sun
2yr ago
You jest, but I genuinely fail to see the appeal of the game as presented. Are all those memes about psychopathic genocidal Anglo-Saxons real?
sun
2yr ago
I've been having fun for the past few months playing Degenesis almost weekly with a few pals. It's a self-described "primal punk" TTRPG setting describing human society 500 years after civilization was devastated by a few meteors loaded with a mutating virus. I like how it makes "hi-tech magic" and "mutation magic" properly rare, and the variety of the societies introduced in the setting.
It's refreshing to play, once in a while, a big sword guy with next to no skills in the INT group who whacks baddies, chugs moonshine, and occasionally uses his high INS to figure out who the baddies are.
All the materials for play are free, and the company just announced a Kickstarter for a skirmish wargame based in the setting.
sun
2yr ago
You're being overly charitable to middle-schoolers if you think most of bullying is that "they didn't know better". They know better well enough, they simply don't care.
sun
2yr ago
That's not an argument against disrupting Hitler, that's an argument for doing it harder.
sun
2yr ago
And are you trying to show that surrogacy is purchasing a human being for the sake of truth and accuracy, or for propaganda?
sun
2yr ago
The "non-central fallacy" was just Scott's way of saying "I can't point to anything wrong with what you're saying, but I don't like how you're using it rhetorically".
Technical correctness is the lowest form of being correct. What exactly about the objection "you're equivocating between the common emotionally charged example and the technically valid yet quite different in chargedness one" don't you like?
sun
2yr ago
Do you think it is charitable to put emphasis on how you have a right to the child's involuntary labor "in the West" when actual such cases are almost unheard of in the West (aside from making them clean their room) and ubiquitous in the third world?
sun
2yr ago
Now I imagine a dark dungeon full of guys in the traditional hooded cloaks who spend their time lifting. Wait, isn't that just the Forge cult in Cultist Simulator?
sun
2yr ago
If the state had no qualms about the poor optics they could nab you with zero excuse.
sun
2yr ago
The people mining the good out of society are people running porn websites, and AB testing headlines and algorithmic content feeds to see which ones make people hate each other more, and then buy the products that they’re selling. Onlyfans is mining the good out of society, blackrock is mining the good out of society, McKinsey consulting is mining the good out of society
Those people will be doing more of all that and better (or rather "more efficiently" - nothing about it will be better for the audience), with higher profit margin since they'll no longer need to pay the grunts in call centers.
sun
2yr ago
No, I mean stepping away from pursuing transhumanism means death, even if you don't personally execute us.
sun
2yr ago
What would the effect on the pressure to have state-sponsored retirement be once people no longer have to quit the workforce and the concept of "work for 40 years and then have a rest until you die" loses its meaning?
sun
2yr ago
"What is the consequence of defying the luddite?"
"Death. "
"Then what is the consequence of submitting to the luddite?"
"Death."
"How shall we proceed, General?"
sun
2yr ago
I don't feel like I'm afraid of death per se, certainly not like Yud's Voldemort or even like Yud's "DAE what can be worse than death???" Harry. But it would certainly be blasted inconvenient, and I'm particularly incensed that some people turn to worshipping some funny spiral chemical's lack of interest in letting us live longer above our own interests.
sun
2yr ago
And I know of more than one of us that dreams of life as a squid.
Eclipse Phase gets weird, man.
sun
2yr ago
Your proposition is bristled at because they assume you're saying "what if" and sneaking in "it is". I assume that's a large part of it.
Some of it, of course, is bristling at an existential attack on one's community. Unfortunately, that tends to be counterproductive when a community is supposed to be transient (ha!) or transitive in the first place.
sun
2yr ago
That's what people usually say when asked to demonstrate whether their claims of God-ordainment are falsifiable or not, yes.
sun
2yr ago
this world will pass away eventually. Anti-Aging wouldn't stop the second coming of Christ, it won't even stop the heat death of the universe.
In that case I don't see why not stick around until whichever comes earlier.
sun
2yr ago
All I'm hearing are appeals to "it's always been that way therefore it can only be that way" and stridently ignoring all the cases where that principle didn't work, so I suppose we're even. Besides, I wasn't talking about computers or magically inventing FALGSC out of thin air. Medical advancement isn't that fantastical. Certainly not too fantastical to refute conjecture of the "immortality is stagnancy" rate.
Chronos didn't really get along very well with Zeus.
I hold this to be paint-the-bullseye justification of the current state of reality, like a lot of ancestral wisdom.
sun
2yr ago
If my way is not ordained by God, then let Him strike me down. If yours is, why are you worried that He will allow my way to destroy yours?
sun
2yr ago
Stagnant organisms lose the possibility to change, and therefore to adapt.
Again, an ability that they only don't have as long as the evolutionary process didn't deem it necessary for them to propagate. Or as long as they don't research neuroplasticity restoration and body modification.
Well your children presumably.
I'm sure I'll reckon with my children amicably, somehow. Another incentive for us all to go to space. We could also explore all those proposals about social systems that discourage concentrating wealth in a few people's hands...
"It's not like you can take it to the grave" would certainly age like milk.
I suppose it's more funny when "fuck" and "marry" are the unappealing choices. All the examples I've heard present three fuckable/marriable people.
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