erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
1d ago
Sabaton? Excellent taste.
You know, the charge of the winged hussars at the siege of Vienna is one of my favorite historical events. As much as I love, say, the ride of the Rohirrim or the battle of the battle of Cardassia Prime, they are marred by being fiction; they never happened. Even something like El Cid's posthumous attack on the Moors is most likely a legend, while other events like the undying loyalty of Spartacus's army were completely made up by Hollywood.
But the battle of Vienna actually happened. The winged hussars really did arrive. King Sobieski literally led a charge of 18,000 horsemen at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers that broke the Ottoman army and saved the city right as it was about to fall; it's very well documented. Something out of stories truly took place in our world, and that makes me very happy.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
I would find the "Waifu Importation Bill" hilarious, but how exactly would they ensure "attractive and fertile"? Will there be a panel judging their attractiveness (no doubt hosted by the President himself), rejecting anyone who scores below a 6?
That's the beauty of male sexual preference; men find 80%+ of fertile-age females attractive. Simply setting a limit between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five would ensure that the supermajority of women imported under this program would be attractive with no other filter needed.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
Marriage originated in a time when it was virtually impossible for medical science to tell ahead of time that someone was infertile. The only way to know was if a spouse proved unable to conceive after several years, and such was grounds for an annulment (a document saying the marriage was never valid in the first place).
That said, if you want to redefine modern marriage to exclude people who are provably infertile in advance, I'm all for it.
This was back in 2005; it was part of new atheism, not rationalism. Rationality as a movement didn't start until Eliezer wrote and published The Sequences in 2006-2009 (though, obviously, rationalism was heavily influenced by new atheism).
Unfortunately, during my edgy teenage atheist phase I blasphemed against the holy spirit - so I can't actually be saved, because that's an unforgivable sin that not even Jesus can get rid of.
I remember that; good times. Did you at least get a copy of The God Who Wasn't There in exchange for your immortal soul?
Without @HereAndGone's snarkiness: why do so many of you salivate at the thought of women being forced to sexually service someone they don't want in order to eat?
Because the typical man disgusts the typical woman. The only way the average man gets laid on a regular basis if a woman is coerced into fucking him through some combination of physical force, legal authority, social pressure, religious indoctrination, and economic privation. The alternative is what we see now; masses of incels whose best chance at marriage is to wife up some post-wall roastie in her thirties, huge numbers of single mothers and childless cat ladies, legions of children traumatized by divorce, cratering birth rates driving us towards extinction, elites responding by importing infinite immigrants to replace the missing grandchildren.
The fact that the government steals at gunpoint from productive men to support women's """independence""" just adds insult to injury. The government taxes us to provide welfare to underclass women, uses the threat of lawsuits to force companies to hire middle-class women, and employs armies of men as cops and soldiers to physically defend all women. In other words, men are still providing money and protection for women, like we have always done, but now we do it collectively rather than individually, and get nothing out of it.
The message the political figure @faceh is talking about needs to deliver is simple: "We don't have to live like this. We don't. There is another way; a better way. But it starts with rejecting the zeroth commandment".
Even if this worked, would you not always be living with that gnawing awareness that she's only with you out of necessity? That you're literally just the next best thing to starvation?
If the redpill view on women is correct, what's the alternative? You can accept being an incel and become a MGTOW, you can work towards a tradcon world where every productive man is rewarded with a wife, or you can try to become Chad and use PUA to pump and dump as many women as possible while enjoying the decline.
Still, it does fill one with existential dread. As AntiDem put it:
The worst part of what's happened to us is that we can never - and I mean NEVER - trust our women again. Centuries from now, when order has long been restored, we will still know that if we ever loosened their leashes, they would surely turn against us once more, just as they did during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will never forget their betrayal, no matter how much we will wish that we could. We will always look across the family dinner table - across our own beds - and know.
I can think of nothing more horrifying.
erwgv3g34
6d ago
Speaking of which, the ACX comments still do exist, although Substack's UI is hilariously inferior.
What about Data Secrets Lox? It uses an old school forum interface, allows political discussion, and doesn't ban people for politics. It's a rationalist forum, so the posters are smart, and if anything it seems to be a bit less extreme than The Motte.
erwgv3g34
7d ago
Since it's Halloween, I'm going to shill scriptwelder's excellent point-and-click horror games. The Deep Sleep Trilogy is about a lucid dreamer who finds himself trapped in his own nightmares. It makes excellent use of atmospheric tension, with no gore and very sparse jump scares. As one commenter put it, "holy cow... i never thought 2 white pixels could be that frightening".
The Don't Escape Trilogy, by contrast, is a reversal of typical escape room games. Each title gives you a reason for wanting to lock yourself up (you are a werewolf who is about to go on a rampage, zombies are attacking and you need to dig in, etc.) and grades you at the end based on how well you did. These games are less story-heavy than Deep Sleep, but have better gameplay. On top of collecting items and solving puzzles, you also need to manage your time and make various tradeoffs (e.g., do you use the gas to fuel up the car, or fill up the generator?)
But the crown jewel is Don't Escape: 4 Days in a Wasteland, an epic tale of survival which joins both series together into one overarching canon. The moon has been destroyed, and planet Earth is dying. Each night, you are faced with a different obstacle, and it is up to you to prepare your base and keep the danger at bay. To increase replayability, the nature of the threat you face on a given day varies, as does the appropriate way of tackling it. For example, on the first night, you can face either a cloud of toxic gas, a swarm of locusts, or a pack of giant spiders. If you cover your windows with iron bars (which are available on all three scenarios), that will be great for stopping the spiders, OK at slowing the locusts, and do nothing against the gas. Along the way, you meet a colorful cast of other survivors, and discover that the end of the world is much closer than it appears. But one of your new buddies has a plan...
There's a sequel called Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken, but I'm waiting five years for the price to drop before trying it. The demo looked good, though.
And if you still want more point-and-click pixel art horror, The Last Door - Collector's Edition and The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition are also worth checking out.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
I remember when it was the cool new invite-only service. It had a whole 1 GB of storage, which made it much more desirable than the yahoo and hotmail addresses everyone was using.
"Traps are gay" is the ultimate Scissor statement. The finest minds of our generation have debated this question endlessly without coming to a consensus. To some, it is clear that literally fucking a man must be gay, regardless of rationalizations. To others, it is equally obvious that, since they are straight, anything that can make them hard is a woman. And to a third group, it depends on the situation.
I'm firmly on the side that liking traps is not gay. We know what gay hentai aimed at actually gay men looks like, and it is completely different from trap hentai which is instead aimed at straight men. And, for that matter, both are completely different from gay erotica aimed at straight women.
I want to fuck Astolfo up the ass. That doesn't make me gay, that makes me straight, because only a straight man would be attracted to a trap character like Astolfo from Fate. Real gay men are not attracted to traps; they are attracted to beefcake characters like Endeavor from My Hero Academia. And women are attracted to aloof, abussive pretty boys like Sasuke from Naruto.
erwgv3g34
14d ago
I mean, I get it. We all want to believe that there is a cute Rhodesian catgirl out there who is obsessed with guns and violence; it's like the tomboy fantasy on steroids! But real life is not an anime.
erwgv3g34
18d ago
Sure, that's one of the possibilities. But it also means "nurses = women, doctors = men".
And what's wrong with that?
From "Rebel Girl: An Interview with HBD Chick" by Chip Smith and hbd chick:
Steve Sailer (and I) wrote about a very interesting and amusing human biodiversity documentary series that came out of Norway a couple of years ago – “Brainwash.” One episode was about Scandinavia’s “gender equality paradox” – i.e., the fact that, in Scandinavia, where they have bent over backwards to ensure that the sexes have absolute equality in education and career opportunities, etc., etc., something like 90% of nurses are women and 90% of engineers are men. This is a great example of the phenomenon that – to the horror, I’m sure, of all feminists and politically correct persons everywhere – the more the environment is equalized for everybody in society, the more people’s innate interests and abilities come to the fore.
And what is wrong with that?! If we’ve got, on the one hand, a large segment of the population that is good at caring for others and likes to do that, and on the other we’ve got another large segment of the population that is good at designing bridges and likes to do that, society ought to make use of that! – to the benefit of us all. Of course keep the opportunities open so that the exceptions to the rules can do what suits them best, but don’t work against the grain of nature either. That just seems like a lot of wasted energy and resources to me.
Can you not... visualize the action in your head?
As a man, my problem with female erotica is that the content sucks, not that the medium does.
erwgv3g34
19d ago
Pournelle is great, but he is at his best when he is collaborating with Larry Niven; try Lucifer's Hammer for a standalone novel that is not part of a larger universe.
erwgv3g34
19d ago
There are few things I would support a permaban for, but this is one of them.
Emojis are a plague that must be rooted out by fire and steel.
erwgv3g34
19d ago
Or there are fields where women's natural strengths (empathy, nurturing, etc.) are more important than men's natural strengths (competitiveness, truth-seeking, etc.). I don't think anyone is going to mind if the majority of nurses or elementary school teachers turn out to be female.
Well, that sucks, but all the counterproposals look an awful lot like "we should turn into patriarchal muslims/amish with a different paint job first".
Was pre-1960s America/Europe "Muslim/Amish with a different paint job"? I guess if the only thing you care about is women's rights, you might see it that way; but I don't.
Besides, in a couple centuries, I wager both Europe and the US will either be ruled by Clippy or members of whatever type of cockroach (literal or metaphorical) emerges from the rubble of WWIII
It's true that AI is probably going to kill us all first, but in that case nothing matters; all political discussions should be assumed to be Current Rate No Singularity.
erwgv3g34
27d ago
We need cars so that we can live in suburbs, and we need suburbs because all the urban cores were taken over by the black underclass after the end of segregation.
Repeal the Civil Rights Act and then we can talk about walkable cities.
erwgv3g34
27d ago
Our instincts are a lot more adapted to the vastly longer time we were hunter-gatherers than to the measly 6,000 years we spent as farmers.
erwgv3g34
28d ago
Precisely.
The resentment workers feel towards the CEO is exactly the same they would feel if they saw Gruk take 1000x their share of mammoth meat in the ancestral environment. Okay, maybe Gruk is exceptional hunter who contributed more to the hunt than most, and deserves 2x the regular share, or even 3x if he is wise and respected and high status, but 1000x?! Nobody deserves that, it's unfair!
And in the ancestral environment, it really is unfair. Nobody is 1000x a better hunter than average. But in a modern economy, it is perfectly possible for an exceptional man to produce 1000x the value of a regular man. I'm pretty sure Elon Musk and Warren Buffett produce more than 1000x the value I produce.
erwgv3g34
29d ago
The thing about changing how US currency works is that most people have a really hard time getting used to new coins and bills. We tried to have a $2 bill but many people just couldn’t adjust to the new type of bill and it didn’t really catch on. Ditto with multiple attempts to have a $1 coin.
That's why my proposal only eliminates coins. It doesn't add any. It does add a new bill, but one I think is easier to understand than a $2 note.
It’s almost as if a large part of our population learns how coins and bills work at a young age, and that knowledge becomes fossilized and doesn’t change.
I've noticed that, too. I mean, it doesn't help that American coins refuse to have a large Arabic numeral indicating their worth like most coins of the world do, instead using arcane terms like "dime", or spelling out the numbers in English. But I see foreigners have the same confusion with bills, which should be easy to read and use. That tells me they just memorize money by rote and cannot adjust to the slightest changes in design or denominations, the way most algebra students become completely lost if you change X and Y to A and B.
Literally who? I've never heard of this bitch. And I paid more attention in school than most.
Okay, one Google search later, I now know who she is. But she is definitely not well-known. If you want a female American aviator, why not Amelia Earhart? Everybody has heard about her.
erwgv3g34
29d ago
Cleveland was on the $1000 bill. McKinley was on the $500.
erwgv3g34
29d ago
What can you buy with dimes? I pointed out that quarters still have plentiful useful in the laundromat business, among others (parking meters, etc.) I cannot think of any area where dimes are in similar use.
Whenever I give back change at my hotel, and the guest leaves it on the desk, they do not make any special effort to fish out dimes; they treat them the same as nickels and pennies.
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