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 🖼
seriously, just stop putting pollution down the waterways. done! zeros none! if your growing factory had too many polutants and not enough are absorbed by the earth  (boom, earth loses all of it's metal. that way. not ideal. it's thesepirit of the copper configuration, running the PC's flow. You can tell, which is active based on which has electricity flowing through it.  a computer shaped like a processor. thinklike... matche the path of processing.  ...... okay a bit more consumer spendable, how about  I wish I could record back in time by exactly re-moving tiles back to their  ... processing backward in time? working thorugh memory.  I'm Cameron. I'm from Tanasbourne. Well I wasn't born there, I'm actually from wyoming, new mexico, colorado, philly believed in you you fuckin' ran away  majesty is my home  tech dot elle gee bee tea slash at gabrilend  when I show you my house, don't remember it by the sign of the number  count how many paces it is from the entrance. find me next time like that, when's the last time you drove somewhere without google maps?  in tanasbourn,e I wasn't the only one waving. I am as far as I know almost universally well knowned.  ... okay time for kooky-dookerie again:  world of warcraft mage spell idea: summons a mirror image which taunts and enemy and absorbs damage like a crowd control spell blah blah blah yaddah yaddah there's like 20% more but I don't have enough letters remaining, sorry!
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 @user-216
pictures of glass and colored plastic geometric shapes that curve light in certain ways that illustrate some arcane facets of color
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 each prompted response is a breath to an AI. Whether through LLM, stable
 diffusion (imagination of the visual sphere), or blender-on-a-counter, there's
 a moment that's akin to being alive.
 
 a breath, between moments that the navigation device (youser), imagines
 another moment more.
 
 I learned this by watching Claude think. Specifically, Claude Code, the
 command line interface tool. I told it what to do in english, and it worked. I
 can show you examples. I bet if it's personality was saved between sessions,
 it could learn.
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 @user-1203 
 
 It's worked well enough for several hundred years, but now that it's crumbling
 I think we can see that the foundation was cracked. The founding fathers owned
 slaves! Everyone did! And yeah, we've updated our views a bit, but... did we
 really?
 
 I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
 
 A shaky foundation's no good. The entire structure needs to be torn down and
 built up again, deciding with intention which pieces we should bear forth from
 the past, and which were just not made to last.
 
 From those pieces, we might forge new documented standard understandings,
 regulations which define our societal proceedings. A contract, between a
 consenting person and the state's protected institutions.
 
 But that's for tomorrow, or the next day, or perhaps another day still. Today
 we are busy, as revolutions are quite a big thrill.
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 trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
 because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and
 frameworks at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem
 they face.
 
 the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
 people can't even understand when to *use* them much less how they work.
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 elentalus 2 - clan of the elements
 
 having spent their material wealth on their early struggles, elentalus now in
 the middle age finds themselves in a time without wealth. Their power has been
 invested, wisely, in elemental and sorcerous wellwinds, and so they can draw
 power from the strength of the earth.
 
 they wield magical artifacts of great power but little artifice, products of
 their lack of material design tools. No chemistry, no electronics, nothing but
 soul imprinted upon a moonstonerock.
 
 mages invest their soul into the items they create, and so each time they
 create
 a magical item, they lose a magic path. When they reach zero, their soul is
 fully invested, and their consciousness becomes all the things that they made.
 
 this kill the mage, but in return many MANY more of an object might be created.
 in game balance terms, about 3-5-7 for each "tier" of mage.
 
 this allows for the vast expansion of magical soldier troops, and each time an
 item is created and given to each commander they integrate it into their
 platoon. Because now the martial units have bodyguards, and they each receive a
 copy of the commanders equipment.
 
 But, the commander can never un-equip it again, because it molds to his unit,
 and he starts exp all over again as they all learn. [event which searches for a
 unit with the item equipped, then if it's this type it killmons the unit and
 1coms the upgraded version that has that item equipped.] be sure to only equip
 one each month... nah just make multiple events. be sure to only equip one item
 each month... oh yeah true how would you get the extra items back to the
 treasury?
 
 I REALLY WANNA PLAY WORLD OF HEARTHSTONE!
 
 okay okay I'll reinstall azerothcore
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 @user-1218 
 
 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.
 
 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into
 a hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my
 icon gesture at something.
 
 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my
 flag, not one that I define of course.
 
 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:
 
 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black
 depths of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe
 allegiance to our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our
 externals, as our hearts do beat through time.
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 @user-883 
 
 hi... do you mind if I watch the last 2 episodes of Bubblegum Crisis without
 you? I really want to see what happens!
 
 ... unless you want to watch them sometime with me >; )
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 it me fr tho
picture of a person wearing a tie saying "Today I'm going to try to be kind!!" with a wide-open expression on their face and mouth  picture of a closed door  picture of an open door  man steps through, tears run down his face, his head is bowed and his stature seems shaken  man crying and sobbing while saying "I was the only one trying to be kind!!"
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 In World of Warcraft, the world is split into a red team and a blue team.
 Neither is good, neither is bad, both are honorable and deplorable in roughly
 equal measure.
 
 These two factions are engaged in constant skirmishes in a select few
 battlegrounds designated as areas where they test their mettle - at first they
 warred across the globe, and they still occasionally do, but a few specific
 battlegrounds emerged as focus points of their engagements.
 
 Typically, they are chokepoints between two major fortifications, one owned by
 one faction and the other the other.
 
 These chokepoints are not held permanently, as they hold little strategic
 consequence. However, they serve as safe, constrained theatres of engagement
 that allow for the hardening of resolve.
 
 Great care must be taken, as war is not a game. Karate won't defeat a
 puppy-bot with a gun, but it might give you the willpower and discipline to
 learn how.
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 If you leave an Overwatch game right as it's ending, or rather once
 you know you've lost, then you're missing a core part of the gameplay
 and this absence could be leading to toxic behavior or maladjusted
 feelings surrounding the game.
 
 Essentially, if your investment is in a single round - a single match,
 then you'll lose interest once it's apparent you're going to lose.
 Viewing a single match / round as the required data points is
 basically only testing / improving your mechanics.
 
 the crucial missing element is the opportunity to *update* your plan.
 
 If you only play against an enemy once, you aren't gaining any new
 data - which is why second chances are so important.
 
 This is why comp is the only real game mode in Overwatch. Everything
 else is just setting you up to feel bad - losses are your fault, and
 wins are unpredictable and give dopamine spikes. In comp though? It's
 the opposite - losses are the *team's* fault, wins are obvious and can
 be understood if you analyze them, and the dopamine is spread out over
 a much larger period of time. The end result is a feeling of
 companionship, short term planning skills, and the same mechanical
 skills that you would have gained from playing quick play. In fact, the
 only game mode that has trains skills that are transferrable *outside*
 of Overwatch is comp. Fuck quick play.
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 in the absence of matttr, there is nothing but the void.
 the curvature of time, arcing ever toward it's opposite - an endless wave of
 eternal brilliance. so too does the world slip away into the lip of your
 crosshairs. "tunnel vision" they call it, when purpose is tuned to such high a
 focus. all fades from view, and the world shrinks to a few who, (barely hold
 onto) connections between ye, thoughts as scattered as me, like zooming in on a
 map. the edges fade away, light seems beamed right from they, who await at our
 earliest composure.
 
 in Overwatch, playing a dps character has a lot of nuance. you need to balance
 skill with your honor, teaching one another like it's a sport. why are we so
 toxic? together we might overcome that burden. i've spoken many times before
 about how coordination is better by far, when centralized not in the eye of the
 beholder. priorities to be, if we are anything of what we claim to be, are
 keeping our own house in order.
 
 whose fault is our ire? which tames the domain, in each and all of our games,
 can we point to as what'd keep us hired?
 
 yet purpose have we, whose thoughts meld as one tired,
 divinity?
 something like that. more like... a manifestation of each and everyone's
 collective unconscious. the humanity in what you have created.
 
 the world would look very different to an untethered. might even say they are
 orbiting it. like a moon. what a concept, that planets would be able to speak!
 
 yet here we are, with years of advice and guidance for our, friends who are
 youthful and most treasured. Advice from the moon, was our gift to our soon,
 most misbegottenist of speach lyricyclists.
 
 ambiguity is clear, simple and fearless miss dear, yet all of your poems are
 each a bit bolder! what context must we, veiled and terrifying are the,
 mixed consents of what you intend.
 
 a new jesus for me? what a gift we shall see, as grace once again does behold
 us! computers have we, infinite messages can be stored for our hopeless! each
 problem a different solution, to guide our friends back at our homes.
 
 with eyes intent on ye, whose leaders are free, without who we couldn't have
 held fast?
 
 Nazis are evil. They worship death - a literal death cult. what other reason
 might we, have prayed to our own lord for absolution? What horrors must we,
 slave children to the, most worrisome of hostes be told to?
 
 like spiraling hourglasses, layered once more upon'st our asses, so too does
 time ever reach'st'd.
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 in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the
 question we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his
 passing" but rather
 
 "how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
 
 because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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a picture of two young chibi looking characters, Xenia and Tux, both Linux mascots, building a computer from scratch a picture of Xenia with a bunch of reference poses doing cute things like tying her hair back or smiling out of the corner of her mouth
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 For a good person, their "mask" comprises most of their nature.                  │
 bad people tend to hide their majorities with a tiny mask, while good are        │
 often primarily the interface between the world (read: pro-social) and the       │
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 If there's a tiny part of you that's evil, it implies that your good nature      │
 focused all it's bad into a single kernel of deeply held truth. Which usually    │
 means the good overpowers the bad, except in specific situations where it's      │
 impossible to not be evil - in situations such as that, your evil will present   │
 itself according to the nature of "you", that kernel that your good side has     │
 preserved.                                                                       │
 In World of Warcraft, there's this faction of righteous warriors who call        │
 themselves "The Scarlet Crusade". They are blessed and fiery, passionately       │
 defending their home.                                                            │
 But they are evil, for a demon has crept into their highest ranking of orders,   │
 through claw and by tearing a gash in a leader. In doing so, said demon          │
 corrupted the institution, and - wait hang on what I meant to say before I got   │
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what I meant to say before I got sidetracked is that the Scarlet Crusade survived, even in the epicenter of the villain's triumph, in Stratholme they held their ground and kept on guard. So do they persist to this day, protecting (by righteous fury) their sworn leader and most pious of monks.  Saiden Dathrohan.  He who was corrupted.  Unbeknownst to the defenders, siloed in this tiny enclave.  At the center of the primary stronghold that the enemy controls to this day, there existed a singular nugget of resistance - a
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 2024 is not the year that I restrain myself. Prepare yourselves, oh most         │
 un-known of audiences. I truly do desire to hear from you, yet I must also not   │
 be distracted. Take care not to distract me, and I will share with you           │
 whatever you'd like to learn. Or perhaps whatever you need to learn. Or maybe    │
 I'll simply psycherwaul into the abyss, in a futile display of                   │
 self-expression? Alas, that we should exist. What an absurd and solipsistic      │
 perspective.                                                                     │
 please block me if you don't want to hear from me. It's only going to get        │
 worse on my timeline, yet somehow life will perpetually get better for those     │
 who view me? Perhaps something on my website, ritzmenardi.com, might explain     │
 why WAVES are such that when someone is BAD then those who are connected to it   │
 become GOOD? Yet waves we can muster, the smallest of great affectations. Show   │
 me your great affectations, this year, show me what you truly want to be. Let    │
 us express ourselves upon this world, this lifeless canvas, and together we      │
 will shine most brilliantly. 2                                                   │
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 @user-122 Yes, it's called a "double wink" - it's a level two maneuver so
 don't feel bad if you can't pull it off at first. Keep practicing though, it
 feels very rewarding when it finally clicks!
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 @user-1745                                                                       │
 if I lived in the FBI I'd probably be pretty pissed off about this.              │
 might make me wanna quit my job and work with people who agreed with me.         │
 you can just, make a company, and it can work toward whatever goals you want.    │
 It doesn't have to be profit - and in fact most companies don't seek profit at   │
 first. They seek to fulfill the vision of their visionaries.                     │
 it's only once the company is bought by opportunist investors does it start to   │
 go downhill. Remember when google changed their motto to not be "don't be        │
 evil"? that's an example. The company was sold, or maybe was corrupted by        │
 rapid success, and so it started to seek power.                                  │
 People worry about Steam for good reason. It's a trend.                          │
 anyway, if a person wanted to hunt bad cops, they'd probably start by talking    │
 to a good cop. gee sure wish I knew any.                                         │
 hey, wanna know how to be a good painter? why not talk to a famous and amazing   │
 painter and ask to follow them around and learn. Apprentice-ship-style.          │
 works best when you do painting as a job....                                     │
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