LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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If nothing else, he has a talent for sucking the oxygen from the room.

This article makes it sound much more interesting than it actually is.

‘Here’s an idea: let all those around you know your status.’

‘Revolutionary!’

It’s weird we haven’t already done this, but good.

There’s already a codebase for bursting from the ground in an explosion of lava. Everyone wants that.

You’re the first person asking for a scarf, and our system doesn’t even know what a neck is.

Want crazy?

His Nazi ‘school’ was evicted from an Italian monastery.

Bannon’s CV is wild.

That was literally how he piloted and refined weaponising gamers, fandoms, and social media 20 years ago. His WoW and similar social manipulation projects were a major driving force behind GamerGate.

Trump Campaign CEO Once Worked for a World of Warcraft Marketplace

Or never let Windows touch anything. There are alternatives. Treat Windows like the virus it is.

If you’re concerned about privacy, fire nearly always works.

If you had a seizure condition, though…

You didn’t have to be looking for porn – it was super common to run across CP or beheading videos in random niche interest forums posted by trolls. So many times I saw something I did not want to see when clicking for a knitting pattern.

e: I have psychological scars from that Dan Pearl video – for a while in the mid-aughts, it was literally unavoidable unless you stopped using the internet entirely.

Do you mean these?

They were part of a continuity ritual we performed before they installed cupholders in computers. You’d have to feed them to your pc one at a time when requested, often whilst entering an incantation in the command prompt. The meaning may have been lost to time, but we still use their icon to honour that ritual.

e: I can’t believe I found these so quickly. They were still on the same closet shelf where I put them in 2002.

Oh, yeah, the browser wars. As a designer during that time, having to learn 5 or more versions of css and JavaScript (which were sometimes competing and broke one another) before code pages were a thing was a nightmare.

And getting kicked off dial-up because someone decided to make a phone call when a large game download was at 97% complete after 5 hours before file caching was really a thing was infuriating.

Hahahaha relatable.

I don’t remember it that way. To me, it was a minefield of viruses, popup ads, chain mail, and unexpected extreme NFSW content.

Everything improved a bit when browsers started limiting recursive popups and hidden executables on websites, but for much of the late 90s and early aughts, every click was risky. And oh my god the design of things. I was so happy when the

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Oh nice. Just remember to hydrate and get some sleep. It’s so easy to lose hours to that game!

Medieval Dynasty: New Settlement in VR. It’s quite good, though a bit glitchy here and there. Finished the main quest line and am now running my tavern whilst waiting for my baby to be born.

That’s all very true and valid.

I don’t mean to imply anything here, but is it common to find a body, call 911, then bug out without giving any contact info?

Is it weird that I think the vast majority of people would want to stick around to see what was happening, at least?

If I found a body, I’d be interested in what happened, and why. If I found a burnt body in the wilderness, I’d probably not want to fuck off into that same wilderness alone with, perhaps, a survivalist murderer lurking. I’d probably wait for the authorities, since there’s safety in numbers. Maybe that’s just me?

You clearly don’t know what I mean, since I’ve said repeatedly that other people’s claims or beliefs don’t constitute evidence.

I asked for actual evidence. If you have none, you could have said that near the beginning of this conversation rather than whatever you’ve been doing.

You also clearly don’t know what I mean since you’ve been attributing random meanings to me that have been wrong every time. I don’t have nefarious purposes, I actually just want the actual evidence you claimed to have, and I don’t put stock in people’s stories, because people are often mistaken for many reasons. For evidence to be taken seriously , it should not rely on subjective accounts.

So it sounds like you don’t have evidence, you have stories.