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its been a while since ive read a comment somewhere that I am so completely bewildered by. I understand about half the words, and none of the references, that y

by nchmy 4mo ago

its been a while since ive read a comment somewhere that I am so completely bewildered by. I understand about half the words, and none of the references, that you wrote. Hope your teeth are doing better now!

The_Blade 4mo ago
my mother is a fish
simtel20 4mo ago
Do you find yourself more lost in the history parts or the gaming parts?
- The_Blade 3mo ago
  the point is sort of both (i've been nerdy and signalling enough in these general and personal trying times, so why stop there) - Chris Crawford created Balance of Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game)) and had some writings saying games are more important to / have a greater capacity to aid learning than the modern education system at large, citing the little games mother cats play with kittens to teach them how to survive (or something to that effect). that stuck with me but either way, without BoP and WarGames you don't have, say, Twilight Struggle - Another thing later on that stuck with me are media theorist Marshall McLuhan's concept of hot versus cool media (perhaps more famous for the medium is the message / massage). I am not going to consult AI for this, but I contextualized it as how much work the "recipient" has to do. I.e. baseball or War of the Worlds on the radio is "cooler" than red-hot NFL football or Independence Day on the screen So then Contagion is hot media, passages from David Quammen's Spillover are cool(er) media, and Plague Inc.'s porridge is just right. or play Augustus while I, Claudius is one while getting ripshit on Ovid and wine if i had more time i would make it shorter
tsimionescu 4mo ago
Caturday -> Saturday enjoyed with or similar to a cat LBA -> probably supposed to be LBAC, Late Bronze Age collapse Civ -> Civilization, a series of historically inspired strategy games, where you play as the historical leader of a civilization through the ages of human development Hatshepsut -> an Egyptian Pharaoh who is one of the leaders you can play as in Civ VII Deity -> the name of the highest difficulty level in Civ VII Firaxis -> the company that develops the Civilization series Discord -> a chat app/service often used in gaming communities ooh la la i call a car hole a garage -> a reference to a joke in The Simpsons, where a character complains someone else thinks they're fancy because they use the word "garage", and when challenged on an alternative, he calls it "car hole" Old World -> a game similar to the Civilization series CK III -> Crusader Kings III, another game similar to Civilization Plague -> probably Plague Inc, a game where you play as a pathogen trying to infect and kill the entirety of humanity Contagion -> a movie about the start of a pandemic Rest of the references I can't help with. Also no idea why they would mention the playtest of Civ VII version 1.3.2.
- quickthrowman 4mo ago
  “Caturday hepped up on goofballs [after dental work] -> I was high on opiates on Saturday Caturday -> Saturday Hepped -> Novel synonym for “high” likely influenced by the jazz slang word ‘hep’ which means ‘hip’ or ‘cool’ Goofballs -> 5/500 hydrocodone/APAP, aka Vicodin. The gold standard tooth pain prescription drug, an opioid. In this context.
  - order-matters 4mo ago
    hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X" which is a relatively common phrase for being on some drugs or medication, but using kawaii speak which often softens vowel sounds, turning the open "ah" sound of the 'o' in hopped into a pronunciation of 'eh'. They couldve taken it further and said "hipped up" for no change in meaning. this may not have all been consciously decided, as many chronically online social circles use forms of this speech routinely and linguistics is a funny thing like that where the brain can adopt and make up things to fit it. May also be more of a 'fedora' speech pattern that younger online generation uses ironically in a nerdy voice (general ex. "m'lady"), hence the addition of trivial details like the version number and having early access to a new build of the game always hard to tell exactly whats influencing the speech of the chronically online folk, but the mention of discord and well everything else about the post seem to strongly indicate it. all this to say, i doubt they were looking to be understood as much as they were just talking to talk and sending some in-group signaling
    - mr_toad 4mo ago
      > hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X" Another Simpsons reference.
      - The_Blade 3mo ago
        yes! involving Flanders and Chief Wiggum, then Moe, in an ep from s5 i.e the golden age
- mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago
pseudohadamard 3mo ago
> its been a while since ive read a comment somewhere that I am so completely bewildered by. I think you need to be on goofballs yourself to understand it.
yubblegum 3mo ago
Reminds of Burgess' Nadsat (which deserves its own hn post): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat

by nchmy 4mo ago

The_Blade 4mo ago

my mother is a fish

simtel20 4mo ago

Do you find yourself more lost in the history parts or the gaming parts?

The_Blade 3mo ago
the point is sort of both (i've been nerdy and signalling enough in these general and personal trying times, so why stop there) - Chris Crawford created Balance of Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_(video_game)) and had some writings saying games are more important to / have a greater capacity to aid learning than the modern education system at large, citing the little games mother cats play with kittens to teach them how to survive (or something to that effect). that stuck with me but either way, without BoP and WarGames you don't have, say, Twilight Struggle - Another thing later on that stuck with me are media theorist Marshall McLuhan's concept of hot versus cool media (perhaps more famous for the medium is the message / massage). I am not going to consult AI for this, but I contextualized it as how much work the "recipient" has to do. I.e. baseball or War of the Worlds on the radio is "cooler" than red-hot NFL football or Independence Day on the screen So then Contagion is hot media, passages from David Quammen's Spillover are cool(er) media, and Plague Inc.'s porridge is just right. or play Augustus while I, Claudius is one while getting ripshit on Ovid and wine if i had more time i would make it shorter

tsimionescu 4mo ago

Caturday -> Saturday enjoyed with or similar to a cat LBA -> probably supposed to be LBAC, Late Bronze Age collapse Civ -> Civilization, a series of historically inspired strategy games, where you play as the historical leader of a civilization through the ages of human development Hatshepsut -> an Egyptian Pharaoh who is one of the leaders you can play as in Civ VII Deity -> the name of the highest difficulty level in Civ VII Firaxis -> the company that develops the Civilization series Discord -> a chat app/service often used in gaming communities ooh la la i call a car hole a garage -> a reference to a joke in The Simpsons, where a character complains someone else thinks they're fancy because they use the word "garage", and when challenged on an alternative, he calls it "car hole" Old World -> a game similar to the Civilization series CK III -> Crusader Kings III, another game similar to Civilization Plague -> probably Plague Inc, a game where you play as a pathogen trying to infect and kill the entirety of humanity Contagion -> a movie about the start of a pandemic Rest of the references I can't help with. Also no idea why they would mention the playtest of Civ VII version 1.3.2.

quickthrowman 4mo ago
“Caturday hepped up on goofballs [after dental work] -> I was high on opiates on Saturday Caturday -> Saturday Hepped -> Novel synonym for “high” likely influenced by the jazz slang word ‘hep’ which means ‘hip’ or ‘cool’ Goofballs -> 5/500 hydrocodone/APAP, aka Vicodin. The gold standard tooth pain prescription drug, an opioid. In this context.
- order-matters 4mo ago
  hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X" which is a relatively common phrase for being on some drugs or medication, but using kawaii speak which often softens vowel sounds, turning the open "ah" sound of the 'o' in hopped into a pronunciation of 'eh'. They couldve taken it further and said "hipped up" for no change in meaning. this may not have all been consciously decided, as many chronically online social circles use forms of this speech routinely and linguistics is a funny thing like that where the brain can adopt and make up things to fit it. May also be more of a 'fedora' speech pattern that younger online generation uses ironically in a nerdy voice (general ex. "m'lady"), hence the addition of trivial details like the version number and having early access to a new build of the game always hard to tell exactly whats influencing the speech of the chronically online folk, but the mention of discord and well everything else about the post seem to strongly indicate it. all this to say, i doubt they were looking to be understood as much as they were just talking to talk and sending some in-group signaling
  - mr_toad 4mo ago
    > hepped could also just be "hopped" as in "hopped up on X" Another Simpsons reference.
    - The_Blade 3mo ago
      yes! involving Flanders and Chief Wiggum, then Moe, in an ep from s5 i.e the golden age
mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago

pseudohadamard 3mo ago

> its been a while since ive read a comment somewhere that I am so completely bewildered by. I think you need to be on goofballs yourself to understand it.

yubblegum 3mo ago

Reminds of Burgess' Nadsat (which deserves its own hn post): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat