KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
It is a summary of Old Man Murray's article, who absolutely deserves the credit here.
KingOfTheBailey
8mo ago
If you buy it on factorio.com (which goes through Humble) they let you generate a Steam key.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
TracingWoodgrains once likened him to Nikocado Avocado, a man (or catgirl?) made ever more grotesque by the vehicle that brought money and fame. I cannot unsee it, despite enjoying some of Kulak's earlier writing (like the Alex Jones/WWF piece).
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Fauci, along with the US Surgeon General, lied about the efficacy of masks to manage supply. Fauci also deliberately moved the goalposts on population percentage targets for herd immunity. Those weren't "bad messaging", they were deliberate falsehoods pushed out onto the public.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
Consider this synthetic shitpost: https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1815137702561689866#m
You can tell from the x.com username that this is obviously going to be a fake, and the word choices and speech pacing make it even more clear. But for someone without such an idiosyncratic speech rhythm and reputation for stumbling and mumbling? We're well past "you can fool some people some of the time" and probably even "you can fool most people some of the time". I'd say we're at "you can fool most people most of the time" now, and it will only get worse.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
How does 3D Aella have the stranger hand position?
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Proton has become astonishingly good. The main problems I think are around invasive anti-cheat systems.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Glad someone mentioned Factorio and Kingdom Come. I think Factorio shows the most likely path out of the mess: non-woke, not anti-woke. Contrast explicitly anti-woke games like Hatred where you just trigger a new wave of thinkpieces that probably hurt your cause more than they help.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
It's Factorio but more, where each flavor of "more" is different in its own way. If the base game came out in the early 2000's, the DLC would be one of those really good expansions whose purchase would be thoroughly justified, like TA: Core Contingency or SC: Brood War.
I cobbled together a space platform and set forth. Thoroughly underestimated my fuel and ammo needs and got smashed to bits by asteroids while traveling. Now I'm stuck on a volcanic hellscape where none of the production chains make sense, I didn't bring enough stuff, my base back home isn't really set up for remote construction, and I'm having a great time.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
From the "... and giving my GPU a well-deserved rest", I take it to mean he's been having a lot of fun prompting local (and presumably less censored) image generation models.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
I guess that's where Rowling conjured up the Wizengamot from.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
It's not about revenge. It's that activists have systematically taken over the academy and have been trading on its prestige to implement their goals. The result is that it's not at all clear from the outside who is there to just do actual science, and who is an activist doing activism with scientific trappings. Worse, the academy has become completely untrustworthy, so we can't ask the people who would know; they'd just run cover for each other. So, with a heavy heart, we voted for someone to take a flamethrower to the system and we'll see what green shoots come out of the ashes.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
It's time to switch to Linux. There were some good threads on here recently.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Congratulations! I assumed you were already married and I hope he realizes how lucky he is. No actionable advice from me, I'm afraid — I'm still going on first dates.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Would it be fair to call them the "rap interludes" of their time?
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
I think my mind runs in similar grooves, and the answer is: integrity. Integrity matters: would you want to date or marry someone who is lying about something so fundamental? Would you want to carry a lie like that for years, knowing what would happen if the secret got out?
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
@ZorbaTHut had a post on I think /r/TheMotte about how, as a game designer, you basically had to trick the players into having fun because otherwise they'd fall into whatever pattern looked "optimal". I can't find it though.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Total immunity is a problem, but if the government had agreed to take on the risk for the pharma companies in this emergency situation instead of just waving it away (including paying out for vaccine injuries) that seems much more balanced. Operation Warp Speed was pretty much about "how fast can we get this done?" and that includes speeding up the safety trials. I don't know what the US actually did here.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
That's exactly what I understand POSIWID to mean, though.
imperfect humans will sometimes create a system that does something other than what they intended to begin with.
You may have intended to build a system that does X but actually it does Y. It's now time to be clear-eyed about that fact, and working from the assumption that you have a system built to do Y, decide what to do next. But saying "no, it's meant to do X" is not an option if you're trying to actually achieve X.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
What is "raising right", if not setting the incentives around a developing youth so that he grows up, instead of out?
(Wordplay aside, it's on the parent to set those incentives, not the state.)
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
So the Doge of Venice wasn't part of the pun?
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
It was technically amazing, the custom maps scene was probably where custom maps peaked (the success of DotA inspired at least three spin-off games, and probably put dollar signs in Blizzard's eyes for the SC2 arcade), and I never played the native RTS in serious multiplayer but it seemed good.
But I also think the campaign was pretty... ehhh, and the expansion campaign was similar. Not like Wings of Liberty (which has great mission design and structure, but bad writing) or the SC1 campaigns (which still have "Blizzard writing" but are a lot better, and discussed upthread).
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I was a aware of the technical fix (even Doom Eternal does it, and speedrunners combined it with the weapon wheel to turn that physics nudge into an abusable catapult), but I had never seen it called "coyote time" before. That name is perfect.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
First time I've seen "grognard" used to refer to old-school computing people as opposed to old-school RPG/wargaming people.
I'm annoyed at Rust for the same reason in the opposite direction. They added sum types, knew they added sum types, but called them "enums" - why?
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