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I love that they talk about hating sleeping bags, because, like... mood. And some of the most hardcore modern backpackers, the people who do like... ultra-lightweight trips and stuff, many of them have moved away from bags and are just using glorified quilts, which I find hilarious. What's old is new again.

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tragedy that i haven't seen anyone post this clip from the latest make some noise

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i literally can’t listen to tik tok by kesha without thinking about that goddamn star trek tos fanvid…you know the one

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All respect to John Waters (and I largely agree here), but I'll provide a minor counterpoint: Catgirls in programming socks.

 the only criticism of millennials l accept

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Agreeing with above (especially +1'ing the Obra Dinn recommendation, absolutely iconic game, so good), but also: Lucas Pope (the dev of the game) basically invented that rendering style as it was used in OD. It was heavily inspired by plenty of things, but live rendering a 3d environment like that was something he was tuning for like... many months, I think even years, in the lead-up to release. I remember tweets way before the game came out where he just showed the style as a proof of concept, and it was striking. I recall a whole thread of other devs who were kinda awestruck (he was already a "name" in the indie scene, but it was wild that this was his new project).

I don't remember if it was "just" a custom rendering pipeline in an extant engine, or a custom engine he wrote himself, but I strongly suspect one of the reasons we haven't really seen it done is that it was... kind of meticulously-crafted for this one project, and far from trivial to reproduce as an effect.

It was so freaking cool, though; I'd love to see more projects play off this style.

its a shame ditherpunk never took off

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Cosigned. I'm a major Firefox and privacy advocate, and one of the biggest causes of Firefox incompatibilities with websites for me is... how damn private it can be. Enhanced Tracking Protection is a Firefox feature that aggressively sandboxes your browsing data in a way that still lets the web, y'know, basically work for you. Can you go more aggro? Sure; turn off JavaScript and block all cookies and enjoy the fraction of the internet that still works. But ETP gives a solid baseline of privacy functionality (and it's tunable!) without breaking everything.

It does break some stuff, though -- Twitter embeds in new articles, for instance, never render right for me. Why? ETP is blocking the code that Twitter provides to do those embeds in a "rich" fashion, so a basic text fallback is used. Twitter, of course, doesn't want me to do that, because they want their code running and telling them all about what I'm reading and where; I'm happy with denying them (most of) that info. And some websites have a really loose (read: poor) implementation of how they do cross-subdomain login services, and ETP can break those, too. If I want an article to render right, or want to log into some weird secondary Microsoft site that's acting up, I know I can turn off ETP selectively for that tab, right from the shield icon in my URL bar. I rarely actually need to do this at all.

This is built into Firefox; no extra extension needed (not that extensions are always bad; uBlock Origin is indispensible). I don't know if ETP is on by default -- perhaps not, since it does cause occasional minor issues, but you should try it out! The Firefox team is legit giving us tools that Google has financial stake in us not having, and they should be lauded for it.

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

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A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

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happy sleepy bitch saturday

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A Song Of Mice And Fire

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kicked out of the bdsm scene for saying “you got it, boss!” in an old timey henchman voice whenever someone tells me what to do