Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1hr ago
It's funny. I've interacted and lived with alot of dogs, and I've never seen them do what people(and google) apparently consider common.
Also, I think people over-rely on spay and neutering to correct bad behavior. It really doesn't. The most aggressive and protective dog I've seen was nuetered due to being cryptorchid.
Grant_us_eyes
5hr ago
Part of the issue is, I feel, they've never really interacted with people that good. What they instead get is a long-line of nepo-hires that are minimally competent at their jobs and they extrapolate the assumption that everyone else is actually like that. I struggle to blame them, having had to deal with similar myself; When you have the goddamn Chief Financial Officer of a company loosing thier mind over why one months business is different from the previous about a product that is seasonal... well. When you keep stumbling across cases like that, it's easy enough to assume that people that are successful got thier through abusing/taking advantage of others or simply by being lucky.
It's kind of like situations where people try to downplay the role of leadership in a company/group, and that's mostly due to constantly stumbling across really bad leaders. But from personal experience, really good leaders can make things that should have broken long ago function really, really well.
So while I don't agree with them, I think I can understand where they're coming from.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Well, that's the problem. See, Jason is acting very sane, rational, and moral for the circumstance he's currently enmeshed in. IMO.
People like to play up the entire 'Rambo in a sandbox' aspect of Farcry 3 while ignoring the big driving part of Jason's actions is to save his friends from horrible things. Now, it's been a while since I've played Farcry 3, and maybe you could argue that this shifts when Jason gets to the second island and they could have skedaddled after he
There's this trend in video games as of recent that started with Bioshock. Writers have become far, far too enamoured with being clever and leaning heavily on video game mechanics and tropes in order to tell a story. It worked in Bioshock, but after that it always just kind of falls flat. People seem to really want to play up the idea that the 'charachter' or 'player' is just doing things because the pretty/cute/appealing/charismatic NPC is telling them to do it without any thought or reason beyond 'video game'. I even see this in relatively recent games; while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and dealing with the entire Songbird/President Meyer bullshit, I get an earful of Silverhand going on about how 'They're just using you!', and just once I'd love to have your charachter turn around and go 'No shit, sherlock, did you just now figure this out? Cause, guess what, I'm using them to get what I want! This is a mutally abusive relationship, if you haven't noticed, and thanks for fucking reminding me!'
Ahem.
The 'bad end' just feels like a scolding from the Game Devs with no real meat on it. If you want to paint the player character as a monster, go all the way, don't just pussy-foot around the matter and then have him get
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
I still prefer Farcry 4, though. Even if the DLCs did kind of ruin Pagan Min. A little.
But, yes, Farcry 3 is definitely in it's own category for what can only be termed as unreliable narrator. There's a big, open question as to whether or not the game is one drug-fuled hallucination or there is actually some mystical bullshit going on. You can argue in both directions, and the game never really gives you a definite answer.
Count me among those that feels like the Bad Ending is severely lack-luster, though. A part of me can't help but wonder if the writers couldn't quite seal the deal on the type of story they wanted to show and just had to wuss out
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
The second definition on Urban Dictionary is in-line with how I've seen the term used up until now;
Absolute nonsense. Equivalent to a cat walking on a keyboard, but from people who spend much time thinking about how smart they are their brain melted.
Why do wordcels win head to head fights with shape rotators? Shape rotators spend 90% of their time rotating shapes and only 10% wordcelling; wordcels wordcel 24x7. Asymmetric warfare, outcome predetermined. -Marc Andresson
You're using the first, which I've never seen applied as such. Until now. So.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
John Michael Godier did a video on this(and a good collection of study links). He not only offers a potential solution(nuclear testing), but also points out independant comfirmation of the VASCO study. Amoung other interesting tidbits.
That said, imo, it's never aliens.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
I find it telling that I took one look at that goddamn painting and immediately labeled it as Bauhaus.
So I checked the painter.
He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany.
Well.
My words to describe anything derived or inspired by Bauhaus are not fit for this forum. Considering it a good painting is quite the take, I will agree.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
As someone whom writes for pleasure, I find deep offense at trying to associate the term 'wordcels' with writers.
Checking my urban dictionary shows that one of the definitions already does this, and I fucking hate it.
The second, atleast, is what I typically associate the term 'wordcel' with.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
The amount of privlege the courts give women at times is absolutely insane.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
This is disingenuous. The reason that people are point out Diana's VA is due to earlier crash outs in the VA community that basically boiled down to 'only VAs of the same ethnicity can reprise characters of color.'
And before you say, 'It's just twitter', this did have real-world repercussions, from the Simpsons getting rid of Apu's VA and the newest Avatar movie going out of their way to find a blind VA to play Toph as opposed to getting their old VAs.
They're pointing out the hypocrisy, but people having the attention span of gold fish, it just whooshes over thier head.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
I'm not going to say 'just fucking google it', but it's enough of a minor trend for compilation videos to get thrown together.
I recall someone saying on twitter that the easiest way to solve the birthrate issue is to just have women legally obligated to hold a baby for thirty minutes once every month. They might be on to something...
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
...well. Alright, then. That certainly has a degree of hilarity to it, I will confess.
Thank you for the summery.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
...okay, now I'm morbidly curious. I'm just not sure if I want to slog through 7 books of reddit to get to it.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
My point is that these are good men, intelligent and introspective men. They know how to read the room. Yet, they are often blind to their own blessings, and quick to discount them.
Can confirm. The lone married friend amoung my group has tried to give me dating advice in the past, not realizing that the things that worked for him certainly aren't going to work for me. Or even offered to play wingman, not realizing that he'd be a horrible wingman.
It basically boils down to typical-minded fallacy. Alot of people - everyone, really - don't initially grasp that other people don't think/work/experience things like they do. It's not nessecarily a bad thing, or coming from a bad place, but it's something to keep in mind.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
Also female dating is and has never been grounded in cultivation of resources and positive traits. I find a lot of women get this wrong and are surprised in a kind of female nice-guy-ism, like I read about a female doctor that expected to be a hot commodity but was then surprised most men cared about looks, agreeableness, etc. over her career and that all her hard work didn't make her good prospect.
They think this because it's what woman want in a man, so they assume the same in reverse. It's a blunt example of how woman and men think differently in various areas.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
No, no, it's a fair thing to point out. I'm well aware that there's a host of peptides that basically attack different receptors that regulate how the body responds to hunger, but I'll also be the first to point out that I'm not the most knowledgeable about the specifics.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
I mean, I've been singing semaglutide's praises for a long while by now.
Oddly enough, I never noticed any lessening of addictive habits/desires, but I think I'm just a bit of an odd duck in that regard, given how many benefits I get out of taking it.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
And here I thought I was the only one who noticed that in Star Trek.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
I think they're fairly boring, meself.
The only one I was able to really sink my teeth into was Excession, and that's primarily due to how it focuses on the various Minds and the squabbles/conversations/complaints they get into dealing with one another and various Culture citizens.
Mind, part of the issue might be due to Banks falling into the typical habit alot of sci-fi writers do and making their protagonists/'human' charachters so goddamn unlikable. It's like there's a school of writing who think that 'cantankerous bitch' is somehow an interesting character.
Okay, maybe I'm being a little bit unfair, but it wouldn't stick with me so much if I didn't see so many writers doing it.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
For me, hands down, Myst Uru.
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
That's the secret.
You don't.
Seriously, some of the best moments when writing has occurred when some character promptly does something that makes perfect sense in-character, but utterly derails my plans.
Then again, I suppose if you're an actual professional, this might be more than a bit annoying. ... Conversely, I know of atleast one writer that wrote of his kitchy slop just to get it on paper and out of the way with no intent on publishing only to have his fans go 'I really want to see!' and turned it into a multi-novel series. So...
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
Reminds me when I was in communication with customer support in regards to a software suite with a question of 'Can I do this thing?' and the reply being 'You cannot.'
...the very next day, I figured out how to do said thing in said system.
I guess LLMs have advanced to the point they include artificial stupidity and ignorance, as well.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
'Chud' stands for 'Cannibal Humanoid Underground Dwellers' from a rather kitchy/horrible 80s horror movie that leftists took up as a slur/insult for right-leaning individuals.
The various right-leaning groups, not giving a fuck, gradually adopted it as a label and now wear it proudly.
So it started off as a shameless slur, and now it's basically a compliment in some circles.
If Accelerando ends up being a prelude of the coming future, I swear to fuck...
Then again, as far as Singularity events go, probably not the worst one to survive through.
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