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early_riser

@ early_riser @lemmy.world

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  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • And I point that out in the OP, but my point is it's not the default so the community culture doesn't encourage long term discussion. I've tried making a single megathread for all my content on a particular community but it never went anywhere because, to everyone else who wasn't sorting posts and comments as described above, the post just dropped off the front page after a day or two never to be seen again.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • Oh so do I, but the consolidation of social media has left forums dying. Now everyone's on Reddit or (maybe not so much now) Facebook.

  • Does anyone else miss traditional forums?

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  • I find it interesting how thread necromancy can be encouraged on some forums but discouraged on others depending on the local culture. On the pro necro side I can see people wanting to maintain and consolidate discussions rather than constantly rehash them. On the anti necro side I can see how necroing a controversial thread could re-ignite a long extinguished flame war.

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  • I think I recognize your avatar from [email protected] if that makes you feel any better.

  • Do you think you’d be able to identify a given Gatorade’s color just by taste?

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  • Probably not. I only associate them with colors. Red is for health, blue is for mana, green is stamina.

  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • Real life kinda sucks right now. My reality has mechs :)

  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • Our only galactic neighbor, Vulpithecus fidelis

  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • This isn't part of the fediverse, it's an old-school phpBB forum, but you may also like The CBB. That's where I do the lion's share of my conworlding/conlanging. There's also FrathWiki, and The Zompist bulletin Board, which overlaps considerably with the CBB but is IMO more unpleasant due to allowing IRL politics.

  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • That’s more or less how I go about it. I’m both the author and the only audience member worth pleasing. They’re reflections of my interests, hopes, anger, and fear, so I don’t expect what I do share to be interesting to anyone but me.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • The best way to find something you've lost is to buy another one, then you'll find the original.

    Antivaxxers are chaos cultists who want to share Grandfather Nurgle's gifts with humanity.

    Sometimes my dead dogs visit me in my dreams. I know they're supposed to be dead in the dream and I give them lots of pets and belly rubs. Then I wake up feeling great. Yes I'm 99% sure it's a product of my unconscious mind but sometimes...

    All animals have limited intelligence. Humans are animals, therefore humans have limited intelligence. Take a chimp or a dolphin and try to teach them calculus. Now imagine what realities lie beyond human understanding. There's a whole epistemological realm of the unknowable out there.

  • if you believe that aliens are real and have or are visiting earth, what do you hope to see happen if the government or science confirms that?

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  • Go purge those filthy xenos!

  • if you believe that aliens are real and have or are visiting earth, what do you hope to see happen if the government or science confirms that?

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  • It’s weirdly beautiful in a melancholy way. I imagine most intelligent species are at least somewhat social, and they have an intrinsic desire to seek fellowship with others. I also imagine most would possess curiosity in order to seek out something other than themselves. So there’s this chorus of unheard voices calling up into the void “is anyone there? We’re over here. Hello? Anyone?”

    And sometimes I look up into the sky and wonder if I’m looking at some distant soul who’s also looking back at me, wondering the same thing

  • if you believe that aliens are real and have or are visiting earth, what do you hope to see happen if the government or science confirms that?

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  • go fight them and ruin their world (cause that’s what we do and love).

    We are space orcs

  • if you believe that aliens are real and have or are visiting earth, what do you hope to see happen if the government or science confirms that?

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  • I don’t believe aliens have been to earth so there’s nothing to cover up. I’m personally pessimistic that we’ll ever encounter alien life, intelligent or not. The universe is so vast and the time scale so deep that there’s certainly something else out there but the odds of us running into one another are next to impossible.

    But I like to think that somewhere out there there’s another species just as alone as we are, howling into the void. And I wonder what would happen if we did finally meet, if they found us after groping around in the darkness for who knows how long and rather than attacking us or lecturing us they just rejoiced that they weren’t alone anymore.And we’d ask them about the vast galaxy-spanning metacivilization of countless other sophonts that most sci-fi seems to take for granted and they’d shrug and say “Nope it’s just you and us, lonely together.”

  • How close have you ever been to a lightning strike, or related situation caused by a lightning strike?

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  • Several years ago there was a strike somewhere in our neighborhood, close enough to damage several electronics in my house, mostly via the network. I lost my router, and the built-in ethernet port on my PC.

    When I was in high school a friend and I were waiting outside the school when it started raining. Lightning struck the field across the street. I wanted to look around the area to see if I could find some fulgurite (sand that gets fused into glass by lightning) but never got a chance to.

    I have several antennas in my backyard (amateur radio) and have to disconnect my radios whenever lightning gets close. I can tell when a storm is in the area through the radio even when the weather around me is clear. I really should get a lightning detector.

    On a related note, some government entity in the US (I believe it's either NOAA or the NWS) keeps a public database of lighting deaths.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Warhammer 401(k), as in you have to cash in your retirement fund to pay for the hobby.

    I'm the kind of guy who devours lore through YT videos and fan wikis without ever touching the actual franchise, and I've been doing that with 40K for years before I thought about buying a model. When I looked at the prices I decided I'd rather eat food.

  • Why do humans enjoy petting animals?

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  • "I'm a person and I have personal space!" --me if this ever happens.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • There is no remuneration amongst the stars.