Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
"Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts."
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Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
Do you need to manually create your cards or are there prepared decks to download?
In some senses, not in all. I meant to paint a picture, not to provide an exacting argument. Equality in general is often taken to mean that all humans are somehow equally valuable/competent/moral, which is laughably untrue even on very casual observation, and equality before the law often comes with a lot of caveats regarding enforcement, court costs, procedural shenanigans. Fiat currency is valuable only because market participants agree to pretend that it is. I'm not saying that those concepts aren't useful and beneficial, or that they're eactly as untrue by some metric as believing some other fiction, but they do require some level of suspension of disbelief or kayfabe to work.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
No worse a lie than equality, representative democracy, trans-anything, blank-slatism, pacifism, deindustrialization, fiat currency...
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
Epicycles are good, actually.
There have always been atheists. There has never been a long-lasting atheist society. Maybe some of us are able to productively deal with a cold, uncaring universe that grinds us to dust for having the temerity to exist, but it seems that most can't, and epicycles give their minds something useful to work with; help them function.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
I can see it. It's marked with a white-on-red "+18" though.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
17d ago
FWIW, the real estate prices are indeed too damn high. Rents, too.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Consider German villagers (and sometimes town-dwellers) trying to block everything from pork farms to wind power plants to power cables to roads to mosques to railway lines and stations getting built. They're not always wrong to do so, but NIMBY as a phenomenon clearly does exist here.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Even assuming that it's 100% viewpoint-neutral, and even in a hypothetical scenario in which there isn't a raging culture war being wages - how would you even classify people? How do you measure viewpoint diversity? How do you quantify conservative-ness or liberal-ness? What even is the spectrum on which to measure viewpoints, and what is the target value for balance?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
To any reasonable observer who's not already part of the in-group and selectively blind to conflict theory when it suits him, this is obviously DEI for conservatives.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
How did the phone return to its owner, in the end?
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
If that's true, then it was utterly beneath notice.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Did we fight? What did we win?
Trace went to do his own thing, it briefly blossomed and then wilted. Did we cause that? I don't see it. Did we gain anything by its demise? I doubt it.
I hope other euros will chime in. I only know half of it and I'll probably forget to mention most of that half, too.
- If you think mass immigration by latin americans is bad, then please imagine that they are in fact all africans and muslims and consider whether that's any better.
- We're behind the curve on trans-whatever, matching you on national self-hatred, but far ahead in terms of green economic self-destruction.
- You have homelessness? Please, we solved that. Just sacrifice one productive member of society, have him work for nothing but keeping one addled fuck fed, clothed and housed. We hate hard workers and love our unproductive parasites.
- Speaking of redistribution, I hope you like paying around 50% of your income in taxes.
- And all that talk of loicences? They're for real. Assume that everything is illegal and you are allowed to do nothing.
- You guys are fat. We are...slightly less fat. But old. So old. Our inverted demographic pyramids are monuments to behold.
- Whenever you complain about tariffs, zoning, indoctrination in public schools, or buerocratic overregulation, just multiply it by a factor between two and ten (depending on where exactly you want to go) to get a rough idea of how European countries run themselves.
In between HW3 and Shipbreaker, we have two Blackbird Interactive games as answers here. A gold mine of cringe. Wonder what they'll do next.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
18d ago
As mentioned very recently, Homeworld 3.
It's a space game no wait it's a woke manifesto no wait it's one writer's crusade to normalize foot and giantess fetishes no wait it's a gooddamn cash crop and nobody cares what's inside because everyone bought it for the name only.
It's playable, by all means, but the gameplay is so bitch basic it might as well not be there and the writing is so damn bad it's bad just bad.
Not sure if that fits your criteria, but man, do I hate HW3.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
Deserts of Kharak? Yeah. They got the aesthetics down pat, but the gameplay was uninspired and the story was outright trash.
And then came Homeworld 3. Oh man. Oh man. I didn't think it possible, but that was easily the worst game I ever saw.
There's a a pretty substantial gulf between modern fencing and HEMA. Weapons, linearity, weird shit like right-of-way...
Even if you want the historical thing, it needs to be practical. Without tournaments you're not getting much feedback on what works and what doesn't, but if you try to turn tournaments into realistic simulations then most people won't show up for them, as @Skibboleth explained.
There's a range of compromises possible that are neither olympic fencing nor realism-maxxing by duelling each other to death. There are trade-offs. And most people, for good reason, decide to optimize for actually being able to perpetuate the sport rather than have it become impossible to organize or completely redundant.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
Without evidence, this sounds like so much tin foil.
Just saying. I'm not one to assume that any given justice system is impartial.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
That's the motte, where the bailey is that any individual instance of deportation is inhumane for one reason or another and the burden of proof is on the society that would like to deport the immigrants and that this proof is so onerously difficult to provide that deportations become so much more difficult relative to illegal immigrations that a positive net inflow of illegal immigrants is absolutely guaranteed.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
Moderately common. Shoulder injuries most often happen when repetitively drilling particular strikes, when grappling, or during exotic warm-up exercises.
A friend of mine permanently ruined his shoulder and had to quit martial arts, another was out for a year and never really made it back in. Shoulder injuries can be career-enders in HEMA. But many others bust their shoulders and reucperate just fine, and most never have any shoulder trouble at all.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
Probably? I'm guessing most people who own armor would prefer to put it on display somehow.
We're really outside my area of expertise with this, though. It's always been far out of my price range.
Southkraut
Vibe of vibes, saith the Preacher, vibe of vibes; all is vibe.
19d ago
fat is not the only way an input can be stored
What other ways are there?
Some of my best friends get carried away when fighting and keep breaking their steel swords! It's normal.
But yeah, RE: Fingers, arms - they do take a beating. I've stopped seeing Doctors about broken fingers. Thumbs usually.
Family tinkering again. Visited two new Kindergärten closer to home and work. The first was in town near work, seemed alright but had no space. The other was in a village close to home, no bus connection there (though there will supposedly be one later this year), the people there seemed very motivated. Either one would be an improvement for me, but would also take the responsibility for getting the kid to Kindergarten from my wife (i.e., actually her mother, who can drive a car) to me. Which is good because that means no more daily vacillations about whether to go and whether grandma is willing to help and whether mom is fit enough to leave the house, so we can have an actual routine. It's also good because then the kid needn't spend the week with two depressive failed housewives. Sucks for my wife though, since that removes her from her childhood home and garden, and puts her in a place where, without a driver's license, she can't really do anything on her own. Then again, her mother's house will be sold this winter anyways, so the status quo isn't tenable in the long run either way. Also kinda sucks for my work, since I'll have to bisect my day for picking up the kid. OTOH I managed to rope my parents and our new neighbors into various kindergarten logistics schemes, so it may all be more easy and more social than expected. Wife still hopes we'll discover an affordable apartment directly adjacent to either kindergarten, but I doubt it and I am also, to be quite frank, not very motivated to move just so she can continue to refuse getting her driver's license. Not that I expect that to change.
Other than that I've poured most of my creative energy into work, exploring the wonderful world of Spring Batch backend development. It haunts me. It follows me into evenings and weekends. Do I use two steps with the first using a MultiResourceItemReader on one end feeding into a dummy ItemWriter that just stores the header data in a bean or the execution contextor or should I extend the functionality of the standard StaxEventItemReader to also read header information but that would cause too much overhead and also I'd need to add some custom logic to cycle through input files but hey maybe I can just repeat the step for one file at the time oh look there's a step partitioning feature but hmmm that seems to just partition into a fixed number of sub-steps is there some other component I can use to get one step per file or can I dynamically set the number of substeps to match the number of files but even then how do I make sure each substep gets a different input file and then I still need to extend the StaxEventItemWriter add the header information though that's really the easy part and I shouldn't forget about it. And so on and so on. Normally I leave work at work, but right now that separation isn't really working. And oh crap I need to rename six repositiories because the architects of two different teams didn't talk to each other and the concept work for this project still hasn't been done even though I'm four weeks into the implementation and they expect me to work off of verbal instructions and reverse-engineering older projects haha is this a joke we all know we can't fly this past quality control but no oh no they're serious. It's fun, really. I like those people. I tell them "this approach is laughably inefficient and you can't possibly expect this to work and get done on time." and they just go "Oh well yeah you're right we'll give you six times as much time and three additional people to actually do the required prep work right now.", and there I sit blinking and realizing that I have managed to find the mythical land of reasonable people who would rather fix mistakes than obfuscate them.
Kid and work, work and kid.
I did some light reading on Nav Meshes in Unreal, and found contradictory opinions on how they work on dynamic geometry. Did some research on various topics relevant to the setting, but haven't written one line of text or code.
Tell me to shut up and stop turning this into a blog.
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