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RogerBW

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#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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purplepadma, to random
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I like immigration. I like not to have serious skills gaps in our services. I like mixing with people who grew up in other countries. I like being enriched by other cultures. I would like the feeling that my country opened its arms to people fleeing terrible situations elsewhere. I don’t understand why other people don’t think like this

RogerBW,
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@purplepadma I have heard it suggested that the strongest anti-immigrant sentiment in England is in rural places where immigrants rarely go—my assumption would be that they are exposed to the "scary" messaging, particularly the "taking our jobs" instead of how they've been screwed over by successive governments, and don't have "my friends Ali and Gurpreet" to balance it.

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale "I don't care about you building your brand, I'm not going to join your patreon, I just came here because I searched for [thing] and all that came up was bloody videos."

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Larry had this habit of talking to fans, who would present him with a problem in one of his books (e.g. the Ringworld is unstable relative to its star), and then writing the fix into a later book.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale And my point is really that there's so much not quite explained that you can make Evangelion be about anything you want, and that is a virtue in itself.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Both! [Drink.]

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Yeah, I remember hearing about a Japanese card game that sounded quite fun, and then I saw it at Essen and "this is just an excuse to put preteen girls in fetishy versions of Axis uniforms isn't it".

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@DarkestKale Well, I mean, it can be. It can also be about apocalyptic Christianity, even though Anno said quite plainly that he put in the Christian trappings because it was a weird religion most of his audience wouldn't be familiar with.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale But SEELE is also the patriarchy. 😀

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Yup, that's Larry all right.
(In K B Wagers' otherwise fine NeoG series, one company has exclusive access to life extension tech, and nobody seems to think that this kind of monpooly might have some negative effects on society.)

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@lightning @DarkestKale You're probably right. I constantly lose track of which was chosen from GB or UK at any given international meeting. And then it gets arbitrarily changed anyway.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Standard en_UK for what that's worth.

Faintdreams, to random
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So a Screenwriter - selling a course on adapting novels into screenplays - titled his Linked-In article post

"Why is the film always better than the book?"

Aaaaaand I know it's 'I wanna sell you something clickbait'.. but no.

This is demonstrably not true.

What examples immediately spring to mind for you ?

RogerBW,
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@Faintdreams Yeah, there's a particular way of leaving stuff out which will be filled in by the actors, the set dressers, or the special effects department, which is very hard not to notice once one has spotted it.

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@Faintdreams Slightly more seriously, my underlying theory is that the medium defines the shapse of story that will work well in it—a novel is not a 2 hour film is not a 6 hour TV season. So an adaptation that's any good is likely to be an adaptation of the core concept first; it may steal cool scenes from the original, but it needs to make them fit into a story shape that works in the medium.
(This is also where I disagree with Robin D. Laws on storytelling in RPGs: he wants to borrow models from linear fiction, thus Hamlet's Hit Points and DramaSystem, while my experience is that RPG sessions have their own story shapes too, and stories from other media need to be adapted to work well.)

RogerBW,
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@Faintdreams Oh yes, I tried to watch live-action Initial D having enjoyed the various anime series and it just felt wrong.

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@Faintdreams An unpopular one, I suspect, but The Running Man. A Stephen King non-horror potboiler that's desperately trying to be dark and edgy, versus a mindless Arnie-a-thon that was the inspiration for American Gladiators (only rather more murdery).

LikeItOrLumpIt, to random
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Morning podcast idea:

Me with a weekly guest. Awkward silences except the sound of me slurping coffee, and biting crispy toast.

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt Occasionally, with the right guest: "Looks like it's gonna be a hot one." "Uh-huh."

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Business meetings exist to share information and coordinate activity: this shit enables you to be apparently present in all but actually not engaged with any. If your calendar is triple-booked then your organization is under-resourced and needs more people, not more AI. Or it's holding unnecessary meetings to make management feel better about being surrounded by minions, in which case it needs to fire the executives responsible.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112553850995965423

RogerBW,
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@cstross But those things aren't going to happen, so here's a way of pretending to be in a meeting when you're actually doing something useful. And all it costs is all the electricity and drinkable water for people somewhere else.

BigJackBrass, to random
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And win handily, I expect.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass I was thinking of that incident in The Belly of the Bow.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Anyone else having a K J Parker flashback?

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @DarkestKale I will say nothing then.

shimminbeg, to random
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Whartson Hall players, optimistically: "Well, this seems like a workable plan."

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @Kendoyle That's what the eight-pounder was for.

ralfchr, to random German
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Bei einem gebraucht gekauften Spiel lagen einige Promo-Karten bei. Diese hier kann ich nicht zuordnen. Kennt jemand das Spiel? #schwarmwissen #brettspiele

RogerBW,
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@ralfchr Space Base https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/242302/space-base ?

swisslet, to random
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So, how would this work, Kemi? Employ someone in every public toilet to check genitalia?
Fucksake. Troll.

RogerBW,
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@swisslet No, give the mob permission to do it.

crmsnbleyd, to random
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premium gopher cope

RogerBW,
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@crmsnbleyd "If you want to annoy them, ask them what real-world tasks function composition is useful for." 😜

RogerBW, to books
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Entanglement, Martha Wells https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/06/Entanglement__Martha_Wells.html

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