Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
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Calling for the help of the fediverse!
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Arachnophobia, hornets
Cats chasing a hornet around the kitchen just now. Caught it before the idiot cats got stung, let it out the front where it promptly flew into a spider's web.
Can I just point out that a hornet attempting to escape a spider's web close to a light in the dark has a shadow that is the stuff of nightmares?
I was watching DS9 just now and it occurred to me: apparently in the future they have solved the problem of people having the same name. When talking via communicator you never hear "Sisko to Smith" and two different people try and respond. We've all worked in the place with two Bens or three Steves and there is confusion, but not in Starfleet.
The only logical conclusion is that the Federation assigns everyone a unique forename and surname at birth. Either that or you cannot be admitted to Starfleet if they have someone with your surname already.
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TIL that sharks (a group of fish) are an order of magnitude older than Polaris (literally a star)
Sharks: 419 - 359 million years
Polaris (α UMi Aa): 45 - 67 million years
I’ll need to sit down, stare at a wall for a bit, and process this.
I actually rather like Keir Starmer. I think he's largely aiming for the right things, even if getting there involves hard choices, and I think he's actually thinking about how to deliver over the longer term in a way the Tories haven't for years, if at all. But this is too good not to share. 😂
My kids did this for our recent anniversary. My kids are unreasonably cute sometimes.
I don't know, maybe it's just me. But I find something enraging about the sight of this man giggling about spending four months ruining the gaming time of people who couldn't fight back.
So, a poll then. Griefing* in online games: OK, or not?
*Define griefing how you like. For me, anything where the point is to ruin the experience of other players who cannot effectively fight back without gaining you anything significant, especially where the people you're disrupting need to pass what you're doing to progress. So this is griefing, but eg. camping a gate in null-sec in Eve would not be, because you'd get loot out of it and because you expect pirates behind every gate in null sec.
https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1825986159518036328
(With apologies for hellsite link)
#gaming #griefing #ganking #onlinegaming #pcgamer
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I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.
Ben Taylor
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is inordinately proud of this booklet that @rose_alibi and I wrote, designed, & printed ourselves as part of a series we're launching called Other Networks for Everyone. we'll mail off copies to everyone who signed up in the coming weeks and also will release a pdf soon on https://othernetworks.net/#othernetworks
Sorry, an *ethnic minority*? I really don't think you can become an ethnic minority by taking up a hobby. No matter how offended your privilege is at being stopped from doing the hobby.
"Gold medals are actually mostly silver with a gold coating. Bronze medals are usually a mix of copper, zinc and tin."
So, um... they're made of bronze then?
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
