Is "utilitarian" a style? Can there be style in the lack of style?

More studios should hire conlangers to create the incidental scripts and languages for their shows/games. Is anyone gonna care except for like five deeply obsessed people? Maybe not, but you'd be surprised what the devotion of five neurodivergent people can do for the longevity of a fandom.

I have seen "save the animals" being a big deal at GDQ but never really seen anyone explain why that's such a big deal, it's just a contextless meme a lot of the time.

For the record, it's a moral choice in Metroid that's in this really funny position where it's not different enough from the main run to make a whole different category for it and going for it slows you down, but not enough that it really matters in a live speedrun setting. It makes for a good donation incentive cus it's completely unecessery, but a good crowd-pleaser.

What's funny about the whole thing is people speculate all the time about how to design games specifically for trolling the speedrunning community, but none of them have topped a game that was never designed for speedrunning to begin with.

The fact that I love kubernetes probably says something about me thats in the DSM5 right

I'm developing a fondness for one-person scripted audio-drama podcasts. They don't require a lot of resources to put together (just an audio editing program, a half-decent mic and a willingness to learn how to voice-act on the fly), so they are an excellent way to start with dramatic storytelling. (Plus, you can usually expand the voice cast later once you've gotten some experience under your belt.)

Because of the low barrier of entry and the independent nature of it, you can find some pretty fascinatingly weird stories in the format.

It's a particularly good format for character-studies, one particular setup I've seen around a couple of time is "character investigates some sort of anomaly and it gradually becomes clear by their approach that whatever is wrong with them is as fascinating if not more than the weird thing they are investigating."

Since it is a one-character sort of deal, at least initially, the main character needs to be compelling enough to spend time with.

They don't need to be super-wacky right away, especially when it comes to reporter-type characters, they may initially start out being focused on the story they are investigating and it only gradually becomes clear that there's something distinctly off with them.

OLED panels getting more flexible till they could almost be as soft as cloth. This could be the future.

There was a dad in the store with his family yesterday and while they were shopping he was really curious about the yarn winding apparatus, so i explained how our tools work, and he started excitedly telling me that his hobby is making fly lures for fishing and i’m like welcome my dude youve been a fiber artist this whole time

I wonder if anyone has made a low-level #Lisp that is specifically designed to be semantically close to #WASM code, so that it compiles to be very very efficient (kinda like how Lua is really fast because it’s very semantically similar to C code, which is what its interpreter is written in)

like WASM already reads kinda like a Lisp to me, and I bet that would run crazy fast

(I’ve been tempted to do this several times I’m ngl. I think I want to learn WASM one of these days. sadly most of the “learn WASM” tutorials are more like “learn how to compile some shitty language like C++ to WASM”)

something that I’ve been wondering about lately as a monolingual person:

I wonder if folks can hear accents in a non-native language. like can they tell that their accent differs from others’ accents? can they tell that two native speakers have different accents?

a long time ago my Finnish friend would help me try to pronounce Finnish words and I was trying my best lol, to the point that I literally couldn’t hear any difference between what I was saying and what he was saying. but I inferred that I definitely still had a strong accent (and it would be really weird if I didn’t!)

so I wonder if that inability to detect accents continues until you get really really experienced with a language, or I wonder if a non-native speaker is ever able to detect accents

I’m ngl this kinda makes me want to write more about how my personal bullet journaling system works. but in order to do that I would either have to retread a lot of stuff about how bullet journaling works in general, or assume that the reader already knows about that stuff. hm or I could try to give a simplified explanation and then direct folks to bullet journaling resources if they want to know more

idk but I’m thinking about this now. I feel like I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons from refining my own journaling system that folks could benefit from if they have the right kind of brain to also be able to keep a journal updated consistently

RE: https://cryptid.cafe/objects/689435e8-74ce-4aea-ab21-e6d5d1ab77e8

new fedi server, boost this post to help me cuddle with women

our hacked space has extended its " block chain " ,,,

General reminder: Do not discuss your ✨ crimes ✨ on Fediverse. Every six seconds, some tech bro announces an extremely effective scraper and indexer for Fediverse and gets trounced for it.

Those are the ones we hear about.

No matter the privacy level you set for a post here, you should assume it's public in some capacity.