sun_the_second
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At the extreme end, there are players in PoE who just look for the items the build guide tells them to look for instead of bothering to understand itemization. But they'd still look at item modifiers, not item level. A max level base can (and most often does) drop with complete garbage bonuses that make it worse than a well-rolled item with a much lower level base.
The same man who posts pictures of his face photoshopped onto Iron Man? At least with Iron Man it could be interpreted as some sort of post-meta-irony.
(Epistemic status: I think I saw that post screenshotted somewhere, I don't have a link)
I mean, we don't expect the hunter to build his own rifle or a racer to build his own car. But we do expect them to know what their gear is doing.
I've described elsewhere in the thread how Elon doesn't just make basic distracted-like mechanical mistakes, he literally doesn't know what his items do and how good they are (despite having had to craft them or more likely search for those specific items from the trading website). It's like if you met a top-level raider in WoW and he said his (best in slot for his class) items are "not very good" because they don't look pretty, which is the best analogy I can come up with for WoW because I don't play it.
This is all on hardcore league also, so it's not only a lack of game knowledge - Elon would have had to spend dozens of hours grinding experience on his character to get to level 90 without dying once, in a game known to ruthlessly punish players for lacking game knowledge.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
Just as the most glaring example, he offhandedly mentions his staff is "not very good" because its item level is 30 lower that his character level and that he "should find a better staff, y'know, over 30 levels". There is a grand total of 1 staff with better damage per second than Elon's on the trading website (where most players "find" better items, because creating them with crafting orbs is a matter of being rich and lucky, and finding them on the floor is a matter of being go-play-the-lottery lucky). 5 total quarterstaffs in the same ballpark of damage.
He then hovers over his Hands of Wisdom and Action (a unique item, the modifiers of which are unaffected by item level at all) and similarly dismisses it for its item level (even though it's an item likely crucial to his build).
If he had concerned himself even briefly with the gear system of PoE2, he would know that. It goes beyond glossing over the complexities of the game "for the laymen watching", the man playing the game on stream straight-up is not aware of what makes his decked-out character good.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
If only his team came up with a novel build. Looking at it, it's a fairly standard HoWA monk and the distinguishing part is how much grind went into maxing out his items, not the novelty of theorycrafting.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
It's bizarre if true. He can't be clueless enough to not understand that this is extremely transparent. It's tempting to declare in the best traditions of armchair psychoanalysis that this is just how top management warps your brain, to truly believe that you get credit for playing your games the same way you run your companies - paying other people to do all the grunt work.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
This sounds like someone should be checking their pipes for lead.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
Leftists do talk plenty about Israel, I observe, when they're not in "those devious jews amirite" company (for obvious reasons). Themotte is closer to being such company than not.
In order to have a discussion on why Israel is wrong from the leftist world model (questions of universal human rights), you first have to have an agreement on the idea that human rights are universal (as opposed to only your ingroup's).
sun_the_second
5mo ago
You know that "big machine is like an extension of my body" thing? This, but taken as literally as possible.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
The symbolism in this case is "I am, indeed, your wayward little brother as your propaganda has been claiming all along, and only persisted in having my own language out of spite and stubbornness".
sun_the_second
5mo ago
If propaganda isn't materially important why are both sides doing it?
Are you surprised that no one routinely bitchslaps you to show you your proper station within your country? You're acting like a slave who has attitude about his master, someone far above him, not treating another noble, also someone far above the slave, in the manner the slave believes the master should. He's the last one to be asked.
You can accept the polite fiction that most people do that you aren't a commoner nobody (considering you don't have a word in how much taxes you pay), and give up all talk of "stations" and "attitude" and "bitchslapping", or else consider praising your masters for being much more merciful than they could be, before you scold them for being merciful to people you dislike.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
For what it's worth, I recall literally zero episodes of anyone in my life going on about "actually Ukraine is just Russia" before the war. On my screen, people were perfectly fine having it as just a quaint almost-Russia, similar but separate, until the TV turned on the propaganda tap.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
There are hardly any left-wingers left, in my observation most explicitly left-wing posters who don't quit are eventually deemed trolls.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
I can believe that it's hard to do a suicide bombing when you're in traction with both your legs broken, but it was hardly the only opportunity to do some minecraft.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
What is the actual percentage/selection of people who get raped in prison in the US? People talk as if 99% of prisoners are certain to become ass bitches of the 1%, but that seems off to me. In Russia, for context, the sexual abuse from what is common (but not necessarily up-to-date) knowledge is limited to the absolute outcasts (approximately 10%?), and even then is not always applied nowadays. Which is to say, if you went to prison in Russia for killing your daughter's rapist, your chances of being raped are lower than the average prisoner, except maybe by the guards.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
I'm sorry, but knowing your cultivated persona and giving you full credit, I'd assume that if meritocracy didn't include you, you would do all you could to subvert it.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
I'm aware of the concept of edgy jokes. I'm also aware of the concept of masking real feelings with jokes, usually detected by the joke being particularly repetitive and adjacent to plainly stated opinions.
There are only trace amounts of Freudian potential in "wagecucking". It's really hard to imagine someone beating a wagecucking meme to death because he really feels sexually dominated by capitalism. I have tried just now.
I'd assume the ritual is considered, at best, overreacting these days. Assumed thought process of the boyfriend in question:
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I already know that a father would respond with violence if I hurt his daughter like this.
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Also, I'm not a barbarian and I don't need to be explicitly threatened to respect a woman.
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The above two are obvious.
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The dad is making a threat before such a threat is warranted.
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The dad might have a very different definition of "hurting his little girl" than normal people.
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The dad doesn't want anyone (else?) to fuck his daughter ever.
Consider a different situation of lower stakes: if someone punches you, you're usually within your rights to fight back, and unless it's a very uneven fight you'd likely do so instinctively. But you don't go around telling people "don't fuck with me or you'll find out" before it looks like a fight, do you?
sun_the_second
5mo ago
I do hope you're not implying that one must write a comprehensive AAQC-worthy dissertation on a topic to qualify as sufficiently non-directly-insulting. It's a high bar to clear and I think you'll remain disappointed again and again when someone fails to meet it.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
Accusing me of lying about my intentions doesn't come into telling me what to avoid doing, though.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
I find views of many users here offensive, but in this particular case what I was hoping was to have Sloot give a non-irony-poisoned straight declaration of his views for once. Whether to be disgusted or not would come later. You're welcome to not believe me, but let's not pretend that you telling me what you think I intended has any weight.
sun_the_second
5mo ago
What does MEGA mean? If it's England then I can't undestand what Falun Gong has to do with it.
I don't remember whether I've seen the infinite reincarnation somewhere or arrived to it myself, but I have also been thinking about it for a few years.
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