They believe that AND they think art is 100% separate from the artist, just so they can consume their treats without feeling guilty.
Many such cases, such as when Justin Roiland’s apologists said that all of the SV against children was “ironic” and “just a joke” in the edgy trash he put out (especially his “children’s special” television shorts that involved nothing but constant and repeated SV “just to see how audiences would react”) and when it was revealed that he was actually an enthusiast for such things in his personal life “death of the author!” was chanted to make the “ironic” “just a joke” edgy trash somehow still seem acceptable. Justin Roiland was always a piece of shit to match the value and message of his output.
The U.S. Postal Service is planning to hire just 10,000 temporary employees during the current holiday season as part of a new approach that management has acknowledged comes with some risks....
A proper and full Disco Elysium sequel with Harry’s ongoing adventures, maybe even with the prior game’s save file reasonably used as a starter for how things begin next time around. sicko-wistful
Ever meet a “hah, you statists think you need public roads” smuglord type, who thought it was an own to call out that you mentioned public roads as if it was a self-own without having any viable way around that need that isn’t even more of a public service like trains?
They’re out there, and they will sometimes resort to something fucking bazinga like “jetpacks!” for an answer. galaxy-brain
BUT THERE IS SOME REALLY GOOD CURRY IN THE UK BECAUSE SOME CONQUERED PEOPLES WERE COERCED TO THE OLD IMPERIAL CORE TO TRY TO ECONOMICALLY SURVIVE SO TAKE THAT frothingfash
I didn’t even deny anything specific about the colonially seized food; I was reflecting some very loud seething that got brought up during older dunks on jellied eels or beans on toast.
Some of that bazinga’s most misanthropic and bootlicky takes have already been deleted by mods so I can’t directly quote them, but what was deleted were some logical rational whoppers such as “all of you are under an idealistic delusion that human beings will always outcompete machines in work tasks if they believe...
You know you could probably have a lot less stress in your life if you don’t go around finding these IRL soyjaks to dunk on. Think of your cardiovascular health
I actually am heading mostly off-grid in a few days for an indefinite time to fulfill some lifelong dreams. I’m no longer going to be anywhere near Silicon Valley so I won’t have to see or hear or argue with bazingas (I hope) offline anymore either.
This is my long standing hot take and point of contention with rules as written in conventional D&D fantasy rule sets: death, if the rules of the game were actually applied to the setting, is less about finality (except for the lifespan limitation contrivance) and more about health insurance or lack thereof. People who die that have enough money should by all means have family that pay for raises (or resurrections when the body isn’t available) as a matter of course and the material consequences of that would be that premature death from violence, illness, or accident would be mostly a poor people thing. Funerals would be awkward in setting: “sorry you can’t afford a rez. The divines bless the departed I guess, lol.”
There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.
For decades, Forgotten Realms tried really had to be this “peasants have their minds blown if they see even a level one Magic-User spell being cast; this is a grounded and gritty setting sort of” pretense in the official materials, but then there’s basically a magocracy running most cities (even the fucking Luskan pirates and other “savage frontier” big mean guys!) and maps full of “oh a web spell is on this window at all times” sorts of signs that maybe those peasants should be a lot more familiar with the very special very rare spellcasters that rule over them and make all the important decisions.
It’s a weird thing among bazingas to call their ruling class masters by their first names to pretend there’s some chumminess and closeness, but contextually I don’t think they were doing that.
Probably saved someone a tire (reddthat.com)
If you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?
George Lucas: "Am I a joke to you?" (hexbear.net)
USPS acknowledges some risks to its new, less-staffed holiday season approach (www.govexec.com)
The U.S. Postal Service is planning to hire just 10,000 temporary employees during the current holiday season as part of a new approach that management has acknowledged comes with some risks....
What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?
“As a libertarian I demand more free services!” (hexbear.net)
It's funnt because it's true (fanaticus.social)
I'm actually impressed with the chutzpah of this particular techbro clown with a take that has the implication that AI Dungeon is as self-aware and sapient as you are and you can't prove otherwise. (hexbear.net)
Some of that bazinga’s most misanthropic and bootlicky takes have already been deleted by mods so I can’t directly quote them, but what was deleted were some logical rational whoppers such as “all of you are under an idealistic delusion that human beings will always outcompete machines in work tasks if they believe...
18+ Conservatives are so FUCKING WEIRD (hexbear.net)
Legal loophole (startrek.website)
Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
For sure tomorrow (lemmy.zip)
What are some dying and dead niche lemmings?
have any niche lemmings taken off in the 6 months since the API scandal?
The CRAZY world of ransomware - keynote by cybersecurity expert Graham Cluley - 20 minutes (infosec.pub)
The CRAZY world of ransomware - keynote by cybersecurity expert Graham Cluley...
Clive Palmer fails in second attempt to overturn $6.5 billion coal mine refusal (reneweconomy.com.au)