Can’t find the Artist name. If you knew him, post below.
RE: the original comic
I think the attitude of “oh, if you’re a maladjusted man, you need to go get a girlfriend” is a toxic social expectation and one of the major causes of the male loneliness epidemic.
There are a lot of sad men in the world who have very solvable emotional problems. But instead of working on self improvement (exercise, mindfulness, therapy, getting friends, starting a hobby), they go looking for a girlfriend to fix them. The girls say “this isn’t the 1950s, buckaroo, I don’t have to be your mummy anymore”, and reject the men. Then the men become incels and go online looking for male validation. They find the manosphere, and people like Tate say “exercise, eat good, practice grindfulness, and hate women”. And since some of that advice is good, the men feel better and follow the bad parts too, like hating women. Which just makes them more bitter and lonelier people.
So, uhhhh, cultist who wants a demon to kill your rival. You should go for a walk, have a nutritious meal, do something that makes you happy, think about your place in the universe, and make a new friend. You don’t need a girlfriend to practice healthy living, and you certainly don’t need to hate women to practice healthy living.
That doesn’t look like Pantalaimon?
What about the Daniel Suarez Daemon, a decision tree designed to take over the world?
I’m so ready for that thing to be real and just take over this shit.
I’m an idealist lol.
Loved them all. What’s next?
I remember thinking it was cool when Doom loaded with
R_Init: Init DOOM refresh daemonThat message has been forever seared into my brain and comes up when seeing the word “daemon”.
Yes! Log it… Strongly!
You mean in all caps? Isn’t that a bit much?
Not enough. Needs some
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Daemon = day man with some twang
crontab is actually neutral evil
the artist, i think, is owen cyclops
Cron is absolutely lawful, not neutral. If there’s any deamon that defines lawfulness it’s sendmail, but after it, it’s cron.
Cunningham’s Law ftw
I’ve never heard of daemons outside a programming context
They were divine beings above humans and below gods, they’re probably the main inspiration for both angels and demons in Christianity
They were demons but with a funny æ
What game is that?
WarCraft 1, very fun.
Stop poking meeeeee!
Cool. Looks fun. Thanks.
Warcraft
They appear in Warhammer a fair bit.
So why are they called daemons and not demons?
Many people equate the word “daemon” with the word “demon”, implying some kind of satanic connection between UNIX and the underworld. This is an egregious misunderstanding. “Daemon” is actually a much older form of “demon”; daemons have no particular bias towards good or evil, but rather serve to help define a person’s character or personality. The ancient Greeks’ concept of a “personal daemon” was similar to the modern concept of a “guardian angel”—eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons.
Ah, the joke’s part of a quote - my first thought was you highlighting it might cause a po-faced editor to remove it.
They’re equated because Christians label all heathenry as demonic.
Tl;Dr It’s the same word but with an æ
Alt spelling.
