OmegaMouse

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So Elon tells me... he tells me... please, please let me cum Mr Trump. Can you believe that? As you all know, I'm the greatest, the greatest at edging. I'm all for it but... these people... you can't let 'em have it that easy... you really can't

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It seems like a fun little distraction. I'm not gonna spend any money on it though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I think it's a really clever game, though sometimes a bit too clever for its own good. The 'aha' moments I had throughout were extremely satisfying, especially the ones that made you think outside of the box (like one particular puzzle that made you look somewhere you wouldn't expect). But as you say, those last few characters did require some guesswork because the clues were extremely vague/esoteric, and that made the game fizzle out a bit at the end.

Overall though it's among the best puzzle games I've ever played.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Have you taken a look at Project 2025 and half the crap that Trump has said he's going to do?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

It seems that the material destroyed at the Institute for Sexual Science is precisely the sort of stuff that the Trump regime wishes to supress. So any LGBT research and information.

Basically anything that the Nazis banned. The list here still seems relevant. Transpose 'German' for 'American':

spoilerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#The_burnings_start

All of these types of literature, as described by the Nazis, were to be banned:

  • The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new Germany (H. G. Wells, Romain Rolland);
  • The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism;
  • Pacifist literature;
  • Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writings supporting the Weimar Republic (Walther Rathenau, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann);
  • All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig); Books that advocate "art" which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (George Grosz, Otto Dix, Bauhaus, Felix Mendelssohn);
  • Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk (Magnus Hirschfeld);
  • The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of "Asphalt and Civilization" literati: (Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wassermann, Franz Blei);
  • Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field;
  • Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life's goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life;
  • Patriotic kitsch in literature.
  • Pornography and explicit literature
  • All books degrading German purity.

I guess books that have been banned in US school libraries over the last few years too.

And finally, any political material that is antithetical to the far right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh neat! This is the one Xenoblade game I haven't played (and I had been considering emulation for a while). If this is the definitive version of the game as they say, I'll buy it for sure.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you think happened?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for clarifying. Free access to academic information for all is a worthy goal.

One would hope that organisations hosting digital libraries of academic journals would hold those in perpetuity. But often the subscriptions are exploitatively expensive, and I'm of the opinion that such information should be made available for free. In any case, having private libraries as a backup is certainly a good idea for a variety of reasons.

The same goes for preserving the volumes of data that will inevitably be quietly binned and forgotten to save server space.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've read through the article, but I'm somewhat uncertain as to what particular texts the author is hoping to preserve. Mainly academic journals? Or is it just referring to any texts available online (the article does make reference to artistic works that can't be 'reinvented')?

It probably doesn't help that I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the projects mentioned here.

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

Well I... I mean, it's not... I guess? Hm πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Stealing is a crime... So yes, do it!

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