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Comment on The Amazing Digital Circus - Ep 9: Remember in ~tv
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Comment on The Amazing Digital Circus - Ep 9: Remember in ~tv
Eji1700 Link ParentOnly just finished episode 7: The show appears to be a pretty well written and gorgeously animated dark comedy with sprinkles of horror. On point comedic timing/my flavor of funny and a decent...Only just finished episode 7:
The show appears to be a pretty well written and gorgeously animated dark comedy with sprinkles of horror. On point comedic timing/my flavor of funny and a decent enough job of balancing the funny/serious/dark/etc. You know there's going to be "now we see x and y bond" moment most episodes but it doesn't often feel forced or drawn out.
In short it's a pretty clean telling of a good idea.
Fandom:
I know at least one of the "issues" the fandom is rambling about. Personally I just mentally categorize it as on the same spectrum as Stephen Universe/Viziepop/whatever problematic niche fandoms (as opposed to things like Supernatural/Rick and Morty/whatever as problematic popular fandoms).Seems like the sort of thing, so far, that if you watched it you'd enjoy it and just best to stay away from the extremists? I can imagine this maybe not delivering to the level I might hope (few things do, it's hard to end a story well), and given what I know I think there's maybe an interesting an mature discussion to be had about that, but I can't conceive of this show someone actually being bad enough to have strong feelings about it at this point. I suspect a lot of it as always comes from social media behavior and possibly creator involvement (although I can't begin to care about that side so grain of salt)
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Comment on Deltarune Chapter 5 is out now in ~games
Eji1700 LinkCouldn't get into undertale or delta rune. LOOOOOOOVE the lore and higher level concepts and presentation, but the minute to minute gameplay and character interactions just never kept me...Couldn't get into undertale or delta rune. LOOOOOOOVE the lore and higher level concepts and presentation, but the minute to minute gameplay and character interactions just never kept me interested enough.
So thankfully I'll be consuming some sleep deprived lore vid on this and it's implications in the coming week.
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Comment on Did Kamala Harris's silence on Gaza cost her the White House? in ~society
Eji1700 (edited )LinkNo probably being a lack luster candidate even when picked as VP (yeah half the country is rioting due to police violence but sure lets grab a prosecutor) and then having half a campaign after a...No probably being a lack luster candidate even when picked as VP (yeah half the country is rioting due to police violence but sure lets grab a prosecutor) and then having half a campaign after a no primary fuck fest debacle cost her the campaign.
However the Dems have loved the death by a 1000 cuts method to losing so yes you can also throw in racism, sexism, and a million other things.
Was Gaza on the scale? Of course. Did it change the election? I doubt it. The states where dems stayed home because of Kamala's Gaza stance aren't the states she lost.
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There's a nice chart here about halfway which tells and interesting story, especially with the one following.-
Harris lost a TON of voters in CA/NY. These are dem strongholds, and also where I expect the "but what about Gaza" crowd to show up the most. Partly because they've got a large dem base, and party because dems know they're not going republican even if they stay home.
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Looking at the second chart, where she lost her battle ground states, the key ones she did worse in were AZ, MI, PA. Maybe i'm wrong, but I kinda doubt that AZ has a strong list of democrats who decided Gaza was the tipping point. Especially because in AZ/MI it looks like some of the under performance might have actually been independents who flipped (guessing completely as you can't tell from this data and it might just be coincidence).
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MORE IMPORTANTLY is how well Trump performed in all of those states compared to 2020. It's almost like the economy was also kicking people in the teeth, which motivated voters who stayed home in 2020 but probably would've voted republican anyways.
Now I can't read the article, but to respond to the headline, even discussion of it strikes me as the democrats doing what they do best. Identifying the problem (oh fuck we lost) and blaming every useless side note rather than just fixing the obvious.
I know a lot of people here feel differently, but a progressive wave or a strong stance on a middle east conflict which has basically never affected the average american's lives isn't going to win you AZ, MI, PA, NV, NC, WI, GA.
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Comment on The 2026 Steam Summer Sale is live (runs June 25 - July 9) in ~games
Eji1700 LinkGrabbed 3 games from the wish list that dropped under the $10 threshold (although some because I own other games from their collection). Underspace - "freelancer successor" in EA. Price played a...Grabbed 3 games from the wish list that dropped under the $10 threshold (although some because I own other games from their collection).
Underspace - "freelancer successor" in EA. Price played a large part in purchasing as I'm skeptical.
Samurai Gunn 2 - First game was fun, I was happy to see there was a second.
Emuurom - Puzzle game I'd had my eye on. Heard mostly good things and it's one of those puzzle games so I plan to play with the wife and see what we find.
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Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages
Eji1700 Link ParentI drop 101.5 “The Hammer” FM of months into conversation at every gloriously rare opportunity.I drop 101.5 “The Hammer” FM of months into conversation at every gloriously rare opportunity.
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Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages
Eji1700 LinkIt's called "a pride". I could use direction on what the plural of Timothée Chalamet would beIt's called "a pride".
I could use direction on what the plural of Timothée Chalamet would be
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Comment on These tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too in ~life.style
Eji1700 Link ParentEh having a "Screen" you could pop up for things AR style would be nice, it's just that you still need a control interface and most people scream about moving their 10key let alone teaching a new...Now the bigger question is, are smart glasses useful for anything people want to do?
Eh having a "Screen" you could pop up for things AR style would be nice, it's just that you still need a control interface and most people scream about moving their 10key let alone teaching a new form of input (although I think I see a lot of potential in that land).
And of course the inherent issue of "well we have garbage privacy laws so now everyone is recording everything constantly" being a main feature.
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Comment on Do you cook with cast iron? Is it the hassle everyone says it is? in ~food
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah....i had mine hang by the (very very sturdy with quick release) wire and would just yank it when i went to cook,. I do not recommend this, because yeah obvious reasons, but uh...yeah. These...Yeah....i had mine hang by the (very very sturdy with quick release) wire and would just yank it when i went to cook,.
I do not recommend this, because yeah obvious reasons, but uh...yeah. These days i have a nice vent hood so it's not as much of a problem, but it's a thing to keep in mind if you don't have good ventilation.
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Comment on Do you cook with cast iron? Is it the hassle everyone says it is? in ~food
Eji1700 LinkSMOKE. I'm bad at it, so that's part of it, but you will get a LOT of smoke while learning and even sometimes when doing things right. Vent your area or get used to remembering that there's no...Unknowns. What did you not know until you started cooking with cast iron? Any surprise benefits/costs?
SMOKE. I'm bad at it, so that's part of it, but you will get a LOT of smoke while learning and even sometimes when doing things right. Vent your area or get used to remembering that there's no sane way to silence a fire alarm
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Comment on Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentI think that's why there's hope this is a silver lining, because it might be. AAA games for example can't just buy a $4k GPU at the start of development and expect it to be available and...I think that's why there's hope this is a silver lining, because it might be.
AAA games for example can't just buy a $4k GPU at the start of development and expect it to be available and affordable in 2-10 years when they finish. There's a small chance we see RAM sizes shrink due to costs and we're down to 8 and 4 as standards again, although hilariously one of the major bottlenecks there for consumers is windows.
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Comment on Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentJOKES ON YOU I REFUSE TO LEARN! But seriously coming from the business programming/mostly backend side, I have done damn near everything to avoid JS as it so often seems like a wild amount of...JavaScript
JOKES ON YOU I REFUSE TO LEARN!
But seriously coming from the business programming/mostly backend side, I have done damn near everything to avoid JS as it so often seems like a wild amount of overhead (in my case, in obnoxious JS rules) for little gain.
I'm hopeful libraries like HTMX/Datastar can gain more popularity and the throttling of basically every part of the computer finally hitting will lead to better frontend development all around, because it's such a frustration if you aren't a JS programmer and then hit that point and people say "well just use react/whatever"
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Comment on Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThe alternative is, in many ways, just as bad. If prices are adjusting on things like computers every quarter you wind up with all sorts of supply/demand shock issues as well. It's a screwy...To some extent it feels like we're experiencing the downside of companies trying to shield consumers from the increased cost of components. As we now see the bigger "shock" increase for the end product, compared to smaller more frequent increases.
The alternative is, in many ways, just as bad. If prices are adjusting on things like computers every quarter you wind up with all sorts of supply/demand shock issues as well. It's a screwy situation all around.
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Comment on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentTo be clear I agree, however the person I was responding to was saying that even in that case 10 years would be too much, which I disagree with. That said while being someone who is some what pro...I find "violent premeditated murderous intent" to be a... very uncharitable take on what happened.
To be clear I agree, however the person I was responding to was saying that even in that case 10 years would be too much, which I disagree with.
That said while being someone who is some what pro 2a I’m also pro “if you choose to use a killing weapon you should be treated as such”.
You do no shoot at people and I’m fine with the law assuming that if you did you meant to kill them.
Further drawing a weapon, while often brandishing and its own problem, is not ever a reason to shoot at someone.
Cops having a reputation is a problem. Doesn’t mean you have the right to just open fire on one the moment he pulls his weapon.
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Comment on 7.2 and 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela in ~enviro
Eji1700 (edited )LinkArticle has been updating. Looks like back to back within seconds. Massive tragedy. Edit It's really bad. Entire high rise apartment buildings collapsed bad. Obviously a lot of footage out there,...Article has been updating. Looks like back to back within seconds. Massive tragedy.
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The first 7.2-magnitude quake was followed just 39 seconds later by a stronger 7.5-magnitude quake, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), with witnesses reporting tremors in neighbouring Colombia as well.
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez declared a state of emergency, and has appointed a general to oversee the emergency response.
The USGS said "high casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread".
There's a 44% chance of more than 10,000 fatalities and a 30% chance of more than 100,000, the USGS added, with a significant risk of landslides and liquefaction on the ground.
It's really bad. Entire high rise apartment buildings collapsed bad. Obviously a lot of footage out there, some more disturbing than others.
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7.2 and 7.5 earthquake in Venezuela
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Comment on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentThis is the kind of shit that led to reddit "solving" the boston marathon bombing and crap like 9/11 conspiracy theories. There is 0 decent armchair detective work. Professionals rely on facts,...which are an unfortunate combination of cringe + LLM-backed conspiracy theorizing + some legitimately decent armchair detective work.
This is the kind of shit that led to reddit "solving" the boston marathon bombing and crap like 9/11 conspiracy theories. There is 0 decent armchair detective work. Professionals rely on facts, and we have a court case full of them. I don't have time to dive into what's publicly available, but if you're starting with conspiracy bait, then you should probably readjust how you get your information.
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Mostly they're hampered by too much squinting at the terrible-quality videos and filling in details about them that may or may not be defensible. The primary sources are a faraway security camera and the body cam of the officer who was shot, neither of which is very enlightening.
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The video shows.....
Is just...not how this works.
Conspiracy to use and carry an explosive, and using/carrying an explosive during a riot
As far as I can tell, these were typical fireworks of the sort millions enjoy every 4th of July. This incident happened on the 4th of July, which is why the fireworks were there. These weren't weapons of terror, as they've been construed.
And would still qualify as explosives if used to commit a crime.
Attempted murder of officers and employees of the United States
A single person received a non-fatal gunshot wound from an indeterminate source, with abundant evidence that the intent was suppressive fire in defense of others.
There is no such thing as suppressive fire in a civilian context ESPECIALLY "preemptive" suppressive fire. If you fire a gun at someone you will be charged with attempted murder, full stop. There's mountains of examples. You might be downgraded if they determine you're an idiot who did it accidentally (didn't know they were there, negligent discharge), but if you go into a court room and say "I was just shooting near them" you will absolutely get a attempted murder every time because that's what it was.
If you point a weapon designed to kill people at someone and use it, then that is the assumption. Only in hollywood is there shooting to wound or disarm, and only on battlefields does "suppressive fire" exist, in which case you are still aiming to kill people, just can't at the moment.
If there is any evidence (which should be easy to show in the prosecution) that a bullet from his gun hit that cop (not some random armchair's ballistics analysis) that is a slam dunk attempted murder, and is how anyone sane should expect EVERYONE who shoots people to be charged (yes cops too).
Discharging a firearm during and in furtherance of a crime of violence.
A meaningless point-multiplier in light of the other charges.
Not at all? A large difference between if he shoots this cop or throws a rock at him.
You don't have to search very hard to find the rabble cheering on this 100-year sentence,
You don't have to search very hard to find rabble cheering on anything. As a % of this country, it's a minority.
Anyone acting in good faith should be able to see plainly that the punishment was not even remotely commensurate to the crime.
I agree 100% with all the people being "felony murder" charged (not exactly it, but same fucked up logic). This guy? Yes 100 years is overcharging...however
But even assuming the absolute worst about Song and the others — that they were violent terrorists with premeditated murderous intent, etc. — a sane person would never be able to justify even a 10-year sentence for what actually occurred.
Really? A sane person wouldn't say that a 10 year sentence wasn't okay for violent premeditated murderous intent resulting in injury wasn't fair? I get you're taking the extreme, but like....this is a total whiff on standards. You say that someone with premeditated murderous intent shot someone and only wounded them, yeah most people will go for a 20 to life sentence.
There are all sorts of things being overcharged here, this entire situation is a wildly dangerous miscarriage of justice, and it's why it frustrates me to no end to watch people wade in to try and make it something it's not. If you shoot at people you will go to jail is not something that's debatable.
If someone with you shoots at someone should you go to jail is 100% worth discussing, and why I've always been against felony murder style charges, even when talking about Jan 6th, and these wild takes on "well it's just because a leftist shot a guy...." distract from a vastly bigger issue.
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Comment on Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentAnnnd almost always charged as attempted murder. "Suppressive fire" is not a thing legally because it's NEVER a thing anywhere outside of a literal war zone and certainly never valid in any...Annnd almost always charged as attempted murder.
"Suppressive fire" is not a thing legally because it's NEVER a thing anywhere outside of a literal war zone and certainly never valid in any civilian context (and even police included outside of a couple of infamous shootouts).
If you shoot a gun at someone, it is assumed you were attempting to kill them, because that's the ONLY reason you should be shooting a gun at someone. Your only other option is negligence which this clearly wasn't as you have intent.
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Comment on Nvidia announces liquid cooling system that promises to reduce electricity consumption and cut water use by up to 100% in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah there is a lot of ground to be gained here as it was sort of a "why would you spend that much/build it that way" thing before, and as demand goes up more of these solutions/efforts make...Yeah there is a lot of ground to be gained here as it was sort of a "why would you spend that much/build it that way" thing before, and as demand goes up more of these solutions/efforts make sense.
Still curious if we'll just see a GPU uhh..."block" eventually that's just the size of an entire server rack. There's lots of reasons that may never make sense, but there's also some interesting ground to be gained there.
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Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI - Pre-orders and Edition information in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentJust to personally respond on most of this as another data point This is so whatever to me these days. I'm usually at work (hurray tuesday releases due to physical logistics!) , can start the...Just to personally respond on most of this as another data point
One is that it kind of "preloads" decisions so you don't have to think about it later on.
Fair enough. There are games I KNOW i'm buying launch day, but i also just put it in my calendar because i'm 100% against encouraging any pre-order exclusivity behavior.Another is being able to preload the download the day before, so on the day of release you can just start the game rather than download 200 gb.
This is so whatever to me these days. I'm usually at work (hurray tuesday releases due to physical logistics!) , can start the install remotely, and personally play very few games that take more than 30 min to download anyways. Not to mention when you consider launch bugs i'm rarely chomping at the bit to play day of. Only games i've done that for in recent memory are Marathon and Elden Ring. Still, I don't see this as a major point in favor of preorder as you're still probably playing launch day or the day after at worst.
There's also some game releases that are just events, and whether they're good or bad it's fun to be there in the moment.
I see this slightly differently but yeah that's kinda the souls series feeling. Those first few days while everyone is figuring things out can feel different than hopping in later in a more dead world.
I preordered cyberpunk and don't regret it for a second; playing the buggy release and talking about it and having the experience with friends was more fun than most actual games.
Yeah given the window on that preordering wasn't much of a necessity for this.
Other ones that I'm just pretty sure I'll enjoy. A recent game I preordered was pragmata. I played the demo, was sold, preordered the game after I finished and didn't really think about it again until the game came out.
It's also just not that big of a deal. Games are cheap - they're like $60-$80. I spend more grabbing dinner with friends. Even if it's a flop, is what it is. You win some, lose some.
Grouping these because I see them related. Ignoring definitions of "cheap" (i do think games are some of the best value for money out there, but $60-80 isn't nothing), backlog bloat is a thing as are sales. I've got over 100 games on my wishlist (wiiiiiich I think more than half of have no release date, and may never) and I think that's a better way to do it. LOTS of stuff comes out that i'm interested in, but I probably don't have time for when it launches. It can sit on the wishlist and I can dip into it later when I have some time, or if it hits a sale threshold (sub $10 i'll usually snap up anything that's got positive reviews and on my list).
But in the end I'm just not going to agonize over $60. For something like a new Zelda? If I'm going to buy it frame 1 of coming out no matter what, why not just preorder it?
To which my take is "because it encourages more predatory behavior in the long run". I am 100% fine with cosmetic pre-order bonuses, go nuts. I'm kiiinda okay with minor gameplay bonuses (easy mode stuff, whatever.) Locking any core content behind a pre-order is disgusting, and I feel like the more people who just don't do it the better it is. Doubly so when the vast majority of people who do pre-order are not on the "meh whatever" mindset but instead are turbo fans who expect the world and blow up when it whiffs.
Somehow the drama from this show crossed my radar and I decided to just give it a watch. Only to 7 but wife and I have been enjoying it. Comedy is just flat out on point, and the rest ranges from good to great? Don't think I've had a moment i've not enjoyed so far, and am curious how hard it will eventually push into the darker aspects it's been dancing around.
I have some larger thoughts but I guess i'll save them for when I can comment on this episode.
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Finished it all, thought it was good?
I obviously only just found out about this, so I don't have 3 years of expectations/theory crafting, and even if I had i'm not the type to over look into author comments and what not as seems to be part of the drama about this.
For a story that's very obviously a metaphor about mental health/isolation/self worth/acceptance I think it did a good job getting the point across without feeling too exposition dumpy or beating you over the head with it. It also managed to fill the moments between with well made humor and creativity. Feel like the only moments that dragged were the Jax acid trip in I think ep 8, and a bit of 9 given it's by nature an exposition dump where I kinda knew where it was going.
3. Jax stuff and other larger spoilers
It's fine?Jax's story was kinda obvious (not the trans part, i think only a few small hints i picked up on like the beach episode, but that's fine) in the self loathing/fear of attachment/lol just kidding man kind of way.
I feel that abstraction being reversible would've undercut a lot of the message of the story.
Caine feels fine to me as clearly the whole idea is that he's having the same struggles they are? Feelings of worthlessness becoming toxic hostility and all that?
I think my only issue is that while it was all good, I did love the zany humor of it all, and would love more of it. I get that's not what the main message is, but the humor really was the kind I crave and have found a massive lack of, and I felt much the way about early Helluva Boss.