Lvxferre [he/him]

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.

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  • 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?

    1. Sod off with this “THINK ON PROTEKSHUN!” idiotic argument;
    2. let us not forget the main concern when it comes to data protection are companies harvesting data so they can sell it to their “affiliate partners” (i.e. data vultures eager who’ll use it for targetted spam).

    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:

    • ⟨Ↄ⟩ or ⟨ↃC⟩ for /ps/ [ps]. Modelled after ⟨X⟩ /ks/ [ks].
    • ⟨Ⱶ⟩ for [ɨ]~[ɯ]~[ʉ]. Not a phoneme for sure; I typically analyse it as an allophone of /u/.
    • ⟨Ⅎ⟩ for /w/ [w]~[β]. Interestingly he didn’t make a new letter for /j/, but I guess it took longer to fricativise than /w/ did.

    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.









  • 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.






    1. Group name: Parabellum.
    2. Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#parabellum-canvas:matrix.org
    3. template URL: N/A, see note.
    4. Fun fact: named after Caesar’s “si uis pacem, para bellum” (if you want peace, prepare for war).

    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.

    further info, including channel rules.

    Channel rules:

    1. Be a reasonable and decent human being. (e.g. no bigotry)
    2. No divisive off-topic or NSFW content.
    3. No fragmenting the movement from the inside: apology to large country flags, JAQing off, sealioning, etc. This will be strictly enforced.
    4. No cheating, doxxing, or encouragement of.
    5. Have fun.

    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.

    Q-and-A

    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.