Chazprime

A Livejournal link? Feels like the 90s in here today!

> So why this culture addendum now?

I suspect Americans are getting a little tired of the incessant, exaggerated culture wars stories constantly in the news.

> narcissistic, manipulative, dishonest, hateful, lacking empathy, attention-seeking, unhinged.

It sounds as if Musk and Twitter are a match made in heaven.

Is the article being new a prerequisite for it being relevant?

> As a child, I was raised Jehovah’s Witness, and taught at home.

Uh oh.

> Then around 2008, Dad gave me a book called Who Built The Moon?

This isn’t going to end well.

Look at the first box being lifted and dropped… the box rotates in what appears to be 3D space.

I’m not certain as the rest of the shot looks like really nice 2D parallax, so this could just be really good 2D animation.

Schools in the US don’t like to educate students about - or offer access to - birth control.

It’s not rendering properly in iOS (Safari & Chrome).

> You LITERALLY proceed to insinuate I'm a criminal at the end of your post...

Best to save the use of “literally” for when you’re being literal.

Tell me about it.

My last three MacBooks, including the new 16” M1, have inexplicably had issues syncing to iCloud for several days (sometimes weeks) until magically everything seems to just work as expected and I forget all about it.

It’s all part of the magic of owning Apple devices. They’re annoyances, but minor and usually easy enough to fix.

Yep, it’s a bit like how cilantro tastes awful to some people and not others.

Perhaps you should lay down before you get too tuckered out.

> I don't even think the Macintosh II was all that unpopular with Mac users

I think the Mac II & IIx were a little slow on the sales front, but from what I remember the smaller IIcx and IIci were much more popular.

An appeal to authority?

I mean, you can find Google results that can affirm almost any opinion, but that doesn’t make your argument here any less silly than it already is.

> but it sounds rather problematic

Why does it sound problematic?

As others have already explained: it’s not an offensive phrase and kimonos are certainly not most commonly associated with women, so what’s your goal here?

What’s the point of trying to find offense?

> Then put those people in NYC or SF, where all the money and social status goes to Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

This would certainly seem to be the case. Easily half to three-quarters of clickbait-y articles I see have a byline from NYC/Brooklyn.

I used to think it was something in the water… ;)

Color me surprised.

FYI: M1 Macs can run Linux.

It doesn’t have to be.

> if I spend all of my time exercising, and that does end up fixing me, what do I go back to?

A more balanced lifestyle, hopefully.

I've had sleep troubles as well over the years and also started biking to stay healthier. For me personally, the more regularly I exercise, the better I sleep. Thanks to modern technology, I discovered that regular exercise lowered my resting heart rate. The lower my heart rate at night, the better I sleep.

> The Big Sur interface changes, whilst I thought I'd never get used to them, have actually grown on me.

That’s the thing with some people and Apple; I generally moan whenever Apple changes their UI substantially (the change to the “flat” iOS comes to mind first), but soon I come to wonder how I ever liked anything else. :)

Check out the social media presences of people you interact with daily.

The woman in the article apparently deleted 60K of her tweet history. That right there would be a red flag for me; people that spend that much time on social media sometimes exhibit very misanthropic behavior, in my experience.

I don’t think anyone just “accepts this uncritically”, it’s that the accusations are a bit too vague to justify the fallout to the man’s livelihood.

Speedy and intuitive workflow are important for 3D modelers. I had a coworker who swore by a $100 modeler called Silo because he hated modeling in Maya. Blender’s modeling workflow can often be...cumbersome as well.

Manually scrub through the first few seconds of the video - you’ll see that the start of the animation is different.

Don't forget Softimage XSI... losing that one still hurts.

Impressive.

I recently booted up this game on my PS5 after not having played it for a few years and was surprised by how different it already looks from the launch version... not to mention how smooth the frame rate is now. I'm happy to see that Hello Games continues to evolve the game.

> there are practical reasons too, namely hygiene.

That's not a valid reason to have it done.

It's easy to keep yourself clean and I've never once heard of anyone getting sores because they failed to wash for an extended period of time.

> FWIW your views are not what I think of when I hear the phrase 'progressive activist'.

They are... you might just be confusing an actual progressive activist with someone whose sociology degree comes from Twitter.