Fruck
Lacks all conviction
Fruck is just this guy, you know?
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Fruck
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5mo ago
Ah, maybe I was thinking of times back on reddit but I recall seeing administrative errors and reversed mod actions used to calculate the merit to trouble ratio so I assumed it didn't clarify.
I think the rest of my argument still makes sense, a warning is not just a warning. Nothing is just what it is.
Fruck
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5mo ago
I found a neat idea a few weeks ago that has now entered my roster of 'gift ideas for people I know but not well enough to get something explicitly personal' - double walled mugs with pressed flowers inside the walls. https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/ashdene-wildflowers-forest-double-walled-glass-mug-09314689238472 I also plan on inflicting otamatones on all of friends with small children - they're affordable, interesting, cute and not so annoying as to cause drama.
Fruck
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5mo ago
Of course it is necessary to enforce the rules despite negative consequences. But man that's shortcut thinking regarding warnings - a warning is not just a warning, it is also used to determine the severity of future punishment. In practice unless you guys are familiar with the poster you usually just add infractions and aaqcs together to determine the poster's merit to trouble ratio. And the system doesn't distinguish between types of warnings like "bad formatting" vs "being a shithead on purpose" - even if a poster successfully gets a mod action reversed it is still counted against them the next time they transgress. That is the reality of mod actions as it is internalised by both the users and the mods - as you can see when someone gets a long ban, their recorded actions are weighed and listed to justify the severity.
It would be unreasonable to expect you guys to go through all of a user's history before modding them, especially since you usually do a great job with the system as it is, and I understand the boundaries are in place for a reason and a heavy hand is necessary when the heat gets too high, but with ops I'm just saying I think you should go for a lighter touch if someone tries something different and there's no apparent culture warring.
Fruck
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5mo ago
I really don't think a ban is warranted. I mean, I don't think a warning is warranted either, but a ban would be outrageous. Nwallins is mostly a very good poster, he said the post was an experiment and he wasn't sure if it would interest others the way it interested him, I think you would have gotten the point across if you had only posted your last sentence and nothing else. And then you wouldn't be further increasing the negative opportunity cost of posting an op to the thread.
Fruck
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5mo ago
I'd be happy enough to use a genie, but it is an interesting thought experiment so I started considering how you'd go about it - and instantly realised we already have an example - The West. The US has controlled the culture of the West for the past century, particularly through television and music, and the rest of the west has been becoming more American as a result. That's why everywhere in the west outside of the US has a national media arm producing local content - without it their national myths and memes get replaced with those of the dominant culture (which is also why those media organs have channels or carve outs for their native populations).
Fruck
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5mo ago
Lol that is similar to how I described that merge to my ma, I said they were putting America before politics. I was adding another reason that framework isn't particularly useful - it depends on your perspective aligning with the speaker's.
Fruck
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5mo ago
Thank you for quoting it, I know it's distasteful but I think it's necessary to maintain coherence and trust.
Fruck
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5mo ago
It's a fantasy scenario for sure, but Arjin's point is sound - hell I'd say he doesn't go far enough. They don't get the economy or something else, they can have everything else - the economy, the administration, the military, healthcare, the media, education - if someone else controls culture you are going to be swimming up a waterfall.
Fruck
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6mo ago
I would say American society has moved right in some ways, leftward in others. It's not that useful of a framework for understanding society even by meme standards, imho
It partly depends on personal perspective too. If you are left you might see Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr joining Trump as proof they shifted right, whereas if you are right leaning you might see it as Trump moving the party left. Who is correct?
Fruck
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6mo ago
Perhaps I'll add, why didn't democrats rig the 2024 election given that nobody suffered consequences for rigging the election in 2020?
Imagine you put a puppet in as president, knowing that he was controllable due to ill health and that your control of mass media could hide and lie about any visible instances of his declining health, which doctors assured you was bad, but currently easy to hide. Imagine that due to circumstances outside your control his condition deteriorates faster than you expect and can manage, such that after a disastrous debate performance (perhaps sabotaged by an alternative faction in your party) power players in your organisation begin publicly demanding he step down. If he steps down however, you will have to return a bunch of money you've already spent and start a brand new presidential campaign 100 days out from the election. Due to your financial situation and because all of the highly ambitious possible alternatives refuse, you have to run a person nobody thinks can win.
Wouldn't you cede that election and put your effort in preparing for the next one? You still have to campaign as hard as possible for the people downticket, but you aren't going to pull out all the tricks to win the presidency. Especially not when your opponents are watching like hawks.
Note in this hypothetical you are the party leaders, I don't mean to imply anything about the average democrat supporter, who I believe aren't especially motivated by harming the outgroup.
Fruck
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6mo ago
When you decide you are more important than your stories - usually because a bunch of people are telling you that - you inevitably start avoiding and being avoided by the people who put the story first (they don't like you because they can't trust you) and self ghetto with the other self obsessed, who will help you prop yourself up in exchange for the same. Then you have basically turned your news outfits into a distributed soap opera where you and your friends generate stories for people that may also mention current events.
All media becomes incestuous when it becomes self obsessed, and all media eventually becomes self obsessed. But these motherfuckers started off that way.
Fruck
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6mo ago
Pick your poison? Between letting supporters of the Democratic party pick a nomination for president and then dealing with the challenges that arise, or predicting the challenges you expect, doing a cost benefit analysis and then deciding to coronate a drunk because you literally have no choice after the cognitive decline of the guy you have been claiming is sharper than ever becomes so apparent that gaslighting no longer works, as a result forcing your supporters to spend the next hundred days claiming things like her inability to give candid interviews/string three unrehearsed sentences together isn't a deal breaker when you already know it is then using every event that occurs to justify your decision because you claim to be data driven as you poison the data with more lies, which means you have actually just been wish casting this entire time?
One of those isn't poison, it's medicine.
Fruck
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6mo ago
I don't know about the military claim, but I base my belief in that canard on my own perspective. I knew people as a youth who became cops and they were people who abused power in their teens and went on to abuse power as police. I have daydreamed about being an anti-hero, doing bad things for justice, could I resist the temptation to live out those fantasies if I was in a position to actualise them? I believe I could, I have been tested and stayed strong in the past. And I believe I could the second time and the third and fourth and so on for a while, but the 2054th time? The 20,743rd time? I like to think I would. I don't have that faith in anyone else on this planet however.
Beyond that though, we live in the era of justification. Everything can be justified if you widen or narrow your focus a bit! Principles are for contemptuous chumps and losers who are coping about their failure to win by any means necessary. The DNC came out and said they spent the entire campaign period lying to their supporters and the public in general, telling them they were winning when that was never true and people aren't mad at them for lying, they are mad at Joe Rogan for believing in dragons. That's for the highest office in the land and you think cops are going to be more honest? I'd guess nybbler was wrong saying it was a lot of people joining for power, but it definitely happens more than it should.
Fruck
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6mo ago
I can't be spending time listening to that, but I have seen conservatives bitching about it on x - do they really admit internal polling never showed Harris could win?
Fruck
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6mo ago
Both were claimed entirely impossible. I'm not saying Trump can do no wrong, I'm saying actions that are impossible for the blue tribe are not necessarily impossible for the red tribe and vice versa. Also activist media claim the possible is impossible when it impedes their agenda.
Fruck
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6mo ago
Apologies, please bear with me while I readjust to the motte's language norms. He was acquitted following his first impeachment is what I meant.
Fruck
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6mo ago
Lol I had an inkling that might be what your username was about, but I wasn't sure. I've definitely gotten value from your posts though, if it helps. What would you tell that person was God's duty if not to bear our sin?
Fruck
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6mo ago
What else is there to say except "we shall see"? I would note that everything you quoted before Yarvin is well known to Musk and Trump and has been discussed at length, and was a large part of project 2025 - they do have plans to deal with an entrenched and uncooperative bureaucracy.
As for what Yarvin said, I just think it's premature to laugh off Trump's plans before he's even in office, mainly because he won the election, secured funding for the border, escaped impeachment, pulled out of the Paris accords, met with North Korea, put an embassy in Jerusalem - my most consistent recurring memory of the 2016 cycle is "Hahahaha Trump is such a fucking moron, can you believe this chump? He can't just... Oh holy shit he did it!"
Fruck
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6mo ago
Sarcastic guns n glory American exceptionalism is kind of transparent man. I liked where you took it though.
Fruck
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6mo ago
Fruck
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6mo ago
So, back to the original wording, critical theory pattern matches really well into "all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, so continue sinning because God can take it- that's the duty of the all-powerful, isn't it?".
How would you respond to that question?
Fruck
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6mo ago
Vampire survivors and co? Juice Galaxy was my first thought, but that barrel of lunacy is free already.
Fruck
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6mo ago
It's not about the individual characters or elements though, it's about the philosophy behind them. The idea of having a character in a wheelchair in your fps about elite spec ops units is bugnuts retarded and can only come from a brain warped by a perverse concept of inclusivity. World war 2 was not won by girlbosses and jamming one in your game immediately demonstrates a fealty to diversity over anything else like pleasing your fans or historical accuracy.
But yes, the justification used to do all that was easy money. It was an overly simplistic perspective that equated to cooking the golden goose to smuggle in the progressive agenda, but that was the justification.
Fruck
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6mo ago
I have noticed that with a lot of games with publishers, I assume it's a lack of communication. Square Enix are particularly odd about it - a game like actraiser renaissance or trials of mana you can get on android for $15 cheaper than steam, but the ff pixel remasters cost the same on both platforms and then you get paranormasight, which is more expensive on android than steam.
I grabbed a copy of dune on android, it seems like a straight port so why not?
I think they meant to reference this https://tenor.com/bj47U.gif In the yeschad.jpg style to humorously say you shouldn't jump to conclusions, because they thought you were jumping to conclusions. Their mistakes were map instead of mat and confusing interpretation with jumping to conclusions.
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