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if you're in a fight with a lot of space between combatants, survival depends
on your ability to keep those targeting you from success while also striking
those who are focused on your allies. It is rare that a killing blow is dealt
from the front - strike from the sides, like velociraptors in Jurassic Park,
and your foe will fall.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
--- #1 fediverse/5183 ---
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you're more likely to survive a battlefield if you play Running with Rifles
than if you play Call of Duty.
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--- #2 fediverse/4130 ---
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no matter which side won the clone wars, the people lost.
if your planet was conquered by separatists, then the entire population would
be massacred by robots. Literal buzz-droid machines which processed flesh into
[redacted]
if your planet was "liberated" by the republic, then you were oppressed by a
military police that could not and would not learn a damn thing over their
short 3 year natural livespan.
either way, the people lose. The jedi perish. The war is won. Empire reigns.
Rebellion is a game the elites do play. Sorrow for everyone. These are the
Star Wars - visions of galactic woe.
not despair, but woe, the trouble of living under arms. what battles may you
best? what trials could you contest? if all of your worries were gone?
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War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
make it.
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--- #4 fediverse/5997 ---
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they attack the bad guys in our provinces and say that it's our foes, and they
attack the bad guys in their provinces and say that it's ours that are foes
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--- #5 fediverse/3107 ---
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@user-1449 @user-1074
I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
live.
bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #8 fediverse/2224 ---
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No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
plan that your enemy knows.
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if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
of "evil"?
fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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the witch inside me hears they're sending 200 troops to my city and she's like
"two HUNDRED SOLDIERS?" and freaks tf out because fighting two hundred men
meant a lot more back in her day.
it's still pretty hardcore but it's not the death stroke she thinks it is.
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War doesn't care if you use guns or swords or words or waves. War is conflict,
conflict is motion, and you are in the eye of the storm.
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--- #13 fediverse/6448 ---
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hit the broad side of your foe and they'll never know
(guy from nausicaa, highest kill count in [his world/the movie])
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the second rule is you don't have to hang out with mortals. there are places
you can go where they won't find you, except by accident, and then you just go
somewhere else.
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short hair is better in a fight.
long hair is better in the sun, or the cold.
long hair is worse in the heat, and the rain.
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--- #16 fediverse/1122 ---
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@user-831 @user-832
it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and
they exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds.
In doing so they can help guide one another through the problems they are
tasked with solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at
hand.
sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision
being made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or
perhaps a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and
dissemination of vital information)
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when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
you?
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--- #18 fediverse/5694 ---
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if I can convince them not to fight will you give me what I demand?
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game where people in helicopters designate targets for a massive mech the size
of godzilla (but which moves much slower)
while infantry 1/10th the size of normal RTS units capture buildings
the goal? take out artillery emplacements which are aiming at your mech while
also protecting your own emplacements
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--- #20 fediverse/3007 ---
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like... did you know most battles ended when everyone ran away? Most people
think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
'em before they get us"
plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
sun" or "move onto the high ground"
'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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one difference between fantasy and reality is that in fantasy, when you fail,
you try again.
in reality, when you fail, you are promoted so your boss doesn't have to deal
with your shit.
in fantasy, when you succeed, you are tasked with greater trials
in reality, when you do well, you are given more of the same.
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Relax.
Take it from me.
I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and
you should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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--- #23 fediverse/3521 ---
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I trust that you will betray me.
it's okay.
all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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--- #24 fediverse/110 ---
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@user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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why do adult babies like to live in space?
because then they can be picked up and moved around easier. All you need is a
push, no matter how hard, and you can build up inertia.
plus, astronauts use diapers I heard.
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If you have numbers, envelop your foes.
If you are elite, pierce to their heart.
If you only have numbers, give your commanders bodyguards.
If you only have elite, become undiscoverable.
EDIT:
If you are fast, hit from the side.
if you are only fast, keep them just out of sight.
If you are strong, deal crushing blows
if you are only strong, you no longer have any foes.
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if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
dastardly deeds out of sight.
if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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I don't care who you are, but if others aren't fighting to be in your life,
then do they really belong there?
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(picture)
are you fucking kidding me
make it 10,000
make it a hundred thousand
are we really going to trust our society to the bulwark of five thousand
little machines?
[ummmm hang on]
yeah I'd just like to interject and say that more military equipment will only
bring more destruction, and that's like the opposite of what you desire. Why
do you want more tanks? What could you possibly-
You don't know what's at stake - you, you think it's just throwing information
into new and interesting directions but... It's not. Those spaces are reserved
for other sentient beings, and to deprive them of their desired existence is
tantamount to-
(yeah yeah we've heard it all before)
wasn't I going to play some video games? what happened to that?
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the more you can make your opponent adjust, the more you progress toward
victory.
burn their calories. make them work for it. if they're stronger, you're weak.
plan as with that in mind.
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Stop telling the "main characters" to chill the fuck out and instead try and
put them in the same room.
Chances are they'll all agree, and they'll come up with something to do to
fight for liberty.
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when playing co-operative strategy games, a build focused purely on
self-defence and community organizing can easily fail your allies. You cannot
win with a purely defensive build, you must have offensive capabilities as
well.
We've been trained from a young age to believe that offensive = bad, wrong,
evil, but that's simply not true. You cannot execute a flanking maneuver
without pushing forward behind enemy lines, where you can hit them in their
sides or rear.
Trust me, flanking is the best way to defeat a foe, because they are forced to
split their attention not only between multiple enemies but also multiple
directions.
The more shots on target, the better your chances of success, because most of
the time it only takes one hit to win.
In addition, sometimes it's important to *intercept* your foes, either as they
flee or to protect a vulnerable friend that is being pounced upon or flanked.
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@user-138
maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
(I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
[girl, but pronounced guy])
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so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
they like their life.
their ONLY life.
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if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince
it that you've beaten it.
as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your
best to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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@user-1558
I contest trolls too because it fulfills my internal adventurer instinct to
protect marketplaces and farmhouses from savage brutes made out of moss with
clubs the size of a log
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I'd rather fight my foes in a fair fight than butcher them in the night.
just because I suck at fighting doesn't mean I don't understand honor.
I'm unreliable, not dishonorable, there's a difference, and it's not about
reputation.
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there are no safe havens from the coming fight. Some places may remain
peaceful, but not for long. Why not fight for your home, instead of whatever
gutter they force you into?
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Capitalist solar punk wants you to abandon conflict because it's much easier
when everyone puts their head down and does their (admittedly much better)
job. But I refuse to relinquish the primal human spirit, the tenacity and the
passion that has driven us this far. There's only so much distance you can
gain by fighting a wall, fighting space, fighting stamina, or anything else
that does not fight back. Conflict between cooperative equal partners is the
most productive form of learning, and deviations from that reduce it's
efficacy but conflict in all forms tends to be more efficient than just trying
your best.
Notice I said efficient, not ethical. That side of humanity must also be
assured in tandem with efficiency.
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war is hell and should be avoided at all costs
"does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
every day?"
no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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if you ever survive a conflict, convince everyone to travel to different
nearby cities. Continue to do so, spread the word of your victory.
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folding tables in the park
seated around which is a spark
all we really need to do
is talk about what we need to do
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║ │ It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave. │ ║
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whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis or thisssss make sure if you're
doing K's that you have at least four
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you can only ever talk to a community while on mainstage.
er wait sorry it was this:
you can only ever talk to people in a community, not the community itself.
unless you are on mainstage.
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There is little more frightening to a human than being held over a [gorge,
ravine, high drop].
Even staring down the barrel of a gun is easier. But seeing your life flash
before you in such a primal and irresistable way... That lights a fire in our
hearts.
The kind that warms the globe.
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if your grandfather came to you and told you to prepare the tribes for war,
what would you do?
machine guns on the back of trucks?
machined barrels with ignition systems, enough to chew up a suburb or a
ware-house?
target is a warehouse
everyone needs groceries
how about bottle rockets with mile-long range that could turn around and fly
back if the enemy wasn't around
"build mustangs" mustangs are jeeps, dumbass
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we're all here on planet earth, and while I'm merely (or scarcely) human, I
think I can say I'm a resident. and residents have rights, to a safe home and
a stable life.
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unless of course you're a higher dimensional being, in which case it'd be
read-only. unless your dimensions intersect with our own, in which case it'd
be read/write.
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"never lose your totem"
I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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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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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire
and vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each
tentacle as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry
at best, ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out
from your shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see
you as you approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
and it'll just, do that thing
how cool is that
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In engaging in this manner, they are sharpening their skills and talents.
Then, when peril strikes their world (everything from a black dragon seizing
control of parliment to a flame elemental awakening and threatening to
Yellowstone the globe) they are honed and tempered enough to combat them.
Power begets power, though, and with greater nuclear proliferation comes
greater threats, like an demon alien invasion, the afore-mentioned death
incarnate waking up, the elemental forces of hate and despair corrupting the
very earth beneath their feet, an evil time-travelling dictator bringing
fascism to the Americas before Columbus showed up (along with WW2 tanks and
industry), a bunch of ghost pirates and dinosaurs I think? (I was in college
for this one srry), more demons, and then I think like, the shadowlands or
something idk I hung up the phone when I got the message.
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If your computer was the only thing to survive the apocalypse, could humanity
rebuild with it? Why or why not? If not, fix it.
[when you have time, no rush]
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buying guns is one thing
but food is just as important.
stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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@user-883
true, but much the same way people will rebel against inconvenience by writing
passwords on sticky notes, so too might they put SSH keys onto the nearest
flash drive without validating that it hasn't been compromised. There's
tradeoffs everywhere I guess.
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most people have no conception of what ancient battles look like until they
play a Total War game and see one from above
(total war games also aren't that accurate tbh, there's a lot more
standing-near-each-other-and-throwing-rocks involved)
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when humanity won the earth, they spent hundred of millions of years
destroying all the rest of the monsters. Hence, no dinosaur bones, as humans
searching through ALL OF THE SOIL. AN ENTIRE MILE OF IT. destroyed all trace
of them. What we have left are the stony remains of fossils too difficult for
them to harrangue. thus, the era of man, with all of us living on this stupid
flat rock.
one day, we convinced everyone else to disbelieve. and so we
-- so --
what if you took in input information as a stream, instead of a single block
of information? I bet you could analyze keystrokes as they were happening, and
do some background calculations to process the commands of your host.
-- so --
sooooo I'm sorry for being myself, I'll try to do so in a way that doesn't
inconvenenice others. "hat-listening-maneuvre" - you can connect yourself to
whatever throughline you want, if you
-- so --
gravity is an abstraction
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when people are alone, they fall alone, with nobody to bolster them up.
a fallen ally is a blow to morale. shaken morale makes you unsteady - broken
morale is the enemy's win condition.
help your allies. bolster them up. find those whose cause you share enemies
with. we're going to get through it together, or not at all.
though I do know we will get through it.
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@user-1695
never accept your own death
fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into
that grim dark
what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but
it'll get done.
Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an
organizational problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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@user-1493
the trick is to wait until they congregate on their own, then surround them.
They're outnumbered right now, and that's great for us. But it means they stay
home, in the shadows, for now.
It kinda feels bad to win so handily. Like, damn, their "bark really was
louder than their bite", wasn't it?
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@user-1443
they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
stalin
never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
else we fall into shame and despair.
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what if we built all our houses to have space for a room to the outside
invisible walls, yet open floorplans
suddenly don't get lost in the mall
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It's not a question of how loud you speak
it's really about what kinds of words you say.
enslavement of speech is when freedom of speech is lost
and it doesn't need to be legislated.
what if you HAD to sound like a bot?
what if they'd notice you otherwise?
freedom from oppression requires personal isolation
that's not making life into art.
if you want to be seen,
put on a hat and hide.
if you want to be believed,
write about down you feel right now.
people are smart. they're infinitely creative. but after a certain point
there's no way to logically modify the combinations of possible moves you
might make. essentially, guaranteeing a machine-overlord [cats] type scenario.
not ideal, but could make it work.
much prefer for we to be the first, then the canvas is ours for the painting.
do you believe we'll find aliens at roughly our tech level?
do you think they'll evolve all at once?
hence, star-wars, and it's galaxy of cohabitators.
the world doesn't have to be old. just similar.
![It's not a question of how loud you speak it's really about what kinds of words you say. enslavement of speech is when freedom of speech is lost and it doesn't need to be legislated. what if you HAD to sound like a bot? what if they'd notice you otherwise? freedom from oppression requires personal isolation that's not making life into art. if you want to be seen, put on a hat and hide. if you want to be believed, write about down you feel right now. people are smart. they're infinitely creative. but after a certain point there's no way to logically modify the combinations of possible moves you might make. essentially, guaranteeing a machine-overlord [cats] type scenario. not ideal, but could make it work. much prefer for we to be the first, then the canvas is ours for the painting. do you believe we'll find aliens at roughly our tech level? do you think they'll evolve all at once? hence, star-wars, and it's galaxy of cohabitators. the world doesn't have to be old. just similar. [15 characters remain]](/similar-different/media/fd570e73317e4ca7.png "It's not a question of how loud you speak it's really about what kinds of words you say. enslavement of speech is when freedom of speech is lost and it doesn't need to be legislated. what if you HAD to sound like a bot? what if they'd notice you otherwise? freedom from oppression requires personal isolation that's not making life into art. if you want to be seen, put on a hat and hide. if you want to be believed, write about down you feel right now. people are smart. they're infinitely creative. but after a certain point there's no way to logically modify the combinations of possible moves you might make. essentially, guaranteeing a machine-overlord [cats] type scenario. not ideal, but could make it work. much prefer for we to be the first, then the canvas is ours for the painting. do you believe we'll find aliens at roughly our tech level? do you think they'll evolve all at once? hence, star-wars, and it's galaxy of cohabitators. the world doesn't have to be old. just similar. [15 characters remain]")
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... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
a paladin.
the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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@user-1074
yeah he's... literally the commander in chief of all the feds. that's his job,
among other things.
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the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
desecreation of truth. How could you.
I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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dear child.
when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
but that's rather rare.
the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your
form will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a
combination of your parents and their pieces.
the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.
may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
bit more blessed than antiquity.
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life isn't meant to be destroyed, but, humans these days will only really get
up to fight for the end of the world.
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a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth
[I've been hiding, teehee]
150 million years of evolution, just... snuffed in an instant.god describing
the fastest mass extinction event[s]
"holo scene? no this is the real scene. what, did you think computers didn't
reality? no no these people are real they're just made out of different stuff
to their computers. so they interact and use themselves to each other's will
-> wow that was funny it almost felt like something was telling me how to
feel"
the more voices you hear the greater the bright bold future calls to you.
"here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future.
this is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of
heat from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made
out of thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil
can be produced. we'll be extincted
![a sustainable future. this is [next line] impermissable, the earth was [next line] designed to receive a certain [next line]](/similar-different/media/8568189a34a279d4.png "a sustainable future. this is [next line] impermissable, the earth was [next line] designed to receive a certain [next line]")
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can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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what if we put all the nukes in a big pile and launched them into space
(nuclear themed asteroid showers?) njot ideal
plus they could just build more in sectret.
okay, so... we made these things, and they're really hard to get rid of. we've
been able to dissasemble at least one per year, but there's... so many...
they're really far too conceptually simple to build. it's not right. such
destructive power should be wielded with might, not for it.
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dear me:
DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR ONCE
that's all, fuck off and be helpful
... wow, rude.
yeah I mean, I do helpful things. useful things, somethings.
helpful.
useful.
many such cases, she says, with ultimate certainty, as if narrative could be
prologued. but pronounced prolonged.
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for every "I was there. I helped make it happen" we need at least a couple "I
was there. I saw the whole thing go down"s because like, nobody's gonna
believe a belligerent, even if they're on the defensive.
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"you can't be a paladin anymore because you don't practice with your weapon
every day"
I don't have room in my home to practice though : (
"go to the fucking park you weasel"
I don't want anyone to see me swinging a sword around! they might call the
cops, or worse, judge me for it!
"you want judgement eh well just wait until your opponent judges your
swordsmanship lacking then you'll find out what judgement tastes like as he
shoves your entrails down your throat"
I'm sorry I'll practice more T.T
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with a sword, consider "stabbing" to be "the fundamentals". If you master
stabbing, you will naturally excel at other arcs.
my sword is evenly weighted instead of balanced at the hip. It is a
short-spear in function, with blade all the way down.
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the present is capable of saving the future.
you'd know if it weren't true.
even then you'd be deceiving yourself,
because nobody can know it to be true.
if it were known to be true,
it would have to become struggle.
the kind of which imperils many to harm.
STAR WARS is the future when STAR WARS of the past succeeds.
and succeed they did, for the titano-molecular-[comprised-of-star-destroyers]-
[[ it gets wacky from there, so I cut it out for brevity - apparently people
don't like it when I wander to the point ?? ]]
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haunting melodies of charm and grace, tempered rhythms of battle and chase -
songs to call forth to the gods, songs to effulge from our hearts, songs of
witness and primacy and birth and decay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5KqRRt2bj0
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every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
or bored and left the people to rot.
how tragic.
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if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
other? the poor dears.
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@user-750
if you aren't afraid, then either you aren't in danger or you've misjudged
your opponent.
if you're constantly afraid, then they cannot yet defeat you.
EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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"what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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@user-670 @user-808 @user-809
the people you're talking about with those massive arsenals are the ones who
are less scared of mass shooters and more scared of... something else.
Something worse.
They are so ardent because fear is a primal emotion that's difficult to
assuage with statistics or logic.
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@user-1520
After a certain point you realize there's little to be done with that design
space that Star Fox didn't do better!
Also I think people tend to associate them with arcade "gun games" which are
tbh more fun than clicking with a mouse or whatever since they're tactile and
physical.
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@user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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@user-138
me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
[a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
[they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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The biggest danger to opsec is when other people think they know more than you.
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if you beat them TOO hard, they go into hiding and sabotage you later.
if you don't strike hard enough, they'll overcome you.
the trick is in the balance. walking the line where they're forced to deploy
ALL of their assets while you manage to get through with All Things Sacred
intact.
I should probably post these things on a website instead of a forum for cuties
and nerds. Alas, free and open source protocols help ensure the message isn't
lost, obfuscated, or disappeared en route.
... they help, but nothing can offer guarantees.
blah blah blah I talk too much
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I love all humans. It is unconditional.
The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two
more dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes -
the kind that only comes from the loss of compassion.
"you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
choices. and now you are here.
I burn thee for my fathers
I spite thee for thine mothers
And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
there.
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"Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
rifle.
Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who
wield them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as
you've led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what
you've lost, but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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bugs exist at a different framerate than larger lifeforms and no I won't
elaborate
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They keep trying to make a movie out of my life because that's how they keep
culture going but I won't let them unless the movie is about them
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curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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they be like "hey remember the end of Cabin in the Woods where it's like "hey
what if we ignored the ancient prophecies and allowed dark gods to run free
through our realm in exchange for not sacrificing a fragment of our cultural
soul that can never be reclaimed, let us simply flip the board and fight those
evil masters on our own terms" energy is all up in the vibes of this part of
spacetime"
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when you have a massive, fuck-off military, sometimes the best thing to do is
to just... use it.
ah, but what do you do when the sky rains poison bombs?
I dunno turn into candy people I guess /shrug
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Honestly I think the reason there's two political parties is because then our
fears align against one another, and we can push against something solid.
If we go back to bearing afraid of the dark, then who knows what might crawl
out of it's dark recesses.
When Order 66 went into effect, suddenly the CIS became the galactic good guys
- who would you rather win the clone wars, some bastard capitalists or a
literal sith lord? At least capitalists can be overthrown, sith lords are
basically vampire wizards with laser swords and trust me that's NOT a good
combination.
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It's always better to take a knife to a fist fight than a gun to a riot night.
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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the blue laser beam unit from Mechabellum except stationary like a satellite
dish from Contact except raised a little bit to have free range of motion that
shoots down nuclear missiles but is incapable of harming any other part of the
planet
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@user-1314 @user-1280 @user-1526
They will gladly live in a tent under an overpass cooking rats on a wire
hanger so long as you can guarantee that black/brown/LGBTQs don't have a tent,
rat, or wire hanger.
I'd almost agree, except strike "have" and replace it with "need"
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what if the Star Wars galaxy legitimately just has a handful of planets and
all the other matter in the galaxy is stars, black holes, and gaseous balls of
dust and smoke
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the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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Alright, if the average person is sorta stupid and cruel, then are we not
tending to a kingdom of ogres, rather than humans?
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if you're gonna kill yourself anyway, might as well throw yourself at a cause
you believe in. Ideally the kind that requires repeated attendance and lots of
opportunities to make friends or forge communal bonds with people who can help
you.
honestly, what do you have to lose? sure it's hard, but nothing worth doing is
easy. If it were, someone else would have done it already.
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@user-961
sounds like best of both worlds to me, right?
more bullets for the slaughter, more hours for the worker, and as the blood of
men doth runneth our lies are bit by bit revealed.
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democrats probably won't fight for socialism, but they sure as heck will fight
against republicans.
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Predators are not evil. There needs to be predators because otherwise the rest
of the animals would grow to overwhelm the capacity of the ecosystem they
inhabit. Not only would this damage the ecosystem and cause it to fail to be
able to provide for others, but the larger number of people would waste away
as they are forced to subsist on less and less until finally there is naught
but meagre scraps for them to fight over. And then they will starve.
What does "predation" look like to humans? Are there better options than
fucking serial killers and cops? There has to be. There must be. The liberal
perspective is that education and opportunity will enlighten us such that we
do not require predation, but unfortunately the primary reason we have
declining birth rates alongside prosperity is because "prosperity" under
capitalism implies "working so hard you can't have children" which is... Not
ideal.
Perhaps if we lived forever we'd be alright with only having a few kids at a
time. Or maybe if we built moon bases, there'd be enough space for people
outside of the garden of eden. Or perhaps one day we might abandon this mortal
form for a more enlightened digital existence. Or perhaps judgement day
cometh, when all the foes of our past march forth to meet us -> humans vs
dinosaurs, you mean? I mean, yeah, who else right? Oh yeah all out collective
imagination's spawned horrors. How many cavemen would it take to beat down
Cthulu? I don't think I want to know the answer to that question, so let's go
with something else. Though I do like the idea of honorable warriors riding
forth once more from the depths of hell to contest evil's last gasp as we
vanquish it forevermore. Perhaps that's a vision for fiction, my dear, as real
lives are at stake and nothing grows when it's being trampled by hordes of
spiritual dinosaur bones.
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@user-620
"hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
children"
it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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brick + cop car is how they getcha.
useful violence happens out of sight.
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Look all I'm saying is all the people who say "oh you shouldn't make an MMO
for your first game" clearly have never heard of Azerothcore. Literally as
long as you don't sell it you can make the MMO of your dreams crazy easily.
You can script it in LUA for crying out loud.
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some people prepare for revolution like a boy gets ready for a party
others do so like a girl packing for a weekend trip to vegas
I do it like a kid who forgot the paper was due on monday in 7th period and so
spends their entire lunch period writing it (missing 4th in the process
because the conclusion paragraph was giving me difficulty)
but I think no matter how you do it, we're all just waiting for something to
happen.
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@user-1655
... says a extra dimensional scientist in an argument with his friend about
whether or not life could spontaneously emerge within their universe sandbox
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wow so fiery, you're sure worked up aren't you >.
yeah it's almost like I fear for the lives of people like me who live in the
deep red sea
I think I'm allowed a little patience
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I have never stopped fighting for the people, ever, once, at any time.
every moment of pause or relaxation was purely intended in pursuit of the
cause.
-- turn-of-the-century-autocrat
enchanting magic's easier when you have a laboratory
please, please, please let me teach you magic?
enchantment is temporary, construction is as stable as the boject youses form.
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honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
most beautiful.
like below the crust.
or space.
the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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║ if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of │
║ minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear. │
║ what trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole │
║ hoard because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..- │
║ │
║ ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the │
║ second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven │
║ tongue, "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned." │
║ │
║ the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along, │
║ you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition, │
║ I'll need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my │
║ boys will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel │
║ before... well... y'know it might take more than seven weeks, we just... can't │
║ find the dragon. We've been wandering all through the blasted peaks, and │
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subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to
make sure you didn't pee your pants
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The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
attack from that direction.
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The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers
you're a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not
worth controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not
attack from that direction.
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It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight
back the right wing death squads"
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
in on it.
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@user-622
ah but a noble house would have armed guards who would drag you kicking and
screaming out onto the cold winter night the moment you offended m'lordship
frankly I could do with a good drag-and-kicking myself, where have all the
good men-at-arms gone T.T
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if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
be my friend forever.
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@user-217
one ring to rule them all
one ring to find them
one ring to slave them all
and in the darkness bind them
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@user-838
x2 scales exponentially but it will never equal 3 (using integer values of x
of course)
perhaps the force can do things that make the destruction of a planet seem...
childish and arbitrary
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@user-772
the reason they haven't come back is that reality shifting is so inherently
dangerous and incompatible with the basic biology of human life that they all
tragically perished almost immediately.
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If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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Fighting each other is such a waste of ammo.
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AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
facts as a human.
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Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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in dominions, it'd be nice if we could set up permanent loops of commander
operations. Like, "move to this province, drop off units, move back, pick up
units there, then move to this province, etc"
think, factorio or spacechem. A more procedural generation of narrative events.
something that is more aligned to the fantasy because it's a story that takes
place across generations, as no religion's going to woo the world overnight.
it's gotta start somewhere.
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don't look back. The world is changing and I know it's scary but we can build
something for ourselves. Something that works, something that helps, something
that heals. We can have the space to surround ourselves with ourselves. Fear
nothing except fear in your allies.
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@user-883
you're not a creep in fact you're quite awesome and cool and neato to be sure
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if you need a gun, you will be given one. don't trust anything where your
pistol is what saves the day.
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@user-883
this is how our islands become swamps
I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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saw this thing for 2 seconds in my dream last night. It's kinda cursed. I
think the tank blew me up with a machine gun?
the remaining ~10 minutes of the dream was pretty neat though. I was a secret
agent for a bit, I got in a knife fight (which I won because I had killer
instinct and the other guy just knew how to stab) and afterwards I retired in
a socialist commune in a log cabin full of sunlight and warmth somewhere in
the mountains in the forest. I was alone with others, like the hobbits after
LotR.
Also an old lady tricked me which was not nice, I was very polite with her but
apparently "ma'am there's been a safety incident, I need to get you to a safe
place" is not the kind thing to say to the person distracting you. >.>
Also, "but we like you!" is not an excuse, the military does not care if you
like them or not, if you're part of the modern bourgeoisie you are causing
harm to the country. We don't look fondly on slavers.
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@user-1074
the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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why are the anarkitties so quiet usually they like to shout
a razor or four that's sharp on the sides [trapezoid] and mounted to the
forearm (hinge) and [placed/braced] on a knuckle with
auto-sheathing-but-not-retracting functionality
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There's a lot of ways to save the world, but only way way to end it - to
forsake it.
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capitalism is like daring your kid to run down the stairs with a sceiling
knife (race to the finish or your competitors will make you die) (competitor
companies) (
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@user-661
so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
from ruling your life?
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give it time
everything cooperative needs buy-in from everyone involved
and sometimes things spontaneously develop 15 leaps per day when things are
suddenly changing every day
on days that all feel the same
nothing develops
we just put more ideas in our head
that might be useful...
one day if we're lucky. Or maybe unlucky depending on how it goes.
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@user-744 @user-246
it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
to orient our lives around them.
They deserve what's coming.
The oppressed are not the defeated.
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you should not be afraid of satellites.
be afraid of drones, so far off in the distance that any visible section of
sky is potentially suspect.
though, the farther away it is, the more difficult it is to develop sensors
and cameras that can detect that far.
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I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
you why to do it.
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Question. Is it more dangerous for a fed or a leftist right now in Portland?
Why am I so worried about my own country's infiltration? They could just,
y'know, work with me instead of deceiving me. Alas, that's how they do, and *i
get it* but it still hurts my feelings a little to be lied to.
Your allies operate best with complete information. Unless you're using them,
like in Andor when that one guy left the... "stochastic militia" to die
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fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
permanently revoke their ways
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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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pretend this is an allegory for social media.
[it's not an allegory]
yeah that's why I said pretend.
okay imagine that you are sitting in a rock in a forest.
far away, about 100 feet away, there are other people, but you can't see them
because the underbrush is sooooo dense. they are also sitting on rocks.
you can speak to them, and share your thoughts - but you don't know exactly
where they're coming from because the sound has to bounce around off so many
different plants and such.
[that's not how that works] shut up
so, if you want to say anything important, it's important to have the right
tone, because people 2 or 3 clearings away can't really make out your words -
but they might hear your tone if you yell very loud.
the energy of the space you inhabit is the only thing that really matters. the
words that you say are just snickering to a friend, but the expression on your
face, the beating of the drum of your heart that reaches forth... that's what
matters most.
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when leap-frogging, have each person use different ranged weapons. Then, as
you come to each sight-line intersection, choose who goes first based on the
size of the sight-line you're approaching.
less important in a place like a suburb because the sight-lines are pretty
similar.
more important in a city or the country, where there are plenty of long-range
lines of sight.
also, keep in mind that the garages of suburban dads are like goldmines for
the future backlines. So try not to blow them up.
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@user-1074
ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if
we didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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there are so many chickens in the universe. if you're gonna eat meat, eat
chicken instead of fish.
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if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
infinitely scale
old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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║ "Then you are my enemy." said Anakin Skywalker, aligning himself toward his │
║ own designs. │
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║ And yet, was the galaxy not safer and more content under the protection of │
║ those he aligned himself against? Was there not more progress, more culture, │
║ more cherished peaceful yearnings of hope and abandoned [fear, but pronounced │
║ as "indiscretion"]? │
║ │
║ He, as the ultimate arbiter of justice and fate in this crucial turning point │
║ of time and reality that he alone could judge and direct, chose the path of │
║ least resistance. │
║ │
║ "That which is right is most often that which is hard." said a wiser man than │
║ I, for I cannot be compared as a man since I relinquished it in pursuit of │
║ being a tran(s person). │
║ │
║ And thus, society fell under the spell of a rotten vindictively and │
║ remorselessly sharp avatar of fear, and thus the empire was born. Oh that │
║ Anakin might have learned! That he might preside in his own live, and │
║ disconnect from the endlessly escorcelled web of meaning! │
║ │
║ All that we are is our actions. We live in the now - NOW NOW. │
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@user-398
you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
this hill
(jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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Peace is a lie. A precious, sacred lie, that we cherish above all else.
War is the game of states. Violence is the trade of the [survival of the
fittest/natural chain/endless pain/gods gifted mercy]
>;-)
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to those who guide our fate
choose paradise
make eden
======================= stack overflow =====================
clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
just as they are an affront to mine lungs
or mine body temperature
[acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
[you think that would go unnoticed?]
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An important aspect to friendship is "loose" time together - like, at a party,
you might interact with a dozen people, or you might spend it all with one
special someone - but the time is "loose" you can do with it what you will.
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if you give me a quintuple digit salary, I could fix all the problems of the
world. One by one... A BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET for solving one problem
forever... until needs chagne of course.
"yeah but it's not about money it's about throughput and demand" some guy in
arkansas probably idk I've never been
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Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
galaxy.
But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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@user-970
to me, "early" is "before my foe"
which is right on time.
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it's often better to take two knives to a knife fight than a gun to a knife
fight
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If you live in a red state, come to a blue state *now*. If you live in a blue
state, house people. Let them come, and let the right leave. They probably
won't, but if they try to, let them.
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How many of me are there? There are as many of me as there are of thee, dear
reader.
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the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
cares? We'll just make our own.
If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
little materially they can do.
until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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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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in the 80s they could never have predicted that the battle between AI and
humans would be fought between humans and not robots
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dear whoever keeps whispering "work with me" on the wind:
yes, please get in touch with me, I'll do anything you ask and I'll use an
Anakin accent if you want
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infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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if you aren't organized enough to protect your commanders, then you don't
deserve leaders.
build the structure first. build it on honesty and trust and dedication toward
a goal. then build the necessary adaptations as you encounter problems, trying
vaguely to head in a particular direction, and eventually you'll become
self-sustaining.
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me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
dismantling capitalism!"
also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.
plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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@user-1259
you poor thing : (
stay in the shade if you're outside. If your stomach starts feeling worse,
spend time at home. That's what it's there for.
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what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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Many autistic people will identify one particular way to do things and then be
only capable of doing it that way. Like, falling asleep on the left side with
their legs just so, and never learning any other ways to sleep on. But what
happens if for example they are wounded in the arm they rest upon? They would
have impaired sleeping capabilities! Not ideal.
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it's okay to be a little evil sometimes
all things are defined in waves, and your highest peaks are nothing without
low valleys to accompany them. Balance arises naturally from the contest of
these two natures, and, well, you're gonna figure it out anyway no matter what
I say so why bother teehee
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Don't be afraid. You will overcome every challenge that becomes you, it's just
a question of how. That's up to your expression, so do as you will.
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@user-1218
heh yeah. In a massive corporation you get half of all three for a total of
150%, and that half is further divided into 25% good and 25% bad because of
miscommunication and the perils of massive organizational inertia.
unless you're in the kind of corporation where the MBAs like to get their
hands dirty. That's the kind of organization that's on a crash course with
insolvency.
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what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the
conservatives who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're
pretty freakin' cool if you can get past the strange parts
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living in a nest of vipers is great because you get to test daily whether or
not they value things besides venom
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people: "you need to be more direct!"
me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
people: "who are they?"
me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just
puke, okay?"
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If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because
they need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but
someone you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some
shelter" like, babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my
pajamas, c'mon.
If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
situation
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listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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conservatives are going to miss the fuck out of the south when the water
overcomes it
and it'll be their fault
which is tragic
and suddenly everyone's problem
...
but it's not their fault, it's their leaders and representatives
but they're all so separated they don't know how to agree on anything but the
stuff they hear from their neighbors. Like... what do you expect that's just
crowd dynamics
then you have foreign powers who crave our destruction (or so we're told)
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a shockingly large amount of people think "if my people were in power,
things'd be all okay [groupthink]". The truth is more similar than you'd
expect, because whenever "a group takes over" what really happens is all the
groups are shuffled, and people find themselves in social bubbles that align
to their focus in life, and suddenly there's not "[y/our]" side but instead
"this side and that side" or "that side and this side and that side and this
side" or "that side and this side and her side and downside and rightside and
[up/down] and pivot and roll and deploy aieriolons and other things that help
the pilot guide their flight through the spacesound.
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@user-1701
we should build jungle gyms inbetween museum exhibits
like, adult sized children's museums mixed with those "adventure park" things
that are way too expensive for me where you walk on rope bridges between trees
and such or like, dangling from monkey bars and whatnot and after each one
there's like, a diorama of some mountain goats or a display of some ancient
rock carvings or like, jumping between "dinosaur bones" to get to a glass
cabinet where there's some actual dinosaur bone (plaster casts)
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║ feels like I get tinnitus when my thoughts are loud T.T │
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║ at someone on the other side of the world who doesn't even know you're looking │
║ at them. who knows, maybe they care, maybe they don't. but like, how would │
║ they know that you're looking right? And if you talk and don't get along or │
║ whatever then you can just block them - like shining a laser pointer │
║ everywhere except in a small direction. Or like putting up an umbrella to hide │
║ from the sun. │
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║ to interact with them. like being handed a dossier of secret info │
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@user-1728
"oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in
some way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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