Wandering Adventure Party

@mcc@mastodon.social given what I know about CR’s technology: it’s not an impossibility.

I think my favorite moment was when they sold me a gift certificate that was already expired.

@Starcross@mk.absturztau.be I feel like for ages, a lot of webapps have just been complex front ends for complex spreadsheets (databases). It's probably the most common application out here.

@0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net man, Nix the the definition of sunk cost. The idea is generally pretty good; but the implementation is horribly flawed and the community is ruled by personalities and norms too intransigent to allow any real fix of it. Of any other technological idea, the thing would have been left for a hard fork or fresh start, but absolutely no one wants to go through the hell of rewriting all of the build files nor try to get another round of upstream patches needed to support whatever comes next.

So it's just ... stuck, stale like you said.

It would become performative if I explained it. Otherwise it will remain mysterious actions at a distance.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @sterophonick@wetdry.world @pastthepixels@is.potatoe.ca agreed. I also sat in a business school class. Utter clown talk all day. The material and student bodies were both jokes.

Business departments are the modern day equivalent to Victorian etiquette schools.

Online arguing gets a lot easier when you limit yourself to one reply. Just say your peace, and if they don’t get it, let them have the last word and move on. A dozen more replies won’t change anyone’s mind.

…in fact it’s just feel free to ignore replies you don’t like. It’s a public forum, some annoying replies is the price of admission. Raging about it does no one any good.

I was also in the store last night and did not see ANY notice posted.

Putting out an email newsletter announcing an author live event at the bookstore exactly 1.5 hours before it is supposed to happen is … a strategy. A shit one.

If they’d put it out even a day earlier I would have been eager to go. Instead I read it too late and it’s over. WTF guys. ​​

@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone right? I think a lot of users are looking for a content stream or a consumer of their content, more than a 'social' experience. Sure, you can get content on a social experience but spreading and receiving it isn't the goal. The fediverse just isn't well suited for reliably getting all the newest memes, celebrity gossip, etc.

It's kinda like an addict who hates all the things the substance does to them, but they still really want that high. If they don't realize the two are inseparable on their own, there isn't much you can do.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe What the hell does a 4 year old need with an iPad? Jesus.

@whitequark@mastodon.social Writing documentation is often thankless work. Let me be the one to thank you ​​ This looks great.

I went and saw House (1977) yesterday afternoon on 35mm.

It was a lot of fun. The movie is absolutely silly. It was really refreshing watching something though that actually played with the camera and audience again.

The film had a lot of artifacts and a persistent scratch. That and when the movie had to stop temporarily for a reel change made me think about the viewer's relationship with the film before digital made everything perfectly clean and continuous.

"I haven't had a fever in a decade"

You've either been lying to me, or yourself, because you get violently ill about 1.5 times a year, my guy...

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net First gut reaction is 'oh shit, what did I say?'

Most of my friends and siblings have a 'no gifts for the adults; just kids' agreement, simply because no one can afford it.

That's always existed to some degree, but it feels universal now.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe One of my nieces was like "A switch 2" and In my unspoken voice I'm like "Yeah, sorry kid, that's way beyond the $70 gift limit all the parents and adults agreed to."

This game (momibosu) would be entirely playable on keyboard. But the default bindings are awful, and the developer didn't take the literal 20 minutes it would take to enable keybinding support. I don't feel like hunting down my controller so ... refund it is.

@speckledlemon@urusai.social two episodes failed hard to hook me. I generally give shows 3 but I am not sure I’ll make it.

It doesn’t really seem to know what it’s saying and the B-movie premise is too silly to take seriously.

You have to pay to be anywhere. There are practically no free places to hold events, gatherings, or just hang out.

That’s why the death of disposable income is also coinciding with the death of everyone’s social existence.

The local small theatre now serves canned beer. This is excellent. ​​