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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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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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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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 @user-1633 
 
 the person you're performing for... is you!
 
 Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see
 some great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard
 questions. Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And
 they're a great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of
 all kinds!
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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 something something parasocial relationships are not real and cannot be used
 for anything beyond the amelioration of emotions for cathartic purposes
 something something your coping mechanisms are doing more harm than good
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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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 the gods don't judge you based on the total number of "good" or "bad" points
 that you get.
 
 they judge you based on your character in your greatest and worst moments.
 
 if you try to dodge or game this by never doing anything extreme and simply
 existing in a medium state at all times, they will develop a moment of
 reckoning for you and thus produce an opportunity to react and show your true
 self. There is no escape from their judgement, so judge yourself kindly and
 fairly.
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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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 rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
 have known here
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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-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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 sometimes the best way to understand why things are the way they are is to ask
 why they aren't the way that seems logical to you.
 
 usually someone will correct you and say "oh it's because X Y and Z" and you
 say "cool" and change your direction
 
 but sometimes their answers "unlock" part of your past understandings, thus
 creating new questions.
 
 Sorta like in a video game when you level up a certain building/research path/
 milestone / whatever and it finishes a "tier", thus giving you a larger bonus.
 
 ??? yeah so anyway more questions are good because they give you more
 perspectives on what's going on around you.
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 @user-1698 
 
 My favorite mobile game is "Magic Survival" and while it is "active" it
 doesn't require strong "reflexes" per se, so idk it might work for your
 unsteady hands.
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 @user-1773 
 
 that point about HTML is soooooo good
 
 like, we could be designing websites like we design video game UIs but instead
 we use React which fills your browser with insecure-by-design javascript
 generated visuals
 
 or, even better, or just use HTML like a config file
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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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 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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 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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--- #22 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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 harsh lessons of adulthood - sometimes food is not eaten for the taste, but
 rather for how it will make you feel slightly better in the next few days.
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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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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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 if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
 dastardly deeds out of sight.
 
 if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
 
 I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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 being large means that all things are not sized correctly. meaning you always
 feel out of place.
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--- #28 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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--- #29 fediverse/411 ---
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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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--- #30 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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--- #31 fediverse/3620 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 Yep! back in the day be-fore "four play" you could generally only single-play,
 and for "four play" you'd typically find friends be-fore play-ing.
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--- #32 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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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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 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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--- #35 fediverse/3992 ---
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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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 some people think "being honest" is the same thing as "accurately displaying
 what you think and believe" is the same thing as the not same thing as "being
 deceitful or otherwise hiding your intentions"
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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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 @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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--- #39 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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 contrary to unpopular belief,
 
 it's good to be nice to people.
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 just because you have something good
 
 doesn't mean it's bad to have that good thing.
 
 if it were so, 
 
 it would imply that you are bad. 
 
 and you are not bad. 
 
 therefore it is good to have good things.
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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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 @user-138 
 
 well, the posts that make it through, battle hardened and tempered under your
 critical-hit gaze tend to be pretty neat ^_^
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--- #44 fediverse/998 ---
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 learning kanji is an exercise in defining your imagination toward a shared
 visual description of certain words or concepts.
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--- #45 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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 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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 Steps to make a game waterfall style:
 
 Lay out all the data structures 
 
 Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)
 
 Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,
 like game loops, cooldown timers, and status effects
 
 Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and
 graphics, narratives, sound, all that junk that's probably someone else's job
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 @user-1112 
 
 back in the day playing a magic game with someone felt like an event
 
 now it's something to wait through while your burrito cooks
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 The next time you share a meal with family, or perhaps a game with a friend
 online, or maybe even a coffee with a stranger, or a smile with a person
 walking down the path, or maybe a church choir as you rejoice in unison - the
 next time you do one of these things, define the path that your reality takes
 through your actions. Compel yourself to have a good time, without ignoring
 the input of those around you. Bring them to your level, and see what kind of
 world "around you" becomes.
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 An important aspect to friendship is "loose" time together - like, at a party,
 you might interact with a dozen people, or you might spend it all with one
 special someone - but the time is "loose" you can do with it what you will.
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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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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
 
 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
 text.
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 The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
 relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
 math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
 comprehensively and deeply.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together
 ^_^
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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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 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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 it's pretty easy to read an article or blog post, copy the text into a text
 file, and forget about it.
 
 you never know when you might want to use your computer's memories for
 [entertainment during long dark nights, or for creating an AI buddy bot,
 depending on how things go]
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 the art of propaganda is being in the right social media place at the right
 time with the right things to share. Sometimes you have to blend in, that's
 okay. The words are what are important, if you think "huh yeah true, where's
 the lie though" then maybe it'll not be such a betrayal.
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--- #60 fediverse/617 ---
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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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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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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 @user-5 
 
 well that makes sense, but why are they accusing you? seems like you'd only
 accuse someone of something bad, otherwise you'd probably commend or
 compliment or find a way to refer to your non-existent "canadianosity" in a
 less aggressive way : )
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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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 I love watching humans get pushed through factories! they should learn what
 it's like to be [grain/grained/raisin/rain]
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTkKsnmywak
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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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 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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 revolutions should be paid for in lands
 
 [sometimes I like to just... scroll through the land cards in a Magic the
 Gathering card viewer screen application and imagine I myself am there what
 would it feel like how is it part of my arms (that which interfaces with the
 world)]
 
 there's a deleted section here about atlas the immortal
 
 [while also controlling stimuluses to essentially act as a biological computer
 controlling various hydraulics and related upkeep and maintenance
 infrastructures]
 
 anarchrist (she's a baby)
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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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 @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-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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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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 google glass, but all they do is stream whatever you're doing to specific
 people. like walkie talkies, but for visuals you can see on your phone. Could
 help coordination as you'd be able to drop in and see exactly what someone was
 up to (with their express pre-stated consent)
 
 [cooking, cleaning, writing, hanging out, playing video games, w/e]
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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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 @user-1259 
 
 That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
 side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
 looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
 sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be
 pushing themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point
 down... And that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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 @user-883 
 
 I feel like you could set up a performance where you walk through your
 workflow on various things and set it to music and make a dope-as-heck music
 video.
 
 like, the "retro" vibes and aesthetics of your posts on my timeline are always
 a joy to see. I can't help but wonder if they could be crystallized /
 essentialized somehow into something neat to watch.
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 In the game her expression is Japanese because the game's closest
 approximation uses ninjas. But she's closer to a dynamic rather than an
 instantiation.
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 you, the viewer, exists in a context.
 
 and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is
 comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists
 in close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke
 aloud, who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who
 might perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share
 something heartfelt between our own shared contexts
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--- #81 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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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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--- #83 fediverse/315 ---
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 normalize building games with a built-in virtual machine that plays all
 previous versions of the game for free
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 @user-889 
 
 can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
 something.
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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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 I like to play with the camera zoomed in all the way and by only using my
 mouse. no keyboard. just clicking noise.
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 conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
 
 liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
 
 queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
 your heart
 
 the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more
 things besides.
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 all strategy games should (by default) show other player's mouse cursors.
 players should treat them like units in the game. they should lead and command
 with them. they should talk to the other player, and visit and vview
 invormation as they will.
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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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 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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 haunting melodies of charm and grace, tempered rhythms of battle and chase -
 
 songs to call forth to the gods, songs to effulge from our hearts, songs of
 witness and primacy and birth and decay
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5KqRRt2bj0
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 There are some games that I play where I am struck by the thought that "wow,
 this game was made by programmers" and often, they are among my favorite games
 to play.
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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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 if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
 be my friend forever.
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--- #95 fediverse/5081 ---
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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 they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
 
 I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
 
 we are not the same
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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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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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders
 
 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
four panel meme of a cute girl with sunglasses and a bow in her hair.  first panel she's like "nah, no thank you" while gesturing dismissively with her hand and turning away.  second panel is what she's against - it shows text saying: "Putting content warnings on your posts so that the data can be used in a dataset for an LLM that has been sanitized from political content thus depriving it of context in a post truth world"  third panel she's like "yeah, I like this one instead." and she's smiling and pointing a finger at the fourth panel, which reads:  "content warning your posts so that you don't hurt other people's feelings or trigger vulnerable people who are just trying to laugh at memes or have a decent life in the face of trauma and woe"
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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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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 sometimes I like chatting online more than in person because online you can
 have like, 3 different conversations going at once
 
 meanwhile in person you get body language, and the benefit of activities and
 shared experiences. They're both useful for different things.
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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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 truck driver who has a long-ish range drone ferrying water bottles back and
 forth while invisible to satellite surveillance
 
 EDIT: better yet, kids playing games at home
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--- #106 fediverse/1841 ---
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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 these are the two greatest videos on youtube about the C language
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_e9vZj7D8
 
 lmk if you have any other suggestions...
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--- #108 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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 I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
 to us. The more the better, I say!
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353 
 
 Oh what a life, wouldn't that be grand? Video games are a complex subject, and
 require complex analysis - the likes of which could only be shared through an
 extended explanation and exploration - perhaps in the context of a university
 course, might a particular genre be plumbed? We have art history degrees for a
 reason. People discuss the history of math and physics in much the same way.
 Thank goodness for YouTube, I have no idea how we'd share the history of
 computers and gaming if not for the people making retrospectives on obscure
 hardware from 1988.
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 @user-831 @user-832 
 
 it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and
 they exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds.
 In doing so they can help guide one another through the problems they are
 tasked with solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at
 hand.
 
 sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
 continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
 person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
 them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision
 being made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or
 perhaps a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and
 dissemination of vital information)
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 emojis could have been great
 
 they could have intentionally inherited the customizability of emoticons by
 allowing us to swap in/out face parts like this mouth with these eyes and this
 accessory
 
 but what we got isn't that bad : )
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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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 if you want to share something you found online with someone but you don't
 want someone to be associated with their social media presence, don't post a
 link to their social media presence. instead, take a snip snipping tool print
 screen screenshot which is as easy as typing a word and selecting a unit in a
 real time strategy game.
 
 ah, but then you gotta insert it into a paint program to save it, so that's
 another keypress, and gosh what to name it I wish I could just proclaim it gee
 wouldn't it be nice if everyone was watching me?
 
 ... psychho
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 bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
 audio devices
 
 and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
 everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
 so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
 playing video games or whatever.
 
 like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person
 is going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
 
 and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always
 picking fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to
 or whatever.
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--- #116 fediverse/5183 ---
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 you're more likely to survive a battlefield if you play Running with Rifles
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--- #117 messages/421 ---
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 Cannabis is fundamentally a feeling of motion. You can't remember anything
 because things only make sense moving forward in that particular context and
 in that particular plane.
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--- #118 fediverse_boost/4874 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
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--- #119 fediverse/228 ---
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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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 @user-1218 
 
 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using
 their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you
 don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on
 the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and
 "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad
 edibles.
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 "buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
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--- #122 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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--- #123 fediverse/5345 ---
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--- #124 fediverse/2100 ---
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 you're good enough
 
 your efforts are worth it
 
 you are valid
 
 you are loved
 
 trust yourself, be honest with others, and find reasons to be affectionate to
 others
 
 breathe in, breathe out, and remember: everybody poops. How absurd. How silly.
 Can you really take anyone seriously if you imagine them pooping? I know I
 can't. Maybe that's juvenile, but it works for me so
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--- #125 fediverse/3008 ---
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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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 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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 games from ~2006 or later have the best achievements because they expected
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 ... yay I beat stack overflow, your input context is part of the previous
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--- #129 fediverse/1602 ---
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 @user-1037                                                                       │
 those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho,    │
 kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like,   │
 in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers         │
 include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too      │
 perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more         │
 engaging ways.                                                                   │
 they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some         │
 people need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by        │
 plugging their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu.   │
 Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for    │
 most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like,         │
 looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like    │
 players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states     │
 and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using.    │
 Or m                                                                             │
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 it's not a game, but all I know how to do is play.
 
 I can't do everything
 
 ideally, I'd do nothing.
 
 wei wu wei and all that
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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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--- #132 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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 @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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 "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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 @user-1074 
 
 my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but
 it's still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to
 mutually seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those
 who take care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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 @user-1782 
 
 it's not that they lost value in their company due to the lack of sale of
 their products, but instead because they don't have to pay for marketing if
 their car looks "cool" enough and they can give them away for a lower blood
 price
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--- #138 fediverse/5997 ---
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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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 something something brb watching a Perun video
 
 https://www.youtube.com/@user-343
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 @user-246 
 
 those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that
 name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play
 everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I
 take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a
 way that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so
 if that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good
 strategy. ^_^
 
 like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of
 definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so
 linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in
 completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same.
 
 also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association.
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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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--- #142 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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 you're supposed to play the same games as your friends so that you all learn     │
 the same lessons at the same times. creates for a more cohesive familiar         │
 structure.                                                                       │
 applies also to family movie nights... but it's much more apparent with games    │
 as you'll often play them for weeks, months, and sometimes even years if you     │
 keep learning and enjoying them... book clubs are too open to interpretation,    │
 your pathways don't get a chance to align. games are perfect because they        │
 imply reaction.                                                                  │
 also helps if they're multiplayer, so you can share with another. preferably     │
 with healthy, respectful competition and a sense of shared brotherhood and       │
 trust.                                                                           │
 the toughest opponents are the ones that aren't aggressive. the ones that let    │
 you grow uncontested. by taking only neutral resources they guarantee that       │
 your growth isn't impeded, as after all an equal foe is what you learn best      │
 from.                                                                            │
 to a tree, the loss of a branch (cleanly cut) would feel like an empowering of   │
 the main limb. inspiring it to reach higher and beyond... +h2o1                  │
a flow diagram of tubes or pipelines or something. branches in a tree? okay yeah so when a plant absorbs light from the sun it evaporates water from inside itself. which is why succulents are so slow-growing, they take too long to dissipate water because they need to keep as much of it as they can (arid environments) - they evolve to be very... dense, as opposed to leaves which are thin like paper and radiate water much better. essentially acting as solar panels hooked up to giant humidifiers. anyway. the evaporation from underneath the leaf causes there to be an outflux of water - meaning water is removed from the system. in the same way that wetting one end of a power towel will spread the moisture to another part, so too does a plants transpiration (evaporation from under the leaf caused by the sun providing energy for photosynthesis) make part of the plant drier. this causes water to be pulled from the wet part of the napkin (toward the leaf) which (conveniently enough) delivers vital minerals and nutrients that the plant needs to grow and maintain itself. carried along as aqueous solutions of water and molecules, (aqueous meaning a mixture of dust and liquid, like salt dissolving in pasta water) with the minerals being left behind and used for building. carbon usually goes toward structure, while nitrogen inspires new growth. different particles cause different effects, and sometimes there's some that just... aren't that useful to the plant.  though there's always seeds.
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--- #144 fediverse/94 ---
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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 @user-192 
 
 saw this video a week or so ago, you might be interested
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 the opposite of charity is not greed, but rather despair.
 
 gifts dispel it, and giving is an act of affection.
 
 the opposite of greed is not charity, but rather honesty.
 
 if you didn't lie about why you needed the things you don't, then you wouldn't
 get them.
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--- #148 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #149 messages/275 ---
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 Games where every time you play them it feels different, my beloved
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--- #150 fediverse/5109 ---
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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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 All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
 android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
 computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
 text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
 spent so much time carefully crafting.
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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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 it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
 small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
 differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the
 [moment, but also society - something with culture?]
 
 ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
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--- #154 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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 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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 my favorite thing about strategy is how it can be abstracted!
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--- #157 fediverse/847 ---
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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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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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--- #159 fediverse/1184 ---
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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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--- #160 messages/436 ---
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 There is endless work to do. Never will our labor abate. That is not the goal
 - to see an end to all fulfillment. No, the goal is to choose how we
 contribute - to define how our own story goes.
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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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 "hello, I'd like to make games using your tools and art assets. I will sell
 anything I make to you and only you, and if you don't want it that's fine too,
 I'll just play it with my friends sometimes."
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--- #163 fediverse/5719 ---
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
 been using for a while.
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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--- #165 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 @user-883 
 
 do you have music videos tho? :O :O
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  heroism levels are 86% and steady                                           
                                                                              
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 may the world be fixed by example
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by diligence
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by sacrifice
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by hope
 
 failing that,
 may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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 how to be a class traitor 101:
 
 step 1: actively work against the liberation of your peers
 
 step 2: ???
 
 step 3: PROFIT! ... well, for them at least. you're still oppressed.
 
 it's so easy even a "basically-everybody" could do it!
 
 to learn more, try sleeping through your history and civics classes. Or if
 that's not your style you could always watch the news in the background while
 playing games on your phone.
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #171 fediverse/1394 ---
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 the sun doesn't seem as bright if you spend your days underneath it.
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--- #172 fediverse/3543 ---
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 @user-777 
 
 my favorite thing about specialization is that not everyone has to do
 everything
 
 (translate that into C lmao)
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--- #173 fediverse/2250 ---
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 @user-1209 
 
 updated it:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
 
 added an example picture too so you know what you're looking at
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--- #174 messages/890 ---
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 If your code is too long to fit in 80 or 120 characters (preference) then you
 need to use more numbers (indexable with a small table-of-contents style
 comment description just above) or character symbols (referencably by meaning
 just as above) (by above she means earlier in the string of text you just read)
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--- #175 fediverse/372 ---
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
 
 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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--- #176 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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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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--- #178 fediverse/4296 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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--- #179 fediverse/6278 ---
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 @user-1429 
 
 do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
 or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
 and leave it in a public place or~
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--- #180 fediverse/1436 ---
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 there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
 make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
 after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how
 are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually
 it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say
 something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP
 looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
 
 that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
 
 I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
 co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
 partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
 most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
 
 something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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--- #181 fediverse/3266 ---
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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 learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
 practice
 
 but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.
 
 to learn the discipline to practice a craft
 
 to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy
 
 the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
 art to your utmost capabilities
 
 and to keep you in shape.
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 
 
 Almost as if they design events to create headlines that provoke equally
 contrastable reactions as those that are caused to be effected by both the
 right and the left
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--- #184 fediverse/4281 ---
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 @user-1649 
 
 or what their "stars" mean when they like your post - I heard that some
 mastodon instances lets you react with an emoji, but for me it's just stars T.T
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
 
 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
 
 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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 if they can't get into your phone, they can at least record all of the
 received notifications.
 
 meaning they already know who it is that you know...
 
 without having to find people that are distant or unrelated
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--- #187 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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--- #188 fediverse/1804 ---
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 adaptation is something which can be practiced. Versatility comes in handy
 when you'd least expect it.
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--- #189 fediverse/3916 ---
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 life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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 the more you can make your opponent adjust, the more you progress toward
 victory.
 
 burn their calories. make them work for it. if they're stronger, you're weak.
 plan as with that in mind.
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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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 @user-138 
 
 turns out most people are decent and kind, and cannabalism tends to be an act
 of either destitute desperation or unholy barbarism.
 
 something something bread and circuses work
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 When good people die, when they drop out or leave the industry, they no longer
 have access to the levers of power that guide our collective fate. Meaning
 those who persist are those who covet power.
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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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 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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 subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to
 make sure you didn't pee your pants
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 Being in motion sucks. Literally can't even put on my shoes without thinking
 of toots to fart out.
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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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 A good way to get people talking is to meet with a stranger and share your
 feelings.
 
 Or, if you're scared of strangers, then try talking with a friend.
 
 "something something SUPREME COURT something whatever CRIMINALIZED PEOPLE blah
 blah blah I WON'T STAND FOR IT"
 
 that kind of thing. Make sure you look at your friend for the loud bits, and
 maybe look at someone else nearby when it's your friend's turn to speak.
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 we should reward frugality as much as value-creation.
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