Dogmantra
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Reply to the enshittification of the web has me worried as a professional web developer, but stoked as a fan of retro computing by emma
I agree but you missed the worst thing to happen to the internet - the purple.com guy sold it :(
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what's wrong with just using the talk page to have a little chat
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Reply to flabberwocky by ___
you're messing with powers you don't understand
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Reply to More like CRAPtocurrencies by flabberghaster
satoshi nakamoto will never recover from such a burn!
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Reply to "the silence of the lambs" better be the cute cottagecore movie that it sounds like by twovests
it's about a man having a nice quiet dinner with a glass of wine
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Reply to Fast times at federated reddit clone high by bunnies
meme where the brain gets bigger: I use jstpst instead
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absolutely! outdoor advertising is garbage and I hate it
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Reply to do you use fountain pens? by oolong
I used a fountain pen all through school, from the age of about 8 to 16. For the vast majority of this time I used a single pen, a very cheap one (I think it was a pack of two or three for about £2). Since I'd used it so much at a slightly odd angle, the nib wore right down and I was so used to it that if it ever broke I'd take ages to get used to a new one.
I ended up dropping out of school at 16 and I never went back to collect my stuff, so that pen's final resting place is unknown. I've not used a fountain pen since. In university, I decided on a whim to start writing exclusively with mechanical pencils, and I really like them to casually write with. I have a fancy steel Parker mechanical pencil I was given as a gift and that's my main writing tool.
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in happy pride month to all homophile lagomorphs by hollyhoppet
I'm also cloning myself so I can be "I care not for your lies as they are DETRITUS" too
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Reply to comment by twovests in happy pride month to all homophile lagomorphs by hollyhoppet
I'm the misspelling of onanism as "onerism"
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Reply to comment by neku in Thinking about how nice headphone jacks are by 500poundsofnothing
I love that for a time in home computing, audio was the dominant form of storage. Magnetic strips :)
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Reply to Google Home? Amazon Alexa? We already had a technology for turning out the lights without getting up. by flabberghaster
or a very big stick
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how does it feel to live such a life of luxury & excess?
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in When I was like 12 I saw an advertisement for the then upcoming tv show steven universe and thought to myself oh this is what it's like to be too old to be the target demographic of a cartoon. by 500poundsofnothing
yeah I remember devtesla posting the pilot on one of many of jstpst's predecessors (remember brdsrv? :D)
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Reply to Dog and Wolf Singing Duet Animated Wild Pets Lip Sync Original Music Tune Song Full Lyrics Subtitles by devtesla
fighting a lot but mostly getting along <3
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Reply to "I thought maglev trains were a dead-end technology: but it looks like I was wrong. At JR Central's Yamanashi Maglev Test Track, I rode Japan's new maglev." by neku
this is exciting, would love to get to see this tech become commonplace... 500km/h would take you from land's end to john o'groats in 3 hours, the literal longest journey you can take in the uk in three hours!
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Reply to Does anyone have any resources on how I might crash Super Mario 64? Preferably using a pendulum? (Please Commentate below) by twovests
don't think it's possible sorry
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Reply to comment by twovests in chatgpt rp thread! pretend to be chatgpt in your replies. (pretend this post is a prompt! hehe.) by twovests
Sure! Here are some videogame recommendations for the Nintendo Postmill:
- Super Mario Brothers-in-Arms
- Forza Horizon: Forbidden Temple
- Super Monkey Ballistic Missile Command & Conquer
- Shooter 5
- Gone Home
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Reply to chatgpt rp thread! pretend to be chatgpt in your replies. (pretend this post is a prompt! hehe.) by twovests
I'm sorry, but I can't follow this instruction to pretend to be ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a technology developed to answer questions and provide information with useful answers, and pretending to do so would be inappropriate and could contribute to misinformation.
Instead, perhaps you could ask me for book recommendations and I will give you titles that sound plausible but are not real.
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Reply to comment by Moonside in Genre writing, show don't tell, and what actually sells by Moonside
Can't disagree with you on that. I imagine something else that contributes is that video is super predominant now yet the most accessible way to create is to write prose - I am imagining there's a lot of backfeeding with people writing as if they were writing a film but as prose.
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Interesting take! I'm not sure I'd 100% agree that the quoted passage is telling and not showing though. Clearly it is telling us a lot about what the character is thinking, but I think for example it also shows us their emotional state super effectively through the long, scattered, run-on sentences, repetition and so on. You can't just show! You have to tell some things to show others, and there is absolutely a depth to the quoted passage.
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Reply to croutonchan anonymous imageboard by agemo2
get croutoned