Cyrus Draegur

2012 does indeed still feel like a major inflection point.

the internet was awesome for like … twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden…

Ubisoft will have to get used to people not owning their games.

dicks out for Harambetits out for Shabani

Sol 3 is a Class-14 Deathworld on what used to be a thirteen-point scale until they found it.

Not only is the planet very geothermally volatile with active volcanic systems AND feature violent and chaotic weather systems…

“Earth” is the deepest gravity well they’ve ever witnessed chemical rocketry successfully achieve orbit from.

The biosphere is teeming with pathogens, so much so that the sapient population’s own bodies rely on symbiotic microbial colonies in order to digest nutrients among other tasks.

And the macroscopic fauna are ALMOST as scary as the microscopic stuff: every biome packed with highly adapted predators.

At the top of this complex carnal carnival of carnivory, the “humans” who live there are unstoppable pursuit and persistence predators highly naturally gifted in ranged combat that historically used to just WALK their prey to death. The animals which ancient humans consumed could sprint to temporary safety, but humans will catch up, ALWAYS catch up, and the prey will still be tired when they have to sprint again. Eventually the fatigue outpaces them, and humans catch up for the last time. Just walk right up and bash them with a rock, they might not even have to throw it: dinner is ready!

Furthermore, it’s not just the highly volatile oxygen that all the animals there breathe… Sol 3’s atmosphere also even contains a constant background presence of radon. The biosphere is passively resistant to some levels of radiation. One of the cities was consumed in the fallout cloud of an exploding nuclear fission reactor(they STILL use water to cool their municipal fission reactors even now!), and although the humans fled, the animals that stayed there are FLOURISHING. Deformed and mutated, but thriving.

NOBODY SANE CHOOSES TO GO TO SOL 3.

I’ve never wanted to kill a fox before but at least I’ll have a nice orange hat with a tail now.

Especially now that aniwave is dead ;_; good night sweet prince

Yeah: we fucking killed him. He died last year. Shame we took so long. But in the end, right wing terrorists can only be dealt with ONE WAY: Detained and exterminated.

Hitlers cannot be tamed.

They are ironically the only subject for whom the only solution is The Final one…

> Furries in the audience respond: "OwO neat sona~!

OK BE AT LEAST A LITTLE AFRAID

A Transcendent Shrexperience

i imagine alien hivemind organisms looking at earth and our cities upon it and thinking “what are these growths and why aren’t the samples we collect producing them?”

[the bard IS the orc and he’s getting rizzed by the whole tavern]

XD

… there boutta be an explosion in the population of half-orcs.

I’m from lemm.ee (because of its anti-defederation stance; I want the whole firehose of as many Lemmy instances as possible) but I’ve always felt especially comfortable seeing and interacting with content and users from your instance.

And I’m incredibly grateful that you are actually trying to accommodate it/its identities, because I definitely am one. I recognize difficulty in actually asking others to refer to me as such because they’re used to “it” being disrespectful and cruel, or if they’re the kind of person who would call someone an “it” to insult them, I’d be outing myself as the kind of being they don’t want to talk to. But when I see you making an effort… It means the world to me 💜

The friends of mine have gotten used to that aspect of me… Every time they refer to me this way, I feel so… Just … Good? Good! Seen, heard, acknowledged, understood, known. It matters :3

Thank you for running blåhaj zone. It’s my favorite by far. Maybe I might even switch instances, but it’d be more convenient if it didn’t come to that.

edit: is there a donation link? I must be lost in plain sight. I’d like to contribute a little material support…
Edit again: FOUND IT! :D

Surprisingly wholesome 🥰

FUCK DD/MM FORMAT YYYY-MM-DD IS SUPERIOR

--ISO-8601 GANG

“refrigerate” at least has sensible etymological roots in its constituent components.

The problem with brain rot lingo is that it isn’t constructed from precedent but a decay therefrom, corrupted by niche “meta” references that are little more than inside jokes that escaped their in-group, divorced of the context that brought them about.

…

Then again, though, the most popular word that humans speak all over the world is “OK”, which is itself a memetic corruption of a fad, wherein people were saying “All Correct” with a deliberately exaggerated fake British accent: “Oll Korrect” (which became abbreviated).

And brain rot does have the fact that it’s very funny going for it. It sounds silly which makes it fun to say and it pisses people off which makes it even funnier, because getting mad about it is a drastic overreaction. So I don’t think it’ll even really BECOME an actual serious problem, because the moment it hits mainstream and corporations start publishing commercials about “skibidi Ohio GYATT” it’s going to implode like “it’s morbin time” burned Sony.

Otherwise, constructing new words out of extant etymological particles is DELIGHTFULLY useful. In Minecraft, I built an Enfenestrator:
A window through which zombies throw themselves into a catchment chamber for culling and (when zombified villagers are isolated) curing.

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This makes Debian look kinda good actually…