lol, +1 for Ron Perlman.

Seems fitting for it to be his voice to usher us into a really just slightly different kind of apocalypse.

Its like you could make a cheesy shock drama 90s style TV show out of these:

Tales From The Git: When CEOs Think They Can Code

… and then its like the UNSOLVED MYSTERIES kind of dramatic music and lighting, have some old solemn dude with a gravelly voice narrate it, give tallies of estimated amount of $$$ destroyed by each incident, job losses within 6 months to a year.

No no no, you just give them a headpat, then they’re pair bonded to you for life, lol.

In other news, TRAVEL ADVISORY:

Horrific gestalt entity of seemingly randomly merged together limbs torsos and heads has been observed along the nearby interstate, begging passersby to ‘end it all’, in an atonal chorus of mournful voices.

Commuters are advised that both panhandling and acknowledging the humanity of a panhandler are both punishable under the law.

Got some kind of motel/hotel accomodations in the works?

Nearby family/friends with a spare bedroom?

But also, do give wifey a hug at some point.

Not only is it better, its the only possible option.

Other options literally do not exist, you can’t see them at all through the frame job of this Overton window, drapes are done up in Hayek, and if you don’t like the drapes, you’re an anarcho capitalist.

I don’t know how it isn’t extremely obvious to everyone that the plan will be:

Get everyone addicted.

Raise the price exorbitantly.

NW USA, Seattle area is where most of my dialect/experience is from.

I sent you a Fe-Mail!

Its made entirely of iron and should be arriving in 3-5 business days!

… but are you a grown Brazillian ass man?

Today’s topic is ‘Vagueries of Sentence Structure in English’.

Wait I’m now genuienly confused.

It … can be either an adjective or a noun.

It could be ‘a manipulator who is female’ or ‘a manipulator of females’.

… I mean, I’ve seen both, who fit the meme.

Its… not impossible to be a manipulative lesbian, transbian, etc, along with there being plenty of incelish/‘nice guys’.

I mean honestly, a ton of job related nicknames work this way, starting as a demeaning joke.

Take it in stride, own it, improve, and it’ll be like the 300 lbs of muscle bodyguard named ‘Tiny’.

Fucking hell, glad you and yours are alive.

Sorry you lost everything outside of the shelter, but also, very good that you had the shelter.

Take a breather when you can, all thats gotta be at least a bit traumatizing.

… I was thinking more like an IR/UV floodlight, than a laser.

Less chance of accidentally blinding someone.

Granted, you’d have to figure out a frequency range that would be ‘super effective’ against particular cameras, but… I would feel bad about accidentally giving someone a non consensual amateur lasik surgery.

This is the potentially most ‘linux canon accurate’ name possible, which amuses me greatly, but its also essentially the worst name possible for… normal human people that might use the software, lol.

Glimpse makes a fuckton of sense, imo.

Its sorta kinda close to the old name, it conveys the concept of imagery, and its also really easy to read and say.

Like shit, I figured out just by playing team based shooters with voicecomms, that you want a username thats distinct, can be said in ideally one or two syllables.

When you’re naming a product, yeah, having it be lingustically connected to the thing that it does, there yeah go, much better than ‘Squoombly’ or whatever.

Wait Salesforce has an acroynm?

Everyone I know who’s ever used it just says/writes ‘Salesforce.’

Ah, yeah, I thought you meant EA as the company EA, not Early Access.

My bad!

Other than that, I don’t think I disagree with anything you’ve said.

Yeah, I don’t /do/ early access games myself anymore, I let other people be the beta testers… far too often a game will go to early access too early, and then basically over the next year or two it becomes evident the dev team is only moderately competent, not really good enough to fix problems, add features, and do something, or at least a combination of somethings that is well orchestrated and actually unique or better than what’s come before.

I also view Valheim as essentially the gold standard for the gameplay genre, but yes, it could be so much more, if they actually took the time to do a more serious revamp.

But, thats the problem with an early access approach: To do that, what you’re describing with more extensive biomes and such… well, they basically have to rewrite and expand a foundational layer of the game, and then make sure all the other layers of the game built on top of it, that they’re all compatible.

Whats much easier to do is not futz with the foundation, and add more layers on top, or tweak them and how they work together.

Perhaps ironically, I’ve been tinkering with setting up a proc gen terrain system in Godot, and uh yeah, its actually pretty complicated to get something that both looks and plays well, and can also actually run reasonably well on most people’s computers.

I could build more of ‘game’ based on what I currently have now, but… if I wanted to go back and refine/overhaul it later… I’d probably end up basically redoing just most of the game, in general.

(Though I’m not personally aiming toward ‘open world survival craft’, proc gen maps/levels/terrain/buildings do have more use cases than that.)

I don’t think you know what… most of the words you are trying to use mean.

You made a bigotted ‘joke’, and are offended that someone has tried to explain why it is bigotted, even if it wasn’t intended that way.

Now you’re doubling down on your joke that only makes sense if you don’t know what you’re talking about and are relying on prominent stereotypes.

So you’ve now gone from ‘ignorant’ to ‘insistent’.

And yes, I do judge people by what they do and do not find offensive.

Everyone does that.

I’m not … in charge of you, I’m not a mod or an admin, I just have opinions, views, things I know and believe.

You can see this as a lesson, and try to learn from it, or, you can see it as a personal attack.

I really don’t care either way.

Also, you say you’re Scottish, and ‘not very Jesusy’, so likely agnostic.

I am thus fairly dubious of your hypothetical that posits that you could be muslim, only about a 2% chance of that being the case.

This is somewhere between ‘not a very compelling argument’ to ‘oh ok I guess left-anarchism doesn’t exist’.

The whole thing is essentially ideology by, and as, analogy.

Cool!

Wanna try any empiricism?

Not an erudite vibes based argument?

Imagine Mastodon had a governance system where all users, admins and minorities were equally represented.

Nah, I’d rather try to imagine a goverance system where users and admins either don’t exist as seperate categories, or are as close to indistinguishable as possible.

This person defines progress as managed, fair, hierachy.

… howabout abolishing class, to the greatest extent possible?

But according to this person, my backlash to this is rooted in … property rights.

Got it.

Turbolib can’t imagine any ideology other than their own, also grass is green.

Maybe they could come by the goverance comms of dbzer0 and the rest of the flotilla, for some exposure to some other ideas?