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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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Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️

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video game gun violence re: criticizing the action RPG genre
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my favorite example of this is the Bethesda-era Fallout games where your skill at using a gun determines how much damage a 9mm hollow point will deal when striking someone in the face. not your chance of hitting them in the face, but the amount of damage that a gunshot wound to the face will cause

which is probably not a lot btw, but it’s hard to say for sure because - again - health and damage values are essentially randomized, so no matter what happens it probably won’t be satisfying

(I have installed So Many Mods over the years trying to fix this lol. unfortunately the problem is baked so deeply into the game’s design that it’s hard to completely fix)

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criticizing the action RPG genre
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Action + RPG is such a cursed genre combo because it takes

  • Action, which is a genre that is very reliant on carefully-tuned health and damage values in order to feel satisfying and fair
  • RPG, which is a genre that might as well completely randomize health and damage values

and sloppily mooshes them together for some reason

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yeah doc just shoot me with the beam, biggest beam you got, real ominous if you got it

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CW-boost: Microsoft being shitty, possibly important info if you use VeraCrypt
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@davidrevoy I would roll it simply because I’m at like a 3 or 4 right now so statistically I’ll probably end up better off

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My two video game mantras:

1. "You're not doing a challenge run" (use the tools you got to make the game easier)

2. "HP is a resource" (the only hit point you really can't lose is your last, before that it really doesn't matter if you get hit or not as long as you gain health faster than you lose it. Unless you're doing a challenge run, but see point 1.)

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I wonder what it is about bass as an instrument that attracts nerds in particular. I think it might actually be because it has a reputation of being the background instrument no one really cares about (as my guitarist friend is fond of pointing out, no one learns the bass to try and get laid) and being in the band but not really in a role people are likely to bother sounds like the perfect arrangement to a lot of people.

I guess drums fulfill a similar sort of function, I guess it depends on whether you narrowly missed out on an autism diagnosis or narrowly missed out on an ADHD diagnosis.

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re: Fleshlight action
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@ShortyAfterBark fuck this is hot. the noises you were making are so 🥵

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Fleshlight action
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I just love this flashlight...
You really can see everything

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Idols of Ash is free on itch.io if any of y’all want to play a reverse-climbing game where a giant fucking centipede tries to eat you

(I might give it a try I’m ngl but this will probably be too much for me lol)

CWs from the page: disturbing imagery, mild strobing effects, themes of illness and suicide

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@estrogenandspite One of the biggest losses in the Lord of the Rings movies is how explicitly clear the books make it that despair and hopelessness are weapons for evil. And they are the most dangerous weapons.

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CW-boost: overall hopeful post, but mentions of fictional suicide, violence, and death in Lord of the Rings
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i thought this exchange could contain some funny HTTP headers so i tcpdump'ed it

they.. they use TLS. for a conversation between two chips on the same fucking PCB

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World news, rant about doom posting
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Anxiety was in overdrive yesterday because apparently it's hard for people to cw their fucking doom posts.

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VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.

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"The results of this study indicate that interactions with cats at home has an excitatory effect [...]"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10340037/

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psa, includes a censored version of the aforementioned slur re: subpost- (nobody who can see this), bio update
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just a reminder

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OMG happy 17776 Day to all who celebrate! Today’s the day that we are gonna live forever and play the world’s biggest games of American football!

If you don’t know what that is, then just simply scroll down on this page to begin. But it is possibly one of the best mixed-media fiction ever created, and one of the best stories of post-humanism

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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