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Emmadrime

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Hallo, I'm Em. I play things with strings and secretly believe music is the highest good humanity is capable of. Voluntary exile from both cities I think of as home. I miss them.

FYI all posts toast at 8 weeks, and I am way too tired to argue anymore.Take it or leave it.

Header: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D

Profile Pic: Snap taken by my husband and run through some AI filter when they still seemed funny and interesting.

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shoq, to random
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If you thought we could survive all of this madness, think again. We’re at war with stupidity on a previously unimaginable scale.

Emmadrime,
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@shoq

It's certainly at war with us.

Great visual.

Emmadrime, to gaming
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Billions in profit. Billions. Spent years ravenously gobbling up game studios. And now they're chopping them down so they can keep .000001% more gain this fiscal year.

Fuck workers, art, games, players, the industry's future, basic decency. NUMBER GO UP FOREVER

The Activision-ing of Xbox on SkillUp

#gaming #xbox

https://youtu.be/vAb21GaTEGw?si=jsYTh29Pvd_5IFBp

Emmadrime,
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@zdl

Smart.

I'm a latecomer to video games. They were sanity-saving when the plague hit and it was wisest to stay home. The potential and scope for interactive storytelling is amazing. What we mostly get instead, especially from the big corpos, is a bit saddening. It's the gaming industry that added phrases like "minimum viable product" to my vocabulary. bleeeeeeeh

Good on you for not streaming music. That industry is doing everything it can to starve all the artists to death.

glyph, to random
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Culture is defined by what leaders reward and what they tolerate, not by what they claim to want: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

Emmadrime,
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@glyph

"Corporate would like you to make us some small, single-player games that the critics will like before we take a wrecking ball to your studio anyway. And smile. You're prettier when you smile."

Emmadrime, to random
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Yeeeeah the thing is, if we knew the medical facts about all of our elected officials, the brain worm would fit right in.

Alzheimer's and, say, syphilis, don't give a crap how rich or powerful anybody is. js

And brain fog from that ongoing plague everybody's pretending isn't happening. For another example.

Emmadrime, to random
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I am just taking my elders' word that Jerry Seinfeld was funny at some point. See also: Bill Maher. Even when I dig for that funny past, all I can find is petulant whining. 🤷‍♀️

As opposed to comedians from longer ago, your Lucilles Ball or Grouchos Marx, who still hold up. :thinkerguns: Oooo wow now I need some of that. It's good to laugh. Replays of that goofy American "Whose Line is it Anyway" are gold.

Emmadrime,
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@zdl

Frasier? The dry delivery cracks me up. It strikes me as an extra Gen X, cool and detached, kind of comedy.

Emmadrime, to random
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It's always little amusing when some poor soul finds out an author they like is a massive asshole who cares for no one and nothing but himself and perhaps other wealthy white men

when

the open misogyny in his work should have given you a clue, my lad. Always a reliable sign of brain worms.

(But I am sorry for your loss.)

Emmadrime,
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@zdl

Right?

It was Niven. Particulars I didn't know tbh, just not at all surprised. He red-flags himself extravagantly in everything of his I've ever seen.

Emmadrime, to gaming
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The perverse incentives to 🏴‍☠️ are kind of amusing, but the fraud is not. I would never have guessed "I should own the things I buy" would be a hill we'd have to fight on.

Digital Decay of 2000s PC Games DRM

https://youtu.be/QZYy9KzFT2w?si=f3KKbN8DGW8MUdwA

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

#gaming #stopkillinggames

Emmadrime, (edited )
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@Imperor

Yeah, that's a problem. Our federal representatives tend toward embarrassingly tech-illiterate, and the ones that aren't have bigger issues to deal with. This campaign might work though, if enough people get behind it. "They're stealing from us, here is exactly how to make them stop," is a clear, strong position.

nixCraft, to privacy
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So this is what Microsoft is up to now? Sad. It is a pathetic company. Maybe the EU and FTC need to look into this kind of stuff. Trust and Microsoft have no relationship. If you care about your privacy, never use anything built by MS. Use Firefox or other browsers. I don’t use edge or windows but it was posted https://twitter.com/ianzelbo/status/1777450065214271750?s=46 here. I am amused by how they are abusing their power.

Microsoft nagging users when they try to download other browsers and it says: There's no need to download a new web browser. Microsoft recommends using Microsoft Edge for a fast, secure, and moder experience that can help save you time and money.

Emmadrime,
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@nixCraft

They really underestimate the creep factor of this kind of thing.

Emmadrime, to random
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"I return to differentiators.

"There are things that we can do that fascists simply can't.

"We should do those things."

The Thing That's Coming
by A.R. Moxon in The Reframe

(It's a long one. Worth.)

https://www.the-reframe.com/blame-management/?

Emmadrime, to random
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I did some work for a psychiatrist once, who taught me a little breathing/eye movement trick that glitches the wetware into giving you another few minutes of energy and focus, and I wish I knew a dozen more of those. Useful as.

Emmadrime, to random
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After my sister's death, I discovered she had a little box of letters she'd received from authors she wrote to. Like, so many letters. So many wrote back to her, sent her little friendly sketches, answered lore questions, told her she was going to be ok.

Lots of people - maybe most - are lovely. Kind. Generous. It's been getting harder and harder for me to remember this. I have one of the little toys from that box on my desk, smiling at me while I read the news and answer email. :patcat:

Emmadrime, to random
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New Zealand, I hope you're building protections for the inevitable influx of billionaires.

Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/19/air-pollution-health-report

Emmadrime,
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@zdl

I'd think so. 🤔 Although some might be vampires?

Emmadrime,
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@zdl

Just going off looks, I'd say old-school Nosferatu types. 🤔 This theory would explain what they need with all that "young blood." I like it.

cstross, to random
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TFW you buy your spouse a shiny new maxed-out Macbook Air ... then discover the toilet is leaking.

Sigh. Plumber scheduled for tomorrow morning (yay!) at "you want me to be awake WHEN?" o'clock (boo!)

Fingers crossed that it's just a leaky gasket, not a whole new bathroom ...

Emmadrime,
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@cstross

But how did the gift go over? Don't bogart the fun part of the story!

Emmadrime, to random
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Staple* this to the forehead of every self-important jackhole who cries that people dare to speak online without first presenting their full name and CV:

"Some of the biggest internet fuckwads I've ever met – and I've met some big ones! – were utterly unashamed about using their real names. Some of the nicest people I know online have never told me their offline names. Greater internet fuckwad theory is just plain wrong."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/04/greater-corporate-fuckward-theory/

*oh fine tape it then

Emmadrime, to reddit
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The same year he was crying about landed gentry and praising Elmo. That tracks.

I wonder if a mere 193 million is enough for him to cash out and go away.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-files-to-go-public-reveals-that-it-paid-ceo-dollar193-million-last-year

#reddit

JuliusGoat, to random
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I remember in 2004, when John Kerry received the Democratic nomination; specifically, I remember thinking it was all over for the Republicans. George W. Bush had dodged the draft, after all, and John Kerry was a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.

https://www.the-reframe.com/one-must-imagine-charlie-brown-happy/

Emmadrime,
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@JuliusGoat

"I actually believed Republicans believed in the things they said they believed in."

I sometimes feel like I must be The Dumbest Person in the World for making that very mistake. So I appreciate you writing this sentence. A lot.

Emmadrime, to random
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If you're shocked by how much energy Taylor Swift's private plane is burning, wait till you hear about the US peacetime military.

Emmadrime, to random
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I didn't get enough time in the world before the plague. I didn't get enough time in the world before 9/11. Glad I had any at all. There are people in their twenties who got none.

It's a pointless and self-indulgent sadness. I know. But here it is. I wish I'd had more time before we arrived waves hand around at this.

Emmadrime, to random
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All those hours practicing accordion hands in front of the mirror, wasted. 😔

Surely that's the last we'll hear of Florida's hateful little dictator.

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