Wandering Adventure Party

Sometimes the words are there just for feeling. The surface meaning of the sentence is nonsense, but individual words may reveal the feelings of something if you just stop trying to parse out instructions.

@EricMalves@squawk.social a friend and I just had this discussion a bit ago.

I can only assume this is one of the ways our society encodes classism into popular media. The villains are most often people coded high class by dint of leadership, wealth, or violence. They are on equal class footing with the hero who has these higher class codings from the same metrics. So, the hero has to make a check when it comes time to commit violence.

While the mooks … are just the underclass. Violence is used against them without question or restraint. That’s just gravity pulling the shit downhill in this narrative.

At least that was the conclusion we came to.

@Ouvee@urusai.social welcome to fedi ​​

We will survive the night.

My book collection is beginning to reach the capacity of my 7 book cases and there is not really room for another. Some hard choices may have to be make in the coming months… ​:neocat_0_0:​

@BrianBinh@dice.camp the context I’d like to add to this is that the Romans were not writing on paper - that hadn’t been invented in Europe yet, and vellum was too expensive. So for scratch writing ,They were writing most commonly on… WAX. They had wax tablets on sheets, which they would heat to ‘wipe clean’. This plus often carving in stone is why so many of those upper case Latin characters are big LINES. This persisted through to the Middle Ages.

@BrianBinh@dice.camp I can only imagine how much the translator nerded out when they had this chance to use this word.

Everyone who is gone had nowhere else to go but here.

@pup_hime@toot.cat Violence has been brought to my attention and I do not like it... (I kid)

Maybe less obvious to the those on the fediverse; but X just did a self-own.

They released an 'about this account' feature. Embarrassingly, this revealed that a lot of MAGA / US nationalist accounts were in fact, based outside of the US. Last I heard, This feature was suddenly put on pause. No one on this side of the fence is shocked.

Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

I am only hard on journalism because I believe the members of that establishment should serve an incredibly important role in our society. The work some of them do is incredible and important.

So when I see them act like propagandists (publishing pieces derived purely from police statements, company blog posts, marketing material), or refusing to even armchair understand their 'focus' enough to do more than mislead their readers (lookin' at you especially, tech journalists), I get a little peeved.

@pup_hime@toot.cat It gets worse too, because sometimes a game would expect you to not just read the manual, Some old games were built with the idea that you'd have to read something like Nintendo Power to figure out how to beat the game. I think Simon's Quest's Red Orb Tornado is one of the more infamous examples of this.

Oh yeah, and there were sometimes misprints in Nintendo Power and co too. Those were good times, I am sure.

I bought myself a christmas gift. I probably should not have, but I feel like I haven't been able to spend on myself for a long time.

I really liked my BOOX palma until it got shattered. So I am going to pick up a Palma 2 Pro. I am excited at the idea of having an ereader again ​​

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt This is so on the nose. The 'rationalist community' behind a lot of this AI crap are actually infamous for an attitude of 'That popular media piece? what if actually it is actually deep philosophy and/or prophecy?"

@mikoto@urusai.social I appreciate you breaking it down for me some more. regarding 3; It makes sense if the government seems like a more open path to power. Many conservatives are far more opportunistic and mercenary in their coalitions.

It’s kinda wild to me that almost every single major parliamentary democracy right now is tearing itself apart over xenophobia. This really seems to be the key to peoples crazy brains.

@mcnees@mastodon.social This would devastatingly require them to ditch writing their piece purely from the marketing materials and company blog-posts, and understand the difference.

Challenge level: Steel Soul Mode.

@mikoto@urusai.social

are not even far-right. There is no need to try to take their words rationally.

@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social It doesn't help that the duracell bunny ... looks terrible, and all of its commercials end up looking like some Unreal Engine flip.

Meanwhile, the Energizer commercials have always known they're taking the piss out of their competitor. The bunny is just a mechanical prop. It doesn't talk, it just keeps moving through whatever silliness is going on to make the slogan "Energizer: They keep going and going..." stick.

Energizer didn't just steal duracell's mascot; they just flat schooled them on marketing.

@piku@blahaj.zone What's funny is I am often forced to do it myself when I talk about things back there, even when it geographically makes no sense. Like Spokane; which is like on the opposite side of the state.

"Oh yeah, Spokane. Uh, for your reference, that's like ~280 miles east as the crow flies of Seattle" Say I, trying to be understood and paradoxically not sound like a fucking crazy person.

The person – from Grays Harbor county, about 78 miles (125km) south-west of Seattle ...