I never know which is which. I’ve read both The Society of the Spectacle and Simulacra and Simulation but I don’t think I understood any of it, so a vague allusion is the best I can do. I understood a lot more of the 2016 documentary HyperNormalization, which is a synthesis of both? (I understood neither, so I’m just guessing there.)

Yes, in fact there’s a whole genre of video essay where people explain how Mr Beast is problematic.

But to be fair, he’s just an extension of the last 30 years of reality tv. Lure some desperate people with a large sum of cash, make them suffer in front of the camera, edit liberally, air for the entertainment of millions.

Additionally, one of the most popular tv shows of the decade is a criticism of exactly this phenomenon. Mr Beast did a whole tv series that tried to be Squid Game unironically, completely missing the moral of the story and spawning another round of criticism. Something something Guy Debord, something Jean Baudrillard something.

cute <3

This title read as if Dan Caine was flying the Su-35

I’m staunchly sub-over-dub, but I’m not anti-dub. A good dub is a piece of art, it’s just a different piece of art than the original work. Dubbing is very difficult to do right, especially for live action. It takes good writing to match the lip flaps, good acting to match the facial expressions, and good sound design to match the scene. Anyone can stick a couple bored actors in a studio and record a terrible audio track that sorta conveys the necessary information, but I wouldn’t call that dubbing.

I really dislike dubs with celebrity film actors. Film acting is much more focused on screen presence, but there’s nothing to see with a dub. A stage actor is generally a much better voice actor, because on stage you have to act so the people in the back can hear your emotions. Picking a big name just shows a lack of respect for the art of dubbing in my opinion, and it doesn’t bode well for every other facet of the quality.

There is one widely published instance of a woman almost losing custody of her two children after a court-ordered genetic test returned a mismatch. Had to be pretty confusing to hear that the guy is indeed the father, but… Objection! You are not the mother of these children!

Get them shinigami eyes

Dota introduced behavior scores and tries to match chill people with chill people now. It’s really easy to ragebait someone when you’re stressed out though. I get quiet or helpful teams more than raging teams these days, luckily, but it’s super difficult to tell a flamer, in a nice way, that pointing fingers won’t fix our teamplay and we need a better strategy right now.

I think the best strategy is to liberally mute anyone who even seems slightly stressed out, before they snap for real.

MLP is actually making a bit of a comeback right now. I saw so many pony cosplays at comicon, but they’re all the age to have watched FiM when they were the proper target audience. So it made enough of an impact on these people that they go full cerulean body paint in a heatwave 10-15 years later.

It’s a really good cartoon though. It had strong, consistent characters, developing over 9 seasons. Stories were well-written, setting up a problem with a character flaw and resolving with a lesson learned. The ensemble cast meant that every permutation of pony resulted in new dynamics.

And it inspired so many artists, many of them still active. A lot of them dropped the “brony” from their name by now, but there’s so many musicians who started in MLP and branched out.

Corporation Inc. Immediately thought of that as well. I don’t know what magic ArmorGames pulled to keep these playable, but here: https://armorgames.com/play/7348/corporation-inc

I was actually trying to fix low input volume, but noticed the cutting out on the discord loopback. People were complaining that I’m hard to hear, but fixing the volume won’t help if the audio is dropping entirely (-.-')

I don’t think I can fix Discord, I’ll just focus on the volume right now and see if I can use a different Discord client.

Specifically with the Cinnamon Panel (taskbar) on Linux Mint during fullscreen gaming. I like to tab out during long matchmaking and under Windows the taskbar would be visible and usable when another window gets focused over the fullscreen game. With Cinnamon, the space for the panel is there, but not the panel itself. When you press Super, the menu pops up and shows the panel with it, but the panel isn’t usable…

There is an active issue on the cinnamon github from 2012. No one even knows if this should be a bug or a feature request, so it’s just all undefined behavior right now.

Edit: it’s even worse, a newer issue was closed last year after a discussion that can only be described as very linux.

Oh, is it a Discord problem? I spent half an hour yesterday debugging my setup, should’ve eliminated Discord from the chain.

Imagine being such a bored small town cop that you interrogate a nurse for 18 days over “assaulting” a patient. Like, what do you even expect to get out of that after day 1? The identity of the Zodiac Killer? Just gather up your evidence, file your charges and get a judge to look at it.

I have almost more respect for the corrupt cop who pockets the bribe and shreds the case than for officer Tightass who ignores justice to fuck over a suspect.

Suspects can be held indefinitely under interrogation without charges.

The “See also” for that article should link the right to Speedy trial. Japan does recognize it, but it probably has some loophole where interrogation does not count, or the limit is quite high and they’re abusing all of it.

keep vagueposting

she so glorpy

When I pointed to the model that I was sceptical, it suddenly change the cheating probability to a much higher score.

What did you use? Don’t ask the LLM if something is written by an LLM, it has no way of telling.

I would only ever buy new HDDs tbh. But also, I bought a stack of 8TB HDDs in 2023 for €180 a piece and those same models are now €300… Thanks, Obama.

Anyway, I have 4 of those, 1 is parity, so 24TB of actual space. I started with a 2TB collection from my laptop harddrive and I’m now at 7TB used. I used to be more cautious with my space and I still have my *arrs set to stingy profiles now, to make downloads faster, but I also download and keep a lot more.

I do sometimes go through and delete stuff that I won’t watch (either watched and didn’t like or never watched). But that’s more so I won’t get tempted to watch it than for the space currently.

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