I remember when we read that book in grade 10 I told the class I was diagnosed with aspergers and they were shocked because I wasn't like the kid in the book.
i did recently get a prompt that was basically "You have been scheduled to upgrade to Windows 10 at [date/time]", with the option to cancel the upgrade.
That's still giving me the option to decline, but it's opt-out rather than opt-in. i didn't consent to the scheduling.
i guess why this leaves a particularly sour taste for me is, like, the presumption of it all. A Microsoft spokesperson even issued a statement that was basically, we know some people will get mad, but it's for your own good. And i just feel like, how dare they?
I can see why that would be a source of irritation, yeah.
It's just weird to me to see tales of people who left their computer on overnight and found it running Windows 10 in the morning, because it's like...if you felt that strongly about it, why didn't you look up how to disable that to begin with?
i can see myself doing that, tbh
like ok but, it scheduled itself to upgrade before i knew it was gonna do that
if i'd just left my computer on, unattended (i don't normally do this but i have before), it could have upgraded before i knew there was any risk of that happening
i haven't disabled it because once i have another computer up and running and have stuff backed up, it's still a free upgrade, that's pretty great, i kinda wanna see if this computer runs it but i wanna be on the safe side and i don't want to lose my computer
that and i'm just not sure i trust myself to go tinkering with registry values that i don't understand
i don't have stuff backed up, did i mention? i was gonna, but i put it off, and then i had too much stuff to back up
the most important things are on pen drives but i don't want to lose any of it if i can help it
In all seriousness, of all the things i've read, Homestuck reminds me most closely of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, much more closely than it reminds me of any other webcomic (setting aside Hussie's earlier work).
That's honestly what i think, this is not an argument for Homestuck to be taken as serious lit or anything like that, i just really can't think of anything i've read that it more closely resembles.
In all seriousness, of all the things i've read, Homestuck reminds me most closely of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, much more closely than it reminds me of any other webcomic (setting aside Hussie's earlier work).
That's honestly what i think, this is not an argument for Homestuck to be taken as serious lit or anything like that, i just really can't think of anything i've read that it more closely resembles.
i'm upset that people read this and what they got out of it is 'tach is mad about something imi said' and not 'tach is of the opinion that homestuck is in some respects similar to at swim two birds'
My contextual basis sprung from, at the outset, talk of "(being an) insecure nerd," and seemingly escalated from there. I actually did read that, so it's more like... it looked like both. Which I thought, maybe wrongly, was self-explanatory?
well like i wouldn't have kept thinking about it if i hadn't been upset and insecure, but i was thinking about that and came to that conclusion, and posted it because i thought it was a conclusion worth sharing, not because i was upset
the whole 'what is great art' thing perplexes me and At Swim-Two-Birds is a book that left quite an impression on me
In all seriousness, of all the things i've read, Homestuck reminds me most closely of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, much more closely than it reminds me of any other webcomic (setting aside Hussie's earlier work).
That's honestly what i think, this is not an argument for Homestuck to be taken as serious lit or anything like that, i just really can't think of anything i've read that it more closely resembles.
i'm upset that people read this and what they got out of it is 'tach is mad about something imi said' and not 'tach is of the opinion that homestuck is in some respects similar to at swim two birds'
I just read it as a factual statement.
Honestly, Hussie reminds me of Vonnegut and Pynchon in different ways. He's similarly earthy and obtuse, prone to surreal digressions and bringing them back as key plot elements, over-explains the obvious for humour's sake, has a vast and idiosyncratic reference pool, dabbles in the morbid and melancholic more often than one would think of a humorist, and has a friendly yet somewhat antagonistic relationship with his readership through the text.
i mean i guess the whole reason i felt it was worth posting is that like even setting aside 'insecure nerd etc.', that GENUINELY IS the thing Homestuck most reminds me of
like it would be the case whether or not we'd had that argument, that's the whole point i was trying to make
who even gives a damn whether i'm upset, that's beside the point
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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"go to work" is, alas, not one of them
like ok but, it scheduled itself to upgrade before i knew it was gonna do that
if i'd just left my computer on, unattended (i don't normally do this but i have before), it could have upgraded before i knew there was any risk of that happening
i haven't disabled it because once i have another computer up and running and have stuff backed up, it's still a free upgrade, that's pretty great, i kinda wanna see if this computer runs it but i wanna be on the safe side and i don't want to lose my computer
that and i'm just not sure i trust myself to go tinkering with registry values that i don't understand
i don't have stuff backed up, did i mention? i was gonna, but i put it off, and then i had too much stuff to back up
the most important things are on pen drives but i don't want to lose any of it if i can help it
That's honestly what i think, this is not an argument for Homestuck to be taken as serious lit or anything like that, i just really can't think of anything i've read that it more closely resembles.
i can see where Imi is coming from though
also the Flann O'Brien thing was an actual observation
i'm just gonna go.
the whole 'what is great art' thing perplexes me and At Swim-Two-Birds is a book that left quite an impression on me
like it would be the case whether or not we'd had that argument, that's the whole point i was trying to make
who even gives a damn whether i'm upset, that's beside the point
i want to know what art is
Hussie reminds me of O'Brien a lot more strongly than Pynchon, but i see the comparison
Pynchon strikes me as . . . i don't know, but more difficult, less direct
Vonnegut is sort of halfway between the two, has the lightness of O'Brien but the darkness of Pynchon
Look at my remarks in the personal thread last night.
*offers hug*? i can't remember how you feel about those, sorry
*hugs back*
thanks for being understanding
k NOW i'm gonna go
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