Fuck this reality. >:(

I’m curious, is self-hosting invidious even worth it? Youtube can still see every video you pull through, right, and now it’s linked to a static ip address associated with you?

it comes from a natural immunity to enshittification over time.

ugh, tell me that if this bullshit with systemd and age verification isn’t true.

The ‘first’ rule of fan fiction is to not answer your own question in the body of the post, so that replies to it are all nested properly beneath for easy reading and sequestering, as is proper.

The second rule of fan fiction, is that well written fiction is harder to write romance fan fiction for than just writing an original character romance because you are by necessity changing the characters and their paths. They wouldn’t be the same character if they could have fallen for or gotten together with your particular pairing. This second rule naturally lends itself to thinking about…

The third rule of fan fiction, which is that fan fiction romancing is relatively easy for books that are poorly written or have severely underdeveloped characters. This can actually be used to determine if the book is anything other than bad. If the changed actions of the characters don’t make a fan of the series have a little wrinkle in their abdominal lining, then the characters don’t have strong enough actions and presences in the reader’s mind to create an idea of what a character might do in other situations for the reader.

The *FOURTH& rule of fan fiction, and my unpopular opinion, is that if your fan fiction was good enough to be read, it was good enough to have used original characters. Any popular fan fiction would have been better. Sometimes a setting is unique and fun to write in, or you can tell a particularly appropriate tale using the setting (harry potter and the methods of rationality come to mind, though honestly past the fourth chapter or so it wasn’t good anymore, just self-wanking), but most of the time the fan fiction author is simply being lazy and wants to use ‘pre-established’ characters.

I’m halfway with you, and halfway just considering that people think it’s relevant to include a tl;dr in a barely three paragraph comment. The feeling with tl;dr for me is a summary similar to a closing paragraph, and if anyone thinks that one sentence (“Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development.”) is somehow worthy of being summarized as if the point was proven (“Ai can be very powerful in the right hands”)… well, it sounds like shit because it is shit. Maybe it’s ai, maybe it’s just a really rushed dude making a throwaway comment in the fediverse, and maybe it’s just a person who is confident enough in their mind that they forget they haven’t made an actually decent argument outside of their past, and concluding as if they brought that past argument forth here is eye-raising.

Considering he’s on his own instance… I’m going to bet the context is somewhere between throwaway comment and invoking past assertions without citing them.

Where’s that space jam website?

I’m so confused. Business casual has always meant nice pants, button down shirt, but no tie or overcoat where I’ve been. I’ve also never seen the distinction between ultra casual and casual… maybe ‘work casual’ compared to ‘casual.’

Read it. Enjoyed it. I felt the ending needed something more to flesh it out or be connected to something earlier.