it's me and my diy gaiwan1 against the world
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a mug covered with a small plate
Trying out different platforms atm
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21+ | PH
Weeb, book enthusiast, amateur artist. Dabbles in a lot of things.
its weird how many people will get mad at you if you suggest something like "i try not to entertain any instinct to make fun of someone - anyone - even if im arguably ethically justified for doing so" like i thought that was a really basic idea, really essential
it feels REALLY righteous to make fun of someone. especially someone doing things you dont like, or things that are generally just harmful, or for any other reason. if someone espouses an idea you oppose, it feels good to make fun of them. because finally, finally! a target! a target to receive my justice, even if they'll never actually witness my ire, and they only serve as an ideological punching bag to get my companions and peers to agree with me. that feels good. it feels right.
but after trying it for a few years ive realized that good things dont actually come out of that. especially if it becomes a social event. you just get better at making fun of people (which will eventually come around to bite you, like one day you'll be low energy and you'll find yourself pointing your mockery at someone who DOES see it, who IS affected by it, and who WILL be hurt by it - like a friend, someone you love), and you'll surround yourself with people who connect with each other through making fun of people. this results in only bad things.
but if you practice not reacting to things that do not really, actually, immediately demand a reaction from you, it becomes easier to not engage with things that piss you off, things that get you riled up. it clears your mind. makes it easier to know which things you can actionably affect, which things you can participate with and enact justice within, and which things are just weird or bad but ultimately you cant do anything about except live your own life. and honestly there's no better ethical action out there than just living your own life
SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS – These shelves are overburdened with books from the same series. You see the name "Dick Mullen" over and over.
YOU – Look through the display of books.
SHELF OF CRIME NOVELS – You see: "Dick Mullen on the Job", "Get Me Mullen!", "Dick Mullen and the Murder in the Orchard", "Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets", "The Sordid Affair of Dick Mullen", "Dauntless Dick"...
REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] – Hold on, what was that?
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – Among the monotonous rows of crime fiction, a large book catches your eye -- something other than Dick Mullen? It can't be...
1. - Hell yeah.2. - Pick up the book.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – "Radiocomputer Wizards: Crimes for Cascading Style Sheets." The cover of this heavy tome features some esoteric language.
LOGIC [Challenging: Failure] – You're not sure what to make of this.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] – Typical binoclard nonsense. Toss this thing in the trash!
1. - Open the book.2. - At least it's not Dick Mullen. (Open the book.)
YOU – Open the book.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – Flipping through the book you find a number of sections on what appears to be a radiocomputer language. A compilation of achievable programming "crimes" makes up nearly half of the book.
HALF LIGHT [Easy: Success] – Crimes? I don't like the sound of that.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – There's a chapter on tape computer imitation. Some programmers tried to replicate the visual interface of the machine onto a radiocomputer.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] – A tape computer was a folding mechanism of rollers and ferrotape ribbons, compact enough to be portable. One could write directly on the tape using a special chemical solution. The machine would then analyse the handwriting, perform operations and project output onto a white screen.
+5 XP: gained experience.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] – It was a beautiful, delicate thing.
1. - Where can I get my hands on a tape computer?2. - Hold on -- "was"?
ENCYCLOPEDIA – Only three prototypes of the tape computer were made. All were destroyed during the Antecentennial Revolution.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Easy: Success] – Ouch.
INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] – There has to be a fourth prototype out there...
1. - Continue reading.
YOU – Continue reading.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – You flip forward a few pages until you come upon a chapter titled 'Advanced Radiocomputer Development and Infra-Materialist Theory'.
RHETORIC [Easy: Success] – Now we're talking!
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – When a community has achieved a sufficiently high degree of revolutionary fervour, infra-materialists believe that second-level effects may be observed.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – At this second level, certain hyper-revolutionary individuals may develop the ability to extend their thoughts into material space and vice versa. But what does this mean for the Mazovian programmer? Graadian essayist Klara Semenova claims that these ideas are inherent to one another...
ENDURANCE [Medium: Failure] – Your vision starts to blur...
1. - No, I want to finish reading...2. - This might be too much for me.
REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Failure] – It's too late -- your eyes are already closed and your arms stop working. The book slips from your hands, landing sadly on the bookshop floor.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – Oh well. The book will still be here, if you want to continue...
1. - Yeah, that's not happening.2. - For another time.
PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Challenging: Success] – As you turn to leave, some small text on the back of the book catches your eye.
CRIMES FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS – STEAL THIS CODE
LOGIC [Medium: Failure] – Whatever that means.
1. - Leave.
YOU – [Leave.]
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I am not myself new to cohost, rather I am using this tag to say hello to those who are. Did you know we have CSS formatting that lets you make your posts look pretty much however you want? If you don't know how to use it, or only know a little, then I heartily recommend Eevee's extensive tutorials right here on cohost:
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Cohost supports content warnings separate from tags. The culture here is not super strict about using them for every conceivable little thing, but a little consideration is appreciated. (And keep in mind: the more thoroughly you tag things, the better tag muffles work for others, without having to slap a content warning clickthrough on everything.)
If you find the animated effects some people do with CSS annoying, look into how to turn on your operating system's or browser's "reduce animation" accessibility setting. This will tone most of them down. You can also try muffling the tags you see on these posts such as "css crimes".
You can attach music to a post like you'd attach images (only one or the other per post, I believe). There's currently no way to attach movies other than gifs but if the first line of your post is a an embeddable URL (such as a youtube URL) it should embed nicely.
Here are some tags I found, I hope you like them:
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