CraigOhMyEggo

joined 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's OC spray?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That's art but not the same kind I was asking/wondering about. That's more performative art, or "the arts", than the kind of thing you'd learn to form in an art class.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's a term in the artist community to refer to characters that are standalone, as in they aren't from a particular work of fiction, which are in turn stereotypically (but not always) used for purposes of roleplaying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's more of a hypothetical question, but I've heard someone on here put forward the idea that this site should be in the fediverse, which inspired the question.

 

They're semi-famous now, but it was actually a friend of mine who originally wrote them. They're a list of ten rules of thumb to go by when using the internet. They imply things like the potential drawbacks of assuming someone's other identities, how to caution against archive forgery, when the best time is to complain about mods, etc. and serve as a go-to for advice on interpersonal relations when indirect contact is at play. Written in the style of a Greek philosopher, they were written in a setting where people were committing massive collateral damage with their animosity/gullibility/skepticism and they have paved a better modus operandi than many contemporaries can. Confidently asserted but open to at least some change, what would you add?

 

How round robins work: How they work is a person starts a story by laying out the first sentence, and a reply comes up with the next sentence to the story, and whatever replies to that reply becomes the next sentence, and so on and so forth. So it's like if Twitch wrote a novel, though it's a classic game, one that serves as a remedy for writers' block that also happens to be fun.

First person to reply starts the story.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Having read all of this a few times and thinking about each thing being talked about, there is one thing that comes to my mind: discounts

I remember when I was little, there were certain places like the movie theater or certain venues that have a "partnership discount system". They would treat groups of people with under a certain number of people as a singular individual, more or less, or favorably in certain aspects. They'd make the whole experience this way. If you showed up with a friend, you'd get more out of the experience than if you showed up on your own. Probably how the occupation/client aspect mentioned would work. So there are small social engineering tricks I'm sure which can combine in a contrived way to make a system that entices the middle of Maslow's needs to be fulfilled.

Something like that in of itself just requires privately enforced discretion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Happy cake day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?

view more: ‹ prev next ›