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11 votes
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Satisfying train spiral – Cities: Skylines
6 votes -
SYML - Mr. Sandman
3 votes -
United by interest: Alliances between Democrats and Republicans on the sides push for legislation opposed by the center
4 votes -
Rose (a poem)
With my left hand I embrace and repel. With my right hand I create and destroy. I stand before you, both hands free. We remember past hopes and joy. Listen to this moment, presence of silence....
With my left hand I embrace and repel.
With my right hand I create and destroy.
I stand before you, both hands free.
We remember past hopes and joy.Listen to this moment, presence of silence.
Nothing divides and nothing draws us close.
Attention is all we exchange,
Attention in the shape of rose.I longed for witness. Before whom? No one.
Is my heart pure? No. But she insisted.
We give; and what are we but gifts?
Gifts we forgot we'd accepted.To doubt is to attempt holding back time,
Lifting time's illusion by illusion.
I may trust, knowing that I trust.
At times we feel with precision.We part our ways like rose petals in wind.
We will return when time again is still,
For no more delight but to see,
With no more longing to fulfil.12 votes -
World of Warcraft and all current expansions no longer need to be purchased (only pay for a subscription)
20 votes -
Sidebars for FAQs, subtopic rules, or Wiki-esque reference links?
I'm probably about to be guilty of causing the problem I'd like to solve, namely the endless iterations of questions asked and previously answered, or seemingly innocent questions that are...
I'm probably about to be guilty of causing the problem I'd like to solve, namely the endless iterations of questions asked and previously answered, or seemingly innocent questions that are tantamount to trolling.
I'm sure there have been prior discussions about pinning items, and I've seen prior commentary about further refining the ground rules for some sub-group areas.
For the sake of efficiency and comity, there are communities where it would be helpful to create a common body of rules, reference material or other semi-permanent posts which should be regarded as the minimum governance/factual/technical basis for having a productive discussion.
From a UI design perspective, Reddit, xda-developers, and some other forums have created visually confusing, dis-unified means of handling this - there are multipage FAQ/Wiki top links plus sidebars plus top pins. There's considerable independence among Reddit forums as to which model is chosen, furthering the confusion. I'd like to see Tildes "keep it simple", so pinned topics may be the way to maintain consistency and uniformity.
Seeking thoughts and discussion about whether this is needed, feasible, desirable, etc.
[What prompted this query was a a random response on this topic which posited a strawman argument so disingenuous that I wanted to run off and pull a Wiki together just so I could say, "do this minimal amount of homework and come back later, or get reported for being an obvious troll".]
Note: edited to remove confusion of groups, sub-groups and topics, since I hadn't had enough coffee yet. Sadly I can't do this for the topic title...
11 votes -
Aquaman | Official trailer 1
6 votes -
Just finished building my first Lego modular building
11 votes -
'Star Trek: Discovery' teaser for Season 2 released
From CBS: New details, trailer from "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2 From Gizmodo: In The First Trailer For Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, The USS Enterprise Boldly Arrives As someone outside the...
From CBS: New details, trailer from "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2
From Gizmodo: In The First Trailer For Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, The USS Enterprise Boldly Arrives
As someone outside the USA, the videos in those articles didn't work for me, but this one from Netflix UK & Ireland does work for me: Star Trek: Discovery | Season 2 Trailer [HD]
7 votes -
Shazam! | Official teaser trailer
6 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
TIL the working groups that develop the standards for jpeg and mp3/mp4 are run by the UN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Coding_Experts_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T
18 votes -
It reigns
It rains It pours It is a mile tall and never speaks Just carries our water on leaden feet Blinking powerlight moon-sun eyes Peer blindly, feet step on millennial pits From here to the forbidden...
It rains
It pours
It is a mile tall and never speaks
Just carries our water on leaden feet
Blinking powerlight moon-sun eyes
Peer blindly, feet step on millennial pits
From here to the forbidden lake, and backIt washes down
It pulls down
It is a god of rust and roaring waterfalls
Just and merciful, we were told
As old as us, or ours as old as it
Sinners earn places in its footsteps
Its feet red with rust so blestIt is bitter
It is foul
It is what it is, mark my word: a machine
Just! just! juddering footsteps rappelling ropes
Past red veils we see the flesh of god
Trace copyright prayers on a boxed brain
My hands on the conduit --- behold your new god!My wrath rains
My anger pours
It is the vessel of my cunning, this old god
Just! just! dance new steps on old enemies
Kicked castles and soldier ants, crawling in
Head homunculus locked in the iron skull
Feet heavy, leads done, dead god gone dry.
Inspirations: the god warrior in Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, Unicron at the end of the G1 Transformers comic (poor old Scorponok*), rereading Girl Genius, casual flipping through Attack on Titan, awareness that there's some movie called the Wicker Man, and realization that I should go back to the classics and watch all of Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam; and "Naught but the Leg remaining to disclose the site of this forgotten Babylon".
*: Well, real Transformers poetry would end with "It is over --- finished!"
8 votes -
Suggestion: As a general guideline, posts relevant only to one country should have that in the title i.e "Your voting data has been exposed" vs "USA voting data exposed"""
If you want to make the site diverse then people need to stop writing as though the audience is one country. Obviously it doesn't count if they're posting in a geographically relevant group eg....
If you want to make the site diverse then people need to stop writing as though the audience is one country. Obviously it doesn't count if they're posting in a geographically relevant group eg. ~news.usa
43 votes -
(The Danger of) Obama Nostalgia - "The Enemy Within"
13 votes -
Along with the other Disney Parks, I designed girls based off of areas in Tokyo DisneySea months ago. I redrew the Arabian Coast girl.
4 votes -
Hey ~creative! I present to you: my picture of a bee in a smoking jacket
8 votes -
A global guide to state-sponsored trolling
15 votes -
Leo Moracchioli - Sultans of Swing (metal cover feat. Mary Spender)
6 votes -
How the Parker Solar Probe will stay cool while travelling though the Sun's corona
5 votes -
Tom Hardy insists there will be more Mad Max movies. Warner Bros. just needs to stop playing around and greenlight 'em
7 votes -
Every live-action Superman ranked from worst to best
2 votes -
Mobile phone radiation may affect memory performance in adolescents, study finds
3 votes -
Getting a tattoo of your favourite art?
3 votes -
Suspicious minds - Mingling with wariness and wonder at a conference devoted to "Ancient Aliens"
5 votes -
Weekly LFG Post - 2018-07-12
So since we no doubt have many rpg gamers amongst us, I thought I'd start a weekly or bi monthly thread to post about looking for groups, looking for members and the like. So if you want to, why...
So since we no doubt have many rpg gamers amongst us, I thought I'd start a weekly or bi monthly thread to post about looking for groups, looking for members and the like. So if you want to, why not come and make a post.
I myself happen to be looking for people who'd be up to play a spot of Shadowrun or preferably Cryptomancer.
8 votes -
Daily Tildes discussion - more details about handling removed posts
Sorry, I've been busy with open-source-related things and have been bad about the daily discussions for the last couple of days (late today, and completely forgot about doing one yesterday). Today...
Sorry, I've been busy with open-source-related things and have been bad about the daily discussions for the last couple of days (late today, and completely forgot about doing one yesterday).
Today I want to ask for opinions about some specific details of how removed posts should be handled. To be clear, this is related to posts that are removed manually by me (and maybe someday by other users, in response to reports, etc.). This is not related to posts that have been deleted by their author.
Specifically, I'd like to answer these questions:
- Should the author of a removed post always know that it's been removed?
- When informing the author that a post was removed, should it be a "passive" notification (like an indicator on the comment noting that it's been removed), or should they get an actual separate notification telling them? The difference is mostly that "passive" ones may never be seen if the author doesn't look back at the comment after it's been removed.
- Should the removed comments/topic still be visible on the user's profile page, when other users look at it? That is, is the comment/topic only removed its "context" but still visible from their profile, or is it completely removed and no longer visible anywhere?
Please let me know what you think for those specific questions, as well as any other suggestions or concerns you have about removed posts in general.
37 votes -
The Bariba Sound 1970-1976 by Orchestre Super Borgou De Parakou
7 votes -
lunatic86, an x86 emulator written in Lua running in OpenComputers running in Minecraft running on Java
16 votes -
You are a legendary warrior, with a several decades-long reputation of tirelessly prevailing over hordes of monstrosities. In a sudden moment of clarity, you come to your senses in a psychiatric ward.
You are a legendary warrior, with a several decades-long reputation of tirelessly prevailing over hordes of monstrosities. In a sudden moment of clarity, you come to your senses in a psychiatric...
You are a legendary warrior, with a several decades-long reputation of tirelessly prevailing over hordes of monstrosities. In a sudden moment of clarity, you come to your senses in a psychiatric ward – a miraculous medication has been tested on you to counter your schizophrenia. As time passes, you begin to recognize the people and other things from your former psychosis.
[This is the first attempt at having a writing prompt at Tildes. It is too long to wholly fit in the title (only 200 characters permitted – nailed it exactly), so it had to be expanded in the text field.]
Edit: as per a suggestion in another thread, please feel free to be inspired only by the title text and use the additional info here only if You feel like it helps. I believe that if a prompt sparkles something that ultimately doesn't have much to do with the prompt itself, the goal of the prompt is still accomplished.
14 votes -
Here are the 285,000 Manafort text messages that WikiLeaks wouldn't publish
32 votes -
A mobile app for tildes?
An app would be really great, when will you guys do it?
10 votes -
Books about social housing & architecture
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new...
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new town pamphlet style book about the futures of cities & towns. I also have 'Post-Modern Buildings in Britain' which is quite nice for a flip through and some history of these buildings.
I'd definitely reccomend Municipal Dreams for anyone even slightly intrested in UK social housing (and more) and I think the way it is presented is really nice.
I was wondering if anyone knew any particularly good books about architecture (specifically about social housing's architecture), I realise this is quite hard as little has been recorded around some of this stuff.
Further any books surrounding modernist ideals that lead to this would be nice to discuss as well as I've not seen much in the way of primary sources here.
8 votes -
Stardew Valley | Multiplayer update trailer and release date (August 1)
16 votes -
James Gunn fired as director of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' franchise over offensive tweets
19 votes -
It's been while since the last one, so players of D&D, Call of Cthulhu or any other TTRPG: What's been going on in your game?
It's been a while since the last one of these, so whether you're providing an update or a brand new story: What's been going on in your game? What excitement has transpired in your life-on-paper?...
It's been a while since the last one of these, so whether you're providing an update or a brand new story: What's been going on in your game? What excitement has transpired in your life-on-paper?
-LTADnD
15 votes -
Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson [Sci-Fi] [7365 words]
tor.com/2018/06/06/meat-and-salt-and-sparks-rich-larson/ A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an...
tor.com/2018/06/06/meat-and-salt-and-sparks-rich-larson/
A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway
Found this today and read it for my morning break. I'm worried about spoilers, but I'm curious about people's thoughts on being a non-human intelligence and the subsequent integration into human society. Did this short evoke any particular emotions in you?
9 votes -
Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech
19 votes -
Titans | Official trailer
3 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
22 votes -
The SIM Hijackers
8 votes -
Looking inside a used voting machine from the 2016 election
12 votes -
Firefly: Cultural representation or appropriation
If you haven't watched Firefly, this should still be safe to read. No spoilers. Let me start by saying I'm a huge fan of Firefly. If someone could somehow combined the core cast, the favour of the...
If you haven't watched Firefly, this should still be safe to read. No spoilers.
Let me start by saying I'm a huge fan of Firefly. If someone could somehow combined the core cast, the favour of the universe, the ship, the adventures and everything into one awesome person, that person would be my BFF. However, as an Asian, I probably would not be theirs.
Background
The series is a space cowboy western drama. It takes place in the year 2517 in assumed to be distant solar system from our Earth (Earth-that-was). From the comics, there's a brief comment that mentions Earth-that-was sent generation ships to colonize this new solar system. The ships were sent by the two main superpowers at the time - USA and China. This explains the general western feel mixed with, I'm going to call it - generic Asia.
Core characters
- Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds
- Zoe Alleyne Washburne
- Hoban "Wash" Washburne
- Inara Serra
- Jayne Cobb
- Kaywinnet Lee "Kaylee" Frye
- Dr. Simon Tam
- River Tam
- Derrial Book
- (The ship, Serenity)
And yes, though Kaylee, and the Tam's stand out as Asian-ish names, they are not Asian. In fact no one in the core cast is. There was mention that Kaylee was suppose to be, but they just fell in love with Jewel Staite. I honestly can't imagine another Kaylee, but still can't help but wonder. And to be honest, I'm not sure how I feel with the idea of the only Asian walking around as the only person wearing Chinese clothes.
Non-core characters
Too many to list, but feel free to scroll down the list on IMDb.
You'll find "Jim Lau" - Narrator. I also believe I saw an Asian woman in "Heart of Gold" but can't find her name, so I'm guessing it's an uncredited part.
That's right, in a universe settled by the Americans and Chinese, you'll see maybe one unnamed Asian.
Asia without Asians
But not seeing Asian people doesn't mean there's no Asian influence.
- Kaylee wears "Chinese" clothes a fair bit and even has a paper umbrella. Of course, if any of you have recently visited pretty much anywhere in China, you'll notice no Chinese people wear clothing like that walking their dog.
- Chinese food, like "bao" is also mentioned.
- Quirky Chinese things like "washing feet" and "hundreds of fat children" are woven in.
- The Chinese language in both written and spoken form are littered through-out. The ship, Serenity is named in Chinese (painted on her), but no one actually refers to her by it. Bits of Chinese are tossed around everywhere and obviously every person in this universe is expected to be fluent. There was Asian consultation on this part, so a lot of the language is "correct". They went out of their way to string together crazy sentences, so it's not anything most people would say, but honestly adds to the show. And for their part, you can tell the actors do put an effort in speaking it right, with varying levels of success.
Final thoughts
I still love the show, but do feel disappointed that someone can obviously love my culture so much to see its influence everywhere in this series, but not enough to actually include us.
Edit: formatting
22 votes -
miele.
for those keeping track, this title's in italian, not afrikaans. normally don't "summer" kind of stuff, but as always, i just write what's on my mind once the liquor hits. hope you all enjoy.<3...
for those keeping track, this title's in italian, not afrikaans.
normally don't "summer" kind of stuff, but as always, i just write what's on my mind once the liquor hits.
hope you all enjoy.<3
much love
bishop
sometimes I need a bubble bath.
ginger ale, vodka splash
couple friends, a couple grams
electronic cigarettes.
bath bomb with the glitter in
free pass to commit a sin
babygirl let's dive in.
bet we won't even remember it.standing at the precipice
not a lot of trust to give
broken down, a sad kid
you're steady in the madness
babygirl I feel it happening
tension slipping kinda rapid
cold beers and a hot kiss
forbidden peach, like genesisi write music
to sin to.
baby let me
sing with you
sigh the notes, we
can sing tunes
you're the nectar
the gods knew
i write music
to sin to.
baby let me
sing with you
sigh the notes, we
can sing tunes
you're the nectar
the gods knew(beat.)
nicotine and a lotta weed
open up a new side of me
one that wanna see you smiling
fuck what your other man think
two friends in a summer fling
you bite your lip when you kiss me
's why you always invite me,
when you're home and feel lonely.Want my music to go hard,
Sing for my friends in the dark,
Get to drunk to remember,
The bullshit feeling sad partsometimes I need a bubble bath.
ginger ale, vodka splash
couple friends, a couple grams
electronic cigarettes.
bath bomb with the glitter in
free pass to commit a sin
babygirl let's dive in.
bet we won't even remember it.3 votes -
Two fungal species—one pathogenic, one benign—are actually the same
10 votes -
Amazing new footage of last survivor of Amazon tribe
From Survival International: Amazing new footage of last survivor of Amazon tribe From The Guardian: Footage of sole survivor of Amazon tribe emerges
6 votes -
3D printed drain filter
5 votes -
Former Software Engineer at Spotify on their revolutionary (and kind of insane) solution of using self-contained iframes to increase team autonomy
8 votes -
New Vermont legalization law sparks 'gift' delivery service
4 votes