Barfknuckle
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Barfknuckle
9d ago
I'll just STFU rather than sit here doing a stupid monkey dance actually explaining how a federal agency is different than a Roman legion, thanks. I forgot the rules forbid not talking like an autistic alien.
Barfknuckle
9d ago
Roman soldiers often became loyal to the generals that distributed them land and victories over the roman state itself. It's really hard to not see this dynamic replicated.
Ludicrous comparison. TDS.
Barfknuckle
11d ago
"Sorry I let your kid drown, but since I saved 15 bees today I'm still 5% ahead of the game."
Barfknuckle
11d ago
wouldn’t you care if someone were purposely buying bees only to kill them?
Only if they were doing so on an industrial scale and fucking with the bee economy. Human beings annihilate insects in their quadrillions every year; if they're worth anything more than zero then I guess we should all just kill ourselves right now to make room for them.
Barfknuckle
12d ago
Yeah, and? That isn't what he's being criticized for here, so what relation does it have to my post? Were you just itching to drop that hot take about how adultery is bad and couldn't be bothered to post it anywhere relevant?
Barfknuckle
13d ago
Male sexuality is a lot simpler than female sexuality. Jeff could have destroyed his marriage for a nubile twenty-something with naturally big assets, but he went for tawdry 'sexy' with the trout pout and plastic boobs (though once again, I have to salute her commitment to starving and exercising in order to keep a taut muscle tone). It's not much good to criticise women for being shallow in the dating market when the fruits of success are to dress like this and hook your own billionaire.
Dude has enough money to just grab a big-titty college girl off the street like "MMM THIS TEEN IS SUITABLE FOR BREEDING" and get away with it, but instead he marries an age-appropriate woman and he still has to get shit for it? The hell with that. So she works out and had her tits done, so what? Does he have to marry an old fat lady?
Barfknuckle
18d ago
“wife-selling” was a well-known Anglo practice of soft divorce
wat
Barfknuckle
23d ago
Obama and Trump 1 failed nuclear non-proliferation by not helping Ukraine in the 2014 Crimean war with everything they can, under the context of Budapest Memorandum. If the Budapest Memorandum failed to protect Ukraine's border, what is the point of giving up nukes?
The Budapest Memorandum doesn't suggest anyone do anything more than complain to the UN when triggered. It's a meaningless pinky-swear to avoid attacking them, not a guarantee of their defense. When someone brings it up at this point, years into the war, I just assume they're a support-maximalist who hopes no one knows what's actually in it.
Ukraine never had launch codes for "its" nukes and when Russia demanded them back its choices were to either comply or have the world force them. They never had any actual leverage and that's why the Budapest Memorandum was a worthless cumrag from the start.
Barfknuckle
27d ago
What doesn't make sense is to assume that the external world we perceive is as we perceive it, or that our faculties allow us to satisfactorily observe and evaluate its nature or scope.
This is the kind of thing you hear when someone's peddling something that they know will never be made distinguishable from non-reality by any demonstrable method whatsoever. Maybe it sounds good to believers eager to quit getting kicked around by observations of reality, but you could use lines like this to argue for literally anything
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Yeah man, hovering over this forum waiting for someone to do a flowery effortpost about how the moon just exploded (or whatever) so we can talk about it is kinda dumb.
What are the rules about just starting a new random thread on the front page? Can we just post a moon explosion thread whenever we want and post any kind of trash in it?
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
This rhetorical question actually caused me to have a think. Why do people want to talk to an AI? I mean productivity I can understand, all the usual "as a tool" excuses. But I've felt no compulsion, not even curiosity, to talk to an LLM just to talk. And yet I see people casually mentioning doing that all over the place. It's like something straight out of Her, a film which thoroughly squicked me out. Is there anyone here who just casually socializes with an LLM who can explain why they do it?
I don't chitchat with them but I do like it when they have a little bit of personality. There was a time when Microsoft's AI would refuse to comply with commands if you were excessively rude to it, and I liked it that way. I started using it much less once it became unshakably sycophantic.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
woke-right is such a misnomer, you can't just use woke- for a generic "hardcore true believer" it waters down the term.
James Lindsay uses it on Twitter as a derogatory term for anti-Jewish right wingers, who then all abuse, ratio, and fart on him in his threads. That's all I know it as.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Yeah it's like if you're gonna create an environment where kids can never get served by better dancers, then you're not giving them any reason to get funky. May as well tear down the community center and make it a strip mall at that point.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
I've had this fantasy of traveling a thousand years into the past and trying to teach monks and engigneors modern technology with just my layman's understanding. I was pretty much going to try experimenting with feeding moldy bread to dudes with the bubonic plague.
Just try to get everyone to wash their damn hands and you're golden.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Is scarfgate just salty sour pusses hating on a highly agentic women? Or are there deeper issues here?
Yo I'm just gonna speak my deepest monkeybrain here and tell you that this little story about stealing a scarf is either gross or adorable depending upon how hot the girl was and what the vibe felt like. Like imagine it twice, once with like peak Wynona Ryder getting her crazy stealies on, and then once again with some ugly broad. Yeah you know what's up.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
I'll have to throw vanilla on and see how I get along with the basic gameplay. MechWarrior has always sort of been about racing ahead trying to superhero everything to death before your three bumbling sidekicks can get themselves killed.
BattleTech on the other hand, I can sculpt a perfect precise clockwork death squad. The Phoenix Hawk flanks, the Marauders jump forward to look for headshots, the Atlas cleans up anything still alive by its turn. Entire lances wiped out in a single turn, some mechs dying before even getting to move. Reinforcement lances beheaded and burned. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. I do a little bit of this shit in front of the computer.
I gotta see if I can still get into playing DuckTales from Uncle Scrooge's perspective.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
So I take it this game got good eventually? Is it worth playing without DLC? I got it when it was new and I had a worthless radar that only let me see things in front of me with a clear line of sight, my lancemates were total bumblefucks who tended to shoot each other, enemies were appearing out of thin air, etc.
HBS Battletech
Small lasers are daggers and highly mobile mechs with lots of support hardpoints are rogues. An ER SLAS++ off the black market hits as hard as a stock large laser but generates like half as much heat and still only weighs half a ton. If they didn't have piss-squirt range they'd be the best weapons in the game by miles.
What you do is you put four of them sumbitches on an SLDF Phoenix Hawk with max armor and jets, fill the five standard energy hardpoints with say those MLAS++ with the extra 10 damage, and stuff the rest of it with double heat sinks. With the +20% damage from the vectored thrust kits you're looking at like a 400 damage alpha coming off a jump.
Then you just scoot it around the edge of a battle and dare the enemy to either chase it and turn their backs to the rest of your oncoming lance, or ignore it while it rips their guts out from behind one by one. You just drop in directly behind them like "nothin personnel kid" and blow their rear CT out through their front CT.
It's an absolute monster, on par with a dooded up SLDF Marauder or Atlas II.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
Every random triviality in the book that manages to not blatantly contradict reality is apparently evidence for its validity, but I guess we're just supposed to ignore all the anachronistic horses, chariots, steel, etc. etc. etc.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
ChatGPT fucked up halfway through the first sentence. Mark Carney has been PM for almost 2 months now. Almost as long as Trump has been president, and it would be unthinkable to refer to Trump as "America's new president"
This is the problem with your slop. Not even an ounce of sense or awareness.
Referring to a guy who took office less than two months ago as new isn't much of an own, it just looks like you're reaching here. AI could replace pretty much all of written journalism and as long as there were a couple guys left to filter out hallucinations I don't think many people would particularly notice.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
naturally she cares a lot about what her character's armor looks like and very little about what it does
Based.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
A value that's still more than you sitting around and doing whatever else you do.
I disagree. Doing whatever I want without having to consider what Zeus might think of it has value unto itself. I'm not pulling a mythology out of a hat and basing my life around it because there's an abstract philosophical nonzero chance that Tiamat is real or something and maybe I'll have lucked out and guessed correctly.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
Scott Alexander is hysterically overrated just because he actually criticized wokes a bit back during the era where the spineless techies that make up his fandom were busy cowering and licking progressive boots.
Barfknuckle
2mo ago
Isn't doing nothing the most foolish option, due to Pascal's wager?
Take the chance that God even exists in the first place, then divide that by the chances that he doesn't care about worship, or doesn't like cynical odds-based worship, or doesn't actually punish anyone, then divide whatever value you have left at this point by all the mutually exclusive religious options with nothing in particular to recommend them over one another, and what are you really left with?
Nothing worth restructuring your life over. If I actually considered vague abstract probabilities like this worth acting on I'd probably be doing all kinds of dumb shit all the time.
Eh you know, you gotta tick those early boring boxes in the tech tree if you ever hope to get anywhere. At least light aircraft production is technologically adjacent to drone production.
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