naevaTheRat @ naevaTheRat @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Despite all my rage I'm still a rat refreshing this page.

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What the fuck?

I made a silly joke about how people making out like linux is hard to use are also annoying.

not knowing how to read a manual isn't a personality trait either linux haters

Yeah um nobody cleans up after rich people because it's fun. Dunno how you think the world works but they do it to eat.

"I need to clean the tank, let me move all of the stuff on the desk off"

"oh no, someone dropped something hard on my desk, now my entire office is destroyed"

This is one of those rich person bullshit things that only make sense if you can hold starvation over someone else to make them maintain it.

I can't believe people don't know how to pronounce this Kant's name.

Jokes aside I actually fucking hate it when machines say stuff like "thank you for shopping here" in that anodyne voice that's the aural equivalent of greige.

A machine cannot thank, thank you isn't a magic spell. It is supposed to signal gratitude. Unless uttered by a thinking being it is a bastardisation of language.

See! see what horrors even the affectation of automatic spelling correction can bring!

Purge the machine from your life my friends. It will only lead you astray.

I would chime in but I don't use predictive text as the very idea that a divine being could be predicted by an infernal device is blasphemy.

Do not let the machines sully our tongue comrades, throw off the yolk and do not submit to heretical guidance.

We also tend to share our babies with dogs. My sister has recently had skin dogs and my fur babies are very interested in standing by the bassinet and watching over them. They're also extremely patient with their flailing hands and curious fingers.

While the reasons why aren't all peachy, and much of the framework it happens in is incredibly abusive and horrible, what humans and dogs share is very beautiful.

My dog recently broke her leg, she was screaming in terrible pain, but she went dead silent when we arrived and started investigating. That level of trust is incredible. I don't know exactly what's going on in her head, but I know that when something is wrong and I show up to help her breathing calms and she relaxes. Just as when I think I hear something in the night or whatever I look to her for guidance on whether it's a threat.

My whole life I thought I'd study mechatronics. I was one of those kids winning robotics comps and getting sponsored to go to global ones and get my arse beat by actually smart people.

Anyway, I switched to physics because "I want to know why".

Ahaha, hahahahaha, aaahshahshshshs oh naive little me. Ha ha ha ha. Now I am an overeducated house wife with a head full of questions. I could have done something useful instead of rocking back and forth in a padded room screaming "but what is time? why does it break all the patterns?"

There's a podcast, it's a bit formulaic and ad riddled, called myths and legends. They do a retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight and I think it's quite good. Blends a few stories and adapts it for a modern audience. He also tends to interspere a few jokes and metacomments as he tells things which can help with some of the friction encountered when ancient stories are told in modern times.

They had a bit of a struggle as the poem it's based on is basically just like "Oh and he had sooo many adventures. Soo many. Earned so much fame, oh it was the best time man. So fucking cool"

Cutting the lord's house short was a bit sad though, I get get that we're massively less into threes than medieval people and the full thing would have dragged but more homoerotic tension and courtly love games is always fun. Plus I got so excited for the handy if they were keeping with the original (keeps sash, gives smooches). Could've been a fun ways to explore how differently sex and sexuality was conceived of too.

We watched the green Knight recently. At the end my wife (who is not a medieval nerd and doesn't know the Arthurian stories) turned and said "that was agonising. nothing happened".

Now I need you to understand I love this woman. We have been together 15 years and I can think of nothing I want more than that time again threefold. Even so, even so.

HOW DID SHE MISS HE WENT ON A JOURNEY TO LEARN THE KNIGHTLY VIRTUES? FUCKING HOW??????

He gets punished for failing to live up to them and rewarded when he fulfils them. Ugh!

Anyway mediocre film btw. I enjoyed the retelling as Arthuriana is all about mixing and matching (lmao the French "eh, ve whilll aghd our ouwn Knight aaaand eee will be ze moist 'ansooom aaand ze moist skilled and eee whill erhm 'ow you say? cuckhold Arthwer") but it was a bit glacial and the buildings were not painted garish colours so minus points for accuracy.

edit: oh also they're cowards for doing the high hairline beauty standard for women but not committing to the no eyebrows and lipless part. Face like the side of an egg! face like the side of an egg!

they wrote matador on the side lmfao

it's a party based dark fantasy action rpg.

It's also a stat heavy build forward game where you can make completely broken characters for post game.

It's also a sprawling open world with relationship systems with benefits and dating.

It's got a cool pseudo multiplayer where you send your porn to other players and if they like your porn you get gifts. Oh sorry, pawn.

you climb monsters which is cool.

It's also a game where fire is bane to wolves.

truly god is great and blesses us in manifold and mysterious ways.

My favourite weird food thing is that Japanese curry is a reinterpretation of UK curry which is in turn a reinterpretation of Indian curries.

I love the circuitous route it took to hop north east a ways, and how distinct it is due to this.

monkey

this is a troll. Nobody is this stupid