Krudler

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[–] Krudler 2 points 5 months ago

I agree and that's still poison.

The idea that when something growling outside the cave has everybody shaking inside, it's the guy's job to get a pointed stick and go outside, knees knocking, heart pounding.

This is not compatible with modern life. Especially if the person scrounging around outside is a meth-addled woman, and I happen to go out in uppercut her.

[–] Krudler 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Protectors & providers

It's one of the worst kind of inequality which women don't (or rarely) ever examine and question if it's compatible with modern ideas

[–] Krudler 2 points 5 months ago

Think about how fast a point on the equator of the Earth moves relative to a point a few cm away from the North Pole.

In one full rotation of the Earth, the point on the equator will have traveled 40,000 km, and the point by the North Pole will have traveled a meter.

So... it's that it's a useless way to express rotation.

[–] Krudler 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would I get a tattoo, no? Do I like them on others? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

I have never thought that they were particularly creative, if anything I always felt quite the opposite.

That feeling was confirmed when I was invited to a tattoo expo with a friend, there were perhaps 70 exhibitors, and all of them had the exact same or highly derivative trendy designs, and I think two of the exhibitors had unique art. That really said a lot to me.

[–] Krudler 9 points 5 months ago

Boost died today. I'm done with Reddit forever.

When the API fiasco went down, I backed away from all the communities I created over a decade ago and just walked away from modding.

Now I go to not participating.

I hate Reddit, and I have fun memories at the same time. I was like the 50th sign up, I even emailed spez his own source code because he had his web server badly configured to report verbose errors.

Oh well.

[–] Krudler -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I knew Reddit went down for a reason.

[–] Krudler 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

1997 was the year of Linux on the desktop.

Also 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

2024 baby! I can feel it.

[–] Krudler 3 points 7 months ago

The only barber that was ever able to cut my insane hair passed away after an unsuccessful liver transplant and it was at that point I purchased my own professional clippers.

Having bad haircuts my whole life until I found her is literally a point of trauma that I've not recovered from and I'm 49 years old now.

[–] Krudler 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is everybody saying slay the spire pioneered the genre when it's a clone of others?

[–] Krudler 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have no idea, it was one of the most vapid, least memorable movies I've seen.

Edit: and I completely stayed out of the hype bubble for Avatar as well, completely avoiding all exposure to it unless completely inescapable. I finally watched the movie for the first time 6 months ago, I can honestly say it was among the worst pieces of shit I've seen in 10 years. And the CGI and overall design of the world was weak.

 

Perhaps I'm being difficult, but I'm not deriving pleasure from documentaries the way I used to. I realize I'm speaking in generalities, please humor me.

I find the presentation of most modern docs so hyperdramatic and forced, it detracts from the underlying subject matter.

I would prefer if documentaries tried their best to collect and present information in a fascinating way, and present it as reasonably neutral as possible, with some leeway for the author's voice. I don't appreciate it when the superficial presentation constantly tries to cue me emotionally.

I really don't understand why I have to have violen symphony music playing like it's the eve of world war 3, and all the nukes are about to be launched, when I'm watching a documentary about snail parasites or particle collider research.

Even though it's different auditorially, to me it's the same principle as applying a laugh track to a comedy show. I don't need it suggested to me when something is funny, and I don't need to be cued by string orchestra music that something is serious or worrisome. Please trust me to make these judgments on my own!

I think all trends ebb and flow but this one seems to have taken root and it's doesn't seem to be letting up.

I wonder if other people feel this way, or if I'm just watching the wrong things?

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