ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1d ago
But now that I rarely get to do any of that...it turns out that I can still write a few thousand words even when dead tired and nominally out of time.
It makes sense, it's exercising a part of your brain that didn't get tired out during the course of the day, which is my main struggle with my projects.
certainly not going to post any of it
Well, I can definitely sympathize here, and won't bother you about it this time. I like thinking up stories too, but every time I actually sit down and write anything down it 's a) torture to get any words down on paper, b) utter cringefest that goes straight into the garbage bin
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I'm pretty sure I played something that fits the bill, but no specific title (other than the one I mentioned) comes to mind, and I'm not familiar with the ones people are bringing up.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Never played it so can't tell you, but by the looks of the screenshots and blurbs, yeah kinda. I think Phobia was more basic, but still loads of fun.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
@Southkraut, I know you've been busy with real stuff lately with little hope of things improving, but since you haven't cancelled your pinging service, here's your weekly: how are you doing?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
You didn't think this was all just about "boids" did ya?
I finished cleaning up the code, and while there might be a way to compress / segment it even more I'm pretty happy with the result. It's still a bit unwieldy, but I no longer have to scroll past an endless stream of shader initialization code to find a variable I want to tweak.
This means I could move on to something slightly more fun. There once was a game called Phobia. I'm not sure if it was ever more than a demo for DirectX, but it had a surprisingly compelling game loop, where a horde of aliens would come at you, some sort of a space marine, and you'd have to dispatch them using various weapons. The horde was endless, so it was really only a question of how many times can you pull off squeaking through to pick up a power up allowing you to deal unholy levels of damage, and what kill count you could rack up, before finally succumbing to your enemies.
This was an old game, and all the logic was run on the CPU, so I doubt there was ever more than a couple hundred enemies on screen at any given time. Wouldn't it be fun if you could redo the whole thing on a GPU with enemy counts going well into hundreds of thousands? So I downloaded some open source assets, and recreated the basic setup. Little is happening so far, other than the monsters chasing you, so the next step will be implementing a compute shader that handles shooting and killing them.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Look, I'm a Luddite, it's not that I don't see the increases in efficiency, it's that I question whether they're good for us in the long term.
Having lived through the same period and worked in the same field, I agree the Internet was a game changer in many ways. There's a world of difference between looking up info in a book, like a barbarian, and just checking Stack Overflow. But I also see the effect it had on me - for example I notice I'm way more frustrated when I have to read a longer explanation, and don't just get served the goddamn code snippet. I also wonder what effect the rise of video tutorials / documentation is going to have on people. I find it frustrating, but just from how common it is, I guess a lot of people have to like it, and I wonder if it doesn't mess with people's heads in a similar way that Stack Overflow messed with mine.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Nonetheless, in my experience the difference in the quality of thought and breadth of knowledge when you compare credentialed professionals to enthusiastic amateurs is striking.
Big doubt.
This is going to be somewhat complicated by the fact that the fields I followed are different from yours, but if economics, psychology, or social science are any indication, the quality of thought and breadth of knowledge don't amount to much. Don't get me wrong, I know what you're referring to, and I agree it exists, but it seems to boil down to a difference in form rather than substance, and the form of showing off your "quality of thought" and breadth of knowledge is mostly used to deflect from obvious questions.
If I wasn't worried about raw egg consumption, I'd probably try it myself.
Stop being such a coward and do it. I swear I'm about to go on a hock-like quest to slap every safetyist on this site. I could just barely remain silent when it came to bicycle-helmet-wearers or fist-fight-avoiders, but when people are too afraid to make their own mayonnaise I have to speak up.
It's freaking tasty, you're missing out!
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
All I'm saying is that your plan to counter Big Tech may just end up giving the Woke (even more) control over it.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Frankly, they're going in the wrong direction. A great deal of technology developed over the last 30 years (social media, generative AI, frankly the internet itself) is either neutral/mixed at best or actively harmful at worst. If anything we need to be putting the brakes on "high-tech, high-productivity" jobs. Diverting funds to university social science departments would be a good way of slowing things down, at least. Despite my substantial disagreements with the wokeists, I'm willing to fund them if they can act as a counterbalance to a complete takeover by utilitarian techbroism.
I'd love to see the look on my younger self's face as I agree with this sentiment, but I think you're on to something. Still, I think this is bad politics. The last 8 years has clearly shown there is no fundamental conflict between Big Tech and the Woke. The woke are more than happy to use Big Tech's capabilities to track and censor dissent from it's ideology, and Big Tech is more than happy to provide it. I agree that utilitarian techbroism needs to be countered, but that can only be done by sponsoring groups that are actually opposed to utilitarianism and tech-accelerationism, not just another outgrowth of modernism.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I wonder, actually, if Twitter/Bluesky is an inversion of the old battle between neutral and conservative? Twitter is currently an officially-neutral-but-soft-right-leaning mainstream site, and the left defected from it to go and make their own space
If Twitter went from soft-left-leaning to soft-right-leaning this may have been a valid comparison, but it went from ruthless oppression of the right to "it's not fair that Elon retweets far-right disinformation". If you think this is in any way comparable to the landscape from "neutral vs conservative" you'd be shell-shocked if you found yourself in a world that's an actual inversion of it.
It's worth noting that our black murder rate is about the same as the US white murder rate
Is this what the kids call "mask off"? Implicit in the statement seems to be the belief that black people will always be more criminal, and therefore things can't be all that bad in the UK if even black people have a lower crime rate than white people in America. That's cool and all, but I was always under the impression that the population being complained in the UK about came from South Asia or thereabouts, plus maybe the Middle East, in a mirror image to what's happening in the US where they wagged their fingers at Europe because they never had that much of an issue with Muslims in America.
His personality seems likable and his demeanor is calm
I don't really follow him, but I've seen him sperg out more than once. Plus he's on some campaign to troll the right recently, so hardly surprising he's getting pushback.
You're right he can be likeable when he wants to, but he can get pretty abrasive and dishonest when he disagrees with someone.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
How did that George Floyd mural make it to Kabul then?
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
I suppose we never really recovered from 2008, but most of the 2010's felt normal-ish to me.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
weren't completely spent as an electoral force
I don't know if it's wise to get carried away here, they lost a single election, and a lot can happen between this one and the next one. I don't know how things are in the US, but at least in Europe the economic vibes are getting kinda weird, and a 2008-style crash could easily see them rebound. I guess this part of my confusion, it's hard for me to see this election as more than a temporary win.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
The vibes of the Trump 2.0 Presidency are already shaping up to be a LOT different than Trump 1.0
I had the same feeling. Not quite what I'd call a whitepill, but something of a counter to the extremely blackpilled narrative of the establishment doing whatever the hell it wants against the wishes of the common people, or even it's own principles. I can't quite figure out why, though. The first term has shown they can oppose him and suffer no consequences, so why the race to bend the knee all of a sudden?
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
Congrats! Were you the one that made that song about Elon Musk's GFs? If yes, I really liked that one, if not - damn we have a lot of musicians here.
They've asked me for "An embed-code for the record (one that would be exclusively working on [website], if possible)." Anyone know the best way to set this up?
An embed code is simple enough, I'm kind of scratching my head if limiting it to a specific website is even possible, but there might be some obvious gimmick I can't quite figure out. Might be best just to ask them if there's any service other bands typically use for this.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
You provided examples of different ways of them lobbying for their public goals.
Was trans surgeries for children a public goal? I was assured (and occasionally am still being assured) that it's something that doesn't happen. Similarly with sending rapists to women's prisons. Is government officials privately making demands of independent medical orgs, that violate their internal rules, just another way of lobbying?
Sure, lobbying is often bad, but it's not a special secret conspiracy attributable to woke NGOs.
It is attributable to woke NGO's, they're the ones doing the lobbying. If it's not a super secret conspiracy, you shouldn't have called it that.
Those calling out "the patriarchy" and "systemic racism" blame many concrete effects on those and suggest many concrete changes.
So do people blaming NGOs.
"Men" and "white people" are not cabals. They are not coordinated, possibly clandestine (relatively) small groups with a shared goal. They're just...populations.
NGO's are not cabals either. Look at token's reaction to the WEF post, or even the general reactions of the forum to that post, and you'll see the same "that doesn't count as a conspiracy, it's too out in the open and not coordinated enough" reactions that you're trying to put forward re: patriarchy / systemic racism. These sort of conversations always have this weird dance were you get to sneer at someone for being a conspiracy theorist while at the same time denying he's putting forward a conspiracy theory, the moment they lay down the evidence.
I'm a bit short on examples at the moment, but the way feminists talk about men absolutely does sound like they are coordinated and have a shared goal of oppressing women, and ditto for anti-racists. I suppose, can only promise to ping you once I come across something.
I've seen a lot of anti-feminist takes here and on similar message boards. But "feminists don't blame enough things on the patriarchy" is a new one to me
I... don't see where I said that?
So the people openly trying to change society to be more accepting of LGBT people are... also secretly conspiring to change society to be more accepting of LGBT people?
You're the one that equated NGO activity with shadowy cabals so you tell me. Also they explicitly list hidden pressure as one of the tactics they recommend. Also, the plot to remove age limits on gender affirming care was completely secret, and only came out by pretty much a lucky accident.
to be more accepting of LGBT people
Just a note that "be more accepting of LGBT people" we're talking about letting rapists go to women's prison because they suddenly declared they're women too.
That seems pretty different from the claim that the movement is really about seeking "control".
How is pressuring politicians to push through unpopular laws, and doing so secretly for the explicitly stated reason that doing so publicly would cause a backlash, not a form of control? How is using your high-ranking government position to put pressure on medical orgs to change their standards of care not a very direct form of control?
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Leftists don't claim these are cabals though
Like hell they don't. Go listen to a hardcore feminist talk about men, or an "anti-racist" talk about white people.
I'll also note that the word "cabal" doesn't seem to appear in OP's post.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
You're performing a Gish gallop by citing a dozen emotionally loaded stories of violent crimes committed in Europe by people who aren't European (conveniently ignoring all the violent crimes committed by Europeans) - and you're accusing me of "selectively" using the dispassionate, objective metric of the murder rate to make my case that Romania is in fact significantly more dangerous (and Ireland significantly safer) than you're claiming? Physician, heal thyself.
He's more right then you are. I added a reply to Hus comment with a link to a breakdown of German crime numbers by ethnicity, which is a better metric than the general murder rate.
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Your selective use of the murder rate
To add to the point, it's not like no one has looked at crime by ethnicity and reached some very unsurprising results. The fact that the native population, and immigrants from more peaceful countries can make the average rate look reasonable, doesn't mean that immigration from certain countries won't cause an increase in crime.
Yeah, I think I played all of them except the latest (which I was completely unaware of until your post, so thanks). They're all very fun to play, though I do think the guy should hire a writer for the story.
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