LurkingLuddite

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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

For #2, I'd definitely say it depends on the type of spoiler. Merely giving away the general events isn't going to ruin good media. Though if someone is basically in effect recreating the whole scene(s) lazily in a different medium, then that can ruin the ability to experience it in the same way.

I would liken it to how the Red Wedding in GoT was portrayed in its own media: As done in the earlier seasons, it was a crazy surprise of an experience. If it happened in season 8, it would've been a shitty, "here are the things that happened" kind of portrayal and it would've been kinda' what ever.

That's not even speaking to spoilers, but story telling in general. If they're doing a shitty job of telling the story, spoiler context or no, then it'll kinda' ruin the story either way. Spoilers are themselves story telling. It's not all black and white good or bad. It's how it's done and what is covered that makes it good or bad.

Though with spoilers, it's far less likely that people are going to try to really do it justice, especially in a meta-context like talking about the show, so spoilers are more often given in poor form for story telling.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I think it greatly depends on the media and what the spoiler is.

If it's a story where the big twist is the thing that makes it so great, or if the depth of the story is greatly amplified when you can get immersed before a big event occurs, then spoilers are purely an asshole thing to give without warning or permission.

Though if it's just Disney slop where the whole damn thing is formulaic and rather predictable anyways, then what ever, spoil away.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 33 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Not just with their web hosting. I've had so many updates break random crap it's not even funny. Recently, a random update I did not approve suddenly had kwallet not working. A core piece of a DE they provide a bundled version for. I had to start kwalletd myself every time I wanted to use it.

It didn't start that way on the fresh install. I didn't do anything myself except reboot. Then suddenly my scripts that nab from the keystore are failing and asking me for passwords and what a mess.

That's just a more recent example. I remember having quite a few random issues on update in the past, though the only other one I explicitly remember is the DE suddenly failing to start. Like, at all. Luckily I had a recent timeshift backup saved elsewhere, restored, and ignored the update notifications for a long while...

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

There is room for two in that 'we'.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 5 points 14 hours ago

What, you don't like the main character immediately running into and immediately getting crushed on by a princess the moment her species shows up? Or being the main character to come up with a basic idea to appeal to them that a several hundred year old supposedly wise person couldn't? Or that they run formal debates in the future like a dance-off? Or that they often talk like people from the 20th century instead of using more timless and intelligent phrasing?

Or that the show is written more like science-FICTION than SCIENCE-fiction while wearing Trek paint? ... ok ok that one is generic and kinda' applies to all new trek...

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Nah, they'll mostly reveal that they're all visual phenominon explainable by physics and that even the classified US government is full of morons who want it to be true, even before Trump.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 5 points 23 hours ago

If you want Debian plus some nice tools, I'd recommend MX Linux. It's based on Debian stable and mosrly just has a few convenient extras. Like installing nvidia drivers with one click, or being able to create a bootable ISO of your exact system. It has a few other neat tools, too.

Wouldn't be surprised if you could just nab those tools ad hoc as desired for normal Debian, though.

Zeroscaping doesn't have to be so awful. Some arrangements can even verge on pretty.

Not Nazi propaganda. Literally what Russia does to this day...

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My guy, you're commenting after someone has already offered another source.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

High taxes is limiting capitalism.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The plan was to take power and use the gestapo like ICE to scare people into staying in line.

My question is, why are people staying in line?!

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