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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
46m ago
Knife sharpening tips? I've watched a few videos and I can get a knife from dull to OK but definitely not youtuber-sharp.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
48m ago
I was playing this rpgmaker horror game my brother recommended earlier this week, called Look Outside. It is phenomenal, the way the horror is presented is fantastic - it does a really good job of selling that sense of 'I don't want to look into this any deeper than I already have, but I know I have to if I'm going to survive. You play a guy who wakes up in his apartment after a terrible nightmare about the sky, and now he has the urge to go look outside, but he somehow knows he shouldn't. Instead he has to wait for whatever is going on outside to pass, which means keeping himself healthy clean and sane for at least a month without leaving his apartment building.
Basically you explore your apartment building - where people have been looking outside - for food, cleaning supplies and ways to keep yourself entertained (exploring just stresses you out for reasons that are immediately apparent when you start playing). You can of course look outside if you like - there's a window in your bedroom even, but you instantly learn why you shouldn't (in game terms it's an immediate game over) and most of the horror comes from interacting with your neighbours who have, because whatever is going on out there fucks people UP!
For an example, one morning when you go out into the apartment hallway you meet one of your neighbours who is looking for toothpaste. He has additional teeth you see, his baby daughter's crib was in front of a window when the event (remain indoors!) occurred and he doesn't know what it did aside from make her cranky, and wherever she bites new teeth grow, so his arm is growing teeth. The teeth eventually take him over, and you have to either kill him or run away, but after that you can also explore his apartment, where his family lives - his wife, baby daughter, and two-way sons. And let's just say they've all been bitten. That doesn't mean you have to kill them all though - after finding a plastic army man I managed to convince the mass of teeth and flesh and polyps that was the younger son to play with me, and have some fun in his final moments. It still tugs at my heartstrings now, and keep in mind I am jaded as hell.
And yeah the game is full of tragedies like that. I don't think I'm out of line saying it was inspired by the work of Junji Ito and Lovecraft, and equally inspired by the covid lockdowns, and it is a bit less frustrating than the average rpgmaker game, but it still has most of the flaws of that engine - so make sure you backup your saves just in case. But for a game made by a single guy - Francis Coulombe, who I've never heard of - it's a spectacular effort.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
50m ago
Get your house right, by Krier et al The book is still useful, it's just that it will help you build a house from the past, with no path towards the harmonious vernacular housing of the future.
The book is intended to convey the architectural fundamentals that make good buildings. If you follow the rules in the book, you'll end up with a perfectly nice looking house. The thing is - this is already better than most houses being built today. It's true that the rules in this book will not allow you to produce a masterpiece, but this is entirely missing the point. Most people do not have an architectural masterpiece in them, and are much better off painting by numbers if they want a reasonably nice looking house. The alternative for most people is not "the harmonious vernacular housing of the future", it's yet another fucking ranch house.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
Kek
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
1hr ago
Haha thanks. What's your one cologne, if you don't mind me asking.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
This isn't surprising, wrestling is probably even more intense. Submission grappling is the only combat sport you can do forever since even scaled down versions are pretty fun and productive.
I would have done judo had we had any combat sports here. Submission wrestling, the current strain comes out of judos lost groundwork and a lot of inputs from Anglo wrestling forms. Both those things are extinct now sadly.
I would want to have some concreteness on exactly what we're betting on here (e.g. obviously the EO didn't make Griggs completely irrelevant forever, obviously the strong form of affirmative action in college admissions was already on its way out).
But yeah if we can operationalize this and still disagree on expected outcomes vs just disagreeing on what it concretely means for disparate impact policies to be neutered I am up for a charity bet.
Dollar amount of disparate impact settlements in the first 4 years of next dem admin, inflation adjusted to 2018 dollars? Though that is a super noisy signal.
mrvanillasky
1hr ago
Agree on all points. You see the same religious trains of thoughts in two wildly different places and somehow only the smarter ones are "blessed by god".
Abrahamic faiths, Islam and Christianity work on conversions, devotees having instincts to convert others indirectly or call others demon worshippers are understandable to an extent, they still not make low effort easily disprovable claims that do nothing but seem antagonistic.
The single most harmful strain of social chaos was a result of protestant values in modern leftism which seems to be beyond solutions as of now. Indo European societies existed around ancestor worship, you could never have had a pope equivalent telling people to accept refugees in such a system without the said person losing all relevance overnight.
People had to convert due to violence or at least threats protected by violence the same way many have to abide by crazy laws in our own nations. Modern society is explicitly anti christ and far more technologically sound than the 1800s, so is only leftism capable of sustaining the world's most advanced point times?
BreakerofHorsesandMen
1hr ago
Bands probably would have been even better for me, actually.
I was a very competitive (within a few state area, not like actually competitive with genuinely good judo players) judoka for about 10 years. Most people, myself included, seem to age out of intensely competitive judo pretty young, even at the amateur level, just from wear and tear. At 30, they put you in the Master’s division for old folks. 😂
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
2hr ago
What has Trump got the power to achieve? He can bomb countries but struggles to achieve desired political results. Bombing Yemen hasn't stopped them
A tax cut to help the very companies that promote wokeness and censor its users on its platforms. Big handouts to AI companies. But I don't see much else happening legislatively. The real power is in the courts--things like judicial appointments, pardons. SCOTUS is where the real lasting change is. The 2024 ruling on affirmative action, for example. Stimulus and tax cuts tend to be popular.
mrvanillasky
2hr ago
I never had a gi since rash guards have replaced them nearly completely in many places. People use a lot of handed finger extension to counter the effects of gripping, my reasons for using it is so reduce damage from using my keyboard.
How long did you practice for?
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
2hr ago
Power will always go to those who want to seize it, while it exists.
I'm certainly no libertarian, but isn't this the essence of libertarianism -- that power is so seductive and so oppressive that the only way to deal with its abuse is to limit it to just what's absolutely necessary, so there's less power to abuse? It seems to me like you're just growing in your convictions rather than having to learn a hard lesson.
I believe the libertarian solution to "people are abusing the power of the public library" is something like "abolish the public library." (This is also one of the reasons I think the American right and left are closer to each other in terms of general views on liberty than they think -- the right-wing solution to corrupt US government agencies is to abolish them, the left-wing solution to corrupt police departments is to abolish defund them.)
(I may have misunderstood you, and you were saying that your "cold dead libertarian heart" became that way because of this lesson, rather than saying that it startled you and you had to figure out how to square it with your libertarianism. If so, disregard.)
mrvanillasky
2hr ago
Bangaldesh is absolutely worse by every metric.Christianity exists in both Africa and Scandinavian nations the way Islam exists in both Turkey and Nigeria. Is it Islam's fault that Nigeria is bad or the fault of Christianity that ghettos and inner cities cannot be fixed? Leftism itself came out of protestant values, I'm pretty sure nothing like that was ever encouraged by people of the steppe.
India was alright up until early medieval ages. Indo European religions absolutely can and have run societies fine. The decay here is due to the people being too stupid and lacking the characteristics required to abideyby by their religious beliefs. This is in ways inevitable, things peak and decline. The Victorian brits were far more dominant than current ones.
Christian beliefs are just not better, better than Islam but they are just not better. I don't write agaisnt about them because the majority of people here are practicing Christians. Buddhism btw is an offshoot of Hindu values, Buddha was an Indo European man and his worldview exists in plenty of East Asian nations, even ones without explicit confucian values.
Europe did well because of its people, it would have done well had it been Islamic, Jewish or kept it's real faith alive.
greyenlightenment
investments: META/FBL, TSLA, TQQQ, TECL, MSFT ...
2hr ago
Trump: No wait, just so you understand. How can we sustain and how is it sustainable that our country lost almost $2 trillion on trade in Biden years, in this last year. That's not—when you talk about a company. I had the head of Walmart yesterday, right in that seat. I had the head of Walmart. I had the head of Home Depot and the head of Target in my office. And I'll tell you what they think, they think what I'm doing is exactly right.
yeah, these big companies have the cashflow, pricing power, and market dominance to withstand tariffs, smaller competitors do not. this works to their advantage, especially after trump is gone and tariffs are reversed. Its not so much about tariffs being good economically, but that it hurts their competitors.
Jiro
2hr ago
Therefore if there was an intentional leak this was a rather weak document to risk anything over.
Just like terrorism isn't optimized for either number of deaths or political change, deep state political activism isn't optimized for political change. All that's necessary is that it was leaked by a single true believer, rather than on orders from a political organization. True believers would just want to expose Trump as much as they can, and not think very strategically.
And even organizations can be subject to groupthink and fanaticism at times.
cjet79
2hr ago
Here it is, an amazing moment for you:
I am not perfect. I have definitely made mistakes in moderation. Based on what the other mods say and what users say I am often too harsh in my moderation. I have in fact been overridden on my moderation decisions and have had them scaled back before. If self_made_human, amadan, and netstack (or just zorba) say I have been too harsh I trust their judgement and I'm willing to say I was wrong. This has happened a few times. There have also been times where any of them have realized they are too close to an issue and have stepped back and asked other mods to step in and make a ruling. This is basically what I consider a normal process of modding here on themotte. If some mod was totally unwilling to admit fault and completely bull headed they would not last long as a mod.
Generally these moments are not highly publicized and catalogued. If that bothers you, then tough shit. Welcome to the world we live in. I'm not gonna ask any user to make a public flogging tour for every minor mistake they make. Consider any politician or public figure that you like and respect. Should they be forced to go on a public apology tour for every mistake they make? Or would you look at such a request through obvious culture war eyes and realize that your enemies are just trying to get one over on you?
You probably don't get dinged much because you don't post much. This is a problem we are aware of. For highly prolific users we are aware that there is a numbers issue, speak up too much and eventually you might run afoul of the rules. But we are also super forgiving of highly prolific users. As long as they don't violate very specific and enumerated requests we will let a lot of shit go. This is the case with steve, we had a very specific request that he not make these shitty "mods suck" type comments, and we tried to be as clear as possible that he needs to stop them, immediately.
He didn't.
So tell me, what the hell are we supposed to do when a user violates a clear, specific, minor, and reasonable request we have for them?
Common suggestions:
- Let it go, because someone else was being bad.
- Let it go, because this user is usually not so bad.
- Ban them forever, because I hate their opinions.
Steve has vocally been in favor of option 3 before.
I hope you are jumping everywhere like a good TES player should. I don't think they rebalanced sneak very well when they sped up the movement mechanics - sneaking is still shit when you are low in stealth and you'll easily get spotted, but the extra speed of your character means when you stand behind a column near a rat or the like and tap directions so you move a fraction you build up stealth a lot faster than you used to, so you can easily clear 30 stealth before you have finished the tutorial.
Edit - also I went with my standard TES build since morrowind - Breton race of course (I'm racist), key attributes intelligence and willpower, sign of the atronach (broken as hell in this game) with major skills - blades (short blades previously), alchemy, stealth, destruction, mysticism, armourer and light armour. The class is called a gigolo, naturally.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
2hr ago
I don’t think this unhinged.
Thanks for writing so much about a passion topic for you! As a one-cologne guy, it’s pretty interesting.
Jiro
2hr ago
You can tell them apart by looking at how they treat books that the wokes hate. Did they get rid of Harry Potter because JK Rowling is a vile TERF?
Harry Potter is so enormously popular that the popularity can overcome the outrage. A better comparison would be a right-wing political book, particularly one on a similar subject (such as an anti-trans book or a traditional morals book targeting kids).
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
2hr ago
Your first line reminds me of a famous political speech, which seems oddly relevant to the topic at hand:
We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come.
We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we've been told we're not ready or that we shouldn't try or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Yes, we can.
sockpuppet2
2hr ago
Last week, I recommended "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," and JarJarJedi replied "Second this, and despite them addressing a lot of topics that would be classified as "social justice" and "woke", it does not give off the impression of being a woke product. I have very low tolerance for "agenda" productions, and I quite enjoyed it..." What other shows "thread the needle" well?
The legal procedural/political dramedy "The Good Wife" was interesting: It was set in Chicago and the (almost exclusively liberal) characters were always openly cynical about local "Machine Politics," and neither side was portrayed as having the moral high ground. Early episodes included "cross-racial identification" problems by witnesses in a criminal trial, a judge being suspected of racial bias and statistical challenges to the evidence (the big reveal was that it was a "kids for cash" scheme), and multiple instances of lawyers saying they stereotype jurors because it works. Later episodes had the liberal main characters battling progressive ideological excess, like a college that interpreted "diversity of expression" as "privileging expression by 'diverse' students," and the odd principled alliance with a red-tribe cause, like a defense of a Project Veritas stand-in against prior restraint. In examples of the main characters being openly ideological, the show was scrupulous about giving the opposition "their day in court." (Not every episode, but if it was a recurring topic.)
(I've never seen it, but I've read the sequel series does all the wrong things.)
BreakerofHorsesandMen
2hr ago
Would you like to argue that erotic images are a special category that should be treated differently? If so, make the case.
I make the case that erotic images have always been a special category that was treated differently, from the beginning of public libraries. Public libraries were designed and intended to educate, uplift, and edify their users. You have to make the case for why we should change.
My hypothesis is the null hypothesis because prior to May 28, 2019, the question “Should we have comic books depicting blowjobs both in the public library and marketed to under-18s” would have probably caught the questioner a pedophilia accusation. It would have been so uncontroversially a negative that even to ask the question would be suspicious, and yet it only took the release of Gender Queer for a vocal minority to argue that I’m the one who has to explain why it shouldn’t be in the public library.
At some point in the living past, the question “Should we have, in the public library, comic books depicting graphic rape” would have been uncontroversially answered with a negative, and at some point in the living past, “Should we sell photos of naked women at gas stations” would have been uncontroversially answered in the negative, and so on and so forth.
The Internet is mostly a sewage pipe with a small bubble of moderately fresh air trapped up against the pipe, and I don’t find your argument that therefore libraries should also become sewage pipes to be at all convincing. “The Internet is for Porn”, after all, so libraries can and should be for something else.
And everyone is always free to, you know, not take their kids to the public library if they don't want to. The fact that there is little necessity to do so is a load-bearing part of why the libraries should not necessarily feel obligated to cater their entire catalogue to the lowest age denominator.
This reasoning always shows up eventually. Of course I’m free to not take my kids to the public library. But I also used to be free to take them there and be fairly confident the worst thing they could stumble across was some text erotica. My parents could be reasonably certain the worst thing I would stumble across was a kiss and a fade to black in a fantasy novel. Their parents could pretty much trust the worst thing they were going to come across was a “Damn!”
The point is that my freedom to trust that the public library is in accord with what I and people like me view as the public interest has been slowly degrading for 40 years or more. This limits our access to and trust in the library and when we complain about it or express our grievances, we are met with your reasoning.
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This is obviously a generational battle and will continue to be so. I don’t fault my predecessors for not understanding what was going on, because it probably felt like having to explain to someone that the sky is blue and the grass is green, and that while sometimes the sky is orange and the grass is yellow, they still aren’t the same thing, only to be met with adamant accusations that the sky and the grass are the same thing until their will to resist was exhausted.
Now we are living in the world where everyone is expected to act like the sky and the grass are the same thing, and unsurprisingly it is starting to crack up under its contradictions.
Skibboleth
It's never 4D Chess
2hr ago
People have regularly been pointing out that Trump routinely devolves into gibberish since 2016 at least. This is a guy whose re-entry into the political sphere was in the form of spearheading the most trivially disprovable conspiracy theory I've ever seen. His mental fitness is not a new topic. His supporters just don't care, because they have never cared about any aspect of Trump's fitness.
Click the three dots on someone's comment and select "Block User". You won''t be notified of replies and their comments (but not the children of their comments) will be hidden from you.
As far as I can tell, that's practically identical to Twitter.
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