KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
4hr ago
And yet, I've seen extremely charismatic short kings, where the women around him said things like "I just never noticed that he wasn't that tall. He seemed taller".
KingOfTheBailey
1d ago
You know what? Neither did I!
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
I was honestly unsure whether she was saying he looks bad or looks hot.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
I have absolutely no idea what that means.
KingOfTheBailey
8d ago
True, but I also don't think they seriously thought through the downstream effects of having betting apps for literally everything.
Example: in 2024, Zvi updates on the damage caused by sports betting.
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
Yeah I've been having fun with StS2 as well. I think it's a bit easier than the first, or I've been luckier with my runs. Necrobinder is pretty fun, though stalling to get a massive hand seems like a pretty reliable strategy up until halfway through Act 2 or so. Still haven't really figured out what the Regent wants to do.
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
I should've seen how prediction markets would go. The promise from the rationalists and other groups that pushed them was that they'd provide market signals about how likely major events are to happen. But it seems to have instead just created betting apps that can bet on literally everything and a way to insider trade on pretty much any non-public knowledge.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Can you say more about how you have Claude set up to monitor your calendar?
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
Fine. Whatever. What conditions in the material world are such that young men are looking to these men as role models, what is missing in their lives that they seek to fill it with this?
This incuriosity also applies in other fields. Why didn't everyone line up to vote for Hilary? Why did Trump win so bigly after Biden? The institutional response was to call dissenters everything from "deplorables" to "dangerous racists" to "fascist" to "almost literally the Führer reincarnate". The feedback mechanisms no longer exist (if they ever did), so there's no self-correction.
KingOfTheBailey
13d ago
Nit: a "flair up" is a required action to participate in /r/politicalcompassmemes. A "flare up" is what you're describing.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
She's the Man is an adaptation of Twelfth Night. I don't remember if it's good or not.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
I just play Factorio for my train fix these days.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
Dualcast is 16 damage though, and your starting lightning orb is a free half-strike per turn.
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
- Everyone will use whatever tools are at hand to generate propaganda
- There will be widespread use. "We" may or may not see it depending on how good people are at working the models
- I remember seeing a picture of a "wounded soldier from Ukraine" who had six fingers and bandages that morphed into his uniform and his arm.
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
I look forward to an effortpost in the Friday Fun Thread.
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
Yes, it's very useful for skill development, and it's really fun dancing with women who know both roles and can pass the lead back and forth during a song.
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
This happens in any space that doesn't intentionally filter by gender.
Larger social dance events like full weekends of workshops and parties are one of the few places that does this obviously and explicitly and still gets away with it, by selling "leader passes" and "follower passes".
KingOfTheBailey
20d ago
Observation: Part of the objections to the emergence of "romantasy" is that it is addictive, low-consumption-effort smut and that the fanfiction world has put out a functionally infinite amount of it. And the objections around the way a certain type of woman relates to that sort of writing mirrors the way a certain type of man relates to video pornography. So I think reading isn't as far removed as it might first appear.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
If you've been at it for a few years, presumably you're in some of the intermediate/advanced classes. You allude to the social dancing also, but I'd be interested in a specific breakdown of the ratio between beginner classes and the more advanced classes and the social floors. I'd also be interested to hear what the vibe's been like among those men, particularly the newer ones - do they seem like they're interested in dancing or just pulling?
It'll be interesting to see how long this lasts. IME, dancing scenes don't stay tilted towards an excess of men for very long, as the etiquette of asking women to dance means men either get in each other's way asking women to dance, or get no dances at all. In the reverse case, where there's an excess of women, the men are busy dancing, and surplus women often dance with each other or get asked to dance the next song or the one after.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
On subsequent visits, a (+X) comment next to the thread on the main page, which is much higher contrast than the 0 comments label.
KingOfTheBailey
21d ago
I love 50% of your list, and haven't watched the other 50%, but it's all going on my list.
KingOfTheBailey
24d ago
Was it the part that went, "there's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, ..."?
KingOfTheBailey
25d ago
I choose to believe that it's also because they're beautiful and cherished.
KingOfTheBailey
26d ago
Har har, very good.
"Seen", as in "perceived with my own two eyes" that the short king was indeed short, and that my female friends didn't seem to notice.
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