TwistedTurtle

joined 1 year ago
[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Setting up a matrix server was a god damn nightmare for me. I eventually got it working but I hit pretty much every conceivable obstacle along the way. Getting the config file just right, the networking, the federation, the coturn server, getting end users to understand they need to backup their keys....

I'm sure it'd be easier for a Linux pro but I was in way over my head. Only got it working through stubbornness and help from the community.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

....because the media and DNC conspired to make Bernie look like he was a crazy person who had no chance (basically the opposite of what they do for Trump). They used classic "tail wagging the dog" tactics to gaslight the left, downplay Bernie's support, and coronate Hillary.

If they hadn't been actively sabatoging him the entire fucking time he had an excellent chance.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

violence is not the same as sex

You're right, it's way worse. And it's disturbing that we're culturally encouraged to find fun in violence but sex needs to be cordoned off to a containment genre and excised from mainstream art. I'm not saying it needs to be in every action movie - but its been obvious for a while they're going out of their way to avoid it even in places where it would make sense or be fun.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I just think they really need to justify it more than normally do.

Why? Why can't they just have it for fun like any other type of gratuitous scene in a movie? I agree it's not usually done well, but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm fine with asexuals and representation. But currently it feels like 99% of media is catering to either asexuals or homosexuals.

And I bring up violence to point out the double standard. When it comes to nudity people scrutinize if it's relevant to the plot - but don't tend to do that with violence or clunky moral preaching.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The fact that you only equate sex and nudity to porn shows the problem. Sex and nudity can be fun, dramatic, scary, or funny depending on the context. It wouldn't be "competing" with porn.

I can't suspend my disbelief when media pretends sexuality just doesn't exist or isn't relevant.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want porn. I want art to stop awkwardly excluding a major part of life.

"Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." It's like movies these days are all set in this weird Twilight Zone world where sexuality just isn't a thing. I find this far creepier than the gratuitous sex scenes of the 80s.

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (21 children)

Apparently I'm the only one that likes being titillated by movies. I don't get the "it adds nothing to the plot" complaint. Tons of movies have action scenes and gratuitous violence that add nothing to the plot, yet i don't see complaints about that. 90% of John Wick is gratuitous violence that added nothing to the plot, but I still love it.

I think this says more about American prudishness and people's unhealthy attitudes towards sex than anything.

Bunch of unnecessary death? Cool and fun! An unnecessary titty? Awkward and gratuitous.

Fuck all of you. I want more nudity and sex in my movies and the comparative lack of it compared to the 80s and 90s feels like we're going out of our way to exclude a huge part of life from art because it makes the prudes out there uncomfortable. But those same people are happy to watch nameless dudes get creatively and graphically killed for half a movie's run time.

I want more gratuitous sex and less gratuitous moral pandering

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With Home Assistant and locally controlled devices there's no issues whatsoever. Completely locally controlled and solid as a rock ime.