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  1. Comment on Any boardgamers here? What games are you in love right now? in ~games.tabletop

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    It is a really fun game but you are right, some of the haunts are a little confusing and/or silly, recently got an owl-themed haunt that we all thought was a bit stupid.

    It is a really fun game but you are right, some of the haunts are a little confusing and/or silly, recently got an owl-themed haunt that we all thought was a bit stupid.

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  2. Comment on What do you think about reddits thebanout? Are you supporting it or not, and why? in ~talk

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    I personally appreciated Banoween

    I personally appreciated Banoween

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  3. Comment on What are you reading this week? #1 in ~books

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    Nice, as someone who isn't generally a re-reader it is one of the few series I have gone back to multiple times over the years.

    Nice, as someone who isn't generally a re-reader it is one of the few series I have gone back to multiple times over the years.

  4. Comment on What are you reading this week? #1 in ~books

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    Thanks for the article recommendation, I will check it out. Here is a link to a more recent article by Barad that is easier to get into because of its brevity, on the entanglement of time / memory...

    Thanks for the article recommendation, I will check it out. Here is a link to a more recent article by Barad that is easier to get into because of its brevity, on the entanglement of time / memory in wake of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

  5. Comment on What are you reading this week? #1 in ~books

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    Listening to an audiobook is reading. Is it your first experience with Dune?

    Listening to an audiobook is reading. Is it your first experience with Dune?

  6. Comment on What are you reading this week? #1 in ~books

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    I'm reading Absolute Recoil right now (first philosophical Zizek I've ever read) and Hegel also seems a necessary prerequisite

    I'm reading Absolute Recoil right now (first philosophical Zizek I've ever read) and Hegel also seems a necessary prerequisite

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  7. Comment on What are you reading this week? #1 in ~books

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    Are you still studying literature or was that something in your past? One fascinating text I just picked up myself is Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad (from 2007). She has a background...

    Are you still studying literature or was that something in your past?

    One fascinating text I just picked up myself is Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad (from 2007). She has a background in quantum physics but writes philosophy, attempting to create an "onto-ethico-epistemology" by incorporating quantum theory into philosophy. Anyway, I can't say much more yet, but it looks crazy (in the good way).

  8. Comment on After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? in ~life.men

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    Traveling, which in a certain sense is education, really does make it harder to hold on to such views. Also, your username validates your statement, ha.

    Traveling, which in a certain sense is education, really does make it harder to hold on to such views. Also, your username validates your statement, ha.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Necroposting? in ~tildes

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    I agree, I've often wanted to join a conversation on a reddit thread only to realize it is 3 months old. Being able to take it up again does not seem like a negative thing to me - I already am in...

    I agree, I've often wanted to join a conversation on a reddit thread only to realize it is 3 months old. Being able to take it up again does not seem like a negative thing to me - I already am in the habit of alternating between filtering by 'activity' and by 'new' to get the complete picture, so to speak.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Three Variations on Trump: Chaos, Europe, and Fake News, by Slavoj Žižek in ~humanities

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    While he is most explicitly a (sometimes misunderstood) philosopher, I've been finding Zizek's recent opinion pieces on world events refreshingly sober. This one is ostensibly on the media's...

    While he is most explicitly a (sometimes misunderstood) philosopher, I've been finding Zizek's recent opinion pieces on world events refreshingly sober. This one is ostensibly on the media's (over)reaction to Trump's recent Europe visit (particularly with regards to Putin), but in the end delves quickly into a variety of issues with the overall political climate.

    For one, I think he is on point with the observation that

    The panicky reaction to Trump’s latest acts demonstrates that he is undermining and destabilizing the US political establishment and its ideology.

    The "left" media's overreaction to the Helsinki summit therefore reminds me just how implicated they are in the system-as-is, which people seem to forget in light of the perhaps more blatant example from the other side of Fox News.

    Also interesting in this article is Zizek's questioning of just why Trump is so anti-Europe, and his conclusion that it is more related to the idea of Europe than to its actual reality:

    Although America and Russia may appear opposites – unbridled liberalism and individualism versus new authoritarianism–, seen metaphysically, they are the same: the same hopeless frenzy of unchained technology grounded in fake patriotism (“America first,” “Russia first”).

    He also touches on 'fake news,' fundamentalism, digital communities, and so on.

    I quote the last line to perhaps inspire interest in reading:

    One thing is clear: there is no return to the old ideological hegemony. The only way to return to Truth is to reconstruct it from a new cognitive interest in universal emancipation.

  12. Comment on Netflix has renewed Altered Carbon for a second season in ~tv

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    Even the best acting in the world can't save a poorly conceived plot when it comes to your character's overly-simplified and rather absurd motivations.

    Even the best acting in the world can't save a poorly conceived plot when it comes to your character's overly-simplified and rather absurd motivations.

  13. Comment on Netflix has renewed Altered Carbon for a second season in ~tv

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    Yeah I'm with you in the last episode or two I was constantly getting exasperated, enough that I'd say things like "oh, come on" out loud (I was watching alone). All in all I enjoyed the show...

    Yeah I'm with you in the last episode or two I was constantly getting exasperated, enough that I'd say things like "oh, come on" out loud (I was watching alone). All in all I enjoyed the show though, nice when a cool SF idea actually has pretty good visual effects. Makes me think of this movie The Sound of Thunder, which was a great idea (based on a Ray Bradbury short story) but the budget was so low it ended up being awful, ha.

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  14. Comment on Vetting new users in ~tildes

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    I have a related question - with invites is anybody actively posting in a sub unrelated to the tildes sub that they have invites for this community? I'm of course referring to a smaller sub in...

    I have a related question - with invites is anybody actively posting in a sub unrelated to the tildes sub that they have invites for this community? I'm of course referring to a smaller sub in which you'd generally consider the users to be thoughtful, provide more insightful commentary, etc. Or is everyone just inviting through the tildes sub?

    2 votes

  15. Comment on A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica in ~tech

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    The money indeed drives all else, whenever you dig into any issue there it is, waiting languidly in its foul cave. Not being sarcastic, just dramatic.

    The money indeed drives all else, whenever you dig into any issue there it is, waiting languidly in its foul cave. Not being sarcastic, just dramatic.

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  16. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~books

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    When I was a teenager / early 20's I read quite a bit of fantasy, and I found this one book in a used bookstore that I loved, but then I realized the rest of the series was almost impossible to...

    When I was a teenager / early 20's I read quite a bit of fantasy, and I found this one book in a used bookstore that I loved, but then I realized the rest of the series was almost impossible to find. Eventually I found them online somehow (pre-Amazon), they were out of print though now I'm not sure.

    Christopher Rowley was the author, the series was about a fantasy world where dragons were small and couldn't fly, and partnered with humans to fight... enemies. Don't remember the details, ha. First book was called Bazil Broketail I believe, they are great.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Is there a space for the extremes of "alt right" on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Well I for one am happy you are here!

    Well I for one am happy you are here!

    5 votes

  18. Comment on Discussion: fostering inclusiveness on Tildes in ~tildes

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    I think this is good in that implicit in your comment is the idea that "inclusiveness" necessarily excludes non-inclusive behavior, which is indeed what prejudiced commentaries are (be they in any...

    I think this is good in that implicit in your comment is the idea that "inclusiveness" necessarily excludes non-inclusive behavior, which is indeed what prejudiced commentaries are (be they in any way racist, homophobic, misogynist, and so on).

    This is also where the fine line comes into play between what people are referring to (in a misinformed way, often) as 'political correctness' and the desire to be / practice of being inclusive. If one does not moderate their language in what are really rather simple ways (not saying "man" so much, as OP mentions, not assuming the other is one thing or another) then they demonstrate that they value their own perspective over those of others, a standpoint which is to a small extent unavoidable but which in these cases usually is much more than "to a small extent."

    The effort to keep this (internet) space of Tildes as one which is open and inclusive I see as one of the most important and most difficult jobs of the community here. I am here to do my part and am curious to see how it plays out. I will remain hopeful. For it to function I do see that it has to remain one of the core tenets of the site and any slow slippage will ultimately lead to its demise (as this sort of inclusive space).

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Suggestion: easy button to switch to night mode in ~tildes

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    Yeah I use f.lux but still the all white background when I have all the lights off is really bright and the solarized dark is much preferable. Just having a drop down in the User Menu rather than...

    Yeah I use f.lux but still the all white background when I have all the lights off is really bright and the solarized dark is much preferable. Just having a drop down in the User Menu rather than all the way in settings would be ideal

  20. Comment on Suggestion: easy button to switch to night mode in ~tildes

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    I change it at night but the default stays the same as the white one, and no I don't browse in incognito

    I change it at night but the default stays the same as the white one, and no I don't browse in incognito