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Comment on Gay student says “Coach” Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullies in ~lgbt
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Comment on Gay student says “Coach” Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullies in ~lgbt
nosewings LinkThe more I hear about this guy, the less plausible it seems that A. he is actually real, and B. the Democrats were smart enough to pick him.The more I hear about this guy, the less plausible it seems that A. he is actually real, and B. the Democrats were smart enough to pick him.
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Comment on There's an EU petition to prevent publishers and devs from leaving games in unplayable states in ~games
nosewings Link ParentIf there's one thing I believe with all my heart, it's that the general gaming audience is small-minded and short-sighted, and it refuses to develop a true political consciousness. There are a ton...If there are organizations that care strongly about that I fully support their endeavors but they may not do it in a way the gaming audience feels is "preservation"
If there's one thing I believe with all my heart, it's that the general gaming audience is small-minded and short-sighted, and it refuses to develop a true political consciousness.
There are a ton of films from the early days of cinema that are completely lost. Wouldn't it be so much better if there weren't lost, even if they weren't available on Netflix?
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Comment on Why does "Everything Everywhere All at Once" repulse me so much? in ~movies
nosewings (edited )Link ParentA big recurring theme in the film is the difficulty of understanding, relating to, and empathizing with people who are different from us. Evelyn has trouble understanding her depressed lesbian...A big recurring theme in the film is the difficulty of understanding, relating to, and empathizing with people who are different from us. Evelyn has trouble understanding her depressed lesbian daughter and her non-Chinese girlfriend. Gong Gong has trouble understanding his immigrant daughter and her family. And the IRS agent Deirdre has trouble understanding Evelyn and her family. (Actually, in each case, we could maybe say that each doesn't even try to understand the other until the end of the film.) The hot dog fingers make the audience feel the kind of revulsion that a bigot might feel (and I don't think it's a coincidence that the hot dog fingers universe is one in which Evelyn is in a lesbian relationship).
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Comment on There's an EU petition to prevent publishers and devs from leaving games in unplayable states in ~games
nosewings Link ParentI guess my point is that shutting down a game is still immoral for reasons of preservation. I honestly don't care how big a playerbase the game has when it shuts down; in fact, it doesn't affect...I guess my point is that shutting down a game is still immoral for reasons of preservation. I honestly don't care how big a playerbase the game has when it shuts down; in fact, it doesn't affect my calculus in the slightest.
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Comment on There's an EU petition to prevent publishers and devs from leaving games in unplayable states in ~games
nosewings Link ParentAnd then those games become lost media! Does no one care about historical preservation?very rarely do popular games shut down. A game shutting down usually means the gaming community has moved on from it, so the damage is mitigated by default.
And then those games become lost media!
Does no one care about historical preservation?
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Comment on ROMhacking.net moves to news only, database and file archive released to Internet Archive in ~games
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Comment on Why does "Everything Everywhere All at Once" repulse me so much? in ~movies
nosewings Link ParentBelieve it or not, disgust towards the hot dog fingers is actually part of the point of the film.Believe it or not, disgust towards the hot dog fingers is actually part of the point of the film.
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Comment on Why does "Everything Everywhere All at Once" repulse me so much? in ~movies
nosewings Link ParentI think this is a big reason reason it got stanned as hard as it did. A similar phenomenon occurred with Barbie and Oppenheimer. The glut of soulless CGI action fests has left many people craving...What I ultimately love is that it's a big box office entertainment movie that had, even if it doesn't work for you, some pretty identifiable artistic purpose behind it past making money.
I think this is a big reason reason it got stanned as hard as it did. A similar phenomenon occurred with Barbie and Oppenheimer. The glut of soulless CGI action fests has left many people craving anything else. Or perhaps it's just lowered peoples' standards for artistic merit.
I think another big reason is that it came pretty much at the definitive end of COVID (or, at least, at the end of the time when most peoples' daily lives were altered). So it may have been the first movie many people saw in theaters for a long time, and also its message may have resonated more for that.
The fact that it came shortly after the Trump presidency might also have something to do with it.
Also, it has to be acknowledged that the movie did make some genuinely out-there and weird choices. People make comparisons to Rick and Morty, which isn't entirely off-base, but it's one thing to see that sort of thing in a cartoon and another to see it in a mainstream live-action film. It may have been the first time that a lot of people were exposed to some of those ideas.
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Comment on Personal blogging in ~tildes
nosewings Link ParentI feel like the modern Internet is still more-or-less the same thing, except instead of big-name bloggers it's big-name Twitter users (Tweeters? Xers?) and TikTokers.I feel like the modern Internet is still more-or-less the same thing, except instead of big-name bloggers it's big-name Twitter users (Tweeters? Xers?) and TikTokers.
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Comment on Governor Gavin Newsom orders homeless sweeps throughout California in ~society
nosewings Link ParentDo you have any data to support this? My intuition tells me that street living is not the kind of thing that you do because it is easy, but essentially because you don't have much of a choice. If...making living on the streets worse will push people to make the sacrifices needed to get their lives back on track.
Do you have any data to support this?
My intuition tells me that street living is not the kind of thing that you do because it is easy, but essentially because you don't have much of a choice. If that's the case, making it more difficult won't actually accomplish anything.
All these sweeps do is make the problem go somewhere else. Or, in the worst case, they make the problem disappear.
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Comment on US President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for re-election in ~news
nosewings Link ParentThat makes it, at worst, an unfounded prediction. That doesn't make it not a prediction.That makes it, at worst, an unfounded prediction. That doesn't make it not a prediction.
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Comment on US President Joe Biden announces that he will not run for re-election in ~news
nosewings Link ParentHow does that not count as a prediction?How does that not count as a prediction?
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Comment on /r/nixos enables automated moderation with Watchdog in ~tech
nosewings Link Parent/r/NixOS in particular has become a very nasty sub of late due some drama in the Nix community./r/NixOS in particular has become a very nasty sub of late due some drama in the Nix community.
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Comment on Donald Trump does not get post-shooting poll boost in ~society
nosewings LinkIs two days really enough time to be sure? Granted, the fact that the shooter seems to have not had political motivations probably makes a post-shooting boost less likely, but it seems wrong to...Is two days really enough time to be sure?
Granted, the fact that the shooter seems to have not had political motivations probably makes a post-shooting boost less likely, but it seems wrong to count it out just yet.
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Comment on ‘We’re living in a nightmare:’ Inside the health crisis of a Texas bitcoin town in ~tech
nosewings Link ParentThis simply is not how value works. If I spend a lot of time and energy digging a massive ditch on land that I own, that is in no way guaranteed to increase the value of my land. The mere fact...The thing that justifies Bitcoin's value is the several dozen terawatt-hours that are being devoted to it, not the number of dollars people will pay to get it.
This simply is not how value works.
If I spend a lot of time and energy digging a massive ditch on land that I own, that is in no way guaranteed to increase the value of my land. The mere fact that time and energy has been invested in something has no direct bearing on its value.
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Comment on I tried ditching my vehicle and doing the no-car thing. It was awful. in ~transport
nosewings Link ParentTo me, this is an unthinkable way of being. I mean, think about the kind of temporal chauvinism that this requires. Surely you acknowledge that radical activism was appropriate for past causes;...I have that opinion of ALL activists. In general anyone who is a radical or an evangelist for ANY cause whether its environmental, lifestyle, religious, transportation or diet, is an annoying person to me.
To me, this is an unthinkable way of being.
I mean, think about the kind of temporal chauvinism that this requires. Surely you acknowledge that radical activism was appropriate for past causes; e.g., slavery. What is so different now?
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Comment on I tried ditching my vehicle and doing the no-car thing. It was awful. in ~transport
nosewings Link ParentFor starters, not all of us can drive. Some of us have disabilities that make driving impossible, or at least very dangerous. This makes it incredibly frustrating that cities are designed with the...For starters, not all of us can drive. Some of us have disabilities that make driving impossible, or at least very dangerous. This makes it incredibly frustrating that cities are designed with the assumption that basically everyone can drive. In addition, car-centric design is not free: we trade away a lot of things for the convenience of cars.
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Comment on YouTube is testing "Premium Jump Ahead" (built-in sponsorblock) in ~tech
nosewings Link ParentApple would never let their brand be tarnished by an anarchic user-created content platform like YouTube. Apple would only ever do something curated, and they already have Apple TV+.Apple (ew as a subscription service).
Apple would never let their brand be tarnished by an anarchic user-created content platform like YouTube. Apple would only ever do something curated, and they already have Apple TV+.
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Comment on Voters trust Donald Trump over Joe Biden to defend against threats to US democracy despite not thinking Trump will accept the results of the election if he loses in ~society
nosewings Link ParentWhy? Diversity may sound good in the abstract, but it condemns millions of actual people who have no real say in the matter to a life of sub-par healthcare for, as far as I can tell, no good...Idealistically, I'm glad that there is at least one developed country that does not have a universal healthcare system. As long as there are a bunch of countries (or states within a country), I don't think they should all be the same.
Why? Diversity may sound good in the abstract, but it condemns millions of actual people who have no real say in the matter to a life of sub-par healthcare for, as far as I can tell, no good reason.
That's the same as how I think it would be outstanding if you could have a country that exclusively consists of people who think abortion should be illegal, and another country that exclusively thinks it should be legal, and both countries should be able to mutually think the other country will burn in hell after they die while being able to be compassionate with each other in this life.
Again, why? This sounds like a parody of liberal centrism, except you appear to be serious?
I think this disadvantage is somewhat neutralized by the fact that Trump/Vance is also an unbalanced ticket.
Also, I somewhat buy into the liberal trope that left-of-center economic policies are actually popular, and it's just that people have been brainwashed into reflexively voting against labels (e.g., "socialist") rather than learning what the policies actually are. If that's true, then maybe sufficiently effective communication can cut through the brainwashing. And maybe having an opponent who can't coherently articulate policy gives us an opportunity to do that.