Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction, often charachterized by such things as extreme furturistic and technological advancement, placed against societal collapse, dystopia or decay.
It was also one of the first genres that touched upon transhumanism, but such enhancement were often subhuman, degrading - willingly transforming one's self into little more than a tool made to excel in a world that's turned into a brutal machine with the endgoal to optimize all parts.
So, whenever I see such things as this;
He therefore believes in going to extreme lengths to optimize his own looks. His own looksmaxxing experiments include steroid usage at a young age, taking meth to stay lean, and altering his facial structure by hitting facial bones with a hammer/fist. Digging deeper it appears that he has social anxiety (he suspects he has autism) and he usually uses a cocktail of drugs to overcome this anxiety when streaming his social interactions. [...] When Clav appears to have his drugs dialed in he seems to achieve his goals in the interview (spreading looksmaxxing ideology and generating algorithmic engagement).
The first thing that comes to mind is 'What did you think Transhumanism meant? Vibes? Essays?'
The second thing is 'Behold, your Cyberpunk Dystopia. It's going to involve alot of drugs.'
So the proper answer to your question is to stop making everything a cyberpunk dystopia.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
Alcohol is expensive af
Minor note; Alcohol at bars and restraunts are expensive as fuck. Buying direct is actually stupidly cheap, as they've come out with a massive host of surprisingly good whiskey and the like that can be had for very good prices.
Well, if you've a taste for whiskey, atleast.
I've seen people wonder if the social arena, bars and the like, have taken a severe hit due to the leagal-but-not-really-but-kinda-yes grey area that marijuana now falls in, as people are now choosing to stay in and get baked as opposed to go out, throw down lots of money, and not get baked.
But that's just musings on their part.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
The thing that makes me curious is to why such calibers as 45 acp weren't more popular, specifically due to use by the military. Hell, it's not as if 45 or 9mm are new calibers, even by that point, so why the utilization of 38 specials and other arcane cartridges?
Unless there was the 'cool' factor due to use by the police. Then again, why didn't the 'cool' factor make civilians pick up the military-favoured caliber, nevermind all the veterans prevalent post ww1 and ww2?
All of this reminds me that I've had the urge to track down books/articles on firearm catridge development and the social context surrounding it for the longest time. Years, by this point. I should probably get on that...
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
The Bauhaus movement/cult will receive a brutal albeit mysterious end.
...I'm not sure that qualifies as 'petty'.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
you can passport bro if it comes down to it
'Just be rich enough to fly to another country and find a wife' is not the stirring rebuttal you think it is.
I understand the Motte is weird, but you do realize that this is outside the price range for most men, yes?
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
So? The point was that Google, despite being a service expecting return, was still good. That's what allowed the entire fiction to function - you got an actual good product that searched the interweb while google got to collect advertising info and revenue.
Now google search has just devolved down into pure advertisement where businesses quietly pay google in the background to make sure thier results are at the top, regardless of wether you want them or no. If you want anything comparable(presumably), you now have to pay upfront. ...except, going by what people are saying in this thread, no, it's not all that and a bag of chips for various reasons, which makes it doubly-insulting.
Everything gets worse, nothing gets better. You can't even pay for better anymore.
Like I said. The future is absolute dogshit.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
So, this is where we're at, huh. Things that were basic and readily accessible have been ruined to the point to get anything worthwhile, you have to pay money for it, now.
The future is absolute dogshit.
(Yes, yes, I get it, if you're not paying money for it you are the product blah blah blah. Atleast allow me a moment to scream to the heavens when I witness how far we've fallen from greatness.)
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
As someone who's seen what goes on in shipping/mailing, that's not a job you want to get stuck with.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
Your post has inspired me. I shall now indulge in one of my odd habits and utilize weird and obscure screenshot of things to represent my PFP.
Grant_us_eyes
10d ago
Bungie comes by it honestly, given how they cut thier teeth on such luminaries as 'Pathways to Darkness' and later on 'Marathon', which the first teasers for Halo hinted directly at. And both of those games are quite the rabbit hole in and of themselves...
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Anything with heavy cream in it. Even straight, if he likes the taste. (I do, but I'm a little bit weird.)
1 cup of heavy cream has 500 calories, is low in sugar, heavy in fats.
...well, assuming he's not lactose intolerant. Otherwise, akward.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
That tracks with what I've been told. I've half-joked about somehow finding a medical Doctor Sugar Momma to get married to, in exchange for managing her financials.
The 'somehow' in that sentence is doing alot of heavy lifting, though. Among other things.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
Do you mean facts and foundational knowledge versus applied action here? Financial acumen = knowing what EPS means and how to read a balance sheet, the difference between price and value, etc etc?
What most people miss is how much of investing is a mental game, requiring an adoption of new beliefs and discarding many old ones. The person born into a family of highly successful investors would know this, while most of the rest of us chumps seem to pick up more misinformation and limiting beliefs than any sort of solid mentoring.
Pretty much. I've seen a bunch of egregious attitudes in regards to, for example, day trading, where alot of people fall into the attitude that they have to trade, despite the market not matching thier models, which turns what should be good tactics into basically betting on the market.
Or, for another example, people who flock in after a boom has occurred, asking if they should invest in your material of choice. (Looking at you, gold.)
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
Keep in mind I'm speaking as someone who actually 'gets it'. To a degree.
Maybe I'm expecting to much, but when you're hashing stuff out with an actual medical graduate on managing their college loan payouts and they're more than a little clueless while a friend of mine and I are just going 'No... this is easy', it kind of makes you re-think alot of things.
Granted, you seem to be less talking about financial acumen and more market management strategy. I would say they're a little bit different, and good market management strategy is alot harder than learning finance. IMO, and from my observations.
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
Before I took my finance courses, I would have told you I was horrible at math.
Now, I'm just convinced that math teachers are horrible at their job.
And worse comes to worse, that's what excel spreadsheets are for.
Grant_us_eyes
17d ago
Sadly, as time goes by, I've become more and more convinced that finance is one of those realms that you either get or you don't, and alot of people - even ones that are highly intelligent in other fields - simply don't.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
Result: Both. 53% German, 49% Autistic.
Huh.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Frozen Keto Chow might be an option for you; My brother used it as a frozen treat via a Ninja Creami, and from personal experience, Keto Chow itself tends to taste pretty good.
I'd advise heavy cream as opposed to melted butter when making said Keto Chow, however, as I don't think melted butter freezes that well.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor.
Getting on statins, ironically, might be the worst thing possible for you, as there have been some indication that statins actually surpress GLP-1.
...which, if that's the case, explains atleast one possible factor regarding the obesity epidemic.
...also ironically enough, there's some indication that semaglutide helps with cardiovascular health.
Do with that information what you will.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
The Motte is what you get when you get arguably decades of selection pressure.
I've noted this before, but let me re-elaborate what my experience has been in forums regarding left/right politics. Most forums that allow for political sub-forums to discuss such things tend to be heavily leftist. As a result, you end up with two things;
One, left-aligned individuals will find themselves in a massive echo-chamber supported by a horde of fellow leftists;
Two, right-aligned invidiuals will find themselves obscenely outnumbered and buried under mass-replies or gish-gallops, or both.
This results in a curious selection pressure; The right-aligned posters that stay and actively discuss politics despite the above conditions end up being a cut or two above normal posters. They are the White Whales, as I personally call them, hardened in debate by scars, able to smash others in one-on-one debate while still behaving well enough that the Admins can't overtly censure them, and they refuse to flame out. (Instead, things will often escalate to the point where such posters just get pushed out for other, made-up reasons, or forum rules forcing them out.)
Now, here's the other side of this; I've seen circumstances where, in another, smaller, seperate, more niche outside forum, still made up of contintuents of the larger forums for one reason or another, allowing for a political sub-forum.
Except, things are changed, now. The White Whale is still the White Whale, but the left-aligned are no longer in whaling ships. They no longer have the echo-chamber or gish-gallop to bring down the larger foe, or atleast drown them out.
Instead, they find themselves in a dinghy, up against a scarred monster, and, as a result, it's now the left-aligned posters having a severe flame out and reduced to bad behavior when, all of a sudden, thier arguements no longer work(from thier PoV) and they find themselves constantly on the backfoot.
...naturally, the sub-forum ends up closed, as the Admins just get sick and tired of having to deal with said left-aligned posters behaving so badly.
I bring up all of the above personal anecedants and observations to get to my points; Left-aligned posters have no reason to get in that dinghy, IE, the Motte. They're perfectly content in thier various echo chambers - indeed, as we've seen, when such places end up turning more neutral(such as Twitter), the left-aligned posters will end up fleeing for more safer waters(Bluesky).
Now, I'm sure there are a host of posters on the Motte thinkings 'But I'm left-aligned and don't think that way/do that'. And yes; You, instead, have made it through another selective pressure where you don't flame out, or behave badly, or expect echo-chamber backup when making your arguement.
The Motte will always have it's selection pressure, and there's never going to be a way to combat against that. Trying to find 'new blood' will always be a fools gambit, as you're never going to be able to lay down the nessecary bait to get the left-aligned posters you want. The only way to do so would be to allow special exceptions for left-aligned posters, and all that would result in would turn the Motte into yet another left-aligned echo chamber as what centric and right-aligned posters shrug and leave, as the unique charachteristics that make up the Motte would no longer exist.
If anything, your example of Darwin is very topical. People were pointing out his bad behavior and special treatment for years, and every time this was brought up, the only real defense that could be mustered was along the lines of 'Well, he had a bunch of quality posts, so...'
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
You might have heard of 'Young Maid Emma', or just 'Emma' which was drawn/written by the same author/mangaka, and is an earlier work. It's also excellent, and I whole-heartedly endorse it, but comparing Emma and Otoyomegatari, you can definitely tell the mangaka has improved drastically, to the point where you can call the style 'profound'.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
Those two are my go-to examples when this topic comes up, explicitly because they're so radically different.
One's a brutalistic dystopic transhuman venture through the metaphorical circles of hell in order to find god and may very well be the ultimate example of 'Show, don't tell', given how much of it is spent in utter silence. And is written by an architect.
The other is a sloppy, historic love-letter to the Asian steppes with attention to detail that borders on extreme autism, with a broad palette of adorable characters you can't help but hope they have a good ending. And is written by a woman.
I'm rather enamored with them both, if you couldn't tell.
Grant_us_eyes
23d ago
Two examples that always come to mind are Blame! and Otoyomegatari.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Depends on how you define 'fiction film'. If you're asking for stuff involving multiple actors doing TV-series like stuff, well... yeah.
If you're talking about creative fiction in unique settings, hell, Analogue Horror could send you down a multi-day rabbit hole.
'Chud' stands for 'Cannibal Humanoid Underground Dwellers' from a rather kitchy/horrible 80s horror movie that leftists took up as a slur/insult for right-leaning individuals.
The various right-leaning groups, not giving a fuck, gradually adopted it as a label and now wear it proudly.
So it started off as a shameless slur, and now it's basically a compliment in some circles.
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