Notices by NaClKnight (naclknight@mstdn.games)

@buru5 For future reference, this is definitely where i read your first reply, felt a MIGHTY NEED to reply to it, and then decided to abstain until i finished the thread.

@brakeoutgaming this makes sense.

So how did i do here?
https://mstdn.games/@NaClKnight/112885779134291644

if you're just here for the content lol

https://mstdn.games/@NaClKnight/112885779134291644

i'm thinking about making a single-user #mastodon instance (via masto.host) but have read some cautionary tales concerning limited post visible/reach due to the technicals of federation (this is the most-cited article: https://mull.net/mastodon).

does anyone w/ experiencing running a single-user instance have any insight? is it really a "bad idea?" esp from the perspective of someone who is less interested in seeing "federated timelines" and more focused on follower interactions?

#fediverse

@GrahamDowns

We don't upgrade until something is wrong with our current phone, usually the battery or screen,

For that reason most of ours become webcams via https://www.dev47apps.com/ until they stop turning on or break in some other way

ahem
*deep breath*
Gaaaaaaahhhhhhdamn.
*clears throat*
That is all.

#DemonTime

@BlakeGirardot This looks great! I'll give it a watch tomorrow

@COMPU73E Let's make a deal then lol.

If I post more of them, will you contribute alt-text?

@buru5 I'll happily stand on "I think _____" is a really powerful/well made/great/etc piece of media.

The other person is free to disagree. They've got their own rubric and their own context.

But that doesn't change that I think Good Kid Maad City or Street Fighter 6 or The Stone Sky were great and have objective merit.

@buru5 Sure, so lemme hop in and you can tell me if I come off "as immature and kinda insufferable."

I think ratings are fine and good. I think they are useful in a world of increasingly nigh-infinite media choices

I wish people paid more attention to the context of a rating

Someone saying a piece of media is great is much more useful if I know what other things they have or have not liked. I can weight a given rating by my agreement with this and other ratings by a person or organization.

@jmopp @GrahamDowns

Thanks! Cause "Bakkie" and "Lorry" are both unfamiliar terms to me.

In which case...

even if semi-truck is technically accurate it's also uncommon here in California. I'm more familiar with this being called a 'big rig' or an '18-wheeler" or a "semi"

Its driver is a "trucker" to be sure but that's a job title.

"Truck" with no modifier refers to passenger vehicles with dedicated beds.

The Isuzu in your last post is a "box truck" or "delivery truck"

In local news, I'm Black and I love AAVE. I love the dialect I grew up with. I love the way Black folx in LA say things.

I think "I wish a MF would" is inspired
Or that "y'all be easy" can be a farewell or an insult.
I like the way we use -ass as an adverb similar to very
I like that we've reclaimed 'nigga' as a term of endearment.

There's a dozen different examples I can give, but I like AAVE and I like learning the 'etymology' of our words too,

Like 'wretched' becoming 'ratchet.'

And on God, if you come up here with "That content doesn't belong on Mastodon,"

There's a deeeecent chance I'mma specifically tag you when I post it. I'mma politely ask for your opinion and if this specific image has changed your thoughts on what does and doesn't 'belong' on Masto.

Try me.

I wish you would.

Like, I'm not a celebrity. Me posting "this girl is really hot" behind a CW and a sensitive media tag is harmless. It hurts no one.

So if I'm gonna do it, I might as well see if there's a friendly/polite way to do so that doesn't defeat the entire purpose.

For real though #askfedi

Serious question:
If I post some hot illustration or some photo of an attractive thirst trap OnlyFans woman trying to attract new customers,

Beyond the obligatory CW,
How the _fuck_ do I alt text that?

I'm likely overthinking it, but yo, is writing

"chubby curvy woman wearing a low-cut sweater and skirt smiles at the camera. Her breasts are bigger than her head"

actually useful to anyone?

how about "thicc curvy model wearing revealing clothes?"

@GrahamDowns

Instructions unclear. Send a photo reference?

I wrote a short story a while back.

https://howdoyouspell.cool/sodiumreactor/heavier-ordinance-1-0

It's 6k words. It's intended as a way for me to begin what may be part of a much bigger project.

Unfortunately I already don't like this story. I think it's ok, but I can already see things/people/dialogue/etc I need to change.

While I do so, I figure why not leave it up on HDYSC as proof that I wrote fiction without kissing in it. It's safe to say that I #amwriting #amWritingSFF

@glassdelusion Thanks? I'm familiar with ADHD and was asking about the ADHD and ActuallyADHD hashtags

@brakeoutgaming Only if you can do it within a week of promising to do so

@ReverendMoose

Thanks! I contend that you are not, in fact, a weirdo. At least not in the specific, deeply negative way I learned and use that word.

You are, at the very most, a lil strange. That's a whole different ballgame, haha.