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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:21:25 JST 
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm my feeling is that writers have gotten destroyed somehow as a profession - that the entire industry stopped regard writing as a serious activity that needed resources or attention, and decades ago switched to the biological equivalent of ChatGPTing it.
>Lucas writes the prequel script in a weekend
>Disney lets different directors write the script, and picks a guy whose only writing technique is mystery boxes who then just rehashes the original trilogy
>scripts don't survive editing and reshoots and studio control in any case -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:21:24 JST
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@sun @hfaust @kakafarm as for why, maybe digital editing got too easy to make the reshoot meta possible. Maybe digital production improved so fast that Hollywood's still very impressed by CGI and thinks this makes other elements of movies less important. Maybe fads like mystery boxes and cinematic universes were too successful despite cheating at the writing. Maybe a series of writer's strikes made it riskier to rely much on writers. The details I think you'd need a good historian to describe with insider reports, but the result I think is clear enough: the writing is always impressively bad. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 09:58:22 JST
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@get
THIS IS OUR ONLY CHANCE
PEACE AND NIKE HAVE WEAKENED VIETNAM
IF WE DO NOT WIN NOW THEN VIETNAM WILL RULE THE PLANET FOR THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS
NOT EVEN THE CHINESE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT VIETNAM THEY ARE A SCARY PEOPLE -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 08:14:57 JST
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>Peter Navarro responds to Vietnam’s offer to remove all tariffs: “This is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency based on a trade deficit that’s gotten out of control because of cheating,”
>“Don’t say you want to lower the tariffs and be done with it. It’s the non-tariff cheating. Stop manipulating your currencies. Stop dumping stuff in.”
us: we need reciprocal tariffs because other countries have tariffs that are too high and it's not fair
vn: ok we'll lower tariffs
us: this is not a negotation.
us: what we want is for you to stop cheating.
vn: how do we do that?
us: THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIATION
us: STOP FUCKING CHEATING
vn: just tell me what you want me to do
us: it's not a negotiation so I can't tell you what I want you to do.
the 4chan prediction is the correct and is the only thing that explains how insane this quote is. The US can't honestly say what it wants because what it wants is a scam against borrowers. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 19:08:56 JST
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@VIPPER @MK2boogaloo this was a great one from volume #3 of The Weakest Possible Arguments Against Your New National Policy -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 12:01:29 JST
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@p not an honest translation, but there have been edits like the Jefferson Bible. I think a gender-neutral Bible could happen.
The CJK motivations can vary:
a. it's an honest attempt to preserve some deliberately ambiguity that's easy in the original but awkward in English. A shadowy figure arrives and observes the protagonist, and even though in the next chapter it's revealed that the shadowy figure is a woman, you wouldn't know until then and the translator doesn't want to spoil that with a bunch of pronouns.
b. it's a formulaic preservation of incidental ambiguity. The shadowy figure is a young woman talking to the protagonist and not disguising her voice in any way, so the protagonist should immediately know her sex, but the original language doesn't make it clear for a few paragraphs
c. the translator is delighted to use a bunch of 'they' pronouns and the original language can't be blamed for it. This can be the case with sexless beings like spirits, or a pet cat where nobody cares about its sex, or some gender-bending character like the angel from Interspeces Reviewers who is regarded as a man by everyone in the story, but referred to in narration as 'they' because the translator has some extra information. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 11:14:26 JST
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@p There's a lot of carefully sex-ambiguous language in CJK translations that's somewhat similar to it, but I wrote that, and I haven't seen someone mangle the Bible like that. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 11:13:00 JST
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>having a pleasant conversation at dinner
>the power goes out
>the room is plunged intro darkness
>a little boy complains, "mommy, I can't see, it's TOO DARK"
>the boy is quickly shushed
>there is awkward laughter
>conversation continues as is nothing is wrong at all
>a man loudly remarks that he likes how the room looks now, actually, perhaps a little more than a few minutes ago, although there's not much different really, it's all the same isn't it? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 11:07:29 JST
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Robert Heinlein had some Venusian aliens who had a cultural taboo about being seen while eating. Even when briefly tasting something, the polite thing to do was to turn away from other people to do so. A simple, amusing reflection of human taboos.
But nowhere in science fiction is there a taboo like the modern one about using language that suggests that humans come in male and female, and that these form a breeding pair, and actually that this is the norm for the animal kingdom. Nowhere in science fiction are there Type A and Type B in the character creator, or 'theyglish', or circumlocutions like
>In the beginning, God created a person. And then to give that person a significant other to start a polycule with, God created another person.
What could even be this dumb? Perhaps an alien species with a cultural taboo about distinguishing light from darkness.
>In the beginning, God separated different intensities of shadow - though all remained equal. And God said "let there be BOTH darkness AND light"
where it's a severe faux pas to ask if it shouldn't be "light and darkness". You have to change the order or it's light supremacism, OK? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 06:48:35 JST
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@toiletpaper @Zettour @lain @sun if not for the US state, "the Georgia of" would be a very timely compliment after the recent color revolution failure. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 06:48:33 JST
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@toiletpaper @Zettour @lain @sun there used to be a lot of arguments that could be made in favor of the west, like
>free speech
>free markets
>free movement
>little bureaucracy
>little police state
>little corruption
>little censorship
>good healthcare
>good government
but now it's just "do you want gay pride parades and for kids to secretly be chemically castrated?" and that's perhaps not as appealing as getting your books delivered by Yandex robot -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 06:47:25 JST
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@lain is there any other community that has as much reflexive rumination about price?
>this feels like a $20 game
>$35, max
>for $100 it should come with at least 4.333 DLCs, and not only 2 DLCs
>buy it only if discounted to $4. The $10 price is too high
these don't even feel like sincere statements, but formulaic ones. After blowing 500 hours on this live service game I'm obliged to argue that the skins are well-priced, but that the palette colors should be free. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 04:27:19 JST
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@crunklord420 what caused that March downturn in the gay economy? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:01:15 JST
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@Suiseiseki @lightweight a better suggestion is OpenBSD which is 'based in Canada' and didn't have to deal with US export controls on crypto. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 13:21:09 JST
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@crunklord420 it was a mistake to antagonize cheaters so much. Cheaters don't play by the rules. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 02:55:14 JST
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@waifu yeah. Programs that screen record or interact with the pastebuffer are most often what's broken by it. It's important to warn her that something called "Wayland" broke stuff like this, as otherwise Linux itself just looks broken when the first apps she tries all completely fail to work.
With that caveat, "Software" is great for normies. It's a very accessible free store for somewhat-sandboxed apps. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 02:36:19 JST
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@waifu show her the "Software" app. Warn her that Wayland broke a bunch of stuff. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 11:20:04 JST
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@lucy how many times has your house or vehicle been invaded by panicking moths? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:09:36 JST
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@lucy I hate moths too, but isn't DDT a better solution? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 22:59:57 JST
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@William_The_Dragonborn he should've consulted with Sakana. Phase Connect knows how to sell coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ppyAt6-rsc
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