Draegur

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Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader. Friendly neighborhood shameless degenerate. Winged caniform synthetic biped techno-lich. Mostly Harmless™. He/It

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Draegur,

it’s that they stopped putting lead in this guy’s crayons.

Draegur,

Acceptable. It is a game worth owning outright in itself.

Draegur,

You do that hug-yourself-and-shiver (actually just shimmying) maneuver where you can force the fabric to rub (where it normally won’t) so that scratches the itch

Draegur,

YES, LET US COAT THE INFANT IN PAIN-DUST

Draegur,

the hotdog isn’t as good as it used to be, but i can tolerate that, because it’s still the fucking deal of a lifetime and WELL WORTH a buck fiddy.

and it’s not like it’s bad by any stretch.

they aren’t using Bar S franks at least. 🤮

Draegur,

hell yeah i will definitely go to costco just to buy that one 32oz package of smoked pulled pork from the cold/deli section and get a hotdog on my way out. the pulled pork is only fractionally more cost effective on a unit price / per pound basis, but i will drive thrice as far to buy it so i can get a hotdog and a drink on my way out XD

Draegur,

one recent trip i found out they carry big fuckin bags of those babybel cheese wheels, the tiny wax coated ones with the pull strips to get em out

it feels delightful and ludicrous to have that much cheese. enough of them that i can feel like i ate enough and then can come back LATER and have enough again!!

Draegur,

valid! so here’s my context: when i want really good bbq i got a place that i love and trust nearby and i’ll always give them my business because i’m glad they exist and want them to continue to thrive

but

sometimes

i just really want that specific pulled pork

it’s kinda like how sometimes i’ll crave the quesadillas from taco bell. no other quesadillas will do. i’ve tried making them. even when they were good, they scratched a completely separate itch from the one that THOSE ones do, you know? it just hits different.

and at 14 bucks for 32 ounces, that one hell of a deal. everything else comparable is closer to 8 or 9 dollars per pound.

now, it is not impossible for one to smoke one’s own pork, and then shred it.

except when i try to prepare food, there’s a nonzero chance i’ll accidentally burn pouring myself a bowl of cereal

and the amount of time it takes to set up, cook, process, and clean, if i were clocked in at work i’d be able to afford thrice as much of the prepared meat.

time is valuable.

Draegur,

As soon as OOP stipulated how straight and masculine he identifies himself to be, I cringed so hard I’d almost be surprised to not have phased into an alternate reality.

The only question anyone needs to be asking him is, “Could you maybe fucking don’t?”

Like… maybe don’t post your creepy paraphilic fixations in public?
Maybe fucking don’t mix stimulants that might kill your stupid ass?

Look, I’m not trying to be the gatekeeper of anal stimulation here, but(t) I think it might be healthy to just do a due-diligence introspection upon the question of whether or not someone who feels this vulnerable about their identity should even be pursuing ways to ‘push’ their own boundaries in the first place.

Or maybe I’m the problem in that I’m underestimating how important getting off is for some people. For all I know, this is the sole bright spot in some poor fucker’s entire bleak, pathetic, miserable life and he’ll literally fucking die if he doesn’t go for it.

Either way, it’s hard to imagine anyone being happy to see OOP’s post unless they’re getting their rocks off to it somehow.

Draegur,

He wasn’t getting enough Space and felt like things were out of Control so he decided to make his Escape.

Draegur,

i’m low-key a little miffed that i failed to dig up a reaction gif of Pomni yelling,
“WHAT THE [BOING!!] IS GOING ON!?!”
…because that is very much the vibe I’m getting from whatever the fuck this is.

Draegur,

i wish you were crying in bed but in a hug.

Draegur,

leaving you on ‘read’
leaving the message on ‘sent’

Draegur,

this FERAL HOG INFESTATION is getting out of hand.

Draegur,

in the case where you have vehicles with explorable interiors (like the ships in Star Citizen), lighting has to be dynamic because lighting conditions change just as a result of flying around normally. The position of the sun in whichever of the two (current) star systems you’re in relative to your ship, and the atmosphere which may or may not be present outside, the position of cargo and objects/materials that will be receiving light and causing it to diffuse onto surrounding surfaces in a cabin also requires at least some kind of reference or it just feels BAD.

But the recent citizencon engine presentation showed some AMAZING new short cuts that give just enough visual fidelity without tanking the framerate that it scratches some kind of itch DEEP within the predictive modeling of the human mind… when light acts more like it’s supposed to, it’s fucking magical.

Draegur,

I’ve been having an excellent experience with premium as well. I like knowing that I’m directly materially contributing to the people I watch. The only problem I have with YouTube premium lately is that it keeps trying to suggest fucking 8 hours long music streams to my TV and seems as though it’s REFUSING to learn that I don’t want to see that shit unless I’m deliberately searching for it. Get that shit the FUCK outta my feed. Otherwise, it’s the way YouTube was meant to be used.

If I had my way though, I’d nuke YouTube’s ad system from orbit and replace it with this: for ads, NO VIDEO, NO SOUND, ONLY A SLIDE SHOW, CONTAINING ONLY TEXT. 15 Slides or 15 Seconds, MAXIMUM, whichever runs out first. If the user clicks anywhere but the product link, it advances the slide or closes the ad. PERIOD.

Draegur,

same tbh

Draegur,

No worries, homie!

He gave you IMMORTALITY, didn’t say nothin’ about remaining conscious!

And while suffocation due to CO2 accumulation doesn’t feel nice, HYPOXIA ON THE OTHER HAND FEELS AMAZING!

So:
step 1: shut off your oxygen feed and your suit heat
step 2: let the CO2 scrubbers do their job
step 3: breathe easy because you still have the ambient nitrogen mix component

pretty soon you’re gonna feel floaty, dizzy, and giddy - you’re gonna feel exhilarated, a real I CAN DO IT vibe - and then as a tingly and warm sensation engulfs your entire body, you will begin to feel HELLA sleepy.

then your immortal body will go into a state of persistent dormancy, preserved by the cold, purified by the radiation.

if you are EVER found (assuming you ever are… and if you aren’t, you won’t be in any condition to care!) and your rescuers expose you to an atmosphere your body can actually use, you will AWAKEN and be able to pick up however many days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, or millennia later, and resume living a life, even if it isn’t necessarily the one you once knew.

Draegur,

sounds pretty dope, i’ll be looking forward to this.

Draegur,

be gay 💜 do crime

Draegur,

PRECISELY FUCKING REAL.

Employers only actually care about three things:

  • punctuality: you are on time every time (and if anything is impeding your punctuality, you’re calling ahead as soon as you are aware)
  • pliability: you follow directions (and if you have trouble, you’ll openly and plainly ask for instruction and clarification)
  • predictability: you do not cause drama or make waves (and if anything disruptive DOES occur, you’ll document it)

everything else can be trained,
if you satisfy these three prerequisites, you can almost always be trained, and,
if you don’t satisfy these three prerequisites, you’re probably not trainable at all.

Draegur,

TRUE!!!

I’m not saying don’t HAVE important shit going on in your life -
I’m saying, be strategic about your deployment of shit.

Any and all union communications should be done where managers can’t spy on you and have no power to fuck with you via legal “technicalities”.

Draegur,

Yyyyyyeahhh genetic modification has been a BIG NO-NO in trek canon since the 1990s eugenics wars, right…?

Draegur,

fuck BOTH these date formats.

ISO-8601 OR DIE.

Draegur,

it’s extra handy because it taught me how to better visualize the chronological position of minecraft snapshots! 2023w47 has kinda sucked, from what i hear second-hand, due to some accidental features people were excited about being removed as “bugs”.

Draegur,

But it won’t smell like him

Draegur,

How to break up with your partner…

Draegur,

oh boy more domestic terrorism, i wonder if it’s a right winger aaaaaaaaagaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain

Draegur,

it’s not a sale, it’s just a rental. and a timeshare.

Draegur,

The most correct answer possible.
I might switch front ends just for this feature.

I’ll never block hexbear tho <3 luv my spicey leftie friendos

(Even though they more often than not seem to hate my guts XD)

Draegur,

A tankie ready to take being wrong and angry forever to their grave? Shock.

Draegur,

hexbear users aren’t as repugnant. simple as.

lemmygrad is proudly ignorant and not even interested in honest discourse.

Hexbear, meanwhile, will actually engage in a discussion, make concessions, provide actual evidence for their claims.

I can actually learn shit, useful shit, from Hexbear. Lemmygrad is a vacuous hole where information goes to die.

Hexbear users are also, generally, more fun to talk to, have a better sense of humor.

Lemmygrad users, meanwhile, have demonstrated to me a pattern of being joyless hate-geysers.

Draegur,

And that’s why we work very little, and very slowly, for 8 hours.

Draegur,

YES

Draegur,

i wish i could take the entirety of everything these companies compiled about me,

dump them into a generative pre-trained transformer language model as training data,

and POTENTIALLY tell me to go fuck myself.

or hey maybe i’ll actually like this simulacrum. unlikely, but not entirely impossible.

or furthermore it might help me get a more accurate grasp of my shortcomings instead of the paranoid hallucinatory delusional shit.

the thing about an LLM is that it just takes a screaming leap based on what’s already there. It WILL generate an output. And if I’m the only one interacting with this predictive model of myself, I can shortcut the process of pussyfooting around until i embrace a snap decision by creating a snap decision instantly AND THEN improving on it. It’ll readily cough up something that I might do, but without the prior investment of emotionally and psychologically interrogating myself for the impulse first, thus freeing up those considerable resources for actual productive insight, refining the initial impulse (or outright defying the initial impulse) using factual information

Draegur,

Right? EXACTLY!

As much as I like self-deprecating humor, this isn’t really about self-hate because the model isn’t really me and it definitely isn’t an actual person.

However, it can still help me gain better visibility about myself and the qualities of me that are usually invisible to me from the interior perspective.

A diagnostic tool, and a way to perhaps address more effectively those qualities of myself which make me uncomfortable.

Almost everybody has at least one experience of realizing, with horror “am I really like that…? oh … oh no…” and usually it’s in public. Not fun!

The prospect of facing these discrepancies in privacy feels a lot less daunting.

Draegur,

This is the reason FNAF exists

It was inspired by ShowBiz Pizza.

Draegur,

but i saw another article saying that adblocker usage dropped by like … meh i dunno 80% or some awful figure that I didn’t want to believe.

i’d rather live in the version of the world where this one is true, that nobody is installing adblockers, but i know better (sometimes) than to simply succumb to confirmation bias…

if youtube were smart though, it’d make ads less shitty, intrusive, and obnoxious.

Draegur,

ahhhhh there it is.

so the other article was akin to youtube celebrating that the car that ran them over stopped, without acknowledging that it only did so to shift into reverse and back over them again. heh.

Draegur,

ngl

i want

Draegur,

Uh… Is it just me, or does this picture kind of make him look like Jordan Peterson?

Draegur,

Saturn’s face always looked very unhappy to me in this picture, like, he is deeply in anguish about what he’s doing. How can anyone see anything other than horror and sadness in those eyes?

Draegur,

A body having a pulse is not what matters.

Cancer cells are also genetically human and also alive.

If it isn’t sentient, its life is irrelevant.

If it isn’t sapient, furthermore, it does not matter as much as the sapients its existence imminently effects.

A fetus is neither.

A baby, once capable of surviving without parasitically siphoning off the body of a host through a direct persistent flesh attachment, is either sentient or shall imminently be if left to its own devices

(Whereas a fetus without a host, when left to its own devices, shall imminently be dead and never to attain sentience nor sapience)

Those are where the lines are drawn.

Draegur,

it meets the definition on the minutes to hours basis.

a fully grown sapient human with experience and valuable expertise who is otherwise ready and able to immediately benefit their community, if “left to their own devices” naked on the surface of the moon, will also die in moments. However, with the use of equipment, with the ability to depend on machinery to survive instead of the active blood supply of another sapient being, such a human can survive.

similarly, a neonate can survive with the aid of equipment without burdening a single exclusive host.

Draegur,

Chrome succeeded in killing Internet Explorer, but it turned out to be a Wheatley-Replaces-GLaDOS situation…

Draegur,

perfectly interpreted. this is fucking art. thank you.

Draegur,

Well there it is

The moment I became convinced dolphins are sapient.

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