Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
A very interesting review/analysis. Thank you.
I also find it interesting that Indie games are leaning more and more heavily toward sound design and implied, environmental story-telling to push forward immersion and investment in the game as a whole. Your description of Hollow Knight reminds me quite a great deal of Vintage Story, which despite being a procedural minecraft-origin game leans very heavily into both sound design, music fade-in/out, and implied environmental story-telling to piece together an overall tale - one that you, in the theme of Darksouls-like game, can completely ignore in favor of just killing things and building.
I can't say I find this development overall to be disagreeable. I always did enjoy the Elder Scrolls take on such.
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
I can't read the article at the moment, as my work doesn't allow for archive links.
But going by forum commentary, this article is about what I expected.
The bitterly ironic thing is, I, as someone who's rather vociferous about 'stand your ground' and 'A man's home is his castle' and the use of firearms for defensive shooting - even then, I can think of atleast one instance that could be argued as a valid, bad shot that was ruled as 'legal'. And, I'm sure, if one did actual research, could come up with far more applicable instances than this circus cavalcade of examples.
(For illustration purposes, the case in particular I'm thinking of was the situation in Texas where the Mother and Step-dad refused to hand over a shared child to the Father(the father in question did have shared rights), and the Step-father shot him as a result. The step-father was ruled not guilty. While I'm sure the plethora of lawyers on the Motte could 'Um, ACTUALLY' the case in question, from a contextual, moral, and ethical standpoint, I have no problem pointing at that situation and noting 'Nope, that shit is fucked up.')
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
And every time that gate became easier to hop over, things got worse and worse.
Yes, as I said.
If you're asking for where the apex was... man, I don't know. I couldn't tell you. Probably in some nebulous, fuzzy area between 1996-2004 where things still looked optimistic and before we saw the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train loaded with caustic chemicals.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
These things don't last because they aren't good for the majority of people.
Bingo. The 'Golden Age of the Internet' was the golden age specifically because it was self-selecting and gatekept behind one really big fucking gate.
And every time that gate became easier to hop over, things got worse and worse.
The internet is fine. The real issue is that the majority of people are fucking retarded, and so that's what everything gets marketed to.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
I saw someone remark 'You're able to pull all-nighters in college because that's when you should be having children' and that line as stuck in me like a thorn.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
There's a... I don't want to say 'reputation,' and I don't have a series of studies to point at either, so I'll just say a [reputation] of rising politicians who go from thriving in lower-level politics to tripping at higher levels because they go from being big fish in small ponds to working in an ocean of interests that aren't so easily corralled.
...isn't this just the Peter Principle as applied to politics?
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Perhaps, yes. But Darwin's argumentative style was fairly distinct in that he operated in isolation, stripping everything of context and focusing on single and individual elements and proceed to wear the argument down until you more or less gave up while refusing to concede ground on what he choose to argue about.
Hence why I don't think it's a Darwin alt.
Grant_us_eyes
13d ago
Giving everyone involved credit where credit is due, Darwin was never banned so doesn't need an alt if he wants to come back in and Just Start Asking Questions again.
Instead, they come across as a sort of 'Why aren't you getting back in the longhouse' style of moral harassments that's honestly aghast as to why thier decades-old tactics aren't functioning properly anymore.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
Not quite. There's a sub-set of the right that's very, very much into hating Russia.
The left just glosses that over in place of the right who are sick and tired of involvement in foreign wars and go 'not my problem' and take that as endorsement.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
Bluesky is where all the Leftists whom were offended with Musk buying twitter ran off to.
Mastodon I don't know anything about, so I can't really say.
truth.social is the social website Donald Trump spun up after being banned off of Twitter for some reason.
They're typically just twitter/x clones. Presumably Mastodon, as well.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
If you are a Republican voter in Alabama, I don't see how Chicago is "your house" in any morally relevant way.
CDL holders issued in California killing people in Florida says otherwise.
Look, I'd love for there to be a larger argument for States Rights(for my own safety's sake, if nothing else), but it's clear by this point that it's been well done and buried, and we have to live with the consequences.
Grant_us_eyes
24d ago
I've begun to actively loathe twitter, because so many good source of information are now trapped in twisted, labyrinthian multi-threaded posts that are a bitch and a half to store offline.
Anyways, here's a good thread that breaks down the entire charlottesville debacle. Take away from that what you want, but I personally feel this was yet another case of a political lynching.
Oh, and one of the protesters blatantly admitted to brandishing rifle at the guy earlier.
Grant_us_eyes
29d ago
I mean, in such a scenario, we'll get Wall E if we're lucky.
If not, we'll end up with Blindsight. Which, funny enough, predates Wall E by two years.
I'd rather not have either of them, personally.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
Financing.
As an aside, it's really flattering that you guys think I'm successful enough to just buy a car outright when needed. I wish.
In the end, I just had my father co-sign the note with me, which is something that's done when you either have no credit or bad credit. Not great, but not terrible.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
I'm surprised they haven't taken a page out of Alaskan bush hunters and use 357 revolvers or whatever Glock is chambered for 10mm.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
Realistically, I can't complain. Like you, I pay off my credit card every month, and in an emergency, I've built up a disturbingly large line of credit I could use to buy a great deal many things should a serious need arise.
Given that I get cash back on purchases, said company is basically paying me to use their card.
But, y'know... I wouldn't really cry if I had to give it up. Yeah. I could make that sacrifice. Easy.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
Bold of you to think that I had the cash on hand at the time to just buy a car off-hand.
Mind, the only reason I was purchasing said vehicle was due to a truly amazing set of circumstance that wrecked the engine of my previous one.
I'm still salty about that, as well.
Pro-tip kids - always, always manage what maintenance you can yourself, and not rely on others.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
I'd rather live in a society that I don't need to borrow to function, thanks.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
There was a video on twitter recently of a PoV of someone having to shoot a charging boar utilizing a bolt-action rifle.
I couldn't help but stare at the set of circumstance and think to myself, 'In that situation, I really, REALLY would prefer a PTR-91. Or AR-10.'
Which are semi-auto magazine rifles chambered in 308. Which is a typical hunting round.
And boars have become an endemic invasive species in America as of late.
That aside... I know enough to say that gun culture overall in the US has undergone a quiet, seismic shift who's origins can date all the way back to the initial attempt at a gun ban in the 1920s, threading through the Firearms Owners Protection Act in 1986, Clinton's Assault Weapons' Ban in the 90s, up until today, where you've had a steady increase in constitutional concealed carry.
It's around this point I could probably fish around for how holders of CCWs having less crime rates than police officer, the twisted and uncertain number of defensive gun uses and so on and so forth... but there's still a very American cultural thread that basically boils down to, when the Government gets a bee in thier bonnet and tells thier citizens 'No', there's an instinctive reaction of 'Fuck you, now I want it MORE'.
Grant_us_eyes
30d ago
That you need a credit score to function in society as a whole should be illegal.
Yes, yes, I know, I know. I'm very well aware of how and why credit score functions. I get it.
I was still very well put out when I had to go purchase a new car unexpectedly, only to have the guy who went to check my finances come out and stare at me like I was some lost crytpid and blurt out 'You have no credit score.'
Yes, because I grew up around adults who abused credit cards and paid the consequences and who had no desire to go down that road, thank you very much. Only to find out late that, gee whillickers, if you want to function as an adult in society for some things, you actually need a credit score, and for that, you need a credit card.
Why, yes, I'm still salty about that. How could you tell?
(And before you ask, all my previous vehicles were old, used, family hand-me-downs.)
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
Being unkind, he's just not very smart.
Being alternatively unkind, he's smart but abusing the simplified mythology revolving around how most people understand immigration and how it occurred in the late 19th/early 20th century.
I find it amusing that he's trying to use Italians as an example. If we treated Muslims and Somalians the way we treated Italians back then, we'd have a large number of people loosing their minds over it.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
I have never claimed to be a clever man.
Grant_us_eyes
1mo ago
My experience with school districts is that anything Principle-level(and sometimes Assistant-Principle) and above are pure political appointees.
Old-style politics, in the form of whom you know. And if you're lucky, they're somewhat competent at thier job. If not...
So it doesn't really surprise me that he got hired. He knew the right people, and they didn't care about his bona fides.
And you're ignoring shared social norms.
I'll be the first person to admit I think people need to get punched in the face more, or atleast know what physical combat, be it fisticuffs or whatnot, actually feels like and be capable of such.
That said, one of the first things my dojo drilled in my head, with the potential for sparring against people that might not even be able to speak the same language I have, is, when disengaging from sparring, always step back. The answer should be pretty obvious - you're keyed up, blood pumping, riding an adrenaline high, and stepping into someone's space is basically an aggressive maneuver that could result in a broken nose without them even intending to do so.
Reflexes are a hell of a drug.
So. Mutual combat? Fine. But it has to be ritualized, it needs to be strict, and it needs to be understood, by both parties, there are lines you do not cross.
And we definitely don't have that, and likely will never have that, given the current social situation in America as a whole.
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