Rookwood

joined 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is not optimism. It's more irreverence. Which is honestly something we need more of these days. Everyone's so goddamn serious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's rooted in the tradition of American machismo and braggadocio. Hyperbole is a huge part of the American oral tradition. You go to any small town in the Southern US and the old timers will have some tall tales that beggar belief and they will tell them too you as if it were the gospel with no winks or nods.

I think Devil Went Down to Georgia is supposed to be viewed as a boast by Johnny himself. "I'm a really good fiddle player." "Oh yeah?" "Yeah, this one time I beat the Devil himself." "I told you once you sonofabitch, I'm the best there's ever been."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well if you're religious. There's a whole class of individuals in the South that get off on showing the religious just how little they care for the tenets of Christianity. In addition to playing a mean fiddle, Johnny probably swears like a sailor and has extramarital sex whenever he can.

The song came out in 1979. The Southern Rebel was a big concept in the culture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, just mentioned it because it's really when console shooters went mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (13 children)

So devs used to have extra time just to add multiplayer. My how times change.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You're just wrong. Devs today work far more than those devs did. Devs today work insane hours. It's nearly physically impossible to work more hours than devs do today.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oppenheimer is not what James Woods is most known for... lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cool, thanks for the guide.

I already have Tuta. I used to have Skiff and that allowed you to create unlimited aliases with their domain. Alas, it was never meant to last as they were always owned by venture capital.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I need to figure out how to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They literally gave over user information. That is what literal means. What their marketing claims is not literal.

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