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- Comment on 1 day ago:
“fighting the medium” is an excellent phrase! Never played Firewatch, though I have made some stumbling attempts at creative writing, and it’s made me realize that certain things are very difficult to convey organically in words. How do you get across to a first time reader that an alien isn’t actually shrugging or winking or pointing with an index finger, but expressing the same thing through non human body language? And then how do you do it over and over and over again, because when posting stories to a forum you have to assume this is everyone’s first time reading.
In a visual medium like a webcomic, it’s super simple to convey it through a combo of dialogue and visuals. Even the nature of the story itself has to fit the medium. With a comic, people expect short self-contained scenes or character interactions that may or may not connect to form a story arc. This is what I like to write about, little snippets that serve to build the world, just a few lines of dialogue or a paragraph describing a scene, but that’s not what people expect from prose. They want meatier stuff.
Makes me wonder what would be impossible to express altogether in one medium vs another.
- Submitted 1 day ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 days ago:
I’m only on the periphery of the fandom, mostly just watch lore videos and play a few video games. The AdMech is my favorite faction. As for how real the machine cult is, it seems to depend heavily on the writer. My personal head canon is that the machine god is an actual warp entity like Isha and the other Eldar gods before Saanesh nommed them. If emotions and beliefs manifest as warp entities, then the Omnissiah should be one regardless of how the AdMech came to believe in it.
- Comment on How to find the standard term for a concept/idea? 1 week ago:
Ask a human.
“What’s the scientific term for when a word is on the tip of your tongue?”
“It’s literally just TOT (tip of the tongue)”
I initially thought your question would be about translating technical terms between languages. If it’s an extremely technical term that’s unlikely to be in a dictionary I look up the Wikipedia article in English and then see if there’s a corresponding article in the target language (usually Spanish in my case). The above phenomenon is PDL (punto de la lengua) in Spanish.
- Comment on Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter? 1 week ago:
Do you have any tabular data editors to recommend?
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 13 comments
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
And locally if you join a club. If there aren’t enough hams for a club there may be at least one you could seek out as an Elmer.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Hobbies. I got into ham radio for this very reason. It’s also adjacent to my job (IT), and it’s one of the quintessential “hobby hobbies” like stamp collecting and model trains.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 weeks ago:
When I think of vanity plates I think of the guy who registered his as “NULL” in the hopes that he could avoid traffic tickets by looking like a database error. But he ended up showing up every time anyone’s plate number was missing, so it showed him as having thousands of traffic violations.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 weeks ago:
That was the first thing that came to my mind, I saw all sorts of interesting stuff on our summer family trips.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 2 weeks ago:
Is that sort of thing relevant? I take the bus all the time and have never felt in danger (except for one time when the driver went off on another bus driver, but I just noped off the bus before it could escalate). Yes there are interesting characters, but if public transit were more common perhaps the crazies would become less predominant.
Around here there is a whole police department dedicated to monitoring public transit.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 114 comments
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 2 weeks ago:
Vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 2 weeks ago:
Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 2 weeks ago:
…like an insect molting? O_o
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 weeks ago:
Update 2
This was for a chili cook off my family holds every year. I won.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 4 weeks ago:
Check out !selfhosted@lemmy.world for ideas. You could put Docker on it and use it for more than one thing.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 weeks ago:
Update: It turns out I had more time than I thought to make the chili. Since everyone had a viscerally negative reaction to my use of bloody mary mix, I swapped it out, though I’m not sure my substitution will fare any better, namely V8 juice and tomato paste.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that would boil away without contributing much flavor.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 weeks ago:
I smite thee in thy countenance from across the internetwork.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 4 weeks ago:
te golpeo a través de internet!
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 81 comments
- Comment on How would you spell the sound Transformers make when they transform? 1 month ago:
The Transformers wiki is perfect.
As perfect as the Homestar Runner Wiki (possible RIP)?
- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 2 months ago:
Civ games seem to have acquired a reputation for being underbaked at launch, at least I hear that from others. I only got into the game with Civ V and that a fair bit after it came out. Seems like people are holding up the vanilla new release to its predecessor with all expansions.
But yes it’s a bummer there’s no local multiplayer yet.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Are there any art programs designed specifically for mouse users? 2 months ago:
Or do you just want tools you can adjust and won’t have to be precise with and fiddle with to infinity to get the shapes you want?
That’s kind of what I’m thinking of.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 12 comments
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 months ago:
This is the Achilles heel of the fediverse, or indeed of any non corporate platform. It’s more often than not run by passionate volunteers, but passion will only get you so far and it doesn’t always last forever.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 2 months ago:
Honestly I can relate.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 34 comments