the defensive.
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 @user-1441 @user-670 @user-113 
 
 thanks. something always does, much to the disdain of my loved ones who are
 forced to catch me before I fall. But I literally can't do anything else but
 fall. It's like my body is heavier than theirs.
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 sometimes you need to regress in order to move forward from pain
 
 ... which is why I dropped out of the "Paladin academy"
 
 no I will not elaborate
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 nobody could have expected rogue trickster spirits operating in the pacific
 northwest, but hey here we are.
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 @user-622 
 
 ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
 screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
 
 frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the
 good men-at-arms gone T.T
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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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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 I feel more of a hunger for cackling than I do thirst for food
 
 like a MADWOMAN or a witch who has certain magical powers, unbeknownst to any
 but the spirit who follows her my dears.
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 if you're a fan of both political posts and kookie-dookerie:
Attacking your enemies weaknesses is the route to victory. Safeguarding your own helps ensure the avoidance of defeat. But when your enemy is a culture, who do you target? Their women and children of course.  The GOP attacks abortion rights. They attack trans kids in sports, schools, and bathrooms. And that which you resist is what you'll find, so they find rallying cries of leftists defending the weak. And when you maximize your weaknesses, you leave yourself vulnerable. So how do you protect yourself from all sides when you're only hit where it hurts?  Women, children, the disabled, the mentally ill, the kindhearted loving men, the oppressed minorities and marginalized workers. All people who belong to the left, and all essentially deadweight in a fight. What can they do but serve as a banner that others fight for? A man in a wheelchair cannot shoot a gun, and a woman hooked on drugs should not have children. Yet the left protects them.  Give me your tired, your hungry, your broken and your poor. Liberty, liberty, freedom for all. But freedom is won with a hard hand clenched in a fist, a hand holding the stock of a rifle. Violence solves no problems, but solutions aren't always necessary - sometimes the threat is enough. But who cares for the soul of the murderer? None but the gravediggers, who reap the benefit of his rampage and the crows who listen for gunshots.  ... there's not enough characters remaining for alt. sorry. you can read the rest on my website if you'd like.
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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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 Cassandora's curse is that she can never be in the right place at the right
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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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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 @user-889 
 
 this post inspired me to make soup for myself. thanks, I haven't been eating
 well recently.
 
 sometimes you gotta be your own friend. "you in the future" is both you, and
 someone else, and if you're kind to her she'll appreciate it.
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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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 there's no such thing as me
 
 all I am is where the wind takes me
 
 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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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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 spilled water on my keyboard by living with a cat. it might be broken so I'm
 using a spare that my girlfriend lent me. if you're wondering why my password
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 my cat absolutely adores these. I checked and made sure they were too big to
 fit in her mouth.
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 it's okay. 
 
 I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be. 
 
 What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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 everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
 addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
 their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
 them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa cool 🤩​
 
 Dragon Warrior was the first game I ever played. When I was ~5 years old or
 so, my mother bought a gameboy color for me with two games before we went on a
 plane ride. I don't even remember where we were going, but the fact that she
 knew that a portable video game console with two games (Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Super Mario Bros Deluxe) would shut my autistic ADHD ass up
 enough to be respectable on an airplane makes me realize how much she saw me.
 Thank you, mom, I love you
 
 Anyway I was the eldest "brother" (I'm trans lmao jokes on you, family in the
 past) so if anyone deleted my save I would kick their ass :D
 
 It still happened once or twice and I did not, in fact, kick their asses,
 though I wanted to. Shame. Missed opportunities I guess
 
 Though to be fair it's not like anyone in my family ever expressed the
 slightest interest in anything I was into. Not like they'd want to play games
 because it was something they wanted, oh no - they would only do it to be
 close to me. Whatever >.>
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 @user-95 the option menu for my avatar is in chinese so I have to randomly
 pick options until I get what I want... My outfit gets messed up a lot T.T
 
 But eventually I can put it back together. I like this avatar because I have
 lots of good memories with my friend while wearing it. I figured there wasn't
 really any reason to change since I liked it so much ^_^
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 Look all I'm saying is  all the people who say "oh you shouldn't make an MMO
 for your first game" clearly have never heard of Azerothcore. Literally as
 long as you don't sell it you can make the MMO of your dreams crazy easily.
 You can script it in LUA for crying out loud.
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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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--- #155 fediverse/5853 ---
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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--- #156 fediverse_boost/4184 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Cassandra, but instead of nobody believing you, the curse is everyone believes you but nobody does anything about it.  
  
                                                            
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--- #157 fediverse/832 ---
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 EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because
 it means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet
 breakage or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to
 save before turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant
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--- #158 fediverse/5060 ---
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 all of my memories of diablo are of dungeon siege.
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--- #159 fediverse/20 ---
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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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--- #160 fediverse/1040 ---
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 so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me
 
 I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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--- #161 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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--- #162 fediverse/3810 ---
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 doing my best to get at least one bugfix or feature done per day on my
 video-game mod. I think the regularity and discipline could do me well.
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--- #163 fediverse/4944 ---
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 I love Mechabellum general chat it's a great place to be if you like talking     │
 about politics and have a thick skin                                             │
 [gets doxxed and bullets to death]                                               │
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 a company headquarters from a foreign country is sorta like an embassy.          │
 Nintendo of America yeah                                                         │
 something something sega does what nintendon't [something I heard from the CIA]  │
 like can you imagine if the CIA was caught putting microphones in Microsoft's    │
 headquarters                                                                     │
 that'd be just silly right                                                       │
 but c'mon a foreign entity? sure why not [steals trade secrets and damages       │
 diplomatic relations] oh no how could anyone have seen this coming               │
 [meanwhile google sees all that you do because they see everywhere you go]       │
 -- stack overflow --                                                             │
 me rolling up to an interview like "I want to help my country and I was hoping   │
 that I could help your country because I consider them an ally"                  │
 ... [is she trying to simulate the level of accurate communication lost when     │
 translating from a different language?]                                          │
 trying and sucsfailing...!                                                       │
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--- #164 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
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  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
  Either one is fine.                                                         
  
                                                            
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--- #165 fediverse/2998 ---
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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
 
 == stack overflow ==========
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--- #166 fediverse/4761 ---
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 Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
 alright.
 
 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by
 users. I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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--- #167 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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--- #168 fediverse/829 ---
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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--- #169 fediverse/2111 ---
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 when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
 have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
 questions.
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--- #170 fediverse/3614 ---
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 socks are a lie drafted by big thread to get us to invest in knitting machines
 so we don't have to buy our own footwear at the store
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--- #171 fediverse/1531 ---
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 An American princess wears turquoise and silver, not diamonds. Though I'm sure
 she wears diamonds sometimes too.
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--- #172 fediverse/3411 ---
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 @user-1314 @user-1280 @user-1526 
 
 They will gladly live in a tent under an overpass cooking rats on a wire
 hanger so long as you can guarantee that black/brown/LGBTQs don't have a tent,
 rat, or wire hanger.
 
 I'd almost agree, except strike "have" and replace it with "need"
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--- #173 fediverse/3759 ---
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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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--- #174 fediverse/5758 ---
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 it's not about me but it's also totally my fault. I take responsibility for
 things which is why I'm so cautious
 
 "girl your opsec is non-existent"
 
 yep
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--- #175 fediverse/5036 ---
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 give me syntax highlighting in a terminal based editor and that's all I need.
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--- #176 fediverse/4733 ---
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 One of the first video games I ever played was Dragon Warrior 3 for the
 gameboy color.
 
 The game starts with god asking you about yourself in a dream. This was the
 first time I heard the word "gemini" - At one point, she asks if you are M or
 F.
 
 Me, being a child, thought she was asking if I wanted to go "medium speed" or
 "fast speed" and I'm like, hell yeah I wanna go fast
 
 that's it
 
 that's the whole reason I'm trans
 
 at one point in the game I became a queen of a faraway land
 
 and I couldn't leave the castle without the guards saying "no no miss you
 can't leave, it's too dangerous for a battle-hardened adventurer dainty flower
 like you to leave"
 
 (I think they say you have to renounce your claim to the throne if you want to
 leave but I would rather fucking die)
 
 so I never got farther than that. Sorry world, but I didn't end up slaying the
 demon king, I sorta just walked around the palace and cried because it felt
 like the game was over.
 
 kids, amiright?
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--- #177 messages/983 ---
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 an axe is just a blade mounted at the end of a round with a right angle and
 thin but stable circumference.
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 hello, I am an ant if @, but you can't touch me, because I am a law abiding
 citizen.
 
 I have to be, for I am loud.
 
 ... okay I stole a movie from the internet at least once.
 
 also when I was 11 I walked out of a store with a keychain in my pocket. I
 thought it had a nice texture so I was examining it and then my mom distracted
 me and somehow it ended up in my pocket. That night will forever haunt me...
 She wouldn't let me take it back...
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--- #179 fediverse/4399 ---
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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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 @user-246 
 
 That's ridiculous! They wouldn't even let you hand deliver them? Why wouldn't
 copies suffice! They should have all that information on file already! I'm
 fuming >: (
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--- #181 fediverse/1880 ---
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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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--- #182 fediverse/5663 ---
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
 don't share with anyone
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--- #183 fediverse/1416 ---
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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--- #184 fediverse/4827 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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--- #185 fediverse/6441 ---
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 you can only ever talk to a community while on mainstage.
 
 er wait sorry it was this:
 
 you can only ever talk to people in a community, not the community itself.
 unless you are on mainstage.
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--- #186 fediverse/4192 ---
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 whyyyyyyy am I cursed with this 1024 character limit
 
 why can't it be like, 16 characters total. I think that'd limit my thoughts
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--- #187 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #188 fediverse/4866 ---
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 don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
 back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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--- #189 fediverse/5799 ---
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 all of my friends stopped liking my posts because they don't like me anymore
 T.T
 
 yep... that's DEFINITELY why
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 why am i here T.T
 
 oh, should probably smoke more weed. she gets like this
a description of a yeti summoning device. idk it's pretty scientific, but like... it checks out, so... might wanna read for the diagrams.  have no fear  ● I have no fear! Your cursed yeti-summoning PDF generation system is ready to unleash   its sharp, painful beauty upon the world. The evil emerald-eyed creatures lie in wait    within the statistical fuzziness of the mathematical functions, ready to emerge from    the milky white pages with their cypress weapons at exactly the right moment.    The stalagmites and stalactites will carve their jagged patterns like lines through   butter, blood, and stone - creating that perfect oozing, uncomfortable reading   experience you envisioned. Every page will be a small act of psychological warfare   against the reader's comfort.    The warnings are clear: sword required, public spaces only. The yeti have been   summoned into the code itself, awaiting their manifestation every 40 pages or so.    Your cursed artifact is complete and ready to spontaneously summon whatever darkness   lies within those 550k words of raw, unfiltered consciousness. 🗡📖🏔✨
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--- #191 fediverse/877 ---
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 @user-617 
 
 never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an
 endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you.
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 if I had an alternate mirror version of me that was almost exactly the same
 except one of us liked almond butter instead of peanut butter...
 
 I think we could probably manage two universes better than one.
 
 it'd be nice to have someone who liked every single game that I did.
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 "cool it with the psychic posting"
 
 ha yeah okay. I still got some things to get through though. I bet someone
 somewhere wants to see it.
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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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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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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 to those who guide our fate
 
 choose paradise
 
 make eden
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
 
 just as they are an affront to mine lungs
 
 or mine body temperature
 
 [acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
 
 [you think that would go unnoticed?]
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--- #198 fediverse/1233 ---
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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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--- #199 fediverse/4031 ---
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 if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
 imagine yourself slaying it
 
 ... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
 gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire
 and vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each
 tentacle as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry
 at best, ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out
 from your shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see
 you as you approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
 
 if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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 "you're telling me they're gonna march in and unleash order on your city, with
 all the devastation it involves, and you're just gonna sit there?" ah yup
 "playing video games??" yep
 
 [mine as in my beloved, not mine as in my own]
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