Pop culture and narcissism, not necessarily in that order. I try to be one of the good randos.
Most posts self-destruct eventually.
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I am not a person who makes computers do useful things for other people (or even myself, more often than not). I know there are infinite reasons why software (like so many things) seems so much worse on average than How It Used To Be.
Still, as a mere User, I sometimes cannot resist nursing my secret belief that mantras like "programmer time is more valuable than [CPU/bandwidth/user time]" and "the code is the documentation" are somehow to blame for (waves vaguely) How We Live Now.
*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*
All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".
My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.
Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.
I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.
Thought I'd try listening to the venerable (and venerated) History of Rome podcast and…it's kind of terrible? Pop history through an uncritical military/political Great Men of History lens that butchers the Latin like Romans sacking Carthage.
Apparently "it gets better" after the fall of the Republic, but I'm not grinding 40+ hours on a podcast like it's a dang JRPG when the underlying approach seems so weak.
Grimwild being the Deal of the Day on DTRPG when the creator has rather infamously ghosted the project feels weird IMO.
I've purchased digital access to open-licensed #TTRPG PDFs for convenience where the original stakeholders are defunct/deceased (e.g., OpenD6) but this feels like a step too far in the circumstances, given that the Community Edition exists and is actively being worked on:
Axiom 1: Idle hands are the devil's playthings
Axiom 2: The devil makes work for idle hands
What kind of playthings do you make work for? Colony management sims. In this essay, I shall argue [1/58]
me:
*talks to my kid*
my dipshit brain:
hey this is a Lacan reference
And on the subject, here's how you can tell if you're watching something that's total crap or not.
Are you watching it because you feel smarter than the characters? Or superior to them? Then you aren't consuming art, you're consuming a primer for advertising, or advertising itself.
Are you watching because you want to see what the characters see, and broaden your perspective? Then your media has some nutritional value.
Figured out I should probably take the night off from work when I realized I was verbalizing my symptoms like Leeloo from The 5th Element.
"Fatigue. Faa-teeegue. Faaaaaaateeeeeeguuuuuh."
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