cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
1yr ago
This is not too low effort, and please do not put culture war stuff in the friday fun thread.
cjet79
1yr ago
The "predatory pricing" idea is very bad business. If anyone reading this is the CEO of a company I'd highly advise against it.
I tried to go and find my post about it. I might have written it in response to you. Instead I just read all my top posts from the last year. I gotta say, I really like my writing. Need to feed it to a text generator and get more of it or something.
cjet79
1yr ago
I've randomly had good luck with drug store crap sunglasses. My strategy has basically been to buy any drug store crap glasses that look good enough, and the ones that survive and I continue to like stay around. Survival of the fittest for sunglasses.
cjet79
1yr ago
I'm not exactly sure how you are currently giving advice. There is a big spectrum of advice giving between "polite carefully phrased bits of advice" and "yelling at them for being an idiot".
I personally don't respond well to the more aggressive bits of advice. And I agonize over the carefully phrased bits of advice and take them very seriously.
Your friend might not be like that. Perhaps if your current method of giving advice is not working it would make sense to upgrade the aggressiveness. Usually if you are already too aggressive then the friendship is not going to last.
Of course you could already be on the edge of aggressiveness, and your friend is just not willing to accept the advice.
I hear them on hating dishes. I hate them too. Would still be way cheaper to just buy disposable dishes and eat microwave meals at home. Alternatively a maid that comes in and cleans/does dishes might strangely be cheaper than eating out constantly.
On the drinking ... maybe just try and get them to go to a doctor more often. That way you can outsource your nagging to a professional. I visit a doctor a few times a year and get told every time to drink less, and it usually helps for a month or two.
Also see if you can meet his family and get them to nag him. Or maybe his family is all just as bad as him and that is where he gets the habits. In that case maybe get him away from his family.
cjet79
1yr ago
Can you please knock it off with these drive by low effort culture war snipes.
cjet79
1yr ago
If its not a standard topic I can almost guarantee there is interest. Standard topics include: HBD, Immigration, Trans, Race issues, Trump, Jewish people, Ukraine, Gamergate, etc
cjet79
1yr ago
Sometimes there are grocery stores with marked down items that have slightly damaged or crushed packaging, but no seal is broken and the food is still good. Rarely has filling meals though.
I intentionally don't pay attention to pricing. I go to a store where everything is within my budget. And if me or my family are willing to eat it, then it is worth purchasing, because our common alternative is eating out which is universally more expensive.
cjet79
1yr ago
You seem to be simultaneously treating culture war topics as abundant (saying there are too many things for you to research), and scarce (it is a useful service to find a new culture war topic).
I'd say that you abundance take is correct. There are often too many culture war topics for everyone to follow.
In some ways finding new culture war topics is an anti-service and a form of culture warring. You'll see this via two common responses that popped up in the bare links repository:
"Oh great, now people are arguing over topic Y as well?" - the anti service
"This is ridiculous is nothing sacred to Group X, why do they have to ruin this thing too?" - the culture warring
cjet79
1yr ago
'if no one has made a top level post, its probably not that interesting' sense?
That is at least one good reason.
Another one I like is that it seems best when the people capable of producing the interesting discussions are the ones that get to choose where it goes and topics get covered.
Finally, you are asking for something and offering nothing. There is technically nothing stopping you from having this arrangement with another poster on themotte. 'I think of topics, you go out and do the research, and write something interesting'. Of course once you put it on the level of a one on one exchange it becomes obvious that the writer/researcher would ask "whats in this for me again?"
cjet79
1yr ago
Yah it was slowing down my game while I was launching them though. Instead it was quicker to spend a similar amount of nuclear material in a few enormous nukes, and basically have the game pause on me for a minute at a time as it calculated stuff.
cjet79
1yr ago
Armor means yes you do have to pummel them to the ground, and then you can knife them in a weak spot of the armor. Military history bears me out. Soldiers had the option of carrying both weapons and they start the battle with the longer range weapon.
Pointy bits kill people, but bludgeoning is how you take them down and end the fight. If you end the initial fight in your favor it doesn't matter how long your weapon takes to finish the other person.
cjet79
1yr ago
I'm back to Factorio with some of my friends. We're trying to get a Space Exploration run off the ground. Been trying to use LTN and a city block layout to simplify trains but they've been hesitant.
Oh man I'm jealous, I could never find any friends to play Factorio with me longterm. It has been incredibly difficult getting through a space exploration run on my own. Took me around 150 hours to get to endgame stuff. So much of that was just wasting resources for me bouncing around to different planets to deal with resource shortages or emergencies.
Didn't really get viable until I downloaded the real nukes mod and began nuking the crap out of surfaces to get rid of biters. The size of some of those nukes probably should have been cracking the planet if they were real.
Rimworld is coming out with a new DLC soon. I'm looking forward to losing another hundred hours, although I'm not looking forward to the mod conflicts that will inevitably arise.
Rimworld has always taken my personal crown for "most mods applied". Think I had almost 150 in one playthrough.
cjet79
1yr ago
One of the easiest hits with the bat is going to be to one of the knife wielder's arms. A good swing could easily break an arm, definitely a hand. So its a grapling match of one armed knife wielder vs two armed bat wielder. Knife wielder can probably get a good stab in first.
cjet79
1yr ago
Can't hold a knife if your arm or fingers are broken.
Winning move for bat fighter: keep distance, break arms/hands, easy beat down afterwards.
Winning move for knife fighter: get in close, stab low in stomach (very painful) or thighs (lower their mobility, bleed out possible).
My thinking is that bat user is more likely to win. Range is king in unarmored melee fights. Specifically getting in the first hit is going to matter a lot for untrained fighters. Pain tolerance has to be learned. There is a youtube video somewhere where some medieval larpers who usually fight with swords are given spears and told to fight sword users. The spear users won like all the time in like every combo of shield/no shield.
cjet79
1yr ago
Video Game Thread
Often happens anyways. Share what you have been playing.
For me I've been hooked on Nightingale recently. A survival crafting game. Their twist on the genre is to have different "realms" or maps where you can explore and collect stuff. The realms can be upgraded to be more difficult and thus provide more resources.
The game feels like a bit of a slog at times, but that is also what I was sorta looking for. A game I could play semi-mindlessly while listening to podcasts. The main frustration has not been gameplay, but a developer decision to make the game always online. Most of the bugs I have encountered are server related. Which is an extreme frustration since I'm basically playing the game like its singleplayer. I am confused why they made the server requirement a thing at all. It just seems like extra crap to maintain.
cjet79
1yr ago
Yeah they can have real shit side effects. I got lucky that the first one I took worked for me.
Exercise was kind of a temporary help for me.
cjet79
1yr ago
I recently ran out of the SSRI I was taking. God I forgot how much being depressed sucks.
I don't have the best advice for you, because I never managed to get out of it without chemical assistance.
Not drinking, exercise, and purpose have all helped a lot in the past. Though the more depressed I got the harder it became to avoid drinking a lot.
cjet79
1yr ago
Kinda like with dating, its a numbers game.
I will usually try and invite new friends along to other activities. I give them one to three invites depending on how much I like them, how good their excuses sounded (or whether they even responded), and how much advance warning my invites had.
Just showing up and being there is such a big part of adult friendship. We all get very busy lives, especially when you have kids. So I try and select for the people that can make it out to things. I think it tends to have a bunch of knock on effects too. These people tend to have their lives together. If they actually want to hang out with you they make it out too, so good vibes.
Once I have made a friend I'll usually try and keep them by just repeating the intitial thing, invite them to stuff. For long term friends I give them more chances to flake out. Anytime I go a few weeks without a social event I'll reach out to someone I haven't seen in a while.
I think if I had a party and all my friends could magically make it, and I wasn't concerned about logistics I could get about 20 people to show up.
Too similar to a previously banned user. Multiple top level posts, very little response. You aren't here for discussion. Permaban for now. One of the other mods might over-rule this.
Edit: post appears to have been plagiarized anyways. Ban is staying permanent.
Please don't respond to culture war stuff in the friday fun thread.
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