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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

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Annoying me

If it sounds subjective as shit, that's because it is. It follows my vibe for that day.

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Counterpoint: A lot of things that are aggressively "of their time" end up as iconic period pieces after some twenty years.

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I think climate denial will look pretty funny in hindsight after agriculture has broadly collapsed leading to mass famines, and a bunch of coastal cities are several meters under toxified saltwater.

Like, that thing I just described is the optimistic scenario, where humanity/society survives despite things turning way shittier. It could be much worse.

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I'm biased, I just sorta... Like all animals. All of them. So this reply is just my mood for today:

Mammal: Raccoon. The grabby hands, the masks, they're just cool little guys

Bird: Crows. Clever and playful caw caw boys. Capable of incredible feats of animal intelligence.

Reptile: Tegu. The cats of the lizard world.

Amphibian: Poison dart frogs. Danger bois. Don't touch. But they look so cool.

Fish: fish are not valid

Crustacean: Coconut crabs! They are big and cool.

Insect: Ants. Eusocial insects are really cool.

Mollusk: those really big snails that look like slime bunnies

Worm: Leeches. They're cool to look at.

Arachnid: Jumping spider. They are smols.

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Consider the humble pillow.

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See memory foam is cool and all

But my point is that even the simplest pillow consisting of a linen sack with some animal nonsense inside it is still an exponential improvement over not that, or worse, those wooden head-supports that they still use in some eastern cultures.

Also: People use way too few pillows.
I use five for the average night.

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I am fully aware

I fear every person from any of those cultures. Those who sleep on hard surfaces are not to be trifled with, for they are stronger than all of us.

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Made a different comment. Deleted it. Had a better idea:

Those loose, light clothes that people in middle-eastern cultures still wear as traditional clothing. There is a reason they came up with those when they did. Elsewhere in this thread another peep was complaining that men don't get to show enough skin and specifically citing heat as the reason this annoyed them. I say fool. Showing skin will not save you from the heat, especially as climate change continues to cook the planet. It will, in fact, make it worse.

If we are to survive being cooked alive by the sun, we will need to cover up, as the people who inhabited arid-and-extremely-hot places for centuries have done.

Actually, since the Dune series got an injection of popularity with non sci-fi nerds thanks to the Denis Villeneuve films --

-- We could call it "Fremencore". Integrate some futuristic aesthetic influences so people don't think it's cultural appropriation.

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I do believe there is a niche of people into that. Though my view might be skewed by The Algorithm :tm: knowing I like vintage fashion.

My youtube shorts recs are full of chicks trying on their grandmother's old and well-kept clothes from the 50s~70s.

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A flophouse exclusively inhabited by giant nerds.

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Packaging for supermarket products should have what the product is big and the branding small. Not the other way around.

Oh. Sound mixing on movies/tv shows should be such that voice lines are always perfectly audible even on shitty speakers. Make actors e n u n c i a t e like they did in the 30s. Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for, turning all of media into mumblecore chief among those things.

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Same, all my electronics look like abominations of electric tape, it's the only way I can have them not light up my room at night.

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At least game cutscenes tend to be less mumbly. Even IF the volume of things is all over the place.

TV and Movies? Fuck me, it's like actors all forgot how to talk and instead just mumble every line.

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Which one

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Right. Gonna do that with the humidifier

That I need

To make my room bearable during drought season

Or the split AC.

That I also need

To make my room bearable during summer.

Can you see how that would be a problem?

People who make electric devices are putting blinding blue LEDs in a million places they do not and will never belong.

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[angry anime fan noises]

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SI?

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Blorbos from my friend group's shared imagination

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The list from english wikipedia says my country (Brazil) only recognised Palestine in 2010

But in portutugese wikipedia it is said we've recognised them since 1975.

I don't know which one is right, so.

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I explained my fursona to my therapist.

It was

A fun time.

How does Lemmy feel about "open source" machine learning, akin to the Fediverse vs Social Media?

Obviously there's not a lot of love for OpenAI and other corporate API generative AI here, but how does the community feel about self hosted models? Especially stuff like the Linux Foundation's Open Model Initiative?...

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As I said in a different thread:

I might be this close to butlerian jihad thought when it comes to AI as an invention

But if it must come to pass, better it be on the back of community owned and controlled models than a couple of megacorps.

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Those pain medications that make you unnaturally sleepy.

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Your comics are so cute.

Also man. I was part of 1(one) campaign that made it to high level. And it is a bit of a magical experience.

When our crew of sky pirates flew into town everyone immediately knew who they were, local authorities and groups of people were always either trying to court their favour or get rid of them at any cost, they never needed to introduce themselves -- They were the Monarchs of the Storm, and their career had started with them causing an entire criminal empire to crumble (specifically because they'd messed with their friends), and only gotten more intense and destructive from there.

Shame one of our players disappeared because of Life :tm: and so we haven't played in almost a year.

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Mosquito will learn why we call him "BIG ALEX"

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I've been gaming on Linux exclusively for 3 years now. So. These are all proton-tested-and-approved. Though a couple (especially the old ones) require a bit of tinkering.

  • Pillars of Eternity I and II -- Slow burns. cRPGs. Get very good, but take a while to get there
  • Tyranny -- Same developer, also a cRPG, but gets to the point faster, and in fact can be finished in one weekend. Do note: It's an "evil campaign" type of RPG.
  • Pyre -- A fantasy basketball game with a Visual Novel on the side. Very touching story, made me cry twice. And the gameplay is no slouch either, even if I kinda suck at it. (... Though when you lose the games you don't game over, the story just changes)
  • Wolfenstein the New Order -- FPS set in an alternate history where the nazis won WW2, where you play a resistance fighter. Very enjoyable action, and it always feels good to blow nazis away.
  • Dishonored 2 -- Stealth-FPS/Immersive Sim where you play as an assassin-princess who can turn herself into a horrid tentacle monster. Also a nice story.
  • Enderal: Forgotten Stories -- Skyrim Total Conversion title. Very surreal and trippy story. Pushes the Skyrim engine to its absolute breaking point to realize the developers' vision, and doesn't always get there.
  • Fallout: New Vegas -- I mean, if I didn't bring it up, someone would. New Vegas is a flawed and messy game, but it is just about competent enough that you are fine with it being less-than-ideal in the name of getting to the story.

If old games & emulation are on the cards --

  • Terranigma (SNES) -- What if Legend of Zelda... But you are literally creating the world by doing your quest. It's nuts. I love it.
  • Legacy of Kain series (PS1, PS2, PC) -- Very flawed gameplay on all of them (each in its own unique way)... But it is legitimately one of the greatest tales ever told through gaming. (note: It's also edgy)
  • Prince of Persia Sands Trilogy (PC, PS2, GC, Xbox) -- This little trilogy of games from the sixth generation delivers in both elegant platforming gameplay and entertaining storytelling. Does suck that they are from a time that game devs thought subtitling your cutscenes would make your skin fall off (or something. No games back then had subbed cutscenes and it sucked)
  • Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi series (Nintendo machines) -- Comedy RPGs about the Mario characters (duh). Very well written, especially Thousand Year Door (GC/Switch) and the original Mario & Luigi (GBA/3DS). Story is as vanilla as you'd expect, since it's Mario, but it is worth it for the comedy imho
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Exquisite taste.

Seconding the Zelda rec, Majora's being my favourite as well, with Minish Cap being a close second. (narrative-wise, that is)

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    Does Supergiant Games' Pyre count?

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    I call it by two names, depending on how cheeky I'm feeling that day

    Cheeky one is "hashtag-Basketball4Freedom"

    Non-cheeky one is "one of three video game stories that made me legitimately cry, like straight up bawling -- With a fantastical version of NBA Jam bolted on the side"

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    In its defence

    Schadenfraude is a really fun word to say.

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    "Spectacle Fighter".

    In the late aughts, game critic Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw came up with that term to describe games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry, beat-em-up type games where the point is less "can you get through" and more "how high can you get that combo meter? How COOL can you make yourself look while beating up all these fodder enemies?"

    A few years later the industry coalesced on an agreed-upon term for this subgenre -- And called it "Character Action".

    Yathzee has just accepted defeat and uses the term everyone uses, he has to, he works in games media.

    I refuse. Character Action is a dumb, DUMB term because every action game is a character action game, because there is ACTION and CHARACTERS in all of them.

    Whereas "Spectacle Fighter" was perfectly descriptive of just WHAT made those games special. You are FIGHTING, and the objective is to LOOK SPECTACULAR.

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    YES. The "spectacle-" particle should be used for a lot of game subgenres, to be honest.

    So ULTRAKILL? Spectacle-Shooter. Sonic the Hedgehog? Spectacle-Platformer

    Any title where the point is to be stylish and get a nice flowing combo going.

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    Sure!

    Genre labels are vibes based. I'd argue Arkham totally fits the spectacle fighter vibe.

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    I generally advocate for the complete opposite, as a person with AuDHD and a lot of executive dysfunction:

    If an activity has value, then it is worth half-assing.

    If you can go whole hog on it and do it with full effort, great! -- But you are often better off doing it kinda half-assed, knowing full well you didn't put your all into it, then you'd be if you just didn't do it because you can't do it "properly" and felt bad about it.

    Be it work, schoolwork, cooking and eating, cleaning, self-care things. Whatever.

    If it is an activity that has any value, it will still have more value when half-assed then it would have if you felt guilty for your inability to do it whole-ass and then just didn't do it.

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    "This is human nature"

    Looks inside

    19th century anglo customs.

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    Over here in Brazil, I guess because we're a third world country that is more accustomed to poverty than the anglosphere/yurop, we have a variant of this phrase:

    "Money can't buy you happiness -- But the lack of it will take your happiness away"

    It's true that you can be extremely rich and still fucking depressed.

    But if you can't afford rent, and/or are working by day to pay for a small meal at night, and/or are getting sick and just tanking it because actual care is outside your paygrade -- You are guaranteed to be miserable.

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    It's been a millenium since I've heard it, as I no longer qualify as young.

    But

    "You'll understand when you're older"

    I'm older.

    I'm thirty.

    The only thing I "understand" is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.

    The only "progress" I made is that I stopped hating myself for "failing at society" and started hating society for failing so many people.

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    Would be among the first to suggest a reddit-defederation pact to be honest.

    Kinda like how peeps on Mastodon/Misskey/etc. have their anti-threads pact.

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    Ocean world? I hardly know er!

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    I live in a tropical humid place that regularly gets 40+Celsius temps even during "winter" (it is currently "winter")

    But I can afford air conditioning. A lot of people in my country cannot, and have just an electric fan and a lot of water to get them through the days.

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    Not even central A/C here. Just Split units on the bedrooms/home office -- But it already makes life so much more bearable

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    True on all accounts.

    Also fun aside -- Evaporative coolers are sold under the name of "refrigerating fans" here, a sort of "alternative" for someone who can't afford an AC (or can afford the machine but wants/needs to save on the power bill).

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    Me too actually

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    Also works

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    Hey you're like seven steps ahead of me.

    I only entered the phase of hating society instead of myself when I was like twenty-three.

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    The percentage is just a quirky way of saying it's a high chance, dw about it.

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    Said like 80 times in this thread already but, Open Source & Free software (papa stallman will murder my family if I don't make the distinction)

    Fifteen years ago when I first got into it, Linux was a programmer/sysadmin's OS that could cover one's web browsing needs and run some media players and retro console emulators.

    Nowadays it is a reasonable daily driver for high-end gaming, it can cover 85% of the creative tasks I do for work, plus all the shit it did back then, all the while being faster, lighter, and comfier than windows.

    There's good libre applications for pretty much everything I care about.

    And now we even have open-source powered social media (hi we're in Lemmy)

    Fuck, even if I'm this close to butlerian jihad thinking in regards to the whole concept, I'll give it up for the advancement of open source AI models. I might think the whole invention is poison, but better for it to be a public, shared, community built poison than one under the thumb of three megacorps.

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