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@Aether and there they go.

it is RIDICULOUS what kind of air this derg is getting. dude come get the ruler check this out.

yeah, they're not coming back.

@esdin @mcc like NFT bros legitimately seem to think that "ownership" confers some kind of magic power over the thing owned

as if they could walk up to a junkyard with a pink slip for a lambo in hand, accept the car as a crushed cube of metal, and then drive off in it

or take a leisurely drive from the busy streets of Los Angeles all the way to the beaches of Oahu straight across the Pacific Ocean

"the pink slip says I own it; that means I can do anything I want with it!"

@esdin @mcc like my personal favorite fantasy making the rounds was shit to the tune of "the NFT magic will let you buy an exclusive one-of-a-kind collectible Mario and use him in Halo!"

which like...shows COMPLETE ignorance of how games are made, how they would actually need to be DESIGNED for such interactions to make sense, or alternately, how they would all need to be functionally interchangeable in order for it to work

@esdin @mcc it's almost impressive how NFTs transcended "a solution looking for a problem" and went straight to "a problem looking for other problems to make even worse"

not to mention like...everyone promoting them is either an idiot mark or an opportunistic ghoul (with room for overlap), but basically NO ONE trying to shill them seems to actually UNDERSTAND them

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Hey @BoozyBadger how do you say "if you do some stupid shit and bad things happen because you treated the cryptic utterances of a weirdo living in a cave as anything other than entertainment, that's on you and not the cave-dwelling weirdo" but in lawyer

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oh my sweet flaming jesus, this game actually encodes their text files with UTF-8.
I think this is the first time I have ever seen a game be this sensible.

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i know that tech companies having a neutral stance on unionization is strictly a good thing, but i think it would be funny if a tech company was explicitly pro-union

"hey, you guys should consider unionizing"
"but steve, you're... you're the ceo"
"form a fucking union or we'll start a round of layoffs"

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@v Okay but you're missing the wildest part about the Hypercard user levels

Old Mac OS shipped with a Hypercard "player" that was like a free demo version. It could play stacks other people made, but it was limited to creator level 3.

Somehow, I assume because Bill Atkinson was actually ideologically motivated, the version that actually shipped had a cheat code where you could type in "Magic!" to the debug console box and it would unlock the full version, usually like $150.

@sec_yote_agenda i mean, on your TL, it doesn't tell you who posts were rt'd by anymore

your Following tab now looks like it's full of posts by people you're not following, but it's actually just hiding which of the people you're following rt'd them

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Some people try to call him a patchwork god, like the act of fusing two things into one is somehow new, or unique, or shameful. He hopes they’ve never eaten a peanut butter cup in their short, tormented lifetimes, because if they have, they’ll have some explaining to do when they get to his corner of the afterlife.

Continue reading: leemoyer.wordpress.com/2020/05

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I need to do laundry. Instead I am writing a software-based shared-exponent floating point vector implementation that I have no practical use for at all

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@emilygorcenski astronaut on the moon, holding a gun: "always has been"

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Roses are red, my code is a disaster
git push --force origin master

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I've decided to fight injustice by stealing any outdoor infrastructure that isn't wheelchair accessible. For the moment it's more of an aspiration, though — so far I haven't taken any concrete steps.

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