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Just a nobody on the internet. Probably won't do much but share thoughts I echo, but you never know what a nobody might do or where they might go.

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🎮𝙆𝙖𝙞𝙮𝙖🎮@KaiKai2492·
This argument has done irreparable damage to video game discussion on here. Games are built around mechanics, no mechanic exists entirely in a vacuum because they're designed to work off of each other and with the rest of the game in mind. This is why a lot of people don't understand why Halo players don't like sprint, it's not just "then don't use sprint" because now maps are larger for no reason to accommodate the faster movement and ADS speed is an added factor to the gameplay making it more of a twitch shooter. "The side quests are bad" - "You control the quests you do" "This weapon feels really weightless" - "You control the weapons you use" This mindset and any variation of it can be used to just justify any bad game design.
Taka (🦋: @amewatakahashi.vtubers.social)@Amewa_Takahashi

@TheCanadianGTR So basically

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Shahanshah of the Internet Age@ChazakielDoremi·
Reminds me of that time archeologists reconstructed a stone age instrument and demonstrates what it would've sounded like (awful) and then a musician started jamming on it and they went "I highly doubt cavemen were listening to this kind of high tempo stuff"
detty@0ddette

Polychromy is archaeologists finding traces of the underpainting layer and then pretending finely crafted sculptures were handed to pre-schoolers to paint by number. They even get frustrated by how much “red hair” they find- red is used in underpainting to build warmth for brown.

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Derek. 🇺🇸@SuitablePolitic·
Apparently, this needs to be explained to people. I'm actually shocked that I have to write this. For one, as people have said, America is a country of true warriors and "no man left behind" wasn't sloganeering. The morale this creates is worth the weight of destroyed aircrafts in gold. It is the lifeblood of American might. The ultimate source of its power. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, we do it because we can. And because we want our enemy to know we can. A prisoner of war is supposed to bring value to the country who received the POW. They're supposed to be able to leverage the aggrieved government for all manner of concessions in a negotiated release. That's what happens when you face a normal country in war. When you face America, you don't even get to fantasize about that. We will send the best killers on the planet to lay waste to your entire country until we forcibly extract our man. Do you not understand how psychologically destabilizing that is? These people spend hours trying to prove their abilities in combat to Americans via AI videos. And we just launched an operation so grand that it scarcely makes sense... all to rescue two men. That's why you blow up a couple planes if it means saving 2 pilots.
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J.T. Alexander@JTAlexander·
I dislike the *meme* of Roman History, because while many people know gists and vibes, they don't seem to know the particulars. A good litmus test is one's view of the Late Republic. If someone speaks fondly of the Late Republic, they are most likely either a rube or projecting. Our Founders, for example, projected their Enlightenment views onto a Republic that held virtually zero of those views. (See pic related; in this instance I don't apply it only to modern Leftists, but Classical Liberals in general.) Caesar didn't just appear out of nowhere. The only truly unprecedented things Caesar did was cross the Rhine and the English Channel. He wasn't even the first to "cross the Rubicon" in his own lifetime. If you know the detailed history of the Republic, rather than act like its final demise was some tragedy forced by the tyrannical mad dog known as Gaius Julius Caesar, you'd recognize that it was a terminally sick institution in the midst of collapse that was ultimately *saved* by Caesar's consolidation of power, his leaving it to the Triumvirate, and then Octavian's re-consolidation of that power into one supreme First Citizen. The Principate didn't create some new Office of the Emperor. Octavian consolidated power that already existed in various forms so that rather than a bunch of guys fighting civil wars over and over, which were frequent events, there was some stability. This stability led to the most widespread period of peace the world would know for more than a thousand years in either direction. If you consider this a bad outcome, then you're just not a serious interlocutor.
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Bryn Apollo@BrynApollo

@jtalexander @DrewPavlou Ok, I get the point you’re trying to make, but Caesar’s war in Gaul actually was bad for Rome. It led to the final destruction of the Roman Republic and therefore the gradual fall of Rome as it slipped into ever more tyrannical and barbaric monarchy, and then came the Dark Ages

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Andrew Isker 🌳🪓@BonifaceOption·
This is why the Alex Jones "Justin Bieber/Magellan" video that makes the rounds every so often has always bothered me. Or hating on barstool normies who just want to grill and talk sportsball. That normal people obsess over trivialities isn't a failure on their part. Most people shouldn't care about politics. Most people don't have the capacity to understand what is going on. Most people are not going to read dense works of political philosophy or economics or history. And that is not a knock on them at all. They shouldn't have to care about what is going on on the other side of the planet. The fact that we sort of have to is why our system is about the most horrible one designed. We should have good men with a stake in our society pursuing our interests who we rarely have to think about. That, more or less, is how most human beings for all of history have lived.
Syd Steyerhart@SydSteyerhart

The average person should not have politics. They should never think about politics in their entire lives. The average person is as removed from political power as an earthworm is from Mars and the notion that they should nevertheless be 'politically active' is insane.

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🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX·
You're seeing people struggling to get their heads around how & why AI-generated media counts as art because they misunderstand what "art" even is. "Art" is the marriage of craftmanship and imagination. It's not the presence or absence of AI that results in what people call "slop," it's a lack of creative talent. If you have creative talent, AI is just another tool to leverage. A video like this is the product of a new kind of craftsmanship, done with a new set of tools, and like any tool, it has to be used in a particular way to produce the results you want:
Frasier Payne@MeinGottNiles

I controlled every aspect of this video. Each scene was prearranged by me before being animated. AI simply replaced the camera and crew that I can’t afford. Ask AI to “reimagine Take On Me” and you’ll get slop. Use AI to project from your own imagination and you’ll get this.

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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
@revenant_MMXX I mean, this is just endemic to anything online these days. People argue about sports watching only clips, argue politics only reading headlines, etc. People just spew random bullshit for attention, and the algorithm encourages it.
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🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX·
If "Games Are Art" then appreciating them requires you to play them. Otherwise you misunderstand how they are art and what makes them art (it's the game part)
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J. Y. Song@Critical_Scribe·
I self published and never sought a professional editor’s advice. Instead, I crowd sourced my editing by putting up my initial drafts for free online for people to pick apart and tell me where I was failing in my plotting and style. I’m still managing a 4.5 rating on my book from this. Cost me nothing, and with Patreon I was able to even make money in the process to pay for multiple book covers and ads. Combined, the cost of that art and ad space which I got over the period of a year STILL wouldn’t match the money I’d need to shell out to have my book “professionally edited”. The prices they charge for such a service are insane, especially since the average indie author isn’t going to make that money back on their first book. If you wish for feedback, join writing groups and publish your initial drafts online, that will not only serve as marketing, but also get you insights from your target audience directly so you can better adjust to fit to them.
Skryvener@sarahs_sky

I'm not going to be as nice as this lady. If you don't have an editor, please don't publish. I don't care if you're paying that editor or not, but they need to be someone who *can* edit professionally. Technically, yes, you have a choice of whether or not to get outside help with your book, but I have yet to find the unicorn miracle that is good without any outside professional help. Opting to "not" is a great way to produce trash. However, a good edit is going to run $3-5k. The £880 quoted as an average here for an 80k manuscript is only around 13 hours of work at $60/hr (which is a good editor's rate). That's not really realistic. I expect the quoted average, then, is not really a dev or line editor's average, but is a blend including copy, which is a lot cheaper. I recommend, if you can't afford this, to work on your own editing skills (check out our videos--we discuss a lot of developmental editing topics in the context of actual books) and then *swap* work with other people. Basically, use your time as currency instead to get others to help you edit. But do not publish without outside editing advice.

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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
@cirsova This is what I did. Close friends and family who enjoy reading are a huge help in my writing process.
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Cirsova - Dream Lords Legacy Live on Kickstarter@cirsova·
My lukewarm take is that is that if you replace the meaning behind "get an editor" from "hire online professionals to go over your manuscript" to "find some trusted people to help you proof your text," then yes, indies must get an editor.
SciFi Author James Krake@KrakeJames

Anyone else ever notice that the strongest advocates for "indies must get an editor" are the people who directly benefit from indies spending 10x their revenue on editing?

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Weltgeist@WeltgeistYT·
This is exactly why essential reading is necessary. Sorry but culture builds upon culture, and it's actually good to have a more-or-less defined canon of important works, and it's good to make an honest effort to familiarize yourself with it
Jules@analytichegel

I hate the idea of “essential reading.” What is essential for one person will not be essential for another. It is my experience that I get more out of things I read out of interest compared to things I read out of obligation.

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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
@revenant_MMXX I think it's probably the simplest answer, nothing can be niche anymore. Everything has to cater to everyone, and you can't make anyone feel bad for being 'worse.' To put it another way, preschool. They want everything to be preschool.
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🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX·
Video game discourse has fallen so far that we have Yahtzee describing rudely-named difficulty settings as "ableist" and whining about how "patronizing" designers are. He suggests adaptive difficulty as the best solution because "no one has to see it." What if I specifically want the game to be harder, period? Why should difficulty be a self-tuning black box hidden away from the player? This is just another step towards making games into guided amusement park tours. If I'm stuck on a difficult section or boss, I don't want it automatically toned down, I want to get better at the game and beat it. He even brings up DMC games as an example of being "too patronizing" because it doesn't give you an easy mode unless you die enough times, but you know what? The higher difficulties are locked at the start, too. Some of us would say that's patronizing. Why shouldn't I be able to choose Hard mode right away?
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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
@HariSel57511397 As is often the case, the men on the ground understand the situation better than the man up top. We are at least more likely to be heard here than soldiers on a battlefield, but it just depends on how willing Elon is to shift his vision to better fit reality.
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Isaac Young@HariSel57511397·
It also SUCKS that the algo throttles outside links. Elon Musk wants X to be the everything platform, but he doesn’t realize the everything platform is a traffic highway and not a slop black hole everyone’s trying to escape.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord

Whenever I try to post something more whimsical and thoughtful, not directly political, it just gets buried by the algorithm. Not sure how intentional this is. I suspect the algo is tuned to look for engagement, and if a post doesn't immediately pick up likes and comments it gets sidelined. Ragebait gets engagement, so that's what the algo promotes.

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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
Just need to use these sites to advertise like in the good ole days.
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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
With how awful twitter is becoming, we really need to take this opportunity to build niche sites. While echo chambers are not desirable, it is better to know where to go for good content than what we have with sites like twitter and YouTube have become.
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Content curation should probably be the top priority for any online space anymore. So many talented individuals buried in the waves of garbage you'll find everywhere on the internet.
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owen cyclops@owenbroadcast·
dating, "finding your person", takes a massive amount of emotion, psychic energy, and time. teenagers are mostly correct to see it as an all-consuming endeavor. crazy to think how much pure energy has been lost by removing the social pressure to wrap that up as soon as possible.
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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
@HariSel57511397 This has been my sentiment as well. They suffer different problems than us, but they are not healthy. I kinda see it like a disease that evolved a new strain due to a degree of regional isolation. One need look no further than the birthrate there to see it, too.
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Isaac Young@HariSel57511397·
I think it’s an obvious sign that Japan is infected with a similar spiritual crisis to the West since apparently no mainstream mangaka can end their stories well. Like, we’re having these controversies every few months.
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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
People talk about gatekeeping, but the problem is, if there is nowhere to go, people will fight tooth and nail to stay. Give them a place they want to go, and they'll leave happily, because they never wanted to be here in the first place.
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Nomad@minds_do_wander·
I am increasingly convinced the majority of people on the internet are here because there is nowhere else to go anymore. Same with other previously niche spaces. There is no true mainstream for all those people to exist happily, so they come here and complain.
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