Notices by Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)

@novenary To be honest, for all of his impact, all of JRR's talk of "no trace of the real world" always seemed like a bunch of hokeypokey to me. There are a LOT of real-world concepts in his and other fantasy authors' work. You can't just make something out of nothing and still expect it to make sense to the reader.

Gitlab is so fucking bloated.

@a1ba They're playing the long game, so should we.

@a1ba @Xeniax Oh. Yes. If "you on the Fediverse" means just "a crossposter bot" - you're not "on the Fediverse", get the fuck out of here.

Visa and Mastercard removing adult games from Steam and Itch, UK bans adult content nation-wide, and now YouTube threatens demonetization if it detects so much as a swear word in the first 7 seconds of the video.

All, apparently, in the name of "children".

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

Motherfucker, why does everybody have to get the infant treatment? Who made all those people our mommy?

@post_hardcore Я думаю, изначально было понятно, что на детей всем насрать. Если бы государства действительно заботились о детях, они бы строили больше школ, больниц и детских садов.

Как и на "взрослый контент", на самом-то деле тоже. Это просто самый легкий способ протащить нужные изменения и нужные средства контроля куда надо. Никто не будет против, это же все "ради детей".

Настоящая цель всей этой инфантилизации и маргинализации Интернета куда масштабнее.

@minnidia

Why the fuck there aren't riots in the streets in the UK right now?

It's not over yet!

We still need a safety buffer to offset errors and outright fakes. Also, if we *really* wish to go above and beyond, we still need to rile up support from folks in the countries currently under threshold.

https://stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev/

Bulgaria and Slovenia are really close, I think they're basically there. But if Luxembourg, Cyprus and Malta get with the program and surpass the threshold, I think that'd indicate the unanimous support for the campaign and universal disdain for destroying art, which is going to be harder to ignore and sweep under the carpet.

Sign now!!
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

@skg

WE DID IT!!!

Just a mere week ago this movement was about to fail miserably.

Seven days and one youtube drama later, you folks proceeded to completely wipe out the European petition and rip a UK petetion a new one.

This is historic. We're making history right now.

This doesn't automatically mean we've won, mind you. It just means that we're just starting to fight back. There's a long road ahead.

Also, reaching the million doesn't mean we have to stop signing. A good chunk of these signatures is going to be invalidated, because bureaucracy. This is a government petition, and they'll have to check the signatures. There's bound to be some mistakes and screwups in the validation process. We should know better than anyone that there's no kill like overkill. So any additional signatures are not just surplus - they go into fireproofing that thing.

@skg

P.S. 2 piratesoftware and the likes: die mad you salty bitch.

Fuck Jason "Thor" Hall.

You ain't a pirate, motherfucker, you're a royal navy spy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo

#StopKillingGames

@yura @a1ba @untsuki

@yura @a1ba @untsuki чот так себе ваш AI работает.

@yura @a1ba @untsuki да как так-то.

@yura @a1ba @untsuki Наконец-то нормальные результаты

Apple ca. 1980s: "I want beauty. Not incompetence. Are you listening to me?"

Apple ca. 2020s:

Seriously, these things, those... faces, they creep me out ever since they appeared.

Wow. They're calling the rise of AA, B and Indie games "deprofessionalization" now.

A lot of middle-men like large publishers and management are supposedly losing employees because small teams and just regular individuals have been learning to make good games, raising the bar and lowering the entry barrier.

To which I say: good fucking riddance. Cancerously oversized AAA publisher establishment needs to go the way of the TV in the wake of online video: slow, undignified extinction.

Life goals

Знаете, что? Задрало меня сидеть как лох без сварочного аппарата.

Посоветуйте сварочник (скорее, класс сварочников, наверное, даже) для абсолютного нуба, который вообще не умеет варить.

Варить буду пока что в основном чернягу, разумеется.

@rf

Terminal emulators need an option where they show a date and time of every output line.