Malgas

@Malgas@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.

  Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.

  That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those don’t seem to address the little girl. Kaguya grows quickly but is nevertheless apparently an adult by the time she goes to the moon. And the moon rabbit just loops back to Chang 'e.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I thought Chang’e was an adult woman. Is there a different moon-rabbit-lady story I don’t know about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euler's Meme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems possible that there might also be finite closed rings of memes that all make fun of another. In this case there would be no normiest meme, and dankness would not be well-ordered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably asymptotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a decent enough illustration of the sort of thing that can happen when you translate an idiom literally. To be truly accurate that panel would have to be in a language other than English, but then it would be useless to anyone who doesn’t also understand that second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Thag Simmons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything changed when the Structural Engineering Nation attacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s some dialect where it’s used that way?

  Like how “scheme” strongly connotes nefariousness in American English, but I’ve heard Brits use it non-pejoritively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I was an autonomous collective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this a Dwarf Fortress knock-off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRASSICAS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🔫🌼 Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I thought it was an easy question ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, in either field (formal language theory bridges both) it can mean any string of symbols, letters, or tokens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is there’s no statistical difference between rolling one die an infinite number of times, rolling an infinite number of dice once, and rolling an infinite number of dice an infinite number of times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Atoms Family⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xcoffee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence error 418.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm an 8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with that cat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn’t going to be evil. Come on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.

  I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.