misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Fun fact for car-drivers: when someone on a (motor)bike repeatedly pats the top of their helmet, it's supposed to represent a flashing siren. They're telling you there's a cop behind them (in front of you)

Fun fact for (motor)bike riders: do that, save a life

shoutouts to a friend for reccomending a link to a video essay on the game "Broken Reality"
In the video essay, the presenter seems to struggle to grapple with "whether or not vaporwave is ironic, genuinely affectionate, or critical in its relationship to the detritus of capitalism and corporate culture and aesthetics."

And i think legitimately insisting that it has to be one or the other, is missing the point. It _can't_ be only one. To insist that it is, Is to numb the _pain_ to which it speaks. To allow you to either academically abstract your feelings by putting them towards a proper anticapitalist rhetoric, to busy the mind digging through dogwhistles. To delare it ironic is to detach yourself from your feelings through vaccinated nihilism and rebuking the aesthetics for being chintzy and out of step. and to be purely affectionate is to throw yourself into nostalgia wholesale, but why retreat into a recontextualization then when the progenitor cultural artifacts still exist?

And the harder you look for irony, the more genuine the feelings it seems to evoke in it's enthusiasts, and the harder you look for sincerity, the more ironic it feels. because, it's just office muzak, It's just slowed down adult contemporary, and when you declare that it _must_ be irony, and start walking away, the consistency, of the aesthetic implies something genuine.
because that is the power of the superposition:

That which is perfectly satirical, is so close to the original as to be indistinguishable from a sincere example,
That which is perfectly sincere, will overlook or overstate, so many things as to become a satire of itself.

Or according The Book Of Five Rings:
That which is perfectly void is form, that which is perfectly form, is void.

Fundamentally, it cannot divorce itself from the love it feels. because that's nihilism, but neither can we look at our present reality, and say with confidence, that the forces that engineered this vision of a future, were good. But those memories are still there, We still FEEL things.
Because the truth is no matter how smart we become, we experience the world, in all of its glory, both opportunity and oppression, through our emotions.

When you remember a broken promise, you can't feel bummed about it, if you don't remember what you were yearning for; and you can't remember what you were yearning for, without feeling its absence. You can't compartmentalize just half of it.
You cannot separate the irony from the sincerity, because they reflect one another.
You cannot separate the visual aesthetic from the music, because they evoke one another.
You can't separate the celebration from the anticapitalist critique, because it's not the artifacts' fault they couldn't be the future, but neither were the promises they signified, kept.

And for me anyway.
Vaporwave is the music of broken promises.

Communicating with other people is hard and fraught. It's a great ideal to suggest that everybody should be open and honest with everyone else all the time, but also, there's just so damn much that can go wrong. It can be really debilitating, especially as a non-neurotypical person trying to navigate social interaction, but also in general. People are hard, being a person is hard, and I respect and appreciate the challenges we all sometimes face as a result of that.

The strong password automatically generated by [my browser] on [my OS] was rejected by [website]’s password complexity requirements, so I had to create a shorter, weaker password. Additionally, some of the required security questions did not apply to my life situation.

For more guidance on best practices with passwords and security questions, refer to NIST SP 800-63B “Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management,” https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-63b, particularly Section 5.1.1 “Memorized Secrets” and Appendix A “Strength of Memorized Secrets.”

If the official link is out of service due to the recent lapse in congressional appropriations, a backup copy is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20181223021937/https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-63b.pdf.

@Jewbacchus there were still some localized wild train populations in America through the 1930s, but the proliferation of invasive species, notably the truck, caused a rapid destruction of the train habitat. So while I agree that domestication and inbreeding are problems, really it's the irresponsible introduction of the truck (and growing land usage dedicated to automobilicus americanensis, the common car) that led to us never getting to see a wild train in all its majesty.

#drawings roughed Wednesday and tightened up today!

Motion sequence #drawings from today!

A while ago there was a news story about an Icelandic ship captain who saw a shark in the water where his crew were pulling in nets, and waded into the water to fight the shark. I thought that was something worth drawing as more D&D- hence the Goliath islander!

still reckon it should be absolutely fucking mandatory for websites to be developed on low end machines

Magic with verbal components but instead of latin it's all subculture slang

Ugh. Here I am, almost in February 1970 and I still keep writing 19nice on all my checks.

Clean #drawings for today are mostly tabaxi (from D&D) and a WtA fight I started last night!

"The most Gen X thing ever just happened."
"Oh! You mean the surviving members of Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden AND Nirvana are playing a show?"
"No."
"Someone made a nostalgic roleplaying game where you get to play latchkey kids riding everywhere on bikes?"
"No."
"Henry Rollins yelled at someone?"
"No."
"Then what?"

https://twitter.com/RicoGagliano/status/1086881150197362688

"You know what they call the Mario move 'Ground Pound' in Europe?"

"They don't call it a Ground Pound?"

"Naw, man, they got the metric system. They call it a Ground Royale."

"just stop using <thing>" is a completely worthless response to somebody complaining about something.

if someone uses something despite complaining, it's either not bad enough for them to warrant stop using it or there's another reason why they can't.

it does nothing but radiate a smug aura full of elitism.

also look at this cutie that came today

(by @quietsnooze!)

d'awwwwwwwww

http://draconym.tumblr.com/
Trash Gryphons

1. pigeon rat
2. sparrow mouse
3. vulture opossum
4. crow raccoon