WhiningCoil
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I appreciate you being so gracious as to provide such a sterling example. Takes a lot of courage to step into that role.
I was being charitable and kind and assuming you were just pretended to be retarded as an example. Or are you saying that men can be just as passive aggressive as women can, because you, a certified haver of a penis, are so?
WhiningCoil
8mo ago
Maybe. Or maybe I understand perfectly well, and it's still failed. When I think about what this place was supposed to be, the phrase that most comes to mind is "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came". It was this utopian vision of curating a rationalist garden of eden where nice people were nice to each other and came up with solutions to problems rationally, and promoted pro-social norms of continuing to be nice and solve problems rationally.
This has clearly failed, and the rules have become the boot on the neck of people trying to find actual workable solutions, because people have weaponized our empathy against finding solutions. The most fragile perspective dictates what is "charitable" or "kind", and the most dysfunctional deeply felt priorities prevents any solutions.
Turns out it's even worse when they start a war and nobody shows up.
WhiningCoil
10mo ago
This is a great example. Evidently I touched a nerve, and thus total war, scorched Earth, is declared. Expand the scope of the argument without limit, and say every mean and hateful thing about the opposition you can passive aggressively throw out, as though it has anything to do with anything.
I appreciate you being so gracious as to provide such a sterling example. Takes a lot of courage to step into that role.
WhiningCoil
8mo ago
be able to tell the truth without worrying about being banned immediately?
Are the list of bans still publicly available? You should see my name their amply. Sometimes justified. Too often not IMHO.
That's the answer to your question. Not here.
WhiningCoil
8mo ago
I stand by my thoughts that the first ban was absolutely unjustified, and my response was perfectly valid and called for. After that I stopped giving a shit and the second was on purpose.
WhiningCoil
9mo ago
Maybe. Or maybe you can't see the forest for the trees.
Subsisting off the substandard castoffs of an open enemy is the behavior of the conquered. Reject it.
WhiningCoil
30d ago
Can we please have a moratorium on word policing? Especially if it's literally all you have to say? There is nothing more obnoxious, low effort, and uncharitable that picking a single word out of a 10,000 word essay and harping on it for a lazy paragraph.
WhiningCoil
2mo ago
Yeah, I knew nothing about it, the author, or anything. Just showed up in a list of recommended Russian literature.
Apparently Russia also has a hyperventilating liberal class shouting "THIS BOOK IS LITERALLY JUST LIKE RUSSIA IS TODAY!" Which seems... unlikely. I know it's not great, but yeah.
WhiningCoil
2mo ago
Yeah, that's the one.
WhiningCoil
5mo ago
I'm not nearly that far. Only to North 2. Been a long time since a puzzle game grabbed me like this. Maybe since the last Talos Principle. Manifold Garden got me initially, but then it got so open ended it became overwhelming.
WhiningCoil
5mo ago
I am 1000% into Talos Principle 2 right now. I'm not sure how much the plot changes based on dialog choices, but it makes my heart sing watching them take shots at Malthusian bullshit left, right and center. It's a refreshing change of pace from the typical soy slop that passes as a story in games these days.
WhiningCoil
6mo ago
I do wonder what CPU he had in a 486 system to beat Quake. I never had one, but I guess AMD made a 486 compatible CPU that was the equivalent of a Pentium 75?
Then again, I beat plenty of games on enormously unpowered computers. I beat Unreal on a P120 in software rendering. It was a slideshow, but I had cheat codes!
WhiningCoil
6mo ago
Been playing Quake coop with some discord buddies. Its awesome. We tried nightmare but the 50 hp cap proved too punishing with some of the nail trap hallways. Went with hard difficulty, but with friendly fire. It was glorious chaos. Played through the first three episodes in a row last night.
WhiningCoil
8mo ago
FEAR is definitely on my to do list. Although right now I'm striving to beat at least Warcraft II's orc campaign.
WhiningCoil
9mo ago
That actually reminds me how many youtubers do their virtual sets in Unreal Engine. I don't think I've seen a single one use Unity.
Frankly, having dabbled in Unity, I'm not sure I can really recommend it for much of anything.
WhiningCoil
9mo ago
Just face grain. The first glue up is in clamps right now. Trying some new techniques for a really flat panel glue up, so we'll see how it goes. With the butcher blocks I ended up with a lot of buckling and shifting that I corrected by doing it in halves and putting them through the planer afterwards. I'm using some calls this time to try to keep it flat. I also used some winding sticks to try to get the pipe clamps flatter as well. I think the surface I was doing glue ups on was putting a slight twist on everything I glued up.
If I'm lucky, I can have this first board finished tonight. Well, at least the assembly, the finishing might take the rest of the week.
WhiningCoil
9mo ago
I don't feel confident enough to try to sell my work.
WhiningCoil
15d ago
entirely unaware that he was the leader of the UK and not the US
Yeah, that's clearly the most obvious read there. That I'm completely retarded and can't tell the US from the UK. Not an assumption that Boris was acting on US policy goals despite being a UK politician, with the key quote being that he insisted "The West isn't ready for the war to be over yet". When the US is funding 90% of the war, it's a safe assumption to make that Boris was writing a check the US was going to cash, with their tacit approval.
I didn't bother responding to you then because you taking such obvious liberties with my actual claims, but if you are going to sit back and crow about it like it's some sort of victory, fine, you've gotten my attention.
WhiningCoil
17d ago
I just put the 4x8 sheets on my SUVs roof rack. There is a pretty simple plywood rack you can easy make with 2 2x4s and metal brackets.
WhiningCoil
1mo ago
I'm worried about making a fortune off crypto and other investments without any funny business, and being thrown in a rape cage by a DC judge because fuck you that's why. They'd probably dig up my conservative leaning post here as further evidence about how much I "hate America" to supply the motive. Might even explicitly not allow me to present evidence that all the transactions are legitimate some fucking how.
After what I've seen done to Jan 6'ers, I have no expectation of justice if the DOJ notices me.
WhiningCoil
2mo ago
I’d feel bad about it but for the fact that level of emotional incompetence can’t be helped in someone old enough to have lived through the dotcom and 2008 crashes as an adult.
You know, the funny thing about this is that, unless you were invested in stocks at the time of the dotcom bubble or the 2008 crash, it won't help your emotional incompetence. Part of my learning to stay calm and hodl on was panic selling my 2 year old 401k (moved from stocks to money market) at the bottom. I had just started working, I had a very small amount in it, and it was a valuable lesson I had to learn the hard way. Sure would have sucked to have put that off for 40 years instead.
WhiningCoil
2mo ago
Is cost averaging a real and prudent thing or more of a cope? Honest question, hehe.
I cost average because I have no idea what I'm doing. My most successful picks have been jumping at companies I like. I played the Nintendo Switch, and Breath of the Wild, before it was released and decided it was the real deal. This was at a time when everyone thought Nintendo should get out of the hardware business, and it's executives has taken pay cuts for their failures. It was deeply rewarding jumping on that stock.
I bought Nvidia back in 2017/18 because the Steam hardware survey routinely showed something like 80% of people had Nvidia GPUs. I've been an Nvidia lifer since my first Riva 128. Seemed like a no brainer to me. I can't say I ever saw this AI boom coming, but I knew they were a well run company with good products I use to the exclusion of all else.
I dollar cost average in because I mostly buy and hold forever, so investing cash comes at a slow and steady pace monthly. I also know I'm not educated enough to pick an entry price and throw down five or six figures on it all at once. I keep investing if I have faith the company will eventually do well (like COIN), or because they've been consistently rewarding (like V).
Sometimes I take profit. I had to pay off a $5000 vet bill once while I was saving for a house, so it came out of stocks. When ATVI got bought out I was forced to sell. I also finally cut a bunch of losses and took some profit from several stocks, when I threw down a fat wad on COIN.
Throwing down that fat wad on COIN turned out to be a terrible mistake, and that particular wad is still down over 50%. But like I said, I liked COIN at IPO prices, and I liked it 10x as much when it was 1/10th the price. So it all worked out in the end. Still, that was an expensive lesson. In the future I won't be doing that. I should have spread my wad out over a much longer time to be safe. If it goes up, good, if it goes down, that's alright too.
WhiningCoil
4mo ago
I might know what you mean about the visuals. There is a certain style of soft, bright, cartoonish, often utopian woodland fantasy art that started off as annoying to me, and grew into an all consuming hatred.
The art and theme of Against the Storm is not that, thankfully. It has a distinctly Lovecraftian vibe to it, had Lovecraft been born in dark ages Germany and feared the deep wood, instead of late 19th/early 20th century New England and feared the mongrelization of America.
WhiningCoil
4mo ago
I wound up with Frostpunk at some point. I forget how or why. Didn't click with me. No idea why.
Having charity and kindness being rules here was a mistake. Our great enemy has no concept of truth as we'd understand it. I'd accuse them of being habitual liars, but the dichotomy of truth and lies simply is not in their world view. In this environment where you are required to take their truth-void statements "charitably", it's impossible to grapple with them. Think of Darwin.
Furthermore, they have hacked our empathy to such an extend that our truth is offensive to them and cannot be spoken under rules dictated by "kindness". We are constantly forced into using their terminology. It's not mutilating and sterilizing children, it's "Trans health care".
If this place in an experiment, it's failed.
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