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the fans aren’t insufferable as a rule, but any fanbase large enough will have a loud minority that is insufferable, and sanderson has a large fanbase

I bet had Tolkien write TLotR in 2000, well into the information age, we would see exactly the same thing

excellent world building, but plots that are fine

people really like good world building. like, really really like it.

if you read them you’ll see that they do blend well

it sounds like you won’t, but I have read everything published and the numerous magic systems all feel very unique, but are based on a very sound central logic

one of his foundational tenets in writing magic systems is something like exploring the limits of a magic system before you expand it, and he absolutely does that

mistborn’s second trilogy is a perfect example of that, there’s not new magic, or at least not much of it, but a remixing of what was in the first trilogy and all of the implications of that remixing was more than enough for the second trilogy

the fans may be insufferable but neither the author nor the work itself holds itself in as high a regard

personally I’m excited to see movie and tv adaptations of the cosmere. there’s a lot of potential.

this is correct, it’s called in-painting. you mat-out the area you want replaced and with modern GPT architecture you can also use text input to steer what gets in-painted

not saying that that was for-sure done here since the changes don’t look too localized, but the technology absolutely exists

RIP old school game shark forums

a good book to encourage everyone to keep a flail of hard drives handy

never know when you need some nice dense data to defend yourself

so you restart only to do the same damn thing again and a second time and become hyper-aware of your own lack of concentration which makes it even worse and … maybe it’s time for a nap

there is an automatic cutting device used to make crafts projects and the only way to run it is with its manufacturer’s software which only runs on windows

I tried to get it to work on Linux and had mixed success just getting it to start, but it failed miswrably at trying to communicate over the USB connection to the device no matter what I did

the only thing that worked was running a windows VM with VirtualBox and that got the connection to work but the experience of operating it became poor so until that device dies or the app gets Linux support (neither happening soon) at least one machine must be windows, and right now getting another PC is prohibitively expensive

just because the title calls it “Wikipedia’s [photo]” doesn’t mean it was organized by Wikipedia

two people (three if you read the article) of their own accord uploaded the photos to Wikipedia

the title could also say “the people that are mildly famous because of a photo they uploaded to Wikipedia…” but that’s unnecessarily verbose

nothing in your comment indicated sarcasm. unless you’re brand new to the Internet you should know perfectly well that pure-text communication lacks the fidelity to indicate that. this is why so many times over the age of the internet people have tried to add in a way to communicate that either with “/s” or SaRcAsM/mOcKiNg CaSe, or italics sometimes, someone once even tried to make a sarcasm mark

I said nothing to cheapen taxi drivers or their profession. I respect and appreciate it a great deal, especially with examples of them unionizing. That doesn’t change the fact that the profession does not create a thing. I find it disingenuous that you would suggest that not calling a profession creative would diminish it.

Garbagemen, for instance, is a profession that is very much worth respecting but also which does not create anything.

knowing streets and predicting road congestion are not creative acts, that is they are not creating something

plot twist, they are sleeping in the broom closet after stealing the key

stickslaughter

flash animations of stick figure combat

Hmmmmm

ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for cupcakes.

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content, mostly

but you keep moving around and are holding a big rectangle so also a bit of “what are you doing?” whenever you move. but not too much since you’re not moving around a lot

they’re side-eyeing you when there’s movement just to keep a little tab on what’s going on around them

no way to know why they’re keeping tabs, if they were scared they’d keep you more in field of view

That is not the barrier.

who said there is only one barrier?

they will try to learn an[d] adapt

you will, sure, but no not everyone will. think less on tech savvy people and more on those that know that “the Internet is the big blue e when I turn on the computer (their monitor)”

those people outnumber us tech savvy individuals at least two-to-one and they deserve an OS that is easier to use then memorizing command line commands

agreed, but this does not address what I said

The user interface on the left and the command prompt on the right does kinda highlight a barrier to mass Linux adoption.

if we want more people on Linux let’s normalize not having to use the command line for everything.