SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138@octodon.social
Ops side of tech, genderqueer, ⚧, lefty. Trying to de-cynic after years of being a sysadmin. She/her
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Alex, coparent with Sam. You're welcome. #supergirl
Apparently Katie McGrath always signs Kara/Lena stuff like this.
@noelle There is a subtle nudge working here, too. The table-top RPGs based on Cyberpunk had a game-balance system to keep OEM humans from being horribly outclassed by the heavily after-marketed humans with gun-arms, radios in their heads, and super-speed.
These concerns shouldn't be roped into the spec-fic nature of the genre.
That could make an interesting triangle between Alex, Sam, and Lena. #supergirl
Alex + Sam? I... can ship that. #Supergirl
When you are the solo dev, all git blames point at you.
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@ghost_bird (I think we largely agree in the details, but disagree on presentation. That infographic was not interrogated enough, for sure.)
@ghost_bird You're applying a multicultural framework to a discourse that decidedly wasn't. The racist and classist Victorians dominated the English-language discourse when these concepts started coming up. The 'hunters are better than gatherers' idea is a hangover, one we've largely forgotten the origins of and are rightfully interrogating.
@ghost_bird Hah. Hunter is noble/predator. Gatherer is peasant/prey. Humanity can kill anything, therefore we were hunters before farmers, QED.
THAT is why I think hunter-mythology dominates the narrative.
That and we didn't start farming until 6,000 BC(*), before then we just followed the herds(**).
When in truth, we're opportunistic eaters. With a penchant for tipping the scales in our favor.
(*) not actually true, but we spent decades teaching that line.
(**) just as wrong.
@ghost_bird My suspicion on that is that hunting is seen as a noble/apex behavior, where gathering is a prey behavior. I say it explains things in our psyche because "if you keep at it, there will be a reward" (or its cousin, "if you look hard enough, there will be a trick that will make it easier") drive so much of our motivation complexes. I suspect ambush-predators would have different motivation systems.
@ghost_bird The two probably came mostly together. It takes a long time to fell a tree using stone tools, and yet so many ancient cultures did that. A lot. And used fire as a method of agriculture. Persistence-anything requires long-term planning. Stone tools require endurance in application.
@ghost_bird A lot of those endurance adaptations apply to persistence-hunting plants as well, down to actual farming.
This has been circulating the birb-site. It's about specific adaptations Homo Sapiens has for persistence-hunting. Specifically, how we're engineered to chase our prey until they fall down from heat-prostration. This explains much of our psyche.
This is kind of disaster-waltzy, which is a style I'd like to write some time. But I also need to figure out the many and varied ways middle and upper-middle managers can make their displeasure known in a system with high communication lags.
Arg. Writing the outline for Book 3. I have what feels like the major action for the back third, but I'm not sure it's the *right* action. Bigotry is the major theme of this book, and that fight... doesn't quite fit. But still kind of does. #writing
@ikea_femme I'm giving a thought to picking up another instance m'self.
Was just reminded that the home server/gateway is coming on 7 years old. Hard-drives (raided) are still chugging along fine. It doesn't do heavy lifting except for packets, so it's just working.
Doesn't mean I'm any less nervous about it dying on me. Hasn't exactly been kept in strict HVAC the whole time.
la la la this book doesn't want to outline. la la la.
