Gemini Links 14/06/2024: Ads vs. Content, Why Aliases Are Har
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Word for Word
Someone had claimed that the Bible was a word-for-word translation. Well, mostly. There are stories (humans are ever inventing and copying stories) of 70 elders faithfully translating words about a virgin, or maybe it was supposed to be a maiden? Or it was 72 elders, not 70? Close enough? Or why did 500 arhats get together at the juncture of oral and written sutras? Some of this is doubtless for political and marketing purposes, so that no one tribe is more equal, or this newfangled writing thing, we gone done it right! There is safety in numbers; three copies is better than two and with only one copy, well, who knows what errors it contains. And is someone testing or reviewing the work?
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🔤SpellBinding: AELOPXY Wordo: SHOWS
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The Fantasy Trip Bestiary Finished
I finished reading The Fantasy Trip Bestiary today. All in all, I'm very pleased by the content. It was interesting to see how many real animals they included; all had points of interest, and I can see using them in the game. I wish they had been more consistent about some of the information they included that: for instance, why give breeding information for the pegasus, and explicitly note that breeding information on unicorns is not available, but not give breeding information for the hypogriff, which is only found among humans? And it would have been nice to have weights for the fantasy creatures — PCs often want to carry off parts or entire corpses. But these are minor quibbles. It's definitely a useful book for an TFT GM.
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the egg of time
as i lie here, naked and deconstructed, i do not think anything anymore. the machine wins every time.
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thoughts on Ads vs. Content
Computex was last week. For those unaware, its this big tech expo where many companies have new product demonstrations - new pc cases, new cpu coolers, keynotes by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, oh my! It's also a content feast for tech youtubers who make the trip.
I run firefox with ublock, so youtube is pretty much ad-free for me. I watched a ton of videos from computex, though, and the effect on me was pretty much the same as if I'd been advertised to. I don't currently have a desktop - I sold my custom build a couple years ago - but after watching these videos, I'd spend time on pcpartpicker speccing out a system to build. There's some kind of thing about window shopping that makes it easy to hyperfocus on. Thing is, I don't want to *do* anything that I need this hypothetical computer for. My focus on it is almost entirely a consumerism urge. I have this urge because of the videos. They're content, but they're also ads, which is why companies pay for these youtubers to make the trip to Taiwan for the event.
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Technology and Free Software
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Test, images and ascii
This is my first post. Is merely a test about posting images.
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Internet/Gemini
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Aliases are hard, perhaps impossible, on the modern Web
This place looks really nice. There's a bit of dust in some corners, some splinted wood here, some discoloration there. I really like it, gives the pub a really nice charm.
I was unsure on what to say for a while until I realized that the best way is to probably just do it. Obviously, I'm also going to start with a heavy one; what could go wrong? ;)
As I said in my presentation, this is my first "real" alias that isn't publicly traceable back to my real person. Ever since I made it, I couldn't stop to think about it. Everybody discusses compartmentalization but nobody discusses the real dynamics of such a thing.
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