Then as you want to wash your hand…
(She used to love sleeping there. )
The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
Then as you want to wash your hand…
(She used to love sleeping there. )
Not surprised with the lobbying group.
Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he’s being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn’t say “it’s false”, or “it’s a lie”, but rather “a German lawyer thinks this is false” and “this sounds like a lie”; gotta respect that.
Some additional comments:
The first paragraph of the lobbying group’s statement might sound like an introduction, but it’s already a straw man - it’s clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.
as the protections we put in place
Excuse me?
Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like “a user/customer is not a rational human being, it’s irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it’ll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!”
these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It’s simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.
1M+ sign European Citizen’s Initiative “Stop Destroying Videogames”: Help us protect gamers’ consumer rights!
I think it would be sensible if the word “gamer” was replaced with “citizen” here. Because it’s what politicians care about.
He’s also the guy who tried to institute three new letters to the alphabet:
They’re useless but show some rather interesting insights. For example, the letters were modified versions of ⟨C H F⟩ - so you don’t need to create new tools to press those letters (e.g. in wax, or to preview in charcoal something you’ll carve in stone), you can simply adapt old tools to do it. He also showed awareness of allophones in his native language, most people don’t do it at all.
I was almost mentioning that.
By Darwin, Huxley and Haldane: why are our playgrounds the same organs as the garbage ducts? Why???
The “bittersweet shipping”: you know it’s canon, and you know it’ll never happen.
Not in the picture: a really, really mad dragon.
They made Atou absolutely adorable! Seeing her embarrassed at the start, then pouting after the charity…
Also, great job highlighting the contrast between how Atou sees Takuto vs. how the dark elves see him. Not just in look (he looks like a shadow, that was already in the manga and novel), but also in “mood”, he’s supposed to be an Eldritch abomination from their PoV and the anime did a great job at it.
The opening was also cool IMO.
…perhaps I’m a bit too excited because it’s one of those series I anticipated quite a bit, but so far it’s a decent start IMO.
It might look completely random, and… well, it is! I’m rebuilding my “videos” directory, that I share in my LAN. By doing so I always hit something interesting, drop whatever I’m doing, and watch it.
Ah, got it - I didn’t realise you’re running a personal instance. Now it makes sense what you’re doing.
From that, I guess you’re browsing by “All”?
My approach was different: I browse by “Subscribed”, and I’m subbed to ~200 comms. It takes a bit more effort but it allows me to have finer control over what I see, for example I subbed to one or two political and memes comms - it’s just enough to get myself informed, but not enough to flood my feed.
Recognising recurring characters is part of the charm for me, too. And also:
While your typical lemming’s behaviour is not perfect, it’s still leagues above your typical redditor’s. For a start I used to dread the orange mail icon… as I saw it I immediately thought, “oh great here comes a dumb fuck distorting what I say”. The bell icon is still a positive for me.
My own behaviour has been positively affected. [cat analogy]
I didn’t declaw myself, but I don’t feel as much of a need to extend my claws as before. [/cat analogy]
In Reddit I used to pick fights all the time, I simply don’t see the need to do so here, even when exposed to the same annoyances as before.
Once your feed is curated, it’s mostly fun stuff? I do see some politics, but not as much to feel like it’s only political discussion here.
I actually trust the admin of my current instance to do what’s the best for the users, within his capabilities. I couldn’t trust the Reddit admins to die properly. And when the worst came to pass (disagreeing with how the admins of my older instance handle users), I know I don’t need to either ditch everything or suck it up.
Fuck neoliberalism. I might not like those kids giving thumbs up to authoritarianism but they’re less worse than neolib, it’s like comparing elephant shit with cat shit.
That said: a few Hexbear users are fairly reasonable, but plenty of them remind me 11yos. Specially in groups. db0 threw the bait, in a humour community for anarchists… and they all ate the bait, with malagueta sauce. No, wait, Scorpion Trinidad sauce. While screaming “I CAN STAND THE HEAT!” amidst their torrential tears.
Eventually the thing gets old, db0 gets bored and tells them to disengage.
It was funny that the nanny - who was supposed to take care of the kids - was there too. And he’s another 11yo! He forgot to edit his comment and say EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER! They might’ve left Reddit, but they still behave more like redditors than like decent people. Also, I saw a neoliberal Anglo supremacist there. Full of gullibleness. He still didn’t think on the purpose of this utterance. And yes, I’m still laughing my arse off that muppet.
I’m almost sure db0 knows why those kids are mostly defederated. And the reason his instance doesn’t do it is because, good or bad, they’re left-wing presence in the fediverse.
Hexbear users who might take offence with my comment are encouraged to address their complains about their precious feelings being violated to this form.
And people who don’t have bread to eat should eat cake instead. *sigh*
The website’s quality decline has been for ten years or so. I remember well how it used to be; if I had my first account there it would be, like, 16 years old? (Good riddance.)
I’m glad people mentioned PieFed there (+10 score as of now!), as well as old style forums. (I’m hoping those eventually join the Fediverse. But even if they don’t, they still have a place in my heart.)
After Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, now it’s Lyon.
I expect “[insert European government] ditches Microsoft” to become more and more common news, until it becomes non-noteworthy.
Group name: None, individual drawing. I’m just reserving the space in case anyone wants to do stuff that interacts with it (like critters climbing it, etc.)
Matrix: none
Template: link
Fun fact: it’s a tree. Very wood. Much leafy.
NOTE: the group’s goal is to coordinate attacks against the largest country flag in the canvas, whichever it is. Void, random doodling, etc. is welcome.
Channel rules:
The target is always the biggest country flag. Drawings in the flag are disregarded; only width x height counts. In the case of a tie, the leftmost flag takes precedence. Focus preferably on most iconic features of the flag.
Observers are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. You’re also free to join the group even if you belong to another group, just make sure there’s no conflict of interest.
Q1: Why would I join it?
A: Reasons are up to the individual. We don’t need to share the same motivation, only the goal.
Q2: What constitutes a large or small flag?
A: Up to debate but we don’t need to set this line up, since we’re picking on the largest one anyway.
Q3: What about the trans flag? Or the anarchist one?
A: Not country flags, we’re leaving them alone.
Q4: What about drawings that are not part of the flag, but associated with it?
A: Leave them alone, and focus on the flag itself. And in the case the flag is built into a bigger drawing, focus on the elements of the flag, not of the rest of the drawing.
Q5: Vandalism is wrong!
A: Not a question, but whatever. This sort of online canvas is not just cooperation, but also competition. Also, people actually concerned about vandalism in the canvas know that the main source of said vandalism are large country flags.
Q6: If u dun liek it, than y u dun fuck off teh gaem?
A: No. People who want to get rid of large flags have as much right to organise themselves towards their common goal as you have to organise your flag. Deal with it.
Q7: as someone working on a large flag, I ask u, can u stop doin that?
Q8: excuuuuuse me, do you know that I’m entitled to have you listen to my defence of large flags?
Q9: ackshyually is this harassment?
No.
Q10: why do you hate [insert population]?
A: Our target is decided based on canvas area, not personal feelings towards the subjects of the government associated with that flag.
Q11: instead of fighting us, why don’t you join us to build our MONUMENT?
A: I do monuments like this every day. In my bathroom, just after #2.
Yes. All my yes.
I think that, for most dbzer0 users (and quite a few landlubbers like me), being able to choose between a Lemmy and a PieFed instances is only positive. What you need to take into account is the additional work this incurs towards you guys, the admins; you’ll be maintaining two instances instead of just one.
My guess is that the taste of non-avian dinos would vary quite a bit: