On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students’. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country’s workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle’s party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists’ 34 and the Socialists’ 57.
How Beautiful It Was - Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/
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lol, the Trueanon subreddit has finally banned the use of an ableist slur and unsurprisingly, there has been a complete meltdown by posters in reaction.
Hard to ban a slur when one of the primary idols of the sub still uses it (or finds “funny” ways to call someone disabled)
Brace Belden is such a dingus, but he has also objectively done way more cool praxis than I have so its hard to criticise.
i had to go there to see what’s up because I wanted to know what slur (like is it “crazy” or “nuts” or some shit) but no they’re just getting around to joining the early 2000s in banning the r word
The reactions have been great, “nobody has any ill will towards the developmentally disabled, dude,” “this is why the left will never win,” “the sub is basically dead now”, etc.
Really highlights what you get when the aesthetics of leftism meet people who never quite outgrew the politics of Darryl W. Perry.
It’s not even a user purge! I’m old enough to remember the great transphobe purge of Hexbear and we’re not dead yet
Finally
Charlie kirk mii getting married to a mii with a gun for a face in Tomodachi Life
he’s safe in there because miis don’t have necks
Tomodachi life shouldn’t be stuck on the switch 2. It seems.s silly as hell and I want in
It’s not! It was released on Switch 1 too so it was pirated pretty early. It works well on PC and Steamdeck if you know how to sail the seven seas!
I have a switch 1!
Then yar har har babyyyy!
how do you pirate switch games…
i should try playing tomodachi life 2, the new mii system would allow me to make crazy shit but that’s a bad idea cause don’t let lelkins make accurate miis
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ay mates
did i just post that drawing too late? can i repost it here? i was proud of how it turned out lol
repost it
i keep forgetting that i am allowed to do that, thanks. other websites would crucify me i guess
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY and karl marx’s BUT ALSO MY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY, ME!!!
Thoughts on McDonalds offering “dirty sodas” to misdirect Google searches about how filthy the soda machine tubes get
My dog is dying. She’s very old, she’s breathing heavily like something is hurting her, she has no appetite, she struggles to stand. I can’t think about anything else
fuck I’m sorry :/
If you’re not at the point of considering other options, maybe you could try giving her some CBD oil or tincture? It never really seems to do much for me and I haven’t tried giving it to pets but I’ve heard it can help old dog appetite/arthritis/etc. Might be worth a shot, yknow
Question for the group. You know how some people say that when they hear a noun, they don’t imagine anything in particular in their minds? And how some people see the named object vividly as if they were seeing a photo? The topic came up IRL in a friends and friends-of-friends group recently. I got called a liar and attention-seeker for saying that I don’t really see the object, I instinctively see the english word in like a serif font in black ink on paper, like I’m reading it in a novel. But I swear this is true. I can’t be the only one, right? Does anyone else here have an internal mind’s eye thingy like that?
I don’t see anything at all, including the text. But yeah, it’s normal. People’s brains work all kinds of different ways
Ooh I have a question. Maybe a couple. I’m trying to work out what is correlated and what isn’t. I also essentially see nothing. I have a terrible sense of direction, have trouble remembering face/name pairings. Uhhh I’m awful at Tetris. I have bad geometric reasoning, I think it’s called. The thing where you take a shape and rotate it x times and draw what it looks like now. I can’t see the shape in my head, so I’d have to sketch it in between.
Is any of that relatable to you? Or any strong counters? Sorry, I don’t personally know anyone who sees nothing, so I haven’t gotten a chance to ask.
All good! Ask away!
I have a good sense of direction outside, bad indoors. I am very bad at remembering faces and names. I am also bad at tetris.
I actually somehow have excellent spatial reasoning and always did very well on those tests. I, of course, can’t see the shape in my head. But whenever I’ve taken those tests, I just intuitively know the answer. I don’t know how, I don’t work it out. I just know.
a friend of mine told me that it’s called aphantasia
i know i don’t have it cause i remember talking about it with that friend of mine and because i can draw some things without reference pictures
Yep, it’s aphantasia. People definitely look at you funny. I mostly think in words. If I try really really hard I can conjure up something like an old photo negative viewed through a piece of tissue paper.
Oh interesting. I always thought aphantasia was a lack of imagination at all. I definitely have one, it’s just in words and not pictures. Glad to know it’s not rare.
Like most things, it appears to be a spectrum, in how different people experience it.
got space invaders working in my godot game collection
Playing in widescreen makes this game feel a lot different. The early game progresses slower because there’s a lot more time in between “down” steps, but the end game zips by much faster, because you get fewer chances to hit the lastt fast-moving Invader.
My version rewards “sniping” the backline before getting the invaders in front. This is a SUPER precise shot that I can’t do consistently, but I like it as a high skill flex.
You can also see that sometimes Godot’s physics will give you a “glancing” hit that doesn’t fully register. This is because my bullets use the same body as everything else, I’ll get around to fixing it by adding a proper hitbox to them eventually.
Next up is Tetris. I already have “version 1” working, but i need to scrap a bunch of what I did for it because it’s really fragile and doesn’t play well with the rest of my component ecosystem. Basically my big discovery while making Space Invaders was that it’s much easier to “simulate” a grid using Godot’s in-built collision system than it is to define a grid on the screen and attempt to have everything communicate with it, and now I’m going to rewrite my Tetris code to work that way too.
i fucking love tetris i can’t wait
looks cool as fuck. i should try and do some stuff but time is not something i have much of these days
it’s still pretty bare bones but it works!
edit: just realized you can hear me listening to beige frequency’s review of Steve-O’s comedy specials in the background lmao
the smooth movement implies that you can have centimeter-wide pockets. saw in the code (i am no programmer so idk how this works) that this tetris is gridless so i kinda got concerned. to demonstrate, i drew this that doesn’t explain what i mean much but you get the picture
so imagine accidentally shifting your tetrominos 1cm too far from the already placed tetrominos and you can’t tell why your double isn’t a double so you are permanently stuck with a layer that is invalid. actyually this drawing won’t even make sense, just imagine a layer where it’s too narrow to be unable to shove an i-shaped mino in
I did consider this potential problem!
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the grid_movement leg isn’t moving smoothly, it’s moving in discrete 18 pixel steps (18 pixels being the side length of each simulated grid square). As long as all of the different psuedogrid components are configured to the same size, they should all stay in sync without issues.
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the line_clear_monitor checks the points that the tetromino bricks move to, which are in the center of each brick. So a tiny gap in between them wouldn’t mess up line detection unless for some reason you were using bricks under half the size of the grid and you weren’t placing them in the middle of the simulated grid square.
With tetris being a relatively small 10 x 20 game board though, everything seems to be staying in sync as expected. I call this “gridless tetris” because my previous version (and basically all versions of tetris) did math on a 2D array, which is MUCH faster than making squares and checking for collision, but the advantage of doing it this way is that my tetrominos can more easily interact with the other stuff in my game collection, which is heavily focused on “remixing” classic games together in novel ways, not just recreating them.
oh thank golly
please check if you can do tspins cause i find those fun, but it’s fine if you want to have the nes version of tetris set up sicne tspins are a new thing. also what algorithm is used to choose the tetrominoes in the queue? there are multiple and they can be found in the harddrop wiki in the randomizer category and ensures that games are fair in terms of what minos you get
Tspins are implemented! I have all of the modern Tetris features implemented as toggles, so for my collection you can turn them on and off to get modern Tetris, Nintendo Tetris, Soviet Tetris, or anything in between.
The default random algorithm is the “bag” algo, where every piece must be drawn before a duplicate appears. You could turn this off and switch to true random if you wanted to. I didn’t bother implementing the Nintendo-specific one with the “generate two and then pick” semi-randomness.
here’s a vid showing off some of the features like ghosting and holding (this is still very much “in progress”)
thank you so much, holy fucking shit i’d play this then lmao
unnamed foss game thing may include this, had an idea brewing in my head for ages
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that’s really cool!!!
More like Shitres
Real game developers program Go in Go and send those tetrominos to hell.
At least twice a year I am forced to listen to television commercials. They get noticeably worse each time but did something crazy happen since Christmas? It feels like we jumped forward a whole decade in awful, there’s this thing where they make a joke and then like one of the characters explains it as if it were some Amazon show where the plot is explained in the dialog to catch you up but it makes no sense for anyone to say that, except in the case the event being explained just happened. Sorry to be so vague I’m still suffering from the trauma, it was some progressive commercial and some other one at least. What do regular sports watchers or whatever feel when they’re staring at this shit, is inducing rage part of the marketing?
“Is it possible for a woman to be misogynistic, gay, homophobic, disabled, and ableist all at the same time?”
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Fuck I had shit in my mouth now my nose hurts. LMAO.
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You must be a Starknight to get that kind of response.
And be careful putting shit in your mouth, you might get sick
I can’t believe the nerve of the Cincinnati Zoo to put out a children’s book with no acknowledgement of What Happened
Sitting in a train on a sunny day, listening to my music.
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Just overheard my grandma talking to my mom about Israel. She’s a German woman in her 80s, not online in the slightest and not too interested in politics, and she talked about how she watched a documentary and was so shocked and appalled when she learned how poorly Israeli settlers treat the Palestinians.
No matter how many millions the entity pumps into hasbara, the reality of the situation is becoming more and more inescapable. When even retirees in Germany are learning the truth, despite our media’s best efforts, it’s truly over from a PR perspective.
I do wonder if Israel being especially bloodthirsty lately is because it seems like time is ticking to an end. So every last fever dream is being enacted between Gaza, the west bank, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and they talked about Turkey as the next great enemy lol. And what, if it is, might be the precipitating event. In the end, it may have been Al Asqa Flood tipping the scales - the Abaraham Accords and normalization looked to be settling things, Israel was gonna do its genocide, the international community as a whole did not seem to care about Palestinians getting mowed down while peacefully protesting or just existing
