ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
Define "converted".
That you start believing the tenets of their faith, if you don't already.
I think jihadis are generally gunning for a world where infidels are made to mouth along to Muslim prayers and follow shariah law;
Well, if I get to call a group evil based on what I think they want, there's even less reason to go easy on the environmentalists.
The goal is "everyone has converted", you are still mixing the how with the what.
I did say that all of this forced-conversion stuff was simply the cherry on top of much of shariah law already being evil,
You also said that "slavery to a supernatural being" is evil, and that straightforwardly condemns the entirety of Islam, and all the Abrahamic faiths. You tried to backtrack from that by shifting back to jihadist tactics again.
ArjinFerman
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3hr ago
Even among faiths whose teachings could be phrased this way
...who just so happen to cover vast swathes of the world population...
it is by no means a majority who hold that it is acceptable or desirable to force such submission at the point of a sword
We were talking about the goals themselves being evil, you shifted the goalposts to the means of achieving the goals.
How do you know that every Nazi / Jihadi signs on to the evil parts as well?
And anyway, insofar as "bringing humanity to the light of Allah" is ultimately a euphemism for "enslaving humanity to the tyrannical will of a supernatural being" I would consider that an evil aim in itself
That sounds like something only an evil person would say.
Also, in an attempt to prove that we shouldn't treat all environmentalists as evil, you just condemned not only every Muslim, but every religious person on the planet.
ArjinFerman
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5hr ago
Bringing humanity to the light of Allah, doesn't sound evil in and of itself to me, and even a good leftist will find lots to agree with even in the OG Nazi party platform. So I don't see a reason to allow this kind of picking and choosing for one, but not the other.
Even if you mean "nobody cares about that fine distinction for militant environmentalists", that is not true. ... but they can also in no way be said to be part of the same organization
Unless you specifically mean Ted Kaczynski, and not violent eco-activists generally, this is complete nonsense, and of course people think they're a part of the same movement.
The reason Kaczynski doesn't fit is that he was following a different set of ideas than environmentalism, not because he was violent.
Even the militancy is hardly relevant. Few people bother drawing distinctions between violent and not violent Nazis, or violent and non-violent Jihadis.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Sure, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is justified, because Ukraine retaliated by bombing Russian refineries.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
If your duty is to keep some sort of order in the world, this war is in it's active dereliction. If your duty is to be hegemon for the same of being hegemon, it's no different from "having fun".
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
The 2021-2024 option might have sounded more professional, at least when he showed up to work
Well yeah, this is about culture. I am not appalled by the civilian death toll, 170 is rather low for a major operation as far as these things go. Pete offends me aesthetically.
The perfect two-line summary of the entirety of pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump discourse, isn't it?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Feel free to ping any mod you've seen around recently, they're good sports about this stuff. I think I saw some @self_made_human poasting just now, can you help out?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Do all main posts need to be approved?
Yeah, all posts need to be manually approved by the mods, no matter how long you've been here, and how good your reputation is. Until then, it is visible only to you and the mods.
I haven't seen that before in an asteroids clone (maybe I just haven't played enough).
Yeah, this is based on the Alien Phobia series. Looking it up now I see that the flashlight there was more decoration than actual lighting, but I also like how it panned out, so definitely keeping that.
The one thing that strikes me though is that there's no easy at-a-glance visual cue of if a bug is dead or not; maybe the light cone should only highlight the living bugs instead of the dead ones?
Yeah, I'll be trying a few things out. Currently I'm just using open source sprite sheets, which are what they are. Originally I was thinking of adding high amounts of blood splatter, with the idea that the sudden change in the color palette will make things more obvious. I made a few attempts with AI, but it seems it has trouble understanding the assignment, so I left it as it is until I get around to improving the graphics. Other than that, I can make the corpses a bit darker when they're drawn into the background texture.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Not really. Basically there are two neoliberalisms:
- Alexander Rüsotw's attempt to rejuvenate the classical liberal movement in the wake of the growing popularity of state intervention during the Great Depression
- The leftists definitionless boogeyman, that anything bad can be attributed to, but which, if anything, has been used to describe the policies following the fall of Keynesianism, not it's emergence.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Somehow the idea for hijacking the spatial sorting mechanism for handling dead mosnters got hyped up in my mind as something relatively complicated... I ended up solving it with a few lines of code. The bugs are no longer blocked by their comrade's corpses.
I also changed the controls a bit. Originally, following the now-ancient game this is based on, they were keboard only, with no strafing. I actually remember running into a forum where people said they prefer these controls, but between it being unintuitive for anyone coming from a modern context, and accuracy issues (hard to aim over long distances with just they keyboard, as even a single keypress often overshoots the target), I changed it to standard mouse+keyboard controls.
Coming up next: bug clean up. Now that the dead critters are conveniently sorted in the spatial index, it should be easy to remove them so they can respawn, and to count them for the player's score. I'd also like to draw them into the background texture, so they keep accumulating, rather than just disappearing.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
You claimed "without mandatory ID verification",
I think that meant a government issued ID document, not the act of identifying.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Sorry, "don't kill Iranians, that's our job", then.
Have fun playing hegemon, but this war is insane, and nothing good will come of it.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Khomeini's government had been warned repeatedly that there would be consequences if they started shooting protestors or continued to threaten international trade.
It would be a bit easier to believe any of this was done out of care for Iranian lives if you weren't bombing their desalination plants and turning their country into a hellscape.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Trump has been talking about fucking up Iran since the days of the Embassy Hostage Crisis
Both Trump and Vance explicitly ran as anti-war-with-Iran.
So, as long as the money is collectively raised in any way, it's artificial? I'm just trying to determine the actual boundaries of your definition of artificial.
Not "in any way", you can have fundraisers and whatnot. But taking tax money to fund the indoctrination of people and their children, into values they consider hostile, sounds pretty artificial to me. It's not even necessarily bad, per se. I support various forms of tax-funded indoctrination, but remember that the conversation was about how anti-wokeness stems only from "repression", I'm pointing out the repression it takes to promote wokeness to begin with.
No. I do think 10x less than that will still be disliked by those who want to dislike it. Hell, 100x less than that.
If the flags were just put up by local cafe's and the like, I might dislike it, but it would hardly bother me.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
What's "artificially propped up"?
It's all the money that goes into all the orgs that put up all these flags, organize all the marches, etc.
In the case of a manager of a small coffee shop
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
The Russian translator from the linked example could speak English and listen to what English speakers say and mean.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Well, hold on, teenagers shouldn't be taken seriously, but it's hardly because they express lizardmen opinions.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
You don't need tradbasdness to not have rainbow flags, you need progwokenwss to have them. Even in the west, with people sympathetic to wokeness, the amount of in your face symbolism would go down by 10x, if it wasn't artificially propped up, simply because people have better shit to do.
Not sure if this counts, but I can't get over the fact that Hollywood wordcells, notorious for their poor understanding of science and technology, somehow ended up being right about how computers (will) work:
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