90% of my activity on mastodon is boosting tweets
I need to be more comfortable tooting off the cuff. Not everything is a micro-essay.
Having done this and only later realizing, and had it done to me, and having met very many useful people, I'm glad there's now an explainer.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171219-the-hidden-judgements-holding-people-back
Some pithiness:
Ancient does not mean obsolete.
One solution does not fit all.
The path to skill is not uniform.
@animeirl If nothing else, you've really really saved me from going now. 👍
@animeirl I didn't go, but this was my reaction to the first one of the new trilogy, so basically why bother with the rest of them.
I went to #TheLastJedi with low expectations and I was still disappointed. What an incoherent, unoriginal, and unpleasant pile of trash. Loved those porgs though. Only good idea on the entire film.
Long standing tech irritant (metaphor thereof): We can inquire into the origin of our knowledge of that thing that caused the outage, and how to determine related things. However! Talking about epistemology or ontology are wildly off topic.
@cwood Twitter and mastodon, test one.
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@Mainebot People are already arguing about game plots online. The space in the conversation for the literary and critical questions is right there to be filled with a (monetized!) sort of broadcast. Try it and see?
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@Mainebot As it happens, I heard (second hand) that some of the Geek&Sundry people have worked less at their purported day jobs because G&S work has turned out unexpectedly lucrative.
Also there is a vast population dedicated to deconstructing game backgrounds and plots already, so a set of people who want to talk about games already exists. Haven't heard of anybody taking the literary angle though.
@Mainebot The household watcher of these shows says she thinks she can totally see people watching the literary analysis.
@Mainebot People watch board games, pencil&paper RPGs, crafting, and all sorts of other things. Yours seems like an unexplored niche. (Also see https://geekandsundry.com/.)
