tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 3 weeks ago:
Frog Fractions
I don’t play it regularly, but it’s fun to tell people about it.
- Comment on Balatro's Pokermon mod is incredible 4 weeks ago:
Oh. There goes all my free time again?
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 5 weeks ago:
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone like no scars or anything just flat skin and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night and several days later you find out that your entire life he had been sneaking in your room while you slept and sucking on your chest to make two gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be because you were born without them not for any sexual reason just so you would fit in…
- Comment on Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity? 1 month ago:
Well yea, ideally colonization would not have happened, but it did. Would you rather the indigenous people had received no consolation at all?
- Comment on Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity? 1 month ago:
I just want to say that ethnicity is not necessarily related to genetics in any way, it’s about your heritage and upbringing. A person can be born and raised in Japan without having indigenous parents. In this way, they are ethnically Japanese if they choose to identify with the culture they were raised in.
So it’s not suddenly racist to appreciate someone’s ethnicity. It’s racist to assume someone’s ethnicity based on how they look.
And what you say about ethnicity being irrelevant to the government is quite controversial. For example, there are various treaties in effect between colonizers and indigenous peoples. Do you think such treaties are not valuable because they are based on ethnicity?
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 1 month ago:
His last special SuperNature had some jokes making fun of trans women and the people who defend them.
I won’t lie and say I didn’t laugh at the final punchline. But yeah these jokes are pretty counterproductive and just reinforce bigotry.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 1 month ago:
If you go this route I recommend installing Kodi + Jellyfin Plugin + Kore App. You can control everything from your phone or laptop.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 months ago:
Clutch team killing in Rainbow Six Siege. A rare occurrence but so much adrenaline.
Hillcrest in The Last of Us 2. Never have I had so much fun trapping and hunting people down. It really brings out the psycho killer energy.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 months ago:
It’s such a good investment that it’s why insurance was invented.
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 4 months ago:
Coullier looks good bald. Stamos, not so much.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 months ago:
Maybe I just don’t think “country” == “government”, and I try to be careful with my phrasing so as not to make blanket pejorative statements about people.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 months ago:
India is pretty much a piece of shit country
All while being racist as hell
Cognitive dissonance much?
- Comment on Beware 5 months ago:
I’m leery of Larry.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
I thought carbon dating of fossils was our best argument against the 4000 years myth.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 5 months ago:
They have that in Chicago.
- Comment on Uzumaki - Episode 2 discussion 5 months ago:
I’m still thoroughly enjoying it! It’s really bizarre and I don’t see where it’s going. I’ll be disappointed if the whole town just gets swallowed into one big spiral at the end.
I haven’t read the manga so I don’t have that point of comparison.