tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on It is what it is 2 weeks ago:
You guys are still using Chrome?
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 2 weeks ago:
You gave it a generous amount of your time. I’d say if you don’t like it in the first few episodes it might not be for you. I was hooked almost immediately.
- Comment on no way right 2 weeks ago:
Welp, I guess we didn’t need a terrorist attack to justify war with Iran after all.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? FAFO obviously stands for “fill asshole full of”. Like FAFO dicks. Or FAFO pennies.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 1 month ago:
I’m only familiar with “spectrum” from linear algebra (spectral theory), but I’m not sure that’s how people intend to use the word “spectrum” in this context haha.
- Comment on Popcorn, more like cocporn (I'm sorry) 1 month ago:
More like fiveskin am I right?
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 1 month ago:
Ben, you should smile more. You look prettier when you smile.
- Comment on Y'know... 1 month ago:
You read this in a very specific Italian American voice.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I agree and at this point I think I’m just making a semantic argument. To me, “Nazi sympathizer” implies that you share the beliefs of the Nazi party. But I’m not sure there is an agreed upon definition for this. Regardless I think it’s worth drawing a boundary between “people that share Nazi beliefs” and “people that tolerate Nazis”, and so I find it a little careless to use “Nazi sympathizer” as a blanket term for both. People might get the wrong idea when you start labeling them that way.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Swapper
Not my actual favorite, but it’s very high on my list, and I didn’t see it posted yet.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I see no reason to migrate from sway.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I agree that Vaxyr has a terrible record with community-building and tolerates bullying.
I don’t think it’s fair to call him a Nazi sympathizer, based on the linked screenshots. He never said he espouses the ideology, he just said he wouldn’t blanket ban Nazis from his server. Obviously that’s a bad take, but it’s not the same as being a Nazi sympathizer.
- Comment on What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong? 2 months ago:
I’m reaching a little here, but I couldn’t get into Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. I gave it around 10 episodes IIRC and just didn’t like any of the characters or find the plot very interesting. It’s possible the English VAs had something to do with it too; I normally watch in Japanese but I was watching FMA with friends that don’t like subs.
I was surprised because it’s ranked so highly among anime.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
Matrix also has video calls
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 3 months ago:
You mean 12 Gbps right?
- Comment on Balatro's Pokermon mod is incredible 3 months ago:
Oh. There goes all my free time again?
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 4 months ago:
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone like no scars or anything just flat skin and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night and several days later you find out that your entire life he had been sneaking in your room while you slept and sucking on your chest to make two gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be because you were born without them not for any sexual reason just so you would fit in…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Well yea, ideally colonization would not have happened, but it did. Would you rather the indigenous people had received no consolation at all?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I just want to say that ethnicity is not necessarily related to genetics in any way, it’s about your heritage and upbringing. A person can be born and raised in Japan without having indigenous parents. In this way, they are ethnically Japanese if they choose to identify with the culture they were raised in.
So it’s not suddenly racist to appreciate someone’s ethnicity. It’s racist to assume someone’s ethnicity based on how they look.
And what you say about ethnicity being irrelevant to the government is quite controversial. For example, there are various treaties in effect between colonizers and indigenous peoples. Do you think such treaties are not valuable because they are based on ethnicity?
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 4 months ago:
His last special SuperNature had some jokes making fun of trans women and the people who defend them.
I won’t lie and say I didn’t laugh at the final punchline. But yeah these jokes are pretty counterproductive and just reinforce bigotry.
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 4 months ago:
This song is everywhere if you look. I heard it in Shutter Island first.
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 5 months ago:
Might as well shorten the terms so we can get more gold coins out of it.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 5 months ago:
- Comment on Darn it 5 months ago:
I also consider “about to die on average” to be “old”.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 5 months ago:
Clutch team killing in Rainbow Six Siege. A rare occurrence but so much adrenaline.
Hillcrest in The Last of Us 2. Never have I had so much fun trapping and hunting people down. It really brings out the psycho killer energy.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 5 months ago:
Yeah it’s possible it was a defensive move. But I don’t think he framed it that way, and I would absolutely be sure to clarify why I kicked a dog if that were the truth. Honestly I would probably lie to avoid having to explain that.
Sadly this was a while ago and I don’t remember if I asked for more details. I just remember it was super awkward.
- Comment on Prove you're not a robot 5 months ago:
This is hard on mobile.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 5 months ago:
There is always an exception. One of my older coworkers once came in to work with a sprained ankle. I asked why and he said he got it from kicking a dog, with zero remorse in his expression. I wish I had not asked. I knew he was weird but that detail cemented my opinion of him.
- Comment on Morning Blast 5 months ago:
Yea I don’t think a cup or two of coffee alone is bad, other than temporarily increasing blood pressure. But I definitely wouldn’t combine it with smoking.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 5 months ago:
Same but “Amazon”.