Makes sense. If I were hiring for an org that funds musicians, I'd consider it a plus for a candidate to have experience in the music business. I'm sure the same applies to an org that funds scammers.

I like the spooky skull head from Spirit Halloween.

I never use the word "exclaim" on non leap day Saturdays unless I'm wearing a hat, because there's a nonzero chance God exists and considers that specifically a sin worthy of eternal damnation.

I would kill every cat and dog in the world to make sure Tamagotchi isn't discontinued

Tired of people misrepresenting HPMOR as a Harry Potter fanfic where Harry uses science to study magic.

Anyone who has actually read the fic knows it's a Death Note/Waiting for Godot/Spaceballs crossover fic about aristocrat failchildren bringing glowstick swords into an airsoft match. There are zero superfluous sentences. Every sentence a painting, especially when Glup of the Most Noble and Ancient Judean People's Front of Shitto casts Compelled Duel on Backgroundella O. C. Technicallynot of the Superlatively Posh and Antiquarian Judean Popular Front of Whatsherface.

In the words of Anton Chekhov: if you establish in the first act that you must never burn anything you have transfigured, you must have a character transform something into a rocket in the third act and then fire that rocket without any harm done. This will prove you're a better writer than Chekhov.

Final exam question: You are facing the most reddit serial killer of all time and his dumbass henchmen. Armed with only your wits and a spell that can transform anything into anything else, devise an escape. For extra credit, invoke one or more of the following science fiction plot devices: nuclear fusion, carbon nanotubes/fullerenes, wormholes/warp drives, neutronium, wave/particle duality, brown notes, grey goo, the anthropic principle, quantum tunneling, Maxwell's demon.

HPMOR: the only novel that has been fully read by fewer people than mistakenly believe to have fully read it.

Many are contrasting the demand for gay marriage with the demand for human-animal marriage.

I feel like the ratio of homophobes to zoophiles making this comparison is a lot more skewed than the ratio of transphobes to promptphiles making the other comparison.

Sour indeed. There are some decent observations in there. He correctly notes that the book is dissing Stalinism specifically. Newspeak never became a real problem and superficially similar phenomena don't mean language is losing its expressive power. And yes, those depictions of working class people have more than a whiff of classism to them.

Then there's a lot of complaining about leftist infighting. It's pretty appropriate for this to be hosted on that site. It's only anti-revisionism if it comes from the Vanguard Party region of Marxism-Leninism, otherwise it's just sparkling sectarianism.

The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed

Better organized than the POUM, I'll give it that. "Won out" is an interesting choice of words to describe any republican faction in the Spanish civil war.

And then there's the cringe. No robots and computer? My stories have robots and computer because it's impossible for someone to always pay attention to spying a bunch of people. The panopticon doesn't work, actually, because even if at anytime someone could be watching you, they couldn't possibly be watching you all the time unless they have robots and computer. Also why isn't this dystopian society more feminist?

I can do it, I have to email a bunch of stuff today anyway. (Edit: sent.)

You've done a really good job of picking your subjects. Each episode so far has managed to push the limits in some direction, whether it's one or more of the F.A.G. scores, the fame of the main character or some other type of intrigue. I did not expect the jungian clusterfuck of bad penises and breasts episode to be overtaken in sheer WTF value so soon.

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you go to Azure if you’re running Windows or you hate yourself — or both

one will quickly lead to the other

Yes he is. It's not copyright maximalism to be angry that the enforcement of copyright protects and does not bind large corporations with huge financial backing and binds yet fails to protect artists and other producers of creative work who do not have a net worth of millions, billions or trillions of dollars.

Cantrill's equivocation between cleanroom implementation of an API and sucking up every piece of code on the internet to be cleanroom-washed by the statistical text regurgitator is not the own he thinks it is. It's also a really hypocritical look given his previous righteous fury over Oracle re-proprietarizing Sun's open source work. Actually it's fine when open source code is turned proprietary, we just pulled it out of this black box that filed the serial numbers off first.

That sounds awesome and right up my alley!

…oh, it's some financialized gambling racket bullshit thing never the fuck mind