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  • if you had to swear off the internet for good what would you take with?

  • Information about any skills I might want to improve or learn someday. Tutorials, professional reference sites, an archive of subreddits & other discussion communities dedicated to the topic. There's so much depth of experience and know-how for any given skill on the internet; this would be one of the hardest things to give up access to current information on.

    Similarly, inspiration reference for a lot of creative skills I pursue or may pursue in the future. A huge pile of blog posts, Pinterest tag archives, and YouTube downloads. It'll be disappointing after a few years to not have easy access to current trends and styles, but hopefully enough of the reference is timeless.

    I'd try to find some way to capture the vast amount of human life experience shared on the internet. Ask Metafilter archives, all the essays and blog posts I can find on different life stages and milestones and potential challenges that I can think of. It wouldn't be the same as being able to actually connect with other people going through the same thing, which the internet makes so much easier, but at least it'd still be comforting to know they existed and hopefully learn from what they wrote about their experience.

    Overall I'd rather not swear off the internet. Everyone loves to complain about the bad parts, but I think it's a lot more dependent on how we choose to spend our time online than anything else.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? May 12

  • Just started The Lost Queen by Signe Pike. After reading The Bright Sword a few months ago I'm jonesing for more Arthurian-legend-inspired fiction, to use as my own inspiration for a ttrpg setting.

  • Big turn-based games (RPGs, city builders, tactics, etc.) festival on Steam this week. Trailer showcase from it with 25 game announcements.

  • 💯 Eating well.

  • Graphic Design @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world
    typographic case studies for Florence + The Machine Wuthering Heights Nosferatu and more further down in the article

    The thing that wouldn’t die: why Gothic endures in visual culture

    www.itsnicethat.com /features/gothic-resurrection-the-thing-that-wouldnt-die-graphic-design-illustration-271025

  • ‘Scrubs’ Revival | Official Trailer | February 25 on ABC

  • I'm looking forward to this. It's not like there's a shortage of other medical dramas if you're looking for something original / different.

    Scrubs had an extremely good 8 season run, and it offered a unique mix of oddball humor and empathetic feels other shows haven't matched. The cast remains great and the producing team has made a run of hits. I'm happy for them to take a shot at a revival.

  • Massachusetts @lemmy.world
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    Massachusetts' poor public records law is letting Somerville get away with redacting all information from 5 years of complaints about a library employee whose alleged behavior three women have resigne

    www.cambridgeday.com /2026/01/28/somerville-shares-redacted-investigation/

  • Does Boston have to be the city where fun goes to die?

  • Thanks for commenting and not just downvoting.

    Totally fair to say you don't want Boston to just get crammed with corporate ads, but I don't think you're giving the post enough credit that it is talking a lot about public art. That doesn't mean it can't also acknowledge the reality that we don't have a lot of truly public spaces in Boston, so the lower-hanging fruit for bringing more art into our city instead of just drab buildings and old revolutionary war statues is from private companies.

    Art of things that are part of our culture, corporate-owned or not, outside their buildings is sometimes better than nothing. Would a lego sculpture outside their headquarters really be that bad? It'd certainly be better than the 60-foot LED Citgo sign sitting on top of our skyline.

  • Graphic Design @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    10 Graphic Design Trends of 2026

    www.vistaprint.com /hub/graphic-design-trends
  • Boston, MA @lemmy.world
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    Does Boston have to be the city where fun goes to die?

    www.masslive.com /news/2025/10/does-boston-have-to-be-the-city-where-fun-goes-to-die.html

  • Do you know of a dating app which caters primarily to heterosexuals, respects your privacy, doesn't use analytics and doesn't require G00g13 services to function properly?

  • You're not going to find an app that doesn't use analytics. It's unreasonable to expect someone to build / run a service for users with no idea how it's actually functioning for them. To any app using Google Analytics, you are only one of hundreds of thousands of anonymous data points; get over yourself or buy a burner phone if you're that concerned about some upstream data broker knowing that ::gasp, shudder, horror:: you were on a dating app and ::shriek, cower, cry:: maybe targeting a romance-related ad to you.

    If you can get past that, I'd suggest https://datefirefly.com/ - it's independent and trying to rebuild the old OkCupid kind of experience before Match Group bought OkC and drove it into the ground.

    Or if you're in / near a city, try speed dating groups or see if there are matchmaking services with a good reputation.

  • The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game

  • I love the sound of this. The article itself I found to be a bit of a rambling mess, too full of references and insiderism, but skimming around to get the gist of the game itself it sounds incredible. High-level "God" gaming with grand strategy simulation, that manages to not go totally off the rails because it's so big and detailed you have to work together to keep the system in balance.

    And (I think; the article went on a tangent about the game designer's theoretical relationship with their reputation instead of detailing how this actually works) some kind of mechanics that challenges such high power players to reflect on their relationship to that power?

    Given the common headaches of finding ~5 people with the schedule compatibility and emotional maturity to make a more standard RPG campaign last, finding a group to play this with feels challenging. But I'd watch the hell out of a well-produced Actual Play of it.

  • ‘Scrubs’ Reboot Gets Series Order at ABC; Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke to Return

  • Lovely! I'm excited to keep my fingers crossed for this.

    I see some people have anxiety about what if it doesn't live up to the old series, but the way I see it, if Season 9 didn't impact my love for all that came before it, why would this? I'll take the chance it might be great, and will be happy regardless to see some of the gang getting paid to have the chance to make something together again.

  • I'm sure this has been posted here before, but it's too good not to repost.

  • Again, this whole idea that you need to make an argument about the tradeoffs of technology in general in order to make an argument against AI is weak and needless. Do you have a smart phone you use the calculator on sometimes, or do you write out all your long-form division? Is everyone who owns a microwave, uses tax preparation software, or switches to an electric toothbrush just a lazy dumb-dumb in your mind?

    When the barriers to access are removed, that’s great

    but it dilutes the end game product over all.

    AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for.

    Cool? Maybe,

    This is just talking out of both sides of your mouth trying to sound fair and balanced instead of actually making a good argument. "AI art is rubbish" -- yes!!! We don't need vacuous, hypocritical hot takes on using technology to say that.

  • Massachusetts @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    Lowell Folk Festival (one of the largest free folk music festivals in the US) is coming up July 25th - 27th.

    lowellfolkfestival.org

  • I'm sure this has been posted here before, but it's too good not to repost.

  • Pedantry. "Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question" was still the basic gist.

    🤷‍♂️ I'm drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I'm getting bent out of shape just because I'm critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂

    you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.

    My guy it honestly sounds like you're the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.

  • I'm sure this has been posted here before, but it's too good not to repost.

  • We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?

    🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I'll read and respond just as soon as I'm able.

    Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?

    🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?

    If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren't "good enough," then you aren't really defending art or artists at all.

  • I'm sure this has been posted here before, but it's too good not to repost.

  • "You're using your brain too much, just enjoy the 'hUmOr'" as a defense of this is ironically the funniest thing in this thread.

  • I'm sure this has been posted here before, but it's too good not to repost.

  • This is such a weird take.

    Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?

    Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

    Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

    All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.

    This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    Turn-based games festival on Steam has 400+ games in a bunch of hand-picked categories. 1 day left in the sale.

    store.steampowered.com /sale/turnbasedthursdayfest2025
  • Boston, MA @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    A Harvard Square T tunnel unused for 40 years might be turned into an entertainment venue

    www.cambridgeday.com /2025/05/23/a-harvard-square-t-tunnel-unused-for-40-years-might-be-turned-into-an-entertainment-venue/
  • Turn Based Strategy @lemmy.world
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    Cyber Knights: Flashpoint [squad-based strategy RPG] Release Date Trailer

  • Graphic Design @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    Copying is the way design works

  • Graphic Design @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    Wildlife in Motion: One-Line Motion Design

    abduzeedo.com /wildlife-motion-one-line-motion-design
  • PC Gaming @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'

    www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/valve-dev-says-steamos-isnt-about-killing-windows-if-a-user-has-a-good-experience-on-windows-theres-no-problem/
  • Boston, MA @lemmy.world
    ElfWord @lemmy.world

    MBTA: Only 4 slow zones (out of 215 in March 2023) remaining, and lines now have managers to oversee stations

    www.cambridgeday.com /2024/11/13/mbta-system-speed-restrictions-down-to-four-and-lines-now-have-managers-to-oversee-stations/

  • TIL not everyone tells jokes on beggar's night

  • Nevermind that, what weird place are you in that calls Halloween "beggars night"??

  • What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)?

  • Three Dog, the radio DJ for "Galaxy News Radio" within Fallout 3, was one of the best parts of the game.

    The Fallout series has lots of other media within media too, like the Grognak the Barbarian comic series or Cat's Paw magazine.

  • Zach Braff On ‘Scrubs’ Reboot: “I Think It’s Gonna Happen”

  • I would like to see Zach Braff as a lead or regular in something new.

  • Let's try something, what was your favourite post(s) from last week?

  • Does Lemmy have anywhere I can see a log of which posts I've upvoted?

  • Matt Damon wants to put statue of Robin Williams in Boston Public Garden

  • 👍 Appreciated.

  • Matt Damon wants to put statue of Robin Williams in Boston Public Garden

  • The catch: Municipal red tape might stop the statue even before it can be cast.

    • The city has a moratorium in place for all new memorials in the Public Garden or on Boston Common, according to Lynn Page Flaherty from the Friends of the Public Garden, the nonprofit group that advocates for the city's oldest green spaces.
    • The bench is also already dedicated in memory to another person, which presents a problem for the effort to honor Williams.

    via Axios' brief article covering this.