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  1. Comment on What writing 'tics' stand out to you? Repeated phrases, strange words, or otherwise weird stuff that jumps out at you. in ~books

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    I'm picking up what you're throwing down: verbal crutches... I would say these conversational platitudes are more like clichés. Phrases that pejorate into meaninglessness but are still heavily...

    I'm picking up what you're throwing down: verbal crutches...

    I would say these conversational platitudes are more like clichés. Phrases that pejorate into meaninglessness but are still heavily used regardless for filler.

    But clichés do not hold an exclusive monopoly on words that irk. When something begs the question I beg to get out of there.

    Tautophrase. It is what it is. Devices of rhetor, rhyme as reason...

    There's one that really bothers me but I can't think of it right now. I'll update this comment when it comes to me

    edit: okay I was looking for "not for nothing"

    The phrase functions as a kind of verbal throat-clearing, a way to preface a point that a character feels is particularly important, insightful, or even a bit rude. It's often used before giving an opinion, a critique, or a piece of blunt advice.

    "Not for nothing, I told you this would happen."

    It's such a bizarre double negative phrase--if you're not familiar with it. It literally means "for something" but it doesn't tell you what the "for something" that it's about.

    But I imagine if you've heard it all your life it sounds bob is your uncle

    don't think about it too hard

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  2. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ The Last Express in ~games

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    Well he can travel through time.... and he traded a bug for a gold whistle. Pretty good salesman.

    Does Robert Cath have magic powers??

    Well he can travel through time.... and he traded a bug for a gold whistle. Pretty good salesman.

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  3. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ The Last Express in ~games

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    Yes, I forget where I read/heard it. I think it was a report from an acquaintance of Kronos that you can read in his bedroom after breaking in through the roof of his car. Or maybe a newspaper...

    I'd believe that his trouble with the police may have really been a misunderstanding

    Yes, I forget where I read/heard it. I think it was a report from an acquaintance of Kronos that you can read in his bedroom after breaking in through the roof of his car. Or maybe a newspaper clipping that you can read in one of the compartments. It was implied that someone killed his friend and the police were asking for him because they saw them together.

    HOWEVER, I definitely felt like you felt (and I still do feel). The impression that people get that the protagonist is flawed TOTALLY outweighs a small newspaper clipping that 3% of players might accidentally read--it may as well not exist. I think the point is that it is a mystery: you're finding out who you are as you play... but some of the character dialog is really... out there. In this way it is much less like an RPG... it is more like reading a book.

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  4. Comment on CGA-2025-09 🕹️🚂 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ The Last Express in ~games

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    I found this behind-the-scenes video really interesting: The Making of The Last Express

    the art style

    I found this behind-the-scenes video really interesting: The Making of The Last Express

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Reminds me a bit of Mike Batt and A.C.T. ASIDE: There used to be an awesome music video for "Voices in the Dark" but it seems like it's no longer available anywhere... I could only this which is...

    Reminds me a bit of Mike Batt and A.C.T.

    ASIDE: There used to be an awesome music video for "Voices in the Dark" but it seems like it's no longer available anywhere... I could only this which is totally different. edit: ahh here it is

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  6. Comment on Minako Yoshida - Starlet (1990) in ~music

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    This other song is also pretty nice: Moonlight Slumber

    This other song is also pretty nice: Moonlight Slumber

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  8. Comment on Text My Mom for Me in ~design

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    oh I found some more information about the intent of the site and also the source code:

    oh I found some more information about the intent of the site

    I thought it would be funny if people could text my mom right from my website, so I made an little web app for it. To build this, I taught myself Node, Express, MongoDB and some light form verification to make sure people could only send her emojis. [ Note: now just a static page- the gmail api I was using got removed, so you can't text her anymore :( ]

    and also the source code:

    I'm a busy guy. Between writing my thesis, taking enough classes to graduate, making the best art on the net, and figuring out how to save the world from impending apocalypse, I've got a lot on my plate. Sometimes I don't have time to text my mom, so I need YOU to help me out. Pick out some emojis that convey my filial love and fire away.

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  9. Comment on Text My Mom for Me in ~design

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    Manifesto (written by the same person. I'm >95% sure):

    Manifesto (written by the same person. I'm >95% sure):

    Good art is about the current milieu. If good art is about the past or future, it must be mediated by the current moment. Good art speaks to the present. The current moment is intense, chaotic, bizarre – ‘light’ or ‘modernist’ or ‘minimalist’ art feels dated because it is not about our current moment. It doesn’t say anything, and it doesn’t disrupt. It falls within the conventions of the art world.

    Good art is now.

    To be political is to expose the state of the world as it is (not masking). It is either anti- or post-. Disrupting has to be confrontational.

    ...

    Rich people go to the museum as a pleasurable cultural experience. Woke rich people (creative elite) go to the relational aesthetics piece and have soup.

    ...

    https://old.e-worm.club/manifesto

  10. Comment on Porter Robinson's angelangelangelangelangel.com (seizure warning) in ~design

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    My questioning isn't driven by doubt but rather curiosity. I like to collect and examine artifacts like these. Most ARG sites are somewhat similar though. When browsing this site it made me think...

    My questioning isn't driven by doubt but rather curiosity. I like to collect and examine artifacts like these. Most ARG sites are somewhat similar though.

    When browsing this site it made me think a bit of https://angusnicneven.com/

  11. Comment on Text My Mom for Me in ~design

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    This site is really funny and fun to think about... I don't know if it was ever real--I don't think it was--but it could have been. It feels like an art installation. If you go to...

    This site is really funny and fun to think about... I don't know if it was ever real--I don't think it was--but it could have been. It feels like an art installation.

    If you go to view-source:https://shrmntoys.anemon.es/mom/submit then you can see a custom made 404 page which links to snap.mp4 and idiots.mp3 which makes it seem like, to me, that the site is just a joke and it never even "worked" even as an art installation. OR maybe it was real and someone said something rude AND THEN the artist calls us idiots. That may also be possible...

    BUT! It is still funny to read the hypothetical chat log. The feels. I should text my mom.

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  13. Comment on Porter Robinson's angelangelangelangelangel.com (seizure warning) in ~design

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    probably not then. I see a flashing static TV screen and your cursor is a bubble that magnifies the area under it

    probably not then. I see a flashing static TV screen and your cursor is a bubble that magnifies the area under it

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  14. Comment on Porter Robinson's angelangelangelangelangel.com (seizure warning) in ~design

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    Do you have a link to that? https://web.archive.org/web/20071231180324/http://yearzero.nin.com/ doesn't seem that similar visually... But I'm sure you're right that the ARG elements are likely...

    Do you have a link to that?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20071231180324/http://yearzero.nin.com/

    doesn't seem that similar visually...

    But I'm sure you're right that the ARG elements are likely copied wholesale

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  15. Comment on Porter Robinson's angelangelangelangelangel.com (seizure warning) in ~design

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    So I came across this site and it is pretty interesting as an artifact if only in terms of its UX. You can move your cursor around the screen and click on different places that do different...

    So I came across this site and it is pretty interesting as an artifact if only in terms of its UX. You can move your cursor around the screen and click on different places that do different things. There's no normal visual indication of links.

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  18. Comment on What's a setting that you'd recommend? in ~tech

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    Refrigerator: 3c Freezer: -20c POSIX-compliant mode on everything else Having an "Extra Dim" shortcut in the Android top bar is handy. Along with Flashlight and Rotate Screen

    Refrigerator: 3c
    Freezer: -20c

    POSIX-compliant mode on everything else

    Having an "Extra Dim" shortcut in the Android top bar is handy. Along with Flashlight and Rotate Screen

    16 votes

  19. Comment on It’s the little things that make me not fully jump to linux in ~comp

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    This wasn't the case with my wife's Macbook. It kept going to sleep after closing despite being connected to AC power. There was no user-friendly setting toggle to fix this. Only: sudo pmset...

    On macOS, setting this up is as simple as plugging in a monitor and closing the laptop

    This wasn't the case with my wife's Macbook. It kept going to sleep after closing despite being connected to AC power. There was no user-friendly setting toggle to fix this. Only:

    sudo pmset disablesleep 1
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  20. Comment on It’s the little things that make me not fully jump to linux in ~comp

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    When I have three monitors plugged in something before sddm refuses to load so I need to unplug one of them, restart, login, and then plug it back in... but after that I can logout and log back in...

    When I have three monitors plugged in something before sddm refuses to load so I need to unplug one of them, restart, login, and then plug it back in... but after that I can logout and log back in fine. It only happens when the computer first turns on.

    There are all sorts of these weird corner cases which would be smoothed out more if Linux had as much funding as Microsoft

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