whelk

@whelk@retrolemmy.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I get a lot of comfort stargazing at night. So much stress or worry melts away when the realization hits that nothing really matters anyway. I don’t think this is quite what Tolkien was going for with the scene where Sam sees a star up through a small opening in the gloomy sky when he’s struggling, but it’s how I took it.

  I think the tricky part for some people is trying to figure out why living life should matter at all, then, but it’s always worked for me. Just because a moment ends doesn’t mean that the moment shouldn’t matter to you, if you find it fulfilling or meaningful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop it. Get some help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always puzzled when people tear these things down rather than use them to build into something greater. Channel that energy while it’s there and people are fired up! If someone has ideas that they believe will be more effective, now’s a great time to pitch them - and without insulting the people they’re pitching them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could unionize and invest the minimal effort into being part of an awareness/solidarity campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Por que no los dos? I don’t think this is being proposed as an answer that will solve the problem on its own. Set a clippy profile picture, self-host, do whatever else you can as well toward the same goal. No need to restrict all our eggs to a single basket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People whenever something like this (particularly protests that aren’t violent uprisings) happens: “It’s not a sole and immediate solution, so it’s pointless. Also I’m not going to provide a realistic sole and immediate solution that I’m personally willing to act on or lead. Might as well shut up and go quietly.”

  I get that it’s frustrating, but stop trying to slam the door on people trying to build up an environment of resistance, solidarity, and hope. If you can encourage that energy into a more effective direction, then by all means: lead the way. Trying to appear like some savvy intellectual superior and just telling people they’re wasting their time isn’t the way to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it a play sometime, great game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: Transistor. I put Spine on our office playlist and it was awesome when someone else recognized it. That game’s soundtrack is incredible. Also how dare you not include Bastion in the Darren Korb list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Protests Pop Up on Roblox as Kids Organize Virtual Demonstrations: 'FRICK ICE'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get em, kids!