KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
Yeah I've been having fun with StS2 as well. I think it's a bit easier than the first, or I've been luckier with my runs. Necrobinder is pretty fun, though stalling to get a massive hand seems like a pretty reliable strategy up until halfway through Act 2 or so. Still haven't really figured out what the Regent wants to do.
KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
I should've seen how prediction markets would go. The promise from the rationalists and other groups that pushed them was that they'd provide market signals about how likely major events are to happen. But it seems to have instead just created betting apps that can bet on literally everything and a way to insider trade on pretty much any non-public knowledge.
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
Can you say more about how you have Claude set up to monitor your calendar?
KingOfTheBailey
4d ago
Fine. Whatever. What conditions in the material world are such that young men are looking to these men as role models, what is missing in their lives that they seek to fill it with this?
This incuriosity also applies in other fields. Why didn't everyone line up to vote for Hilary? Why did Trump win so bigly after Biden? The institutional response was to call dissenters everything from "deplorables" to "dangerous racists" to "fascist" to "almost literally the Führer reincarnate". The feedback mechanisms no longer exist (if they ever did), so there's no self-correction.
KingOfTheBailey
5d ago
Nit: a "flair up" is a required action to participate in /r/politicalcompassmemes. A "flare up" is what you're describing.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
She's the Man is an adaptation of Twelfth Night. I don't remember if it's good or not.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
I just play Factorio for my train fix these days.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
Dualcast is 16 damage though, and your starting lightning orb is a free half-strike per turn.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
- Everyone will use whatever tools are at hand to generate propaganda
- There will be widespread use. "We" may or may not see it depending on how good people are at working the models
- I remember seeing a picture of a "wounded soldier from Ukraine" who had six fingers and bandages that morphed into his uniform and his arm.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
I look forward to an effortpost in the Friday Fun Thread.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Yes, it's very useful for skill development, and it's really fun dancing with women who know both roles and can pass the lead back and forth during a song.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
This happens in any space that doesn't intentionally filter by gender.
Larger social dance events like full weekends of workshops and parties are one of the few places that does this obviously and explicitly and still gets away with it, by selling "leader passes" and "follower passes".
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Observation: Part of the objections to the emergence of "romantasy" is that it is addictive, low-consumption-effort smut and that the fanfiction world has put out a functionally infinite amount of it. And the objections around the way a certain type of woman relates to that sort of writing mirrors the way a certain type of man relates to video pornography. So I think reading isn't as far removed as it might first appear.
KingOfTheBailey
13d ago
If you've been at it for a few years, presumably you're in some of the intermediate/advanced classes. You allude to the social dancing also, but I'd be interested in a specific breakdown of the ratio between beginner classes and the more advanced classes and the social floors. I'd also be interested to hear what the vibe's been like among those men, particularly the newer ones - do they seem like they're interested in dancing or just pulling?
It'll be interesting to see how long this lasts. IME, dancing scenes don't stay tilted towards an excess of men for very long, as the etiquette of asking women to dance means men either get in each other's way asking women to dance, or get no dances at all. In the reverse case, where there's an excess of women, the men are busy dancing, and surplus women often dance with each other or get asked to dance the next song or the one after.
KingOfTheBailey
13d ago
On subsequent visits, a (+X) comment next to the thread on the main page, which is much higher contrast than the 0 comments label.
KingOfTheBailey
13d ago
I love 50% of your list, and haven't watched the other 50%, but it's all going on my list.
KingOfTheBailey
16d ago
Was it the part that went, "there's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, ..."?
KingOfTheBailey
17d ago
I choose to believe that it's also because they're beautiful and cherished.
KingOfTheBailey
18d ago
Har har, very good.
KingOfTheBailey
18d ago
The problems are indeed systemic but I disagree that uplifting individuals is not worth trying. One: I think the relationship market just isn't clearing for a lot of heterosexual men and women. It is not a waste to help any individual man or woman see the problems clearly and learn how they can improve themselves and their partner selection. I think there are a lot of people whose current offer to the relationship market is "not acceptable" because they're unhealthy or insipid or have the women on a pedestal or want a bro-friend-with-tits to play vidya and screw occasionally or think that a 6-6-6 man is going to fall into her life or that being a bitch is attractive or. Getting those people in shape and having productive dates before they burn out and join MGTOW or buy a dozen cats is not zero sum. Two: at the very least if you are one source of truth in a world of lies you can help people without them having to waste years. Third: none of us are going to get access to the magic book that lets us rewrite society's scripts, but we might be able to help the lives of some of the people we touch (if they're ready to hear it).
Breast cancer gets so much more funding because everyone cares about women. This is also one factor influencing why women's social movements start so easily: pretty much everyone (normal, minus the lizardmen constant) loves and cares for women! (This is one reason I never bought the "patriarchal oppressor" framing — why do you think men call precious things like their cars "she"? Because they love women!) Other factors include structural support at all levels of society (from special departments at companies to special ministries in government) and an activist class that runs like a well-oiled machine which can be engaged to support women as well as other causes de jour.
You could argue that this is downstream of instinctual/cultural small-group behavior and it probably is.
KingOfTheBailey
18d ago
KingOfTheBailey
19d ago
We don't choose who we're attracted to, but we do choose how to act on it. Being a floozy should be just as shameful as being a cad.
One really big problem is that it's hard to offer men a compelling alternative to grifters like Tate, who promise a buffet of pussy, fast cars, and shiny toys. The role of "respected family patriarch" is off the table for obvious reasons, but we could at the very least stop lying to young men and maybe it'd stop them from turning to the grifters. Yes, being strong and competent will help. Almost no women will give you a direct signal of interest unless you're extremely attractive or she's extremely keen on you, so learn the subtle ones. Hit the gym. Learn to dance. Broaden your interests. Do interesting things. Be interesting. Learn to talk about it. Despite all the culture warring, men are still generally expected to be extremely agentic, so teaching them how to be more attractive should pay dividends.
Actually, we should teach both boys and girls how to partner dance so they can spend more time in each other's personal space without freaking out. Hell, they might even like it and decide they like each other.
I know it's not practical to implement, but we do need to teach the girls too. Men need to initiate, that's just the way it is, but then women then have the responsibility of turning men down graciously if they're being courted in good faith. I remember being an awkward teenager and once asking a stunningly beautiful waitress for her number. She turned me down, saying something like "I have a boyfriend, but that took balls. Girls like that." It was an unambiguous but positive rejection, and didn't cost her anything.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
Yes. By the end of it, when I'd managed to pull my head out of my ass and shake off the harmful memes from both the feminists and the redpillers. Before I started dating the girl who I'm hopefully going to marry, my final dates were "that was a good time, you're really interesting but you're not for me. I genuinely wish you the best."
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/
So am I claiming that the feminist war on “nice guys” is totally uncorrelated with the existence of the manosphere?
No. I’m saying the causal arrow goes the opposite direction from the one B’s suggesting. As usual with gender issues, this can be best explained through a story from ancient Chinese military history.
Chen Sheng was an officer serving the Qin Dynasty, famous for their draconian punishments. He was supposed to lead his army to a rendezvous point, but he got delayed by heavy rains and it became clear he was going to arrive late. The way I always hear the story told is this:
Chen turns to his friend Wu Guang and asks “What’s the penalty for being late?”
“Death,” says Wu.
“And what’s the penalty for rebellion?”
“Death,” says Wu.
“Well then…” says Chen Sheng.
And thus began the famous Dazexiang Uprising, which caused thousands of deaths and helped usher in a period of instability and chaos that resulted in the fall of the Qin Dynasty three years later.
The moral of the story is that if you are maximally mean to innocent people, then eventually bad things will happen to you. First, because you have no room to punish people any more for actually hurting you. Second, because people will figure if they’re doomed anyway, they can at least get the consolation of feeling like they’re doing you some damage on their way down.
True, but I also don't think they seriously thought through the downstream effects of having betting apps for literally everything.
Example: in 2024, Zvi updates on the damage caused by sports betting.
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