istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's slowly dawned on me over the last few years that one of the biggest reasons why I find the endless reams of Tolkien/D&D-ripoff fantasy fiction distasteful is because its popularity enables guys like this to smuggle racism into broader discourse. If your entertainment already has you primed to think in a racialized framework, it's going to take you that much longer to cotton onto what this dingleberry and his buddies are actually pushing.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

what do we pay this dang guy for, anyway

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

It's somewhat orthogonal to most subjects discussed here, but the eventual WBD bankruptcy auction is going to be a prime source of lols

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

I think this is the second or third time that either Ed or somebody on his Discord reminded me about Shingy

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

The 0.000001% chance that this thing morphs into the new global reserve currency is enough for a proper rationalist to keep it trundling along, don't you think?

Also don't underestimate the value of having someplace to park useful cronies you don't currently have any other job for

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

this guy's information diet is 90% recycled memes by volume, isn't it

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Something to which they, and people like them, are entitled

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

[–] istewart@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago

Surely Wikia could have catapulted to the upper echelons of the Fortune 500 if they had just moved faster to gatekeep the facts about gender-swapped Lady Vegeta being a rare card in set 27 of the Dragonball gacha game

[–] istewart@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

In this context, "moat" is a cargo-cult invocation of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. Just another square on the hackernews bingo

[–] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

Promptfondler DLC for Disco Elysium is a big disappointment so far

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yeah don't do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99's continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

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