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jynersolives

@jynersolives@mastodon.social

40+ German living in Germany 🇩🇪🇪🇺, pronouns he/they, posting about nerd stuff (sci-fi in movies, TV, and games) & sometimes politics (green politics, eco-socialism, solarpunk). Oh and #TransRights are human rights. Achtung: kann Spuren von #Deutsch enthalten!

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BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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When did social media stop being fun?

jynersolives,
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@BlackAzizAnansi 1853, the Brits rolled out the first transatlantic telegraf cable. They think they are oh so funny!

mekkaokereke, to random
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People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

jynersolives,
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@mekkaokereke Love this thread! I'm also reminded about my experience (as a "Non-Anglo" person) in project work with people from across Europe and our conversations in "European English", with lots of our "native" words, phrases and grammar interjected into English. It made total sense for "us" (Germans, French, Polish, Hungarians etc) but the English were always puzzled. We sounded both too posh/complicated and too wrong for them at the same time.

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@mekkaokereke i guess it all comes down to the point that the English language no longer belonging to "Anglo people" but to everyone. Which also means that there are many more "X-English" than AE or BE.

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@farbel @mekkaokereke
Yeah but they don't speak British or American English. The Swede will speak something like European English and the Yemeni some other form, maybe Arab English. The cadence, the sentence structure, the words, the phrases, all will appear strange to a BE or AE person. Because they never had to converse in a third language and make it "theirs". So we are not talking about capital E-English but something else, a third language that resembles English but not quite.

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@farbel @mekkaokereke

My reply wasn't about people from the Anglosphere but about those few dozens who live outside of it, yet speak their kind of English.

jynersolives, to DeusEx
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#DeusEx Human Revolution is on sale for 2.99€ on #Steam! #Cyberpunk

jynersolives, to bluesky
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Is #bluesky dead? I haven’t checked m account there in ages and also haven’t seen folks here talk about it anymore.

jynersolives,
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@bekopharm Ah dang it! I noped out of Threads after being on the platform for a while. Most stressful three days of my life 😅

jynersolives, to VideoGames
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We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe! #Cyberpunk2077 #VideoGames

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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#CosmicStories blog post by @Tiylaya

Gone (but not forgotten?)

While some science fiction imagines humanity alone in the universe, other stories imagine that life just like our own is plentiful outside our Solar System. One common thread in such stories is the idea of precursor civilisations - ancient races that lived, died and passed out of general knowledge long before humanity took to the stars.

#startrekdiscovery

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/gone_but_not

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@nyrath @Tiylaya

Re (common) origin of life in the universe: there's a great kurgesagt video on that topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs

The implications are interesting. If this is all the case then life in the universe might share much more commonalities.

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@60sRefugee @nyrath @Tiylaya

I find the idea fascinating that the early universe was one big habitable zone for the evolution of life – and then everything stopped and the seeds of life lay dormant until suitable planets existed. This could also mean that a lot of the universe's biochemistry is rather similar (we could eat the space salad... and potentially mate with it!).

jynersolives, to Starwars
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#StarWars hot take: what #Andor is for live-action SW, #TheBadBatch is for animated SW. Both shows focus on life under totalitarian rule and to what extent you still have agency.

jynersolives, to VideoGames
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Four of my favorite outfits for this particular V in my fourth playthrough of #Cyberpunk2077. Which one do you folks like most? #VideoGames

White jacket, black shirt, black pants, black shoes.
Black and blue jacket, black shirt, black pants, black shoes.
White jacket, white tank top, yellow-golden pants, white shoes.

jynersolives,
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@mikemccaffrey I do like Yorinobu's pants a lot (first picture) with the white shirt. But the yellow/golden pants and white tank top are also great. After playing through this game several times, I'm now mainly playing dress up with my characters 😅

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@mikemccaffrey Haha, excellent!!!

jynersolives,
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@mikemccaffrey That suit was hideous. I had sooo many way more fancy looking suits in my backpack. What a waste!

jynersolives, to VideoGames
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Mom and dad are judging you!

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition (2023), the complete edition of the 2019 space RPG from Obsidian (Fallout: New Vegas, KotOR 2), is available this week on PC for the very attractive price of free.

epic.gm/freegames

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@TheSpaceshipper Well, not my first choice buuut… it’s spacers‘ choice!

jynersolives, to VideoGames
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My Samurai V, looking extremely gooooood!!!

jynersolives,
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@helligbird Just Satori so far. Keeping my arms and my cyberdeck, trying a quickhack Samurai built. But really the outfits are of more importance to me in this fourth playthrough.

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@helligbird They change some conversation options but not the end scenarios. Corpo is actually the "best" path insofar as it gives by far the most additional conversation options. And you learn a lot about the world of Cyberpunk through that.

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@helligbird What I like about starting again is that you can focus much more on the world itself and the nuances of the story. You know the big strokes already, so now you can spot the little details much better.

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@helligbird To my surprise, Corpo makes actually more sense than Streetkid when it comes to the relationship between V and Jackie. And there's something satisfying to kick Arasaka down as an ex-Arasaka employee 😁

jynersolives, to Nirvana
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    jynersolives,
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    If Kurt would be alive today, I bet he'd write happy pop songs every few years but mainly doing pencil art or some such. Gosh, I would love to see a happy 57yrs old

    jynersolives, to random
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    The difference between #Borderlands 2 and 3 is that you really want to finish 2 and get the villain while 3 just... well, it just plods along.

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