Sunday update from the Prime Radiant

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49093521

399 points · 73 comments · view on lemmy.world

73 Comments

xorollo@leminal.space · 35 pts · 310d (3 replies)

Whose alt am I? Need to reconstitute the soul back into one now.

picayune@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 309d (2 replies)

Can I join you? Reconstituting a whole soul together sounds relaxing.

xorollo@leminal.space · 4 pts · 309d (1 reply)

We are "Bob'

anzo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 307d

Resistance is futile

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 310d (2 replies)

I do not have alt account on Lemmy, I'll have you know. All like 25 of my accounts were made to be main accounts... I just distro server hopped until I found one I liked lol

SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 310d (1 reply)

I think this is my 2nd account.. the first one was on a server or whatever that ended up shutting down.

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d

I remember making one on lemm.ee some years ago, but I forgot about its existence and made another, and then I heard about lemm.ee's shutdown thing and here is my third.

shneancy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 310d (1 reply)

i'm way too lazy to have alt accounts, just seems like a lot of work and i don't even know what i'd use them for

ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 310d

I was just about to comment the same thing. This shit ain't runescape

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 310d (4 replies)

Are you telling me that Stamets, PugJesus and Mickey7 are the same person??

MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 310d (2 replies)

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d (1 reply)

?

MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 309d

More PG image of "The Marauder" from Evil Dead Rise.

What I pictured in my head, not just one person. But a bunch of people fused together cranking out posts, like that thing. I'd probably not look it up unless you want to be grossed out.

1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 310d

lol. i havent looked at PugJesus and Mickey7 but Stamets is an interesting user that's for sure.

Pudutr0n@feddit.cl · 16 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Lemmy is socially acceptable? Hey mom, the internet is saying I'm cool! :D

ViscloReader@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 310d

The delusion is acceptable, Lemmy isn't 😶‍🌫️

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 310d

Thank you, Hari Seldon, very cool 👍

popsalottacornsyrup@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 310d (20 replies)

Is the book/s good? I really enjoy the show.

DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 310d (7 replies)

Friend, you're talking about 1.4 million some words of world building. All connected. All remarkable. I neither know, nor care about the show, but do yourself a favor and read the whole 18 novel 3 story arc. Robots, Empire, Foundation. Genius.

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 310d (6 replies)

What's the series? It sounds interesting!

j4k3@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 310d (5 replies)

That is all of the main story pieces, in order, from bottom to top.

Eq0@literature.cafe · 6 pts · 310d (4 replies)

Personal favorites: Caves of Steel and The Currents of Space.

Obviously, the main Foundation trilogy is a glorious space opera, but I sometimes feel its writing is a bit too dry. It almost feels like ready a piece of theatre.

j4k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 310d (3 replies)

Go read Prelude to Foundation asap.

Eq0@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 310d (2 replies)

I didn’t like it :(

j4k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d

Really?! I love how he brought robots back into the Foundation universe and explored the ineptitude of human psychology due to dogma and the stupidity of religious systems of belief.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 310d

The books are good but very unlike the show.

Allero@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 310d

Never saw the show, but I read through the main book series and connected works as a teen.

Was a very worthy read back then. Still warmly remember the series.

Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d (3 replies)

What show is this from?

BabyVi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d

Foundation

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 310d (1 reply)

Let me know if they reply? I'd really like to know

BabyVi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d

Foundation

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 310d

Imo, the core trilogy is awsome. Prequels are mid, but add a lot if you want to go for the bigger picture. Sequels are awesome if you have read the robots and the empire saga.

Robots' saga is awesome, Empire's saga is meh

zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 310d

The books are good-ish, but are wildly different from the show and I am not sure I can wholeheartedly recommend them to people just because they like the show. IMO the books, as written, wouldn't not be able to be made into a show that most people would want to watch. And yet, I only tried watching the show because of the books and didn't stick with it because of how different it was. It could be worth your time, but it's not a slam dunk.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 310d (2 replies)

I found the "genetic dynasty" stuff to be the best part of the show, and apparently it's not even in the books

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 310d

The genetic dynasty is one of the main reasons I didn't watch the show

olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d

It's a writing thing they did so they didn't have to swap actors all the time. The first book spans several generations after all.

halvar@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 310d

bro if you liked whatever that show was you are going to love the books

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 310d

Hari Seldon is the Batman of sci-fi and his back-up plans for every contingency are plot-armour bullshit.

TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 310d

Far miss on this. I'm too lazy to even look into new instances to move off of .world, let alone manage multiple accounts.

j4k3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 310d

Eto Demerzel and Chetter Hummin approve this message.

DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 310d

Preem Palver did nothing wrong.

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d (8 replies)

why would you need an alt account?

python@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d

Different instances have different federations, so it makes sense to have a few accounts scattered around different instances. Sometimes instances also go down or are slow, so it's good to have a backup somewhere else (my main account used to be on programming.dev, but it had server issues all the time so I no longer bother going there).

Oh, and as others have mentioned, porn. I personally also have an alt I use when I get a bit too verbose right after taking my adderall haha

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 309d (3 replies)

Porn.

1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 309d

Why use Lemmy for porn? There are a million sites on the web for it.

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d

oh yes of course.

billwashere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d

That’s what whisparr is for.

MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d (2 replies)

Re-

MisterFrog@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 304d (1 reply)

-dun-

MisterFrog@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 304d

-dancy

slingstone@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d

Crap. Am I just an alt? I have all these memories of an actual life outside of Lemmy...

pseudo@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 310d (4 replies)

False. I'm pretty sure I still have under 12 alts.

Natanael@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 310d (3 replies)

All my 3 are deliberately linked (spread across servers for redundancy)

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 309d (2 replies)

You do that in a automatic way?

Natanael@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 309d (1 reply)

Nah, copy paste

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 309d
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sundray@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 310d

I don't have an alt, just an account on SDF that I don't use because their instance is always breaking 😭 . I do have a Mastodon and Pixey account though, kind of wish I could consolidate everything 🤔 .

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 310d

Pre internet it was called "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" or "the vocal minority". Some things never change but the words get fancier.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 5 pts · 310d

I just have the two. On on Fedia, one on Blahaj. I don't use the other one. No idea why though.

MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 310d

Obviously I'm being hyperbolic, but it does feel like this sometimes.

I dig the culture, I think the dozens of you out there are fine people and I appreciate the tone the majority has established of being open-minded and inclusive.

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 4 pts · 309d

We are borg.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 309d (1 reply)

Does that mean tankies are all the same person?

MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 309d

It's Josef Tankie, singlehandedly resurrecting the Soviet Union

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 309d

There's millions of Lemmings. They just occupy about a hundred bodies.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 310d

Well, yay for me since I'm an mbin user, thus technically not a Lemmy user.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 310d
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 310d

Who would want to live in that dystopia in the background?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 310d
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Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 310d (6 replies)

I have 4. Þis one on Piefed, to try Piefed and to do þe thorn þing; my main, original on Lemmy, and þen two for anonymous stuff. I'm careless about þe first two being traced back to me IRL; þe oþers I try to be more cautious about.

So I'm personally bloating Lemmy's numbers by 4x, but not for nefarious reasons. Isn't þat most people? I just divide population stats by 4. Some people have more, I'm sure a fair number have fewer.

borf@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 310d (2 replies)

I þink you mean þorn þing

Sxan@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 310d (1 reply)

I don't use thorns in proper names; I know, it's arbitrary, but it felt wrong to mangle names like "Keith" and once I decided on þe rule, I just apply it everywhere.

"Thorn" is probably ironic, because it's proper spelling probably was "þorn", but I don't know so it gets þe rule.

borf@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 310d

I admire your commitment to þornography

Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 310d (2 replies)

I'm waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it.

We need multiple accounts to connect to more instances due to defederation etc

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 310d (1 reply)

What's the draw to piefed? I'm not sure I understand. How is it different from Lemmy?

Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 310d

More features.

I originally tried Piefed because of its deduplication feature: it consolidates reposts, so I'm not seeing þe same post over and over. Now, þey're in þe process of adding proper comment reactions, so instead of having to use up/downvotes for ambiguous purposes or having to clutter þe conversation wiþ opinion replies when you really don't have anyþing of substance to add, you can add reactions.

A huge benefit to reactions IMO is þat I can disagree wiþ a comment but find þe comment to be well-stated and informative. Right now, my options are: upvote, or downvote. Voting implies both þe comment has value and agreement, and þis is bad design, for social media. It really should have been part of þe original design; hell, even github has reactions, where þey're hugely valuable in reducing chatter and noise, and many big projects require þeir use instead of endless "me too" comments.

Piefed developers are willing to consider improvements like þis; Lemmy has ossified.

doritoshave9sides@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 309d
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