Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

teams where everyone is running missiles and spams them constantly in splatoon:

FIRST SPLATOON BATTLE I GET INTO IS A TEAM THAT'S PLAYING FOR THEIR 100X STREAK AND WE LOSE BY 20 POINTS

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(i'm glad i came in 2nd in team tho instead of dead last so i can feel like i did a contribute towards the goal instead of dooming them lmao)

it's time................. splatoon time..........................

@InspectorCaracal seeing how multi-level marketing is aggressively pitched these days is really depressing, because they have almost entirely found their niche in preying on vulnerable populations who are unable to hold down a full-time job and using social pressure like a cult to keep people in (as, after all, the model encourages and requires you to sell your social connections for any hope of profit)

...but yeah the acronyms get confusing lol

@legendaryjoeb EXACTLY.

IMMENSE. POWER.

since the last splatfest in #splatoon2 is upon us, in the spirit of goodwill to all, may i remind/gift everyone with this playlist i made https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAOfbOmUUq1QbIdZosy90xVqZGyYdkj2_ that is full of Extreme Power.

if you define extreme power as "what majima goro listens to at the gym", which of course we do,

honestly though i have only taken one (1) entire class on the subject, growing up in a family of compsci nerds has taught me the two important qualities of any computer science student tackling a problem:

1. willingness to google what the fuck is up (and especially the Exact Error Message)

2. willingness to kluge together a solution (because if it works, it ain't stupid)

this is the internet equivalent of getting medicine in a childproof cap that's also so adultproof that to open it you had to get out your bandsaw and hack it open. i have literally broken it into working.

COMPUTERS, EVERYBODY!

so i found the more permanent solution to my keyboard woes and it is -

get this, y'all. just admire the level of idiotic choices of jury-rigging i and many others have stooped to.

- to keep windows from reinstalling the internal keyboard drivers after you uninstall them so you can use an external keyboard with your laptop, you instead tell it to turn off all the safeties and choose a driver for the internal keyboard that absolutely does not work, fooling it into obsolescence

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz

i actually feel a bit bad because the group wasn't full of bad *people*

but it was obvious that with the average level of skill it was just not gonna happen.

so we parted fond farewells after giving it one last try, wishing each other better luck in future with 20 mins left on the clock

and now, a tragedy in three parts

i will forgive them for the costuming inaccuracies though because Enormous Fucking Hoopskirts are a bit of a hazard to acting sets

@InspectorCaracal or hell they could do some really interesting writing along the lines of "yeah you thought there would be misogyny and racism but IT'S THE FRONTIER Y'ALL, AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME TO BE PICKY, here's a moral tale about some foolish assholes making their own demise therein" and then they Didn't.

it's disappointing lol

....

it DOES sound like moffat don't it lmfao,

@InspectorCaracal it's also odd to laud a heroine as "look how brave she is, being the first woman detective in the pinkertons!!" and then... not do anything much in the way of letting her show that?... like all action against her is horrifying misogyny to everyone which i'm sure was also an obstacle, but as a writer i'm just like "dang y'all this is a huge pile of missed opportunities, let your heroine encounter some obstacles and vault over them, that's your premise right???"

@InspectorCaracal honestly very valid

but it does sort of create this weird dynamic where the only racist/sexist characters are shown to be really over the top villains, and there's not really any examples of... everyday shit. it comes across a little too "well you see, we can all be assured of our own moral goodness because we're not out there pouring acid on black men so we can't be at all racist uwu", which is... annoyingly watered down gruel for the audience as far as morality goes.