The Latin word for God is "Deus" - or as the Romans would have written it, "DEVS". The people who create programs, games, and simulated worlds are also called "devs". As time goes on, the two meanings will grow closer and closer.
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posted on March 22, 2022 04:35 PM by
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If you’ve dated in tech, does that mean you have a Deus Ex?
A friend of a friend was in the army decades ago and at one point
reading “I, Claudius”, the Robert Graves historical novel about the
titular Roman Emperor, which had recently been made into the classic tv
series of the same name
One day a squaddie at the barracks notices him toting the paperback
around and pipes up, “Hey! I’ve been watching that I
Clavdivs on the telly!”
Never read the book, although I've heard it's good.
But man, the 70s BBC, with their unbeatable casts and their "drama class production from a public high school in a middle-class neighbourhood" production values. 😅
Honestly this is every fiction writer’s worst nightmare. You come up
with some super clever little idea and find out its the whole basis for
a UPN+ series in it’s 5th season. I don’t even mean this disparagingly
it’s basically impossible to have “original” ideas like this anymore now
that there are something like 75000 streaming services pumping out
original shows.
I know that has to have been said before, but man, Scott Alexander
was genuinely a much more interesting writer back when he was being
Censored By SJW Fifth Columns In Rationalism. Now he’s just another Rick
and Morty fan on substack.
If you’ve dated in tech, does that mean you have a Deus Ex?
One possible pronunciation of “Deus” in English is “Deuce” which means I created a god in my bathroom this morning.
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A friend of a friend was in the army decades ago and at one point reading “I, Claudius”, the Robert Graves historical novel about the titular Roman Emperor, which had recently been made into the classic tv series of the same name
One day a squaddie at the barracks notices him toting the paperback around and pipes up, “Hey! I’ve been watching that I Clavdivs on the telly!”
Honestly this is every fiction writer’s worst nightmare. You come up with some super clever little idea and find out its the whole basis for a UPN+ series in it’s 5th season. I don’t even mean this disparagingly it’s basically impossible to have “original” ideas like this anymore now that there are something like 75000 streaming services pumping out original shows.
Seems to me someone has watched a certain TV series with a name appearing in that tweet
He loves me some nominative determinism.
(Ow wait, this was an idea created by Jung, of course it was. Why is it always you Jung? (Jorpy also has a hardon for Jung))
And of course techbros will love this, as I computer toucher I love my ego being stroked. We are going to become as gods! Devs vult! (I lied of course check this out)
Ok when do we tell them about the show “Devs”
Wasn’t this posted here before? I have a distinct memory of calling it “ierking off”.
this is what happens when you cut funding for the humanities
putting on the ol’ clown makeup
I know that has to have been said before, but man, Scott Alexander was genuinely a much more interesting writer back when he was being Censored By SJW Fifth Columns In Rationalism. Now he’s just another Rick and Morty fan on substack.
At what point, exactly, did these people start being beyond even ridicule?
Scott needs to touch hardware
they made a tv show about this and it sucked almost as much as this tweet
Something something devs ex machina