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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Fascinating info!
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Jeff ♨ Darcy@obdurodon.bsky.social |
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Retired software developer. Proud parent. Runner, hiker, snowboarder, pickleballer. LGBTQIA+ and ND adjacent. Suburbanist.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Fascinating info!
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Eize Basa
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It’s so cool when game creators branch out into other media. For example, the creators of Myst designed the shower controls in this AirBnB.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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It's wrong, but it's not wage theft and I don't think we should minimize *actual* wage theft. That's when employers demand unpaid overtime, take tips they're not entitled to, or simply don't pay employees what they're owed. Those are real things that happen. What you describe is just inequity.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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You did the right thing. Good for you.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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My theory is that some of this comes about because the developers themselves are all level-capped even before release. Plus they have inside knowledge of the game's mechanics, so they can make things easier for themselves in ways normal players can't. And they lack empathy.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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The other trend I hate, especially in ARPGs, is that everything revolves around the endgame. Everything is about getting and tweaking the rarest top-tier loot. I like tinkering with the builds as much as anyone (on a Diablo4 kick right now BTW) but the main campaign shouldn't be an afterthought.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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I'm a pretty experienced gamer. I'm damn good at some games (e.g. the entire Dishonored series) and so-so at others. But if any game has content gated behind a highly un-thematic boss fight, I'm playing on the easiest setting. Or binning it for shitty lazy player-hostile design. Life's too short.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Careful, you'll get all of the "NYC is the perfect model for the rest of the world" folks on your case, like the last time I offered anything but effusive praise of the Rotten Apple.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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I spread my short writing among four micro-blogging apps. In order of appearance: Xitter, Mastodon, Threads, and here. My longer pieces go to Tumblr or WriteFreely. If I concentrated on one, I might be a Bigger Deal, but I don't want to be a Bigger Deal. What I want is one tab instead of six.
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Emily Gorcenski
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Do you remember a couple years ago when Boston Children’s Hospital was targeted with bomb threats because of disinformation of their gender-related services, and a woman was arrested? She was convicted, and in the defense sentencing memorandum is something interesting.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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In programming, it's fairly well known that debugging is harder than writing new code. What's often missed is that debugging *people* is also much harder than debugging code, and that's a large part of what good teaching is. Figuring out exactly where the mental block is can be tough.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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In short, libertarianism is the surest route to fascism. The line from Tea Party to MAGA is not a long one, and couldn't be clearer.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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What we're seeing is the economy that's *inevitable* when ideas like hers take hold. Deregulation, union busting, $$$ in politics, etc. were guaranteed to end in collusion like this, enriching some at public expense. Randroids only complain when it's not *their* group that gets to loot the commons.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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My brain started showing me images of penguins being cuffed, and now I can't stop laughing.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Violet Orlandi's version of Mad World is, surprisingly, acoustic. I'm used to her doing metal, but this really shows off how fine her voice is. I would kill for her and Dan Vasc to trade places on these songs, each in their signature style. I'd probably die if they did a collab.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Sound of Silence, by Disturbed or Dan Vasc
Gone Away, by Five Finger Death Punch or Noctura
Mad World, by Gregorian or Melodicka Bros or Violet Orlandi
Yes, Gregorian is just what you think. Check it out. MB is new to me, but WOW.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHFl...
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Adam Gurri
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The entire game of making right wingers “patriots” and liberals “America haters” is about gerrymandering what you’re allowed to be proud of in American history and what counts as hatred. Pride in The New Deal doesn’t count and hatred of immigrants and America’s largest cities doesn’t count either.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Even someone who believes that Chevron deference was "incorrect" in an abstract sense would have to be able to see that the court's don't have the *capacity* to do what agencies do. This is more total work for fewer people, who are already overloaded. They're not dumb. They don't *want* it to work.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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One of the few things the left and right should be able to agree on is that the constitution is failing us and we need a new one. The main difference is that the right has been working effectively toward that goal. We sane people have to work *just as hard* to turn the result away from fascism.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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My wife subscribed. I canceled it. I will not support the Fascist Paper of Record in any way, especially not while paywall-breaking sites are so easy to use.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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"We must do something!" "This is something." "OK, let's do that." Never works in business. Never works in politics.
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Technology Connections
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Happy independence day to all who remember why we declared independence and a very fuck off to those who think kings are good actually.
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Courtney Milan
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I keep thinking about what a disaster the current Chevron ruling could have been during the pandemic. Especially in light of Fucking Epstein's glib memo saying there would be maybe 500 COVID deaths.
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Pickle Tiedrich
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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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"Second revolution" is another way of saying *treason*. Here's the definition. <<<the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government>>> Yeah, exactly. They're trying to replace our government with an entirely different one.
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Elad Nehorai
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Did any of the Six Tyrants not perjure themselves during their confirmation hearings? Seems like all of them have made statements about settled law, separation of powers, etc. that turned out to be blatantly false.
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J B
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In my opinion, the conservative members of the Supreme Court represent a clear and present danger to the ongoing stability and peace of the United States. Given that situation, a President would be well within his Core Constitutional powers to eliminate that danger
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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I said what I said. A person can be *both* a bigot and a pedant (the latter of which you just were BTW). Just look around here, at all the hate between far-lefties and "shitlibs". That's beyond different beliefs. That's group hatred.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Guy found you.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Also, most people are bigots of some sort. Many of the people fighting obvious forms of bigotry also harbor unreasoning hatred toward some (would be, should be) allies based on minor points of doctrine or terminology. Going to war over "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" level issues.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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"What's stopping you from..." The fact that I'm not a performative engagement-baiting asshole. Should just block that phrase, it's so annoying.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Like Threads, Bluesky is having trouble keeping up with the volume of posts today and is returning cached results for the "discover" feed. Barely changed since this morning.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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As someone who used to win debate competitions, two observations. (1) What we see on TV is not a debate. (2) Whatever it is, it's a poor guide to choosing a candidate. That kind of performance has its place, but it tells us nothing about a person's real beliefs, judgment, or character.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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A lot of people seem to think they've become more liberal as they've gotten older, but in reality most of them have simply stood still (at best) while the country lurched right. Many of them are *deeply* conservative in the word's true sense, no matter what flags they fly or lawn signs they put out.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Exactly! We've won before and we'll win again. Last night was a setback, but winning is still easier if we *don't* elect the worst president in the world and a bunch of his enablers in congress. Those still pinning their hopes on the Leftist Rapture can go to hell along with their right-wing allies.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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IIRC, the three best sites for commentary on a previous election were Teen Vogue, Cracked, and Rolling Stone. A bit of a surprise, to say the least.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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All of a sudden, I'm seeing about 20x more "liberals are being so mean to us true non-voting leftists" posts. Across multiple social-media sites. It *could* be algorithm insanity, but it's far more likely to be something else. Just block them.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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We already do that with exercise machines. Most are used as clothes racks.
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Charlotte 🇵🇸
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Just making sure you’ve all seen this. Artist Chavis mármol has crushed a Tesla with a giant Olmec head sculpture and I think it is very, very beautiful
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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We see this with blue jays vs. robins or grackles (sometimes cardinals) every year. The jays always win.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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I'd agree, except that forced multiplayer exists.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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Nope. Didn't happen. Nothing to see. There is no hero^H^H^H^Hculprit to be found or pursued. Just a weird accident of nature.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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If you don't have to time your shot to go between the windmill blades, you're doing it wrong.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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"nor have I ever posted anything about gout" ...until now.
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Bo Thompson
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Today, on Juneteenth, if you are a descendant of a formerly enslaved person I invite you to take a moment to acknowledge, mourn, and cherish all it means. If you are a descendant of a people who benefited from slavery I invite you to explore what steps remain to address the legacy of that injustice.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.
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Grog
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when I saw greenwald and his cadre of sentient hemorrhoids pushing that notion, I knew bellingcat was legit.
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Jeff ♨ Darcy
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I've seen more threatening groups at a birthday party in affluent suburbia. The eight-year-olds would bounce these guys right out of the bouncy castle. They're not even doing cosplay right.
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