Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Depends on how charitable you want to be. I read it as "inner peace", personally.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I know Vanderbilt took that stance, and was probably helped out by a bunch of very unsympathetic protestors caught on security camera violating school rules (you can't force your way into a closed building, and you especially can't physically shove the security guard at the door), which let them crack down and send a message in a targeted, noncontroversial way--or at least, as noncontroversial as anything is these days.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
Thanks for the reminder to rewatch The Sting.
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
I thought he was in "Home Alone 2"?
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
And me. I enjoy pretty pictures, birds, and occasional completely unhinged fandom takes. Compared to Twitter, I find it quite peaceful, and there's far less obnoxious political posts to scroll back, either supporting or in opposition to my views.
Mantergeistmann
10d ago
Is there a good way to listen to Youtube videos while driving? Specifically, videogame Let's Plays, ideally through an actual Android Auto/Apple function rather than just "open Youtube on the phone and hit run".
Mantergeistmann
10d ago
I think Ctrl-Alt-Del spoke for a lot of gamers with its comic about how to deal with those sorts of irritating players.
Mantergeistmann
10d ago
I meant more that I often can't point to a specific politician endorsing a specific view, but that view is so promoted culturally that it just feels associated with them regardless.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
the barrage of Harris ads around reproductive
The clever thing is, it's not a Harris ad. There's a nice little disclaimer at the end that it's not authorized by her campaign. So, of course, when anyone complains, it's not the Democratic Party or their politicians behind these ads, it's just totally unaffiliated randos!
There has to be a term for that (other than implausible deniability). I feel like I see it a lot with IdPol stuff: "Well, most Democratic politicians don't use LatinX, so you can't blame them for your workplace's employee group!"
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
Similarly, young men on voicechat on videogames have been talking about fucking each others' moms in various depraved ways for decades, while lots of women experience this as traumatising aggression. It's clearly a gendered phenomenon, potentially even a biological one - it wouldn't surprise me if we found that isolated tribes in Papua New Guinea where men bond with "your momma" jokes.
There's an (unfortunately incomplete) cuneiform tablet dating back to 1500 B.C. that includes, among other jokes, "[...] of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. Who is it?"
Sadly, the fragmented tablet does not include the punchline, although given the other jokes/riddles, it presumably would have lost something in the translation.
Mantergeistmann
11d ago
My best friend--been with me through thick and thin for most of both of our lives--straight up told me if I was a Trump supporter, that was the only thing that could ever end our friendship.
To me, there are far worse things than simply supporting Trump, and there's a not implausiblr chance it was simply a venting/signaling sentence, but it was still a bit chilling to hear (as someone who is most emphatically not a Trump supporter, but at risk of being assumed to be one in certain circles for simply not thinking it's as bad as the histrionics would suggest).
Mantergeistmann
13d ago
Bluesky is already talking about a final solution to the white man problem
Are we talking randos saying edgy things, or some kind of coordinated thought push?
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
I think I mostly wish that graph started at zero.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
Multiple friends are having full-on breakdowns. It's distressing to see. Other friends are being insufferable and gloating (or, possibly worse, "not gloating but just saying"). At work, though, everyone is civil either way.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
I just watched it for the first time last month. It's amazing how well it held up.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
That's counter to the two Obama votes, though.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
Heroes of Might and Magic, perhaps? 5 is considered much better than 4 (I think. I mostly know 3). Hm. There's got to be better examples out there.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
How about Atlus? MegaTen/Persona?
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
I hold the opinion that they should have figured out a way to swap 2 and 3.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
You're thinking of the Pele of complaining about videogames, Bob Case, AKA MrBTongue. Specifically his video "A Tale of Two Companies". He also did a bit of writing for Shamus Young's blog, Twenty-Sided.
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
I adored bioware up until the launch of Mass Effect 2 (I disliked the party and character driven aspect compared to the knowledge quest of the first part), though that ME3 was too full of fanservice and had too shitty ending and haven't been seriously invested in them.
Presumably you also are familiar with Shamus Young's analysis/Let's Plays on this subject?
Mantergeistmann
17d ago
They're not that much more expensive where I am than the meat equivalents, and i find the taste for a lot of dishes is pretty good, and don't care about the healthiness of my food. So I could easily see new vegetarians (who still want their sausage rolls and cottage pies) going for it.
Mantergeistmann
29d ago
if you ask me, I wouldn't say that it's bad that AI learns from "stealing" from artists. Honestly, ask absolutely anyone who's learned anything creative: learning art is all about learning how to steal from people. I know it's not completely analogous, but I don't personally believe that it should be bad for AI to learn by stealing while it's okay for human artists to learn by stealing.
The concern isn't about learning by stealing, it's about earning by stealing: the thought is that AI will put (some) human artists out of business.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I feel like if the Trump campaign released such an ad, there'd be 18 dozen different articles up by now about how it's completely racist.
Okay, yeah, that's pretty good.
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