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682I 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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Kinky Kobolds
KinkyKobolds@meow.social
A reminder for Pride Month
- Be Gay
- Do Crimes
- Post about being gay
- Do not post about doing crimes
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
foone@digipres.clubone of my tiniest pet peeves about the minecraft ecosystem: all the server modpacks are good about providing shellscripts to easily setup and run the headless server.
except they're always distributed as zip files, since they're used on windows too (just with .bat files)
zip files don't mark the .sh files as executable. you have to do it manually like a caveman
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kasdeya
kasdeyaShow content
I find Nozick’s experience machine thought experiment to be so funny. it reminds me of a lot of Christian anti-atheist arguments that go like:
“this concept I just came up with makes me - a reactionary - uncomfortable. therefore it also makes you uncomfortable. your discomfort (which I’m projecting onto you) is inconsistent with your stated values. therefore your entire worldview is inconsistent. checkmate atheists”
but like, you can really tell that Nozick wrote this thought experiment in an era before video games and the modern internet. and also that he lived his whole life in privilege and can’t imagine being disempowered in any real way, or why someone would seek any substantial form of escapism
Plugging into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality (it limits us to what we can make).
*gestures at the screen that I’m reading this on and the keyboard that I’m typing this on*
*gestures vaguely at the four human-made walls around me and literally everything in my room*
*gestures out the window far into the horizon as the suburban sprawl continues long into the distance, with not a scrap of un-manicured nature in sight in any direction*
We want to do certain things, and not just have the experience of doing them.
this was definitely written by a white cishet man who can just, Decide to Do Things and not face any systemic obstacles. the concept of being completely disempowered and wanting to live in a simulation where you can experience having agency and choice in your life probably never occurred to this guy
“lol why would these filthy proles want to experience a simulation of skiing in the Swiss Alps when you can just have daddy buy you plane tickets”
We want to be a certain sort of person.
(with the implication that you are no one if you’re in a simulation)
lol. lmao. roflcopters.
anyway yeah this whole argument is such bioconservative reactionary bullshit. 1970’s white men really needed to get some perspective
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kasdeya
kasdeyaShow content
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3175750/Xenopurge_Demo/
me: ooh someone made a game in the style of Duskers? that criminally underrated and weirdly immersive horror-salvage game?
the trailer: do not be alarmed by their screams for help. all casualties are deemed acceptable
me: well fucking nevermind I guess
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kasdeya
kasdeyaShow content
eat 4 servings of brussels sprouts: extremely sick for a day afterward
eat nothing but cereal and milk for a week: perfect health
walk 3 miles: pull a muscle and spend 4 days recovering
spend an entire month without exercising at all: perfect health
so anyway the moral of the story is I’m pretty sure healthy stuff makes you sick /j
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Pink Jester &θΔ
lesdecay@dragonchat.orgfedi, do you think it'd be cool for there to be a term for therians, otherkin, and pluralfolk who use a virtual avatar to express that part of themselves specifically?
i ask because (from our experience) things like "vtuber" seem to come with the expectation that you're playing a character/that your vtuber is your OC or sona rather than... just showing people what you look like internally, along with a lot of other expectations (most related to overarching idol culture). it feels like no matter how many times we tell people we're plural and alterhuman, we still end up being treated with the "your vtuber is your OC" sentiment.
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winter woof 
eclairwolf@tech.lgbt
where do y'all get stickers from? my laptop is tragically unstickered
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Natasha 🇪🇺 
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Me: It doesn't have a tail, so I'm pretty sure it's a hamster.
Tech support: “sigh”
Fine. Right click on your hamster...
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
joepie91@pixie.townThere's these competing beliefs, "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never work a day in your life" vs. "turn your hobby into a job and you'll never enjoy it again"...
And I think I've finally worked out where the disconnect is: it's all about the agency you have in your work. Whether one or the other is true depends on whether you can make a living doing the thing you wanted to do anyway, or whether you're dragged along in a maelstrom of industry misery.
By this point I feel pretty safe concluding that for me and tech, it's mostly the latter, especially in more recent years.
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Misofist
Misofist@girlcock.clubShow content
Does anyone have any zines / guides about how to deal with allegations of abuse and/or sexual misconduct? This is something that keeps coming up for me.
As a friend, a moderator (not here), an event organiser, and someone who cares about the safety of my local queer community, I keep having to deal with difficult scenarios, and I am never confident in whether I've done the right thing.
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Averil
doomofthedesert@mastodon.artThe biggest struggle of my artist life is explaining to people that I draw slime girls that are entirely sfw. I think they are underrated in non-porn settings :D
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Your Cool Uncle Itzy
itzyg@mostlygood.xyzShow content
Things you can do to help immigrants in the US right now:
Stay vigilant, ICE is raiding parks, hospitals, restaurants, anywhere immigrants work (everywhere)
Print out Red Cards which outline the rights of someone being arrested by ICE. Print them out, leave them on the bus, in the library, in the bathroom https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas
Do not talk to ICE. If they come to your work you say "I do not know the immigration status of anyone who works here. Am I free to leave?". And then leave.
If you see someone being arrested, document it. Film it if you can, write down details if you can't. Don't post to social media. Instead look up who to report ICE raids to in your state (do that now), and call them.
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⛧-440729 [sophie raven]
sophie@mastodon.catgirl.cloudthe recursive post isn't real and can't hurt the reader.
the recursive post: https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@sophie/114677809053238109
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3A29 (Abandoned account)
soweliniko@fedi.shorks.gay🤔 what kind of limitations are the ones that breed creativity, and what kind of limitations are the ones that are annoying? Is this question entirely subjective? Are there specific qualities that make something generally more creatively inspiring in its limitations?
It would love to hear others thoughts on this, this randomly popped into its head but it is too eepy to contemplate it further and is crowdsourcing this contemplation from any that wish to accept it
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kasdeya
kasdeyaShow content
I’ve undergone a javascript rite of passage today: I’ve used my first load-bearing semicolon
const HIDDEN = [
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kasdeya
kasdeyaI just tried AI Limit the other day (it’s a post-apocalyptic science fantasy anime-themed Souls-like game) and first of all I love the aesthetic - especially the main character. she’s really cute and well-animated, all of her outfits look so good, and it seems like no matter what weapon I equip her with she looks incredibly stylish with it
but unfortunately it’s designed to force the player to play at least somewhat aggressively. there’s a complicated system where you basically get debuffed the more you block, and buffed the more you attack. if you get debuffed too much you can’t block at all until you start landing attacks (which will do very little damage at first because of the debuffs)
also, enemies (especially boss enemies) tend to attack in a fast-paced flurry, so that you have to precisely dodge-roll each attack in the combo. every boss enemy kind of attacks like Lord Gwyn, where they hyper-aggressively pressure you with terrifyingly fast flurries of attacks, one after another
from what I had read online, people were saying that this game is a good bit easier than Dark Souls, but I disagree. I think it might be easier than Dark Souls 3, but I find Dark Souls 1 much easier because it’s possible to play Dark Souls 1 very defensively and cautiously until you feel confident enough to take risks. so you can stay on the back foot while you observe and figure out what to do, then try to attack when you feel safe to do so. whereas AI Limit has systems in place to punish you for being defensive for too long
these are roughly the same complaints that I had about Dark Souls 3 and it seems like this is what Souls-like games have become after around Dark Souls 2 or so. so that’s a shame. I’m disappointed that I couldn’t get into this game but at least I still have Dark Souls 1, and I might try 2 at some point
(I also have another minor complaint: in Dark Souls you’re frequently given vistas where you can see the layout of the areas ahead, which lets you orient yourself and build a mental map of where you came from and where you’re going. but in AI Limit the levels that I played were mostly claustrophobic sewers and I felt constantly lost because I couldn’t see any area from any other area. there are some areas of Dark Souls 1 like that (the Depths, for example) but for the most part I never really felt that way about the game)
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kasdeya
kasdeyajust a reminder that if YouTube blocks you from watching videos because you’re using an adblocker, you can watch YouTube videos from inside of VLC or MPC-HC
here’s an article on how to set up MPC-HC to be able to do that but tbh it “just worked” for me when I installed the K-Lite Codec Pack (which comes with MPC-HC configured to run all kinds of video and audio formats) with yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed
YouTube blocked me and now I’m just watching everything in MPC-HC and it’s honestly a much better, more responsive interface anyway - like it runs drastically better on my potato CPU
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Luke (Shiv)
Shivaekul@infosec.exchangeShow content
Some of the most important protests this weekend are going to be the little small town ones. This weekend will mostly be peaceful, and that's a great thing. This is your chance to show everyone that this is what a protest looks like, and is what people are being attacked for in LA. It's a chance to show your neighbous how many care, and the fascists how many might show up if they try and pull that shit here.
A show of force now is paramount, it could make all the difference, so please join in if you can!
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