[–] 17 points 3 days ago

When I was in school, I was in the habit of reading a novel instead of listening to the teacher whenever I found the lesson boring (as I often did). I attempted this with Catch-22 and was immediately busted because despite my best efforts I laughed out loud halfway through the first page. Decades later it remains one of the funniest books I've ever read.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    That's a good start, but it would be even better to think of some 'woke' themed twist on it that makes it into a Blue Wave. I'm drawing a blank on what that twist would be, but I'm sure someone who's better at cocktails and/or wordplay than me could think of something really good. My first thought was replacing white rum with a diverse mix of rum tones, but that would kind mess up the blue colour.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Exactly. I would never stoop so low as to cheat at a game. I will however not hesitate to customize a game to my specific preferences, nor to use debugging tools to correct for bugs or to just mess around. And yes, that applies to multiplayer only when everyone agrees to it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Ooh, I waved a protest sign at the presidential motorcade on their way in to this event! Crazy seeing little old Rock Hill SC on the big news programs. We were expecting crazy traffic, but seeing the small size of the crowd in that picture, no wonder there weren't any traffic jams. The Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate rally yesterday outside city hall had almost as many people, and there weren't any presidents at that one.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Huh. Yeah, on the surface those sound like contradictory views, but they really aren't. They're each focusing on different parts of the word, but they would agree that it's the "cracy" part of democracy that anarchists have a problem with, while being all about the "demos" part.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Much like reddit, people can just make communities on whatever topic, and they are largely open to anyone with an account on their server, or on any of the many servers connected to it. Someone on Perchance must have a community on lemmy.world that they are directing people to for discussion. I don't think there's any connection beyond that.

    If that's a community name, the way to make a link that works for everyone would be
    !perchance@lemmy.world

    Edit: Yep, that is a community for discussing Perchance. You can just stick with that, or see what else is around. We're still a lot smaller than reddit, and kind of fragmented by design, but there's still a lot of cool people discussing all sorts of things to be found around.

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    I think what really grabbed people's attention is that he kept refusing to explain why he wanted to do that.

    Whatever his reason was, it was such a stupid thing to be memeing about that I felt at home here right away. Edit: this was a while back now, during the first big migration from reddit after the API change protests.

    A woman labeled "Fediverse" is paying attention to her child labeled "moths and lamps" in a pool, while another child labeled "beans" struggles not to drown beside them. Below is a skeleton deep under water labeled "that guy who asked for advice on how to not poop for a week".
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