Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).

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  • Hmmmm I personally think the title is better with the strikethrough (ignoring formatting problems) than without it, as it makes it more descriptive without obfuscating information or misleading about the content. All of these three title alternatives are less descriptive imo:

    • Gigi screams give me ear problems
    • Gigi screams give me life
    • Gigi screams give me ear problems / life

    I guess we might just have different ideas of what counts as clickbait. The title isn’t deceptive or misleading about the contents of the video, doesn’t obfuscate important information for the sake of click-through (“one weird trick!” instead of saying the relevant keyword) etc. So to me there’s no “bait”.

    It’s unfortunate that the strikethrough doesn’t render well on your phone though, it actually renders better on mine (it looks nearly “native”!) than on my PC lol. I’ve done a few character swaps in the past for the clip titles that use 𝓦𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 instead of normal characters - I guess I can start doing the same strikethrough, which I did already consider doing before I pressed submit but figured people would say if it didn’t work well (which you did!).















  • How a something works is surely representative of how it was designed.

    While there are certainly times when this is true, I don’t agree with it as a general statement. For example, archaic laws are sometimes used in ways that they were never intended for. That doesn’t mean that the design objectives are necessarily 100% aligned with that modern usage, it may just mean that whoever designed it had an imperfect ability to predict the future at the time of design (which is, well, everyone).

    On the video game side (which is more my wheelhouse than law), most games are designed to be fun and designed to be balanced. Well, it turns out that plenty of games turn out to not be that fun, and plenty of games turn out to be not that balanced when released. In games, patching has become common and (cynicism re: releasing incomplete games aside) allows the developers to better align reality with the intended objectives. Most software is released intending to be useful and relatively bug-free, but sometimes functionality is broken and sometimes bugs are nonetheless found.

    I’m not an expert on superannuation policy, but it does seem reasonable to want to “patch” superannuation if reality doesn’t align with its goals.












  • You’ve gotten a few replies from people who are talking about e-ink, which I can’t comment on without having used an e-reader, but I nearly universally prefer to read things on a screen bigger than a phone. I guess it’ll depend a bit on your phone’s screen size (mine is on the small side for recent phone generations), but it always feels like the screen is closer to my face than I want, the font is too small to be comfortable, and/or I can’t fit enough on the screen. Plus the aspect ratio of modern phones is very tall, meaning each line of text is pretty short which is kind of annoying for long-form content like books. If you have a big 6.5" screen that’s similar to a small e-reader’s screen size anyway then I guess it might not be as much of an issue though!





  • The feeling is that simply having it be public isn’t an automatic license to re-use or “re-appropriate” the content outside of what’s required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

    This subset of the userbase want the norm for “extracurricular uses” of people’s posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.