emuspawn
@emuspawn@orbiting.observer
I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that’s probably what I was thinking of in terms of ‘defining’ vs ‘advancing’. I’ll invoke the case of the ‘Sad Puppies’, a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to ‘not white men’ (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp…women?!).
I would probably claim the Sad Puppies tried to define culture.
The rest of the attendees advanced it by telling them to fuck right off.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 weeks ago:
Pumpkins Georg, who lives in spooky bog & disposes of over 15 million pumpkins every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
Is defining culture the same as advancing culture?
- Comment on Learning Botany 3 weeks ago:
kale is a delicious vegetable
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KALE DOESN’T EXIST IT’S CABBAGE ALL THE WAY DOWN
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^AND^ ^NEITHER^ ^DO^ ^VEGETABLES^
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- Comment on mmm baklava 3 weeks ago:
geologists get hot and bothered about balacmagma
- Comment on draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS-license on August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
what a dirtbag
- Comment on draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS-license on August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS-license on August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
“This is why we can’t have nice things.” The license change sucks but makes total sense. I guess Dave Kinne there fucked around and found out, to the detriment of everyone.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 month ago:
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 1 month ago:
Will Wright! We need you, now more than ever! We need simulation games! We need llamas! We need a great vision of weird fun you can have! Will Wright is…Will Wright is apparently busy with an AI powered game that looks extremely vaporware. ~Nooooo…~
- Comment on Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling 2 months ago:
This is true! But I think the “good” (?) news there is Annapurna Studios is not going anywhere, and they retained all the IP their subsidiary holds. Sucks for the former Annapurna Interactive folks that they can’t bring the IP with them, but c’est la vie.
- Comment on Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling 2 months ago:
Terrible news…for Megan Ellison. Can’t wait to see what the inevitable independent studio they’ll form puts out.
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
The children yearn for the mines
- Comment on 8 Minutes 3 months ago:
When there is a total solar eclipse, the temperature does drop dramatically. But it might not be detectable on the other side right away for sure.
- Comment on Trying to remember a video game trailer about managing a big walking living tank in a fantasy setting 3 months ago:
Is it The Wandering Village?
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot 3 months ago:
There’s always room for more AI
- Comment on answer = sum(n) / len(n) 4 months ago:
It’s not always as simple as measuring an observable system or simulating the parameters the best you can. Lots of parameters + lots of variables = we have a good idea how it should go, we can get close, but don’t actually know. That’s part of why emergent behavior and chaos theory are so difficult, even in theoretically closed systems.
- Comment on Sad 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m sure we can come up with a way to explode the sun much sooner than that.
- Comment on Eurekadumpite 7 months ago:
- Comment on space 7 months ago:
I mean, it’s the space-time continuum, it’s connected! As the documentary Stargate SG-1 shows, we’re well acquainted with spatial and chronological drift over interstellar distances.
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 7 months ago:
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
- Comment on ah, conservation 7 months ago:
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward. And they are, in bird law terms, ‘huge dicks’. They’ve been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they’ve been losing breeding ground. And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don’t like humans much either.
- Comment on Battle Grouse 8 months ago:
It’s off the top of the dome! And clearly a dorf thought smacked me part way through…
- Comment on Battle Grouse 8 months ago:
A tiny sculpture of a solitary grouse in a field. The grouse menaces with spikes. The overall composition is realistic. This work represents terror. This representation relates to a Greater-Sage Grouse attacking the colony on 6th of Decembary, 5210.
- Comment on OCB 11 months ago:
C’mon man, don’t be a square.
