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  • The best example of good manliness in media I can think of is Bandit from Bluey.

    The options are pretty slim if a cartoon dog from a children’s show is humanity’s best example of being a good man.

  • Guitar Porn: share (Safe For Work) pictures of your Electric Ladies
  • Is it too late to avoid perpetuating the Reddit culture of adding “Porn” to titles of Fediverse communities?

    As you can see in your title and description for this post, you have to stop and reiterate every time that your community is safe for work. It’s just bad branding.

    Why not:

    sublimeguitars

    stunningguitars

    pureguitars

    guitar-awe

    Woah, imagine niche communities of incredible photography that all use -awe, as a suffix. And then there’s an accompanying sister community with -aww as a suffix.

    Could have everything cute that features a guitar and a puppy or whatever in guitaraww. And stunning guitar gear and photography in guitarawe.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • Standard wedding photography is set up to make photos look “old”. And it’s so hideous and awful. Most filters used for wedding photography look atrocious.

    Let major moments in time look like they were experienced at that time! I’m looking at you, black and white photograph from 2016. Artificially making something old, when at one time they were the present, gives so much incongruity to the experience.

    Let something as important as a wedding day look like it’s a product of that time. Not from decades previously.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • They’re trying to solve one of the hardest problems in Computer Science: Naming things.

    What do you call the framework, or design system—that thing that’s not quite a glossary of the terms—we’re going to use to describe the meta conversations around design?

    “Design language” encompasses the colors, spacing, tokens, typography ramps, general rules, and all the other fiddly bits to unify on so that the more interesting parts of design and user experience can happen.

    Naming things is hard :/

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  • That’s a good question. I don’t know.

    Just speculating, the upvote/downvote does help a user know what is expected behavior and some understanding to build from.

    It also provides a rich incentive to post because “number go up” feels good.

    I’d love to know YouTube’s data on hiding the dislike button. It wasn’t great for viewers, but it may have had an effect on creator satisfaction. But I don’t know for sure.

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  • I can strike up a conversation with most strangers in real life pretty easily.

    But online? There’s almost zero context. Even something as simple as the weather makes a load of difference for the small talk that can develop into richer conversations later.

    Online social anxiety, especially forums like this one where you get a grade (the upvote/downvote), is very understandable.

  • [SOLVED] Does anyone have DualShock 4 on Mac working with Stardew Valley?
  • I tried all kinds of things to get Stardew Valley on my Mac to work with an XBox controller, and just gave up eventually.

    The XBox controller works fine for everything else, just Stardew Valley doesn’t work with it :/

    Gonna follow this thread in case you find someone with a solution

  • World of Goo 2 released [buy from website, devs get 100% of the earnings]
  • The comment does not miss the point. You’re thinking from the perspective of a consumer, not a business.

    Without Epic, World of Goo 2 would not exist.

    If I was World of Goo’s developers, I would much rather have a job than not.

  • How did you find your significant other?
  • I met her at my university’s Brony club. I sat next to her because she had a sketchbook open. I brought out my own sketchbook and struck up a conversation.

    We had a two-year courtship and have been married for 6 years now.

  • Oh I'm gay now. Huh.
  • You know how hand sanitizer kills 99.7% of germs?

    The current strain of tumblr user that survived the porn ban leans more aromantic/asexual. With less competition this new strain has thrived, and can solely focus on its main food source: fandoms for obscure media.

  • cow balls rule
  • The English language is missing a gender neutral term for a cow/bull.

    Cows are female

    Bulls are male

    Steers are castrated bulls

    Cattle - the term for multiple cows and/or bulls and/or steers

    It’s odd because every other animal with gendered language has a gender neutral term. Take chicken for example.

    Hens are female

    Roosters (or Cocks) are male

    Capons are castrated roosters

    It’s so nice to have a word like chicken to describe all these animals. But no word for that exists for cow/bull in English.

    The writer of the tumblr post above either didn’t know the right word to use would be “Bull,” or the writer wanted to make sure they were understood so used the word Cow. Which… linguistically at this point may have become the gender neutral term for this animal because people need one.

    Cow is such a common word, and bull is so uncommon that to be understood by everyone, cow might just be the best word.

    Though anyone with knowledge of animal husbandry would be baffled because by the strict definition cows are always female.

    I’m sorry you had to learn this nightmare language.

  • You don't want to embarrass yourself at the farm.
  • This sounds likely. I’d have to imagine at that stage of life the very concept of learning how to learn something for the first time is monumental.

    What they’re learning isn’t as important as learning something for the first time. Since animals are so interesting, it sounds like a reasonable thing to start with.

    I imagine it also has to do with establishing and reinforcing the concept that “things make noises and so can you”

  • Freed up two shelves of space by folding all my plastic grocery bags

    I wish I had taken a before picture. Both of these shelves used to be full of crumpled plastic bags. Now all the bags are in tight t-shirt style folded squares in a leftover tissue box.

    This was one of the most insane recommendation Marie Kondo made in one of her books, and I was horrified even hearing the suggestion. But now that I've tried folding all my plastic bags, the space saved is really nice. Though now I feel like a crazy person, lol.

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