tell you what. for every post on Funhole specifically, i will add an extra panel in the comments where Tony (the cat) gives his FOSS oriented thoughts on the post.

that way, i don’t have to rewrite anything to include a Tony, and the UNIX mentions are contained in the Funhole, where they belong. does that work?

thanks a bunch for your feedback, and glad you’re looking forward to more! should be done with the next one soon™.

i wonder if there’s a limit to adding “slop” to things

live service games are liveslop, fast food is foodslop, making smalltalk is conversationslop, charities are kindnessslop, being awake is wokeslop, dreams are sleepslop, everything is thingslop

and this post, too, is just contentslop

idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.

take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?

is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.

yeah, i’d say there’s a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.

English specifically has a ton of loanwords - “tycoon” is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning “great prince/high commander”, “balaclava” is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), “pet” is from the Scottish Gaelic “peata” meaning “tame animal”… and that’s just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.

so i’m not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of ‘respect’ is strictly good or not.

now, i don’t speak AAVE, and i haven’t done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it’s interesting to think about.