osarusan

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osarusan,

Are you sure about that? They take up valuable real estate that could be better served promoting active magazines. Having a good portion of the home page filled up with empty links is not helpful at best.

osarusan,

Liberal use of the block feature has made the Fediverse so much more pleasant. I can't recommend it enough!

osarusan,

That's true. It would be cool if we could "subscribe" to a curated block list, sort of like we do with AdBlock plugins.

osarusan,

Humans are naturally tribalistic, so some ingroup-outgroup tension is a universal thing.

However one of these groups pounds it into your head at an early age that people who think differently than them are wicked and deserve eternal torture for how evil they are.

The other group does not do that.

So yeah... big shocker yere.

osarusan,

That's a popular trope that is spouted by anti-rationalists all the time, but it's a total red herring. It's one of those rhetorical tactics that is designed to disrupt judgment and put a stop to a conversation before the absurdity of the claim is made obvious. It's drilled into us as children through tv, movies, even books, but it's entirely false.

Rationalism has plenty of room for fantasy, emotion, and everything else that humans experience. It's not a choice between being rational and being a fully developed human. The choice is between being rational and being irrational. Everything else is its own separate thing.

osarusan,

Will the mountains be as boring as NMS?

osarusan,

Poor bird must have been terrified... trapped in a home for days without food or water, and with predators and bright lights all around that it can't escape from. I'm glad it got found before the dogs got it, or before it died of starvation or dehydration, but I hope it ended up ok after getting released... It must have been so weakened and scared.

osarusan,

I suffered through the awkward feeling of telling Gale off

This happens in real life too, though.

And the dialog gives you the options to turn him down, just like in real like you'd have a "dialog option" to turn down a gay person who hits on you. And in real life, it's awkward just like it is in game.

All sorts of uncomfortable things happen in the game. Friends die. Children get murdered. Girls get kidnapped and used as baby incubators. Gnomes are forced into slavery. A hobgoblin fucks a ogre in a barn. As much as people don't want to experience those things in real life, you don't see mods deleting them. Yet people can't seem to figure out that making a special case for the gayness is quite actually gay erasure. They're fine with countless uncomfortable things, buy a bisexual character giving them eyes is too icky to handle??

People need to grow up and stop making excuses for homophobia that they wouldn't make for anything else.

osarusan,

Because it actually is 100% homophobia, even when it's unintentional. A bit of introspection as to why it bothers people or why they defend it with "I can see why some people..." would do wonders to highlight peoples' subconscious prejudices.

osarusan,

The other commenter has it 100% right. You had to reject the female companion too, but you only complained about the male one. It wasn't a problem when you had to reject a girl coming after you, but when you had to reject a guy coming after you, you wished for some game mechanism to disable that kind of interaction. So yes, it's a form of subconscious homophobia. Look, I'm not calling you a bigot or anything like that, but I am calling you out on having some subconscious prejudice. We all have it somewhere or another. The key is that when you're called out on it you should recognize it and correct it, rather than get defensive about it.

osarusan,

No, I understood what you said. The point I was making was that while many people are perfectly ok shrugging off women they don't want to partner with, they get all icky and upset when it comes to shrugging off a man they don't want to partner with.

Like in your post you specifically singled out Gale. Yet here you are kind of ret-conning that to "4 characters that hit on you." But when you commented your initial complaint it was just Gale. It was just the gay one.

That's what I'm talking about when I say subconscious prejudice/homophobia. I'm not putting you on the same level as the mod maker or some rabid homophobe who's out there trying to take rights away. But I am asking you to examine your reaction and consider if maybe there was something more to it then just "I don't wanna bang this person." Why specifically the sympathy for people who don't like Gale coming on to them vs people who don't want space-lizard-with-tits or daddy's princess coming on to them? That's all.

osarusan, (edited )

Does it not work on Linux?

Edit: Ok, it does not. I just tried it.

osarusan,

I loved the demo! This is one I am really looking forward to.

osarusan,

That's the first big problem with stuff like this.

The second big one is that artists have to first hear about this, then take the time to actually learn how to use this software, then apply it to all of their past & future artwork, and also somehow apply it to every version of their artwork that is floating around the internet, books, or photographs and not currently in their possession. And then in a few months they have to do that all over again.

It's insane. I look at this and think it's cool technology, but as an artist I will never use it. I'm too busy actually creating art to mess around with poisoning my own work. I don't even have time to do copyright takedowns on people stealing my art and passing it off as their own, or Chinese merchants on Amazon selling my art without permission. Stuff like this is well-meaning, but its absolutely unrealistic.

osarusan, (edited )

That Blizzard is selling their games on Steam at all speaks volumes about how poorly they are doing.

And at a 25% discount so soon after launch. It's crazy!

osarusan,

Same here. I've been a forever DM for decades, and every time I change to be a player I just don't enjoy it as much. DMing is fun and I love being a forever DM.

osarusan,

Well met, brother!

osarusan,

Definitely because of Halloween.

Study Reveals That 50% of the World’s Population Will Have a Mental Health Disorder by Age 75 (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School, in a collaborative global study, have discovered that one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professors John McGrath of UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medic

osarusan,

Exactly. Can you imagine expecting to go through life and never have a physical ailment? Why would you expect that you'd never have a mental one? Normalizing mental health issues and their treatment is vital for a healthy society.

osarusan,

I know you joke, but that's already in the game.

osarusan,

It's precisely how dishonest people try to steer the conversation. Never let them get away with that, or every conversation will be unproductive.

[News] Republicans reject own funding bill, US government shutdown imminent (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning on Sunday....

osarusan,

Because of the voters.

We have only ourselves to blame.

osarusan,

5 to 10 years is generous.

I think we're going to see a drastically different environment in less than 2 years.

Source: a friend is a newspaper reporter, and he's been telling me just how scared people are right now. It's not "happening soon" -- it has already happened and we are merely catching up to it. People don't seem to think it counts as "happening" until the last domino falls, but the dominos are falling right now.

osarusan,

This is the way.

osarusan,

I don't know if that's your blog or not, but it hit me right in the memories!

Watching cable horror movies at night on a janky old TV and a cable splitter, all alone but feeling like you were part of a community of people you never met... I wouldn't want to go back to those times now, but they do make great memories to revisit!

Thanks for sharing!

osarusan,

Hi there!
/waves nerdily

osarusan,

Remember, too, that it is super easy to block an individual user on your own end.

It's not the best solution to get rid of spam, but it works wonders all the same.

osarusan,

Google Wave was amazing! My friends and I had so much fun with it, and then it just got abandoned.

osarusan,

Yeah... this sounds like someone who is making excuses for their bad behavior instead of owning their mistake and correcting it.

Impressions: Starfield’s sheer scale is already giving me vertigo (arstechnica.com)

There's a quote from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. “Space is big,” he writes. “You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to...

osarusan,

25,000 planets, but only 10 faces and 5 voices shared among all the inhabitants of the universe.

osarusan,

But what do you do when his constituents actually vote for the plant? I mean I agree as much as anyone that he is unfit for office and should not be there, but if the numbskulls in Kentucky keep saying this is the most qualified person they can come up with to represent them, who are we to deny them their political voice? We can correctly say that they must be dumber than a vegetable to elect him, but don't they have that right?

osarusan,

I, too, hate that doctors do not have perfect knowledge of everything and sometimes make mistakes like humans.

osarusan,

Because doctors are only human, and they're doing the best they can with what tools they have and what they know. If someone comes in with all the symptoms of X disease, you're going to treat them for X disease instead of straightaway concluding that they have a worm living in their brain that has never before been seen in humans and treating them with medicine we usually give to horses to get rid of parasites.

Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music (www.slashfilm.com)

Working from the oral history in The Five Year Mission: The next 25 years, this is a fascinating deep dive that answers the question “How did a recycled cover of a 1998 song written for Rod Stewart, ‘Where My Heart Will Take Me’ aka ‘Faith of the Heart’ become the title music for Enterprise?”...

osarusan,

Indeed. While I would have preferred an orchestral piece, the intro theme for Seasons 1 and 2 was jarring, but not bad. When they updated it for S3 and 4 it was absolute garbage.

The one-shot intro for the mirror universe episode was absolutely fantastic though. They should have stuck with that one, or Archer's Theme, which has an appropriately Star Trek optimism to it, while still being a bit "pop"-y.

osarusan,

I've seen that, although I think it was a fan video and not any official creation. I liked it very much. It would have made a better introduction for sure.

osarusan,

This doesn't work. I've manually updated artwork only to have it refresh automatically at a later date.

osarusan,

I'm not sure why, but things changed for me at some point. Several years ago I had a server that worked just the way you say -- the cover arts would never get updated without my say. But recently I've had two other fresh installs where the art gets overwritten regularly, even after optimizing.

osarusan,

Ignoring anything you might say about the game itself (i.e. it's not a good game at all), the biggest reason people are shitting on it is because Overwatch 1 was a $60 game that they abruptly canceled and re-released as Overwatch 2 "free to play" without any changes to the it, locked the characters behind a paywall, and leaned as heavily into micro-transactions as any game ever. It was a massive bait-and-switch. They also promised that a complex story mode pve experience was the reason they had to make it OW2 rather than an expansion or whatever to OW1, but they ended up canceling that... so literally all they did was take a game they had charged people $60 to play and made it an f2p micro-transaction game. They royally fucked over the loyal player base, and cheapened the game by making it free. I've never seen a more blatant "fuck you" from a developer to its fans ever.

osarusan,

People wearing the mask of "moderate" are usually carrying a shield for the alt-right.

osarusan,

Likewise, the melodrama is what killed it for me.

There are a lot of bad trek episodes scattered across every series. Bad episodes isn't the issue with Discovery. The issue is that, throughout all of trek, the crew has come together and stuck with each other through thick and thin. If there ever is inter-crew strife, it's solved in generally one or two episodes (except for major plot/story themes like the Maquis, or Seven being a Borg).

Discovery, on the other hand, is a show where the crew was constantly backstabbing, betraying, lying, and being all around bad towards each other. There was no finding solace among the crew in a world filled with strife -- the world was strife, and the crew was also strife. And whenever the inter-crew issues seemed like they could finally be resolved, some new stupid issue was shoehorned in. It was unbearable to watch because of the forced melodrama.

osarusan,

How is it that people are always coming up with zany untested solutions like "dump a fuckton of iron in the sea and see what happens" instead of doing the one thing we actually know how to do -- move to clean energy??? It's not like we don't have the solution. We just have to actually implement it.

osarusan,

Season 1 Ortegas was hard for me to like. She was far too cocky for a Starfleet officer, talking back and too informally to superior officers. She felt like she didn't belong in Star Trek, or at least in that kind of Starfleet command structure.

Season 2 Ortegas has backed off from that a bit and is now far more enjoyable. She's got spunk, but she doesn't come off as insubordinate or rude.

osarusan,

It helped that Discovery was such garbage, and the Pike/Enterprise plotline showed us what could have been instead of what was. SNW was the show we wanted when all we had was Discovery. And now it's great to see that they seem to have recovered that lost magic.

osarusan,

Very true. Whatever we can say about Discovery, they did give this one to us.

osarusan,

Same here. When I look at the microblog pages on some magazines, they seem to be full of random Mastodon posts from several months ago rather than new content. I have no issues with other Fediverse stuff showing up there, but why old stuff? Why nothing new? And why only select hashtags rather than universal? It's extremely bizarre and looks like a half-broken tech demo.

osarusan,

I'm a big fan of Kdenlive!

osarusan,

It's also basically a laundry list of every talking point transphobes use. I feel very bad for the adult (not a child, as they try to paint him) here, but this is an anecdote being spun into a dishonest propaganda piece.

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