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Gwen The Red Moss 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Y'know... I'm kinda glad I started playing Postal. I believe that we project ourselves on everything we come into contact with in the world. Art, media, religion, our spaces, anything that presents us with a choice; we try to reflect ourselves wherever we go. Sometimes it's interesting to try a different mirror and see what gets reflected back.</p><p>How many times have I seen an empty village in a later Elder Scrolls game? In Fallout? Name an RPG or a shooter with innocents? None of them get regarded as murder simulators. Now, I'm not an idiot. I understand why, but it's interesting to consider that those games give you the same freedom to kill and the player still makes a choice. </p><p>Postal (at least as far as I've gotten) doesn't ask you to kill innocents. The objective for each level is to kill a certain number of "hostiles". So, I've made the game harder on myself by trying to deliberately avoid civilian deaths. I'm not trying to paint myself like a saint or some shit. I'm saying the window for morality is shifted to the other side, but there's an overlap with the freedom of many other games. </p><p>How we choose to behave given the context of our situations, the pressures and what we "need" to do, is where we get that mirror effect. Where we get to learn a little something about ourselves. </p><p>While playing Postal, I'm in an ugly space. It's a grim mirror. The context is bad... but I still have room to choose, and that same logic can be expanded to life. Sometimes we're just in a shitty situation. We have a narrow range where we can act, and maybe it's not entirely comfortable, but we shouldn't judge ourselves too hard if the boundaries prevent us from acting in a way we truly want to. It doesn't say everything about us. We need multiple mirrors to get that three dimensional look at ourselves. </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> ? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/IDontFuckingKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IDontFuckingKnow</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ImAWeirdoWhoThinksTooMuchAboutStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImAWeirdoWhoThinksTooMuchAboutStuff</span></a></p>
GarretSidzaka<p>You can mutate love into hate using the anger side channel <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a></p>
Ruben ~ Kedara.eu<p>New blog post: "Perfectly Ordinary Thoughts in the Shower (POTS)"<br><br><a href="https://kedara.eu/p-o-t-s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://kedara.eu/p-o-t-s</a><br><br>When do you get your shower thoughts?<br><br><a href="https://kedara.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/longcovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longcovid</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/postcovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postcovid</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/yoga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yoga</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/yogasutras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YogaSutras</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://kedara.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>
Chris Wolff :kappa:<p>Got a fortune cookie last night. Decided I'd fix it, so it makes even more sense.</p><blockquote><p>You are unaffected by the darkness while staring directly at the sun. You will also go blind.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FortuneCookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FortuneCookies</span></a></p>
Florian<p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> can be so much fun if you really start thinking about common idoms and how much context they sometimes require. </p><p>Dutch: "je bent een lekker ding"<br>fellow Dutch: "they just called me hot"<br>Foreigner: "...did you just call me a tasty thing? The f*ck is wrong with you?" </p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a>: The Matrix trilogy is a sci-fi retelling of The Book of Revelations.</p>
BeatTakeshi<p><strong>We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation</strong></p> <p><a href="https://lemmy.world/post/33033107" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lemmy.world/post/33033107</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Oh lordy, it struck me while I was having a shower (<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a>) that I may have gone off half-cocked, in exactly the way I was accusing <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tofugolem</span></a></span> of doing *in that very post*. Oh the horrifying irony 😳</p><p>If this is indeed a case of heated agreement, my humblest apologies.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MeaCulpa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeaCulpa</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://furry.engineer/@kirakira" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kirakira</span></a></span></p>
LillyPip<p><strong>We need to start calling it Simulated Intelligence (SI)</strong></p> <p><a href="https://lemmy.ca/post/48050753" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lemmy.ca/post/48050753</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
pmonks (330ppm)<p>My running shorts, which I wear for the grand total of less than 30 minutes per week, don’t have pockets, and it drives me absolutely bonkers. How do women live like this?!? <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DiscriminatoryFashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiscriminatoryFashion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PocketsForAllNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PocketsForAllNow</span></a></p>
Json Doh<p>What if I declare my home a locality where the <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/daylight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>daylight</span></a> saving is not observed and keep all the clocks on the standard time all year round? 🤔</p><p>EST, CST, MST, PST are all still there, even during the summer. Arizona does it, why can't I, right?</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/ditchdst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ditchdst</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a>: Isn't an EP really an "albumette"?</p><p>I mean, they're not really "Extended Play", are they, compared to a full album ("LP" or "Long Play"). They are compared to a single ("SP"), I guess. So if a record is just a single with more B side tracks (remixes, covers, demos etc), then sure, call it an EP.</p><p>But if it's a collection of properly-recorded songs, like an album, but with a shorter runtime? That's an albumette. Or an albumlet (like an applet). Or an albumella (like novella)?</p>
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar<p>💡 Due to focus group test results within Volkswagen-Audi Group, the former Gulf of America is now renamed to the Rabbit of America.</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Volkswagen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Volkswagen</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Rabbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rabbit</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GulfOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Car</span></a></p>
kopio<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/random" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>random</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/starwars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starwars</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a> </p><p>Why does Boba Fett have a tiny cape next to his jetpack? Is it flame/heat resistant?!</p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a>: Branding is thought-terminating cliché as marketing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/branding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>branding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NoLogo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLogo</span></a></p>
Chris Wolff :kappa:<p>To paraphrase someone way smarter than I am:<br>Bitching about politics, the economy, the weather, etc. is the background noise of a group of people with no internal crisis imminent.</p><p>As irritating as it can be sometimes, to look at the Fediverse and see a demonstration of the direction this world is apparently headed and why that is wrong, I don't find that alarming in its own right.</p><p>I will shit myself if the crickets ever stop chirping suddenly.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ShowerThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShowerThoughts</span></a>: When you're talking to someone in a crowded place, the white noise of other people's conversations makes a kind of cone of silence around you. Keeping every groups conversation relatively private. This is why it's so unnerving when there's a momentary silence, and you suddenly find you're the only one talking.</p><p>Is there some way we could use this principle in social software? Encrypting private chats using other private chats as entropy?</p>
Charlie Balogh<p>Software dependencies are subject to Brandolini's law (a.k.a the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle), which states:</p><p>"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."</p><p>However, I also find that in any software project, the amount of effort needed to get rid of an external dependency is an order of magnitude bigger than it took to add it.</p><p>Conclusion: most software is largely made of bullshit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwaredevelopment</span></a></p>
Arkouda<p><strong>Ethical frameworks are detrimental to Scientific Study because Science is by nature unethical.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://lemmy.ca/post/47437481" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lemmy.ca/post/47437481</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Emberleaf<p>I would be very interested to know the population numbers of people who genuinely want to socialize and inform on Mastodon versus the people and organizations who just want to sell you something. It sure seems like it's more of the latter, lately. </p><p>In which case, Mastodon should be called an 'Online Marketplace' instead of a 'Social Network'.</p><p>I'm just sayin'....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consumerism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/showerthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>showerthoughts</span></a></p>