sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
1yr ago
Yes, I've seen this cherry-picked frame before. An actual comparison doesn't quite fit that narrative.
"Uglier" is not the fitting word in the vast majority of such cases. It's loaded and implies the end result is below average. Going from 8 to 7, or even from 7 to 6 is hardly "uglification".
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Speaking of, what do you think of BG3 female party members' looks? Am I the one who's crazy when I think the "they making em look like men for trans appeasement" crowd need to touch grass?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I'd assume it's common for dating app women, when they do set up dates, to set up several and last minute cancel all but one.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Isn't that penalty specifically for failing to release user data to the respective users before the app is banned?
edit: nevermind, there's another one for failing to stop distribution.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
It's really, really hard! If you'll allow me to put on my tinfoil hat, I almost feel like publishers are intentionally making it hard.
Dota 2 and CS have party play, last time I checked.
If there is, you might have to wait 30min or longer because the game forces groups of players to only play against other groups of players.
Then find 5 more people to lobby with? Was it quicker than 30 minutes to go to your local LAN club back in the day so you could play within your own small community?
Oh, and there's censorship, of course. Even innocent, casual-friendly games like Minecraft have to make sure you can't say any naughty words anymore.
Presumably you have your own voice chat app so you don't have to speak ingame at all.
Honestly? Yeah, I do want to stomp newbies. As long as it takes me dozens of hours to learn a game or map, I should be rewarded with a vastly increased win chance. Otherwise, what's the point? Why am I learning and trying to get better if the game will just become harder and harder up until I give up? This is just the Moloch problem again, btw.
You have the choice to find a group of noob friends who don't mind getting stomped. That's how any even slightly organized competition works. You want to have fun? So does everyone else. Want to have easy fun? Play vs. bots. You don't want sweaty tryhards? Don't be sweaty and sink to the rating where people who don't try as hard are. Or, again, find likeminded people. Moloch is about sweatier systems outcompeting unsweatier ones, but I don't see how public queue is "outcompeting" premades, except in games that don't have premades in the first place (and CS/Dota 2 do).
"Game gets harder as I get better" is a selling point for many, many people in many, many games, it shouldn't be unfathomable to you.
There's nothing stopping them from playing for a few dozen hours, getting better at the game and stomping newbies too. This is how WC3 works and it's great. This is how the natural world and evolution work too.
It's not fun unless you're a complete masochist, and even you don't seem to be a masochist. Instead you seem to think that newbies don't deserve fun. While also thinking that the game shouldn't be sweaty.
Also, in nature and evolution you don't get better, you just eat shit and die if you're bad. You want to appeal to evolution? The MMR model of gaming flooded out your preferred model of gaming because it's more appealing. Therefore, it's better. That's evolution for you.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
What stops you from playing with your small group of friends now?
What's "punishing" about having to play with better players as you become a better player? Is it your desire to instead stomp lobbies 1v5 (or 1v9 if your teammates are bad enough)? Unfortunately, that would likely not be the desire of 5-9 people playing against you.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of hypothetical friends are you thinking about? No need to be specific.
I find that I can't recall any person I'd want to talk to who's currently "too cool" for me.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
You say that like sparing your wife, children or other wards the undeserved shit is something bad.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
You can't police CS or Dota as well as a loxal game store.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I mean the horrifying slavery of the brain scans, not the digitization as such.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I would like, with morbid curiosity, to see the world where the entirety of the population of Russia and neighboring Russian-speaking countries are a board-dweller subpopulation.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Prisoners, fringe regions of Russia of dubious ethnic (as opposed to ideological) loyalty. I can't say for sure about the latter, but I've heard of protests in Bashkortostan regarding the conscription.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
One could offer the person a hundred bucks in exchange for writing an essay (of some clearly stated minimum quality) on "what would you do with a morbillion dollars". Presumably, that would offer an incentive to a pragmatic person who normally refuses to indulge into such daydreams, while accurately accessing their capacity for contemplating hypotheticals.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
What is the difference between "rules separate from those of a physical universe" and "following the same rules as us yet exploiting the parts of them that we haven't discovered yet"?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Why is greater accountability undesirable, assuming greater understanding?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
All phenomena that are in the universe are real by definition, yes. But you seem to believe that we're as close to understanding subjectivity as we are to understanding self-reflection.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
This does not answer the question. Just because you might be incurious about the experience of self-awareness and only thinking in terms of practical application, doesn't mean others aren't.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
It's not the self-awareness itself that is the big mystery, it's the qualia of self-awareness. The light might be on, but why does someone have to be looking out the window?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Speculating on whether Kanye really does fuck his wife is veering quite close to the realm of cope. As for the Arab princes, the first 2 things I recall about them are their golden cars and the Dubai skyscrapers. If the Arabs have a reputation for asceticism and humbleness even at the highest echelons of their society, I have not heard of it.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I guess any sort of diversity and cringe writing just isn't as much in the face of players in gameplay-focused games. Whenever some new character who isn't a male and/or isn't white drops in Apex Legends, the Noticers flare up for a bit but there isn't really much else to talk about, and the gameplay is good (usually).
sun_the_second
1yr ago
sun_the_second
1yr ago
From what I heard about BAP's persona, he isn't one to bash crassness. Pot, kettle. Besides, the defining trait of upper class, as put forward by the countersignal theory, is that they can afford to look trashy - it's their immediate lowers who have to keep it classy to avoid being mistaken for actually trashy trashy.
This is also why if a regular man's wife dresses like a whore, calling his status into question sounds credible. If the man is high enough, he doesn' t have a status-based reason to care whether his wife dresses like a whore. What are you gonna do, buy a night with her?
What is the win condition here?
Judging solely by the old wisdom of "the winner of a knife fight is the guy who dies on the way to hospital", knife guy gets a stab in, potentially lethal, but gets his face bashed in and K.O'd first.
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