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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • Although I don’t downvote their comments, I’d rather, they put the effort to use those separate characters for the 2 voices.
    Otherwise, I don’t really feel it to be a better option than ‘th’.
    And even though I know they are not looking for a “better option”, I feel like this is something I can’t get behind unless it is and that doesn’t really make me happy to think of it.





  • Isn’t that something done by any group being oppressed and not in power, regardless of what kind of cause they are for?
    e.g. those who had capoeira and similar things that had martial arts disguised as other stuff, back when they couldn’t practice partial arts.

    Though I find it hard to understand why they still have to wink now, when there are literal state-sanctioned groups of armed people-robbers around, who are also fine getting filmed in the act.
    When multiple countries’ governments have switched from turning a blind eye, to actually endorsing such actions, what more are these groups trying to accomplish by using these deniability tactics?


  • I also don’t think it makes sense that people who haven’t even taken history as a major, need to be taught each and every phrase that was used by a fanatic group.

    A lot of these words, phrases and symbols tend to be taken from stuff that meant well in the past or even now. See swastika, svaha[1].

    Just knowing those terms, while might help prevent them from being used in accidental cases, is not as important as being able to recognise the pattern of peoples’ actual actions.
    Because a group that has copied stuff from other traditions, can always do that again with other sources, to replace that stuff.

    It’s important that out of history, we make sure to identify the part that we actually need to be against, which is the specific actions that cause grief back then, instead of just picking each and every unrelated thing, which any new group can simply replace, while also getting to keep the original grievous actions.
    This is also to prevent us from getting our willpower drained from always getting outraged by multiple instances of minor similarities that are much more probable to be a false +ive, to have the power to push back when we find the actual problem creators.


    1. which I am not sure of the Nazi reference, but it was being chanted by people being portrayed as Nazis in a game ↩︎


  • So my browser’s reader theme is at black background (#000) with white text (#fff) and I just reduce the backlight at night, while keeping the windows open in the day time.

    Similarly, I reduce mobile brightness indoors, but keep it at full, when using maps while riding.

    When using an LCD monitor, it is beneficial to be able to reduce backlight brightness instead of reducing the colour value in software.





  • So I remember once “playing” a visual novel.
    Over the period of ~10 hrs of reading (maybe ~ 4 hrs for a normal-speed reader), there was exactly 1 (one) point, where I had a choice to make.
    The rest was just clicking “next”.

    That could have been a PDF (or 4, because there were 4 options in the choice) instead of a Windows executable.


    Then there is this thing in scripted events, that some of the high budget games are guilty of.
    It’s stuff like press button to open door or sth, where you are essentially stuck in place with nothing else to do other than press the button and whatever action is done, doesn’t end up increasing immersion in the least, because it is just like a cut-scene getting paused in between, just to say, ‘press button to continue watching the cut-scene’.