Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
You don't need to look at Groypers for this.
I'm going to blatantly shill for a youtube channel I'm rather fond of; Effective Purpose, whom if I had to describe to other people, I'd say he was a Married, Christian Hoe Math.
I'm not joking.
The thing I find most interesting about him is that, despite his professed Christianity(and he certainly comes across as spiritual, though I suppose that could be my bias in action), he does not spare the rod nor spoil the child when it comes to criticism of things he finds need to be criticized; From the Church itself, to Church leadership, to women, and even Christian Women as a whole, noting that the entire 'TradCath' path toward acquiring a woman is just another pig and poke due to various reasons(which he then goes into).
He's done a video about what you talk about; How other things in the past(and in the current day), men will flock to the church in times of trouble and promptly leave for various reasons(see above).
So. Perhaps I'm a bit of a pessimist, but I don't see any influx of Groypers to have any long-term influence. If anything, the real danger will be excactly that; they move into the church, find the above, and then promptly move onto something that will satisfy thier need without any sense of restraint or stricture.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Ah! I see what you're referring to. I've heard that argument before, and while it works on paper(and certainly sounds nice), it seems as if most current relationships nowadays rely on men being successful and bringing in value before they can occur.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
I don't disagree. If anything, I feel that this developed habit of women 'waiting at the finish line' is contributing to some of the bitterness men are feeling toward woman who demonstrate this.
Sadly, I have no utter clue as to how one could even go about correcting this, so I can only focus on the one element that could be fixed - IE, making men more successful, earlier.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
You're never going to find a single Golden Ticket solution to the TFR question(because, ultimately, there is no single golden ticket solution to TFR), but economic conditions allowing for succesful, established men relatively early in life so they can support a family is atleast a very strong factor in play here.
The hidden question here that few people ask; If men as a whole were richer and more established, would women quietly choose to be stay-at-home-moms or instead go for the go-girl-business-boss path? We really don't know.
On the other hand, we should still probably want for successful, established men early in life, because even if a good chunk of women still go for the go-girl-business-boss path, the stay-at-home-moms may very well make up for the slack if they're churning out 3 to 4 kids at a time.
relationshiplessness of zoomers contradicts the "purely economic factors" explanation.
I can't see how you reach this conclusion. If anything, going by current economic conditions, it blatantly supports it.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
I admittedly have never heard of Kreia described as a 'Mary Sue'.
I've heard of alot of people dislike her, but never call her a Mary Sue.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
The reason I bring that game up is because Knights of the Old Republic 1 and Knights of the Old Republic 2 both set out to subvert and deconstruct Star Wars respectively in a way that was not destructive, and years before the Disney Triology ever came to fruition.
While people universally hold KOTOR1 is one of the best Star Wars games ever made(as well they should), KOTOR2 is much more devisive. For one, there's a severe tonal shift - while KOTOR1 is a galaxy-spanning pulp science fantasy in the theme of the original trilogy, KOTOR2 is much more darker and philosophical, to the point where the opening level is taken straight out of a horror game.
KOTOR2 also brings to the fore the potential consequences of the Jedi and Sith conflict, in the wake of such a cataclysmic, planet-destroying war, openly questioning on wether such organizations and individuals are good things overall, and the nature of the Force as a whole.
And it does all of this while managing to somehow not take a steaming shit over the setting itself or insult the fandom, while never giving you a clear or concise answer as to what the game thinks is correct. I'd argue it's a masterpeice of writing, for all the balancing act it plays.
Doesn't hurt that it has one of the best video game characters ever created in the form of Kreia, but the KOTOR series is littered with incredible characters.
Personally, I like KOTOR2 far more than KOTOR1, myself. There's just something about it...
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
You haven't played Knights of the Old Republic 2, have you?
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Most of the people on youtube I watch are already having to supplement their income via ads they willingly insert into their videos. Or setup patreons, or advertise for off-youtube streaming sites(because youtube is a censoring hell that would make Orwell blush), or...
So no, I'm not giving youtube access to my hardware and internet to force their advertising on me. If I want to support the people I watch on youtube, I'll do so directly.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Fallacious logic. There have been plenty of conspiracies that have held up to scrutiny with no one whistle-blowing, despite the likely large number of personelle involved.
MK-Ultra, for example, is only know due to a filing mishap that meant not all the paperwork on said project was successfully destroyed.
More recently, we've learned of 275 plain-clothes FBI agents amoung the January 6 crowd - not a single whistleblower.
Conspiracies can work just fine, it seems.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Okay, this is where I admit my historical shortfall and getting a few forts mixed up; The fort I was thinking of was Fort Pike, which I had somehow thought was the fort along the Mississippi River. It's not; those forts are instead Jackson and St Philip. In contrast, those two saw one hell of a battle; whereas Fort Pike was taken without a shot.
I had also forgotten how soon New Orleans fell during the Civil War; I could have inexplicably thought it was taken much later.
So! There's a solid argument that Fort Pike wasn't that critical, disqualifying it.
If so, I'd probably pick Vicksburg, which saw... comparatively small causalities and was basically the last Confederate hold-out on the Mississippi.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Anything by Peter F Hamilton, really.
Hell, his first trilogy basically starts off with an artificially-engineered psychic British detective hooking up with a hot, stacked redhead and then going off to have adventures employed by a British megacorp in a post-global warming apocalyptic Briton.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Modern society as a whole could never stand treating Indians and Muslims the way Germans were treated before and during WW1.
Then again, when you start looking at ancestry, there's a solid argument to be made that America is more German than English. (English comes in third, with Irish in second.) History is weird.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
You'd have to define what counts as 'front line', however.
Or else you'd just have people(like me) who'd play with the definition. Do defensive emplacements count? Cause I can think of places in the civil war that were both tactically critical, staffed the entire length of the war, yet saw very little combat.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
Less a movie and more a television series, but I can bet a decade or so from now, people are going to be writing sociological essays on the development of the Star Trek.
You could probably do that now anyways, but given how dark and bleak the latest stuff has gotten(or so I've been told), yeesh...
Grant_us_eyes
24d ago
What concerns me is the cultural message sent.
And you're ignoring shared social norms.
I'll be the first person to admit I think people need to get punched in the face more, or atleast know what physical combat, be it fisticuffs or whatnot, actually feels like and be capable of such.
That said, one of the first things my dojo drilled in my head, with the potential for sparring against people that might not even be able to speak the same language I have, is, when disengaging from sparring, always step back. The answer should be pretty obvious - you're keyed up, blood pumping, riding an adrenaline high, and stepping into someone's space is basically an aggressive maneuver that could result in a broken nose without them even intending to do so.
Reflexes are a hell of a drug.
So. Mutual combat? Fine. But it has to be ritualized, it needs to be strict, and it needs to be understood, by both parties, there are lines you do not cross.
And we definitely don't have that, and likely will never have that, given the current social situation in America as a whole.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
A very interesting review/analysis. Thank you.
I also find it interesting that Indie games are leaning more and more heavily toward sound design and implied, environmental story-telling to push forward immersion and investment in the game as a whole. Your description of Hollow Knight reminds me quite a great deal of Vintage Story, which despite being a procedural minecraft-origin game leans very heavily into both sound design, music fade-in/out, and implied environmental story-telling to piece together an overall tale - one that you, in the theme of Darksouls-like game, can completely ignore in favor of just killing things and building.
I can't say I find this development overall to be disagreeable. I always did enjoy the Elder Scrolls take on such.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
I can't read the article at the moment, as my work doesn't allow for archive links.
But going by forum commentary, this article is about what I expected.
The bitterly ironic thing is, I, as someone who's rather vociferous about 'stand your ground' and 'A man's home is his castle' and the use of firearms for defensive shooting - even then, I can think of atleast one instance that could be argued as a valid, bad shot that was ruled as 'legal'. And, I'm sure, if one did actual research, could come up with far more applicable instances than this circus cavalcade of examples.
(For illustration purposes, the case in particular I'm thinking of was the situation in Texas where the Mother and Step-dad refused to hand over a shared child to the Father(the father in question did have shared rights), and the Step-father shot him as a result. The step-father was ruled not guilty. While I'm sure the plethora of lawyers on the Motte could 'Um, ACTUALLY' the case in question, from a contextual, moral, and ethical standpoint, I have no problem pointing at that situation and noting 'Nope, that shit is fucked up.')
Grant_us_eyes
29d ago
And every time that gate became easier to hop over, things got worse and worse.
Yes, as I said.
If you're asking for where the apex was... man, I don't know. I couldn't tell you. Probably in some nebulous, fuzzy area between 1996-2004 where things still looked optimistic and before we saw the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train loaded with caustic chemicals.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
These things don't last because they aren't good for the majority of people.
Bingo. The 'Golden Age of the Internet' was the golden age specifically because it was self-selecting and gatekept behind one really big fucking gate.
And every time that gate became easier to hop over, things got worse and worse.
The internet is fine. The real issue is that the majority of people are fucking retarded, and so that's what everything gets marketed to.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
I saw someone remark 'You're able to pull all-nighters in college because that's when you should be having children' and that line as stuck in me like a thorn.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
There's a... I don't want to say 'reputation,' and I don't have a series of studies to point at either, so I'll just say a [reputation] of rising politicians who go from thriving in lower-level politics to tripping at higher levels because they go from being big fish in small ponds to working in an ocean of interests that aren't so easily corralled.
...isn't this just the Peter Principle as applied to politics?
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Perhaps, yes. But Darwin's argumentative style was fairly distinct in that he operated in isolation, stripping everything of context and focusing on single and individual elements and proceed to wear the argument down until you more or less gave up while refusing to concede ground on what he choose to argue about.
Hence why I don't think it's a Darwin alt.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Giving everyone involved credit where credit is due, Darwin was never banned so doesn't need an alt if he wants to come back in and Just Start Asking Questions again.
Instead, they come across as a sort of 'Why aren't you getting back in the longhouse' style of moral harassments that's honestly aghast as to why thier decades-old tactics aren't functioning properly anymore.
You could look at his videos he's done on this topic, if you care to.
I don't think he's advocating any single golden ticket solution(wise, as I belive there is none), but I think he does a valuable service of pointing out where male leadership is failing at leading men.
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