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JohnnyEnzyme

@ JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social

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Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee.

"Man rests from one labor by doing another." That also works for managing chronic pain, as I've discovered...

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • That's when it tastes like plastic IME. Big yikes from me, but different strokes for different folks.

    Btw, I happen to love crispy popcorn, and figured out that you can rescue stale popcorn & other snacks by tossing them in the air-fryer a little bit.

  • Parliament – Mothership Connection

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  • Isn't it interesting how a song can 'succeed or fall' by it's own merits so to speak, but that the bassline can be down to a completely different venue and set of issues, haha?

  • Dried fish at market, South Korea, ~1950

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  • My first thought was: 'that's absolutely not China,' maybe because... Japanese outfits & hairstyles? Plus the sense that those buildings somehow just aren't Chinese, FWIW.

    One wonders if one is completely full of shit, though. XD

  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • That's what I understood from your earlier comment. Good on you for helping to get that rolling, mate.

    Somewhat similarly maybe, I've been trying to revive !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world lately, and someone else started posting with aplomb, the past couple days. :D

  • What do you think of the name Cliff?

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  • That's generally a very safe assumption!

    Btw, someone mentioned the name being a bit old-timey, and it is. But I think it's one of the ones that sounds rather stylish & hip, FWIW. Unlike say Melvin, or Herbert, or Horace, or Elmer, or Mortimer, par exemple.

  • "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe

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  • I hate to recommend the evil empire, but there's a very good sub on this topic called r/AmerExit. Sometimes a community is too niche to exist on the Fediverse, and one must hold one's nose and visit Reddit for certain content.

  • I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?

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  • I don't re-watch movies very often, and more than three times is rare as hens' teeth. Sometimes it's because it's an absolute classic, or sometimes it's because I'm weirdly fascinated by it. Let's see if I can remember those rare exceptions.

    • Starship Troopers (good movie, and something about it charmed my socks off)
    • Les Triplettes de Belleville (absolutely must-see, smashing masterpiece, no need to know French) (free to watch here!)
    • Big Lebowski (words cannot describe)
    • The Life of Brian (Monty Python's finest movie IMO, and a fascinating commentary on religion)
    • Fire and Ice (good movie, and I found the rotoscoping utterly entrancing) (free to watch here and here!)

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • I don’t really care about Star Wars

    That seems like a perfectly valid reaction to most of the movies beyond the first 2-3. I know there are some exceptions, including some of the animated series, but most of it is just repetitive, useless dreck IMO.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • I'll hottake that hottake: cinema popcorn is amazing (around here at least), and I think a lot of that comes from key ingredients they use. One is "Flavacol" seasoning, and the other is butter-flavored coconut oil. Makes a world of difference, assuming you like a buttery taste.

  • Parliament – Mothership Connection

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  • Parliament – Mothership Connection

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  • "At the time, it seemed like a good pose."

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • George Dubya, is that you?

    He didn't patent that expression, far as I know.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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    1. Kill all the apes (or just wait 15 more minutes)

    We're doing a great job of that ourselves, so mission accomplished?

    1. Enjoy Lemmy

    I've been on Reddit for 10yrs, and the Fediverse for the past 2.5yrs, and don't see that changing anytime soon. I'm also skeptical as to the FV ever matching Reddit in terms of variety and bulk of content. The situation just is what it is.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • Ok, but I think you’re conflating two separate things

    I feel like they're distinctly separate things, and I thought I'd communicated as much. Oh, well.

    ...the voting system consistently produces pathological outcomes at scale.

    That seems like... a little much. I do agree that upvotes/downvotes indeed gamify the system, but on the whole would say that the end-effect on Reddit results in a big bunch of hoomons acting in typical hoomon ways, which is with deep undercurrents of fickle, ignorant, selfish, feel-good behavior.

    The Usenet comparison wasn’t really about scale. It was about the incentive structure.

    Yeah, I get that, but I do observe that there are advantages to upvote/downvote that indeed work better on a larger scale. I'm not sure they're really needed on a smaller scale.

    I'd say I agree with most of the things you wrote, but remain unconvinced that upvote/downvote is so absolutely toxic as to merit tossing. And of course, I don't think it's going to happen, anyway.

    Aggregate behaviour amongst naked apes? Yeah, I would tend to agree. Now what?

  • Chinese infantryman with an anti-tank suicide vest made of grenades, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1938

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  • Hats off to Billy West for being able to go from the innocent, airy voice of Fry to the much deeper, grittier voice of Brannigan. I like to do voice impressions myself, and I can't come anywhere near that range.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • Well, I remember ye olden days of Usenet - we mostly got along without them, and without some of the issues they seem to cause.

    Things change, though. Upvote/downvote was one of the many things Reddit and other places trialed over the years, and based on the success, stuck with it. Me, I barely spent any time on Usenet, but it occurs to me that the userbase was probably smaller. A much, much larger userbase probably fits better with upvote/downvote, so the comparison there is likely skewed, methinks.

    'Dopamine rush' is exactly right, and I think it's useful and informational, similar to the way that people react to your statements and ideas in real life. I do think they can have an 'echo chamber' effect and help promote the problem that a popular thing or opinion can be completely wrong, but to me that just means that upvotes/downvotes aren't perfect, not that they should be completely discarded.

    https://jacobdesforges.com/you-should-quit-reddit-distribution-wide/

    Not sure what you want me to do with a link to a book, but I don't even agree with the premise of the title sentence. Reddit is still very useful to me, and I know of no other place that replicates the variety of content, there.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • Yeet - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yeet

    Okay, thanks. I can never seem to remember it, maybe because it feels so unnatural. Maybe it would help if I knew where it came from, though. shrug*

    Pragmatically, they’ve end up being more a social proof / opinion suppression / brigading tool.

    That seems exceptionally pessimistic to me, but maybe you have more insight in to all that than I do. Personally I think multiple things can be true about upvotes / downvotes, some useful, some harmful perhaps.

    In any case, there is no debate that upvotes are useful and valuable to me when it comes to posting and commenting.

  • Chinese infantryman with an anti-tank suicide vest made of grenades, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1938

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  • Infantrywoman?

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  • Upvote / downvote counts: these should be yeeted into the garbage pile of history.

    Still not exactly sure what "yeeted" means, but I like how upvotes & downvotes tend to bring quality content to the fore, and I even like them as a permanent record. They're not very useful of course, but having the motivation to permanently increasing my totals is useful for sharing good content and communicating in good faith. At least for me.

  • What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?

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  • it just takes time

    It takes more than just that, though. Reddit's UI and mod tools are more powerful, and the Fediverse as both a concept and a practical entity are more demanding and trickier to understand and use.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Juggernaut's early costume design was a bit on the blocky side.

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    You can insult me all you want if I get to meet Elvis!

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Heather recoils in pure horror-- "oh god, not this boring-ass speech again."

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    NSFW maybe

    Barry wasn't able to 'rise to the occasion' without their little games.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    That's the spirit!

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Parched, and now one dime in debt... Kang's fancy plans are spinning out of control.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    And an even bigger fortune in plastic surgery?

  • HistoryPhotos @piefed.social
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    Train Wreck: 1914

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Otherwise, it was a perfectly ordinary day. (Tintin, from "Cigars of the Pharaoh")

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Who or what exactly might be conducting the current DDOS attack against PieFed.Social?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    "Nyet, nyet... pyay that man his money!" Dear Fediverse-- do we have a 'film clip' sub/community here? (see post for film clip; it's from "Rounders")

  • HistoryPhotos @piefed.social
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    "Two Clowns" (aka circus clowns backstage, 1939, gelatin silver print by John Gutmann)

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    "Old people could attack us, too!" It's Jeffrey Brown, exploring his Christian schooling (two parts, see post for 2nd part)

  • HistoryPhotos @piefed.social
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    Polaroid of Mark Hamill cracking his knuckles, from the original Star Wars film, ~1976 (ten total, with fascinating 'making of' article)

  • Comics @lemmy.ml
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    Jug(head) Dredd, by D.C. Stuelpner, aka "Drawer of Drawings"

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    "Santa, when the Claus fell"

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    Please do -NOT- have an ICEy Xmas. (original by TOPSY in Seattle)

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Only ever wanting to be Aquaman's oversized understudies, the unfortunate giants were ultimately rejected and humiliated.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Sheesh... has Santa's brain been inhaling too much coal dust, lately?