SaraTonin

@SaraTonin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just quote what you said:

  If it were brought up as a suggestion that didn’t happen, that would be even weirder than it actually happening. As a writer, you don’t go around finding reasons to block your character’s ideas, because that’s a horribly anti-climactic thing to do, teasing your readers for no purpose, but worst of all, you don’t get to see how the action pans out if it does happen, which is the primary thing that makes fiction interesting to begin with.

  My characterisation of what you said is s lot closer to reality than yours is. Perhaps that’s not what you intended to say, but it is what you did say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a major plot point in the book. The fact that you skipped over it doesn’t mean that it isn’t.

  And to claim that the main thing that makes fiction interesting is every character’s expressed desires being istantly granted is a wild position to take. In this particular instance there are any number of ways you can make a child sexual abuse survivor expressing herself in an unhealthy way into a meaningful, cathartic moment without her go through with what her initial instincts suggest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People always praise his characters, but they always come across as flat caricatures to me. And he seems to have maybe 10 of them that he just repeats over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Clive Barker says that the story is him working out his feelings about discovering he’s gay, and his experiences at BDSM nightclubs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, trust me, I’ve had the “right, I need you to do x for the plot”, “well, I wouldn’t do that so I’m not going to” conversation with characters I’m writing.

  But, let’s give King the benefit of the doubt and say that that’s how and why he came up with the idea…that’s a reason to have Beverly suggest it. Not a reason to have it actually happen.

  Also, if “relating to people sexually” was a consistent character trait of hers, I don’t remember it actually coming up in the novel before that point. It’s been a long time since I read it and maybe she does proposition people often and inappropriately, but I remember thinking that the orgy came somewhat out of the blue, and I’d have thought that if it was the natural conclusion of a theme woven carefully through the narrative more people would bring that up as a defence whenever this topic comes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to Steam page. Scroll to bottom. Filter out negative reviews. Read 5-10. Update filers to only show negative reviews. Read 5-10.

  That’s never let me down when it comes to determining whether or not a game is one I’ll enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very well-made point which does make a very good case for her actions fitting with her backstory.

  However, a) it really only works as a post-hoc rationalisation for the scene, rather than an explantation for why the book is better with it, and b) speaking about consistency and foreplanning is somewhat undermined by the climax of the book being “…actually, it’s a…giant alien spider!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never missed anything important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a relatively large mammal. Your body is not designed to be productive all the time. It’s designed to have frequent periods of doing absolutely nothing. You’re also a pack animal whose survival depends on being social with other members of your pack.

  So, wasting productive time by conversing nonsense? That’s how we evolved. It’s good for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upload Me Into The AI God Hivemind⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, let’s say that it is a utopia and you somehow get in. Congratulations, you now have to spend an eternity with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Either that’s paid, or my browser’s being funny and not letting me download it. I found what appears to be a breakdown of those stats here: streamlabs.com/…/streamlabs-and-stream-hatchet-q4…

  The numbers match up to your claim, give or take. You’ll notice, however that that’s only talking about gaming streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Acknowledging it was assault is not the same thing as not blaming the victim. People who say “she deserved to get raped” are acknowledging that a victim was raped.

  I’ve not looked into Amouranth. This thread is about Emiru. Who is not culpable - in any way - for her assault. This is not something “backfiring” on her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where you’ve got those figures from, but according to this source, youTube has over 50% of the live streaming market, as measured in watch-hours. Then it’s TikTok, and then twitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’ve just done here is called “victim-blaming”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's over⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend it anyway. It’s always fun to play with someone else’s ideas. You end up writing stuff you otherwise wouldn’t. And there’s something to be said for “I’ve got x amount of time to finish this” due to external factors. Just don’t pay attention to the competition aspect and you’ll almost certainly find it rewarding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it’s October, 3 recent horrors which are all great in different ways:

  Sinners, Heretic, and Companion.

  Try to go in to the latter with as little knowledge as possible. Like, try to avoid looking at the poster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks it's over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I once did a remix competition. Not to win, just to have fun playing with samples and the discipline of having a time limit. I knew going in that what I was going to do had 0 chance of getting anywhere near the top.

  The winning three entries were judged by the website, the artist, and 3 executives from the record label. And the winning 3 entries were all exactly the same.

  They were all the same style of EDM (bear in mind, this was a poppy guitar song being remixed, so there was no particular driving factor towards that direction), they had similar bass lines & synth parts - both in terms of the riffs themselves and in terms of the sounds used. They all sped up and pitched up the vocal and chopped it in a very similar way. And they all had the exact same structure. You could literally play all three simultaneously (after timestretching by a couple of BPM to make them the same tempo) and the intro would be the same number of bars, the beat would come in at the same time, the vocals would come in at the same time, the dropdown would come in at the same time, the build-up would come in at the same time and lasted the same number of bars, they had the same bar of silence after the build-up, and then the drop did very similar things with the bass and all three went into half-time simultaneously.

  There were hundreds of entries, and really what you had to do was make something that sounded like everything else. It was depressing, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also “LGB drop the T”. Once all the trans people are in camps, who do you think they’re coming for next, LGBs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say remote working less productive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that. Employers think you’re “getting away” with…something…if you can manage to be productive while having something which advantages you.

  For one example, several firms - including Microsoft - have conducted experiments where they move an office to a 4 day, 32 hour week while paying people the same. They unfailingly found that productivity either stayed the same or went up. So, at the end of the experiment they…went back to a 5 day week. Because otherwise people are just getting an extra day off, aren’t they? When they “should” be working.

  Even if productivity went up and it was better for the company and for the workers, it was still ultimately seen as a bad thing because the workers were better off.

  Another example: at a previous job I had we got an hour’s break over the course of the day. 15 minutes 2 hours after start, 30 minutes 4 hours after start, and another 15 minutes 6 hours after start. On a Friday, however, the workday was 7 hours rather than 8. This meant that an hour before leaving people would have a 15 minute break, and then it wasn’t worth actually starting anything because before you’d have a chance to get into it you’d be getting ready to go home. So the workers went to management and said “let’s work through the last break on a Friday and go home 15 minutes early instead”. Management agreed, productivity went up, and everybody was happy at getting off an extra 15 minutes early.

  Then the old upper manager was fired and a new one took their place, and this arrangement was deemed to be “getting away with it”. Taking a final break & going home later was mandated. Suddenly none of the management who had agreed it had anything to do with the initial decision and they’d always thought it was a bad idea.

  So the workers were unhappy because they had a longer workday, less work got done because everybody was unproductive after break, and the company was getting less value for money becuse they were paying people the same amount for less work. But they thought it was a better situation because people were physically in the building for an extra 15 minutes, and therefore not “getting away with it”.

  There’s very often a mindset in management that employees are naughty children, and that strict rules must be good just because they’re rules, rather than because they actually lead to better outcomes for the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably haven’t. Spiders can trap air with the hair on their skin and can survive a trip down the drain. They’ll probably climb back up again once it’s dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. I don’t like having spiders in the house. Know what i like having in the house less? Flies. So the spiders stay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a movie critic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they’ve been right about that their entire lives.

  They’re called Boomers beause they’re the largest generation. Being the largest generation means that you’re the generation with the most purchasing power, the most cultural cache, and the most voting power. Corporations, the media, and political parties have spent the past 50-60 years making the Boomers the foundation of their strategy.

  The whole of mainstream society has been telling the Boomers for their entire lives that they’re the most important people in society.nIt’s only now that they’re dying off in a significant way that this strategy is starting to fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a movie critic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, but everything is copied from everything else. Star Wars was written to the template of the Hero’s Story myth as outlined by Joseph Campbell, and the plot and several characters are taken from Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. This is not conjecture, Lucas has openly said this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasagnaius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Un-Named-Tomato-Y-Thing-With-Mince-Pasta-And-Pesto-ius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget what it’s called, but there’s a measure of what people need to live. But it includes a likely more than bare necessities. So included, for example, is having one 5-day holiday in the UK and going out to a restaurant once every 3 months. Not exactly extravagant, but accounting for one or two things that make life worth living beyond the way that these kinds of things often just count you as okay if you’re not actively starving.

  This year, in order to maintain that lifestyle as a single person with no kids, the average person would need to be earning £35,000 a year. That’s higher than the median income. Minimum wage is less than £20,000.

  Couple that with public services all having gone to shit and it’s no wonder people feel like they do.

  Want to stop Farage, Keir? Make people feel like they can afford a decent quality of life. Rather than trying to out-bastard him on immigrants and trans people. Make people feel like they’re doing okay and the hatred against those groups will mostly disappear all by itself and Farage will have no power. But if people feel insecure, that’s when the door is open for finger-pointing and cries of “it’s THEM who are taking your money”, which is the only trick Farage has got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the PPE is for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it denoted by a smiley face, rather than „Ah“?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is only half greentext, though amusing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they give the game away by listing being neurodivergent as a negative. A negative which is in and of itself “rude”.

  “Your brain processes information differently to mine? That’s rude! Why would you deliberately annoy me like that?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was brought in as a contractor for a week at a private school once here in the UK. The food was okay but on the nicer/posher end of „nothing special“. But what did strike me was that between two periods one of the girls felt peckish so just wandered in to the kitchen and made herself cheese on toast. Nobody treated that like it was anything unusual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beans 🫘⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why you‘ll see/hear the verb „unalive“ and have people refer to „seggs“.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The channel‘s called Some More News

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Stanford Prison Experiment was a sham.

  The broader point, though, is that the scenario of The Lord of the Flies has actually happened. We’ve had a small group of kids trapped on an island for an extended period of time and what happened is that they built a peaceful and harmonious society, which included spending time and resources caring for one of their number who broke their leg.