How the actual fuck is 6GB, 6144MB or so, of RAM and like 4GB of swap not enough to listen to music, scroll Mastodon, and open a link someone posted?! How the fuck is this what tech is now?! I used to do similar tasks with like 16MB in the 90s. I'm sorry, but some text with pictures, with a link to other text with pictures, shouldn't require a fucking gaming rig.

bread becomes 300% tastier when you put caraway seeds in it 💙

fox girl whose fur changes color with the seasons!

#art #anthro

I hate that the default volume for everything is 100%, because

let’s say I’ve configured every piece of software on my computer to use the exact right volume. and then I open a new app that’s too quiet, even at the default volume of 100%

I can’t turn the 100% volume up higher than 100%, so now I have to raise my main volume in order to hear this one app, which means that all of my other apps are now too loud

so if I have one very very quiet app on my computer, because of that one app I have to set every other app to 40% volume or lower. and if for any reason those volume settings get reset, (like a game gets updated or I lose my config file) I’m going to get my ears blasted out

and also any time I open a new app that’s not too quiet by default, I’m going to get my ears blasted out too until I can get into the settings and turn the volume down

I would genuinely prefer that 0% volume be the default over 100%, but I think somewhere between 25% and 50% is probably ideal. either that or let me turn the volume up to 200%+ (which is the same thing but expressed differently)

I’ve been thinking about why I’m able to watch old Star Trek shows despite my whole Thing with storytelling

and I think it’s because it’s so theatrical that it doesn’t feel as real to me. the acting tends to be big and dramatic and feel sort of fake because of that, and the costuming and set design can feel that way too, and that helps me detach from what’s happening more and enjoy it as a story instead of experience it as a reality that I’m living through alongside the characters

Things I wasnt prepared to learn but should probably have known already: Who Let the Dogs Out by The Baha Men is a cover of an earlier song called Doggie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27fagObxaM

Minecraft videos have changed

this is an interesting video about how YouTube’s algorithm no longer rewards episodic content like Let’s Plays, and how Let’s Plays are a bit of a dying art now and have to be found through word of mouth

so with that in mind, have y’all watched any Let’s Plays that you liked and want to recommend? or maybe some other lesser-known episodic video series

a game’s filesize is inversely proportional to how fun it probably is

I’m pretty sure that the existence of a time limit in a game gives me the same amount of anxiety no matter how generous that time limit is

it could be a 9 minute time limit for a 10 minute task or a 3 hour time limit for a 10 minute task. it doesn’t matter - I’ll be equally stressed either way

immutable data structures are so frustrating to work with because instead of doing something like this:

data["foo"]["bar"]["baz"] += 1

you have to do this:

new_value = data["foo"]["bar"]["baz"] + 1

data = data.set("foo",
    data["foo"].set("bar",
        data["bar"].set("baz", new_value)
    )
)

you know how in comics, the text is all capital letters? I’ve never understood that. so I asked some comic artists, and I’m thoroughly unsatisfied with every answer I got. it smells to me like comics are like this, simply because they’re like this. it’s one of them traditions that nobody questions

so I dug around a little, and I’m already starting to suspect I’m right about that

(boost this post if you think it’s interesting and tell me your thoughts, please and thank you)

the “it’s for visual clarity” argument doesn’t make sense to me at all in the modern day, when printing is such high quality, the text is all way bigger than any novel, and a lot of comics are read digitally anyway, on modern, extremely clear screens, where people can zoom in if they want to

heck, expanding on the novel comparison, even large print novels sometimes still have smaller text than comics do, but even when the size is the same, novels are still much less “visually clear” since the font is thinner and all the text is crammed so close together… but pretty much everybody who doesn’t have dyslexia reads novels just fine, and not only do comic fonts not help dyslexic readers at all, text in all-caps is more likely to harm them than help them

you know when all caps did make sense for visual clarity? pulp comics. when they were printed on thin, crappy paper with crappy ink on crappy printers in the name of high volume, where there was a very high risk of ink bleeding, which would harm readability. in other words, it wasn’t done because large, all-caps text is inherently clearer, but because it’s less susceptible to that particular technical limitation. bigger letters don’t bleed less than smaller letters, they’re just bigger, which means they’re less unreadable when they do bleed

you know what actually matters for “visual clarity” in general? font choice, bubble placement, use of color if applicable, and adequate outlines when outside of bubbles. the text itself is irrelevant to its clarity

I have yet to find anything that substantially supports any real, practical, provable argument that all-caps text in comics in the current day is actually beneficial for anything, other than staying visually consistent with all the other comics that do the same thing, which itself is a pretty bad argument if you ask me. if anyone reading this has any real, actual evidence, be it supporting my position here or against it, please share that with me, I’d appreciate that

but I’m real close to reaching the conclusion that comics should write their text in sentence case and probably should have been doing that for the last 50 years. if I ever strike it rich enough to commission an artist to create a comic for me, I’m probably going to either force them to write the text in sentence case, or do the typesetting myself

who would win:

• a 4k raytraced AAA interactive blockbuster movie with hundreds of hours of gameplay, Hollywood-level cutscenes and voicework, and a budget of over $1 billion USD
• some MMO from 2004 that looks like this

so, random thought but

the way that files are organized is as a tree structure. there’s a root directory and then nodes can either be folders or files, which implies that a file can only be categorized under one folder at a time. and obviously this works pretty well for the most part but I feel like it might be a bit reductive at times too. for example what if I’m organizing pics by theme and I have a pic that fits two themes? I can’t put it in both folders at once unless I want to mess around with hardlinks or symlinks or something

but what if there were tags instead of folders? a file can have an arbitrary number of tags, and tags can have subtags (for example “pics” -> “by theme” -> “spooky”) that way files can show up under multiple “folders” (tags) at the same time, by design

there is probably some unknown unknown that makes this a terrible idea btw - it’s just something I’ve been thinking about

Gothy song of the day: Yan Wagner - On Her Knees

sometimes there comes along about which I like to say that it "serves cunt". this is one of those

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIh1rTv67E

#goth #darkwave #minimalwave #ebm #postpunk #gothic #krismusicposting #music #song

I recently learned the word superlinear (for describing a math function that increases faster than a linear function could increase) and I’m so glad that I know it now because before I would be like:

“it increases exponentially. well okay like, I know ‘exponentially’ has a really specific definition in math and I’m not sure if this is specifically exponential but, the rate at which it’s increasing is itself increasing. does that make sense?”

every single time lol