queerlilhayseed

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I regret to inform you all that I will not be purchasing the OoT remake.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see what you mean. I wonder when the last OoT remake will be. They just remade Nosferatu 100 years later. I could see it happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I regret to inform you all that I will not be purchasing the OoT remake.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think video game remakes will be a thing long after millenials are gone, just like movie remakes. And I bet most of them will be disappointing, with the occasional faithful or even surpassing remake, just like with movies.

  It would be cool to chart the distance in time between the original video game and all remakes. It’d be cool to see which games get evergreen remakes, and which go through unpopular periods before a renaissance. People will always remake the classics, but I bet most remakes will go in a cyclic fashion of cashing in on middle-aged nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ❤️ none taken, all is well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not my experience at all. My mind is a kaleidoscopic minefield and out there in the world, there are small refuges where I can find help, or at least rest, where I can gain perspective on my own mind and help make sense of it. Books, friends, quiet places in the woods and fields, cups of tea, benches near murals.

  If your mind is a safe place I am happy for you. Mine is constantly trying to kill me, and the world and the people in it have helped me stop it, at great effort on both our parts. Those safe places are there because they help people like me live. Which is a pretty cool thing for the world to do, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Second thought: if someone tells you something is triggering, please take them at their word, even if you privately think they’re being childish or dramatic or whatever. PTSD triggers suck and while there are common patterns, they can often be highly individualistic. If you find someone’s (or some group’s) interaction preferences over-burdensome, just don’t interact with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between "comfortable space" and a "safespace"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The definition of spaces as “safe” or “comfortable” is subjective, there may be some who use the terms synonymously but I don’t. There are safe spaces for drug addicts to discuss their experiences of addiction with each other; these spaces frequently deal with extremely uncomfortable topics. They are “safe” in that there are a few precepts that must be agreed upon in order to enter into the conversation, e.g. “There are no leaders; we are all peers” or “No drug addict is unworthy of help” or “Programs or methodologies that demand exclusivity are vulnerable to cultism and their promotion is not permitted here” etc. The idea is to make certain baseline topics axiomatic so the group can focus their conversations more productively than endlessly rehashing the same topic over and over again, which can exhaust and overwhelm members, to the detriment of all. That definition of safety is created by the community and agreed to by its members, and every safe space is free to define safety differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the first time I saw that image. The dazzling scope of it. The feeling that Carl Sagan described about the Pale Blue Dot photograph is the closest thing I’ve seen to describing the incredible sense of smallness the Deep Field image gives me. I still get a shadow of it, especially with the JWST images, but that was the first time I really felt how huge the universe is. It’s… words fail me. It’s so big, and there’s so much stuff in it. It boggles the mind.

  I can’t fucking wait for the Roman data to start rolling in. We’re going to find so many cool things we’ve never seen before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s an automatic “bad writing” if a character does something that a human might do, even if it’s a monumentally stupid thing to do. Humans are just like that sometimes. Sometimes it adds to a story, sometimes its incidental to an otherwise fine story, sometimes it’s a lazy device to help a writer deliver pages on a deadline. Whether it’s bad writing is contextual.

  Re: your relatedly: I highly recommend bad art. We’re appallingly bad at classifying art as “good” and “bad” to begin with, and even when we have an agreed-upon standard, most art is a mix of the two. I have found that not taking other people’s opinions on art at face value has led me to some very enjoyable art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How the same art affects different people is an ongoing fascination of mine. I grew up using books to take my mind off of life, and I read voraciously. No one around me really had a high opinion of “art”, and I didn’t even really think of the books I read as art, at least not until I was an adult. As I get older I see more of the impact that art has had on my thinking and life, though it’s still very much an ongoing project. Comparing my own experience of art to others’ is why I love art criticism, especially “bad” earnest criticism. Even bad faith “criticism” is kind of interesting, in that it says something about the selfish worldview of the author, but I have limited stomach for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of narrative stories (fiction and non) are in the format “person in situation X makes decision Y and experiences consequences Z” with the moral being “if you are in a situation like X, doing Y will have Z consequences” ("moral” in the sense of being a generalizable life lesson). I think they’re an important part of how we discuss life experiences as a community, both extraordinary and mundane. And it is a lot easier to learn from stories than to experience consequences in real life. The problem is that storytellers are all humans and sometimes bad at storytelling, so care must be taken when learning from stories, and they all have to be validated against real life experience.

  And then before you know it, you’ve become an art critic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We would probably have a much higher (and more incorrect) opinion of ourselves. We’re all fools, and recognizing our own foolishness reflected in art doesn’t make it not so. Just makes it easier to think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People do that all the time though, often to disastrous effect. Once it stops happening IRL we’ll stop making art about it*.

  * while it does happen all the time IRL, I think some writers use it as a shortcut to get to the plot they want to pursue without going through the character development that establishes why a character might act this way. That is lazy and annoying writing, but it doesn’t invalidate the whole trope. People really are like that. Clear communication is hard work and a lot of people just don’t do it a lot of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Concord DoA upon launch?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a while ago, they changed the butt on one of the characters and it was an active controversy in gaming social media for a time.

  It was the orange one and it was a pose change, apparently, not a model change, and it was over a decade ago 😕

  Why do I remember this and not the countless things I have forgotten since then? IDK. People have strong feelings about butts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is fairly old. I think the first time I heard it was the latter part of the Bush era? Someone told me secondhand about how having a Canadian flag on the backpack makes some airports friendlier. that’s also around when I started traveling internationally for work so it could have been around even earlier than that. I never knew any Americans who actually did it. I did work with a lot of Southerners and we all had distinctively American accents, so I don’t think we could have pulled it off. Maybe a Minnesotan could pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry about it haha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve thought about it a lot, more frequently in the Trump era. Cascadia sounds very nice, I think I’d like it there. I’ve never really had the money to move easily, so it’s kind of theoretical, but if things got worse I think I could find a way to get out. But if I could, as things stand today, I don’t think I would. I’m not that badly off, relatively, I have a lot of friends and some family here that I don’t want to leave in the lurch, and this is my home, dang it, I’m not going to let the bastards continue to wreck the place and exploit the people I love just because I managed to scrape together enough to flee. I have no harsh judgement for people who do; a lot of people don’t have safe families or stable housing here, and I don’t blame them for going elsewhere to find them. Humans need those things. I have the privilege of being able to stay and fight, so that’s what I aim to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a dizzying intellect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I deeply resent how much of my brain is occupied with sidestepping sneaky bullshit like this. It’s gotten to the point where I generally don’t use a website if I can’t use it without going through their permissions labrynth. I only put up with going through this one because I was researching turtles and there’s a paper cited on Wikipedia I just cannot find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry about it haha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sucks. I worked in our family business when I was pretty young, as did all my brothers. It wasn’t grueling labor or anything like that, it’s more like they would just have to have me around while they were working to keep an eye on me, and would give me tasks if for no other reason than to keep me from getting underfoot / in trouble. As I got older I got more complicated tasks, and that evolved pretty seamlessly to me being a regular unpaid employee, until I was able to get a job elsewhere and get paid, which I did as soon as I was able. I still did some extra-curricular stuff, but if I didn’t have practice or something I would be expected to be at the store, doing either homework or store work.

  I also have a hard time making friends outside of work. Probably unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bank want CCTV, but I didn't steal my own card so...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is why they exist, but you can sometimes get them to cooperate via a war of attrition. Basically, make yourself enough of a nuisance that helping you becomes easier than ignoring you. Don’t start out belligerent, it helps to begin with the imagined assumption that the cops are there to help you, and you are merely there to politely request that help. Eventually they’ll either help, or try to get rid of you. keep calling for followups. If you get a brushoff, ask for a supervisor. repeat as needed.

  I haven’t had many run-ins with the law, but I have used this tactic with my local PD, to (eventually) good effect, at least once. It’s exhausting, and it can take a while, but it can work.

  In the US, I’m pretty sure this strategy works much better if you’re white, otherwise YMMV.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an overarching storyline with some timey-wimey bits that I read at one point and have since forgotten. I haven’t played all of them so maybe there are continuity assumptions elsewhere but both of the n64 titles can be played without knowing anything else about the series. MM complements OoT, but even then they don’t have to be played in order to be appreciated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So are they like extinct or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every square you ever met is a rhombus that gave up its art career and got a boring 9-5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think so, I think Ocarina of Time earns its high esteem, and Ship of Harkinian irons out a lot of the QoL issues that make the original annoying, like being able to toggle boots without going into the menu.

  After you finish OoT I’d recommend running Majora’s Mask via 2 Ship 2 Harkinian as well. It’s less popular than OoT but every bit as good, I think. I can’t pick just one, but if I had to pick a “#1 favorite video game of all time”, Majora’s Mask would be a finalist. It’s really good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  downvotes are whatever you think they are for

  agreed. they are subjective by design, occasionally accompanied by objective constraints like community rules” that attempt to guide how members deploy their downvotes. Sometimes rules work, sometimes they don’t.

  which is why it’s totally random

  disagree. They’re noisy, and hard to interpret, but they aren’t random. Something motivates a person (or bot, for that matter) to click the button when they could just as easily not.

  and shouldn’t be taken serious

  disagree here too, though this one is more a question of taste. I am so curious about what makes people act the way they do on the internet. Especially the meanies; the behavior of jerks on the internet is so puzzling to me, but I don’t think it’s impossible to understand better. Part of understanding it better is treating it as a subject worthy of serious inquiry, whether or not it deserves it.

  there is no definite rule on them in an open global platform

  agreed again, which is part of what makes them so tough to generalize about. There are definitely common patterns though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think that all of those (generic disagreement, ideological disagreement, political disagreement, and retaliation) are reasons why someone might deploy the shame button, separate from the action itself. Plenty of people on the internet disagree all the time without using the downvote button too, so they must be separate even though there is overlap between them. One of the reasons I don’t like downvotes as a mechanic is that the reasoning behind the action is almost always obscure, if not unknowable. They’re very vague indicators, which incidentally is also true of most IRL shaming techniques. Shame is usually deployed when someone “should already know better” and usually does not accompany an explanation, unless the shamer is feeling instructive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Downvotes are a digital shame button. They are community signals for what members consider inappropriate for the community. Like a lot of other shaming techniques, they are usually frustratingly lacking in nuance, prone to pile-ons, and are as often deployed in bad faith as good. Maybe more; I’m not sure how to measure or even define “good faith” and “bad faith”. I have a gut feeling for it, but my gut is sometimes wrong.

  Getting a lot of downvotes is the social media equivalent of your community telling you “your behavior is unacceptable, be better, or at least different, or shut up”. That’s a difficult thing to hear from a community; some people handle it more gracefully than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I slander Java too lmao. I'm sure Java devs have the last laugh when their paychecks come in, tho⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .war huh? Yeah! What is it good for?

  Cutting quarterly expenditures by delaying expensive infrastructure migrations that would save money in the long run!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Italian is more fun. Incidental: Italian with Gramma by Mark Twain has always stuck with me. I think it’s a pretty good read.

  I also frequently mix up my Spanish and Italian.

  As for the LGBTQ-ness of it, I think they’re both fine choices. If I know anything as an American, it’s that France and Italy are two of the gayest countries in Europe, the gayest continent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic rock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor lil guy ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I won’t deny that that site is 100% propaganda, I was just checking that they were still around. I don’t know how evidence that a poor person couldn’t go to a magnet school would be validated, but that doesn’t comport with my limited experience. I have been aware of children being at magnet schools whose parents didn’t strike me as particularly wealthy or influential. Mostly fringey-artsy types whose kids wanted to go to the artsy school, or perhaps whose parents wanted that. We weren’t close enough friends that if they’d been secretly wealthy I’d have known about it, necessarily, but they really don’t strike me as the type to be able to arrange a backdoor deal to get their kid into a magnet school.

  IDRK, but my observations lead me to believe that it’s more similar to what elite colleges do, i.e. bring in enough rich kids to keep the gravy train running but also just enough poor kids to prove their equality bona fides, rather than being 100% a paper mill.