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  • What's a joke or reference in a piece of media that you saw but didn't understand until years or even decades later?

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  • I often wonder how non Americans deal with the omnipresence of American media, all the cultural references and intertextuality that doesn't necessarily carry over to other cultures. It's why I can't get into anime (among other reasons). All the stuff that I'm sure a Japanese person would find clever or topical just goes over my head.

    That same disconnect even happens within the US. Most media is produced in Southern California, so a lot of stuff from climate to government to gastronomy to slang terms just get shoved incongruously where it doesn't belong. For me this comes up most when talking about state government. In California you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get your driver's license, but it's not called that in all states. In Texas it's the Department of Public Safety, but even native Texans will call it the DMV because that's what it's called on TV. It's such a little example but it still bothers me. And I can only imagine it gets worse as the cultural divide widens. At least it's a phenomenon with enough recognition to merit its own article on TV Tropes.

  • Storyden: A forum for the modern age.

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  • hmmmm seems to deploy fine but when I try to register a new account (per the setup instructions) I just get an unknown error.

    The concept is promising, as I said before I've been wishing for an integrated forum/wiki for a while now, but it seems like it's very early days for this project.

    The AI stuff has me bristling though. Not a fan.

  • What's a joke or reference in a piece of media that you saw but didn't understand until years or even decades later?

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  • I'm not sure it was meant to be that deep. Grande just means large in Spanish.

    If anything maybe it was a reference to the Taco Bell dog?

    Also hehe "dogtor"

  • Storyden: A forum for the modern age.

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  • Will have to look into this. Been saying for a while that a wiki-forum combo would make sense, since a forum slowly becomes a repository of knowledge, if not generally then at least for its members, and a less linear and more browsable way to catalog that knowledge would make sense. You can set up a separate wiki server but then you have two things to manage and moderate.

  • What are some depressing realizations or positive benefits about life you've learned growing up?

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  • Everyone's probably already said this, and it counts as both good and bad.

    Nobody else knows what they're doing, either. I think I learned this depressingly late in life. I had this idea that the movers and shakers of the world got there because they knew what they were doing. Their goals and mine may not align, but they know how to achieve them. It was probably when the Juicero came out and (Forbes?) had that video of someone just squeezing the bag into a glass, and then me subsequently learning how much VC funding that thing got. It made me realize that Silicon Valley tech bros and their investors live in a different world altogether.

  • What are tell-tale signs a series has jumped its shark?

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  • The power rangers are still around? I stopped watching after the movie in 1995.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • I've never seen any of the Dune movies (save for a few minutes of the David Lynch movie while at a friend's house one time) but I read the first few books back in 2015 (11 years ago 😮) I enjoyed the first book very much but got less and less interested with each subsequent book.

    Language is an aspect of worldbuilding I love. Sci fi rarely dwells on the language barriers between sapient species, but for me it's the main event.

    Star Wars actually gets it right with Chewbacca. An alien is very unlikely to be able to have a vocal tract capable of approximating human speech, so the best you can hope for is a bilingual conversation where both parties speak their own languages. And of course there's nothing that says a language has to be based on sounds. Rikchick (sp?) is a sign language that uses tentacles.

    The semantic space of an alien language is likely to be very different as well. Aliens with different senses will have a different Umwelt (subjective perception of their environment), and will have different words to describe their experiences. It's common (though recently challenged) linguistic wisdom that humans are incapable of describing odors independently of analogies with the source of those odors (earthy, floral etc), or emotional reactions to odors (stinky, fragrant), or comparisons with taste (sweet, sour). Visual sensations (colors) have words that are completely divorced from any source that exhibits those colors. Green describes an instance of subjective experience independent of any green thing, but (most) well-studied languages have no such facility for smells. There are no "odor colors".

    Now if dogs could talk, they might have such odor colors, since dogs live in a very smelly world.

    I got carried away there, but I wrote it, so now you have to read it.

  • What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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  • As evolution proceeds, the probability that an organism will become a crab approaches 1.

  • What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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  • 𐑴 𐑯 𐑛𐑴𐑯𐑑 𐑓𐑹𐑜𐑧𐑑 𐑩𐑚𐑬𐑑 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯

  • What's up with the þ being used but not ð?

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  • hƿæt!

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Not a single piece of media, but I want to make an apologia on behalf of amateur sci fi writing. No the prose isn't going to wow you, but I love seeing other people's unfiltered imagination at work.

    I'm very much into worldbuilding, and I'll devour fan wikis without even consuming the source material. My knowledge of Warhammer 40K and D&D is almost exclusively from various wikis. Seeing regular people build their own little paracosms, with or without accompanying art or fiction, I find very engrossing.

    As for actual media, judging by how little representation the series gets in the US, I'd say Custom Robo. I thoroughly enjoyed the single entry on GameCube that Nintendo localized here.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • I feel like Rainworld is the definition of "cult classic". I couldn't get into it, but judging by how much I see it on YouTube, I guess it struck a chord with someone.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Story time:

    I had just beat Hollow Knight and was messing with Elden Ring, and the oppressive souls-like atmosphere was getting a little stale, so I went browsing the steam store looking for something more upbeat. Oh what's this? A cute little Zelda clone? Sounds like just what the doctor ordered.

    No. No it wasn't.

    Not only was it another souls-like, deciphering that writing system absolutely consumed me, to the point I had to uninstall the game for a while because I was losing sleep over it.

    I'm 99% sure Trunic is based on the Shavian alphabet. Both scripts are phonemic writing systems for English. Both use rotated letters to contrast voiced and unvoiced consonants, but the real clue for me is that both Trunic and Shavian use single letters for rhotic vowels.

    Oh, but the music is great. And I really one other devs to go further with the "manual as gameplay" concept.

  • HelixNotes - a local markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0)

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  • Oh hey I’ve been looking for “obsidian but with version history “ for a bit now.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • I flip around when I can’t sleep as well. It only works sometimes for me.

    This probably isn’t very useful to most but you’d be surprised how much info you can get from paying attention to the smells around you. I use odor for navigating places like malls.

  • What would you want done with your remains upon death?

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  • Hang my bones up in one of those ossuary chapels where the walls are covered in skulls

  • What happens when everyone just moves from discord to the public matrix server?

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  • Honestly, Discord does a lot of different things, and replacing all of them with one easy package will be next to impossible. IIRC Discord was never even profitable, so it was impossible even for them.

  • What happens when everyone just moves from discord to the public matrix server?

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  • I also had issues while making an account there.

    I think federation is actually undesirable in this case. Most Discord communities are very particular, and I'd be making one just for my friends and me, no need to complicate things by introducing federation.

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • I don't. I ignore the news to the best of my ability. I can't be misinformed if I'm not informed in the first place.

  • Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard?

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  • Or we could finally rip off the bandaid and move to IPv6

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How do you personally use upvotes/downvotes?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.world

    𐑓𐑲𐑑 𐑞 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟, 𐑤𐑼𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 (Fight the clankers, learn Shavian)

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but at least nobody's constantly asking how blind people wipe their butt or pick up their dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the story behind your username and avatar?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Please don't take my sunshine away

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Customer-facing employees, what are your Black Friday stories?

  • The Monkey's Paw @sopuli.xyz
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    I wish to reject the weakness of my flesh and embrace the strength and certainty of steel.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    I just want to watch the world burn... or spoil

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Do you sing to your pet or have other silly interactions with them?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why do humans enjoy petting animals?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Looking for a good rain gauge (NOT rain sensor)

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Thoughts on the Unifi Protect multisensor

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    How do you name your devices and entities?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    HA-friendly printer that won't take us to the cleaners?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    I made my Unifi camera excitedly scream 'Doggo!' every time it detects an animal. I did not account for the several minute delay for image processing and the fact we have stray cats.