i think my perception of ted started and finished when neuroscience club decided a tearful speech about a stroke-caused religious experience was what should be played
im low-key pretty sure that the whole "young liberals who grow up to be conservative" stereotype comes from media/arguments/texts like this, teenagers see them and agree with them, then they get older and realize that the whole thing reeks of bullshit, so they desert to seemingly more reasonable conservative ground, not realizing that the actual argument underneath the slathering of bullshit sauce is actually totally fine
im low-key pretty sure that the whole "young liberals who grow up to be conservative" stereotype comes from media/arguments/texts like this, teenagers see them and agree with them, then they get older and realize that the whole thing reeks of bullshit, so they desert to seemingly more reasonable conservative ground, not realizing that the actual argument underneath the slathering of bullshit sauce is actually totally fine
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
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
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
Watching videos of butthurt transphobes walking into Target and throwing tantrums like small children fills me with schadenfreude
Especially because most of these dimwits record the videos of THEMSELVES because they're so proud of what they're doing
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
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
I found this kinda funny at first
Then I realized it's buying into the "Windows 10 upgrades happen without user consent" thing, which just isn't true
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
I admit, I don't understand the thought process of the people who love Windows 8 and steadfastly cling to it instead of trying Windows 10
Like, clinging to Windows 7 I can understand, because it was significantly different, but Windows 8 and 10 are so much alike that I find it hard to believe anyone has a strong preference for one over the other
Some people cite the telemetry stuff as a reason for not upgrading but that's been backported to 7 and 8 so you're gonna end up with that either way...
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
It's like saying you have a strong preference for a Nintendo DS Lite over a Nintendo DSi
They're different, yeah, and I can understand liking one a little better, but it seems like a weird thing to be passionate about when they'll both do the same things in the same way
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
Speaking of things changing without the user's consent:
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
If you type "Ashley" enough times it stops looking like a word
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
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
I've been worried about security at my palace lately, so I decided to put up a new sign.
EVILDOERS PROHIBITED
MORALLY-QUESTIONABLE-DOERS MUST CHECK IN AT GUARD STATION
Homestuck might be more ambitious than Superhero Movie 29: The Revenge of Supervillain, but I dunno...every time I hear someone call it "great art" or something it strikes me as "I'm a nerd who wants my nerdy internet stuff to be justified as Serious Art because otherwise I feel insecure" or something like that.
Hussie did give us Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff which is a masterpiece of the decline of civilization, I'll give him that.
i know what you mean, actually. Only, well, i am an insecure nerd, so it doesn't make me laugh, it makes me cringe from second-hand embarrassment.
i guess i'm not really clear on what quality makes 'great art' great art? i can think of reasons not to consider Homestuck great art but most of them feel kind of superficial - it's a comedy, it's a fantasy, it has audiovisual and interactive elements, it's self-published.
i think for me what makes comparisons to canonical experimental novels awkward is, i actually *don't* think Hussie is trying to be part of that tradition? i mean yes, i think Hussie was always looking for ways to push boundaries further, and in the process borrows some of the techniques of experimental lit. But i think if you said to Hussie that Homestuck was the new Ulysses or whatever he'd probably say nah, he was trying to write something entertaining. It's clearly meant to be enjoyed by a fandom, mostly teen audience, not the literary establishment.
i guess i feel like, Homestuck doesn't really feel like it belongs in literary discussions, but feels less out of place in relation to the indie comics market; it has a lot of text but it still pitches itself as a comic first and foremost. i see no reason Homestuck shouldn't be acknowledged as significant within indie comics. The distribution platform doesn't seem like a good reason to discount it. It's much more interesting and creative than Watchmen, to my mind.
Then I realized it's buying into the "Windows 10 upgrades happen without user consent" thing, which just isn't true
Sigh
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?
‘Relativism’ (and its cousin ‘nihilism’) are both bogeymen constructed artificially by philosophers to scare the children. No one actually believes that all beliefs are equally good (relative in the noxious sense) or that nothing is any more desirable than anything else (nihilism).
i guess to me calling Homestuck great lit is sorta like calling Zappa a great composer
like you could make a serious case for it but there are people who won't take it seriously, and your case is made harder by the fact that neither Hussie nor Zappa exactly aspires/d to the thing you're trying to present them as being
at the same time Zappa legitimately wanted to write classical music, and Hussie legitimately wants to push the boundaries of the medium he works in
and both are creative figures but they're also funny, and they tend to garner attention more from, like, fans, not the establishment
this might be a bad comparison, idk, i already feel kind of unsure about it
Sheldon from Boing Bong Bros is actually a less harmful autistic stereotype than that weirdo from Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night
I thought Curious Incident never identified the guy's condition. It's just everyone surrounding the book decided, "Yep, that sounds like autism" and it just became common knowledge that he must be autistic.
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
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?
Sheldon from Boing Bong Bros is actually a less harmful autistic stereotype than that weirdo from Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night
I thought Curious Incident never identified the guy's condition. It's just everyone surrounding the book decided, "Yep, that sounds like autism" and it just became common knowledge that he must be autistic.
Addendum: But I can definitely understand why real people on the autism spectrum wouldn't want to be associated with the kid from Curious Incident.
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
Car update: the windows have been repaired, and I got that oil change I was overdue for
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like my mom who lived on a commune at berkeley and now... does not
Third day straight of lactose induced stomach aches.
gdi
i guess i'm not really clear on what quality makes 'great art' great art? i can think of reasons not to consider Homestuck great art but most of them feel kind of superficial - it's a comedy, it's a fantasy, it has audiovisual and interactive elements, it's self-published.
i think for me what makes comparisons to canonical experimental novels awkward is, i actually *don't* think Hussie is trying to be part of that tradition? i mean yes, i think Hussie was always looking for ways to push boundaries further, and in the process borrows some of the techniques of experimental lit. But i think if you said to Hussie that Homestuck was the new Ulysses or whatever he'd probably say nah, he was trying to write something entertaining. It's clearly meant to be enjoyed by a fandom, mostly teen audience, not the literary establishment.
i guess i feel like, Homestuck doesn't really feel like it belongs in literary discussions, but feels less out of place in relation to the indie comics market; it has a lot of text but it still pitches itself as a comic first and foremost. i see no reason Homestuck shouldn't be acknowledged as significant within indie comics. The distribution platform doesn't seem like a good reason to discount it. It's much more interesting and creative than Watchmen, to my mind.
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 thought it would take me 3 minutes to reply to Imi and CA there, it took closer to 50
even if i had a smartphone, i couldn't casually drop by HH between doing other things the way y'all seem to, it'd take me too long
this was just typing though
i'd posit that a similar thing happened with relativism and nihilism, maybe?
like you could make a serious case for it but there are people who won't take it seriously, and your case is made harder by the fact that neither Hussie nor Zappa exactly aspires/d to the thing you're trying to present them as being
at the same time Zappa legitimately wanted to write classical music, and Hussie legitimately wants to push the boundaries of the medium he works in
and both are creative figures but they're also funny, and they tend to garner attention more from, like, fans, not the establishment
this might be a bad comparison, idk, i already feel kind of unsure about it
i will definitely check them out
probably this evening, though, i need to get on with stuff rn
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?