Scientist 1: This really small thing is completely different from everything we know.
Scientist 2: Yeah, we thought for a moment it was like "thing", but it is not. In some aspects it is the complete opposite of thing. I have no idea what to call it.
S1: Let's just call it "quantum thing".
S2: Good idea, with "quantum" in front everyone will understand it is nothing like "thing".
Media: In quantum physics, "thing" is the opposite of itself. Nothing is true and the world makes no sense.
A lot of Linux users put their distrosonas on the profile.
It's like a fursona, but it's always a penguin with slightly different details.
I hope no one takes this a well-researched and thought out take.
Animators, please don't kill me, I love your work.
And now we have reached a point where people are actually thinking about good storytelling (!) and even trying to make it not-completely-fucked-up. It doesn't always work out, but it is already more thought out and mature than most TV for adults.
And also, budgets are larger than ever. They can afford to tell a story with more than 6 frames.
Then we got, around the 90s or so, the "absurdist animation" period. It took the silliness of slapstick and the bitter humor of animation for adults and made some kid-friendly but surprisingly deep stuff. It had an almost dadaist quality to it.
Think Spongebob vs Wiley E. Coyote.
In the "Hanna-Barbera" period, people thought kids were stupid so they could just repeat the same 2 frames ad nauseam. But talking animals were cool.
In the "Selling action figures/dolls" period, they decided kids were easily influenced so they filled it with thinly-veiled advertisement while obsessing about trite moral messages and concern trolling.
I have been cooking a lot with garlic during quarantine - I have been cooking for me more and it's one of my favorite seasonings, and it's one of the few my family always buys.
When I finally leave the house, my bad breath will be legendary.
I don't want to not see those posts. I think it is important! I want to understand better.
I assume people posting about meta want to be understood, but it is just hard because what each person sees in here is different. I mean, I keep having second thoughts about very this post, if I should dig out some specific events as examples like I just asked.
So I'm just suggesting to give more specific info whenever you post, to make it easier for everyone to follow.
Trying to do what I just said:
Recently it looks like an admin of mastodon.social (Luigi) said something bad (already apologized), and someone (no idea who) made too big of a deal and defederated from the instance. People have been complaining about both the admin and the reaction, but it took me quite a while to piece together even this little (uncertain) information.
I don't even care too much about the events, but the atmosphere of mystery and conflict is a big deal.