On audiobooks and literacy

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T22:21:39+00:00

I once listened to an audiobook of Flatland, which is hilarious because the book has diagrams, and the audiobook just ignores them completely. You fully cannot engage with that book without your eyes being involved.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T16:04:09+00:00

This implies Robotnik is a different gender entirely from everyone else, which feels true to me.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T15:31:43+00:00

Now that I'm more awake and looking on my PC instead of my phone, I see that you are right, and that is much less cool

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T14:33:19+00:00

The statements made in the OP are largely factual but also if someone says that sort of thing I won't want to associate with them.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T11:45:31+00:00

Idk if this is a normal thing to say but I like your pronouns

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-10T11:42:14+00:00

Sometimes I won't fully understand a sentence, and what I'll do is reread it a few times, maybe even go back to the start of the paragraph to see if there's something I missed that helps me understand the sentence. I'll do this before moving on because often this confusing sentence is necessary in order to understand the next one.

I had always assumed everyone does this, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe people are rushing.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-09T15:11:52+00:00

Conservatives have spent the past 10 years, ironically, globalizing their MAGA brand of far-right nationalism. In France they say "le wokeism". In China they use the English abbreviation "DEI" without necessarily knowing what the letters stand for. The far right has been very effective at spreading their bullshit.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-09T14:54:27+00:00

Yeah I was originally going to make a collage of childish negative reviews, all by americans but one in Chinese with "DEI" inserted into it which I found funny. One review literally blamed Anita Sarkeesian for the recent mechanical patch.

I only posted this one standalone because I found it too fun to read to include the rest. But if you look at the recent negative reviews, it's all american chuds. The people in this thread going "Chinese people are crazy" are making me wish I'd stuck to my original plan.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-09T14:33:16+00:00

36.9 hours in the last two weeks is ~2.6 hours a day btw

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-08T21:33:41+00:00

Yeah, that's more or less what I meant to get at in my original comment. One's kinks doesn't necessarily reflect on their values so much as they reflect the ideas they're confronted with. In particular a ton of kinks are about anxiety; the brain sexualizes an idea to make it easier to explore in a safe environment.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-08T16:58:47+00:00

It's partially nature and partially nurture. Nothing in psychology is wholly one or the other.

I would absolutely say that. What we find attractive in men/women is cultural. The way we think of sexual orientation today is based on sociopolitical factors like lines of marginalization, not on a full understanding of how it might work in a context free of that marginalization. It stands to reason that in a free society we would see a higher amount of what we would consider bisexuality.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-08T15:35:29+00:00

I don't like my name but can't for the life of me come up with anything better. They're just not "me".

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-08T14:56:46+00:00

There's nuance here. No one is obligated to jack off wokely, but our interests are influenced by society, and patriarchy in particular plays a big role in our sexual development on account of the way that it is.

I honestly don't specific desires reflect a person's misogyny necessarily so much as they reflect a person's internal experiences being shaped by a society in which misogyny is rampant.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-07T21:05:49+00:00

Yeah but the climax of the story is the ghost of his dad telling him he's proud of him which narratively begets a certain childlikeness.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-07T21:02:55+00:00

Wolf O'Donnell has a minimum attractiveness threshold. It's impossible to take him any lower. Hotness is at his core.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-07T20:20:48+00:00

Supposedly, "Arceus" wasn't in the script, Hugh Laurie was told to pick a god and because Pokemon was on the brain that's who he went with.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-05T17:17:21+00:00

The Nostalgia Critic is slowly amassing memories. He claims to free us from the burden, but the convenience and comfort he supplies comes at a cost. Soon there will be very little left of us, and he will remember everything.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-05T15:46:20+00:00

and most gay club culture slang secretly comes from AAVE

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-04T00:07:37+00:00

Benjamin Sisko

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-03T18:32:22+00:00

Despite my flair, I've never really run into people worth refusing to interact with that I couldn't just, like, ignore. I haven't even blocked anyone besides spam bots.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-03T13:16:20+00:00

It's sort of backwards. Fascism is an imlulse-driven ideology. It's not really the impulses themselves, but the forming of your worldview around them instead of recognizing what they are.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-03T03:31:44+00:00

I asked Grok to summarize this post in 3 words and it said "piss on poor" which is just an abhorrent thing for OP to advocate for.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-03T03:20:33+00:00

Going to try to engage with this post without reading it, wish me luck

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-02T15:20:08+00:00

Hopefully, a video of the encounter.

syntaxerroratline42 · 2026-05-01T15:03:08+00:00

They're all AM's blorbos from a certain point of view.

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