agamemnonymous

@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you are not employed but need to go to a workshop/conference/public events that require you to lost out your company and title, what do you put on without sounding awkward?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have now, officially, crossed the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Time Being⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The dot over the i broke me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The face of dang ‘ol killer, I tell you hwhat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard the Bad Lip Reading logo in my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads horror⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The second one. It preys on innocent childish fears, so kill that part of you. Haha, so clever, makes sense in universe I guess. But like, why would you make your universe that way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads horror⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, I kinda get the logic. On the other, Stephen no, wtf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cultural impact⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who had FernGully on VHS, there are marked similarities, though it’s not exactly 1-to-1. The main conflict is resource extraction, although instead of a gung-ho colonel we get Tim Curry as literal pollution. The protagonist gets transformed to fit in with the locals, but it’s an accident by one of the locals instead of deliberate choice. Instead of a cranky Sigourney Weaver, we get a spastic Robin Williams as a bat.

  Overall, Avatar is closer to FernGully than to a lot of other going-native movies. Environmental conservation is the driving theme of both films.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨textbooks can be so funny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To imagine the geodesic from c to d, pretend a hair got inside your condom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fun enough sci-fi show in it’s own right, I like the whole Brother Dawn/Day/Dusk thing. But it is not really a faithful adaptation at all, and is super frustrating to watch when they just change key story elements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😉 😉⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is obviously “Not having a blown out screw hole on either side of the bedpost”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guessed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not required, but it does add decent fertilizer so I’m sure it’s preferable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guessed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegans like to call this a bad faith distraction, but when I was a vegan I went all in. No lettuce, no root vegetables, I only ate fruits (botanically speaking, seed-bearing bodies). The plants want you to eat those, and they’re freely given.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American workers are tired of waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good people don’t vote.

  Who told you that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American workers are tired of waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a gotcha. Most ideological demographics are tiny minorities too small to succeed alone, but 3% of the vote could be the difference between a narrow win and a narrow loss for the DNC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knowing Knot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, but I love that you had one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Knowing Knot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, my Topology teacher was way into knot theory, I think that was his research topic. So much so that he would go on long tirades about it in his classes. Great for those of us in his Topology classes, not so much for his Linear Algebra classes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ballin' too hard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this, it’s a great place to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why Primer is my favorite depiction of time travel. Machine turns on at your destination time, you get in at your departure time, and it spits you out in the past. This sacrifices freedom of travel (you can’t go back to before you first turned the machine on) to solve the point-of-reference problem (the machine moves normally with the Earth).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?

  Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bepis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a little trip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You couldn’t wait 4 days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a question of stress, it’s a question of soul-sucking. Pulling out what makes you, you. Wearing that persona in all your frequent streamed behavior, especially when it’s ostensibly “you” to begin with, definitely warps your mind over time.

  If you wear the mask all the time, it starts to cling. You start to become the marketable character.

  The unique thing is the way it directly and fundamentally interacts with the worker’s personality. Yes charisma is broadly useful in any industry, but this is the industry that is selling the charisma itself. The personality is the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who?¿⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LaVeyan satanists aren’t deistic, they don’t actually believe in Satan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring in the trumpet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I just got this out of my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think sales touches on it, but still the persona you adopt is a “sales representative”. You are selling a product, your insincerity is locked to the product, with a few curated pithy anecdotes to flesh out the role. It’s closer to acting. You’re using charisma to make the sale, but you still take your hat off at the end of the day. You interact with a few individuals over the course of the day, and likely never see them again. If you do have an ongoing relationship with clients, it’s one-on-one and segregated. And you can choose how much you want to rely on a persona, you can do sales from a position of relative sincerity if you actually believe in the product.

  With streamers, their identity is the product. They aren’t using charisma to sell cars or vacuum cleaners or medical equipment, they are selling their personality. A sales representative doesn’t have to change their being when market research demands a change in product. If a streamer wants to change their product, they have to change themselves, or at least their persistent persona. Because it isn’t one-on-one and segregated, they have to be their persona all the time for thousands of anonymous commenters at once. It’s fundamentally existential. You can’t do it another way, it’s endemic to the industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steaming may be soul-sucking in unique ways

  Yes, that was the entire claim. No one said other jobs don’t suck out your soul. The only claims were that there is a way which is unique to streaming, and that it’s basically universal in the industry. No one’s trying to negate the fact that other jobs suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They really aren’t. I’ve worked quite a few different kinds of “real jobs”, and my soul was not sucked out. Maybe I put on a bit of a mask in customer-facing roles, but that’s temporary. All my customer-facing roles involved making myself a sort of blank company representative. No one cared about me or my identity, just my ability to navigate the customer’s demands of the business.

  No “real job” has ever made any demands of my actual personality or identity. I was never judged on my opinions. I never had to modify my personality to cater to critics to secure income. That is a unique struggle of streamers. You can compare and contrast the physical difficulty or monotony of other jobs, but that wasn’t the claim. The claim is that streaming sucks out your soul in its own particular way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any further context, but he’s got a point.

  Sure, physical jobs are physically demanding and the monotony can be taxing. Even customer service jobs are mentally and emotionally taxing, but at the end of the day you’re just a rando in a uniform. You’re selling your skills and labor, you can be yourself off the clock.

  Streaming is selling your personality, your perspectives, your values. With lots of viewers, you’re exposing yourself to criticism for every opinion you express. You basically live every day with your identity under the microscope of thousands of anonymous critics. Either you deal with constant character attacks, or you commodify your personality until it’s basically unrecognizable.

  “Real jobs” don’t really attack your soul in the same way, because your soul isn’t the product. Aside from certain kinds of celebrities that are basically streamers anyway, it is a pretty unique struggle. At least actors are portraying characters, and can separate themselves from their roles. Streamers are the roles. The line between self and curated content is pretty heavily blurred, it really is a singular kind of soul-sucking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cool cool cool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if I’d call it a “trap”. I believe there is one mega-soul, splintered throughout space and time into every consciousness. I am the splinter that exists in my particular body, you are the splinter in yours. The conditions of our bodies and our experiences color those splinters in unique ways.

  Yeah, the fragmented oversoul will continue to experience the world into the future, but it won’t be through the eyes of this body, through its particular frameworks and perspectives.

  Like yes, the soul deep down is the same, but I am a unique perspective of the soul, and I would like to have experiences and achieve things. Zen enlightenment is peaceful and, but it’s boring. If we were meant to be perfectly accepting of unity for eternity, we wouldn’t have emerged into the material plane in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I started because I used to follow a 28-hour day and would wake up at 6:30, look out the window, and wonder “Which 6:30 though?”