katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

@KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town I relate to this a surprising amount.

@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town I 💖 my ridiculous silly fox howl.

@mawr outdoor fur con down in Oregon :)

Back in town after four days away from the internet. I'm not even gonna try to catch up on my feed backlog.

<3

@green @vahnj TINY TANK

I want anarcho-mom-unism.

Huh, now I'm wondering if anyone has written a piece comparing framings of player agency in Bioshock and in Spec Ops: The Line

Bioshock is an interesting half-example because the game mechanics (emphasizing agency and choice) are a deliberate contrast to the narrative of acting without free will.

A subject I find really interesting is games that communicate their message primarily or exclusively through game design instead of through visuals or narrative. Good examples of this are Missile Command, Braid, and Dark Souls.

@TipsyTentacle@witches.town is "they're all bad, fuck computers" an option? :p

Ulam-Teller? I hardly knew 'er!

Seattle heatwave status: neighborhood grocery store is giving out free iced bottled water at the entrance.

I still kinda wonder what a polity that used Approval voting would look like longterm. Approval encourages extremely centrist candidates.

an electoral system that I *really* like but works for electing a slate of representatives instead of one winner is Single Transferable Vote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

btw, in case you haven't been exposed to this idea before:

"every person gets one vote and the candidate with the most votes wins" (First Past the Post) is a terrible and undemocratic way to run elections.

Better systems let you give a ranked preference and mean you can't "waste" your vote on a third party.

http://ncase.me/ballot/

@vahnj theivin' without arms must be an interesting challenge.

@chr@cybre.space @what@mastodon.social I kinda meant to write an essay on the politics of that show but never quite got around to it.

@chr@cybre.space @what@mastodon.social can confirm, is good show if you're okay with frequent gunfights and implicit support of panopticon surveillance :)

Nice to put on when you want something action-y but not Super Heavy

(I posted this to bird site like a year ago and it fell flat despite it being maybe my best snowclone ever)