thinkercharmercoderfarmer

@thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, on Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Messed up teeth can wreak havoc on your health, they just make you constantly sick all the time. It sucks. If I ever get my teeth fixed and it involves removing a bunch of them I probably won’t go this route, but I kinda get it. The dental equivalent of mounting your nemesis’ head on a pike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao they are way ahead of you

  Electronic Arts confirmed it was entering an agreement to be acquired by a group of investors comprised Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners at the end of September. The PIF is run by Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, and the investment firm Affinity Partners was formed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the new owners are famed journalist murderer and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and Presidential nepo-in-law Jared Kushner, I’m doubtful that respect for the creative process is high on the list of priorities. And yeah, EA already sucks but I imagine they’ll find lots of innovative ways to drive EA to new heights of terribleness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Fans"who don’t want Bruce Wayne to have "normal" friends or see Peter Parker financially stable don't want to see these character grow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it has to do with the kinds of stories these characters are used to tell. Batman is a tortured billionaire who tries to use his vast resources to solve the problem of crime single-handedly, and he keeps people at arm’s length because he’s afraid that personal ties will endanger the mission he’s given himself (or something like that, Batman scholars feel free to chime in if I got it wrong.). Spiderman is a story about a broke kid trying to make a difference in the world with the limited resources he has. Similar goals for both characters, but different preconditions make the stories meaningfully different.

  I think these flaws are what endear fans to a particular character because they struggle with the same problems (overly self-reliant, broke as hell) and if you have a character grow past them, you’re now telling a meaningfully different story. Might still be an interesting story, but I get why people who love these characters would consider some changes to be dealbreakers.

  This is kind of a foundational feature of serialized character stories: if you want to keep telling stories about the same characters over and over again, they can’t fundamentally learn or grow or change meaningfully, not permanently anyway, because then the appeal of the character fundamentally changes, so you get characters like Batman who are stuck in this sitcom-y eternal purgatory of constantly slamming their heads against their own limitations, and still failing to grasp the root issue. And really I think, it’s not for them to figure out. Their stories are there so that we can see our own flaws in them, and learn from them. And once we have, Batman will still be out there, being a lonely nerd for other lonely nerds to identify with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The answer to the question posed in mobile game ads 'think you can do better?' is always 'yes'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re intentionally easy questions because ego stroking is a tried and true way to farm engagement. Like those old ads that went like:

  99% of MIT students got this question WRONG! can YOU do better?

  3 + 8 / 2 = ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda. I definitely had hamburger helper back in the 80s, but kit meals were a luxury we could only sometimes afford. Necessity is often the mother of culinary invention but even among “the poor” there’s some variability in cash and time (and information availability) constraints, and things like hamburger helper (cheap but not the cheapest, but also quick and easy to make) have been a fixture alongside the true broke-ass “we need food and have basically zero money” recipes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You inspired me

  I do not fear the motion of my feet.
  Though every step be toward the final bourn,
  I see no path to orderly retreat.
  
  The energy assigned in brief to me
  No art preserves, no science can reform.
  And so I boldly choose what is to be
  
  The range and purpose of my tiny mete.
  I will not, while I can, myself pre-mourn,
  But rage, rage against the rising of the heat.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I had forgotten how much I used to detest lima beans. Don’t think I’ve had them since I was a kid. I wonder if I’ll like them now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft the absolute human hubris to hold up these entropic sleight-of-hand tricks as impressive. Nature abhors a refrigerator. Heaters are the ultimate power in the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick search says cheddar and blue cheeses for this type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually not. I have not had the pleasure of this particular variety but in my experience it’s just plain old pasta and cheese and herbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grew up poor, didn’t know it. Lots of Mac 'n Cheese w/ hotdogs and canned vegetables. I remember the first time I had a fresh green bean, I was put off by the texture. Wasn’t used to vegetables with structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pasta and seasoning. And cheese I guess. Intended to me mixed with ground beef in order to stretch it into more meals. It’s not awful, just poor people food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the garden variety eugenicist shitheel kind. I always hope it’s just an edgy kid who got on the wrong forums and craves the attention, but they’re also doing pro-russia FUD, so there’s a small but depressingly real chance that this is their job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you inviting me to a money fight? I do love those. Let’s both put in ludicrous bids on some AI company and fight over ownership to pump it’s value in the market, I haven’t done one of those in months. Winner buys the next yacht we sink in the Bermuda Triangle to appease the Elder Ones, Respect upon their Unknowable Names. If only the poor knew how hard we worked to prevent this puny planet from being eaten by elder demons, they would be grateful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Question: would I have to give up my exploitative companies that fuel my bid to become the first King of Internet? Because that’s kind of a dealbreaker for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep it to yourself. I don't care what you care about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LMAO I came in to the comments to ask “why are you even on social media then?” and I did not expect the answer to be “to advocate for eugenics”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First line of the pitch for n8n lol:

  Build with the precision of code or the speed of drag-n-drop.

  At least they’re upfront about the tradeoffs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You baryodorks just can’t take the L can you.