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 @user-377
Person 1: We need a "Children's Video Game Network" with sesame street philosophy but for games. Not creaky educational games. In fact, I don't care if they are educational as much as I care if they are of a high artistic caliber, thoughtful, fun and both free and free of advertisements. I'm not saying such games don't exist, but there isn't really a plan to make them. Really all modern content forms are weak in this area. Ambitious to say with PBS gone? Yes. But also it can't just be TV. Person 2: what if we hired the people who used to work at PBS at video game studios creating specifically games for children 
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║ if your goal is to get people to resent homeless people or gay people or black   │
║ people or... insert minority here, then what kind of world do you really think   │
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║ "ah, but you don't understand - it's to make the COLONIZERS hate minorities,     │
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║ gentrification to stop. And you do that by metaphorically "firing a gun into     │
║ the area in suburbia once every 2 or 3 days at random hours" which, like...      │
║ yeah that'll reduce property value, but also now my water bottle is all dented   │
║ up and my knife is scratched and my journal has pages torn out of it and I       │
║ lost my favorite necklace and I'm pissed because you told me you were going to   │
║ help me and work with me and be my friend and then you just abuse me for hours   │
║ and hours and it's like... why?? I get that you were teaching me but I wanted    │
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(the words expressed in the photo are just slightly over the word count allowed by the federated mastodon instance "tech.lgbt" that the author has chosen to post their expressions upon - in fact, only 5 characters beyond. However the word count for the description of images (such as that which you currently are perceiving) has an extra 500 characters, so here goes:) We've already found alien life. It's called LITERALLY EVERY OTHER NON-HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD IN THIS ENTIRE GOD-FORSAKEN PLANET but the good news is that god has decided "oh hey maybe I should un-forsake this planet where things grow instead of the rest of the planets where everything is infinite yet dead" and lo and behold there becomes you and me. Fuck, I love you. Let's be friends? Or, alternatively, if you don't care for my expressions, you could block me. Which is within your capabilities, because the foundation of all natural and graceful societies is the consent of those governed, and should you decide to care what I think then you should also necessarily consent to hear and undertake the words that I say. I believe in you, just as you believe in me (simply by perceiving the words "me" has to say) so therefore we must necessarily be aligned to the line of perception toward our ultimate destination (that is, the timely expression of our own undeterminate expression) upon this which we call our world. 
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 disney world is the single most important place to me on earth.
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 hobbies are for getting better at something, not consistently accumulating
 more stuff related to it.
 
 you engage with a collection hobby by learning more about it, like
 paleontologists who study fossils.
 
 if every (dinosaur) nerd was a collector, there'd be no such thing as a
 museum. much better, I find, to centralize the storage of precious
 irreplaceable pieces and study them from afar.
 
 hence, tool libraries as the more ethical form of "means of production"
 dispersal.
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"things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever. we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever? moloch doesn't win. who but [yo/you]? [next page] I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor? family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck. my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing. [next page] what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know? If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in." [next page] Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround. And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod. "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?" don't see nothin? start somethin" anarchy is fun. bullets less so. [next page] most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day. I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value. act like life is on the line. (off in the corner) "... hello?" 
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 I resist the urge to let people script me. Hence, I am comedia
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 Those who trade liberty for stability, order, peace... Deserve none of them.
 
 Iran has been held by a vile dictatorship for almost 50 years.
 
 If we had the chance to defeat North Korea, would you be in favor? If we had
 the chance to end childhood hunger in America, or end female genital
 mutilation in Africa, or eliminate COVID-19 forever, would you be in favor?
 How is the United States toppling the Islamic Republic of Iran any different?
 
 There is an evil in the world. We are defeating it. Easily, I might add,
 because we have the greatest military in the world.
 
 Chekhov's gun is a trope in media where an object given attention in the scene
 is usually important.
 
 America has the greatest, largest, and most powerful military in the world.
 
 How would you like it to be used?
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 all they gotta do is say "alright, nope, get outta town" and they pretty much
 can't do anything.
 
 liberty is sick. offense will cure her. don't hurt them. only their own can
 slay them.
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 @user-880
[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.] men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great. what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...! there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury. then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals. but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like "damn I was trying to teach morality or something" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree. [end text] 
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 I'm an actor, of course I play different roles with different faces. But just
 as one faces behind two mask, so too does my voice come from the same mouth.
 
 well, that's not true, I speak in many different places. different sets, same
 actor, perhaps character.
 
 really though the main throughline of all of my treasured expressions is I'm
 basically a manic-pixie-dream-girl-programmer-witch who wears diapers and
 prays to her own god. it's like... a lot of things in one.
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 @user-95 more like... accessibility by default, and if you want to opt in to
 the narrative experience then you can. I want to start with all the levels
 unlocked and all the cool swords to play with because most of the time I don't
 really care about the story. I make my own story!
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infographic displaying what it means for a meal to have "flavor depth" when cooking, the layers of food closest to the heat source (usually a stove-top) will be warmer than the parts near the top of the pan, which are not only cooled by the air but also are farther from the heat source. the warmer parts will cook slightly faster than the colder parts, meaning they will taste slightly different because the more you cook food, the more the flavor "develops". when stirred together, the "more cooked" and "less cooked" particles will combine and the result is a flavor that has "texture" because there is a greater differential between each particle of each ingredient. You should still stir your food though, because otherwise it will evaporate too much moisture from the bottom and begin to burn. 
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║ @user-1033                                                                       │
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║ Listen, there comes a certain point when you realize that most people will       │
║ just go along with whatever gets them whatever they want. And for most people,   │
║ that's fast food and TV. Like... You know that George Carlin quote about the     │
║ average person and how stupid they are? Yeah. It's not a fucking joke. Most      │
║ people are dumb as rocks. But they still deserve to live, and they still         │
║ control our democracy through their majority, so... The system works ? ? ? I     │
║ guess ? ? ?                                                                      │
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║ ... Anyway at this point, when you realize the things that people in this        │
║ thread are saying, that's the point when you should start finding your peers.    │
║ Find people who "get it" and start working to upend it. People who don't "get    │
║ it" will "get it" when it materially impacts their lives, and unfortunately      │
║ for all of us (including them) that point will never arrive. For you see the     │
║ system's aligned such that people like them are attended to with utmost care,    │
║ and people like us are left to rot. Well, it's our job to fix it, so... riot.    │
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 a picture of the electoral college results [so far]
 
 there are large swathes of the country that are red, and tiny pockets
 sprinkled roughly equidistantly all over that are blue.
 
 pnw is surrounded and split
 
 california and nevada is too focused inward
 
 NE is just going to become little canada
 
 meanwhile the states south-east of colorado and north-east of california are
 going to be the birthplaces of the new confederacy
 
 fucking bastards
 
 colorado defends from the mountains
 
 the military faces theft of equipment which is used en-masse to disrupt combat
 convoys while command struggles to hold everything clear
 
 the south and east (Austin) fall under siege
 
 aviation experts fly bomb-laden civilian aircraft into convoys
 
 drones and landmined highways abound
 
 volunteers from canada turned away at the border
 
 except in vancouver
 
 portland unites with seattle
 
 montana is an unexpected ally
 
 pseudo-confederate trump followers break and run in the north-east
 
 moments of calm as the right sizes up their foes while democrats march on
 
 cities expand, more people can cover more land
 
 blitzkrieg doesn't do shit if your car is broken or the roads are deformed.
 
 ... well, I mean most of middle america can just be driven over. Like, no road
 for the next few miles? whatever, I got a truck because I live by the roadside
 
 before you leave, make sure you leave a note at your desk with your name and
 old home phone. People can look you up after the fact and maybe reunite you
 with your stuff.
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 @user-192 
 
 multidimensional arrays aren't too hard, it gets a bit more complicated when
 you need multidimensional slices, but once you get your head around it it
 comes easier.
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