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by aasasd 4y ago
Btw, ‘Explosion of a Motor Car’, also by Hepworth, might be closer to now-familiar grindhouse cinema, and also had some special effects: https://archive.org/details/silent-explosion-of-a-motor-car But yeah, about the O
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by aasasd 4y ago
P.P.S. Also, look at this magnificent mane: https://forfatterweb.dk/sites/default/files/2020-04/sorokin%... My word! Apparently everything that comes out of that head is exceedingly gorgeous.
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by aasasd 4y ago
P.S. Since I've gotten this far in plugging authors, I'll add that Sorokin lives in Berlin and writes some of his books in German, so it's possible that German translations of his Russian stuff are written by himself. The bes
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by aasasd 4y ago
Nice to see that gore-sploitation films appeared right at the start. After all, there were plenty of completely nude women in earliest films, though those were pretty tame—but afaik porn followed in a couple decades or so, when film stopped
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by aasasd 4y ago
> unhoused people face extreme challenges when it comes to retaining physical items. Reminds me of a case in Moscow (iirc): a homeless guy bought a gym pass that came with a locker, and was storing his things in said locker. The gym ad
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by aasasd 4y ago
This logic seems to suggest that ‘a’ is my PII, because you can get ‘aasasd’ from it if you throw the dice enough times.
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by aasasd 4y ago
> you really shouldn't Huh, apparently ‘the war on general computation’, of which Cory Doctorow spoke, won't necessarily be led by Disney and such corporations, but also by people denying others the right to automate the work
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by aasasd 4y ago
There's also likewise ancient AWStats, made in Perl. IIRC I used it for some reason instead of Webalizer, but that might be simply due to better support of Perl on shared hosting of that time. Though by now, after having experience wit
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by aasasd 4y ago
For a further bit of nostalgia, the page itself is archived from another site by using the program Teleport Pro, which is also from about the same time. This can be discovered by trying to follow the bottom link to Webalizer's site. (C
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by aasasd 4y ago
Since the pipe organ will be inevitably mentioned in the comments, I'm gonna plug the Youtube channel ‘Look Mum No Computer’, whose gear-crazy author in now apparently in the final stages of installing and patching up an organ in his s
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by aasasd 4y ago
Though the latter bit about the ‘size of economy’ is doubtful to me: the populations of top MMOs are in millions each, but surely the players don't spend the sums of their monthly rent and food bills in the games. This report from Janu
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by aasasd 4y ago
Thanks, I now found a wiki describing these mechanics, and it turns out that UO had an entire system of markings for players who committed illegal activities. This clears things up a bit. Idk where the ‘killing the player’ part came from—th
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by aasasd 4y ago
> UO economies themselves being matter of study More than that, in regard to MMOs in general: both Cory Doctorow and Neil Stephenson wrote books involving exchange of money in MMOs, remarking that bringing a bag of gold to another dude
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by aasasd 4y ago
I continue to be burdened and mystified by a memory from an article circa early-mid 2000s, about UO or a similar game, if there was one: that in the game, when one was being robbed or beaten, they could summon some wunderpolice, whose repre
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yeah, I long thought that these kinds of fraud are ultimately filtered by measuring the return. Paid to Zonama web shop to show your wares, but all visits are from people comparing prices with the in-house brand? Well drop the shop. Bought
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by aasasd 4y ago
What incentive will the site authors have to produce content and design suitable for self-respecting humans? Time and again people fail to realize that if they install an adblocker, they remove themselves from the target audience and thus f
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by aasasd 4y ago
Coincidentally, Russian users of Switch can currently experience this dilemma firsthand, as Nintendo forbid downloads from the shop even for already bought games. (Sony forbids purchases, but at least allows downloading games that are ‘owne
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by aasasd 4y ago
When news of Stadia rolling out appeared on HN, I commented right away that it will be shut down before long, and was downvoted. Of course, such predictions are just pure probability, by now.
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by aasasd 4y ago
That's what I was getting at. As I see it, the story postulates a hardcore version of the ‘equality of outcome’ approach, particularly in the social aspect. I don't think anyone who's not completely marginalized subscribes to
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by aasasd 4y ago
Alright, so I'm guessing when people have to give up personal freedom for collective values, it's called ‘leftist’, right? Like, freedom of personal expression and freedom over one's own body—so men are forbidden from growing
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by aasasd 4y ago
Accusing a ‘science fiction’ story of strawmanning is pretty weird. Moreover, ‘Harrison Bergeron’ can easily be paralleled to Bulgakov's ‘Heart of a Dog’, which is a direct jab at the early Soviet Union. However, idk if Vonnegut was in
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by aasasd 4y ago
Yes, the best way to deal with social knowledge is to memorize the list of biases and sociopolitical behaviors from Wikipedia, and to recite the fitting ones when anything relevant comes up.
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by aasasd 4y ago
The only problem I might have with Vonnegut is that I could use more of his novels. Some of his books easily derail into author's explicit commentary on things—which is fun too in its own way, but leaves less space for more subtle jabs
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by aasasd 4y ago
It's always fun seeing USians trying to shoehorn every variation of human behavior into the one-dimensional classification. (Seeing other Westerners confusedly borrow the same dichotomy is also entertaining, as it often fits poorly to
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by aasasd 4y ago
Are you saying that he has a rubber mask on his face? Because the face is what I'm talking about. The eyes shape, the cheekbones, the nose. Even the hand plays into this hypothesis. I don't need a costume to deduce that someone lo
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by aasasd 4y ago
The man in the ‘Baba Yaga’ photo looks very Mongol, Yakut or thereabouts. (Coincidentally, apparently there's currently a thriving scene of low-budget cinema and documentary in Yakutia—if my memory is not mistaking it with another one
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by aasasd 4y ago
I'm gonna bet that the pic is an interpretation of an image from ‘2001 Space Odyssey’. Basically that child plus Sorayama.
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Perhaps a good start would be to habitually deny connections instead of allowing them. Otherwise the need for Lulu is rather unclear.
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I recently learned that in West the weekdays are named after Roman gods, but in English it's done by the way of Germanic gods. It's just that Romans, when visiting German tribes, interpreted local gods as Roman ones, simply with
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by aasasd 4y ago
Github once managed to ban accounts of Iranians, even students in the US. Afaik shortly after that GH went to the US government and convinced them that sanctioning every Iranian even outside Iran was technically and politically dubious, whi

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