• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Fucking slop images contributed less than nothing to the article.

    /etc/init.d, uh, finds a way

    Logged logs logging loggily

    Go off, king. Great points. I can’t bring myself to give a shit about anything this person has to say if they feel the need to interject Marvel quips into their own article.

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      2 days ago

      Jurassic Park.

      Not sure about the other one, but I don’t shun people for having their fun. Technical articles can be quite dry.

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        I recognize the reference, and am also not actually against people having joy in their lives.

        My problem is with the use of a tool that is built on a corpus of unlicensed works (regardless of how you feel about the current copyright system, which imo is broken af) and has caused significant environmental and economic damage to the world.

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          Oh, there is no defense for sending out slop for a image. I would have rather seen them take a picture and put text on the cards. My concern was that you were against people interjecting Marvel quips.

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            18 hours ago

            Yeah I’m not actually against marvel quips, though I definitely feel they became detrimental to the writing style of their films over time. When I complain about it, I’m really complaining about interruptions where they aren’t warranted and don’t contribute to the narrative.

            A good quip isn’t just funny- it can contribute to audience understanding, help with pacing, and fits naturally into the narrative. A bad quip interrupts the narrative for no reason other than to interrupt. I don’t really have a good example for this, it’s more of a ‘know it when you see it’ situation. It was definitely better in the early marvel films.

            As much as I love witty characters like Spider-Man, not everyone needs to be comic relief and sometimes it just doesn’t jibe with the story being told.

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              Oh, I think you are saying that you dislike non-sequitur pop culture references, but you would appreciate a witty remark or reference if it jived with the flow of the topic.

              As far as jibes go, I was unaware that it is considered an alternate spelling of gibe. I guess you could be insulted by the comments, but they would have to be intentionally insulting.

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                7 hours ago

                Yeah, disliking non-sequiturs inserted for their own sake is a good summary of my point.

                I actually hadn’t seen gibe before, but a quick search suggests it means something pretty different. Per Grammarly:

                Gibe generally means to make mocking or insulting remarks, used predominantly as a verb. On the other hand, jibe can either refer to a sailing maneuver… or mean that something is in agreement, often seen as ‘jibe with’.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Whoa, those two definitions of jibe don’t jive!

                  So, I pulled my definition from here; however, I did not read down far enough to see the alternate definition!

                  What I found looking deeper is this. The article links here, saying jibe (to fit in/be in harmony) is the older term (used since at least 1813) and jive is only used that way in the past 80 years.

                  So, while the definitions now jibe together, it is still some jive. So, no gibe given, I was clearly mistaken!