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Before watching the vid, I was expecting something along the lines of a system of mirrors that would reflect moonlight and illuminate the area under the tower. Not that I have any idea how any of that would work, or if it's even possible though.

Eh, given that it's for a novel, odd and unhinged is a good thing, right?

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Assuming I really hated them and wanted them to suffer, I'd rather that they be super successful.

I'd want them to be successful enough that people not only have sexual fantasies on them, but also, deranged fans that stalk and harass them. The harassment, stalking, and the "pressures of celebrity" would also likely lead them into a downward spiral. Perhaps the only downside to this is that a crazy enough fan would abduct them, and kill them. If I really hated that ex's guts, I'd rather them suffer until they either spectacularly implode in public, or fade into obscurity only to resurface in the news as one of those "Where they are now?" articles showing their extremely sorry state.

Otherwise, I don't really care. They're not my problem anymore. They'd have far better chances of living a normal life if they were super unsuccessful, though, so there's that.

Hah! Same with the IRL potty-mouth. People who I got to meet in person after having known me online expected someone really self-effacing and soft-spoken. Of course they were shocked at how salty my mouth can be.

I do keep my f-bombs precise though, for maximum impact.

I mostly communicate in English online. Even when I don't use English, my online communication still tend to use more English loanwords. It is also a bit formal and diplomatic, without much use of online abbreviations and other shortcuts.

IRL, it's my native tongue, with a smattering of English words and phrases. It tends to be more informal and direct as well. However, I don't think I use a lot of colloquialisms, slang and the like, even if my IRL speech gets really informal.

My bad. I'll be fixing it.

I wasn't really following nor aware this then popular series. It was shown on a cable channel that we were subscribed to through a cable subscription. I was used to having reruns shown most of the time, and I've got pretty much no concept of following an ongoing series on cable TV. So I was pretty surprised when I spoiled a group of friends to a climactic scene to the Game of Thrones S5.

I was surprised at everyone else's shocked reaction. One of them had the good sense to ask me when I saw the scene, and when I answered "yesterday afternoon, why?" everyone's mood shifted from shocked and angry to feeling sorry for me, but still annoyed nevertheless. This same person then explained to me why I've just spoiled the entire group.

Turned out that without knowing it, I watched a climactic scene of the then latest episode of that series. That I watched it on the early afternoon here locally was due to it being premiered at the same time as it was shown in the US. I apologetically explained that I was just shocked to see such a scene, and thought I'd bring it up.

I must admit that I haven't really played a whole lot of Chrono Cross. Not even back when it was new. When I tried getting into it via an emulator, I was majorly put off by how pixelated it looked (especially when compared to the PS1 version of Chrono Trigger). The late 90's JRPG camera angles made traversing maps difficult too.

All that to say, I tried to love Chrono Cross, but sadly, it didn't age that well. Thus, I wholeheartedly agree with you about it needing an improvement. I didn't play it enough to say much about your complaint about it, but it sure hell could use a bit of a sprucing up in the graphics department.

On related side note, comparing FF7, FF8 and Chrono Cross, all of which were released within the same handful of years, I can't help but be amused to say that FF8's graphics fared the best of all three, though that's not to say anything about it looking like a work of art. There's just something about that era's graphics that didn't age well. Compare that to the late SNES era graphics (Chrono Trigger, FF5, FF6, to name a few exemplars) which is still pretty much an aesthetic.

Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and that one fan-made sequel, Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes.

Isn't that making the problem worse though? If you have a tool that resolves your problem for you, wouldn't that make you dependent on it, and thus, be even more helpless when moving to another ecosystem (like, yeah, Arch)?

Arch is built for a particular kind of Linux user though, btw. It's probably the worst choice for a "not a computer person" move into, issues of dependency hell aside.

Because my work tends to have me working on a wide variety of features, and thus operating on vastly different parts of the codebase, I make it a point to comment out every change I make complete with the ticket that requested the change, and what the intended effect of the change is.

Cue me returning to piece of code I made (after the inevitable bug has arisen) and me staring at my own code changes in bewilderment, wondering what past me really wanted to do. Hahaha!

You're welcome. Others might think it's too bleak, and I sort of agree. But it's freeing, as you've said. It allows us to focus on the here and now. And while we're here (for whatever reason, be it by choice or not), why not enjoy what we can?

That it is ultimately inconsequential is the reason for me to relax and enjoy what we have right now. Easier said than done, of course, but the way I think of it is this: if nothing I do matters, then it doesn't really matter what I do. And when I find myself taking things too seriously, it helps to be reminded of it. Life is absurd, but it doesn't matter, so why not have some silly fun in the meanwhile?

What the ultimate reality of things are doesn't really matter to us living in this reality. To whatever end this reality was created for, if, for example, we're just a simulation, we can't really know and at the end of the day, shouldn't really care about. It's literally (in both senses of the term) way beyond us.

Non-vegan Arch user here. Fun meme.

With that out of the way, I tell whichever one best suits the context at hand. Most cases it's neither.

I tried to taking a peek at those communities you've linked but it seems they're now deleted. I'm also curious what those are about though.

Most often 1st person POV, but very rarely 3rd person POV.

As far as I can remember, I've had only one 3rd person POV dream scene. It was a scene where after we reached the bottom of a seemingly endless spiral staircase we started exploring the huge, but almost pitch-dark, mall-like expanse we found ourselves in. At this point, the POV changed to third person, and showed us forming a circle, our backs towards the center. We then inched "forward" a few steps at a time, being very cautious and scared of what we might find down there.

Hahahaha~‌ If it's any consolation to you, I‌ also cringed reading the part that made you cringe while writing it. More than enough cringe for all of us to share around!

Yeah, you actually said out loud what I was just thinking to myself when I wrote my previous reply. Not exactly what you wrote, but I was thinking that if it worked for others, it's good enough for himself. Why think of a good idea when you can just copy others'? Something along those lines. However, copying ideas actually does take some work as well. It's not enough to just copy what they did and apply it to your situation. You've also got to think about whether or not what you're copying is a good fit for your circumstances.

About the third point though, the way I see it is that Huffman tried his best (the key word is ‘tried’) to increase the profitability of his site to entice potential buyers, which even though it'd detract from immediate profitability, would add to the money he'd cash out at the IPO in the end—or so he imagines. Agreed with how things didn't happen according to how Steve anticipated them though. And in fairness to Huffman, other flareups have ended in a similar way. What he didn't anticipate is how these changes (the API changes) will affect how a lot of people (and the ones that contribute a lot of content) would interact with his site. So, yeah!

I think Steve Huffman is only after the possible profits he'd make on the IPO. He doesn't care if his reputation would be sullied amongst the proles like us, nor does he care if he's being original and ground-breaking. He just cares about the money.

Will it work though? I want to bet on the possibility that his IPO will fail due to all the bad news about his site as of recent, but given that the world in general has been disappointing recently, I'll just keep my money to myself, lol!

I use both Okular and Calibre and as far as my usage goes, both of them fall into different niches. I find Okular excellent for reading/examining PDF's from the file manager. Calibre, on the other hand, is what I use to organize my e-books. I even tried using it to synchronize my collection from my desktop to my phone (though that didn't go well, and I ended up just using Syncthing for that).