TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
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TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Anesthesia is no trivial matter. The LD50 is only a median measure and you never know who's at work today with massive sleep debt, a bad hangover, and a congenital heart condition.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
I have a family member who plays a ton of PoE, and for a few weeks I tried to get into it too. Didn't grip me at all; just kinda felt like moving my dude around the screen spamming attacks with little to no meaningful variation or tactics. Boss fights were a little better. Some kind of event was running which helped me advance more quickly. Growing gardens or some such.
Anyway I know it's a very popular game and a lot of people -- including some with at least decent taste -- enjoy it. But I can't figure out what anyone sees in it. Unless you're a maximal autist you'll just be going with a build someone else developed (the overhead on figuring that out yourself is prohibitive) and the actual gameplay just seems... rote. Easily automatable.
So what do you like about it so much? Is the genre just not for me? It occurred to me that it would almost be more fun as a clicker game.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Now, what do you figure is the outcome if you tell the Japanese that thing about reptilian overlords?
Well I'm sure it-
Oh. Oh, my.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
1d ago
Oh, yeah, that is indeed a surprise to me. May check it out this coming weekend.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
A gentleman always maintains a staircase for his cannon.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
2d ago
The veterans I've known have not had such great experiences with the VA.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
What would you guess the proportion of "fundamentally curious" people is in society at large? My guess is that they're a statistical nullity.
I think it's largely an ethnic phenomenon related to both hereditary IQ and cultural inclination, and varies widely among demographic segments. As demographics change and culture changes with them, that number is surely shrinking.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
3d ago
What is the solution? No more peacekeeping missions, anti terrorist actions and special military operations, but retvrn to great wars ending in glorious victories, accomplishments so shining that every young man with motivation and drive would want to wear uniform and be part of winning team.
Well idk about that.
But as to the rest, anecdotally, as a business owner I have myself experienced the lumpenwave. At this point I almost can't imagine hiring anyone younger than about 30, and even most of those in their mid-30s are nearly lost causes. No, it's not a compensation issue. I pay a lot of money to my people. Thing is, the zoomers who get that money will work two or three months and then take the rest of the year off instead of getting ahead. And we're already talking about the tiny margin of those who are even capable of working reliably in the first place.
These kids have zero ambition, awful in-person social skills, no apparent sense that all of life isn't just like school where you show up and slack off and get passed.
And, yeah, the constant slipping into device-touching.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
4d ago
Interesting topic but not interested in sorting through machine output, and even less interested in talking to one with you as a middleman.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
I've done "look at the ridiculous thing the outgroup did this week" type posts before but I always include substantial original commentary and, where I can, links so that people can look into the matter themselves.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
6d ago
Yes, overall an acceptable answer, and I could work with that.
unlike the peoples of yesteryear Germany knew better as they had technology and education
Glad you said this because I very badly want to take issue with it. Clearly, 'technology and education' have nothing to do with 'knowing better'. This would seem to be a total non-sequitur. Technology makes you more powerful and you can do whatever you want with that power. Education depends entirely upon what that education is, and any academy is easily coopted by virulent strains of politics.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
Disorderly conduct for saying a word someone asked you to say.
I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
I've found it helpful to ask them, just so we're sure we understand each other, what specifically is so bad about nazis. Like, the mass murder, sure, but that's fairly historically common. What is it about nazis in particular?
Obviously some people take the question very poorly, but that saves us both a lot of time.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
I'm extremely sensitive to faces but I do think Shiloh is a sweet name.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
well if it's a trip to the chocolate factory I suddenly feel just fine
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
7d ago
Per google, age of consent in Minnesota is 16.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Oh yeah, modern women do generally seem to be a lost cause. I found mine through church. Cheerfully cooks and cleans while perpetually proudly pregnant. Happy to be a woman. Thinks politics is for me to worry about. Loves me and makes sure my home is nice to come back to after work. Highly recommend -- but don't think her expectations for me aren't at least commensurate.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
In the ghetto
What is it you're after, btw? Dating apps seem calibrated for hookups. If you want marriage material it may be better to look elsewhere.
EDIT: Sincere apologies. Responded to wrong post somehow. I'm very sorry.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
Too much salt can definitely be a problem.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
'ate carrots. 'ate lentils. Simple as.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
8d ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
Real Charlie Bucket hours.
TitaniumButterfly
Rivers in the wasteland
9d ago
Tar paper. Not because color, but because it jams up a system not built for it.
Thanks, that makes some sense to me. The experience of feeling like you've discovered a way to be extra-effective, and especially outpace others who aren't as clever, is a good one.
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