at a conference/work trip in Amsterdam right now and there are a lot older men who one wouldn’t expect to be super tolerant, but talked to one guy about where we live and how thermos couldn’t see itself living in a smaller city

he was like “yeah i can imagine it’s easier ‘blending in’ for you in a bigger city, it sucks that it has to be like that”

followed by “I’m happy to see that you’re comfortable enough to be your unfiltered self in this sort of context, i think it’s important for others here to see”

thermia was NOT expecting to hear that, he was really sweet about it and not what thermia would expect from someone that is at least 20-30 years older than itself at an organized trip to a tech conference :3

@TheGreatLlama ohh I see! if I had a friend with 5 dildos I would say to others “they have a lot of dildos” but I definitely wouldn’t exclaim it to them hehe. but I definitely would if they had ten

@TheGreatLlama more than five is the lowest option? y’all are living very different lives compared to me lol

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@lina I really don’t understand at all. and you would think that r/Clojure would have a lot of posts explaining what their programming philosophy is but instead it’s literally only posts condescending about how their philosophy is better without elaborating lol

I thought I’d check out the r/Clojure subreddit because maybe I’d learn some cool stuff about Clojure

instead it’s a bunch of Highly Enlightened Functional Programmers who think they’ve solved the secrets of the universe because they finally found a better language than Java

they literally use the phrase “the cult of types” to refer to people who want to define their own datatypes instead of just using maps, vectors, and lists (btw how in the fuck are you supposed to only use those three? how do you even hold in your mind what the overall datastructure of any given value is? let alone statically analyze that the correct data is being passed into any given function)

anyway very frustrating. I hate redditors. especially redditors who get super defensive and condescending about their niche preferences

@kasdeya roleplaying is when number go up; the more number go up, the better the roleplaying is

back in the dark ages, before the invention of fun, a man named Gary Gygax had never heard of roleplaying before so he decided to invent it. but he was a giant nerd so his version of roleplaying was mostly paperwork and math, and he called it D&D

years later, computer nerds who had also never heard of roleplaying said to themselves “man I love D&D, but the paperwork and math sucks. maybe if we put the D&D in the computer, it can do all the paperwork and math for us!” so they did. and it turns out that when the computer does all the paperwork and math in D&D, what’s left is a lot of boring numbers. and the nerds decided to call their new boring number game “a roleplaying game” - because they still didn’t know what roleplaying was

later on, innovators in the RPG genre decided to put the paperwork and math back into their games, and now every time you level up you have to fill out a talent tree and apply for a +10% damage bonus on all deductible business expenses. this increases the fun

and that’s why RPGs are called RPGs to this day, even though it’s much easier to roleplay in a genre that isn’t about paperwork and numbers

@ajroach42 the reddest-of-the-red folks in the reddest-of-the-red states are putting up an absolute shitton of solar panels and the energy transition is 110% unstoppable

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