codexarcanum
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- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 5 hours ago:
Human beings are not proscriptive. A “gay” “man” is a human being with biological characteristics typical of human males, who acts in a manner society describes as masculine, and who feels attraction towards similar sexes and genders of people.
If that person is forced into sex with a person they don’t feel desire for, I dunno, that’s some kind of thought-experiment rape. If a “gay” “man” has sex with a “lesbian” “woman” and it’s consensual for both of them then they are both, by a descriptive measure of what acts have occurred, bisexual people, who have just engaged in heterosexual coitus.
That’s assuming that both of them have engaged in homosexual acts before of course. By the nature of this thought experiment, they both could be people who self-describe as such without actually having done it.
They are free to consider themselves whatever they want, because self-descriptions of people are always based more on aspirations and desires than facts. Lots of billionaires consider themselves good humanitarians, and lots of straight people have suppressed homosexual desires. People are complex, contradictory, and our language falls behind in accurately describing reality.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 20 hours ago:
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- Comment on 12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind 2 weeks ago:
The YouTube algorithm has been real weird lately. It suggested a video to me and I had no idea why until now. I watch a lot of Doom stuff, so it went off base, I just didn’t have context for it.
It’s Coincident (the streamer this is about) commenting over a “lost” demo of Okuplok playing the map themselves. Spoiler: they do not finish it! But it was neat hearing Coincident discuss his own strategies for the map in comparison to how the creator (allegedly) approached it.
I’ll have to watch the actual stream now I guess!
- Comment on Aussie Fauna 2 weeks ago:
🐍: Anything you share with me is strictly confidential! (Doctor-patient privilege)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I used to work in a computer lab, open plan, where we all had CRTs. I sat across from the main DB admin, who had TWO monitors for all the work he was doing (wild stuff to have dual CRTs back in those days.) Due to the layout, my monitor sat in-between his, facing the opposite way of course. I loved degaussing my monitor because:
- It would degauss both of his and
- The EM fields were so strong between them that my monitor’s image would flip entirely upside down before snapping back into frame while making just the craziest electronic noises, colors dancing all over the screen. Gorgeous stuff! I wonder if anyone has tried to recreate a degaussing effect using shaders to simulate the process?
- Comment on Aussie Fauna 3 weeks ago:
Well, I guess they aren’t a sea krait anymore, blabber mouth!
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, basically this. 9/11 fundamentally changed the American psyche and ushered in a massive ramp-up of the neoliberal system. Covid didn’t really change a whole lot of anything (the biggest problem with it in many ways) but did utterly and fully convince me that we’re doomed as a species.
Nothing has ever illuminated for me so clearly that an unmanageable number of people are too stupid, hateful, or whatever else to work together to overcome an existential crisis. A significant amount of people would rather feel correct and kill all of us than work out their issues. So if humanity is like 30-40% evil, and about 40-50% “neutral” (aka myopically self-interested but not actively violent or hateful), that leaves only 10% “goodness” at most. And I’m sorry but a group that’s only 10% good doesn’t deserve to go on running things.
- Comment on Gloomwood - The Research Update 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve been really impressed with Gloomwood but I am already tired of the fishery (level 1) and wish the EA would come with a jump-ahead feature. It’s looking to be a very good game on release, I’m quite excited for it.
- Comment on what is the truth 4 weeks ago:
It used to get recommended all over Stack Overflow, but I did really love reading Göedel Escher Bach. That book taught me to see math as a game or, equivalently, as purely exercises in shuffling symbols around, with intent.
That shift in outlook really unlocked the fun in math for me. I learned about category theory through Haskell shortly after, and got into number systems and the surreal numbers and quaternions after that. There’s so much neat math out there that the wall of calculus and linear alg really imposes right before all the good stuff.
- Comment on Enter the Dungeon 2 gets a reveal almost a decade on from the first one, looks like more of the same, but in 3D 5 weeks ago:
Managed to auto-typo the URL and the article title, how embarrassing.
- Comment on Caught Slacking 5 weeks ago:
Casualy sliding this out of my pocket like, no way bro, i always keep that thang on me!
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 5 weeks ago:
What if I told you that there are roughly 4 million steamdecks in existence. Ref
And that this is about 1\3 of the Steam Linux market. Ref and about half of the entire handheld PC market. Ref
Of course, we dont know how many MAU GOG has so maybe 4 million new customers is baby numbers, but Steam seems enamored enough of that market segment to commit huge new UI and store features (deck verification, “Runs on Deck” filters, other deck specific stuff) including the game controller mappings which do help with non-deck also but were clearly a necessary element for handhelds. Maybe deck users, it being a committed gaming platform, spend more on games?
Anyway, trying to get subscribers (always a teeny fraction of your free users) ahead of converting new non-customers into customers, seems like bad econ to me.
If GOG is so hot for game preservation why not see if they can score an emulation deal to bring lost handheld titles to PC\deck? Sega might be down, NeoGeo is owned by the Saudi’s, I’m sure they’d love some free money for their back catalog. That’s in line with Lutris’ mission of being the one game launcher for your entire library. A few strategic investments and partnerships could open up GOG as the gateway to classic gaming across devices, but that would require some vision to carry through.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m only still lurking there for the porn, and frankly, lemmynswf is getting better! Still not enough thirsty gooners to really support a diverse biosphere of onlyfans models, instasluts, and tiktok thots, but growing all the time. Also has the problem most of Lemmy does that like 4 posters are responsible for 95% of the content.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows 5 weeks ago:
Stock growth, not user growth. Valuations are all made up, and the oligarchs are orchestrating for tech stock values to plummet so they can go shopping for user data, cheap employees, and tech stacks. (In that order)
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
Props for #2 being a #2, but of these I usually go for 6. My personal favorite though is Pentel twist erase.
Though all the kuru toga enthusiasts here have convinced me to give them a try.
- Comment on Porn button might actually be runner-up to Esc. 1 month ago:
Folks seem awfully confident in their ability to encode other things with only a single letter, but who said you get spaces or other seperators?
I’ll take A, so I can express how i feel everyday now:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Comment on The Toxic Avenger (2025, dir Macon Blair) 1 month ago:
Wow! a toxie remake in this the year of our Elon 2025. And with peter fucking dinklage like I don’t even know how to feel about this one
- Comment on Tea time 1 month ago:
To paraphrase a common joke, it’s called the Fediverse because it’s full of feds.
- Comment on Low effort arguing 1 month ago:
This was probably a rare Babylonbee hit and OP was rightfully ashamed of the source.
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 2 months ago:
A friend posted this meme on Facebook and my thoughts immediately went to Ocarina of Time. Was Miyamoto also a jar collector? How many jar-obcessed children did this game create?!
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 2 months ago:
Well, I just found out that manatee mammaries are located in their armpits, so I think we’re going to need to pull up the drawing board on this one. Seems like mermaids need a total do over!
- Comment on horizontal boogie 2 months ago:
Are we truly conscious, or do we just learn to imitate a pale simulation of the mushroom’s true understanding of reality?
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 2 months ago:
Wow, unreal to think a 20 year old cheater ruined a whole category of runs! I feel like if the community can’t come close to replicating a run, they should just automatically be removed as sus. Imagine screaming about how obviously fake this run is for 20 years until someone finally proves it?
Also, tangent, I read the linked Diablo 4 review and i don’t think a review has ever so tightly captured my sentiments towards AAA games and movies. The idea that a thing can be polished, well made, basically without flaw, but still be deeply uninspiring. These media projects are spectacle and addiction but where’s the fun, the challenge, and the spark?
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
There’s a break-up song on Chvrch’s debuted album called Tether. One line, frequently repeated, goes “I’m feeling capable of… seeing the end.” A fine lyric, very breakup, much hopeful.
Except, I can’t tell when listening that she isn’t saying “I feel incapable of…” I don’t know if it’s intentional but I think the ambiguity really elevates the song from semi-empowering breakup song to powerfully-relatable song about the chaos of seeing a relationship end; simultaneously believing you can get through it while also having no idea how you’ll ever get through it.
It’s just fun wordplay too: feeling capable/feel incapable. Makes me want to use that structure more in my own writing.
- Comment on Animal Spirits 2 months ago:
Great reference, going to be stuck in my head all day.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
I got an RK recently and have been very happy with it. Multiple connection options (wired, usb, or 2.4ghz), nice white and green colors, switches and caps all feel very good for such a budget model. Only thing I dislike is they made it full size but inexplicably decided no one needs an “End” key anymore. Its an Fn-layer button (on Page Down?!), along with Pause, PrtSc, and ScrLk. Admittedly I never need those other keys but I use End failry often and it’s an odd choice, especially since they kept the numpad.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
If you liked SupCom and want to recapture the magic, do check out Zero-K! It’s free (like actually, no weird micro-transactions) and open source (though buried a bit on the site) It’s based on SpringRTS, which is great to see something cool being done with Spring!
- Comment on Have you ever gotten jerked around like this trying to get a job? 2 months ago:
There’s an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan’s Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.
You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm’s short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!
- Comment on Have you ever gotten jerked around like this trying to get a job? 2 months ago:
It was so bad job hunting a couple of years ago. Took me months and months. I even used AI to help me write cover letters after a while. No one was reading them so might as well have no one write them too.
Productively, I hate to say it, but I think we’ve actually circled back to Boomer job hunting advice being good. I got my current job by attending local industry meetups, meeting a recruiter, and they got me face-to-face at a company which immediately hired me.
At this point, I’d just go for the most unhinged approach. Put on a suit, show up where you want to work, walk in and demand to meet the ceo or something. Tell him you’re not here to waste time with “process”, you’re here to make some real money. If you aren’t a white man, make friends with one and have them do this, then bait-and-switch the hire. Act like you’ve always been a queer black woman, it must be their mistake.
The time for asking to be hired is over. We’re just taking the jobs now!
