Infynis
@Infynis@midwest.social
- Comment on If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it? 3 hours ago:
Have you done Eureka? If you love Eureka, you’ll be fine. Otherwise, id recommend playing it separately on its owb
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 3 hours ago:
I think it’s a really old Microsoft/Skype one
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 1 week ago:
The way they see it, their best interests don’t involve those of the game studio. Buying a studio does two things. It gives them a new business to latch onto and suck all the money out of quickly, and it eliminates competition in the gaming industry. Killing the studio still meets both of those goals. And then they just move onto the next one.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Sokath! His eyes uncovered!
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Memes don’t end at the image though. And by now, lots of memes are more than just images. If I say I’m going to “yeet” something, most people (below a certain age) know what that means. They don’t all become language, but the better, more popular ones do. It’s the same way we get all our words, really. I don’t know where the term “blue blooded” comes from, but I can still use it. In the same way, I don’t know where “down bad” came from, but I still know I’m down bad for etymology, and the study of evolutionary linguistics. It’s all fascinating.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
The repetition is what allows them to become language, though. Every meme that enters popular culture is essentially a metaphor, and, by being repeated over and over, and only changed slightly, the meaning is taught to the audience, and it evolves into an idiom.
There can be problems with description, precision, and audience knowledge, but that is true of any word or phrase. The difference is just the rapidity at which these new idioms are entering our language. As long as the author is competent, and ensures that there is enough context and relevance in the work, as is already a requirement of proper writing, restricting the use of meme language is unnecessary
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
That certainly could happen. It doesn’t seem very likely though, especially since so many different cultures already have their own versions of English, and the main two rarely agree on anything.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
My fiancée and I were talking about this the other day, and the conclusion we reached was that our language, as it always has, is evolving, and these new phrases are just as valid as anything anyone has said before. People don’t want to accept it, because they think of Internet memes as silly, and that’s where a lot of this language comes from (there’s also racism involved, because, of course there is), but it’s too late. That’s what English is now. Sucks to suck, fam.
- Comment on Don’t upvote this 2 weeks ago:
Any instance that’s been defederated is the control
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably a hand hole for accessing a pipe or cable junction, likely smaller because it’s where business or homes hook in. I work for an ISP, and most of ours are about this size
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
I like that it forgot it was putting them in alphabetical order halfway through the second line. Also, Foob and Fooby are definitely twins, and I would love to meet their parents
- Comment on Anon starts a Youtube 4 weeks ago:
It always has
- Comment on Cheesing it up 5 weeks ago:
They should let people in. Sell the cheese like apples at a pick your own apple orchard
- Comment on Could be 8 dicks if you had the dudes tip to tip 5 weeks ago:
I think 8 is the maximum though. Even with two more arms, I don’t think you could comfortably fit four more dudes in an arc in front of you with a radius of the length of your arm. Since, presumably, you can’t reach straight behind you
- Comment on Anon learns about nuts 5 weeks ago:
How did we do an entire module on George Washington Carver in first grade, and they never told me peanuts grow in the ground like potatoes
- Comment on to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why? 5 weeks ago:
I’d be interested in the backgrounds of the people answering this question too. I come from a poor family, and spent the first few years of my working life doing manual labor, and this attitude absolutely baffled me. I have a work from home desk job in tech now, where I routinely have hours of downtime, and I’ve been loving it. This is the best my mental health has ever been. I’m getting time to read my miles long backlog of books, and develop skills I wouldn’t have time for otherwise. I don’t reach the end of the day exhausted to the point where all I have to look forward to is sleep, and then doing it all again, like I used to. I have an under-desk treadmill for exercise, and I’m eating healthier and saving money because I’m feet from my own kitchen, and I have the time to cook real meals while at work. I hope to continue increasing my salary, but I think I would be happy doing this same work for a very long time.
- Comment on i need a professional 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Seinfeld’s joke about operating theatres
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
Which was their goal
- Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. 1 month ago:
The ISP I work for provides residential gigabit fiber to Rochester, so I know it’s definitely not a problem of availability
- Comment on To be fair, that's more than two words 1 month ago:
We probably do that because English has a lot of German
- Comment on Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives | The Hollywood Reporter 1 month ago:
Black and White? I thought those were generally considered to be some of the best Pokemon games
- Comment on Lay them on me 1 month ago:
I would love for my hobbies to be more mainstream. More merch, more people to share the experience with, and presumably more content
- Comment on bogs 1 month ago:
Yes. Never become a big keeper if you’re afraid of spiders. When the bog is flooded, and you wade in, they’re looking for a place to go, and you’re it
- Comment on hell ya brother 2 months ago:
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Sets Filming Window & Episode Count 2 months ago:
‘…to build that optimistic future that is Roddenberry’s essential vision?’ That is very much going to be at the heart of Starfleet Academy.
I certainly hope so. Star Trek should be optimistic. The Federation is a utopia. We don’t need grungy pessimism. Every other sci-fi is already doing that.
- Comment on Social acceptability 2 months ago:
One of these things is not like the others
- Comment on Let's not give it ideas, ok? 2 months ago:
ACAB, get him
- Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? 2 months ago:
It’s been getting worse for a while, just like anything sold by a large corporation, but I have noticed it getting especially bad in the last year or so. Even Google Maps is getting less accurate. I never used to have a problem with it, but now it can’t figure out what road I’m on usually a couple times per trip
- Comment on Mood. 2 months ago:
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
- Comment on My phone's dictionary thinks the word "expanse" only exists as a show title 4 months ago:
Mine constantly pulls the bait and switch when I try to type “definitely”. On the third letter, it will momentarily recommend “definitely”, but after an instant, say, long enough to decide to tap the suggestion, it switches it to “Def”, and because I tapped the suggestion, I have to go back and delete the whole word and start over