thrownaway24e89172
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thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
This all assumes that she realizes this before abandoning her husband "to get a better deal". The women I know who have done this didn't give up their high standards until after they left and learned it the hard way. Choosing to leave a partner is often more an emotional decision than a rational one and a sudden drop in QoL isn't exactly conducive to rational thinking.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
without even getting into man-on-man homophobia
Imagine if we took men's complaints about men creeping them out sexually as seriously as we take women's complaints about men creeping them out sexually. Say we at the very least didn't default to assuming they are just hateful toward men who find them attractive?
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
It seems likely there are some internal power struggles going on behind the scenes in the Democratic party over this. Consider that one of Minnesota's representatives recently announced his intention to run against Biden for the Democratic nomination (despite almost no chance of success) and around the same time local Muslim community leaders issued Biden an ultimatum to call for a ceasefire by Oct 31st or lose their votes. The fractures in the Republican party have been center stage recently due to the fight for the speakership, but the Democratic party isn't looking to be in that much better shape.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
I have no data to prove this, but from all my life experience it seems plain that, if women could still get attention and commitment without having to be sexually available as they could in my grandmother's youth, far fewer of them would be sexually available.
I don't think this is true, or it is at least incomplete. I'm reminded of an old reddit comment from /u/janearcade:
This I'm not sure about. I often read the trope of "men jumping through hoops desperately for the opportunity for sex." But when the topic of the sex trade comes up, I often also read (and this has been more of my experience), "Men doesn't just want sex they pay for, they want warmth and love and support for a woman they can trust."
I think there is a large unmet demand from men for such supportive relationships that women could tap into if they truly just wanted "attention and commitment without having to be sexually available". It feels more like women largely don't want to be supportive of their partners in this way and use sexual availability to get a facsimile of the "attention and commitment" they desire from men instead. I'd wager that women in your grandmother's youth were much more open to providing that emotional support.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Google became the advertising behemoth it is today by creating an ad network that promised to be (and for a long time delivered on being) non-intrusive at a time when online advertising was getting extremely obnoxious. It's a bit disappointing to see them stoop to these practices now that they have no real competition, but such is the way of things. Maybe a new competitor will arise to take advantage of the situation like they once did.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Those receipts still point to lack of understanding the old customer base rather than deliberately insulting them in my eyes. It seems more likely that she thought everyone, including the old customer base, saw their brand the same way she did--"fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor"--and didn't recognize that the old customer base actually appreciated that kind of humor.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Hanlon's razor begs to differ. It seems much more likely to me that they didn't even realize they were publicly insulting their core customers until it was too late.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
while quietly glossing over the fact that Paula Broadwell had an active security clearance at the time.
Isn't access to classified information subject to both security clearance requirements AND need-to-know requirements?
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
This would seem to be a question about the hypothetical God's capacities, saying that he's not omniscient, and possibly degrading his omnipotence by his incapacity to aim or direct his absolute power. But saying that this would make him unable to lift a rock seems like linguistic confusion; the simplest way of describing this scenario is that he can lift the rock, what he can't do is find it, or notice it, or however we describe it being irretrievably outside his attention.
I don't think I explained what I meant here. It's not that He is incapable of finding or noticing it in my formulation, but that He chooses not to because for whatever reason He doesn't deign to grace it with His attention. Now that I say it like that, I guess I'm asking if an omnipotent/omniscient God can have free will.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
If I create a simulation of a human society on a computer, am I an omniscient God relative to the simulated humans? In some sense I am--I could instrument the simulation as much as I like, inspect every aspect of it in a debugger, etc. In another sense, the amount of data involved likely overwhelms my ability to focus on every little detail. There'd almost certainly be things about the simulation that I was completely unaware of not because I was incapable of knowing but because I had no reason to put in the effort to do so. Do you think there an analog to this with omnipotence? Does a rock that God is "incapable" of lifting because the mere existence of that specific rock is so beneath Him that He can't be bothered to distinguish it fit?
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Ah, the limitations of our text-only medium strike again. It can be so hard to judge such things without the indirect cues of in-person communication. I'm glad it was just my misunderstanding then.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. I mentioned it because there is usually an expectation that women don't have to face that particular issue and I thought you were underselling what women faced in this situation for not bringing it up. Women may be much less likely to be tarred as creeps, but that's only because we tar them as whores instead.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
people tend to assume on some level that if a woman approaches a man, she must be 1) joking 2) desperate or 3) looking for something casual. I found those were difficult assumptions to overcome.
You're forgetting in my opinion the most important one (that also often applies to men approaching women): she must be somehow trying to exploit me.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
I did notice those symptoms but as it was my second drink of alcohol ever, I didn't recognize what those symptoms meant.
somehow it was enough to knock you out
We are probably using "knock out" differently in this case. It's not that I fell unconscious due to alcohol poisoning, but just that alcohol (and other depressants) makes me very sleepy and in this case I sipped it, then started feeling extremely tired, laid down and fell asleep.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
That may be true once you have experience with alcohol, but I think you overestimate the ability of people with less experience to notice. Also, with strong enough alcohol it can easily be too late by the time you've actually tasted it if you don't handle liquor well. I'm quite a bit bigger than the size of the median twelve year old and a single sip of 190-proof Everclear from a flask a friend handed me with no more explanation than "Try this." was more than enough to knock me out within ten minutes. Fortunately it was in company that proved trustworthy (at least, I have no reason to suspect anything untoward happened after I passed out on the couch), but that experience was a bit of a wakeup call for the risks involved.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Feminism is nothing more than women taking on the role of the partner expecting to eat her cake and have it, while denying men the ability to. That similarly builds up resentment, leading to a never-ending cycle of hate.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Obviously the m/f dynamic changes that a bit, but how much? Feminism/#MeToo have brought with them a deep intuition that that what happened here is very wrong, as opposed to just 'somewhat wrong', and others who don't hold that intuition are objecting to the apparently disproportionate response - so one should ask, which intuition is accurate?
In my eyes, it's not just or even mainly the disproportionate response that needs to be opposed, but the gendered nature of it. Feminism has severely inflamed people's existing bias towards disproportionately punishing men for behaviors that they refuse to similarly permit society to punish women for.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Kids are undeniably capable of “wanting” sex with adults. Parents, caregivers, and (to a lesser extent) members of society at large have a responsibility for recognizing when kids shouldn't get what they want and preventing them from doing so.
and then the age of consent is pushed downward
The age of consent for sex has been consistently rising over time and was much lower in the centuries before either NAMBLA or the "trans-activity at present", so I think you'll need a bit of evidence for this claim.
This is entirely for fun, as I'm pretty happy with my current job in a very different area of programming. I'm mostly interested in being competent enough to write code to scratch itches like this one for the games I play, so I guess I'd say the tool-creation side of things.
EDIT: Particularly tools for automating detection of "problems" or other kinds of batched analysis. I'll also note that my current job regularly involves numerical analysis in Fortran, so I'm not unfamiliar with floating-point accuracy issues.
I'm probably not using the right terminology here. Consider the real-world example of a bowl turned upside down and lowered into water. The inside of the bowl is painted red and the outside blue. My goal is to identify whether any red is directly accessible from the outside. Because the bowl is upside down and in the water, the (EDIT:) directly accessible surface of the water only intersects the blue surface of the bowl, and thus the red is not accessible from the outside. If the bowl were on its side instead, the red surface would be accessible. Most static objects in Skyrim (and probably the other games as well) are topologically similar to bowls in this sense, where they are only partially textured with the intent that the non-textured stuff (corresponding to the red part of the bowl) is hidden behind other textured surfaces.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
This is true, but static objects (eg, boulders on mountains) intersect that heightmap and thus would be traversed by my search, and if they don't intersect it properly a surface without a texture on that object would be found.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
1yr ago
Yes, though I expect for interior worldspaces it'd wrap around to cover the walls and ceilings as well.
Yeah, you can do that (and in fact I distinctly remember Morrowind having a scripting function for it), the issue is that you can cast an infinite amount of rays from any point.
I don't think I communicated the intended algorithm well. This is just intended to be a batch program that you point your load order at and it spits out a file listing all the "holes" it found. I would only cast a single ray per worldspace, straight down from the (first, if more than one) spawn location to identify a surface to start the breadth-first search. My assumption is that this initial surface would almost certainly be part of the composite surface surrounding the playable volume of that worldspace rather than something floating within it, and thus "flooding" over it with a breadth-first search would suffice to identify holes.
EDIT:
Well, even then you need some criteria to try identify them. Otherwise you'd be showing people the entirety of the game map.
I do have a criteria to identify them: a surface with a texture adjacent to one without a texture. It is classification of them that I defer on. The definition of "adjacent to" is a bit complicated, but basically shares an edge with and if you rotated them around that edge they'd come together without intersecting another surface.
Does Skyrim scripting let you do some vector/matrix math (other than you implementing it by hand that is)?
I don't know, but I was planning to do this as a separate (probably C++) program that just loaded all the resources and analyzed it rather than doing it in Skyrim itself. The idea was to start off learning how the assets are stored, how the data structures for the models work together, etc and build up to being able to run a "simple/naive" analysis on them.
How would you decide which surface is supposed to be hidden, or a hole is not meant to be there?
It wouldn't, it would just try to identify all of them and leave it to someone/something else to decide if it is meant to be there or not.
What does "visible" mean?
I don't know much about 3d graphics at the moment, but I believe a naive algorithm for detecting what I'm looking for would be to cast a ray from a spawn location straight down until it intersects a surface, then do a breadth-first search of all adjacent surfaces recording any that are adjacent to (roughly, share an edge with) one without a renderable texture.
You'd run a sweep through the entire room?
Ideally it'd sweep over every worldspace in the game.
The majority of child abuse, including sexual abuse, is committed by non-pedophiles so society is apparently already on board with such trade-offs. Advocating the incarceration of pedophiles simply due to their attractions is just a way for lazy self-righteous people to feel like they are protecting children without having to do the work of actually looking into the causes of abuse and thinking seriously about the trade-offs that would be required to avert it.
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