Moonlits @moonlit@awoo.space
a large plural system // endogenic, thoughtforms, traumagenic, polyfragmented // scientific, spiritual, cosmological
writers, musicians, photographers, too much random technological trivia
Joined Jun 2017
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design talk though: I love that the Myst games use careful exploration and observation of your surroundings as their most core loop - you encounter puzzles through it, you find clues for them through it, and your reward for solving puzzles is normally access to new places to explore
this means the single most important thing is to not rush it and really take your time taking in what's around you and playing around with any interesting things you see
dream logging, full on Nazi edition
Had a very long dream with multiple interwoven threads from the past and present. Mostly they focused around an event from an unspecified war and ethnic cleansing. There was even a nice scene at the end where the former Nazi sat down with his grandchild to talk about how the things people think are necessary at the time are often actually the wrong thing to be doing, and how he should have been a better person when he was younger.
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Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
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Me: so uh, couple of questions about character design, do uh, wheels? Exist in D&D?
DM: yes
Me: and um, physical combat?
DM: yes, obviously
Me: one last thing, do boots exist?
Dm: yes
Me: okay so that's all the conponents of roller derby, here is a roller derby elf.
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Via Reddit, an excellent take on cis and trans woman actors. ^_^
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Repeat after me:
My experience is not everybody's experience.
My perspective is not everybody's perspective.
My "obvious" is not everybody's "obvious".
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"Surprise!"
"Is that..? OH MY COD IT'S A WATERPROOF E-BOOK!"
"I hope you like the books I loaded on there for you..."
She couldn't hear me over her broad translucent fins slapping the sand & surf excitedly.
"I can finally read in bed! Oh oh I can finally join a book club!"
"Uh, I dunno if there's any beach-side ones here..."
"My girlfriend will just have to start one, then."
"I'll look into it tonight, love."
"Yay!"
#tootfic #microfiction #writing #urbanfantasy #terylstales #lgbt #mermay
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why can't we live in the cool sci-fi future where we have like, hair that changes color based on our mood
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OUR GAYNESS SHALL BURN WITH THE LIGHT OF A MILLION SUNS.
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kigus of your species as a means of species affirmation, boost if you agree
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@HerraBRE You don't even need a limit on how much you can fit in your head - there's 100% a limit on how much time you have in your life to spend learning things.
Time you ask people to spend learning your software is time they could spend learning useful things, enjoying their lives, or just having a nice nap.
Bad UX literally saps your life away.
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Dear Fediverse: Is there a Mastodon Client app for iOS that can use multiple account *on_the_same_instance*?
Of the ones I've checked so far, most can do multiple accounts but only on different instances each. I need one that can do multiple on the same instance. Thanks!
cyberpunk is now
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Otter finger webbing. Boost if you agree. #amwriting
computers are heck
Great to know early in this customer<->business relationship that OneDrive will occasionally decide our Photographs directory needs to be deleted.
This illuminates for us that:
1) Microsoft can't restore anything for us
2) the only way to restore files is to use their infinite scroll online Recycle Bin
3) there's no way to restore an entire directory
4) we'll have to select each file one at a time if we don't want to restore everything in there (do we? how would we ever know?)
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tired: worshipping known deities
wired: praying to astronomical phenomena
inspired: "Dear Princess Luna..."
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ableist words, eugenics
'idiot,' 'moron,' 'stupid,' and 'imbecile' are all words tied to USA eugenics movements recommending compulsory sterilisation and/or incarceration, indentured servitude, etc
'dumb' comes from the ableist notion that someone who can't verbalise words is someone who can't think
these words are very much used today to reinforce fascist eugenicist ideas, and you might be surprised how many leftists don't realise that they agree with that idea
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"Non-Binary people aren't valid" is a transphobic statement
Solidarity, friends
a large plural system // endogenic, thoughtforms, traumagenic, polyfragmented // scientific, spiritual, cosmological
writers, musicians, photographers, too much random technological trivia
Joined Jun 2017
