KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
So the Doge of Venice wasn't part of the pun?
"something happens to move us to the next scene"
This link is broken, but I'm reminded of the way Dude, Where's My Car? literally yanks the main characters off the street multiple times to get them to the next scene. It depresses me to think that mainstream modern movies are now at the level of writing that powered a (classic) intentionally dumb comedy.
KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
A question on Manifold was resolved in the negative, and thankfully not because he died in an anonymous patch of the Alaskan wilderness:
He says he's no longer actively planning any preparations, so I think I'll go ahead and resolve this NO. But he says he's still "kinda thinking" about doing it next winter, so I might make a new market then if anything ends up coming to fruition.
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
5mo ago
Please provide a pitch deck in next week's Tinker Tuesday.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo 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
7mo 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
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
8mo 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
8mo 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
4d ago
I wound down my Hinge account because I stumbled into a promising relationship with a girl I knew IRL, but this rings true for me. At the time I wrapped things up, I was getting enough dates with women that I was excited to meet without being overwhelmed by the volume, and had to disappoint several decent-sounding women before I deleted.
Seconding the recommendation to use positive, information-dense prompts. The poll option on your profile is particularly good for this, as it lets you put three positive aspects of yourself into a single widget.
On messaging: here are some decent templates. https://killyourinnerloser.com/tinder-guide-3/#chapter-1-templates
I like these because they push inexorably towards a date, but I had more success not following them than forcing the conversation back onto those rails. Unlike the author of that series, I was looking for an LTR, not to get laid as frequently as possible. But the permission to always move towards a date (if not directly), and to be a little bit sexual and direct, was very useful in setting my intentions on the platform.
Also, Hinge has capped the number of open conversations on a user's account. This is a good thing, as it forces both men and women to either get to the point and arrange a date, or to unmatch and move on.
On getting matched from your likes: I never could tell if Hinge used a stack or a queue for incoming matches. It might show the newest incoming likes first and then maintain a queue after that or something, I dunno. But it often happened that I would get a slow rise in matches coming in a few weeks after I started, usually around the time I began to despair. Have patience.
OP should also think about approaching women in real life. A lot of them complain on the apps that they only have accounts because nobody talks IRL any more.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
You don't happen to have a torrent of these, or the time to chuck them up on MEGA or whatever, do you?
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
Yeah, it's still not perfect unfortunately. One upside of the impending paperclippening is that the chatbots have ingested everything ever written about how to solve Linux problems. If you haven't tried it yet, I'd recommend prompting an LLM to act like a condescending neckbeard expert Linux user and friendly troubleshooter, with permission to ask you for further info or to ask you to run commands, and see if you can get it to narrow down your problem.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
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?
KingOfTheBailey
7mo 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
11mo ago
I think you mean "effect".
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Pretty much everywhere I go, modern housing is appalling. Buildings thrown together; decorative panels falling off new-built apartments; concrete slabs rush-poured and not given proper time to cure; residential towers that catch fire or crack so badly they become uninhabitable; just enough lighting that you can photograph it for a real estate listing, but not enough to actually live in it; cupboards shallower than the width of a single mug; I could go on. It is not clear to me that we know how to build things any more.
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.)
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