• borari
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    171 year ago

    Can there be a rule about acronyms being defined on first usage? I spent way to long trying to figure out how Electronic Arts had some cult infestation in their upper management and how “wokeism” applied, especially since stuff like that has been in the game developer news cycle again. I started getting really confused when I saw some linked post conversation talking about some founder and their polyamorous relationship.

    I’ve figured out that we’re talking about effective altruism, but at this point I’ve wasted my entire pre-bed shit time on people I couldn’t care less about.

    • @froztbyte
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      261 year ago

      Unfortunately in this case the problem is you (as a non-frequenter of this sub (which is explicitly about dunking on these fools)) coming in with no context, although I’d agree with you in principle otherwise

      Also it sounds like that game-EA thing could do with a sneer on techtakes

      • @o7___o7
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        What killed lurking before posting, and can we blame WOKE? (just kidding!)

        I do wonder if seamless federation can be too seamless, since it clearly makes it easier for people to get a bit lost and wander into niche forums unintentionally.

        • @earthquake@lemm.ee
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          121 year ago

          Absolutely magnificent that this guy took a break from posting about OLED WLAN DNS SKU TCL and 800 ISO without bokah at like f/16 to come in here and chastise us for using in-group terms.

          • @selfMA
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            131 year ago

            800 ISO without bokah at like f/16

            on film, handheld, at night. for when you love grainy images and need every part of the frame to be blurry, but specifically not the kind of blur that looks good

            • @selfMA
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              91 year ago

              fuck, now I have a hankering to grab a medium format camera and a fast (for medium format) lens and take some weird black and white closeups of whatever I see that’s lit interestingly

          • @froztbyte
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            91 year ago

            and even with multiple outs, they had to get indignant. some people…

        • @froztbyte
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          81 year ago

          Probably also to blame is whichever clients people end up using - sorta seems like most don’t make it easy to see the details of a sub (although I say that under correction, not having tried them all)

          • borari
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            I’m using Arctic, I’m easily able to look at the community sidebar, which I did. It seemed like it was dedicated to just roasting shit, not anything in particular, which didn’t help my confusion. I was hoping it was a community dedicated to taking the piss out of something/someone specific. Looking at it now, I see that following the link in the first sentence kind of explains it, but if you’re just skimming the sidebar the note about AI shit being acceptable really makes it read like it’s not targeted towards whatever the fuck this effective altruism thing is.

        • borari
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          -61 year ago

          I’m sorry I was browsing Lemmy by all while I took a shit, stumbled in to your community, and totally derailed the entire conversation and immeasurably ruined your day by making a post that somebody else commented functionally verbatim hours after me.

          • @selfMA
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            141 year ago

            how are you this unable to shut the fuck up

            • @blakestacey
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              151 year ago

              Mastodon has Reply Guys. Lemmy has Cater To Me Whilst I Am Literally, Not Figuratively, Taking a Shit Guys.

              • @selfMA
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                121 year ago

                mods, can we please have a rule so that only people who are shitting can post here. thanks in advance xoxo

                • @o7___o7
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                  101 year ago

                  mods, can we please have a rule so that only people who are shitting can post here. thanks in advance xoxo

                  The Rule of 2

                • @sc_griffith
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                  71 year ago

                  I uh… thought this rule had been in place the whole time. you mean the rest of you haven’t been…?

            • @froztbyte
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              101 year ago

              5 posts and not a single sneer among them. dry out there today.

              • @Soyweiser
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                71 year ago

                I’m going back to reddit, at least the idiots from /destiny /redscare and /stupidpol didn’t have this level of blown up self importance. ;)

          • @blakestacey
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            111 year ago

            banned for obnoxious not-pology

      • @froztbyte
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        141 year ago

        (idly, didn’t mean that aggressively. wrote it pre-coffee, but, yeah)

        • @blakestacey
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          111 year ago

          I’m trying to think of a polite way to say “in short, no” and “the linked tweet having “effectivealtruism” in it twice should have been a clue”, because I’m not that mean, but I probably need more coffee too.

          • @froztbyte
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            91 year ago

            “I’ll take ‘cases where the wallpaper would have been a clue’ for $200, Alex”…

            • borari
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              -41 year ago

              I mean in my defense I literally said I realized what was being talking about in my post.

      • @Soyweiser
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        51 year ago

        Also it sounds like that game-EA thing could do with a sneer on techtakes

        Careful with that one, it might bring out the people who want to redo 2015, but worse.