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  • I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

    I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.

    I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.





  • The point the English professors are making is that the new generation of students see monsters entirely as victims of circumstances.

    No, thats the point the Sun (a shit rag of a paper) was trying to get you to think. The professor who made the comment the Sun abused to make a shitty tweet said that students consider it more a creature than a monster, and how it shaped his teaching, and he himself sees the novel as a question of sentience and medical ethics.

    It’s an ideological belief.

    No.




  • Yes, because its accurate.

    Dahmer was a horrifying killer. He also had a functionally absentee father, and his mother was self-medicating to deal with her mental health issues and developed a substance abuse issue. He was left alone at home for long periods of time, making him both physically and socially isolated. His biggest connection with his dad was being interested in the anatomy of dead animals, and his dad showed him.how to bleach bones and overall encouraged it - but not really engaging further. In school his behavior was considered bizarre, heavily attentions seeking, began drinking in high school, etc…

    Everyone around him failed him in some way, and he became an absolute monster.

    It doesnt change the fact that he did horrible things. It doesnt mean he didnt become a monster.

    Recognizing that trauma led to that, though, is a good thing. It means we can better identify, understand, and address earlier.

    If we reworked the monsters experience, Frankensteins engagement with him, how he was presented to the townspeople and how they reacted to him, would he have turned out differently? I would say yes. And I think its important for us to recognize that.




  • If you really want an answer, I think we need to start early…

    The monster is naive, curious, and good natured at the beginning. Delighted by fire, choosing to touch it - and then feeling pain. No one there to teach right and wrong, or even safe and dangerous. Just a naive child in a grown up body.

    He finds a small hovel, and lives there observing. Taking food from them to keep himself fed, later discovering - because no one taught otherwise - that taking from others hurts those people. He doesnt want them to be hurt by him though, so he eats berries and nuts. I think this shows he is good natured, not wanting to hurt others.

    Then we have his first interaction with the village. Some run, but others attacked him with stones and other weapons. He even commented not only that he was physically hurt, but seriously hurt by them (I think “grievously bruised” is the right quote).

    He hid in a place so far removed from the village that the cottages seemed like palaces in comparison. He understands he looks different than others, but didnt understand how his looks would make him not just shunned, but hated. The villagers based everything on how he looked, and now this naive and good natured being had a direct look at just absolute cruelty.

    Skipping ahead, the final part that makes him turn to being cruel himself is being told he will be alone, always.

    At this point he hasn’t experienced kindness from others, just cruelty. The neglect, the hopelessness, the physical pain from being attacked - this is the only expression towards others he experienced himself.

    So the abused becomes an abuser. He takes out the pain and anger on others, showing them the pain he felt. He knew only pain and being alone, and his rage at his creator made him want his creator to feel the same.

    I’d say its a pretty obvious tale of victim becoming the perpetrator.



  • What exactly are you basing that on?

    The parishioners have commented that they didnt know the guy, that he had camo pants on, came in with an assault rifle, and that the truck the suspect drove into the church with had a bunch of American flags on it.

    The suspect lives in Burton (~90% white) which is even less diverse than Grand Blanc (~80% white), and with shootings at religious institutions, they are usually closely linked to that church (which is currently being investigated).

    Edit: The truck used apparently had an Iraqi Conflict veteran license plate, in addition to what I mentioned above.


  • Maybe this will be a good place to start.

    Anti-porn legislation is a decidedly right wing thing. You can see this with the laws that effectively blocked pornhub. The one I linked to includes written erotica, and non-sexual representations of lgbtqia+.

    Blocking porn (or erotica in general), is a very religious right action. Associating lgbtqia+ with porn is also very much right-wing.

    I don’t know where youre getting the idea that religious groups are pushing left wing ideals and are therefore secretly left wing groups. Collective Shout, for example, is pretending to be a left wing group (describing themselves as “a grassroots movement against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture.”), when in reality, they are tied to hard right christian groups and conservative think tanks. The opposite of what you’re suggesting.

    You’ll often see these sort of right wing groups cover their religious based anti-porn stance by wrapping it in “Protecting the children”, which will then be used as an excuse to try and prevent everything from drag shows to erotic games like visual novels. This is not “woke”.

    Now that isnt to say there aren’t leftists with an issue here as well. There are leftists who are anti-porn. Usually though, those will be against the porn industry, and will say all porn is exploitation in some form. They won’t associate gender identity or sexual identity with erotic content though, which is (usually) a good indicator of where a group or person is landing on a political spectrum. These folks are also not that common, more often you’d see the criticism limited to the porn industries where women are often taken advantage of, and the consent given is a bit more dubious.

    You may also see it with leftists and specific genres of gaming, where there may be depictions of rape, especially if its shown without a narrative reason for it to exist or where its not considered wrong to have done so.

    I hope you take this comment as an opportunity to understand where others are coming from, to evaluate where youre getting your information from, and maybe, just maybe, reevaluate your reactions to what others are saying.


  • I was replying to a specific part of that persons comment.

    That said, your comments about “the left” elsewhere are also actually about the religious right.

    oppressed by woke cancel culture associated with the left

    Pretty sure most of them are not racists at all, they simply want to hit the woke back as a vengeance.

    Dude.

    You have a definition of “the left” (and, tbc, “the right”) thats so far abstracted from reality that I don’t know where to begin. I wish I could be the person here who could help clarify things for you, but I’m not.

    As I said, its my opinion that you deserved it in terms of the mod actions, and I gave my reasons. Many others shared the same opinion.

    Maybe instead of lashing out at me you could consider why so many folks are disagreeing with your take, and start there.



  • Ideally? I’d say something with support for 2 drives, mirrored.

    Without a price to define “not crazy expensive”, I’d say take a look at QNAP and Synology 2-bay devices, pick what fits the price range. I’d put it on the network and mount it on the PCs you want to as a drive to drop things in.

    Then I’d add one more thing - 3-2-1 for anything critical.

    • Three copies of all critical data should be made on a regular basis. Original data + at least two backups
    • Two different storage types should be used to store the data to minimize the chance of failure.
    • One offsite location. Could be an encrypted copy of a backup on cloud storage, could be a drive at another home.

    How critical data is would be up to you and your parents, I just want to note that a single backup at your home is not going to be helpful if there is flooding or a fire or whatever that would damage both the originals and the backup device.