Malgas

@Malgas@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the film winds up coming off as campy or even outright silly as the weirdness cranks up. The manga is still incredibly weird, but manages to hold the creepy tone better. Probably mostly due to what you can get away with in drawings vs live action; the screen adaptation probably would have been better as anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… in some vampire myths you can distract a vampire by scattering a bag of grain or similar in front of them because they are compelled to stop and count it. (And yes, that is why Sesame Street’s Count von Count is like that.)

  So maybe it’s only crosses that are almost, but not exactly perpendicular that cause them pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I propose “orphanware” for that subset of abandonware that has no clear owner.

  Consistent with the broader term “orphan work”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the Waterworld strat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, 独語, and 仏語 are perfectly cromulent, albeit less common than the katakana versions. And 米語 likewise exists, referring specifically to American English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it does, and it’s written the same in Chinese. I guess if 中国 is technically considered a loanword, then 中国語 is consistent with ドイツ語 and フランス語.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because “England” has a Japanese style adjective-country formation (英国), which then follows the native pattern for language (英語). By contrast, “Germany” (ドイツ) and “France” (フランス) are borrowed phonetically.

  To your complaint about “Japan-language”, note that Japan’s official name is 日本国.

  What I can’t explain is why 国 comes along for the ride when it’s China. (中国語)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

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

  Also Citizen Sleeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantic Dream’s first multiplayer game is Spellcasters Chronicles, a 3v3 strategy action game | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine you could do something entertaining with that premise, in a Typing of the Dead sort of way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The blunt angles and steel doors look futuristic, for sure

  Do they, though? It’s always looked to me like something from the background of a PS1 game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably asymptotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a decent enough illustration of the sort of thing that can happen when you translate an idiom literally. To be truly accurate that panel would have to be in a language other than English, but then it would be useless to anyone who doesn’t also understand that second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y = -x²⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clockwise, from “making”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So we’re just going to ignore that he has time-traveled on multiple occasions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Thag Simmons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything changed when the Structural Engineering Nation attacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s some dialect where it’s used that way?

  Like how “scheme” strongly connotes nefariousness in American English, but I’ve heard Brits use it non-pejoritively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your experiences using Linux for gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on NixOS for a little over a year, and have been absolutely delighted at how well gaming works now. I initially thought I would dual boot until Windows 10 EoL, but have had no reason to use Windows in that time and a couple months ago I converted my storage disk from ntfs to ext4.

  Steam is nearly seamless; there have been one or two titles where I’ve had to switch the Proton version to experimental or GE, but nothing more than that. Heroic and Lutris have been similarly easy for non-Steam games. There has been nothing that I have tried to play that hasn’t worked, but I don’t play multiplayer games so YMMV there.

  That said, this is not my first rodeo with Linux. I used it extensively in the late '00s and early '10s, which probably helped to sand some of the rough edges off of my recent experience. Though back then wine was not really suitable for gaming. I also have an AMD GPU, which I understand has an easier setup process than Nvidia. (I literally haven’t had to think about graphics drivers at all.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick thinking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a “cute AF” joke in here somewhere, but I can’t quite put it together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what they say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Light a man afire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XKCD/3111 Artificial Gravity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alt text: Low gravity can cause bone loss. So we’re pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

  —Upton Sinclair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another reason to love Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why nix exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New prank!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the blinding stew is for children, while this doesn’t work on anyone under 35.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blurble⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagining 2 or more temporal dimensions

  This one’s actually kind of easy. The plot of Back to the Future (and every other time travel story where changing the past is possible) doesn’t work unless there’s more than one timelike dimension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ach aye, Scottish words for plants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TRON Legacy is the best Daft Punk music video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unholy curses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But also it’s a magical curse from Molag Bal.

  Though the metaphysics of TES are weird enough that it’s not really safe to assume anything has the same underlying cause as it would in the real world (e.g. sunlight comes from another dimension through a tear in space). So maybe all diseases are actually curses in the setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.

  The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.

  As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.