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iirc Skaven are basically tongue-in-cheek fascist rats
So yeah someone unironically rooting for them is deffo like someone completely missing the fact that the Imperium of Mankind aren’t the good guys, they’re just marginally less bad than the other options and that’s not saying a whole lot
I realize that you can never make a parody silly enough that stupid people won't still take it seriously...
but seriously nothing about the skaven is cool. No cool skulls on their helmets, no making the trains run on time. They are fascist in that they are racist and top-down to an extreme, constantly undermining (no pun intended) their own goals to backstab each other like the wizards of the Unseen University in Discworld. I can get thinking of them as cute, and fun to pity in that gross-goblin sort of way.
But actually thinking they are cool or rooting for them is bonkers, way beyond even the Starship Troopers effect.
iirc Skaven are basically tongue-in-cheek fascist rats
So yeah someone unironically rooting for them is deffo like someone completely missing the fact that the Imperium of Mankind aren’t the good guys, they’re just marginally less bad than the other options and that’s not saying a whole lot
I realize that you can never make a parody silly enough that stupid people won't still take it seriously...
but seriously nothing about the skaven is cool. No cool skulls on their helmets, no making the trains run on time. They are fascist in that they are racist and top-down to an extreme, constantly undermining (no pun intended) their own goals to backstab each other like the wizards of the Unseen University in Discworld. I can get thinking of them as cute, and fun to pity in that gross-goblin sort of way.
But actually thinking they are cool or rooting for them is bonkers, way beyond even the Starship Troopers effect.
I think mechanically they’d be fun to play because they’re so over the top evil and are as much, if not more, of a threat to themselves as they are to their opponents.
Like they have a built in failure cascade mechanic based off of fear/morale. But, y’know, they’re rats so there’s thousands of them.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
They are hilarious and dumb and wonderful at being hilarious and dumb.
And also at the same time they can be an absolute threat to everything around them. Be it with weird warpstone rat nukes or the undiluted violence of an "ork waaaaagh!" which kind of acts like a weapon of mass destruction.
Skaven do feel more thinking than the force of nature the orks feel like.
Spotify just played a Pantera song as a recommendation and it's the most bored I've been all week.
I feel like I have to actively fight spotify to show me new music
most of the 'for you' style playlists are just remixes of my liked songs in a particular (sub)genre, with a small number of others peppered in
the AI DJ X thing seems to consistently replay shit I've played this year and last year
how to tell the algo I like A B C, pls give me something new I'm likely to enjoy because other people who also liked ABC liked it!
+3
Havelock2.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
edited September 16
Yeah I assume it would be the same draw as Orks
But Evil
Like Chaos is evil and all but even Archaon and the Four are like, not this fucking guy who invited him?? when the horned rat shows up in the pantheon in Age of Sigmar
Havelock2.0 on
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
Worst Siri feature for me: whenever I take a nap I say ”wake me up in X minutes” or ”in X hour(s)”.
This results in a new alarm being saved on my watch. For a while I periodically deleted a bunch of them.
But there are 1440 minutes in a day, and given sufficient time I will have 1440 different saved alarms on my watch. Thanks, Siri.
in general the ios alarm interface where it creates a persistent alarm record that's named and toggled on and off with a little switch is just flummoxing and not how anybody uses alarms. I don't get it. Somebody needs to remove the entire feature and rethink it.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
+4
HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I feel like I have to actively fight spotify to show me new music
most of the 'for you' style playlists are just remixes of my liked songs in a particular (sub)genre, with a small number of others peppered in
the AI DJ X thing seems to consistently replay shit I've played this year and last year
how to tell the algo I like A B C, pls give me something new I'm likely to enjoy because other people who also liked ABC liked it!
It's the same for me with the mixes. Mostly the same already liked songs all the time or unrelated artists from completely different genres I like just mashed together when I'm in the mood for something specific. It's also bad on song / artist radio.
The best recommendations now come from the Smart Shuffle feature. I listen to that all the time.
back in my day we found new music by going OUTSIDE to see LIVE MUSIC being played and if we weren’t doing that we were at the record store listening to I forgot what I was talking about
@spool32@credeiki@LoserForHireX I watched the LCS finals last night (TL vs FLY) and it was v exciting, yall should check it out if you are in the mood for pro lol
+1
Havelock2.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
back in my day we found new music by going OUTSIDE to see LIVE MUSIC being played and if we weren’t doing that we were at the record store listening to I forgot what I was talking about
Do you remember Dimple Records I remember Dimple Records
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
+1
Havelock2.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
And Tower Records
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
edited September 16
I upgraded to iOS 18 and so far it seems fine. Looks largely the same, but maps shows hiking trails now and the messages app supports RCS.
The photos app has a new interface which seems fine. It's doing this weird thing where the whole app has just one scrollable view, where your whole photo library in chronological order is up, and the albums and other presentations of photos are down. It works fine, it's not confusing, if you're deep in the library or album views and want to get back you don't have to scroll forever, there's an X that returns you to home position.
It gets rid of the multiple redundant views the old app had and always drops you into a place where you can see the last ~12 photos you took as tiles, so that's good.
As new UI paradigms go this one seems alright. Intuitive with nothing hidden but not obviously annoying.
Donkey Kong on
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Looks like my boss is down for me to adopt a compressed schedule, working an extra hour each day so that I get a Friday off every two weeks
Sickkkkkk
Had 9/80 at one point at two different employers.
One of them was pretty strict* because we were billing the government, so getting the Friday off was normal. Until the OT changes.
The other employer was run by a guy that used the "9/80" as a talking point only. Everyone was basically working 9/89+ at that place.
*Strict with the charge numbers. They ultimately updated the overtime policy to say that the first 5 hours per week were not paid to the employee, so 9/80 (e: turned into 9/89).
All this to say, turn off your devices on the Friday off.
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I realize that you can never make a parody silly enough that stupid people won't still take it seriously...
but seriously nothing about the skaven is cool. No cool skulls on their helmets, no making the trains run on time. They are fascist in that they are racist and top-down to an extreme, constantly undermining (no pun intended) their own goals to backstab each other like the wizards of the Unseen University in Discworld. I can get thinking of them as cute, and fun to pity in that gross-goblin sort of way.
But actually thinking they are cool or rooting for them is bonkers, way beyond even the Starship Troopers effect.
MIND BLOWN RIGHT
This results in a new alarm being saved on my watch. For a while I periodically deleted a bunch of them.
But there are 1440 minutes in a day, and given sufficient time I will have 1440 different saved alarms on my watch. Thanks, Siri.
Sorry I misspelled "karate chopped" as "BLEW"
honest mistake
*fist*
I think mechanically they’d be fun to play because they’re so over the top evil and are as much, if not more, of a threat to themselves as they are to their opponents.
Like they have a built in failure cascade mechanic based off of fear/morale. But, y’know, they’re rats so there’s thousands of them.
Hock chop
Sickkkkkk
They are hilarious and dumb and wonderful at being hilarious and dumb.
And also at the same time they can be an absolute threat to everything around them. Be it with weird warpstone rat nukes or the undiluted violence of an "ork waaaaagh!" which kind of acts like a weapon of mass destruction.
Skaven do feel more thinking than the force of nature the orks feel like.
I feel like I have to actively fight spotify to show me new music
most of the 'for you' style playlists are just remixes of my liked songs in a particular (sub)genre, with a small number of others peppered in
the AI DJ X thing seems to consistently replay shit I've played this year and last year
how to tell the algo I like A B C, pls give me something new I'm likely to enjoy because other people who also liked ABC liked it!
But Evil
Like Chaos is evil and all but even Archaon and the Four are like, not this fucking guy who invited him?? when the horned rat shows up in the pantheon in Age of Sigmar
That's optimistic. You can have multiples
in general the ios alarm interface where it creates a persistent alarm record that's named and toggled on and off with a little switch is just flummoxing and not how anybody uses alarms. I don't get it. Somebody needs to remove the entire feature and rethink it.
It's the same for me with the mixes. Mostly the same already liked songs all the time or unrelated artists from completely different genres I like just mashed together when I'm in the mood for something specific. It's also bad on song / artist radio.
The best recommendations now come from the Smart Shuffle feature. I listen to that all the time.
Me: dropping a nuke or exploding a unit not giving a shit about friendly fire. lol lmao.
The DJ is so laughably bad
Im using rateyourmusic a lot lately
They’re basically run like your standard guard regiment from some no-name imperial world
Don't even know if it's still going or as good.
Case closed
Do you remember Dimple Records I remember Dimple Records
The photos app has a new interface which seems fine. It's doing this weird thing where the whole app has just one scrollable view, where your whole photo library in chronological order is up, and the albums and other presentations of photos are down. It works fine, it's not confusing, if you're deep in the library or album views and want to get back you don't have to scroll forever, there's an X that returns you to home position.
It gets rid of the multiple redundant views the old app had and always drops you into a place where you can see the last ~12 photos you took as tiles, so that's good.
As new UI paradigms go this one seems alright. Intuitive with nothing hidden but not obviously annoying.
https://www.zombo.com/
Had 9/80 at one point at two different employers.
One of them was pretty strict* because we were billing the government, so getting the Friday off was normal. Until the OT changes.
The other employer was run by a guy that used the "9/80" as a talking point only. Everyone was basically working 9/89+ at that place.
*Strict with the charge numbers. They ultimately updated the overtime policy to say that the first 5 hours per week were not paid to the employee, so 9/80 (e: turned into 9/89).
All this to say, turn off your devices on the Friday off.
I used it a couple of times and realised they went with crappy afternoon drive dj not mix it like Tinzo and stopped using it.
Last thing I want is some fake guy telling me he's playing a band because I like them.