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This animal crossing ROM sucks
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And also, in yet more evidence that "There's a Far Side strip for everything"
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Fun Fact: Apparently the original planned title for The Brady Bunch was "The Brady Brood" which was objected to due to sounding like a horror film.
Which like, I think we can all agree the Brady Bunch would be substantially better if one of the family could produce psychically-controlled rage-fetus-monsters to kill people.
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In 2016, years before long COVID was a thing, the US National Institutes of Health, the largest single public funder of medical research in the world, launched a study into a long-neglected and puzzling condition: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME/CFS. Eight years later, the results of that study are finally out. In one of the most thorough investigations to date, researchers took a deep dive into a small group of 17 people who developed ME/CFS after an infection and found distinct biological differences compared to 21 healthy controls. "Overall, what we show is that ME/CFS is unambiguously biological, with multiple organ systems affected," neurologist Avindra Nath, lead researcher of the study and clinical director of NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), said in an interview with JAMA. For decades, many doctors had dismissed ME/CFS as a psychosomatic condition that was 'all in patients' heads'. Now there is little doubt: a host of biological changes underpin ME/CFS.
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Concepts like sex magic and fertility deities in fantasy are actually really interesting to me as a person with a lot of interest in anthropology and mythology like Yes I am curious about the weird sex that elves have but its pretty much exclusively explored by authors who are Weird Horny Dudes and forget about putting that stuff into a d&d campaign
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Surprised they didn't do any relevant Universes Beyond or Secret Lair drops for this one...
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New MtG set is set on Ravnica, but is not centered around the guilds; instead, the focus is on the detectives/private investigators of Ravnica.
Yep, this is the detective set.
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Dumb Idea: Plok sequel done in the gameplay style of Hotline Miami...
...Obvious reasoning for that idea aside, this is less implausible than you think, given the original creators (The Pickford Brothers) own the IP and would probably be down for collab-ing with the Hotline Miami creators...
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I know it's supposed to be a joke about how Strong Bad has weird tastes, but I have a theory on why he honestly thinks Senor Cardgage is cool. While "coolness" is subjective, it's typically associated with having a lot of self-confidence, I think Strong Bad thinks Senor Cardgage is "cool" because Cardgage basically lives life the way he pleases, going wherever and doing whatever he wants, and doesn't care about other people's judgement about his looks or behavior.
Granted, anyone with half a brain can see that Senor Cardgage is really just a gross, sketchy hobo with no sense of personal space and sounds like he's consumed at least three illicit substances and/or household cleaners in the past hour. But given how Cardgage tends to pester everyone except Strong Bad, Strong Bad probably thinks he's cool because he gets on everybody's nerves and usually getting away with it, something that he himself probably wishes he could do. Plus, he gave Strong Sad nightmares, which of course is hilarious.
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Hot take, while the pipe organ is great, I think the harpischord is underrated in terms of spooky gothic instruments in boss music.
Like, you hear that in a boss theme and you know you're in for fighting some kind of rad as hell fancy Dracula at the very least...
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I was thinking about @chromegnomes's post on AI art and how they surmised (accurately) that the problem with calling it "theft" is that, despite it drawing from the commons of artistic work despite being a material threat to its labor, anything that would legally classify unauthorized use of training data as "theft" would fuck over so much of fair use in favor of megacorps.
And, with that, I have a proposition.
The unauthorized use of training data shouldn't be morally analyzed at from the perspective of theft, it should be analyzed from the perspective of union-busting.
This frees our minds and allows us to go forward smartly in several ways.
Like, for example, how it makes Adobe and DallE-3's AIs worse than Stablediffusion because they're specifically designed to be more freely corporate-useable and restrictive, and thus easier to use to choke off labor power.
And also how it allows for a distinction between the ethics of the companies and the ethics of the users, which allows for a much more nuanced approach than the "existential evil vs lazzez-faire" approach I keep seeing.
This not only allows for ethical stances like @are-we-art-yet's to become grokable and therefore applicable, but also allows for more directed action than just "trying to flail wildly at it as an ontological evil"
Really, I just think it's something people should think about more...
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Roses - Dan Flavin, 1962-66
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a mysterious and cute foxgirl plushie has been found orbiting a black hole
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Hopefully it would continue Tezuka's legacy via being a TF-Based kind of Weird And Horny, which is yet another reason why it must happen.
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This is the most insane shit I've ever read. None of this is anything. I desperately need them to do a second Evangelion remake that's the Werewolf Version.
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Dumb Game Idea: Character action game that's a boss rush against the whole cast of Sesame Street.
It's in good fun, the fights are nonlethal and they're being done to raise money for charity, but otherwise they're not holding back.
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Reblogging because, yeah this is kinda close to my feelings/hopes wrt your positive scenario, tho I do think we should at least try to fight for less extractivism and to make recycling minerals in a way we need to mine way less, because despite how I might often come off I do agree it's a major moral hazard, and in trying to keep the apocalypse from happening I would like to not have to make the horrible choice between screwing over the Congolese people vs screwing over the oceanic abyssal ecosystem.
Tho on the net, a thing that gives me hope is... well I know this dude on Discord. He's fascinating, a radical leftist black dude born into poverty in the most bigoted part of the US, says Settlers was super relatable to his life, the sort of person who uses "Amerika" unironically
But also he's a programmer, who got out of it in the 90s because he thought it was getting too corporately enclosed and gentrified. And it is fascinating to hear him talk about how much power we could get out of systems that're technically much weaker than what we have. So there's that.
Tho, on streaming video, while IDK much about the technical aspects I at least hope that stays in whatever form it can. Like, while I only speak for myself, I think I'd be okay with being stuck at 240p potatovision if it meant even after it Hits The Fan I could still do Synchtube sessions with friends.
Tho, god this part stood out to me:
But my brain is very pessimistic in general and good at conjuring up apocalyptic scenarios, so I can't exactly tell you the odds of any of that.
Like... it's distressing to realize that I've found myself unable to step back like that because of how I more or less I learned the lesson from my trauma that "Your perception is unreliable, but only for good things happening, all the bad things are 100% objectively true unless you find an airtight logical proof they aren't,"
I suppose that's what happens when one is a failed artist and a disabled person who failed at becoming a Real Adult in ways interlinked with the former (Because I percieved it as the only route to that) after trying so hard when my dad and stepmom were super shitty about my prospects of making it.
Well, that and how my abusive stepmom who definitely has undiagnosed anxiety constantly talked about how the world would leave me to die if I didn't stop [X] behaviors that came from my disability, and she would always say "Life can change on a dime" to justify herself.
I feel I probably have a lot to unpack there...
I think the future looks something like: large renewable deployment that will still never be as big as current energy consumption, extractivism of every available mineral in an atmosphere of increasing scarcity, increasing natural disasters and mass migration stressing the system until major political upheavals start kicking off, and various experiments in alternative ways to live will develop, many of which are likely to end in disaster, but perhaps some prove sustainable and form new equilibria. I think the abundance we presently enjoy in the rich countries may not last, but I don't think we'll give up our hard won knowledge so easily, and I don't think we're going back to a pre-industrial past - rather a new form of technological future.
That's the optimistic scenario. The pessimistic scenarios involve shit like cascading economic and crop failures leading to total gigadeaths collapse, like intensification of 'fortress europe' walled enclaves and surveillance apparatus into some kinda high tech feudal nightmare, and of course like nuclear war. But my brain is very pessimistic in general and good at conjuring up apocalyptic scenarios, so I can't exactly tell you the odds of any of that. I'm gonna continue to live my life like it won't suddenly all end, because you have to right?
Shit that developed in the context of extraordinarily abundant energy and compute like LLMs and crypto and maybe even streaming video will have a harder time when there's less of it around, but the internet will likely continue to exist - packet-switching networks are fundamentally robust, and the hyper-performant hardware we use today full of rare earths and incredibly fine fabs that only exist at TSMC and Shenzhen is not the only way to make computing happen. I hold out hope that our present ability to talk to people in faraway countries, and access all the world's art and knowledge almost instantly, will persist in some form, because that's one of the best things we have ever accomplished. But archival and maintenance is a continual war against entropy, and this is a tremendously complex system alike to an organism, so I can not say what will happen.
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As a lot of people've been pointing out on other posts, one of the big issues seems to be cost and affordability, and I can understand if posts like that ring with an air of classism.
But like, I think the takeaway from that shouldn't be "So everything is fine and don't complain," but rather, "Holy shit we need to fight to make decent laptops/desktops more affordable."
Tho, I will also say, I'm surprised they don't go for used/refurbished models as a potential affordable option.
Like, I've pretty much gotten all of my compy hardware from over the last decade from Craigslist or refurbished, and it's lasted me a good long while!
...You know, it says a lot that we haven't seen much moral panic over how smartphones seem to be leading to widespread computer illiteracy amongst the yonger generations, given that (at least from what I've been seeing) that's actually true.
Maybe that's a social fear we should push on a little harder, if only so we can fucking do something about it.
Like, at the very least we should start actively shaming boomer parents (who can afford it) that treat an Iphone as a substitute for a decent laptop/desktop, and making actual resources for teaching kids how to use real-ass computers instead of Android/Iphone bullshit...
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Reblogging because you make some extremely good points and overall reassure me, tho there is one bit I'd want to quibble with.
Like, you're probably correct on how for a lot of people it's more skepticism/rallying against hegemony, and that includes people I've personally argued with like the one who was really shitty about space to me or the one who said the concept of emerging technologies was a "capitalist grift" (literally their words)
Like, despite my clashing, I'm willing to take in good faith that it's skepticism, and I agree that in terms of approaching a better world good god there's a lot of hegemonic "quick fixes" that're bad and dumb even if I disagree with others on the alternatives or how often my own go-tos keep getting crushed.
But for other folks... well, I think part of my antipathy towards degrowth-as-movement is related to coming across it via this site called Resilience, which is super focused on "transition towns," and tends to attract A Sort Of Person.
And that person who did that post also did a follow-up where they mentioned this, bolding mine:
why do you think the whole cottagecore thing (colonialism aside) is so popular? because people, semi-correctly, identify the trappings of industrial civilization with the everyday suffering that living in a capitalist world brings to us. especially after people’s standards of living get degraded by the oncoming economic-ecological collapse, if you promise people a life with less air conditioning but where they’re guaranteed work, shelter, and sustenance, i think you’ll get far more support than you anticipate.
Like, even beyond the whole bad faith of "I'm not an amprim, I just think we should end most industry and return to neo-peasantry," the comment on air conditioning sticks out to me because like...
I live in Arizona. We would fucking die without air conditioning. Especially in a climate catastrophe scenario.
Now, the response folks like that would be is usually "Just move/flee" then, I've seen it also in Peter Gelderloos' godawful "An Anarchist Solution to Global Warming," but like, I'd respond with "How the fuck would anyone get the material funds to resettle? Sell their homes to the fucking Graboids? Or the fucking Night of the Lepus rabbits*?"
Though, as you said, they don't make up the entirety of the people really aggressive about shutting down technological solutions, but like...
Well, I suppose I'm afraid of what the skeptics and the anprim-lites are gonna do united, and how the former might be further drawn in by the latter.
Though I suppose it's related to my experience with, for example, how I still think the influence of the Frankfurt School is a major choke-chain holding back lefism from doing shit about the massive overreach of IP law, due to the FFS' ideas in practice (as I've observed them) leading to ideals of the artist as audience-adversarial philosopher-king in a way that's directly hostile to the Creative Commons.
But that itself is its own ramble...
*That is only partially a joke, Night of the Lepus was in fact filmed in my hometown, and I have no idea what it says that I take that as a point of pride.
...This is probably going to come off as stupid, but I feel like the whole line of "To preserve a livable planet, no price is too high" is rapidly becoming the eco-leftist version of "There is no alternative,"
At least, specifically WRT the idea of massive cuts to life being the only solution and, in the part that frustrates me the most, actively shutting down any attempts to make the sacrifices necessary suck less/be based on less loss.
IDK, I'm just tired of how whenever anyone says "Hey, maybe with this emerging technological tool we can avoid the horrifying levels of sacrifice," every eco-leftist in a ten mile raidus emerges to yell at them "Go fuck yourself, here's ten thousand papers on why this is bad actually that you can't disprove without seven degrees, fuck you"
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