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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (16/20)

Final Fantasy Legend 3

Considering the inflation was entirely government created, maybe we need to curb government greedflation by getting them to stop spending more money than exists all the time?

And if you get the boys together to tar and feather some bureaucrats, they call *you* the toxic one!

They can't even sue Microsoft to pay all their taxes.

"it's bullshit that I can't sue my text editor"

I still fire it up routinely.

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (15/20)

Rock and Roll Racing

"Just take your kid to an unlicensed daycare." "Well I couldn't do that, I need to use a daycare that follows the labyrinthine and meaningless regulations intended to ensure virtually nobody can run a daycare!"

Fun fact: Back in the 2000s, megacorps put out ill conceived re-imaginings of old properties, but they had not yet developed the technology required to call you racist for pointing out it sucks balls, so people just pointed out it sucked balls.

This darker, gritter re-imagining of Loony Toons ran for 2 years.

The worst thing the spaniards ever did was burn all the books. I bet there's a lot of interesting stuff we'll never know...

Not enough wrench

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWbdxOAuDs

An absolutely S-tier explanation of the smith chart, and also the concept of reflectance through a wire.

There's a device called a Time Domain Reflectometer that will induce a small pulse on a line and use this characteristic to listen for reflections, and that represents changes in resistance over a line. In this way, you can find damage in electrical cables without going inside of them. The same concept works in optical systems, so there are also optical time domain reflectometers which similarly send a light pulse out and look for light reflected back.

*white replacement theory* is a far right conspiracy theory that the left keeps bragging about actually doing decade after decade

This is my go-to example for why we should not assume old stories are stupid and have nothing to teach us. Not every old myth is literally true, but we've learned over the past 100 years that there's a shocking amount of accuracy in them, to the point that major anthropological dig sites were found by just going to where the stories told us to look, such as one dig site where we think we found the ancient city of Troy, and another where we found a previously forgotten civilization on Crete which we named the Minoans after the greek myth which suggested its existence.

I've seen people try to use this line of thinking on me.

"How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast yesterday?"

"Donald Trump[...]"

Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (14/20)

Sim City (SNES)

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The left in 2022: "You're nazis because you don't want to be forced to take untested experimental drugs to live your life normally!"

The left in 2024: "Death to the Jews and Israel!"

It's like... Pick a lane, guys...

"The giant ball of rust might become... rustier!"

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