Cyrus Draegur

Big real estate killed malls. They aren’t as efficient at generating rent due to their maintenance and upkeep costs, so real estate holdings firms are hell bent on liquidating them, subdividing them, and redeveloping the land piecemeal in ways that better optimize for fine access control and not having to take care of any “dead” non-money-making spaces such as the concourses between the stores. Instead: just parking lots between store fronts.

Now there’s a Walmart, a Home Depot, an Applebee’s, a mattress store, a liquor store, and maybe a transient party supply store that will occasionally occupy a space on a seasonal basis. When a slot isn’t occupied by a tenant, they get to shut off the power, water, and climate control completely, and not have to end up wasting electricity or fuel conditioning the air of a space no one goes to right then.

If you WANTED to make a mall work, you could, especially if you added faux “residential” space (actually retail space where the product being sold is storage and privacy, with “sleep” being “against the rules” but they built it to intentionally not know that that’s what the “customers” are doing there). Residential malls would guarantee a constant customer and worker base as people come and go to visit family and friends and end up shopping along the way.

But they don’t want that.

They want to sell a MINIMUM viable product, and charge maximally for it.

This makes Debian look kinda good actually…

see, owning a knife and using it at the shop makes a shop owner butch, and thereby makes it a butcher knife.

so if it’s a paint shop and the owner paints with the knife, it’s a butcher at a butcher shop with a butcher knife.

hexbear isn’t even malicious. hexbear is spicy at best. not nearly as bad as lemmygrad, which is outright repugnant in its overt hostility. hexbear users are at least CAPABLE of communicating, whereas in my experience lemmygrad users pull the animal farm squealer move and defecate on the floor before storming out.

thank you. i was pinched for time and distracted so i couldn’t really figure out why it wasn’t embedding.

… is this written by AI?

Or just by a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about?

Look, I love Eminence in Shadow but seriously, its worldbuilding is basically a game of madlibs that Cid himself hangs a lampshade on. It’s a deliberately hamfisted collage of stereotypes, because the whole premise is a pastiche; a send-up of stories that actually take themselves seriously. In fact, the very best part ABOUT its worldbuilding is how much meaning it EVOLVES in response to Cid’s meddling. The world he’s reborn into is basically a cardboard cutout standee of a world until it’s suddenly confronted with the “wait what OH SHIT” implications of a technological/industrial revolution hitting it like a blazing left-hook out of NOWHERE. Seeing lazy, lackadaisical nations that were fully expecting everything to continue listing pointlessly onward in medieval stasis shudder from the strain of massive unforeseen disruption is, like, the entire point.

What I’m saying is, this article is praising a boring old paint can when the REAL thing worth praise is what was done with its paint by a madman using a LIVING, STRUGGLING, SCREAMING FERAL CAT AS A PAINTBRUSH

Furthermore, he describes Cid as having been an UNDERDOG? Are you for fucking REAL bro??? He is so far from being an underdog, so much the ANTIPODAL OPPOSITE of being an underdog, that his making others into underdogs is a recurring arc motif. This article’s alleged writer describes cid’s abilities as though they’re something he eventually works to figure out when, VERY MUCH TO THE CONTRARY, one of the first gags in the story is how he figured all his shit out from the very start because he was BORN with all the combat prowess he gained by being basically a high functioning psychopath who beat the shit out of biker thugs for fun back when he was still on earth! He combined every memetic meditative and metaphysical technique he could squeeze out of the mystical traditions of earth and used all of them to psychosomatically squeeze every last drop of capability out of the new world’s magic system, minmaxing himself to the fullest extent of what is ontologically POSSIBLE in the new world, within the first episode… AS A GAG.

I like it when TEIS receives accolades under most circumstances but this feels empty and fake.

Chat, j’ai pété

on gaza *GENOCIDE.

exactly. because it’s a proven fact, actually, that working harder DOES NOT EVER result in higher compensation.

the results are in. it’s a closed issue. the managerial class has fucked the workers long enough.

if they want more than minimum, they need to pay more than minimum.

we’re done working more than minimum uncompensated.

FUCK 'EM.

“never ever be biased except in these subjects we want you to be biased about, and always be controversial except about these specific concepts about which we demand you represent our opinion and no others”

These fucking chuds don’t deserve oxygen.

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Ani-Maybe.

I seriously thought this was a setup for a joke, OP XD

“… then I am below average, just like they always told me I was.”

now that’s a campaign I wanna be part of O_O

W O U L D

I’ve been having an excellent experience with premium as well. I like knowing that I’m directly materially contributing to the people I watch. The only problem I have with YouTube premium lately is that it keeps trying to suggest fucking 8 hours long music streams to my TV and seems as though it’s REFUSING to learn that I don’t want to see that shit unless I’m deliberately searching for it. Get that shit the FUCK outta my feed. Otherwise, it’s the way YouTube was meant to be used.

If I had my way though, I’d nuke YouTube’s ad system from orbit and replace it with this: for ads, NO VIDEO, NO SOUND, ONLY A SLIDE SHOW, CONTAINING ONLY TEXT. 15 Slides or 15 Seconds, MAXIMUM, whichever runs out first. If the user clicks anywhere but the product link, it advances the slide or closes the ad. PERIOD.

i’m not so sure it was even my local feed that got me feeling like i belonged, really; more that I started reflexively defaulting to the federated feed and found it to be much more lively. Perhaps it was actually the changes brought on by time. Perhaps it was because twitter is rotting like a forgotten corpse in a warm, damp room and all the smart people who actually give a shit finally all started to say “fuck this” and enough of a critical mass has finally accumulated in federated services for them to affect its overall feel. I definitely see content from technically minded, creative, motivated people more on mastodon than i EVER did on twitter, but especially now. Twitter now is just … sad, and it reminds me that I have a better place that I’d enjoy visiting more.

i started reading your reply in the voice of Dracula from the intro to Symphony of the Night XD

“WHAT is REDDIT 🍷💫💥 but a MISERABLE pile of SHITPOSTS!”

The 'net ill-needs a failure such as him.

His terms of service are as empty as his revenues!

all this to say, yeah fam 100% totally agree

mastodon finally clicked for me and i don’t miss twitter at all. sometimes i accidentally load twitter out of force of habit, but immediately recognize how much it sucks now and close it again. Likewise, reddit’s dead to me too now. i’m finally starting to feel like decentralized federated social media systems might actually work out.