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Moonside OP wrote
This is like the side of gaming I've never done anything with but it rules
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Reply to comment by devtesla in a really good but absurdly in-depth analysis of where the simpsons went wrong [cw has some ablist language] by hollyhoppet
I read the Zombie Simpsons book but I do feel like it could have gone more into the basic storytelling problems. The best bits were a bit circumstantial, like how much staff they bled or how the show became more cartoony (like pointless chases and so on).
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Reply to a really good but absurdly in-depth analysis of where the simpsons went wrong [cw has some ablist language] by hollyhoppet
I must agree with Devtesla - the conclusions about Lisa are mostly spot on, but the diagnosis on the whole about the Simpson's decline is mistaken. Actually it could have been a better piece if it was all about Lisa as now the first part seems abandoned in the end.
As an example where the essay falters is seeing one of the episodes this piece mentions (by quoting it) as something absurd and as a vehicle for jokes is Selma's Choice. However, it actually has a very clear three act structure:
- (The Proposal) Marge's mother dies and her family and Patti and Selma meet at her funeral. Mother has left behind a video tape about her deathbed regret of remaining single and tells in it for her daughters avoid her fate. This gets Selma nervous. (Proposal: life without family/lover is unfulfilling.)
- (The Argument) Selma begins dating but doesn't succeed at all. Men are garbage. Selma also visits a theme park with Lisa and Bart and it all ends with chaos.
- (The Conclusion) Selma has a speech in which she concludes that the company of her iguana is plenty enough for her and that not everyone has to have the family or love life like others. She rejects the proposal of her mother. And I'd say this is presented as a positive thing.
Thus the episode is hardly random and in fact the first act is laid down with care, length and clarity to set up the whole thing in motion. You don't even have to know about The Simpsons to get it! "I am the Lizard Queen" is funny in part because it's basically pointing at how terribly Selma fares with kids.
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Reply to Y' know what'd be cool? Overwatch but all the characters are from different shooters. Like smash bros but for shooters by voxpoplar
Also cool: Overwatch characters but they compete in baking
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Reply to fun jstpst facts by hollyhoppet
Honestly, nice that it is so feasible to run.
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Reply to comment by cat in Primitivism and the Counterculture by Moonside
I have no idea what you're going on about
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Reply to I was only joking! by voxpoplar
Why didn't we go over this part in school?
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Reply to comment by devtesla in smash bros on the switch is SEVERELY testing my decision to not get a switch til there's a price drop or some cheaper-ish ones on ebay or something by toasthaste
That little controller works absurdly well given it's size.
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Reply to comment by musou in no, you see, it's what i call "self-obfuscating code" by twovests
I've read some of TeX book and a little bit of Knuth's journal articles, but face the facts, dude rules and when it seems like he's wrong (like with goto), he always had something interesting to say about it.
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This video not only included
- Phalanx, the famous cover for a completely unnotable game that has had the staying power of almost 30 years by now. Guys, this is not a mark of lunacy, but mastership in execution.
- Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy. Just look at the type faces included here. With this video game in your paws, you want to be a furry.
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Reply to comment by toasthaste in Three Steven bombs coming this year? by Moonside
I feel like we had better discussions in the fandom in the early days because with a weekly schedule there was time for reacting and anticipation at the same time. So reactions had a direction to go towards and any fan theories already had an excuse which to hook readers with. Now it seems like 98% of the time only fan art makes it in the fandom and there's only so many ways Peridot can smooch Amethyst, right?
I think the bomb format roughly exists because times are difficult in broadcasting and the company needs to have something to make kids excited so boom they have events they can advertise. And the Teen Titans Go! stuff is partly because the parent company owns DC and they need to manufacture the future film audiences.
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Reply to comment by toasthaste in Three Steven bombs coming this year? by Moonside
The answer is... have you considered blankets?
Personally speaking, what I like about this affair is that I know what's coming. Three bombs? Three bombs. No need to go to checkout /r/StevenUniverse every three weeks. The relief does, I think, makes up somewhat for the bomb format. Like previously we never had any inkling what might be coming up until like two or three weeks in advance, if someone leaked some info or if Brazil or France broadcasts or mobile app streams an episode before CN in US? Like hell yes I now know what we're in for.
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Reply to On grape nuts as a hot cereal by hollyhoppet
The warmer stuff gets, the sweeter it generally tastes. So if you have sweet dish you want to serve hot and you taste it cold when adjusting sweetness, you should totally lowball it. In other words, people who bake cinnamon buns are basically wizards.
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Oversharing at the speed of light twice as fast as the normal thing by Moonside
I made a playlist, but I got into scope creep and now it's has stuff that kinda has some vibes like that. The first half has lofiesque and YouTube moe audio stuff, the latter one vidya game stuff.
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Regarding the cessation of Postmill development by hollyhoppet
yeah same, though I do wonder if we should have a place for code. Like Gitlab, but in our control.
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Reply to comment by neku in Regarding the cessation of Postmill development by hollyhoppet
It also seems like the PostMill code base is like a million times more tractable than what Reddit had. Like there were a few small fixes I had in my mind to open as issues on Gitlab which are still perfectly feasible to implement. And if I bothered to learn PHP I could apply my own elbow grease in the spirit of oakreef too.
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Reply to comment by outwrangle in Pizza or Jupiter? by Moonside
I thought the issue with bad pizza wasn't that it's overcooked, but rather that the oven wasn't hot enough or cheese had too much moisture and it remained gross and soggy.
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To add to what the admin said, the software this site runs on, PostMill, will on some future date probably have more options for adding images to themes and shit.
EDIT: ok the author stopped development of PostMill so that's not going to happen.
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Reply to comment by twovests in no, you see, it's what i call "self-obfuscating code" by twovests
they shall be memorialized in commits
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Reply to comment by musou in no, you see, it's what i call "self-obfuscating code" by twovests
I feel like this is, again, some Uncle Bob bullshit. Seriously, fuck that sexist prick. He has this schtick about how TDD is all and other techniques to improve reliability and reduce errors are bullshit. Like I would be much more congenial to the attitude if it implied things like (choose your own picks):
- programming by contract
- property based testing
- fuzzers
- unit testing
- integration testing
- good method documentation, perhaps with (an) example(s)
- literate programming
- code review
- formal specs
- some nicer type system
- pair programming
- safer languages - if there are no segfaults, you don't need to advertise the risk of one
- Have some people dedicated on hammering your software in evil manners
- proofs (but that's avant garde tbh)
- stats on commits/bugs per product, project, package, module, file, method/function. If something gets a lot of work done, unleash the testers.
- Outsourcing to Donald Knuth
I think it's the case usually that this comment hater has one or three favorite techniques they like and thus disregard the rest of the universe and I bet they don't even have TAOCP on their book shelf.
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Reply to callout post @ my neighbourhood by mankyfax
run, it was a super raccoon
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Reply to comment by musou in no, you see, it's what i call "self-obfuscating code" by twovests
It has this cute logic of "excess comments indicate poor quality" and also this hidden thing where you don't need to write comments that you find boring to write anyway but now you have a virtuous reason not to.
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Reply to comment by lovelylinkle in look at my gay cat girls by lovelylinkle
I want these girls to swoon me with a duet