alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
programming
xpath sure is a lot more convenient for parsing data out of xml formats than the DOM interface
rotoscoping rules tbh
@aescling that runs into the problem of it also has to be something i have any reason to want to watch. which, tricky needle to thread
i think i'll just rewatch A Scanner Darkly
hmm, anybody got any recs for movies to watch that i will not have to particularly care about or pay attention or regret if i doze off in the middle of?
also, unlike scream, fright night was actually a horror movie with comedic elements rather than a comedy full of horror references
i think, if i compare it to scream (being also a highly referential comedy horror movie), fright night is the more enjoyable film in itself, but its overt metatextual elements were weaker (being mostly just allusions to vampire films as a whole; although then again maybe there's a lot of more specific bits i missed because of my limited familiarity with the genre and the film not namedropping specific films)
cw for somebody pushing another person's sexual boundaries in the opening scene tho
fright night was a very fun movie. it's less concretely intertextual than scream (which iirc namechecked it), but really fun.
@Lady SPINARAK!
@Lady how is it, other than quotably strange?
@Lady what is this that you are reading anyway?
@Lady ah yeah i didn't recognize it as a common title trope but did recognize it as probably sappho and i put in way more effort than it should have required (nobody cites which surviving fragment of her work they're quoting! it appears to fragment 102, at least in the numbering used on both digitalsappho.org and the specific translation being quoted) to try and figure out how what you might be objecting to in the translation lol
@Lady what part
games i am considering for my next rpg one-shot, described flippantly:
- i haven't seen enough film noir to describe this game flippantly, please imagine your funniest way to describe a noir game and pretend that's what this one said
- what if there were a bunch of vampires and werewolves and fairies and stuff and their relationship drama was extreme
- it's hard being a heroic slightly-anthropomorphic mouse
- it's so cool to get swept up in the adventures of heroic slightly-anthropomorphic rats
i wanna send letters to my friends
why do people on tv shows just casually do blackmail so much
@Lady that does feel like it has potential (to obsess fedi)
@aescling dunno. looks like it might be used in the parser? https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=(a%20%2D%3E%20b)%20%2D%3E%20(b%20%2D%3E%20c)%20%2D%3E%20a%20%2D%3E%20c&scope=set%3Astackage
annoyingly hoogle’s links do not actually work for the docs for internal GHC code
@aescling GHC does it! (i only know that because of a hoogle search i have not read any part of the GHC source code)
@aescling yeah, defining it as flip (.) seems more idiomatic :3c
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