Installed the new factorio and noticed how bad my mouse is for the fast and precise clicking needed to make furnace rows. Worse, my mousepad actually shifts around when I move fast.
Are there any pro gamers on the motte who'd like to share their mouse and pad setups?
SteveKirk
25d ago
I don't know who that guy is, maybe he's totally out of the loop and using stale lines? Or not generally political and falling back on stuff from last time PR was politically relevant?
These guys need an SNL writers room feeding them topical lines. Just more missing cultural infrastructure.
How complex are your finances that you need these tracking systems? Would simplifying them be an alternative?
I guess I'm not seeing what your aim is.
SteveKirk
25d ago
Frankly if the only choice is between a bullet in the back of the head from a friend vs an enemy, I'll choose a friend every time.
SteveKirk
26d ago
The cool part is it seems like there's a high end goal to beat the game now. It's not "win in 4 hours then fuck around with the post-game content for no reason" now. Although I can see massive opportunity for that with the new quality system.
How is it for bugs (not the biters)? The early access guys were finding big ones the week before release.
I don't have nearly enough time to play right now, maybe this winter. Am listening to Nefrums try to speed run it right now: 5.5hrs in and he's finally on a new planet with everything exploding and his Nauvis(?) base being overrun by biters.
(Checked back: 13 hours and he's flailing around getting ready for the end)
I'm actually almost more interested in how they added all these new features without a massive performance hit. How do you optimize thousands of items on belts all decaying at different rates?
Alternate take: it's the bottom half of murderers killing the bottom half of victims who are most likely to get away with it. In 2022 cook county (Chicago) had a 20% clearance rate (154/756). Maine had a 90% rate (54/60)
The bottom half of victims get the "he already had crack sprinkled on him, let's get out of here" investigation technique.
A gang member shooting a guy who looked at him wrong just has to be clever enough to use his girlfriend's car for the drive-by. A white collar guy who wants to murder his boss or an annoying neighbor needs to be Moriarty with a forensics post-grad.
(And cynically/realistically, only one of those two will get a billion dollar foundation helping him avoid justice, unless the professional's name is Leo Frank)
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Oh, they're finally rolling that out to more people?
I've noticed that selective rollouts mute opposition to anti-customer policies, and I'm sure they have too. A/B testing+user data gives you a lot of tools to boil the frog slowly by never hitting a critical mass of resistance.
As an annoying side effect, it also slows down helping people affected by updates. When YouTube rolled out forced AV1 encoding to 1% of people and their old laptops started roasting from the strain, 99% of people told them "what? I'm not seeing any problem. It's probably on your end".
I've had to walk several people through forcing vp9 who are tech-savvy enough that they could have googled/reddited a solution themselves if the change had been sudden enough to hit popular awareness.
I am referring to the case here, where they would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids attorney general.
One lucky wrench foiling an otherwise perfect plot just highlights how easily they usually get away with it without us ever hearing about it. Just check out the "success stories" on the innocence project site and read between the lines that all those guys were as guilty as this one.
They released 14% of the entire prison population in 2020 using covid as an excuse, and if you read that paper and don't acknowledge that their goal is total prison abolition I don't know what else to tell you.
And if you think they care about the concept of truth when it comes to lawfare, just check out the "disparities" section that starts
People of color remain massively overrepresented in prisons, accounting for nearly 7 in 10 people in prison. Systemic causes range from a history of racial and ethnic subordination to ongoing police tactics that unfairly ensnare people of color into the system...
Children and youth, especially Black and Latinx children and youth, have also been swept up in mass incarceration’s harmful policies. Under the guise of concern over rising violent crime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, policymakers quickly adopted and spread the fabricated “superpredator” theory that described young Black boys as especially dangerous.
Did you research how they did it? The state AG's intervention was the only thing that stopped them from overturning the process from 1998.
The criminals, the media, the defense, and the prosecutors are all on the same side and all literally employed by the same leftist prison abolition groups, and the only people still opposing them are a handful of right wing politicians.
They're mostly succeeding in their goal of releasing violent criminals to kill again (see my link to the SC case), and the occasional failure just gives them more propaganda material.
See the Jaremy Smith case in SC. 5 years in prison, 7 more for hostage taking during a breakout attempt.
Released on Dec 1st 2003 for "good behavior".
Murdered a woman and a police officer in March 2004.
No amount of labor you get out of that thing will make up for the risk some "progessive justice" ghoul will release it on the public to kill again. A rapid death penalty is the only way to remove the threat they present to their victims.
It would be nice if we had the power to peacefully incapacitate them so they could make up for the harm they've caused, but it's simply not possible when large parts of the justice system are dedicated to freeing violent criminals.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Why on earth would you want to do that? It's one of the best parts of being a man!
The number of lies spread about this case and how uncritically large parts of the population accept them have made me even more cynical. I didn't think that was possible.
It's been like watching people blasted by a firehose of bullshit and respond by puking what they swallowed into each other's mouths.
The messaging apparatus is shockingly effective, and I'm not sure if it's possible to do anything about it under our existing legal system.
And even if you do fix the problem at the source by abolishing "the innocent project" and their media accomplices, how do you even arrange your society recognizing that so many people are just blank canvases for propaganda?
However, they had a financial incentive for doing so.
His girlfriend never claimed the reward. She came forward after he was arrested because he had promised to kill her and her family if she told anyone.
"The prosecutors now think he's innocent"
No, a leftist 5th columnist elected in 2018 with no connection to the original case tried to ruin the already won case. You'll be shocked at who funded his campaign (no you won't)
Lies and liars make me angry. Any I notice go on a permanent list of irredeemable monsters. Every lie told about this case is so blatant and malicious I can't see any explanation except that they don't care about truth or even acknowledge the concept of it, and their only goal is to unleash murderers on the innocent.
We're now in a situation where both the public defenders and prosecutors are bought by the same leftist billionaire, and the entire justice system is a circus of sociopathic procedural manipulation to achieve political outcomes. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
He literally had a biden-harris bumper sticker. This is just playing that smug little "you can't prove he's a Democrat because we literally refuse to report the evidence" game.
I didn't particularly like the show (made it 4eps before dropping), but the English "community" around it is the perfect example of everything in that post.
Just looked the series up on reddit, check out /r/yuri_memes and users like /u/CuteNervousLesbian for what I mean. Literally has the "umm yikes men have the gross male gaze, unlike wholesome me wanting to fuck them with my heckin girlcock" thing. Just impossibly creepy 30+ year old men grooming kids on reddit.
English "nerd" communities have poisoned a lot of media for me. Thank God most of my actual hobbies gatekeep creeps like that.
Is the show itself to blame? Not sure where I fall on that. Depends on the intent of the authors I suppose, which I don't have much insight into.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
The Mazda trucking forum went down at one point and I instantly lost the ability to service my truck. You don't realize how important these communities were until they're gone.
It isn't just futa hentai, there's also a disturbing trend with non-sexual yuri (lesbian) stuff.
It attracts boys and failsons who are struggling to be men, feeds them "cute girls doing cute things with other cute girls", barrages them with anti-male propaganda, and sorts them into toxic groomer communities.
Do you remember that famous Tumblr post that went "for all my lovely trans-girls who need to hear this: you do not have the Male Gaze, you cannot Sexually Objectify women, your love is Pure, you are not Gross for looking at women because you are not a man"? Millions of poor boys who fell into the manga/anime tumblr-sphere grew blasted by a firehose of that shit, usually backed up by groomer teachers.
Tumbler's long past its peak now, but the scene has mostly moved to discord, where kid-games-for-autist servers have softcore porn and roleplay channels, and being "queer" gives predators total immunity to rules.
Those communities were actually a lot worse than the porn ones, because A) they didn't exclude minors, B) they enabled predators who pulled the "heckin wholesome trans-girl egg-hatcher uwu" act, and C) got a ton of institutional support from e.g. school librarians trying to bait kids into reading "queer affirming comics' (you can see endless examples of this on librarian reddit)
Source: I knew people in Yuri manga translation, and saw the browser history of a few boys who were getting their first porn from /r/egg_irl reddit predators they met on minecraft discords.
And I know far less about it, but I'm confident there's an equivalent "boys love" pipeline for girls. They're all the same types of awkward weeb girls who read that stuff back when I was in school, but now with support from teachers who groom them into "oh you must be a boy if you like reading about boys so much. Let's get you a haircut and some jeans but don't tell your parents tee hee"
TL;DR if you have a kid who spends too much time on the PC and has started reading weird tranny-adjacent stuff, literally just check his discord account. It's an invasion of privacy, I know, but a potentially lifesaving one. And of course if you see anything furry, it's too late.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Seeing a clarification like this in the comments feed makes me dread scrolling down to see the context of why it was necessary. Good job.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
I'd be interested to see what an imageboard style cw thread would look like. >># links preserve structure without all the excess quoting needed to distinguish individual conversations within forum topics.
Have you come up with an argument for why this should not be done to you instead, since freedom of speech is "worthless at best"?
Why shouldn't anyone who finds you "harmful" or simply irritating get everyone like you kicked off the Internet or arrested? What principle do you have against it?
Btw, can you link the community you moderate, so we can see what your policies look like in practice?
Manipulative and disrespectful. If you're clearly biased and trying to push your audience in one direction, it's more honest to be open about it than try to herd them like cattle.
This is a common habit for "breadtuber' types, seeing their viewers as passive vessels for propaganda.
Noticed you have a similar video about how the "solution" to cancel culture is to "turn the temperature down" so the frog boils slower and social stigma can be used against people more effectively.
You even just assumed that bullying an artist for drawing skinny characters was wrong... just because it wasn't the most effective way to force her to stop, not for any other reason. You smuggle extreme leftist bias into every sentence, and I find the Voxsplaining act viscerally repulsive.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I gave up keeping chickens years ago, but that might actually work for the slugs and some of the caterpillars. On the other hand a lot of my other brassicas are 3ft tall and still have eggs planted on the young center leaves.
It's a lot of manual work picking through them, especially the very dense test patch (8" spacing vs my usual 18")
was also maybe in some ways a reaction to the realization that economic leftism had little chance of succeeding in America's prosperous society
This was far more of a factor than any shock about Stalin. Remember, they switched to supporting mao and the Khmer Rouge right after, so it's not like a few famines and executions upset them.
The whole point of third world maoist new leftism was that the working class of Western countries had betrayed the revolution and were now class enemies just like the capitalists. The French like Sartre and Fanon* made this explicit, the weathermen and the rest of the "days of rage" gang followed, and ultimately we got "Settlers: the myth of the white proletariat" calling for the extermination of oppressor races.
This is also the answer to the question "why do they love Haitians so much", which I've been meaning to post cites for.
Leftists sneering at people for noticing this while they literally have "read Settlers!!!" in their twitter bios is one reason I've moved from thinking debate is possible and healthy to a completely exterminationist stance.
* "Sartre began to argue that the European working classes were too apolitical to carry out the revolution predicated by Marx, and influenced by Frantz Fanon started to argue it was the impoverished masses of the Third World, the "real damned of the earth", who would carry out the revolution"
Been meaning to try writing about this, but it always comes out as old man yelling at clouds.
When I was a kid there was a ton of autistic joy in civ micromanagement, building recycling tanks in every city, telling which pop to work which forest tile to minimize overlap with other cities, you know the stuff.
My enjoyment of that has really soured as I've gotten older and peeked behind the curtain of optimization and gameplay loops to see what pointless busywork it all was.
Like early civ games gave you all these tools to play with, and every late-game turn ten year old you would spend hours clicking through dozens of bases to build them the new nanotech hospital you just researched.
But playing "optimally" actually meant not building any of that stuff, and tiling the map with an ICS grid of size 3 cities running free market economies for per-tile bonuses.
So optimal play is tedious and unexciting, and my casual play was just a baby hitting shiny buttons on a busyboard.
Dwarf fortress is an even better example because it throws the player into a mass of absurdly complex systems that often don't even work.
Players larp at optimizing and copy-paste received wisdom over and over on reddit: "hammers are good against undead because blah blah." When someone does real testing and reveals that blunt weapons are bugged and useless it doesn't stop the bad advice, because those people were only engaging the game mechanics like a kid playing alone with action figures and giving them cool +5 maces of smiting.
Multiplayer games don't get away with this because you're trying to out-think a person; there's still an evolving meta in StarCraft Brood War 26 years after it came out. But most of these complicated single player games now look to me like (at best) a tool to play with your imagination under someone else's constraints, or (at worst) cookie clickers with a lot of makeup on.
That's why I've stopped playing them to make time for other hobbies. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a cloud outside that doesn't know its place.
Not to mention microwave ovens.
Somebody really needs to write a history about how a small chunk of unregulated spectrum set aside for microwaves ended up containing all the stuff we actually use.
Is the entire rest of the spectrum just camped? I think we're missing big chunks of 5ghz wifi spectrum because it was licensed to some satphone operator who never even used it(?)
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