Notices by Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)

Perhaps my most controversial take ever is that the original english translation of the "Symphony of the Night" opening cut-scene was actually really well-written. I still think about it sometimes. It's a pity that they tried to "correct" it in later versions.

@foone hell is empty and the antennas are all here

@foone surely you already know that it hasn’t *actually* solved the “upside down” problem right

@foone you’re really making me want to play this and I have never even seen the movie

Also there was some Gender, but, what are you gonna do.

As I watched the Rudolph special with my kid for the first time and braced for problematic content, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the actual explicit messages in the morality tale were… fine? Diversity is good, pluralism, admitting you’re wrong, all good stuff. But the weird part was the implicit assumption that everybody, even “good” people, all naturally react with an almost instinctual, intense revulsion at anything different, even different in a completely anodyne way.

@foone what do you mean, roms are what you get when you image a floppy with the tab open

@foone no. Bad. stop.

@foone you are going to have a _blast_ when you get to match statements, and also be confused for a week

@foone @jyn I wonder if we would all be happier or sadder if we slid into the parallel dimension where web browsers never used JavaScript because they used Tcl instead

@foone only doubley though, never intily so

@foone the temptation to devils-advocate this is incredibly strong

@foone did that resolution exist outside of early Macs?

@foone sadly despite its iconic status I don't think enough people knew what it looked/looks like to make it worthwhile to have a death generator for it https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/121114/bloomberg-terminal-step-step.asp

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'str' and 'bytes'

@foone based on the fact that a) you are posting this somehow and b) you are foone, I assume where this thread is going is an NDIS driver that does tcp/ip over activitypub

@hynek @offby1 @brettcannon I am still pretty optimistic. About mastodon, anyway. If I'm being clear-eyed about the whole thing, I do not think that any of us are particularly qualified to predict the success of social networks. But we're definitely not in a death spiral yet.

c.f. the old "Linux on the Desktop" joke; on the one hand, a big failure to achieve its stated goals. On the other hand, the Steam Deck.

@brettcannon bluesky funding, the latest Musk outrage lead to a huge boost in bluesky user count, while mastodon stayed flat. Plus there has been a huge amount of posting about plushes, which comes across as poorly timed at a moment where mastodon is so badly losing the race for twitter refugees

@hynek @brettcannon

nerds: you moron. patreon is unsustainable. you are not raising enough money to fund this site. you will destroy us

eugen: okay how about I sell merch to supplement it

nerds: you absolute fool. fix this bug that *I* care about, that no one will pay you for, instead. your plushies will not sell

eugen: okay I will market it aggressively.

nerds: shut up. i hate seeing these promotions all over my timeline. no one will buy these anyway

eugen: we are selling out immediately

@hynek @brettcannon personally I am _trying_ not to get too mad about the plushies because there is a reading of the Discourse that goes like this: 🧵