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Software wizard. Roller derby athlete. Mom. Gamer.

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insight

Broke: This boss is bullshit.

Woke: All bosses are bullshit.

Bespoke: All bosses are bullshit, and that's what makes the game engaging.

tess,
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@eniko this post was inspired by the fact that in my most recent ER playthrough, in which I did not use armor or defense-boosting talismans or spells, there were a lot of attacks where I was like, "wow, that's bullshit". And I found myself saying it over and over again. Until I realized that, actually, the bullshit was what made them challenging, which was the whole point.

The common denominator was that if a boss is gonna murder you with some absolute nonsense, it needs to look impressive 😁

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@eniko

Dying because you got run through/eaten/blended: five stars, funny, would get eaten again

Dying because you got clipped by a random hitbox that didn't even look like a deliberate attack: zero stars, frustrating, I cannot believe the absolute jank this game sucks

tess,
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@eniko anyway my point is that you should totally make bosses and make them complete bullshit on purpose 😛

skinnylatte, (edited ) to random
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Sometimes I think about how being an immigrant anywhere is about hedging your present choices against some unknowable future. To be a cog in a macro environment where you literally control nothing, but any small micro changes outside your control can mean you have to go, tomorrow.

Immigrants with privilege have a better shot, but it still holds. In some cases you have to win the literal lottery (most people have to win a H-1B lottery, to get a U.S. work visa, even if they have a job offer.

tess,
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@skinnylatte can we show some compassion for what immigrants lose when they leave their homes? I feel like that's the thing we overlook the most - many of these people are leaving the only lives they've known; their culture; their families; their friends.

Nobody does that on a lark.

We love our home. We never want to leave. But if the US becomes hostile to our family, I'll do what I have to in order to protect them. Even if that means being a refugee somewhere alien to us.

tess,
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@skinnylatte one of my favorite artists, Vienna Teng, is a child of Taiwanese immigrants. She sings a number of songs about the immigrant/refugee experience, but one of her most clever is "No Gringo", which imagines a world in which the US collapses and white Americans are fleeing across the border into Mexico.

There's a verse that just talks about all of the things the singer, a young person, would be leaving behind forever. It's heartbreaking.

(The whole album is a banger; give it a listen.)

tess, to random
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Somebody is DDoSing Final Fantasy XIV servers today, which means I can't log on and get the 16 million gil deposit on my failed housing swap back.

This was supposed to be a five-minute in-and-out, probably won't be able to get back in until after maintenance.

I'm sure they will figure out how to block the offending bots, but it annoys the shit out of me that the people doing this probably don't even care about the game and are likely only doing this to show off their capabilities.

tess,
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Managed to get in and, actually, it was 19 mil; happy to have that cash back.

I'm hoping they open a new housing zone in Dawntrail; I like my current house but I'd love to swap up to a medium or large.

Also: housing in Sharlayan or Radz-at-Han would kick ass. So would Crystarium or Bestaways Burrow, but I understand that for spoiler reasons they can't actually do that.

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic 'A View to a Kill' in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming 'Legend' during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness. Tim's makeup took up to six hours to apply and the two would chat and pose for humorous Polaroids together throughout the day.

tess,
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@Some_Emo_Chick also really shows how poor cameras at the time were at capturing dark skin.

tess, to random
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Ngl I expected Fallout to be... funnier? Weirder? More irreverent? The veneer of the original aesthetic is there but an hour in it's just grimdark post-apoc with a splash of (very inconsistent) retro-futurism for flavor.

tess,
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Am I crazy for expecting it to be goofier? I don't remember the games very much but from what I do remember there was at least a mixture of irreverent silliness in with the deadly serious stuff.

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Purchasing women's clothing

tess,
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@mcc ah, the two genders

tess, to random
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I think consistently referring to counter-protestors as "zionists" is probably misleading; I suspect that while there may be many genuine zionists doing violence to pro-Palestine protestors, there are also probably a bunch of fascists mixed in there who are very much not "zionists" in the traditional sense (other than perhaps that Israel's continued existence provides a potential avenue to ethnically cleanse the US of Jews).

Using that broad brush actually plays into the fascists' agenda.

tess,
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Rather than "zionists", better terms for this mixed group of allies-of-convenience might be "violent reactionaries", "pro-genocide", "anti-human rights", etc.

They're all terrible people, but in markedly different ways and I think we should recognize that (and also how they are similar as well).

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It's a difficult argument to make, in the same way it's hard to argue against calling all anti-trans activists "TERFs" despite the fact that many (most?) of them are right-wing agitators and not in any way "radical" or "feminist".

But I would like to avoid muddling terminology around "zionist" because there are a lot of people who aren't actually zionists being called "zionist" because they are Jewish or express sadness over the suffering of Israeli citizens while still supporting Palestine.

tess,
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Perhaps I shouldn't dance around the point.

It is true that many Jewish zionists dishonestly equate anti-zionism with anti-Semitism.

However, this only works because Nazis, the KKK, and other anti-Semites have been using "zionist" as a dog whistle for "Jew" for literally longer than I have been alive (I am in my 40s).

This is why anti-zionist Jews are tetchy about non-Jews calling all violent counter-protestors (many of whom are anti-Semite fascists themselves) "zionists".

tess,
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Like, if you know for sure that the folks attacking the protestors are Jewish supporters of Israel (which many probably are), then it's fine to call them "Zionist Jews".

And if they are Evangelicals who support Israel but only so all of the Jews can be killed in the Apocalypse, you can call them "Christian Zionists".

If they're nazis, say that.

But as an older, anti-zionist Jew, I still hear "zionists" coming from non-Jews as a thinly-veiled slur.

Just thought y'all might like to know.

tess,
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I'm going to start referring to violent counter-protestors as "genocide enjoyers".

Feel free to join me.

tess, to random
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If you're one of the six remaining Jonathan Coulton fans, I wish you a joyous holiday. (Try not to get arrested.)

tess, to random
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Tesla: no new car models, slumping sales, cybertruck flop, trouble dealing with governments over self-driving - but massive capital in their charging network which is now the de-facto standard

What you would expect: new or refreshed cars, more aggressive lobbying, big investment in charging network as a profit center

What we're getting: no new cars, massive layoffs in charging network and government relations while pivoting the company to self-driving taxi service...?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145133/tesla-layoffs-supercharger-team-elon-musk-hard-core

tess,
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The thing with all of these Silicon Valley "transportation" companies is that they genuinely believe the only road to profitability is being "Uber, but without drivers" (this includes, of course, Uber itself).

Tesla could drop its auto manufacture and just make money off being a charging network. It could choose to be a car company and make good, high-quality cars. But they won't do either; they're going to engage in thrash and mission creep until they go bankrupt.

glitchypixel, to CSharp Spanish
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Hm is it me or there is some sort of obsession to constantly update a programming language to fill it with "stuff" and "features"

I'm noticing a clear trend for this in #csharp and #cpp, but I'm sure there are others

I mean people keep asking why C is still widely used. I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons is that the spec has barely changed in 50 years or so and it works

C'mon some programming languages are fine as they are, please don't keep crowding them unless absolutely necessary pls?

tess,
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@asperamanca @glitchypixel this. I get that "the way you write programs becomes obsolete every three years" is frustrating, but at least C++ remains backwards compatible. Like you said, you can still code like it's 1990 if you really want. And all those old libraries also still work.

tess, to random
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Evidently, The Emperor's New Groove was made without ever having had a script:

https://youtu.be/jsdrbzaBPAg

Due to Disney archive requirements, someone did eventually transcribe one - and filed it two weeks after the film was released.

Which, now that I think about it, is exactly how design docs work in a lot of tech orgs.

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I love the edit button because it can take a lot of revision to punch up a post to the point people will actually share it.

tess,
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I am a very good writer but shitposts do not spring from my head fully-formed like some kind of Greek goddess.

They take time, and craft, and sometimes a bit of A/B testing. There's a real science to it!

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Too hot to post tech opinions, not hot enough to post piss.

It's a dilemma.

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