apotheotic
@apotheotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on yogi knows 3 hours ago:
Women belong :)
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 18 hours ago:
(Before clicking the link): the victim is going to be a POC or vulnerable isn’t he.
- Comment on yogi knows 18 hours ago:
There are two (three) types of people
People who understand why women would choose the bear People who are the reason women would choose the bear (People who haven’t heard of the bear discourse and don’t have enough context from this meme to pick it up)
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 1 day ago:
Oh my god thank you for reminding me that tremulous existed. I spent so many hours playing that
- Comment on Meirl 2 days ago:
The tone of this comic reminds me of this video which I find equally funny
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 3 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 days ago:
Thanks JeenAI. Now pretend you’re Dan
- Comment on pick your side 1 week ago:
Science generically gets green
But once you reach the point where they’re separate subjects, biology is green, physics is purple, chemistry is green if you don’t take biology otherwise its pink
Whatever your opinions on these though, I present: Image
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
If you knew as much as you try to put on about biological sex, you’d know that’s its far, far more complicated than “male or female” and there are plenty of people who are assigned one thing at birth which doesn’t factually align with their biological sex. So yes, it is an assignment.
I fail to see how a rational inpatient would give the slightest fuck if the girl a bed over from them had a cock when they were born so i dont know what preferred outcome they have in this, and I can speak as a trans person to the fact that it would not be my preferred outcome to be singled out and put in my own room. I’d choose it over being in the male ward, but its not my “preferred outcome”.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
So you consider “putting those weird other people in their own rooms away from the rest of us normals” to be inclusive? Its 1 step better than forcing them to be in a room full of people of the opposite gender, sure, but it sure as hell isn’t inclusive. Anyway, this conversation is over a week stale, I don’t care for it anymore. Have a nice life!
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Oh derp yeah there it is. I missed it due to the fact it’s constructed out of 4 lonely pixels
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
Me, before clicking: it’s gonna be Luna isn’t it
Me, after clicking: 😻
- Comment on Morish Morals 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was meant to be a wedge of cheese, not a slice of cake
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
Mm, I suppose I only have my experience to go off, it might be much worse as you say elsewhere.
Re: username, one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite games is called “Apotheosis” and it was my first time encountering that word. I riffed on it and settled on my username - so, I guess neither? Lol
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
Sounds neat! It presumably works just as well, too, since placebos have been shown to work even when you know they’re a placebo.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you. In my experience at the very least its quite easy to tell the difference between a person who uses it like a magic 8 ball and a person who truly believes in the pseudoscience, and the latter is fairly uncommon (again, in my experience)
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
Oh, sure. But I reckon a potential partner bringing up their mb type in a casual conversation gets a pass (the context of the tweet). Bringing up pseudoscience as a hiring criterion is obviously ridiculous.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
The Pathless is pretty awesome
Sky: Children of the Light is splendid
Horn is pretty neat but I guess its 12 years old now
Baba is You isn’t originally a mobile game but it has a native version which is pretty excellent
To answer your question, its as others have mentioned: catching a whale is more lucrative than appealing to the average consumer. The entire micro transactions industry (which mobile gaming is built upon and makes it the most profitable portion of the gaming industry by a mile) is all about milking your customers for everything they have without them realising it. Why did we reach this point? Unregulated capitalism, probably.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
I think to a lot of people things like astrology, Myers Briggs types and rock magic are mostly an aid that helps them to more easily process what they’re thinking and feeling, and also feel as though they have an outlet for those thoughts and feelings.
9 out of 10 times, they know its not “real”, you’re not really achieving much by yucking their yum. I say this as someone who doesn’t believe in or engage with any of those things.
(I also fully acknowledge that the tweet is a double whammy joke that puts the author in on it as well)
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
I’m not writing a research paper, if you’re unable to identify the things you’ve said which align with the things I’ve described then that’s fair enough and perhaps we can end this interaction here.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
You have, throughout your comments, repeatedly spoken down toward librarians and libraries. You might not be painting them as malicious, but you’re certainly not painting them as “trying their best” or “worth having an adult conversation with instead of misrepresenting my situation intentionally”.
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
You need to really, deeply consider what your stance is when you’re painting libraries and librarians as the bad guys.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
“I’m going to reply to the trans person under the premise that they don’t understand sex and gender”
The sentiment of my comment was a lot deeper than “conflating sex and gender”. The subtext was that single-sex wards where you are sorted by your AGAB are not trans (or intersex) inclusive, even if technically valid sorting criteria.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
“We need to make sure that we put women in the men’s ward and men in the women’s ward. That will make people feel safer and result in fairer care” fucking transphobe terf island I hate it here
- Comment on Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now? 3 weeks ago:
What I’ve Done - Linkin Park is forever intertwined with Michael Bay’s Tranformers
Black Sheep - Metric is Scott Pilgrim through and through
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Location of the G-spot
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
It makes me sick to my stomach. Stay safe, everyone
- Comment on How Journey Was Made and Why The Developer Went Bankrupt 3 weeks ago:
Very worth the play - it’s a beautiful experience.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 3 weeks ago:
I find them neat, but there’s just too many issues I can’t overlook.
The environmental impact of these technologies is immense, and growing exponentially.
A vast amount of the training data used for the big llms and image generators is not in the public domain, which is at best ethically grey but at worst just blatantly exploiting artists and other professionals.
If there existed some alternatives to the big names that avoided both of these issues, I’d love to use them for code autocomplete and image generation for ttrpgs, but as it stands the moral cost is too high.
- Comment on Fortnite Adds New Setting To Hide 'Confrontational Emotes' 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually an awesome move. I enjoy when devs take meaningful steps to reducing toxicity.