From 6d0eea326c84ca434c1a762a5ce765cfbdd1ad9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xe Iaso Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:07:15 -0500 Subject: Much ado about "Nothing" Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso --- lume/src/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing.mdx | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 112 insertions(+) create mode 100644 lume/src/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing.mdx diff --git a/lume/src/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing.mdx b/lume/src/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48ef0d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/lume/src/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +--- +title: 'Much ado about "nothing"' +date: 2024-04-27 +tags: + - nixos +image: blog/2024/nixos/IMG_3443 +--- + + + +## Author's note + +Originally, I was gonna wait a bit before writing this. I had intended this to be written and published in a few weeks after the NixOS foundation board had time to react and attempt to control the damage from whatever the fuck has been going on over there. + +I just don't care at this point. I need this out of my head and off of my chest. + +I would also like to have made this a video of some kind to make it more personal (mostly so you can hear my voice and intonation/emotion in it), but it would take me too long to make it at my current production schedule timelines. I've already been spending a fucking month working on a mostly done Pikmin 3 speedrun video that has been constantly interrupted by this shit. As much as I'd like to do this, I don't think it's in the cards. + +Keep in mind that I'm not decrying the tech behind Nix or NixOS as wrong here. My gripes are purely with community management, moderation, and all of the soft squishy stuff that comes with dealing with humans. + +This post contains massive spoilers for Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion, and the four part revival Evangelion movies. + +## A Cruel Angel's Thesis + +In order to properly convey the level of emotions that I feel about this situation, I need you to understand the weight of The End of Evangelion. + +Neon Genesis Evangelion is an anime series that debuted in October 1995. It is widely considered to be one of the best anime series ever made. It is a story about humanity fighting back against existential threats in a last-ditch attempt to stop the apocalypse. Evangelion was also a bit of a satirical response to the anime zeitgeist of the time. The big story telling meme of the time was having teenagers get powerful robots in order to save humanity. The core premise of Evangelion is "what if kids got into giant robots to save the world, but it broke them?" + +If you've never seen it before, Evangelion is a terribly depressing anime. It is the kind of thing that disturbs the comforted and comforts the disturbed. I think that it combined with the follow-up movies are peak fiction. It is something that you should not watch in a single sitting if you haven't seen it before. + +The key art for this article was taken from the movie The End of Evangelion. When the original Evangelion series was made, they ran out of time right at the end and had to make something up that would roughly make sense for everybody that's viewed it. The ending sucked, but made a lot of thematic sense. The showrunner was so frustrated with this ending that he actually ended up getting funding to make the ending that he wanted to make in the first place, which was released on film as The End of Evangelion. + +One of the key scenes in the movie is near the end. Humanity had lost. Well, just saying that is probably kind of an understatement. Humanity had lost so badly that they had no possible way to continue. Those three people in that image were all that remained of humanity. Shinji and Asuka just stood there waiting to watch for the lights of the sky as humanity was at its end. + +The scene was entirely still. + +And then music started: + +