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  1. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    Fred Armisen embodied it so well.

    Fred Armisen embodied it so well.

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  2. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I totally agree, the amateurish production is deliberate, though to what extent I think we can only speculate. What I learned through this video is that I have...

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

    I totally agree, the amateurish production is deliberate, though to what extent I think we can only speculate. What I learned through this video is that I have far greater tolerance/welcome/enjoyment with amateurish video than with amateurish audio, which is a bit of a surprise for me.

    I will also note that I'm far from classically trained, I just grew up with one of my fixations being theater. (I did get moderately panned for "braces-flavored singing" in a show I was the youth lead for once lol)

    He definitely fits in Oregon, your description is right on, though I think he'd also go for a NA cider this time of year.

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  3. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    I was less specific, I was just "Willamette Valley other than Salem/Keizer," everything from Eugene up to PDX/Vancouver. Dude fits his upbringing well!

    I was less specific, I was just "Willamette Valley other than Salem/Keizer," everything from Eugene up to PDX/Vancouver. Dude fits his upbringing well!

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  4. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    I don't disagree, I just think it's a scoche harder to watch because of the comments I made. Which is okay, I am not the arbiter of good taste or good art, they were just observations I made. I...

    I don't disagree, I just think it's a scoche harder to watch because of the comments I made. Which is okay, I am not the arbiter of good taste or good art, they were just observations I made.

    I haven't seen the other video you refer to, but your comment makes it sound like it's not a stylistic choice by him to have the technical audio like that.

    The audio performance in the other hand - I dunno, maybe it's because I grew up in community theater and performing, but I read the telephone book with a lot more emotion than some folks read novels. Now, if that flat delivery was deliberate, I can recognize that as an artistic choice that I just wouldn't have made. If it wasn't deliberate, though, my grumbles above persist.

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  5. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    That was quite a topic. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I agree with the other comment that it feels older than it is - the production hearkens back to late 2000s YouTube, which is a bit...

    That was quite a topic. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

    I agree with the other comment that it feels older than it is - the production hearkens back to late 2000s YouTube, which is a bit of a vibe. It feels very analog, appropriate for the subject covered. I wish the audio was better, both technically and the host's performance, but I still watched the whole thing.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games in ~humanities.history

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    I could have guessed he was from Oregon. The hair, the aesthetic, the topic, the mascot...just screams Oregonian. Source: Oregon.

    I could have guessed he was from Oregon. The hair, the aesthetic, the topic, the mascot...just screams Oregonian. Source: Oregon.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on What's a question you could ask to determine if someone is an expert in your line of work? in ~talk

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    Meta-$, type what to replace, type new words, hit enter a billion times.

    Meta-$, type what to replace, type new words, hit enter a billion times.

  8. Comment on What is your silly or (kinda) useless talent? in ~talk

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    Oh it's just "normal" for me. It was surprising when I found out that wasn't so for others!

    Oh it's just "normal" for me. It was surprising when I found out that wasn't so for others!

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  9. Comment on What is your silly or (kinda) useless talent? in ~talk

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    Curious. I've meditated before, but never had time loss...which is what it would feel like to me (I think). I had an appendectomy, and knew it went too long when waking up from anesthesia because...

    Curious. I've meditated before, but never had time loss...which is what it would feel like to me (I think). I had an appendectomy, and knew it went too long when waking up from anesthesia because I felt the time while I was out.

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  10. Comment on What is your silly or (kinda) useless talent? in ~talk

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    I didn't for a long time, because I just thought it was normal. Then I heard someone describe normal sleep like "power off, pause, power on" and I was so confused. Then it turns out others were...

    I didn't for a long time, because I just thought it was normal. Then I heard someone describe normal sleep like "power off, pause, power on" and I was so confused. Then it turns out others were confused by my experience when I started sharing it. All the memes about, "sleep is like a free trial of death," really freaked me out when younger. I still can't imagine non-existence in a real way, because I'm never really "off," you know?

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  12. Comment on The future is NOT self-hosted in ~tech

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    I'm building my own self-hosting capabilities because it is worthwhile to me. I am also considering offering hosting to family and friends in exchange for helping to defray additional costs. I...

    I'm building my own self-hosting capabilities because it is worthwhile to me. I am also considering offering hosting to family and friends in exchange for helping to defray additional costs. I think such an approach could help broaden access to those who don't want to build/maintain their own, reduce the costs for them, and also improve privacy/security/independence. I'm not sure how to do this, and I'm not even certain if it could be done easily, but I want to try.

    The answer to me isn't federation, though it kind of does look like it, but instead immediate environment community building. A community-hosted alternative could enable filesharing rather than defaulting to Google Photos or Docs - think of it as an app-based pseudo-SSH.

    The risk of this is that small organizations are only as good as their executives. The unscrupulous "roleplayed sys admin" could leverage substantial power over their friends and family, potentially denying them access to their files (or accessing it themselves). While is fundamentally the situation we currently have with big corporations, it would be made a more immediate risk in this format. A trusted third party may be needed to ensure safety, an honest broker, to break out of the walled gardens. We have become bad at trusting, this is a low-trust society, making broader cooperation a challenge...so we really need to address that too.

    Sorry, it's late, I'm rambling, just some thoughts.

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  13. Comment on What is your criteria for what counts as a "retro" video game? in ~games

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    The one that came to mind immediately was Jane's F/A-18. I am BIG into flight simulators, and this was the first/only combat flight simulator I had as a kid. It's detailed, challenging, and fun,...

    The one that came to mind immediately was Jane's F/A-18. I am BIG into flight simulators, and this was the first/only combat flight simulator I had as a kid. It's detailed, challenging, and fun, and hates to run on new software. I even had to dual boot Vista 32-bit to get it to run! There's also a melange of older games that I remember but haven't particularly played recently, like a CD full of freeware/shareware games that had a few exemplars, or Age of Empires III - which I own on disk but wanted me to rebuy on steam. Then there are games like Dragon Age Origins, which I never played but my wife wanted...and yes I know it can be played on newer hardware with minimal fiddling, but she wanted it on the computer so she got it.

  14. Comment on What is your criteria for what counts as a "retro" video game? in ~games

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    I would argue that retro is a definition that's best applied broadly. I would suggest a useful definition as being media that was not designed and is not natively compatible with current...

    I would argue that retro is a definition that's best applied broadly. I would suggest a useful definition as being media that was not designed and is not natively compatible with current generation technology. There is a bit of wiggle room for long-term support updates "breaking" the definition, but we could argue that this is a life enhancement to the game and focus more on the "not designed for" part of the definition.

    For example, there are games that I remember from childhood, games that are optimized for performance on Windows XP or earlier. Some of those games do not play well with Windows 7, 10, or 11. That is why, I have a Windows Vista machine that I just built. It can play pre-2000 games without issues, but my infinitely more powerful Win10/11 system cannot handle it properly.

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  15. Comment on What is your silly or (kinda) useless talent? in ~talk

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    Same! I learned to whistle breathing in as a kid, didn't learn to whistle breathing out until an adult...then I learned to tone match the two, so I can whistle an arbitrarily long time just by...

    Same! I learned to whistle breathing in as a kid, didn't learn to whistle breathing out until an adult...then I learned to tone match the two, so I can whistle an arbitrarily long time just by alternating which way it goes without need for a breath break. Honestly, my lips begin to spasm after a minute or so of constant whistles, so that's the limitation.

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  16. Comment on What is your silly or (kinda) useless talent? in ~talk

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    Same, but I can (usually) even track time while asleep. It is almost always within 15 minutes even when wearing a blackout mask, but usually it's within 5 minutes. I also "feel" the time pass...

    Same, but I can (usually) even track time while asleep. It is almost always within 15 minutes even when wearing a blackout mask, but usually it's within 5 minutes. I also "feel" the time pass while I sleep.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on iOS26 "Liquid Glass" - is it really such a big deal? in ~tech

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    *Vista...Win 7 did use it too, but it's even older than that!

    *Vista...Win 7 did use it too, but it's even older than that!

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  18. Comment on Working on a ~2008 dream gaming computer running Vista (in an old server) in ~comp

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    Alright, you folks convinced me. I ran legacyupdates.net (tossed a few bucks a month to the maintainer too) and things are running great. Unless they are 32 bit apps, in which case they mostly...

    Alright, you folks convinced me. I ran legacyupdates.net (tossed a few bucks a month to the maintainer too) and things are running great. Unless they are 32 bit apps, in which case they mostly don't run. Mostly. Some are doing great, others, like Rivatuner (which I want to use for benchmarking in games) don't run at all, blaming "not a valid win32 application."

    I'm currently running updates on a dual-boot partition with Vista 32-bit. We will see if older games (like Jane's F/A-18, which I schlepped across the country) will run. That one actually had a weird error - apparently it thinks Vista is NT 4 (Win 98), which is wild. Gonna try and install it on the new partition.

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  19. Comment on Working on a ~2008 dream gaming computer running Vista (in an old server) in ~comp

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    Now that is an idea. I couldn't find any iso with drivers updated, but you're saying it's possible to modified the iso? I assumed checksums and the like made that impossible.

    Now that is an idea. I couldn't find any iso with drivers updated, but you're saying it's possible to modified the iso? I assumed checksums and the like made that impossible.

    2 votes

  20. Working on a ~2008 dream gaming computer running Vista (in an old server)

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    Any clever ways to connect to the Internet safely to update drivers, security, etc? I'd only want to connect to Intel, AMD, Microsoft, etc, and then would physically disconnect the lan card. I...

    Any clever ways to connect to the Internet safely to update drivers, security, etc? I'd only want to connect to Intel, AMD, Microsoft, etc, and then would physically disconnect the lan card. I know, dangerous, but I'm trying a piecemeal approach with a flash drive and getting mixed results. I tried to update to Service Pack 2, and it bricked the computer on restart, back to flashing Vista.

    15 votes