Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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It got to be Goat Simulator for sure:

• Top notch graphics.
• Full of features, even some not intended by the developers.
• You can hurt and get hurt, so it's BDSM-friendly.
• Open sandbox.
• It's more recognisable than Tetris. Tetris is easy to confuse with some Tetris knock-off, Goat Simulator is instantly "yup, this is Goat Simulator".
• It's deeper in lore and philosophy than Chrono Trigger.
• Zelda's worldbuilding pales in comparison with Goat Simulator's.
• Requires more strategy than Diablo and FFA combined.
• You play it as a goat dammit. Everything else is just fluff.

back in 2006

My "two decades" guess wasn't too far from that, then.

I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.

So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.

If by "a little toxicity" you mean a little bit of aggressiveness, sarcasm, etc., I agree with you. It depends a lot on the community though - in some, allowing it will be counter-productive.

If however you mean harassment and hate speech, as the author of the text, I strongly disagree. If the mod doesn't curb down those things, they might not be "lording" over the discourse, but other users are - because

• users shut each other up through harassment
• hate speech silences whole groups, as they leave the community

Another detail is that you don't need to control the discourse to curb down harassment, since it's only behavioural and not discursive in nature.

So IMO when it comes to those two things the problem is not overzealous mods, but dumb ones not doing due diligence, who are a bit too eager to falsely accuse their own users to be voicing hate speech or harassing each other when it is not the case.

[Sorry for the wall of text.]

It's cool to watch Twitter dying. Specially as its death is so tied to how it works - once the key actors of a blogging platform leave, the others simply follow fashion.

Does anyone want some popcorn?

You're reading too much into my "look it up". It was basically "I'm not wasting my time with your rhetorical question".

I'm aware of what you're explaining (semantic drift + polysemy), however neither is relevant here.

Wtf is “hate speech”?

Look it up.

To call hate speech and harassment "toxicity" downplays both issues.

I recently had to go through this maze. I hate it. And I'm glad that my PCs tend to live ~10y, this means that I'm not doing it again in the foreseeable future.

Optimists cause more harm than good.

I'd be OK if they dismantled my body for parts but it's kind of unlikely that they'll find something usable. The rest is a big whatever - burn it, bury it, pet cemetery, I'm OK with it. As long as the body doesn't leave my city.

Trailers and carts:

The owner's name also fits this thread (his first name is Hitler).

My grandma prepared some amazing chicken in tomato sauce and white polenta. It wasn't anything fancy, but I could never prepare it as well as she did.

No comments on my mum's cooking.

Chuck. Chop it finely with a knife. Don't use ground meat. Add salt and pepper, sear it from all sides inside the crock pot.

When it forms a fond add some random wine that you've been chugging. No sweetened wine, please. But red, rosé, white, it's all fine. Use it to deglaze the bottom.

Then add onions, garlic, red peppers, all of them peeled and minced. And broth. If you don't have broth you do freeze chicken bones, right? ...wait, I should stop filling my freezer with chicken bones.

As the beef gets soft add whatever veggies you have. Take into account cooking times. Potato, button mushrooms (you're now a veggie, get into the pot Nebby), carrot, cabbage. And tomato paste, I buy it by kilogram and then freeze it into ice cubes, I put "enough" of them there. Adjust seasoning as necessary.

Near the end use your judgment. You can reduce it further, or add some thickener (I like to add brown roux), or leave it as is. Then eat it over polenta or cooked taters.

Guinea pigs perhaps? I didn't post them because capy represents them as Caviidae.

They are, just like guinea pigs (their smaller relative). It's just that the bauplan is rather close to a pig - stubby legs, roundy body, stubby tail.

I guess that just like non-crustacean peak performance is to become crab-like, mammal peak performance is to become pig-like? Cats, humans, dogs, we'll eventually get porcinised!

except my cat. She's a Schweinekatze (pig-cat) so she's already pig-like.

Someone farting on a candle after eating eggs, cabbage and bread through the whole day.

Sorry, not the sort of gas lighting that you wanted, right?

Kids are as smart as we used to be. And we didn't save the then-future, now-present. Same deal with boomers.

Names will change, corporations will change, investors will stay the same. For us things won't get meaningfully better or worse than they are.

Isn’t that just basic knowledge of your own body? Like if I eat beans I’ll have a gaseous stool etc.

It is. And even chimps do it to a certain degree.

I only use herbal medicine if I know that what I have is not serious, it's something that would go away on itself, and I just want to relieve the symptoms.

I do it because I prefer milder approaches for mild issues, but the efficacy of this sort of herbal med is fairly limited.