wizardbeard

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

I didn't say anything about self promotion because I don't usually have issues with that.

This isn't self promotion. As I said, this is pure advertisement.

Self promotion would be someone who is or has been engaging with the community or the wider fediverse at all that does something like "Hey, I did some research on this topic and there's some things I think people should know about it so I wrote a blog post. Let me know what you think!"

This also isn't just out in the open. Why would this person set a different display name on their account unless they wanted to add a small delay in people catching onto this? Instead of a direct "this is the site I run", their profile has some weird promotional wank about the site and a link. It's not direct and up front.

Just... any attempt at bare minimum effort to indicate that this person had any intention of actually engaging with the community instead of dropping a link and running would have made this more palatable.


Edit: Maybe they did engage some, I can see their profile shows three comments now as well as this post, but I can't see those. I've already blocked them, for better or worse.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Anime and Altered Carbon?

You might like Ghost in the Shell. There's a handful of different movies and timelines, but I think the anime show Stand Alone Complex is a good entry point. For that continuity, after SAC is SAC 2nd Gig, then the movie Solid State Society, and finally the recent Netflix CG show SAC_2045.

Cyberpunk future, although not as gritty as Altered Carbon or Cyberpunk 2077. This trailer gives a good idea of the action scenes, but the show isn't mainly about that, instead more about the psychological themes. Story follows a cyborg special forces group in the Japanese Government. Lots of side plots about stuff like privacy and being able to trust your senses when hackers can hijack your eyes, what does conciousness and self mean when someone can literally shove their brain in a self sustaining VR box effectively forever, at what point does AI reach personhood, when brains can be fully digitized and be treated as data how do you ensure abscence of tampering, how do you even begin to handle people that opt into a gestalt existence, and more. The idea of self is a core thing repeatedly. Main plot of Stand Alone Complex is some wide reaching thing about corporations and billionaires holding critical medical knowledge hostage from the public and a specific hacker fighting to get the info out.


Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077, go watch Edgerunners if you haven't yet. The dub is great, but I can't find that trailer dubbed. If you're even remotely aware of the videogame or the tabletop you know the kind of thing to expect. Gritty, dark. Starts about a year and a half before the game, ends around half a year before. Holy shit, nothing I could say would do it justice and it's best to go in blind. Just... be prepared to hurt. There are no happy endings in Night City.


If you're up for a little less cyberpunk but still heady sci-fi future, give Psycho-Pass a try. Hard to find a good trailer for this one, the dub is fine but I was only able to find a decent subtitled trailer. The world is one of near omnipresent surveillance by "the sybil system" which can analyze a person's mental state to detect criminal intent before it happens. MC is a fresh graduate who has just started her job as a police detective, and has to adapt quickly to the reality that detective work is no longer true investigation, but mostly using the reports from the system together with using a troop of people flagged as criminals by that system to hunt down the other potential criminals. Of course cracks in the surveillance and the system itself begin to show pretty quickly, even before someone starts fucking with it for fun. First season is the best and works very well as a standalone thing. The movie and other seasons aren't bad, just not as good.


If you just want some good anime without the cyberpunk elements, Cowboy Bebop is universally considered a classic. Great great stuff. Struggling bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet as their pasts eventually catch up with them through background details episode to episode. Heavy jazz influence and wonderful jazz soundtrack. You're gonna carry that weight.


If you only pick one, go with Edgerunners, if you pick two, add Bebop. Edgerunners is a short show, I think 12 eps. Bebop is 25 episodes (and a movie technically between I think episode 23 and 24, but it came out years later and isn't needed for the overall plot).

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago

Remember to always use plugs with a flared base

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

22 hour old account, the website is the same name as the account (Joseph is only the display name). And some vague ad for the website as the profile body.

And this is the only post so far.

Pure advertising. Hooray.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, and when's the last time anyone has legitimately seen Windows bluescreen for lack of RAM? I'm assuming that's the "logic" here, because in what world would a stuck browser cause a full crash?

Man, I sure love tech memes not remotely based in reality.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 16 hours ago

We don't want anyone who would consider themselves even remotely on the same level as the leaders here. How dare you question us! Know your place!

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 17 hours ago

Decent chance it's not the same specific folks.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Not sure the exact age, but it's xkcd 1288, they're up to 3195 now, and they're usually posted every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

Napkin math says roughly 12 and a quarter years ago. (3195 - 1288 for total comics since, / 3 for number of weeks since, / 52 for number of years since, gets you 12.22 ish)

There's some slightly more recent ones that are still many years old:

1625:

And 1697:

Lord, Channing Tatum. The Big Bang Theory. Truly from a different time.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I don't get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making "tech news". You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.

  • slams -> literally disintegrates the bloodline of
  • keyboard -> leopard
  • cloud -> butt
  • microsoft -> microslop

There was this wonderful slice of time around a decade ago where fast food prices had started to rise but local sit-down places hadn't. If you had the time and around $5-10 extra then it didn't make sense to get fast food when you could get an actual meal.

Unfortunately inflation has caught up to even the local places now.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At least at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe they bred and raised the cow to want to be eaten and to want to sell itself to customers.

Wait. No. That's just absolutely fucked in a different way.

For anyone who hasn't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" (of 5 or 6 books), the humor and social commentary still hold up. "Restaurant [...]" is book two.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try finger but hole

 

Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.

Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.

 

Honestly? That's rookie numbers.

 

Bah humbug.

 

PrefaceI'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.

That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.

Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.

While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.

Sidebar, and expanded rule 7

A few other posts have been made calling this out.

Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?

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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.

Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.

I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.

And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.

So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.

  • LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
  • STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).

So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.

Modlog:

Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.

Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)

 

That is a threat.

From some back to school flyer.

 

We understand that this is a jarring and sudden change, but we're proud of our audio team's ability to create suitable replacements with such short notice. We hope that in time, these new sounds will grow to hold a place in your heart just like the old ones.

(Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/38428736)

 

I have so many great memories from childhood vacations to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I cant believe the disaster happened all the way back in 2007.

At least someone has been collecting and documenting everything they can find from the old place: https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/

I still can't make it all the way through the disaster report.

 

This ancient video has ruined this song for me. My toddler is getting into Sesame Street, so the original song is on rotation in the car for the kid friendly playlist. Hard to keep from giggling.

Post name is from the video.

 

Jerboa's not too bad, as the URL field is the same field the link to your uploaded image ends up overwriting, but I swear I see people making this mistake every fucking day. End up posting just an image when they wanted image + link.

Apologies, as I'm sure there's proper channels for this, and open source projects tend to not have the best UIs. Just shouting into the void.

 

Definitely a repost, but it fits the season

 
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