sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
16hr ago
In any case, are we trying to argue that Keira Knightley, poor thing, has more attractive boobs than a typical page 6 British model? (swimsuit pictures)
It's a fair contest.
I've read the article before and it's failed to convince me that amine boobs on anime girls translate to real life preferences in such a way that A<B<C<D<DD<E<F<G<H<... But of course, feel free to write me off as someone who "tries to perform high class boob taste" or "female pattern of attraction".
I've reached the (an?) ending of Blue Prince, a roguelike escape-the-room game. The premise is that you have to reach the final room of the manor your uncle left you in order to inherit it... except the layout is shuffled every day. In each run, you have a limited number of "steps" (spent by going from room to room) and explore the manor anew, drafting new rooms from a selection of three at every doorway.
Overall, it's likely the most fun I've ever had playing an escape-the-room game. There are many puzzles and threads to chase, and I haven't even discovered all room types, let alone solved everything there is in the game. The puzzles for the most part lack the infamous "moon logic" of puzzle games and the way to solve them is pretty intuitive - it's figuring out the mechanics and finding the solution across multiple randomized runs that's going to be hard.
The most glaring flaw is the lack of saving mid-run - if you want to close the game, you have to end the current delve. Also, some object interactions are downright sluggish and it's very frustrating when there's something routine you want to do with a terminal in a particular room but it still takes a literal "60 seconds" minute.
sun_the_second
1d ago
If my date steals someone's scarf for me, I give it about 1% chance of "she's a master consequentialist who has calculated the utilons of someone potentially coming back for the scarf and finding it gone vs. the utilons of me being comforted" and 99% of "she's from casual petty crime culture and on top of that is 'agentic' enough to participate in it even as a woman".
The latter category isn't someone whose company I want to keep. There's the bro wisdom of "if she'd cheat with you she'll cheat on you" and while "if she'd act like a low trust society specimen for your benefit she'll act like a low trust society specimen at your expense" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well, it feels plausible enough.
sun_the_second
1d ago
Or the hypothetical future time oriented person could get a 20k raise per year without having to have a kid.
Sub-1 TFR of 120 IQ children or 4+ TFR of 90 IQ children, which one is really more dysgenic?
sun_the_second
2d ago
I'd expect something less like genocide and more like anti-homeless hostile architecture turned up to 11. Don't need to kill the useless eaters if they can't take the resources your drone factories loot for yourself.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I'm not convinced that the Chinese are so different as a people that they don't try to get exactly what they want exactly the way they want, whenever they can. Just look at the way media is altered for their market.
The distinction I've seen more often was more like:
Timmy: this card is cool because it's a big, often expensive, flashy effect (7/7 angel)
Johnny: this card is cool because it can synergize with 5 other cards in an obscure way (that one wizard with "if you would lose from having no cards to draw, you win")
Spike: this card is cool because it's a plus tempo drop that raises my win percentage (that one meta 3/3 flying vehicle thopter)
The appreciation for fluff was offloaded to one of the secondary classifications (Vorthos? Or was that the one who cared about card artwork?)
sun_the_second
5d ago
I prompted Deepseek with:
In your criticism, be direct and even-handed, do not provide boilerplate politeness and compliments.
and it replied dryly enough, although don't quote me on the quality of its advice.
sun_the_second
5d ago
According to the anecdotes, while men are often harassed in games for the perceived reasons of being bad, standing out, picking the wrong character, etc.; women have "sounding female on mic" on top of that.
sun_the_second
6d ago
If you want to take the argument towards this direction, killing one person is worse than killing multiple people because one person was the only representative of their specific genotype.
It falls apart because no one cares about one person's specific genotype except possibly that person. A few more people care about a tiny no-name village's distinction. A lot more people care about the Jews as an ethnicity and culture.
sun_the_second
6d ago
A few months ago someone explained to you how it's plausible and I don't recall you replying to it. And now you resort to "ask chatgpt".
sun_the_second
6d ago
That's interesting, any examples of what literature elements you don't like?
sun_the_second
7d ago
From what I understand there's a rather high variance. There's Oxxxymiron and then there's rhyming "nigga" with "nigga".
Is this meant to be read in Patrick Bateman's voice?
edit: shows my shallow media literacy that I didn't recognize a direct reference as soon as "Pierce & Pierce"
sun_the_second
9d ago
Is there a tool for this? I'm wondering if embedding pictures like this would be banned if it became more common.
sun_the_second
10d ago
it's quite obvious that not all or even most previous wars were primarily or even significantly religiously motivated.
Neither were Hitler or Stalin motivated by rational progress, in fact they were known to stifle scientists who were politically incorrect ("Jewish science", lysenkoism).
sun_the_second
10d ago
It has to be noted that unlike defending yourself with a gun, a wand is a lot more optionally lethal. The stunning curse that Harry habitually uses and teaches his classmates in Order of the Phoenix is probably less dangerous than a taser.
The caveat is that all those spells are only reliable against an enemy who can't use shielding charms. Avada Kedavra is the only spell advertised as something that can't be blocked.
The discrepancy isn't that Rowling "doesn't acknowledge they teach defense with a deadly weapon in Hogwarts". It's that they explicitly don't teach you to defend yourself in the only reliably lethal manner.
sun_the_second
12d ago
Pissing in a can in the back of the car feels more gross to me than people pissing on roadsides.
sun_the_second
12d ago
"DeepSeek, translate this to the 56th level of not looking like AIslop."
sun_the_second
12d ago
Islam is a fargroup conservative belief, Orthodoxy is an outgroup one. If my country went full Handmaid's Tale, it would be the Orthodox putting the women back under the boot sooner than the Muslims, despite the sizeable Muslim subpopulation.
sun_the_second
13d ago
Hence the "not getting caught" clause.
sun_the_second
13d ago
It fails often enough with the possibility of divine punishment!
In my view this means that vows are unserious things, not that promises are.
sun_the_second
13d ago
It is often difficult to distinguish a vow from an oath. A vow is an oath, but an oath is only a vow if the divine being is the recipient of the promise and is not merely a witness.
TIL. However, I assume Capital_Room is among those who don't care about the distinction.
sun_the_second
13d ago
The purpose of the bail is for it to be realistic to raise. If the purpose of the bail was to not be realistic then there wouldn't be such a thing as bail.
But was "you can't flip a light switch" really against the spirit of Shabbat? Or carrying an object from one particularly subjectively defined area to another, for that matter.
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