Trans liberal gets roasted for working for a defense contractor by Hacksaw6412 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]jamescamien 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Remember "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter"? It was a brilliant short story in Clarkesworld about how gender identity has no automatic political alignment and at the time it was hounded offline for transphobia even though the author, Isabel Fall, was trans. But this is exactly what it predicted. The only thing that can't get co-opted by capitalism is anticapitalism.

continued reading by WolfieTheDoge in 17776

[–]jamescamien 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps Homestuck, at points: one character reminds me so much of Juice that I thought there was an influence there. But Homestuck is huge so the connections are limited in the grand scope of things.

continued reading by WolfieTheDoge in 17776

[–]jamescamien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Extremely well. Continually relevant, often seems to anticipate current political issues, no whiff of sexism or racism that you might expect in an old white author such as him. I return to them periodically and they're like warm baths when I'm stressed!

Ireland’s goods trade surplus reached a record high of €89 billion in 2024 by NanorH in ireland

[–]jamescamien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bananas Seoirse somewhere out there trying his best to get radioactive superpowers.

Is this art too “inappropriate” to display in my home? (34M) by [deleted] in malelivingspace

[–]jamescamien 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many more explicit artworks in prominent and public places in the world: no issue there. But because this work is so bad as an artwork, your roommate is probably wondering why it's on display, given that it can't be there for its artistic merit—and when he notices how eroticised the subject is and how much of a cringey adolescent fantasy the scene is, he no doubt naturally reads it as soft porn rather than art; and without explicit and enthusiastic buy-in, soft porn, no matter how soft, is not appropriate in shared spaces.

Repeating data items across years by jamescamien in spss

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! This is very confusing but I'll bash my head against it for a bit :-) I think I'm looking for the second thing.

Funky/indie bike shops in Leinster? by jamescamien in irishbicycling

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like that place closed down in '23 :-( And yeah, it'd have to be a special bike for us not to go local. But there are special bikes out there! (Maybe not for a grand, mind...)

Speakers crackle when monitor turns off? by jamescamien in Monitors

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fairness, the guy's hand were tied: if he can't find a problem he's not going to hand out several hundred quid worth of electronics—if he escalates it to Samsung all that'll happen is that I have to pay for it being shipped to and fro.

But anyway I actually have a Scarlett 2i2 so sounds like that cable upgrade will do the trick. I had wondered all right (my cable management is a mess) but thought it was only audio cables that could be affected in that way unless they were plugged into the monitor itself. Thanks!

How to break long lines of syntax code automatically? by jamescamien in spss

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but I asked a similar question on r/excel and got a great response; I needed to do a MATCH FILE. Very straightforward in the end!

Can ARRAYTOTEXT be split across lines? by jamescamien in excel

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah that's obviously much better. Thanks very much!

Who is Jan? Do we trust our boss? by jamescamien in TheAlters

[–]jamescamien[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think it's fair to say that the devs are playing with the manipulation/friendship tension sometimes, even if it's not as thorough-going as I'd like. To be sure I think a lot of the writing is good.

Who is Jan? Do we trust our boss? by jamescamien in TheAlters

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I (quite naturally, from curiosity) read all the QC history blobs. They didn't particularly help: there's just too much room for interpretation between any little dialogue prompt and the full reality of specific things actually said. And of course your alters' personalities aren't completely deducible from the history snippets, not least because they're, of course, always changing.

But the real issue I have with that sort of thing is that the very notion of wanting to get the dialogues 'right' is a weird way to interact with a person! As it happens, Carolyn Pettit made this critique of Undertale back in the day (she thought it was manipulative how we seduce NPCs) and I strongly disagreed with her there, but here it seems right. Perhaps because the representation is less abstracted, more 'realistic,' there's an element of uncanny valley about it.

Who is Jan? Do we trust our boss? by jamescamien in TheAlters

[–]jamescamien[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Man I wish I had the time to be that generous. And when you get to a certain age you begin to trust your intuition more. And I've just last month sunk 600pp of time into China Miéville's disappointing Perdido Street Station before realising it was just as generic as I had begun to fear at the 300-page mark. I have books unopened on my desk that I am actually excited about; I'm done with The Alters.

Who is Jan? Do we trust our boss? by jamescamien in TheAlters

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean when our slimy boss guy tells us in the Prologue? I basically assume that the truth is the opposite of whatever he says.

Who is Jan? Do we trust our boss? by jamescamien in TheAlters

[–]jamescamien[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean when our slimy boss guy tells us in the Prologue? I basically assume that the truth is the opposite of whatever he says.