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  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »

    So he invented the breakfast roll?

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    In todays temporarily SFW Alfie, Lydia is a pretty pretty princess.

    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    So uh

    Is the tournament thing Abbadon’s got going on in the KSBD discord canon?

    Cause that whole thing seems like maybe we’re in for another time skip?


    EDIT: ah wait, mentioned it in a follow up tweet:

    Lanz on
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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    In todays temporarily SFW Alfie, Lydia is a pretty pretty princess.

    Tell him the truth dammit! He will still let you fuck women! Fuck, he might just show up with a pair on his shoulders and yell, "Behold, buxom wenchs!"

  • statlerstatler Registered User regular
  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Neveron wrote: »
    It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.

    My favorite one, just for the amazing change in expected speed between then and now, is this one:

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    yeah, danged kids, only wanting to wait a month or two to see a picture when it should take multiple years.

  • ElaroElaro Apologetic Registered User regular
    Neveron wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    comes out tomorrow

    On switch?

    what the fuck's a switch

    indie games are for pc

    You're for PC!
    Cambiata wrote: »

    The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.

    Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.

    It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.

    For an actual ancient critique of writing... Socrates argues against it in Phaedrus, I guess?

    To be honest, I thought Cambiata meant, like, clay slates, like from Mesopotamian times, not blackboard-type slates.

    Children's rights are human rights.
  • NeveronNeveron HellValleySkyTree SwedenRegistered User regular
    Elaro wrote: »
    Neveron wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    comes out tomorrow

    On switch?

    what the fuck's a switch

    indie games are for pc

    You're for PC!
    Cambiata wrote: »

    The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.

    Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.

    It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.

    For an actual ancient critique of writing... Socrates argues against it in Phaedrus, I guess?

    To be honest, I thought Cambiata meant, like, clay slates, like from Mesopotamian times, not blackboard-type slates.

    That's what I thought, too! I actually did some light searching, but unfortunately any possible results about ancient egyptian papyrus complaints or whatever got drowned out by the fake 1800s blackboard quote.

    If you just want general complaints about Kids These Days then the ancients have you covered, though.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
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    Elaro wrote: »
    Neveron wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    Brolo wrote: »
    comes out tomorrow

    On switch?

    what the fuck's a switch

    indie games are for pc

    You're for PC!
    Cambiata wrote: »

    The whole article is like when paper started being readily available to students and old shitters were worried about losing all the great value of the slate.

    Please... tell us more about... the Times Before Paper.

    It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.

    For an actual ancient critique of writing... Socrates argues against it in Phaedrus, I guess?

    To be honest, I thought Cambiata meant, like, clay slates, like from Mesopotamian times, not blackboard-type slates.

    That is very much what I meant, yeah. There were quotes floating around the internet about how some fuddy duddy in the early 20th century complaining that kids are forgetting how to use the chalk slate properly, not knowing how to write on a slate without getting covered in chalk dust, and what are they going to do when they run out of paper? It was a funny little thing that sounded like other such rages against technology so it spread. But the quote turned out to have been completely manufactured. Though I still can imagine some people clucked about it back then because that's what people are like. Just like now how old people cluck about young people not knowing cursive despite cursive having no real value anymore.

    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Neveron wrote: »
    It's not that old, but this XKCD has some good quotes about hand-wringing about kids these days and their fast mail and newspapers.

    My favorite one, just for the amazing change in expected speed between then and now, is this one:

    ulkix1ztw8x3.png

    yeah, danged kids, only wanting to wait a month or two to see a picture when it should take multiple years.

    My favorite has to be "There never was an age where so many people were able to write badly" in reference to what I can only assume are novels

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited January 2021
    This discussion got me to go read why people are trying to force cursive back into schools and one of the reasons is so that kids will be able to read older documents that use cursive, like their grandma's letters or something.

    Listen I grew up when cursive was mandatory in school and essays had to be turned in written in cursive. I've only ever been able to read like 75% of cursive writing and usually just have to drop works from sentences because no amount of detective work could tell me the word. I think it's fine to leave old timey document decryption to historical experts and just let kids just learn the stuff that will help them succeed in the world. Which DOES include learning history, just not the trappings of history. Like yeah let's learn how George Washington lived but that doesn't mean we have to take out some linseed oil and make our own oilcloth, ok.

    Cambiata on
    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I can’t read other people’s chicken scratch unless it’s super fuckin clear and I certainly don’t have good handwriting.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Like, I type at a max speed of 120 WPM when I am transcribing stuff,

    I can probably write one sentence in the time it takes to type 8.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    I can write maybe half a page before my hand starts cramping badly. I can type forever.

  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    It occurs to me that there really ought to be one of these “new-fangled contraption” type complaints about typewriters losing to word processors out there somewhere and I feel sure I’ve even read a partial quotation at some point but I can’t find it… maybe it was typed up and published in a newspaper or something.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Probably our grandkids will have Speech to Text+ where they just ramble half-formed thoughts and a learning algorithm polishes it up into perfect ALA academic text. And we'll be the cranky old farts being all "back in my day, we had to type ALL the words" and they'll say whatever the future teenage dirtbag translation of "lol get rekt gramps" is.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Probably our grandkids will have Speech to Text+ where they just ramble half-formed thoughts and a learning algorithm polishes it up into perfect ALA academic text. And we'll be the cranky old farts being all "back in my day, we had to type ALL the words" and they'll say whatever the future teenage dirtbag translation of "lol get rekt gramps" is.

    this is ABSOLUTELY going to happen holy shit

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I will say that google and spellcheck has done shit for my retention. When I go through books to look up the meanings of words or to research shit, that stuff stays in my head.

    If I google it or get autocorrected it might as well be ephemeral.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    This discussion got me to go read why people are trying to force cursive back into schools and one of the reasons is so that kids will be able to read older documents that use cursive, like their grandma's letters or something.

    Listen I grew up when cursive was mandatory in school and essays had to be turned in written in cursive. I've only ever been able to read like 75% of cursive writing and usually just have to drop works from sentences because no amount of detective work could tell me the word. I think it's fine to leave old timey document decryption to historical experts and just let kids just learn the stuff that will help them succeed in the world. Which DOES include learning history, just not the trappings of history. Like yeah let's learn how George Washington lived but that doesn't mean we have to take out some linseed oil and make our own oilcloth, ok.

    When I still worked for Walmart unloading trucks, there was this one truck driver who was talking about how the kids these days don't learn cursive anymore, and how that's such a shame because how are they supposed to read old documents like the Constitution? KIDS THESE DAYS CAN'T READ THE CONSTITUTION!

    And I was standing there, just like dude? You can read the whole thing, word-for-word in print? In like, books and online and stuff?

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    But that transcribed print? Made by *them* and globalists who don’t want you to know the REAL constitution where the first amendment says Twitter can’t ban conservatives for breaking their rules.

    I feel like this was a common talking point when the Bible was being translated from Latin.

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  • OptyOpty Registered User regular
    I think it's important to learn letters via handwriting vs purely digitally mainly because the physicality of it helps combat dyslexia to some degree

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    But that transcribed print? Made by *them* and globalists who don’t want you to know the REAL constitution where the first amendment says Twitter can’t ban conservatives for breaking their rules.

    I feel like this was a common talking point when the Bible was being translated from Latin.

    Oh Christ. Future white nationalists are going to co-opt cursive writing as a hate symbol, aren't they?

    "If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    But that transcribed print? Made by *them* and globalists who don’t want you to know the REAL constitution where the first amendment says Twitter can’t ban conservatives for breaking their rules.

    I feel like this was a common talking point when the Bible was being translated from Latin.

    Oh Christ. Future white nationalists are going to co-opt cursive writing as a hate symbol, aren't they?

    That should liven things up a bit. I hope they dot the Is in their manifesto with those happy little bubble dots.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    But that transcribed print? Made by *them* and globalists who don’t want you to know the REAL constitution where the first amendment says Twitter can’t ban conservatives for breaking their rules.

    I feel like this was a common talking point when the Bible was being translated from Latin.

    Oh Christ. Future white nationalists are going to co-opt cursive writing as a hate symbol, aren't they?

    Not if the red panthers take it first!

  • Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    One of the worst things school did was shame me for preferring to use printed capitals rather than joined up writing

    Who gives a shit?

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Probably our grandkids will have Speech to Text+ where they just ramble half-formed thoughts and a learning algorithm polishes it up into perfect ALA academic text. And we'll be the cranky old farts being all "back in my day, we had to type ALL the words" and they'll say whatever the future teenage dirtbag translation of "lol get rekt gramps" is.
    Oh yeah @Donkey Kong's already there.
    Not to continue being that guy after taking my virulently anti-facebook stance, but the article skippy linked is another one of my hot button spicy take issues.

    All predictive text and auto reply messages should be disabled on all devices. Autocompletion of thoughts by machines is reshaping the way you write in ugly ways, and it's completely stifling self-expression. People increasingly sound homogenous and samey via email. They use the same phrases over and over that might not mean exactly what they want to say but it was really easy to just tap "Got it, thanks!" and have the reply fire off. Our very basic ability to be genuine in small interactions is wasting away.

    Even autocorrect is doing this to some degree.

    I threw away the gmail app when they added reply suggestions that couldn't be turned off (I think they later went back on this, thank god.)

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Back in MY day there was air and dirt and oceans with stuff in them

    Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Back in MY day there was air and dirt and oceans with stuff in them

    Ocean's still got stuff in it. Stuff like plastic.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    If you can teach your kids to love jellyfish, I got great news for the future of the ocean.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Now now never to be downhearted I'm sure we can kill all the jellyfish too if we try

    Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    If you can teach your kids to love jellyfish, I got great news for the future of the ocean.

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    I'm a kid now i'm a squid now

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    The worst handwriting I've ever encountered was my grandfather's. I once got a birthday card from him that I was unable to read. When I asked him what he had written, he wasn't able to read it either.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    There was this old lady my grandmother took care of, and she'd write out a grocery list for her. Once I started driving, sometimes my Nana would send me to the grocery store for her but I couldn't read a fucking word of the grocery list because it was in such spidery, beautiful, flowing cursive. I would have loved for that old lady to have written some documents for me or something, but I had to have my Nana transcribe that woman's grocery list for me so I could buy her stuff for her lol. I can read most cursive, this was just done in such an old style that I'd never seen and I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

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  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    More relationship math in Questionable Content:

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Now now never to be downhearted I'm sure we can kill all the jellyfish too if we try

    Good luck. You know what jellyfish love? Warm water, acid, and maybe some radiation. They are freaks, and they are all about the worst parts of the ocean right now.

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    They call it cursive because fuck it in its shitty asshole, that's why.

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