Wandering Adventure Party

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems yep, exactly. Rather than a holistic process, the world building in HP is a “problem solving” exercise.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems it’s a nonsensical game but let me pull from memory.

I think it’s stated in later books that the games can often go on for a very long time. So early, it’s advantageous to get the snitch and both seekers are rushing for it. However in longer games, if your team gets down by (an absurd amount), you want to prevent and delay the catching of the snitch to give your team time to catch up, like the beating won’t continue . It doesn’t really make sense.

It’d be a far more interesting game / dynamic if the snitch only gave like, 30 points. Then the seekers and other players would be forced to swap offense and defense more often and the quaffle play would be more important and interesting.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems even as a kid I also struggled with some of the book - especially how Magic doesn’t really make sense or is well developed. The starter weapon thing especially. Like why are we afraid of dark wizards when some kids who learned a stun spell can match them?

Also a lot of the logic of Harry Potter and answers to your questions can be filed under “Weird little british lady sensibilities”. She also only world builds when it’s convenient, and the resulting world building is always convenient for whatever she’s doing, even if it’s nonsensical when viewed broadly, which is how you get the weird pottermore bullshit.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net goodnight.

I think few things illustrate the toxicity of the modern obsession with childhood nostalgia as Harry Potter.

I have witnessed multiple people (yes, even trans people) warring with themselves over satisfying their childhood fandom, and ... you know, not supporting the genocidal transphobe.

There shouldn’t be a war within you. It’s fine to keep your memories. Just stop buying and supporting. It’s not that hard.

@sakurajima@sakurajima.moe i am not sure if you’re already tracking it, but it seems like sakurajima.social has been somewhat unstable since the move. I’ve been hitting the maintenance page multiple times a day intermittently.

I actually saw what was happening in action.

The local crows are diving in and throwing whole peanuts against my roof to break them open. I award them for their cleverness, I just wish they picked a different house.

This is the second time in a week I’ve been assigned a ticket at end of day that needed to be worked and done before start of day. I call shenanigans. ​​

I finished both of them, but I am not exactly happy at being up at 2AM for it.

I’m not sure if it was worth going so late, but it was nice to see a ghibli film in a theater all by myself.

I was talking to a coworker about LLMs - they are one of those “LLMs will become a layer of abstraction like compilers” people.

He basically said he was on the agentic train because “a lot of people I respect and podcasters I listen to are excited” and I’m thinking “Yeah, snake oil salesmen have a pretty high opinion of snakes too.”

But so it goes. I tried to pull them out of it a little but I think they’re a lost cause.

When you get a motor cycle license in many locales they make you do a “lift test”. They require you be able to physically lift your bike from its side in case of emergency.

After being lunged at again by someone’s dog: I kinda feel like this kind of test needs to be applied to dog owners. Too many tiny people having too much dog.

They have a late night viewing of Kiki’s delivery service at 10. I can make it if I rush…

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems my interest in mail topics began with my parent sending me a letter addressed in their cramped, barely legible cursive scrawl, and it somehow still making it to me. Like that took a system.

It is massively frustrating when someone states something as factual (story, etc) that would be worth sharing or spreading, but I can’t, because they didn’t give enough for me to corroborate it ​​ ahhhh damnit.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe I think it’s because to some people, anger is addictive. Maybe it’s the energy, the certainty, or something else, but they get high on anger and keep chasing that high.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I haven’t experienced anything aggressive with you? Sometimes I don’t have anything to say in response, but you’ve never struck me as negative.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I don’t generally hold back responses to you. You’re a mutual!

Sometimes I find myself moved by a particular thought spurred by something someone said and end up writing an essay long response.

Then I realize that even if this person and I have interacted before (or maybe especially because), they aren’t a follower and thus probably not interested in that kind of flood. So I end up deleting the comment.

I can tell someone is feeding peanuts to the local squirrels. Why? Because I saw my gutters flooding, and on inspection found the drain pipe was clogged with whole unshelled peanuts.

We’re getting takeout, and leaving this for tomorrow me.