sun_the_second
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I don't see why it's not trolling.
It's the plain reading of the situation. Frankly, if you introduce T boosting into this, it looks even more like genuine ego trips rather than faking it for the lulz.
Framing it as trolling implies that one is "falling for it" by reacting as expected, but I don't see what I'd be falling for. Read plainly, Elon gave the Gamers (tm) a free shot to make him look like a clown, they've taken it, he then continued by having a spat with Asmongold on twitter... does he really need the extra views, compared to the rep damage he's taking?
sun_the_second
2d ago
Seems like you're giving him too much credit. What is the way to distinguish between such trolling and genuinely being retarded in this "he is only pretending" scenario?
I've seen trolls on the internet, the payoff in their case is obvious - they spark great wailing and gnashing of teeth, but they themselves don't risk anything. Either they're a nobody so they don't have any reputation to lose from someone genuinely believing they're retarded, or they have a group of people behind them who are "in" on the joke.
In this case, there are plenty of people who already have an answer to "why would he lie" (the ones who believe he's an insecure loser who got carried by his money), while the ones who are laughing with him, not at him, are conspicuously absent. The best defense I've seen is "why do you care so much about him cheating, you're so weird, and anyway unlike you losers he doesn't have the time to play games".
sun_the_second
3d ago
What is supposed to be the punchline of that trolling? Pretending to be retarded?
sun_the_second
3d ago
In the continuation of Elon Musk PoE2 journey, he went on a xitter feud with Asmongold, one of the streamers who posted expose videos about it. I think that answers the question on whether Musk actually cared about being the best at the game, or simply got a boosted account for expediency.
sun_the_second
3d ago
How much FOMO is in that game? I don't want to fall for yet another Arknights/Limbus "do the daily or the exclusive monthly banner gets it".
sun_the_second
3d ago
Shouldn't have said "be fruitful and multiply" if He didn't want us to conquer as much space as we can for to house and feed the multiplying.
sun_the_second
3d ago
Yes, voting is conflict. Unlike discussion, voting means the majority wins.
sun_the_second
3d ago
I'd assume the lucky order is where they murder first.
sun_the_second
4d ago
The materialist can fathom the rewards of spirit and legacy quite well. They just don't scale.
sun_the_second
5d ago
Perhaps if every country or faction that wanted to defend Palestinian citizens sent troops so that there would be enough manpower to force the end of hostilities without bombing the places where the rockets are being fired from, we wouldn't be having that talk. And yes, it is my understanding that Israel can't afford to have that many boots on Palestinian ground, certainly not when they're bound by the need to wear uniforms and Hamas isn't.
sun_the_second
5d ago
The parties are different, their relations are different, and most importantly, it never occurred to the British or the Northern Irish to round up all the Irish and carpet bomb them until the IRA were dead.
It is my understanding that the British had other, more selective tools and the resources to use them. I don't believe Israel wouldn't pacify Gaza in a less bad-optics way if they thought they could.
I see absolutely no way that Hamas could destroy Israel, who are no slouches themselves and are backed by the most powerful nation in the world. I see no reasons why Gazans would ever, or frankly should ever, side with the people who stole their land and bombed them into paste over the people who are plausibly fighting for them.
Side with? Maybe not. But if they really can't destroy Israel, or secure sufficient independence from Israel (while Israel doesn't exactly have any reason to trust them with independence given the history), then I have all the less sympathy for them. If you want to do terrorism and martyrdom for independence, you'd better win and win fast. Otherwise, I can't blame your enemies for giving you what you seem to be fine with: death. Other nations seem to be able to grudgingly coexist and have cultural/border tensions without constantly being at each other's throats in a suicidal jihad (with various degrees of one-sidedness).
We have regular muslim killings of white people in the UK: are we permitted to keep exterminating them until we are sure there are no Islamists left among them? The Chinese suffered terrorism too, I believe, does that render the Xinjiang internment camps justified?
If you have a community of 2nd-3rd generation immigrants and ethnocultural terrorism seems to have root in that community, it is your duty as a government to at the very least increase overwatch and law enforcement over that community. And if you can't or won't enforce the values and laws of the larger country over that diaspora so much that they might as well be a different state - then it's what is usually called "war".
To some extent your beliefs seem to be based on the idea that Israel will sooner or later be destroyed if it's not permitted to bomb Gaza.
American support is unreliable by definition of being the support of a larger, more powerful state that does not rely on you, and it appears to be growing more unreliable now that the pro-Israel factions have anti-colonialist pro-brown progressives on one side and isolationist DR on the other. I don't believe like some others (wishfully) do that Israel will crumble any moment now. But they have had to take on more of their neighbours than just Hamas before, and they didn't take them on just by turtling up and waiting to be left alone. I believe Israel should be permitted to destroy the fighting capability of their immediate enemies who are currently in a state of open warfare with them.
sun_the_second
5d ago
You often mention grinding leetcode or mathacademy. Do you find it is helping you in your job/job search? My opinion of those bite-sized code/math problem websites has drifted towards "it's just tutorial hell and fucking around to feel like you're getting better at the real thing, just solve real problems", but maybe that's just laziness speaking.
I do not believe that Israel can indefinitely protect itself from Hamas and its other hostile neighbours with purely defensive tactics, and moreover, I do not believe they are obligated to restrict themselves so.
If you said killing all the Irish was worth it to stop IRA, I would call you a maniac because by all accounts I know of, IRA's goals were not like Hamas', and IRA's tactics were not like Hamas', and IRA's reliance on putting their own citizens under enemy fire for the sake of martyrdom was, if at all existent, not like Hamas'. IRA was not, as far as I'm aware, making the English pick between their own destruction and killing innocent Irish along with IRA soldiers.
If Gazans have any agency, the onus is on them to drive the militants who are martyring them for "free Palestine" out. If they do not have that agency, I find that I cannot feel more sympathy for them than for those who can and will defend themselves [or are defended by their government].
To condone Gaza indefinitely bombing Israel because Israel can (mostly, for now) take it because stopping them would take more Gazan lives than Gaza currently takes Israeli lives is far too close to the concept of utility monsters for me.
"There's a third option: just leave." - yeah, because that worked so well 109 times before. At least, that's the number Israel's opponents cite sometimes.
sun_the_second
5d ago
The point of killing terrorists is usually not to kill terrorists for the sake of it, but to protect the helpless people that are close to you.
Perhaps at some point it would be "humane" to give up and let the terrorists do what they want because they have too many human shields. I do not believe that point has been reached, or that Hamas can ever hold that many people hostage.
sun_the_second
5d ago
It seems like that's largely owed to the fact that any amount of striking buildings that house Hamas and also (by Hamas' design) house the helpless is going to look like massacring the helpless. The only way to not massacre any helpless in this case is to stop doing anything, or invent magical weapons like that one scene from Iron Man where he takes out terrorists with micromissiles while sparing every hostage they had.
sun_the_second
6d ago
What are the other methods?
sun_the_second
6d ago
FWIW I personally doubt having any amount of adoring fangirls would make me want to force them to drink my piss.
sun_the_second
6d ago
When I try to imagine a man regularly using those phrases, what comes to mind is either the kind of modern psychoanalyst that is known to be mostly visited by women, or someone who spends his time nearly exclusively in the company of women.
The first third of the list is somewhat unisex, but the latter two sound like they're straight out of the "female memes" tiktok channel.
sun_the_second
7d ago
I suspect it's going to be hard to convince the entire Nobel committee to practice semen retention before they make the call.
sun_the_second
7d ago
I don't remember whether I've seen the infinite reincarnation somewhere or arrived to it myself, but I have also been thinking about it for a few years.
At the extreme end, there are players in PoE who just look for the items the build guide tells them to look for instead of bothering to understand itemization. But they'd still look at item modifiers, not item level. A max level base can (and most often does) drop with complete garbage bonuses that make it worse than a well-rolled item with a much lower level base.
The same man who posts pictures of his face photoshopped onto Iron Man? At least with Iron Man it could be interpreted as some sort of post-meta-irony.
(Epistemic status: I think I saw that post screenshotted somewhere, I don't have a link)
I mean, we don't expect the hunter to build his own rifle or a racer to build his own car. But we do expect them to know what their gear is doing.
I've described elsewhere in the thread how Elon doesn't just make basic distracted-like mechanical mistakes, he literally doesn't know what his items do and how good they are (despite having had to craft them or more likely search for those specific items from the trading website). It's like if you met a top-level raider in WoW and he said his (best in slot for his class) items are "not very good" because they don't look pretty, which is the best analogy I can come up with for WoW because I don't play it.
This is all on hardcore league also, so it's not only a lack of game knowledge - Elon would have had to spend dozens of hours grinding experience on his character to get to level 90 without dying once, in a game known to ruthlessly punish players for lacking game knowledge.
I'm going to play the biggest creature. No one's ever had such big numbers before!
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