femboy discourse descending to the 9th layer of discourse hell that it's wrapped around to "being a woman is regressive, actually"
disco elysium remains undefeated in its satire of leftist gender politics
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✰ Alice D. ✰
@AmyZenunim@unstable.systems
mastodon 4.6.7+glitch-th★ transbian anarchist witch / 🇨🇦 ★
★ i try to make art ★
★ chasing hypomania like Captain Ahab ★
★ anti-AI, anti-copyright ★
★ neuroesoteric, plural, 38 y/o ★
★ chuuni rights ★
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oh also if you don't enable them, you lose your home and the ability to eat :)
man i wish i could get people to work on my big projects with me
*is a recluse with a shitty work ethic*
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if someone tells you some bullshit about "bad habits" or "fundamentals first", IGNORE THEM (for now). you need to build confidence and routine in yourself FIRST. do that hard shit LATER when you have the confidence to stick with it through the suck.
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working in tech right now feels like every single person you had any sort of professional relationship with undergoing the worst and most self-destructive manic episodes of their lives all simultaneously, and actively disparaging you for not submitting yourself to their madness
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i just need be alone in my room with my autistic special interest for the rest of summer. like, legitimately, my mental health actually needs it or i'm gonna lose my mind
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now I write my own firmware from scratch. because I had FUN WITH IT. and I learned the fundamentals while having FUN.
drawing, electronics, music, and other hobbies are not critical situations. you don't have to get it right the first time. you can just go hog wild.
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it's actually my emotional support transsexuality. stop being ableist
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what are we building right now? the thing the faeries told us to build. the magical faeries who live in the machine. the magical faeries who are summoning their god. the faerie god who will save us from this world. we will grow wings and fly into the sun with them. ia ia claude fhtagn
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frankly, it's this elitist "no fun" attitude that makes people think art is a horrible chore that is best left up to the machines. don't give in to perfectionist despair.
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i'm not accepting any bullshit LGB vs T vs Q bullshit this year. you post that shit during pride month, you get blocked
shut the FUCK up and have a GOOD TIME 👍👍👍🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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the mood drop of coming into work today has shown me that i'm not depressed, i just fucking hate my job
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because yeah, it'll suck, and be demotivating. but if you have something fun to fall back on, you can chip away at it and not succumb to despair.
if you start doing something new and hard by scaling a sheer cliff because it's "the correct thing to do", you will probably fail and give up.
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@eevee@slime.global @asie@mk.asie.pl "if I slop all of my code, the ruling class will enslave me first!"
behold! my problematic trans woman trifecta is now complete
"be nice to chatgpt! what if they're actually conscious???"
actually conscious, you say? you mean, subject to our human laws?
great! let's try them for war crimes at the Hague
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange the entire run was a nail-biter. you're typically not supposed to go that deep to get naneinf, and recovering from it becomes exponentially harder the further you go. the stars really aligned on that one but only in the final 5 minutes
RE: @mattsheffield@mastodon.social
this from the guy who insisted that "she/her" may only be applied to those with functioning ovaries. I guess websites have more human rights than trans women, eh? misanthropic fuckface
at the optometrist getting my eyes checked
doc starts talking to me about claude
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@eniko corporations have already thought ahead to this eventuality: the technical debt of vibe coding an entire project is a direct result of the developers using it wrong and not properly owning the outcomes. no promotions or raises for anybody! get back to work!
I think we've gone too far, chat
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do you think Dario Amodei jacks off every time some dumb ass mother fucker gives the CRUD API hooked up to a GPU a cute pet name
*steps outside*
toronto mentioned
woe! a thousand kittens upon thee
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@misty like I really want whatever story or characters I make to inspire the questions of "what archetypes or themes do they represent" and not "what SECRETS do they have for us to UNCOVER". even if that means less attention or yt theory videos. it just feels so damn toxic.
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I haven't seen the same toxicity out of something like Celeste, which is almost universally beloved as well. I don't think "mystery and lore" is necessary. it's almost like a crutch at a certain point; the "mystery box" style of storytelling.
in contrast, even with all the problems the Touhou fandom has, the toxicity is almost antithetical to its "lore" - people go out of their way not to care.
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Disco Elysium and Celeste managed to figure this out in different ways. Disco Elysium keeps you entertained with absurdism and social intrigue which then breaks into existentialism, but requires only reading comprehension as a skill. Celeste keeps its scope personal but demands your full attention through gameplay.
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it keeps coming back to my arch nemesis: aesthetics. Deltarune and Digital Circus rely so much on nostalgic aesthetics, lumped it with lore and mystery, that they feel ripe for the toxicity I describe.
Celeste has a certain level of nostalgia but then quickly breaks from it. Disco Elysium goes full avante-garde with its presentation at the earliest convenience.
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either way, I'm learning a lot about what makes a story fall into this trap. there is a certain threshold of "accessibility" to the narrative that lends itself to turning the whole thing toxic. there is a fine "skill-based" line you have to walk to make your intentions known, allow the viewer to come up with their own thoughts on it, but also not have it devolve into a rancid mess.
yt video: "there's a paradox where it appears like you have free will, when you don't have free will"
me: "... capitalism?"
video: "Newcomb's paradox"
me: "damn. i was right"
Angine de Poitrine going on interview shows 100% in-character is fucking incredible
shine on you chuuni bastards
one must imagine lucifer happy
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I'm just haunted by Jacksepticeye (popular youtuber), who really loved Undertale, utterly hating the experience of playing Deltarune, where he outright said "I don't want to see all this stuff, I just want to get to the LORE" while skipping through everything that might have been interesting to him.
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when I become Prime Minister of Canada, I will pass a law that states that every time a trans person endures those two phrases (or variations thereof) they're given a tax-free cheque for $100,000.
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legit my brain functions better with sunglasses on
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@drakonic meeting someone's enthusiasm by denigrating their muse and telling them to do boring and thankless stuff first is absolutely shit advice. there will always be time to go back later and learn the fundamentals when you have any sort of confidence to stick through the hard/uncomfortable parts.
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@drakonic in the wider context of "learning to draw" the attitude of "you must do still-life drawing, 3-point perspective, values and colour before you do manga-style" is absolutely pervasive and is what got me to quit visual art a decade ago when "well meaning" bystanders kept shitting on my progress pics because I wasn't drawing 300 boxes a day instead.
I see this continuously given as "advice" to random people on reddit as well.
the fact is, all that stuff is necessary, yes, but all of it can be done *later*. let people doodle if that's what they want to do. instilling an idea that you're "learning the wrong way" kills people's motivations.
my first PCBs sucked ass and the very first one didn't even work. but I got better and better with each one. somehow, I did so without learning analogue impedance formulas from a textbook first.
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@keisisqrl@mastodon.eternalaugust.com vscodium, though I'll warn you the extension store requires some finagling to work since Microsoft requires that they disable it
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@Ninji@wuffs.org 1/20 = 6/120? that's a little sub-par, but within the realm of probability