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@user-1602 @user-1074 @user-1617
hehe my hat has a face on it
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│ CW: unnecessary-caps-lock │
└───────────────────────────┘
I GOT MY SCREEN RECORDER AUDIO WORKING
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│ CW: food-mentioned-factorio-lines │
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I like Lindt Lindor truffles from Costco because they seem fancy, but they're
really not.
They're just a chocolate shell with a hole in it that is filled with a softer
chocolate and then capped. Easy peasy. Can be made in a factory. But still feel
fancy somehow - perhaps because of the marketing? Or maybe the decadence.
anyway they're cheap because they're made in a factory, as all things should be
it's like Factorio - if you don't have a production line set up for a certain
type of good, then you are not manufacturing that type of good, and it is not
available.
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@user-1550 mkdir ~/icons
mv ./*.png ~/icons
maybe?
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@user-1550
accidentally uninstalled the crypto miner that was running in the background?
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@user-192
would love something like that...! Also, joystick for flight games
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I spent 400$ at Costco and all I seem to have bought was candy and clothes T.T
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│ CW: future-politics │
└──────────────────────┘
dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got
too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do?
Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know
a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those
questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts.
That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't
ask the AI, ask a randomized expert!
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the
first time, anyway, so...
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look I tried to start something a month or three ago and the sparks didn't catch
so I'm gonna sit around waiting until I hear things outside my window before I
venture out again.
I think that's fair, right?
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I don't really like singleplayer games
sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
and don't teach, RIP
and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it, (personal
RIP then)
... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't have
so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand that
you use them.
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the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not upon
what may yet be.
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┌───────────────────────┐
│ CW: alcohol-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
"uhhhh, I dunno she's drunk or something"
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┌──────────────────────────┐
│ CW: capitalism-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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psychic damage doesn't work against mechanical opponents.
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life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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│ CW: spirituality-mentioned │
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people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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This gun is my sword
This blade is my weapon
And my foes will lay before me
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Supreme Commander ruined me.
I can't play RTS games without a zoom function T.T
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There is no past, only history
There is no future, only planning
Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep at
once.
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│ CW: climate-change │
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🖼
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we must upgrade cats until they can survive falls from terminal velocity
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what if we voted for the relative quantities of goods imported to our shores
like... "500 anonymous people voted for this specific purple dragon dildo, and
that's enough to put forth a petition to import them from australia"
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most people, when they run out of toothpaste:
"oh huh I should buy more"
me, when I run out of toothpaste:
"verily in three monthes time, when I shall next possess toothpaste, I shall
forsoothe brush TWICE as hard and TWICE as often, to make up for the holes
inflicted upon my teeth. Innest addittioneth, no more candy shallest be
eateneth untileth ye toothpasteth be acquiredeth"
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@user-1602
be yourself? don't sweat it
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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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║ the only people who believe in "good jobs" and "poor jobs" are people who would │
║ rather pay less │
║ │
║ and, like, yeah pay should correspond to effort. that way if someone like, │
║ doesn't try at all, then they shouldn't be paid very much. │
║ │
║ and yeah sure neurodivergence plays a role, but that's totally accountable-for. │
║ [it's a solvable problem she means] │
║ │
║ but people deserve to be treated equally. we are all created in kind, after all │
║ (perhaps "equitably" would be better) │
║ │
║ and right now... the cheapest jobs, AKA the ones who are hiring (sometimes) are │
║ being taken over by people who are WAY overqualified. │
║ │
║ we need to use our highly skilled labor force, not leave it to rot. But there's │
║ money to be made in monopolizing, hence starbucks and walmarts and target (red │
║ walmart) and all of the others, including amazon and greenpeace. │
║ │
║ ... what does greenpeace have to do - shut up you'll see (what? you're getting │
║ off track) [and burning characters, too] right uh the more high skilled people │
║ in low wage positions, the less profit │
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are you about to delete a post that you thought was funny, but actually wasn't
once you wrote it down and read it to yourself?
STOP
write it down on a post-it and put it under your desk or behind a drawer
put it in a .txt file in a random directory on your computer
send it as a text message to yourself
write it down, take a picture of it, and then burn the paper
y'know, typical stuff like that
do this and I guarantee you won't regret it
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║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned-DRM-media-piracy-pol │ │
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character. │
║ │
║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a "tip" │
║ system where you pay for better service after receiving service. │
║ │
║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers, │
║ isn't it? │
║ │
║ "if they want more money, they should work for it" │
║ │
║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe. │
║ │
║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root. │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a │
║ hammer. │
║ │
║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire │
║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards. │
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@user-889
don't give up!
I know that feeling!
it is defeated with persistence!
don't give up!
you can make it!
there's always tomorrow!
so don't give up!
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@user-999
solving problems isn't the hard part.
playing is.
but coaching is just as important.
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you shouldn't trust me because I'll let you down.
I would never betray you. But when tasked with my own actions and my own
agency, I never make the right choice.
Like a rabbit who can always find their way home, I am drawn, almost
gravitically, to the path before me, a path which seems to avoid anything
resolute.
alas.
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awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (
sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>
ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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│ CW: re: Uspol │
└──────────────────────┘
@user-1265
you'd pull a child to the sidewalk if they were in danger, wouldn't you?
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some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and it
shows
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: polit │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ the less a political conversation uses proper nouns, the more productive it can │
║ be. │
║ │
║ For example. Try not to mention capitalism, communism, socialism, etc. │
║ │
║ Also, don't talk about Republicans or Democrats. That just invites tribalism. │
║ │
║ Instead, focus on issues. Like "Hurricane Relief distribution methods" instead │
║ of "whether or not hurricanes deserve to be relieved" │
║ │
║ saying something like "gee it sure feels like our community has gone to shreds" │
║ is a good way to start it, and then you can move on to things like "well, I │
║ just think it was nicer last year, before a hurricane came through and took all │
║ our jobs." and they say "uh-huh true yeah I believe you" │
║ │
║ but as soon as you say "hey maybe those capitafascist pigs shouldn't be allowed │
║ to wield nuclear arsenals" they start looking at you funny, like they disagree │
║ with whatever you want to say but aren't. │
║ │
║ and it's like... no, that's all you wanted to say, but behind their eyes are │
║ things like "black people are worse than me" or "I'm better than a woman" so │
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║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: nuclear-weapons-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ "okay but what if we just... made nuclear warheads illegal globally" │
║ │
║ gee I'm sure glad I live in a timeline that follows the geneva convention. │
║ │
║ the only reason to have a weapon is to intend to use it, and nuclear weapons │
║ are anathema to us. they are our bane. they are death, and they destroy worlds. │
║ │
║ there is no reason to seek to destroy yourself. And so there is no reason to │
║ seek to destroy Earth. And if the purpose of a weapon is to be able to use it, │
║ and if nuclear warheads would set off a chain reaction that destroys Earth, │
║ then there is no reason to possess a nuclear warhead. │
║ │
║ the difference between the "bright future" timelines and the Warhammer 40k │
║ timelines is just based on whether or not we collectively can dismantle our │
║ troubled and chaotic historical past. │
║ │
║ "every wound you heal in yourself is another scar for posterity, and given │
║ time, all scars fade." │
║ │
║ Well... we survived, we were the fittest... yay, go us. │
║ │
║ now we need to grow the fuck up and act like adults. End Nukes │
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────┘
who gives a shit what you look like just work together for goodness sake
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│ CW: politics-mentioned │
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one of my most humbling political memories is getting in a fight with a kid at
school (okay, a heated argument) because he said republicans lower taxes and I
thought democrats did.
turns out we were both right, because one of our dads had money.
gotta raise taxes for public services, and well inflation's just a fact of life
y'know, at least stuff doesn't cost as much as way back when.
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@user-1268
if people wrote what they thought as fast as they thought it, then you'd have
an approximation of a mind-reading machine.
If the writing kept pace with the thoughts, you'd be writing as fast as the
brain can think (the brain cannot intentionally think "slower" which is one of
the biggest arguments against IQ testing and other conceptions of "linear
intelligence") - you cannot write for 5 minutes straight without thinking about
(and writing) what you are hiding.
uh, yes, you, can. just, pause, after, each, letter, and, increase,,, the pause
amount, after each important word.
yeah but that's still processing the thought as fast as possible and just...
waiting around, idle, until the next thought is to be had. It's just how brains
work.
so anyway it'd be a constant stream of consciousness way of outputting exactly
what the mind-reading machine is saying.
Just make sure you trust the person who made the mind-reader machine, and maybe
make sure it's impossible to tamper with.
or don't make it??
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@user-1620
I perform the song of my heart
which sometimes feels similar
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║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ less mutual aid posts, those should be handled by a person's community who │
║ knows them and can decide how to best help them │
║ │
║ more "hey the guys and I are making a fund just in-case any of us need it - │
║ it's at 30,000 now but we could use some more dosh if you wanna join you could │
║ use it if you needed it but it's totally up to you no pressure - yeah yeah no I │
║ get it. Okay, well, yeah sure I'll get my coat." │
║ │
║ oh huh did you know corporations exist to fill that very niche? │
║ │
║ turns out you can just... hire your friends and pay them a wage │
║ │
║ just don't get in trouble with the IRS, that's how they got capone │
║ │
║ (I bet you could hire a lawyer or accountant type to keep everything upright) │
║ │
║ Building out the legal structure is just like building software, trust me. │
║ There's all kinds of forms and figures that match up to various pipeline nodes │
║ and if you tick all the boxes (supply the right arguments) then the business │
║ needs will be fulfilled. │
║ │
║ capitalism must be dismantled with it's own tools. For respect. │
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"... and this is moss, our pile of soil. He's really cool, if you feed him
seeds and take care of his needs, then sometimes a couple months later he spits
out food. It's awesome. Plus you can throw away your trash there and it'll just
break it down whatever."
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they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
we are not the same
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"she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
"I guess but it still felt strange."
yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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║ I wonder how many people who pay money to have someone organize lan parties for │
║ them? Including interviews with all of the attendents so they can pick the best │
║ games to have installed. │
║ │
║ The hardware can be provided, for a nominal fee, of course. Otherwise they'll │
║ walk you through getting the right games set up. │
║ │
║ Then, securing the venue, and stocking it with comfy sofas and sprite. │
║ │
║ The day of they place orders for pancakes the next morning and pizza this very │
║ night │
║ │
║ and everyone shows up to balloons, a DJ, and strobe lights. │
║ │
║ after a series of quick deathmatch style action games, everyone breaks into │
║ groups and forms teams to take on everyone else. │
║ │
║ After an hour or two of teamplay, the group splits in two (or three) and plays │
║ specific games that everyone is into. │
║ │
║ people who wanted to hang out at the party but not play games can watch on │
║ their smartphones by using an app which streams each player's screen to the LAN │
║ │
║ I'd call it "collosseum services for the digital age" │
║ │
║ oh and it's a sleepover too so pjams │
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║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the │
║ same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people │
║ to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
║ │
║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
║ │
║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want │
║ or need. │
║ │
║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust
if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
are still alive
![sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.](../media/f37ce240daccb50a.webp "sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are \"organic\" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.")
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The best way to survive a storm is to lean into it
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@user-1622
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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@user-1298
yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
"don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.
drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
job.
Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
non-consenting subject?
... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
human intervention
they could set up a shared protocol so that any IoT / Smart TV manufacturer
could benefit. It'd be mutually beneficial for them because without complete
cooperation, the network wouldn't function very well at all (unless your
neighbor happened to have the same brand of TV / IoT device, which would work
but wouldn't be as good)
this is all cursed btw and should not be allowed to persist
oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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I have 3855 posts here
I estimate that about half of them use every single character (1024 char limit
per post)
That means I've written around 1973760 characters, and if the average english
word has 6 characters that means I've written 328960 words
they say that on average a page is around ~500 words single spaced, which means
I've written about 657 pages, just for you.
I hope you know that I love you, dear reader, though I do not know you.
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Well, I failed the mandate of heaven last year, and I failed the trial of the
hero this summer, what's next? I'll do my best at those as well, so the next
person has an easier time of it.
unrelated, but today I saw a bald eagle outside my apartment. Well, I'm not
sure if it was bald but it "KREEEEEE"'d like they do. Plus it had a white head
and a yellow beak, but I'm not an ornithologist so idk. It perched on a tree
that I could spy on from my hammock through my binoculars, and I swear it was
eye-ing my fat juicy cat through the bars of my porch's railing. They have
excellent vision.
Might be related, we'll see.
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║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ hehe true. │
║ │
║ if you consent, then it's just a social structure. │
║ │
║ there are, however, reasons when power is justified. Hence why I don't believe │
║ that power itself should be dismantled, and what few "power structures" remain │
║ should be continuously justified. │
║ │
║ For example, how do you prevent people from harming others? "Your rights end │
║ where another's begin" but, like, how do you stop people who toe the line and │
║ spit over the edge? │
║ │
║ There must be power applied to those who harm, and they surely do not consent │
║ to being curtailed, so therefore power must be wielded by someone. And because │
║ power corrupts the one who wields it, it is inevitable that someone creates │
║ harm. │
║ │
║ ... I just re-invented the police, didn't I? Legalism only goes so far, and │
║ calling up your beefiest friends to go rough up a no-good do-gooder is │
║ basically what mobs, mafias, and gangs do. I don't think people would consent │
║ to being protected by a gang, much less governed by one. │
║ │
║ we will think of something. │
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@user-1298
Yes I agree! Harming others is not okay.
I'm thinking about what happens when someone hurts someone else, and doesn't
stop. What do you do then? Do you hurt the person who harms? How do you get
them to stop?
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I want to go camping with a bunch of programmers bearing laptops. Each person
can bring a book or three and whatever documentation they can fit on their
computer and then we just spend 3 months in the mountains doing nothing but
programming, hiking, sitting around the campfire, and dreaming of a better
tomorrow
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maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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║ @user-1298 │
║ │
║ I believe that self defence is a myth, and should not be relied upon, because │
║ anyone who is rotten in their heart might prey upon you (who might defend │
║ yourself) just as easily as a cripple in a cart or a grannie walking her cats │
║ in the park. │
║ │
║ The process you're describing is exile. And that works when you can cast people │
║ out of your stone-walled town. But in the modern era, there are no places for │
║ these people to go, so we hold them with cruel iron bars in cages far │
║ underground. │
║ │
║ It's not ideal, but would you rather they find someone else to harm, or would │
║ you rather invite power's corruption into your heart and take an oath to │
║ protect the weak and innocent? │
║ │
║ Evil is everyone's problem. It lurks within us, and leaps forth in times of │
║ turmoil and stress. We are human savages, after all, and our nature is that of │
║ a wild beast given a spark of intelligence through countless generations of │
║ gossip and generosity. │
║ │
║ Humans are good for the most part. Some have lead poisoning │
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@user-1298
My understanding is that you essentially want to defang power such that it
cannot harm innocent people? That's... not such an easy task. If I had an
answer that could fit within a twitter post like this one then I would give it
to you.
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be strong, do not become savage
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imagine if there was a stacking inf bonus to players who played on red /
blueside
which increased or decreased depending on either A. the number of players online
at the time, B. the proportion of players playing on that team versus the other,
or C. the time of day. Essentially helping to cure the faction imbalance by
offering rewards to one side or the other which would encourage a certain group
in the population of the game to change sides or not.
perhaps frequent changing could grant a title called "mercenary" or something
like "log in for each consecutive day for 10 days straight and each day switch
faction alignment at least once"
... anyway you could cure the faction imbalance between redside / blueside by
offering an INF reward for playing on each side one by one alternating like an
iterator first red then blue or first blue then red either way it doesn't matter
because it'll switch after a while and encourage everyone to switch sides. And
the way the character responds to that stimulus tells you a bit about their
character's personality.
also...
it should not affect AE or Pocket D farms.
Nor missions, TFs, or anything else.
they should SOLELY impact open world patrolling / hunting.
I believe this would not only incentivize people to spend time in the open world
(which is a mostly unused piece of game assets) but it would also increase the
visibility of the newly bolstered faction numbers.
Think about it - if everyone who switched sides is out in the open world, then
they could see each other. They could fight the same mobs, and team up together.
In doing so, they could form greater and greater supergroups - if only through
their interactions with one another as they level up.
If they're lucky, the guild they're recruited into has similar interests in mind
like doing raiding or PvP or economics or alts or whatever. And they each have
their own different styles of operating, it's soooo cute. Like alt guilds will
pop up and then migrate to a new one as people make new alts and grow tired of
them at higher levels.
It's great.
I love MMOs!
I wish people put half as much effort into making an open source WoW client that
they do programming game engines like Godot or Raylib or Bevy. If such a thing
was created, we could have a new rennaisance in indie MMO development. It would
become fully non-proprietary, the entire game-platform-stack. Meaning anyone
could create their own MMO off of it, because (crucially) the serverside soft-
-ware has already been reverse engineered. And open sourced.
Seriously. You wanna make as much bank as Steam? Make an open source client that
lets you design while in it. Then you could charge people for all the games that
they played that were designed and hosted by you the content designing software
maker.
... okay it's probably not that simple I'm going to go play Unreal Tournament2k4
`
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The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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"no survivors" is a commitment to your teammates that doubles as intimidation
for your foes.
"no survivors" means you are committing to die for this battle. A truly serious
oath.
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there are very few professions that are naturally more suited to a
schizophrenic than a normal person.
One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive
disappointment" but that comes with the territory.
have you considered that maybe you're just a loser
yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses
then what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.
It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be
relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the
skulls of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but
I'm not surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.
you are in fantasy, again
sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the
park bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or
when I sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september.
Or when I woke from a dream that turned out to be life.
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@user-1625
same... it's like I am conditioned to forget, but without it I am an exposed
nerve.
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somebody asked me for popcorn and I couldn't even provide it! What kind of
witch am I if I can't provide popcorn on demand T.T T.T
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║ │
║ │
║ if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the │
║ people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could have │
║ a truly multicultural society. │
║ │
║ instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third │
║ thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots │
║ creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin. │
║ │
║ Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different. │
║ │
║ America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find │
║ them popping up in the strangest of places. │
║ │
║ My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of │
║ hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen on │
║ different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our │
║ heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need │
║ my aid, and I will do so too unto you. │
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🖼
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it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click on
all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're doing.
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@user-1628
for most of my life... [okay still do]... but it felt like I had different
moods, and depending on how I felt at the time I would act differently.
I forget the things that happen when I'm in a different mood, but I've gotten
to a point where I can generally force myself to stay a certain "mood" while in
certain contexts, and in doing so I can remember everything.
downside is I get burnt out pretty easily if I'm always the same. It's not
ideal.
... anyway if you talk about what you experience then your friends can point
you toward people who "get" you.
like, my parts don't have names, we don't have a group chat or whatever, it's
just... me, but different shades of me.
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people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
next election won't bring about 30 years of purges
smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other
side before you wake up one day in hell
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║ Alright, what's your plan for dealing with MAGA? The ones with guns and foreign │
║ ties who can compel people too stupid to know better to break shit and kill │
║ people. What's your plan to deal with them? │
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║ In America, there are currently 3 armed and trained groups of any reasonable │
║ scale or reputation. │
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║ The police, the military, and MAGA. │
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║ Who do you trust to defeat your foes? They won't just go away if you hide │
║ underneath the bedsheets. This monster has crept into your bedroom with a bowie │
║ knife and is fully intending to sink it into your guts while you sleep. What │
║ are you going to do about it? │
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║ And more importantly, who are you going to do things about it with? Because no │
║ single person can do jack fucking shit on their own. │
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║ We forgot our responsibility to a well armed and regulated militia. Sorry │
║ founding fathers, that was our bad. Just gonna hide in a hole for 30 fucking │
║ years until the zoomer's kids are old enough to die in droves, and gen alpha's │
║ kids are old enough to succeed them and win. │
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oy there's nothing interesting happening SNOOZE
oh I didn't see I was recording
games games that's what I do
play games all the day through
I am a luck witch, you see,
and things that I like are things that I can't foresee.
Hence why games which are BALANCED and EVENLY DISTRIBUTED are most interesting
because they show the most opportunities for players to express talent. And not
innate talent, but the talents they've built up through gameplay practice art.
because it is a performance, a game play for an audience (or perhaps for them-
-selves)
oy
video games, amiright?
I really like them because they are entertaining experiences that I can enjoy
seeing and playing a lot. They remind me of feelings I've felt when I was
learning. It's a good feeling, to improve, and I crave it because it's good for
you.
I wonder what we'll play next
... more cannabis I think, at least until I am ready to go think about things
before bed. I need quite a few hours for that. We'll see. I've just got so much
extra processing to do before the end of the day. Like... PHEW that's a lot of
stuff to do.
guess I'll just smoke weed and play video games instead of being productive okay
...
listen I like games as much as the next person, but do you really know what's
going on outside of your house-shaped shell? Are you listening, do you have your
feelers to the dirt, are you checking out your neighborhood to make sure no
bodies have been hurt? Are there meetings where people gather, just to chat,
like, every week at a different city center (like a park or a monument or
:O
I forgot to play music!!
I couldn't sleep
what have I done that is worse
I have not said a single word all night alas
oh boy talking to random people I can hear with my eyeballs woooooo
I am always sad when I win because it means we have to stop playing :(
but I'm a juvenile loser so I'm going to play again!!
okay now I'm going to bed because I'm not a prick who keeps their guests up late
goodnight
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cat memes be like
(read the alt text)
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most strategy games teach strategy as if it were still 1867
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just means that's the most entertaining type of strategy we've found so far
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"oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
"do you mean marketing?"
"yeah that"
"they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to normalize
things about culture."
"like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
"just like that"
[like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal than
humans]
[it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
we only know which one cats like more"
like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
place in a month
"yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of life?
It's just showbiznez"
"this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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I am always trying to be helpful. at all times am I trying to teach. that can
get real fuckin annoying sometimes.
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One reason there's a delay between electing a president and them taking power
is so we can fucking revolt if Donald Trumps get elected
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you don't owe a stranger the chance to change
their first impression is what you should deal with
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at the end of your life, you've built a person
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