SpookyBogMonster

@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something we all can agree on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Really use your noggin for this one.

  Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?

  No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.

  Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.

  Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist

  You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?

  That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?

  Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you cannot really get much smaller without starting to limit the games that can be played on them

  Games should probably be shorter, with worse graphics, if I’m being honest ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usernames are very personal ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  xXEmoXOstrichXx

  Holds up spork >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very interesting trend, it seems like companies are convinced that this form factor is the future, that consumers will choose something with a portable option over something stationary.

  I at least like the idea that a console can act as both. I just can’t get behind this form factor of “handheld” consoles that are so large. Like, yeah, I can hold it in my hands. But a steam deck, or even a switch aren’t exactly easy to carry around.

  Not in the way that my old DS or GBA could. Hell, there’s a reason I do most of my handheld gaming on a Miyoo Mini Plus. The idea of taking a full console experience with me, on the go, was a neat idea when I was 10. But those kinds of games just don’t lend themselves to riding the bus, or sitting in the doctors office waiting room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A simpler time, when the computer was fun and whimsical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is feeling romantic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your Incel garbage and get the fuck out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for reddit?

  If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this kind of vague, “kill your local pedophile :)” sentiment is often just an anti-LGBT dogwhistle and makes me uneasy.

  If someone is going to post shit like this, and not actively tie it to the very obvious class dynamics of wealthy human traffickers, conservative Christians who promote child marriage, and politicians who protect them (without also being Anti-Semitic), then I just kind of assume it’s a thinly veiled call for violence against queer people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then people started “well red is this, yellow is that, green is that …”

  But the stripes always meant something:

  Hot pink = Sex Red = Life
  Orange = Healing Yellow = Sunlight
  Green = Nature Turquoise = Magic/Art Indigo = Serenity Violet = Spirit

  Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

  By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it’s stuck around because of, well… Everything going on lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly , I think the chevron works. But instead of adding all of the extra stripes , I think it would have been better to make the chevron a single color.

  Gilbert Baker, before he died, added a lavender stripe to the original flag to for ‘diversity’. I say we blend the chevron with Baker’s vision and have it be a singular lavender color

  That said, while I think that would be more aesthetically pleasing, I have come around on the progress pride flag in the same way that I like the flag of Maryland. It’s so busy that it’s circled around from being ugly to charming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen TERFs use it less, as they’ve started to win the “trans debate” less of a need to disguise their shit as “protecting lesbians”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t discrace the good name of my friend, Portable Document Format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Durability of children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing Cheesy about the genuine technical marvel that was Buster Keaton doing slapstick cartoon shit in live action

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I think there’s a value in being forced to curate. There’s a reason that “Take what you’ve written and cut 20%” is common screenwriting advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too small? How so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I suppose not, but neither do must forms of art. Amateurism, real or percieved, is even a hallmark of many genres, like punk for instance.

  But that’s kind of missing the forest for the trees. For the poster to look at a genre that is historically dominated by white people (and one with a history of far-right politics at that), and contrast it as requiring more talent to produce than a predominantly black genre of music… Let’s just say that raises some alarm bells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start doing it again! Actually owning your media is cool and good, actually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.

  But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.

  Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent