Lady @Lady@cat.family

how come dogs get to lie around all day but humans are expected to walk like five miles

“suddenly all the magic just stopped” friend magic couldn’t even exist as a CONCEPT until after the invention of the scientific method

i would ask for fantasy authors to please consider that their idea of magic developed in RESPONSE to Enlightenment thought and consequently the idea that there was once an age of magic which gave way to an age of reason is painfully anachronistic

also i think one important quality of legends is that they are not necessarily strictly chronologically ordered

« This mural depicted the last known legend in Hyrule’s mythology. » ah yes, after that history ended

wait the same british museum which recently decided to go into NFTs is having difficulty maintaining its technical infrastructure?? hm

marth is objectively hotter lucina is a teenage dork

the weirdest thing about marth/lucina discourse is all the people who pretend lucina is the sexier one

unfair to have a cosy girlfriend but not be able to snuggle

i like the new pokémon commercials they’re cute

so then i wrote some code (not in the thread on github) like

const sick = (yes, YES) => "ha"
Array.prototype.fill.call(sick)
Array.prototype.map.call(sick, sick).concat(sick())

to demonstrate that javascript really does not care about what you think is good or right

i could not for the life of me understand why any of these people cared about any of this stuff

apparently there is a really long thread on github about how javascript promises should be monads and half the people seemed to be arguing that javascript promises weren’t monads and the other half were arguing that they were a kind of monad they just couldn’t be ergonomically handled like other monads and somewhere buried in this discourse it seemed like the actual complaint had nothing to do with monads at all but of the javascript concept of a “thenable”