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Dare

@dare@kamu.social

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An RPG and adventure sports enthusiast and speculative fiction writer. Making a living as a sysadmin but has unrealistic daydreams of being a full-time novelist.

Lives in Helsinki. Dabbles in a lot of different stuff, so not exceptionally good at anything.

Politics of a tofu eating pinko heathen. Social skills of a hermit crab. What on earth am I even doing on social media.

they/them/seriously why does language have genders what is this madness, like life isn't difficult enough

Languages	FI, EN, (DE), (SV), (((FR)))
Website	https://blog.karmavector.org/
Author on Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14673849.Dare_Talvitie

Keväällä minuun iski yllättävä inspiraatio väsätä STL-avaruusoopperaroolipeli. Sain viimein kasaan ensimmäisen julkaisukelpoisen betatekstin. Punasiirtymä, olkaa hyvät:
https://blog.karmavector.org/punasiirtyma/

@husku Itävalta on kyllä paljon kivempi paikka vierailla kuin Saksa. Tää tulee toki vuoristoa ja seikkailuharrastuksia rakastavan tyypin perspektiivistä. Wienissä en oo vielä edes käynyt.

Roni Laukkarinen 2d ago

Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

@sunguramy Yikes for your buddy 😬

I've found it is possible for me to swim in SRT kit, if I have a reasonably thick wetsuit and hiking boots instead of wellies. Still I'd rather not do that for long, or at all, if alternatives are available.

It's hard to swim in wellies and full SRT kit, so this is where my partner and I had to turn back in #GrotteDeGournier in #Vercors. We got right next to Salle Chevalier, meaning we'd covered about one third of the length of the passage. Next year, hiking boots & thicker wetstuit.

I love it!

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Tero Ykspetäjä Jul 5

Turku Pride kaipaa vapaaehtoisia marssin ja puistojuhlan järjestelyihin. Yritin vakuuttaa porukoita, että homma voisi helpottua, jos niin tiedotusta kuin vapaaehtoisten kommunikointiakin ei olisi keskitetty Metan alustoille. Ja että Mastodon voisi olla alusta, josta voisi löytyä oikeanhenkistä porukkaa. Joten ajattelin kokeilla: jos olisivat täällä, seuraisitko ja voisitko harkita vastaavasi vapaaehtoiskutsuun?

(Saa mielellään jakaa, että tavoittaisi enemmän ihmisiä)

#pride #TurkuPride

Seuraisin

87.5%

Voisin harkita vapaaehtoistumista

12.5%

Poll ended at Jul 8 at 7:45am.

Rigging an intro-level cave for our SRT students. Even though the cave and rope work may be introductory level, deploying the ropes is a bit more advanced.

#caving #GrotteDesEymards #vercors

Sebastian Hageneuer Jul 3

ICYMI: 🎮 In this blog post, I introduce the field of archaeogaming:

1️⃣ Studying games as archaeological artefacts (hello, E.T. cartridges!)
2️⃣ Exploring how archaeology is represented in games like Tomb Raider
3️⃣ Applying archaeological methods within games—like in No Man’s Sky

I believe this interdisciplinary approach offers valuable insights into cultural heritage, ethics, and digital worlds.

🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2021/07/30/archaeogaming-an-overview/

#Archaeogaming #GameStudies #DigitalHeritage #Archaeology

@WeirdWriter ... that email is a joke, right? A joke of such magnitude that mere mortals will likely never comprehend it. A joke that is written clearly, concisely and with machine-readability in mind? 🤔

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I love it!

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Marcelo Magallon Jul 3

@mina @bruces wait… why is Merry quasi royalty? I'm missing something...

»Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck, called The Magnificent, was a Hobbit, the son of Saradoc Brandybuck. [...] Saradoc "Scattergold" Brandybuck was a Hobbit and Master of Buckland.«

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Meriadoc_Brandybuck

Seed 𓆏 Jul 3

@mina @mem @bruces

That's Pippin, not Merry, who’s labeled "quasi-royalty". It comes from him being the Shire-thain. Not sure it's exactly right to call him "royalty", though it's similar in a lot of ways. The position was literally called "Shire-king" in the past before the events of LOTR too.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Shire-thain

Shire-thain

The Shire-thain,[1] also known as the Thain of the Shire, was the title given to the traditional military leader of the Hobbits in the Shire after the fall of Fornost and the Dúnedain Kingdom of Arthedain in the mid-Third Age. The Shire-thain was the master of the Shire-moot and the captain of the Shire-muster. The Hobbits first chose a Shire-thain to rule them in TA 1979 (Shire-reckoning 379), four years after Arvedui, last King of Arthedain, perished. Over time, the Shire-thain became a...

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FoolishOwl Jul 3

@mina @pseudosage @mem @bruces Ah, I didn't realize that about the Took.

I was long frustrated that they never explain how Bilbo made his living before he goes off on an adventure. It's a detail I could ignore in The Hobbit, when we don't see anything of the Shire except Bilbo's house, but we do see gradations of status in LOTR. I figured Bilbo was probably sort of a minor gentry landlord, on the model of 19th century novels that are too "polite" to mention why the idle rich have money.

I remember from "the Hobbit" that the Baggins family was a well respected one (which usually means: of money).

I always believed that Bilbo was kind of a land owner, living from rent.

@pseudosage @mem @bruces

@mina @mem @bruces "Quasi-royalty" here seems to refer to people with a role like "steward" of some nation.

Which makes sense.

@mina @bruces The fact that Sam is Frodo's servant in the beginning, rather than a friend, is massively downplayed in the movie.

In the books there is much more development between the two characters.

You're damn right about this aspect, and yet: The trilogy remains an excellent adaption, other than the abomination that was "The Hobbit".

@bruces

Julio J. 🀲Jul 3

@mina @mistakenotmy @bruces

🍿 waiting for the Tom Bombadil replies to this post 🍿

😂

@mistakenotmy @bruces

@mina @j3j5 @bruces Tom Bombadil was not in the movie so he would not know anything about it 😀

ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫5d ago

@mistakenotmy @mina @j3j5 @bruces And I remember how deeply disappointed me and my friends were about that... We hoped he would appear in the long DVD version, but alas...

I have to defend Jackson here.

Tom is irrelevant for the story.

@mistakenotmy @j3j5 @bruces

@j3j5 @mina @mistakenotmy @bruces Good point. Have a Goldberry.

Le Néandertal sous benzo 5d ago

@j3j5 @mina @mistakenotmy @bruces I'd simply say that the trilogy turned contemplative books in action movies. I was unable to watch the third to the end.

(Many people who loved the movies hated the books, which they found too slow and boring; this is not a surprise to me... I'm much more surprised by the amount of people who loved both)

I have read the books about a dozen times over the years (strangely enough, with every lecture, I keep discovering new aspects).

When I'm saying, the films were a good adaption, I'm not implying, they were completely faithful.

Books and films are different forms of art and deserve to be judged independently of each other.

I mean: Nobody ever accused Mozart of leaving out the nuances of Beaumarchais' play in "La nozze di Figaro".

@j3j5 @mistakenotmy @bruces

Le Néandertal sous benzo 5d ago

@mina @j3j5 @mistakenotmy @bruces when I say that the movies dropped out the contemplative parts of the book, to keep mostly action scenes, I'm not talking about being totally faithful. I'm talking of the spirit of the work. But never mind, I'm not denying anyone the right to love the movies.

(And I'm not entering a contest about the number of times I read the books. What's more significant maybe is that I read them before I saw the movies, that I was really young the first time I read them, and that I read them again and again for years.)

Isabel Ruffell Jul 3

Pippin's dad is the Thain, so he is also quasi-royalty, though decayed royalty might be closer.

Gimli is also a royal cousin.

I'll fetch my coat ...

Wilfried Klaebe Jul 3

Gimli is also royally cussin, sometimes. 😏

@iaruffell @mina @bruces

Haha!

@iaruffell @bruces

DoNotPunchDown Jul 3

This is the best thread ever! 😁

@DoNotPunchDown

Excellent, indeed, but have you seen the one on car walking?

https://berlin.social/@mina/114789460480186692

Mina (@mina@berlin.social)

German law allows walking over cars standing in no-parking zones. #Gravy

berlin.social

DoNotPunchDown Jul 4

No, I hadn't. Thank you. It's hilarious. Took me awhile to read it because I had to translate all the replies. Used AI for that 😆

@DoNotPunchDown

😂

eswillwalker 5d ago

@mina @DoNotPunchDown making me wish I could read German.

DoNotPunchDown 5d ago

I just used a translator. Not google. I stay away from that thing. But it didn't take too long and was worth it imo.

But yeah, being able to just read German would have been a lot easier 😆

Sordid Amok!Jul 3

@mina @bruces If Master gave him a sock, Sam would've given it back. He knew his place.

Marty Fouts Jul 3

@mina @bruces The only person he caries is Frodo and that only once Frodo is too injured to continue. The other royalty all do heavy lifting, even Boromir, before he dies.

The image isn’t telling the story that the meme creator thinks it is.

I reckon, you put too much thought into it.

Marty Fouts Jul 3

@mina @bruces More like the author put too little. Now if they had said something about the fellowship being entirely male. . ,

@MartyFouts @mina @bruces

It's not actually commenting on what happens in the book, but the culture of assumptions that Tolkien was embedded within.

Male, yes. That read is fairly obvious. But it's also deeply class blind, so much so that it leaks into the films where dirty orcs all have urban working class accents, with extra grunting of course.

Pratchett did a good job lampooning a lot of Tolkien.

Marty Fouts 5d ago

@doctormo @mina@berlin.social @bruces It’s trying to use the book to lampoon the culture but it’s failing because it picked an aspect of the the book that doesn’t match the assumptions it’s trying to lampoon.

cobratbq - cranky-by-design Jul 4

@mina @bruces @volt4ire How it started .. How it's going ..

"You bow to no-one" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VWhHJaSjA

'You Bow To No One' Scene | Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

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nemo™ 🇺🇦Jul 4

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In Search of a Better World 6d ago

Excuse me, but Frodo is not low ranked aristocracy. He is high ranked commoner. He's a member of the Gentry, not the nobility.

Moeveninsel 5d ago

@mina @bruces
Galadriel?

Was soll mit Galadriel sein?

Sie gehörte ja nicht zur Gemeinschaft, genauso wenig wie Elrond.

Moeveninsel 5d ago

@mina @bruces
Korrekt.

Ian K Tindale 5d ago

@mina @bruces who are any of these people and where did they get such terrible fashion sense