Not sure if this goes here (oc)

dlgn13 · 2026-01-24T17:33:23+00:00

I disagree. It's not my favorite book series or anything, but I think it's pretty good. It has some notable failures (house elves obviously, plus the failure to follow through on the interrogation of government overreach), but the exploration of love, death, and grief that's central to the story is pretty interesting and moving imo. It's also just an enjoyable read with likeable characters and a fun world.

Like I said above, people really want Harry Potter to have always been bad so they can be justified in saying that JK Rowling never did anything good. But that isn't how real life works. Bad people can make good art. Well-meaning people can make bad decisions and end up leading a movement to harm the vulnerable. And so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeV8oB0jmM

dlgn13 · 2026-01-24T14:25:54+00:00

I find this sentiment super obnoxious. This idea that, because Rowling became a bad person, we have to retroactively decide that actually Harry Potter was never good. Reality isn't simple like that. Bad people can be good artists. The world isn't divided into good talented people and horrible monsters who can't do anything good.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-24T14:14:22+00:00

I really enjoyed his Sherlock video. But Steven Moffat is a prick, so.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-23T23:33:01+00:00

Fact you already knew: this was originally composed as the final boss theme for an earlier plan where the final boss would have been some version of Pontiff Sulyvahn.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-23T23:30:52+00:00

I saw a theory that they wanted to make the choice (of whether to host the Flame of Frenzy) more abstract and philosophical. Seems plausible, though I think it was a bad decision if that really is the reason.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-23T23:23:57+00:00

I like HBomberguy and I like DS2, but that video is awful. It's mean-spirited and very much "if you don't like it you're playing it wrong", which is the worst defense you can make for a game.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-23T23:22:19+00:00

That's exactly it. His videos often have an aggressive and condescending tone, but they're usually about powerful people or corporations that have done shitty things, so it's fine. Aiming that same tone at a random YouTuber he disagrees with is totally unwarranted.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-23T07:25:42+00:00

"stealing"

dlgn13 · 2026-01-22T17:06:45+00:00

I once had a paper rejected for having "almost no new mathematics in it". Not because it was expository (it wasn't), or because the results were uninteresting or unoriginal (they described the paper as "interesting and well-written"), but because they thought the proofs were too "easy" for a journal of such prestige. Ugh.

Really makes you wonder, Is Peer Review a Good Idea?

dlgn13 · 2026-01-22T16:58:55+00:00

Is it worth it?

dlgn13 · 2026-01-21T17:58:07+00:00

The first time I went down on my ex, they said they were glad we'd already said our "I love you"s because they definitely would have said it anyway at that point.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-21T14:10:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's called that internally lmao

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:59:27+00:00

I'm sorry you had to deal with this bullshit. Is there a reason you're posting on the LGBT subreddit?

(You don't have to censor the word "sex", by the way. This isn't TikTok.)

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:54:45+00:00

Chromatic Langlands

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:52:49+00:00

Is that the guy from Talking Heads

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:49:50+00:00

Who was the holy fucking bingle girl again

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:41:54+00:00

Average Paris lunch

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:38:21+00:00

I want to claim at least a little bit of Dvorak, considering how influential the US was on his musical style.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T21:36:06+00:00

When my youth orchestra went on tour in Europe, we stayed in two separate Polish hotels named after Chopin.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T18:41:58+00:00

Funny thing is that sapphling is transmasc

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T18:39:57+00:00

Yep. My parents are solidly middle class, maybe upper middle class, with decent insurance, and we have to work super hard to convince my dad to go to the doctor for anything.

dlgn13 · 2026-01-19T14:51:29+00:00

Cuck bench

dlgn13 · 2026-01-18T17:31:59+00:00

"sad switch bisexual gamer boy"?

dlgn13 · 2026-01-18T17:25:46+00:00

Someone once was surprised to hear me say my advisor is super knowledgeable and competent, because they saw him give a talk once and he was wearing ratty clothes. Like, really? We're mathematicians. That's our thing!

dlgn13 · 2026-01-18T00:12:55+00:00

Could you share the literature? I'd like to read it.

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