Nice game! Also, shocked and delighted to see a Bangla title!
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rchoudhury commented on Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting ploum.net/2022-12-05-drow... · Posted by u/bertman
I still nurse disappointment, mixed with a hint of resentment, going back to the age of maybe 3 or 4 years old that mince pies contain mincemeat (which is fruit, not meat) rather than minced beef. In the view of my 4 year old mind, and frankly my 40-something year old mind, the names of ingredients and dishes ought not to provide a misleading impression of what they might be made out of. "Mincemeat" still feels a little like false advertising.
Mincemeat on sweetbread? Sounds delicious!
> Actually, the gulf war DID happen (Baudrillard thinks that it didn't
You're going to have to explain this one with a quote from him.
Baudrillard doesn't actually think the Gulf war didn't literally occur. He was using trollish language deliberately to highlight his more subtle (but, perhaps, relatively straightforward) ideas that televising the war meant that Americans learning about the wildly mismatched militaries' engagements via TV did not receive in their minds an accurate representation of what really was going on out there. While Baudrillard had a cogent point to make, putting it in these terms all but ensured perpetual confusion about what he meant (as demonstrated by the commenter above you). Here's the Wikipedia summary of Baudrillard's writings:
Baudrillard argued the Gulf War was not really a war, but rather an atrocity which masqueraded as a war. Using overwhelming airpower, the American military for the most part did not directly engage in combat with the Iraqi army, and suffered few casualties. Almost nothing was made known about Iraqi deaths. Thus, the fighting "did not really take place" from the point of view of the West. Moreover, all that spectators got to know about the war was in the form of propaganda imagery. The closely watched media presentations made it impossible to distinguish between the experience of what truly happened in the conflict, and its stylized, selective misrepresentation through simulacra.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Pl...
Baudrillard's concept of "simulacrum" is connected, and perhaps more interesting, even if attempting to apply it to the world results in weird claims like this one about the Gulf war.
Would love for someone with some patience and artistic skill to draw Marge Simpson (or the other Simpson family members) and see what pops out. preemptive shudder
To be pedantic, the map is not the territory. If there are new roads not yet in Open Street Map, this website won't render it.
Not sure what you expected, nor what value your critique offers.
rchoudhury commented on Great books on classic video games bossfightbooks.com... · Posted by u/hypnotist
I can recommend "I Am Error", Nathan Altice's book about the NES: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/i-am-error
I Am Error was excellent, as was Racing the Beam by Montfort and Bogost. That's from the same "platform studies" series as the Altice book, but focused on the technical and social development of the Atari 2600.
rchoudhury commented on Sd: My Script Directory ianthehenry.com/posts/sd-... · Posted by u/shadytrees
I learned about this very recently[1] and it seems like an amazing use case that I wish got more play in the marketing of Nix. I have a lot of dumb "productivity" scripts that I wrote at work (Linux) that I can't run at home (macOS) because of differences in the behavior of `find` or `date` whatever. I plan on porting them to use `nixpkgs.findutils` etc. and never having to worry about this again.
[1]: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/command-refer...
Oh my goodness, your blog series looks incredible. I'm in sort of the same boat as you--I've been barely treading water with NixOS for the last several years and have recently resolved to learn how it works well enough to get all the benefits. Thanks for putting this together; looking forward to diving into it!
rchoudhury commented on Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video] youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS... · Posted by u/jvanderbot
I teared up quite unexpectedly as they confirmed touchdown with that "tango delta". Amazing!
They do insert a giant advertisement in every email which was a dealbreaker for me.
That's true, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription to get rid of the ads. I'm good with their getting paid to provide this service, one way or another.
Just one complaint (with minor spoilers, sort of): in the end stage of the game, I walked away for a few minutes to make breakfast, and when I returned, I'd already "won" with no ability to see the final state of the game, and without any way to "replay" the counters ticking up to 100% :(