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software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible

I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post

I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time

I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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- Putting a CW or TW in a post but *not using* the inbuilt Content Warning system of fedi is, functionally, useless and completely misses the point

- Censoring words like Rape, Assault, etc, with an asterisk or a different word or even an emoji is also, functionally, completely useless

Stop doing these things.

The point of CWs is to prepare people for the subject matter, and give them the choice of whether or not to engage with it.

If the content isnt actually hidden behind the inbuilt CW feature, then I have no choice in whether to engage with it or not.

If the content isnt properly tagged with the correct and accurate words, then I have no way of filtering it out properly.

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Google somehow turned Linux enabled, 3d accelerated pocket computers into a bad thing, and I will never forgive them for that

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parents: *looks over shoulder* hey whatcha working on?

me: uhhh

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I want a PvP shooter equivalent of Mario Kart Balloon Battle tbh. like you run around a colorful arena and collect RNG powerups and it’s all very lighthearted and it’s not designed to be balanced or fair whatsoever. in fact the better you’re doing, the worse powerups you get. some of the powerups are brokenly strong and some of them require extreme amounts of skill to be viable at all. that sounds perfect

Counter Strike’s Gun Game is kinda like this, come to think of it. I’d love a whole game that’s full of little minigames like Gun Game. like the Mario Party of the FPS world

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re : ranty post about toxicity in games and games becoming more competitive over time
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@arni aww omg thank you! I’m glad that you liked it so much. and I do really like the culture on Fedi - so much more than any other online community

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mental health negative
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I am so sick of games with stories that play with my emotions for no reason. especially when the game didn’t need a story in the first place

I was caught off-guard again today with a game that seemed completely innocent, except for a small number of dialog boxes telling a pretty cutesy story. and then it got darker, and darker, and the ending didn’t resolve anything. so now I’m hurt and bitter and sad because of some stupid game that I should never have trusted in the first place

at this point I’m thinking of just avoiding any game if it prominently has dialog boxes or cutscenes. sick of this shit

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Aeri _ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍮 👠

I should really stop caring about what randos on the internet have to nitpick about my bloody passion project
"This mod sucks, it's nowhere near as good as Reelism or Russian Overkill"
Guess what, matey face, my DOOM modding experience is the very definition of "learning as I go" and I am legitimately just one person having fun with an idea I had that somehow blew up into this massive thing
komi_stare

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i need y'all to know that this is a 1100w subwoofer

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capitalism
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“vote with your wallet!”

my bank account currently has $71.16 in it, so I have 71.16 votes. how many votes do you think a billionaire has? could it possibly be billions?

oh and how do I use my wallet to vote against something? if I pay for something, I’m voting for that thing, right? but the alternative is not paying for it. in which case I’m not voting “no” - I’m abstaining from voting. so my only choices are “yes” or “abstain”

if you try to “vote with your wallet”, all you’re doing is playing the capitalist’s game on their terms. of course you’re not going to accomplish anything that way. they designed the system to leave you helpless and desperate if you try to play by their rules. the real winning move is to organize and collectively work to subvert the game itself

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remember when Bethesda was ridiculed for selling $2.50 horse armor? I’m so glad that AAA companies learned their lesson and no longer charge such high prices for pointless cosmetics in pay-to-play games

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selfie, eye contact
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somehow i still keep learning new stuff about css

today i discovered that `font-family: monospace;` causes the text to become smaller!

you can get around this by doing `font-family: monospace, monospace;`

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re: complaining about browser RAM usage
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@Soblow oh it does? I’ll disable that right now - I’ve literally never used it. thanks for letting me know!

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@desea aw thank you for asking! to be honest it’s more just idle curiosity (and also just complaining of course) so no need to go out of your way, but I appreciate it!

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how have we gotten to the point where 200+ MB of RAM usage on a browser tab is normal? like how do you even fill up that much RAM with a simple webpage? on a good day Firefox “only” uses 3GB of RAM on my system :/

these aren’t pages full of flashy videos and images either. they’re for doing basic things like checking my email, so where is that 200 MB coming from?

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re: ranty post about toxicity in games and games becoming more competitive over time
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@kasdeya dark souls 3 had one of my favorite casual competitive multiplayer, before they introduced the arena in the DLC. There was no arena when the game launched, so people found their own spots to host fights. The most popular one was outside the pontiff sulyvahn boss room, because you could summon friendlies, and get invaded by normal and faction invaders, so basically a lot of people could be in one host's world. The host wpuld then act like a proper host, and hold a little fight club! The friends and invaders would all fight 1v1, or 2v2, or whatever, at the pantomimed direction of the host. You die and go back to your world when you lose, so if it's over it's just over, no more goal. Find another club and try there. If you win, the host summons more people to fight, and the goal is the same as before, have fun fighting while you can, and chill with the host while the new folks connect (unless the host wants to fight).

There was also a lot of opportunity for being silly, becuase there was no voice chat, and you could only communicate with gestures, dropping shiny stones, a couple canned phrases in a silly voice, and dropping items. My favorite thing was, after winning several rounds, the host jumped into the arena with me, and dropped a "soul of a champion," for me to pick up. T_T

The game could be extremely sweaty outside of the fight clubs, but those were a good time. I think you could absolutely model a competitive multiplayer off of that and create something fun.
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lewd, web servers
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edging an api endpoint by sending HTTP OPTIONS over and over again and never making the request

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I was browsing r/emacs today out of curiosity and happened to find this incredible post that’s relevant to a lot more than just #Emacs

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just watched @1 talk about building one’s own visits and just, wow!!!

it’s so cool to see other entities takes on the whole person hood thing and the amount of time and dedication that goes into making a visor but also how much it pays off in terms of freedom of expression!! this one is feeling very inspired to make one for itself and has a bunch of fun ideas for customization and such!!

highly recommend checking it out!!!

https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-178-building-a-robot-visor-how-and-why#t=1494

also that one is a very good speaker! good bot!

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extremely related: Why It’s Rude to Suck at Warcraft

I highly recommend giving this a watch. it’s a fascinating breakdown of where our current toxic gaming culture comes from, and exactly what’s wrong with it (it goes a lot deeper than “getting angry about losing then blaming your team”)

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