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I mean, there might also be colluding 😛

For sure, I think they did a very interesting thing with the game. This organization has a purpose and a daily function. You spend your whole time in a workplace of sorts. But you are not a worker, you're not even an employee, and you as Jesse only show up after shit has hit the fan. They're already in the emergency. She's never been here before, and neither have we. And she doesn't care how the company operates day-to-day, she doesn't care how the lights are kept on or the heating functions, she's showed up in an office that's turned into a combat zone to do combat and rescue her brother.

And so I kinda like how we aren't given rundowns on normal operations because this is not normal operation, and Jesse isn't interested, and so we're pushed through the emergency. But there are bits of environmental storytelling, and scraps of paper, and notes and tapes, that tell curius players "you know, on a normal day, this place is a different kind of weird. You've just shown up on an even weirder day"

Here's what I'll say if you're anything like me: read the pickups. The little scraps of paper you find littered about the offices, the folders, the dossiers, etc. I don't normally read that crap in most games, but in this game I noticed I started getting intrigued by a few after I'd been in playing for a while, and by the end of the game they were almost my favourite part. The kind of world outside the game's plot, the mundane day-to-day existence of this organization when it's not in a crisis, was very interesting to me.

So it might not be to you, people can be very different. But you could try giving reading a try and just see if the oddness hooks you like it did for me.

I'd take it if it was offered! Maybe we could do shared custody, we have it half the month, for example? We'd be open to talking.

I don't know for sure, but I feel like making this one drive a success won't noticeably bump Amazon's stock price. And a donor could hypothetically say "For next time, I'd feel more ethically clean supporting a business that wasn't Amazon in the process of doing these good works", and it might even start a conversation with whoever is in charge of stuff.

Because it's a bit late to turn this boat, it's already at sea, but you could have an impact on their forward progress still, now and in the future.

The Fediverse in general and Lemmy in particular aren't necessarily immune to poison and bots and the like, but we do have some resistances that might keep us safer.

The first and most obvious is that there's no ads, and because there's no ads there's also no benefit to the site admins or devs wanting to trick you and addict you into using the site more with algorithms and stuff. Like, we could write dark patterns... but why? We don't get any money or anything from you being here... in fact if anything all the usage you do technically costs the hosts money! I mean, don't stop posting stuff, it's worth it, but the people running it really are running it just to facilitate community and communication.

The second thing is that there's no karma. There are upvotes on posts and comments, but those are basically just used to sort things relative to other things. But what it means is that people want to engage either because they're interested in making the community more vibrant, or because they're a perpetually online loser 😉 but they don't actively benefit from posting just to farm.

These two things make the community more organic. That having been said, there can be exceptions still. I could make a bot that posts "you should buy these headphones: AMAZON_AFFILIATE_LINK", and essentially run my own ads in the posts and comments sections of communities just because there are eyeballs there. We don't see a lot of those because we're small, probably, but if we grow we'll probably see more of them, and we'll have to figure out what to do then. There's also a version of this which is NSFW posts where they're advertising their OnlyFans (or equivalent) in their profile, so their whole thing is kind of an ad. I'm not saying there's necessarily anything wrong with this second one, but it's an entity with different goals than conversation, for sure.

And then there's the kind of bots that are politically motivated rather than financially motivated. The kinds you sometimes see on other social media who aren't trying to get eyeballs really, they're not trying to sell you anything, they're just trying to make you sad or angry or distrustful of the people around you. We don't really have any built-in defense against that any more than other social media. We're currently small enough that maybe it's not worth it, but when it comes for us it'll probably hit the same here as anywhere else.

So some benefits from the tech and ethos, but some benefits just due to newness and smallness.

I thought that heatsink and fan was a spindle of CDs! I thought that was an interesting place to store them I hadn't seen before...

Oh for sure. I'm not saying all the hubbub is worth it just so I can get a custom cheat sheet.

But if it happens to be there, that's a way I've learned "programming things" with it more easily than I could have in the past.

Learning programming, maybe, maybe not. But I have had success being like "assume I already know Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Haskell. What are the quick pointers and cheat sheets for using R, especially the ggplot2 library"

I could read an R tutorial, but I don't need to learn about variables and what comments are or how to call a function. I just want to know the differences between what I'm already used to.

And I'll admit it was useful to already have that context to throw follow-up questions into when they came up, like "what's the difference between = and <-" which are famously hard questions to Google

I'm not sure this song ever made it out of Canada, but Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies has a verse where a girl in school wouldn't change with the other girls, and when they made her, she had, in what I thought the lyric was, "burn marks all over her body". I assumed the song was about child abuse, and they were cigarette burns. The other verses are about a kid with a shock of white hair from "a car crash" and a kid who always has to come home right after school, so it kinda made sense in a consistent enough way...

Anyway, for basically my whole life I thought that's what the song was about. Turns out the lyrics are "birth marks all over her body", and the point of the song is more about kids being othered for things outside their control.

I still think I prefer my version...

Get in the fucking hat, Remy!!!

Right, but what they're saying is that the human may be powerless, but he's not passive.

It's almost closer to non-consent, in that sex is being done "to him" without his participation. I'd say.