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Looks like it's time to do some meta-gaming again on Steam. :steam: The Mysterious Cards, which always pop up right before a Big Sale, can be found in the Market. Time to craft badges and uh.. gain more cards! 😋

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

Excellent, 12 monitor arms and one dual-monitor stand ordered. From that other website.

And a coworker volunteered to be my buddy in filming the Xmas theater next week, now I feel a lot more at ease.

Ryle had a heart attack. 

People being sent death threats... DDoS on UFoI members, one LGBTQ server in good standing was blocked by 33 other instances for supporting us openly.... Yet they insist there is no problem that needs addressing, to the point they violently oppose an agreement between server admins to engage in transparency, ethics, and evidence in interinstance moderation....

These things prove that the need for the UFoI is very real.

@ufoi

Transparency Reports  

Ryle had a heart attack. 

Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI

awoo.fyi/@Transparency/posts/A

@ufoi

Ryle had a heart attack. 

Ryle is now hospitalized after having a heart attack last night. Ryle asked the Awoo! moderation team to write a post on their behalf and to be transparent. The conversation was brief, and we have pieced together most of the details.

Ourselves believe the heart attack was caused by a combination of things, suspect the recent stress involving strong conversations around Fedifence, Fediblock and UFOI. The triggering message was in reply to one of the UFOI threads telling Ryle to kill themselves and with video footage of men brutally stabbing a woman to death. Ryle is unlikely to be around for a while.

Receipts of the post is available on request through direct message to: @Transparency

This material is heinous and will break rules of other instances, so we are only sending this instance administrators/moderators on request. They are free to share at their own risk the receipts.

DO NOT attempt to contact Ryle to harass, upset. The moderation team also now have full access to Ryle’s account, and ourselves will be actively removing any unpleasant direct messages left.

If the heart attack is discussed, ourselves ask that you PLEASE do not tag Ryle in the conversations. Replying to this message is okay. If you are going to discuss anything regarding Ryle otherwise, PLEASE do not tag Ryle on conversations that would cause stress.

Ghost of a Tale is currently in a giveaway on GOG:
gog.com/en/game/ghost_of_a_tal

Neat! I was tempted to go for the Fanatical bundle with that game in it, guess I won't have to anymore! ;)

We have issues with ordering monitor arms too. So the director was like 'fuck it, just order 12 from that website you found', so we're going to try just that. :P

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Darn, our IT is really something. We've got a new ordering system forced onto us, and the assortiment we can order from is pretty limited now.

So our teachers need wireless keyboards, right? For the digiboards. Which means they need a built-in touchpad too. Can be ordered for pretty cheap before.

Now the assortiment does have wireless keyboards.. with seperate wireless mice. Yeah, I'd love to see those teachers waving those mice in the air or whatever. :P

Hope we can order our needed stuff soon. This is starting to get ridiculous.

Just finished watching the first (big) pilot episode of TNG. Man, that was terrible. ;) Yeah yeah, the good episodes are in the later seasons, I know. I've already seen all of TNG before, but decided to rewatch it a bit again.

Also, O'Brien was a redshirt, I didn't remember that part.

Also, those uniforms suck.

Also, I still am not fond of Betazoids, nor half-Betazoids.

@lydiaconwell
I haven't read from you in a while. Is everything alright?

Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

@ufoi

I think I actually gamed too much today, which is _pretty damn nice_ for a change. Even if I have a bit of a headache now. ;)

And with gaming I do mean actual gaming, not my bazillionth round in Star Realms that I play a bit every day anyway.

Now playing Gamedec (currently in Fanatical's Ripper bundle). So far I like it. Detective game in a Cyberpunk setting with nice graphics a la Shadowrun.
Was in the mood since I recently finished Detective Di which I also enjoyed although that one has pixel graphics, quite a contrast. ;)

Just sent off a mail to Nacon to ask for clarification which is which with those GC-100 controllers. There seem to be 2 models associated with the GC-100(FX) and I can't tell them apart in those online stores.

Neither can those stores as they often display BOTH models in their product images. 👀

@josemanuel

First to make a few things clear:
I am autistic myself.
And I have a fairly good understanding of what those kids might go through.

What if they actually _like_ analyzing data and all that? Computers be damned, they're just tools, doesn't mean humans can't have a shot at it too.
Sometimes I am hyperfocused myself, then I make ridiculous lists of lists and whatnot. Waste of time? Oh, _absolutely_, you bet! But was it satisfying to me? Oh _yeah_!

They'll have plenty of time to learn how to socialize, but does that mean you need to put them in a fascist regime that only forces them to socialize and never have _fun_?

After one evening of socializing, I'll be _happy_ to have 3 weeks of no human contact. I don't hate humans, it is just that social contact is _utterly exhausting_.

Maybe try to understand _that_.

Damn, the ending of Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio made me cry.

I got interested in this stuff lately and it makes my brain hurt and heart sink. What a drama on all sides.

I think it's a great example of silly games and feuds at the expense of users of these instances. An admin A does not like admin B and that is the reason for blocking thousands of users of B's instance from thousands of users of A. And that we call "moderation", right? Nice! (mind you, if B's users are ugly people in A's userbase opinion _en masse_, that's another story)

I even read from somebody that all what is wrong with an instance is that its users tend to be mildly annoying and that's a good reason to defederate the instance (witches.live/@anna/10948021759). Lovely. And that's how we want to become a better alternative to corporate social networks? Good luck boys and girls in the world! This way you only lose trust of us, the normal users of this network.

🤦‍♂️

Sincerely yours,

"Annoying reply guy"

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