Did you think you’d be saying that sentence when you woke up today?

Male porn star/escort, fertility specialist, or star wars cantina musician?

The little smile makes it.

Can’t make it last Thursday. Can we push it to the Thursday after?

‘We are going to have to kill that human if they come back and try to ‘take back their life’ at some point.’

Ambushed by educational cosplayers… what a way to go.

No? If opinions are similar to assholes because everyone has one (with the exception of a few people who are literally born without assholes) then asking someone to ‘explain’ their opinion would be akin to asking them to either describe their asshole (possibly including, but not necessarily, its smell) or to describe the origin of their asshole depending on which version of ‘explain’ you are using.

The ways in which we are ‘more connected’ are only quantitative, not qualitative. If you have 1000 people on your Facebook ‘friends’ list, are you ‘more connected’ than the person who only talks to two people, but one of them is their partner/spouse and the other is someone who they’d trust to move a corpse?

Though, what you are talking about there is community. It can be formed around almost anything. Why not a love for a niche writing system? There is an elianscript comm here on Lemmy. Why not one for Gregg?

On the practical side, is there a good way to digitally transmit Gregg? It was meant to be handwritten, which all the lowest-common-denominator technologies that we use most often can have some trouble with.

It’s a bit cruel to mock the mentally ill.

Dan Olson made one of his fun documentaries about this exact subject. If you have the time, watch it.

If you want my cheap boil-down of the idea:

NFTs are representations of ownership of a digital asset stored on a blockchain. However, as with any digital thing, the represented object can usually just be duplicated, making ownership essentially lacking in the aspect of ‘control’ one usually associates with other forms of ownership, and as with many fad purchases, the value of such things was massively distorted. There was and probably still is no legal structure for that ‘ownership,’ so it’s a bit like ‘owning’ your Lemmy account. As long as you have the password and no one else does, you can control it, if anyone gets the credentials, they can take control and there is little to no legal recourse. So, if you can’t stop other people using duplicates and you can have it taken as easily as any other account, it’s hard to really call it ownership. It’s just a mark in a ledger that says your account is associated with some entry, which is also what registering a title/deed does but with the legal force of the government reinforcing it.

Almost took an interest in learning Gregg but then I found Elian Script and while it’s not a shorthand, I liked it more so come back to it more often.

A newspaper in a niche script is kind of a funny idea though, writing something meant to be broadly informative in a format only the few can understand.

Here is a PDF of the book.

Do not share ads. Mocking them is not combatting them. Talking about their failures is not combatting them. Do not share them for any reason. Block them. Destroy them. Do what you can to ban them. Nothing else. They are harmful and sharing them is spreading the harm.

No one is afraid of the gays. (Well, no one who isn’t mentally ill.) They are afraid of some locus of power, which, despite what some pundits claim about the force of the ‘woke mob,’ gay people do not have significant power. Some person or group of people have power in their life, and those boys are willing to sacrifice other peoples’ happiness, safety, and sometimes even lives, so they can virtue signal to the powers that be. "See? I’m attacking the scapegoat too, so I must be a good guy. I’m certainly not hiding a thousand secret sins that might make me an outcast. How could I be? That’d be hypocritical because then I’d be evil like him. So I’m attacking him. See? This proves I’m good.’

Break’s over. Back to work, Gormadt.

Doki Doki Literature Club I went in blind. I got through the first chapter and got so pissed off that there was no option to be a better friend to hopefully prevent the first negative event. It made me drop the game. Years later I learned about the game from an analytical video essay and I reposed that was probably the War Games style winning move.

The Finals
Another player spouted off unambiguously Nazi BS. I reported them. I doubled back to check. They hadn’t been removed after weeks. I don’t play a game that doesn’t even do the bare minimum of removing the open, unambiguous Nazis.

The Red Lantern/ Heavy Rain These can be grouped. I have a rule which says ‘If I’m not making a choice of what to do in your game, I’m already not playing your game, I’m fighting your game to get the chance to play it, so if you can’t show me something damned quick to make me want to fight for it, it’s time to walk away.’ It pushed me away from Chicken Horse. It kicked me out of Heavy Rain too. The Red Lantern felt like it was mechanically sound but the connective tissue was not there. It’s good design to tell a player, ‘you can sacrifice resource A for a chance at resource B, or don’t. Your call.’ It’s terrible design to say to a player ‘Yes or no?’ with no details, no context clues, or even false context clues and the question actually being in reference to something extremely significant.

Ark
Way back when it was nearer the peak of its popularity, I tried it. I played for a bit. Learned about just how much grind it takes to make even a little crapshack, and how shitty the mechanical design is, and dropped it. Really, there have been many like that, dropped for just not being good/fun. Hell Let Loose was like that. Battle royale games are like that. Civ-likes that aren’t Civ are like that. All the intentional skinner box games are like that.

Something about the scale seems so off. Is she a dwarf? Is that a standing desk? I can’t quite pick it out.

As the character gets older it seems like in the same way the original gave young people ways to understand their feelings of anger and sadness, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to have a fully serious but carefully done movie or just short film on dealing with what happens when the feeling ‘Horny’ takes the controls.

Maybe because, by and large, floppy dongs are goofy-looking things that have value in shock comedy while vulvas generally aren’t and don’t. There seems to be something innately, or at least deeply culturally, confrontational or violating about a penis, like every time one is revealed it should come with a ‘haHAAA!’ like a melodrama villain, while only the most angry, furriest, and most unkempt of vulvas has anything like that kind of impact.

Many are not surprised. Those that are might be so because most of the other inane BS they spout is met with cheers from the yes men that cling to fame, money, and power like lampreys.