pigeonburger
2mo ago
For its own sake no, but I can see it as a way of denouncing sinful celebrity worship, once warped through the mind of someone with a bad understanding of how his actions are percieved by others?
pigeonburger
2mo ago
I don't think it's necessarily against conservative values? I can easily imagine there's some type of point they're trying to make about celebrity culture being a form of prostitution and selling their bodies. It came out about as lucid and legible as you would imagine it would when someone with mental issues is in a situation where no one is able to stop him.
pigeonburger
2mo ago
French "chien" is masculine while "chat" is either.
That would be news to me, a native French speaker. Chat is a masculine word (and is used to denote a specifically male cat, or a cat of a non-specified gender).
pigeonburger
2mo ago
That said, apparently men are more likely to own cats than women in the US
Damn that 13th Amendment!
pigeonburger
3mo ago
Israel is a nuclear state
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I pretty much just use motte and bailey for the specific concept. Not sure why it's not entirely described by it. Most people do it.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I guess it's true that people who insist on interactions have run me out of MOBAs, but that's just because effective teamwork requires more interaction than I'm comfortable with, but that doesn't address the point with fighting games, another competitive genre, which I still do play online as long as I can disable text/voice chat.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
Gotta disagree. I played DOTA2 for a while and I would have kept playing if I could have the same challenge without having to interact with actual strangers. So that'd mean either running with a regular crew or playing only with bots.
I play a bit of fighting games too, and to me the ideal with them is the challenge of multiplayer with none of the social interaction.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I don't think they need an order of magnitude of improvement. There's already headsets being sold now that are lightweight visor style headsets rather than helmet size headsets, more of these coming soon, and wireless tethering between computers and their headsets is now a thing. It's not all perfect yet, it needs a bit of tweaking to be consumer ready, but at this point the main thing is for pricing to come down.
Indeed, it's technical brillance compared to its contemporaries in the early and mid 2010s was so great, that even now 10 years later (an eternity in internet time) spinoff/dissident platforms like this one haven't found a better format. And when such a great tool was left to a representative slice of the western population (or at least, of the technophile western population), it really felt magical.
To ruin it, all it took was the admins coming down a couple of times on the same side of culture wars tussles (and it's not a matter of being the right or wrong side, just coming down on the same side a few times in a row is gonna do it), and the left noticing (as it often does) before the right the large amount of narrative-shaping power that was being left on the counter in the form of modship over ostensibly neutral subs.
It was inevitable. The years where it worked were great, but it was not a stable arrangement.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
Fun fact, here it's been turned into a Christmas song (trigger warning: sung by a 13 year old Céline Dion).
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I can imagine a failure mode in that they could all discuss amongst themselves and agree to vote unanimously in favor of a painless method that creates gruesome results, in order to further discredit death penalty.
I'd say tell them that half of the people rounded up will be executed by the top method and the other half with the runner up. Do the executions one at a time, forcing the whole group to watch, alternating methods. After each two execution, have every one vote which one seemed to be the best, telling them that if either method gets a clear lead over the other (over 2/3 votes after at least 3 rounds / 6 executions), then everyone will get executed all at once with that method. Once that clear lead criteria is achieved, pardon everyone left.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I imagine it has a lot to do that with the same amount of money they get panhandling, they can have a decently filling meal from McDonalds, or a small drink from Starbucks.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
They say it now applies to all North America, but I wasn't aware they had an open bathroom / hangout policy before in Canada.
I've never seen homeless people in any Starbucks, even though we definitely have homeless people around. It's always just crowded with early 20s girls ordering ridiculously priced drinks that are 60% sickly sweet syrup, 39% whipped cream and 1% coffee.
The correct utilitarian response would have been not to exchange 1026 prisoners for an Israeli soldier, and it would certainly not be to exchange 34 hostages for 1000 prisoners now.
How is this anything but an almost total Hamas victory?
To me it reads like a very dehumanizing admission from Hamas, and a natural corrolary from the idea that Israel will retaliate more than ten-fold against attacks on its population. It enshrines the idea that Israel has such a social, technological, military, political advantage on Palestine that its people's lives, even just civilians and common soldiers, are worth orders of magnitude more than Palestinian lives. And Hamas agrees with that.
If it was plausible for Hamas to claim it was because they are kicking Israeli ass so much on the battlefield they forced them into negociating an unfavorable exchange, then maybe it would be a Hamas victory. But the only way Hamas is winning is that they getting killed so hard that Israel has to pull its punches for it not to look like they're outright massacring the helpless.
I imagine that the model is not more or less censored than the one the public interacts with, but on top of the model's basic suitableness/unsuitableness for generating naughty content, there's likely an additional layer of filtering on public interfaces and public API keys. And since that will interfere with some applications, I would guess that there are probably API keys shared with trusted 3rd-party that Microsoft / OpenAI trusts will implement their own filtering that bypasses those additional layers of filtering.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
Trump did put a stop to the Bush dynasty by not only beating Jeb, but humiliating him so hard there is no possibility of a comeback. After Trump has his moment, Cruz can come back. DeSantis can come back. Even Little Marco can come back. Jeb is done and will never be president, ever. Jeb is the supposed big guy in the prison yard that Trump made his bitch upon arriving to send a message.
Advertising boycotts are a bit different, you don't need to convince consumers, you need to convince marketing departments. Who are staffed entirely with people who already want to believe Facebook is being hateful, and who are profoundly inside filter bubbles making them believe everyone agrees with them (if they weren't advertising wouldn't look like it currently does).
Zuck can call the bluff now (and couldn't before) because of the election. Marketing departments that try pushing their companies into the "woke" side of the culture war will probably be overruled by CEOs who have now recieved a very strong signal as to where the population stands with regards to this.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
"It wasn't working just because companies were doing it cynically for profit."
I wouldn't call Mark Cuban a true believer, but someone that panders to them. To the true believers their worldview implicitly or explicitly imagine capitalism as tainting ideals or progress as soon as it comes in contact with them, so it's easy to dismiss any negative result. It's not a proof through competition that their idea doesn't work, it's proof number 473935 that capitalism needs to go because it gets in the way of their ideas.
I don't know about OP, but the SNES version is good. SNES emulators are pretty much solved by now, so any emulator is good enough, but for puzzle games on the go I'd recommend looking at chinese portable emulation consoles. For low end emulators like you'd need for puzzles, the Miyoo consoles are cheap and impressively well built for the price; they'll easily emulate 16 bits consoles and below, plus the PSX. If you wanna go further there's a whole rabbit hole for emulation consoles. Look for handhelds from Anbernic, Retroid, Trimui, etc...
pigeonburger
3mo ago
What is your favorite puzzle game? Tetris? Puzzle League? Klondike? Minesweeper?
Tetris is evergreen for me. But sometimes I temporarily get into others (Puyo Puyo, Puzzle League, Columns, recently Cleopatra's Fortune). When I want to feel particularly angry I play the Tetris TGM games.
That's a good point regarding drugs. I don't know how much of a mess I might seem to others though. She died on saturday. I was back to work on monday, and I'm only planning on taking time off in so much as it would help for administrative tasks that result from her death. I loved my mother a lot, but I feel no impairment, no need to take a breather. Maybe it's a family trait, neither of my parents families are very performatively emotional. Within hours of it happening, my brother and I were calmly and casually discussing the logistics of the funeral, inheritance, etc... The only moments when I get choked up thinking about it is when I put myself into some else's shoes. Maybe it's also having internalized enough stoic philosophy that dampened my emotions. I don't know.
pigeonburger
3mo ago
Thanks for your kind words. I hope something like that would not scar you for life, because ultimately burying their parents is something most people have to go through (and it would be a much sadder world if the opposite were more common).
pigeonburger
3mo ago
I think it has hit me, it wasn't that much of a surprise that it happened so I've been preparing myself mentally for a while. She had metastasis all over and while for a year and a half medication kept it from progressing, we knew from the moment she had that diagnosis that she had years left, not decades.
I am not performatively emotional at all (that lack of outward emotion is a family trait) but I get the feeling maybe people might think I don't actually care just because I seem to be outwardly normal?
Because the culture's approval was coming from left wing institutions, so it was less fruitful to do shock performance art as a right winger. Maybe we'll see more of it from the right if the culture does shift the way it seems it might be, though Kanye's an attention junkie and is jumping the gun by a lot.
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