Sparrow 🐦 @Sparrow@awoo.space
Hi I'm Sparrow! Queer kid-adventurer, sci fi/horror geek, wildlife enthusiast, & Witch. Enboi, they/them. T1d. Intersectional feminist. BT/special education aide.
Joined Feb 2017
“The fact that we’ve allowed young children to escape with highly classified alien life forms this many times is an embarrassment, frankly,” Stevens added.
https://www.theonion.com/u-s-military-heightens-security-after-another-group-of-1822882300
@Efi I've heard the less you pay writers, the more bitter and scathingly-on-point their cultural analyses get.
(Note: I have no idea how much The Onion pays anyone, this is more of a general comment on how little internet writers get paid)
I think the only thing that hasn't changed in the last ten years is that The Onion continues to be good.
@morganastra@witches.town Wow, this is Very Good.
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so, mastodon users, how does a computer work? heres a helpful analogy i came up with a while ago:
the CPU (the BRAIN of the computer) takes data from the RAM (kinda like the computer's BRAIN) and stores it on the hard disk (which can be thought of as the BRAIN of the computer)
@cassolotl@dev.glitch.social
Hnnnngggg. Starbuck is pretty great. ^^;;
Another good quote from that article:
"But Ready Player One goes so far beyond a reasonable reference-to-plot ratio that it often feels more like binge-reading 1980s-related Wikipedia articles than reading a novel. The vast majority of these references are superfluous to the narrative, which means their only purpose is to elicit the most primitive of responses: I recognize that thing. ... With Ready Player One, the references come first. Take them away, and there’s not much left."
On Ready Player One (no cw, just behind cut)
From an article (cited below):
"It simply constructs a world around the reader, where his comfort zone, his passively acquired knowledge of retro video games and Star Wars, is enough to effortlessly make him a Great Man of History. A fantasy this mundane is barely a fantasy at all — just a desire to be unjustly rewarded for mediocrity. "
And suddenly I understand the appeal, and it also makes me a little sick.
https://theoutline.com/post/2076/ready-player-one-movie-bad?zd=1&zi=4zix65fq
@ruth Now I'm curious what you mean by this.
@matt That sounds like a decent plan. I feel that way about a lot of the things they're really into (superhero movies, Harry Potter, etc).
They both do a lot of reading, and one of them tends to be more critical than the other, but on the whole they enjoy a lot of fiction without interrogating it much.
Several of my IRL friends are really into "Ready Player One".
I haven't read it myself, but I've only heard bad things about it online.
What should I do when my friends start preaching its virtues?
CW: Fatphobia
So I went to bed last night after having had a few critical, but ultimately helpful insights.
Then I have a series of dreams wherein I have unexpectedly gained a lot of weight.
It's like my sub conscious is saying: "Those insights? Yeah, that's all well and good, but what you're *really* scared of is getting fat."
Grow up, subconscious.
@Anke@tootplanet.space Good luck!
@Anke@tootplanet.space Thanks!!
Thanks, lizard friend! :3
Thankies!
Night! <3
Hi I'm Sparrow! Queer kid-adventurer, sci fi/horror geek, wildlife enthusiast, & Witch. Enboi, they/them. T1d. Intersectional feminist. BT/special education aide.
Joined Feb 2017
