I’m not there. Somewhere on the spectrum but not that far. I do have a friend that described it as “I try to collect friends like pokemon - look for the rare and shiny people, they’re worth your time.” He’s quite neurodivergent but has a ton of true friends who would give them the shirt off their back.

it’s hard to make friends, and harder to keep friendships going, but it’s worth it in the end.

a mobile home, hauls kayaks,

at least it’s not a pavement princess. guy down the block has to literally grab a step stool to help his wife into his. It’s never been off asphalt. he drives it to his tech job 35 miles away.

Because according to the Christian faith, the death on the cross is the moment of victory. The divide-by-zero that absolves sin.

clever romans cut that gordian knot: “he’s the son of god? and god? ok yeah sure buddy, Romulus, grab the nails.”

awww… that’s disappointing.

We live between two floors.

I saw this in Being John Malkovich but didn’t realize it was a thing in real life. So, like, you live on the 9 1/2 floor or something?

and add a couple of frames to the sprite sheet in order to animate the scarf if that’s required.

Are they all inhumane, or are the commanders and some of the most brutal soldiers?

just the ones committing war crimes and stealing appliances, but unfortunately they’re indistinguishable from the rest.

anyone on that side that wants to survive this better find a way to surrender.

I call them orcs because of their inhumane behavior on the field of conflict.

And yeah, it’d be real, real bad for any poor ivan crossing that border.

i never want to see more conflict, but goddamn if putin’s gonna play stupid games it would be amazing to see them try this shit. imagine tens of thousands of Simo’s lighting orcs up with javelins and an actual military

Yup. Here we have Tahoma. Rainier can fuck right off.

that’s a good way to put it.

“you get arrested just for posting on Facebook now” is a funny way of saying “you got arrested for attempting to incite a riot”

more like: mastodon sits patiently while the other services implode

banks / culture series offers a lot of fascinating insights. but yeah, hard to adapt for movie audiences… similar to the constraints of storytelling and level of nerdistry you can cram into a film frame… I felt the same way about Tom Clancy’s mil-fantasy level of intense inspection about the hardware and users motivations… but he rarely went full silly like Dale Brown with the execution, but very little of clancy’s obsession with detail gets into the films made from his IP.

thinking about these tropes has led me to think I need to make some games exploring them heh

lucky! they still subsidize the activity if they tithe tho.

Even if we magically restart facilities that used to be around, they’ll be on the older, larger architectures we can’t fit in ourr pockets

ok so you’re not wrong on the fundamentals but… you should know - you’d need to go back to the 80s for the fabrication scale to actually have much effect on the size of devices.

pooping in a hole to pooping into a magic toilet that sings you songs while spraying you with water.

which then sends the poop where? down a hole.

it’s holes man, holes all the way down

so re: encryption - if you can muddle your messages meaning and transmit in unencrypted mode, that convo can hide in the huge volume of calls happening all the time.

once you go through the trouble of encrypting it and running it through spectrum hopping and other security methods, you’re simply pointing two REALLY BIG FUCKING ARROWS at the convo participants that say “THESE GUYS HAVE SECRETS THAT SHOULD BE REVEALED WITH BRUTAL METHODS”, your encrypting the messages actually draws attention.

warfare looks pretty much like today, only in space

not even that. Star wars warfare looks like what someone from the boomer generation thought warfare looked like in WW2. But really it’s what movie warfare from WW2 looked like, because showing actual war would confuse and bore people. lucas was enamored with serials.

or, it could be that this is all a silly oversimplification depicted in a fuckin web comic lol…

gross oversimplification of the actual struggle - check

depicts atheism as cruel and hurtful - check

maybe you should think about what you’re consuming before you follow it’s facile conclusions…