Sort of funny to think of....
The left: "We're going to start assassinating important people all the time"
Also the left: "OH MY GOOOOOOD TRUMP IS GOING TO LOCK US UUUUUUUP HOW CAN THIS HAPPPEN TO MEEEEE I MADE SOME MISTAAAAAKES"
The left: "We're going to start assassinating important people all the time"
Also the left: "OH MY GOOOOOOD TRUMP IS GOING TO LOCK US UUUUUUUP HOW CAN THIS HAPPPEN TO MEEEEE I MADE SOME MISTAAAAAKES"
When I see someone claiming they'll save the world through social media posts, I always think of a paraphrase from my first book: "They want to save the world, they can't even save themselves"
I put way more effort into my posts than any of these idiots, and I actually make intellectual progress through my work, unlike any of these idiots. You'll routinely see me building on previous ideas I came up with or I investigated from others, and so as time goes on I'm different and my posts are different than they were before.
But am I saving the world? No. Not in the least. My hope isn't to change the world, it's to try to better myself and hopefully contribute to those who are around me in the process. If I can do that, that's enough because it's all I can actually ask for.
I put way more effort into my posts than any of these idiots, and I actually make intellectual progress through my work, unlike any of these idiots. You'll routinely see me building on previous ideas I came up with or I investigated from others, and so as time goes on I'm different and my posts are different than they were before.
But am I saving the world? No. Not in the least. My hope isn't to change the world, it's to try to better myself and hopefully contribute to those who are around me in the process. If I can do that, that's enough because it's all I can actually ask for.
I know it's just a linguistic flourish, but "The Communist party's [...] czar" is a pretty funny turn of phrase given what the communists did to the last one they got their hands on.
It seems to me like the Chinese followed the Japanese strategy of racking up massive debts to fund economic growth, but it's something that always has an end date because you can't rack up debt forever.
It seems to me like the Chinese followed the Japanese strategy of racking up massive debts to fund economic growth, but it's something that always has an end date because you can't rack up debt forever.
Yeah, you don't do anything with your computer because you just keep it turned off cuz it's such a piece of garbage.
I hate to say it, but Windows has become even more fragmented and broken than Linux. It's like... Okay, how do you set an IP address? Oh, I'm sorry are you talking about an early Windows 10 mid Windows 10 late Windows 10 early Windows 11 mid Windows 11 late Windows 11 or the upcoming Windows 12?
One thing to keep in mind with Voltaire is that he lived right before the French revolution, during regime l'ancien, and so during that time the rich weren't capitalists who became Rich by providing goods and services to other people, they were nobles who became Rich by taxing the productive economy. The French revolution began because the people who are actually making society work we're getting sucked up by state vampires so badly they had no chance to survive without crowding into the cities to try to get a chance to soak up some of the wealth of the wealthy nobles as they spend it on their own lavish lifestyles.
To be honest, there are some extreme parallels with today, but again it's not because of capitalists who provide services to others to make their money, it's because we are at one of the highest levels of taxation in human history collectively, resulting in for example Washington DC being one of the highest per capita income locations on planet Earth.
I don't know, maybe it's time for another revolution.
To be honest, there are some extreme parallels with today, but again it's not because of capitalists who provide services to others to make their money, it's because we are at one of the highest levels of taxation in human history collectively, resulting in for example Washington DC being one of the highest per capita income locations on planet Earth.
I don't know, maybe it's time for another revolution.
I said to my wife "you know, considering that most women aren't very cultured (what do you mean by that?) well, how many times a week do you think about the Roman empire? (Ok you have a point there) I find it strange they'd pick this strange French word like charcuterie for food on a board" and since she calls it the couchie couchie coup board or the grocery board she immediately laughed.
One lone gunman is the least of any CEOs concerns if they live in the Kafkaesque nightmare that is New York.
"Rest assured you will be protected from lone gunman so our DAs can put you in front of a firing squad legally!"
"Rest assured you will be protected from lone gunman so our DAs can put you in front of a firing squad legally!"
I saw Vee's video about Sargon talking about a good take on beautiful women in video games, and I think it's rather compelling. It isn't necessarily just about "sex" appeal, it's about the idea that people like beautiful things. In the case of a video game, the "thing" is a character, and people like seeing beauty. some games like Cyberpunk 2077 lean very heavily on their aesthetic beauty, not just in characters, but in the world design. You don't go to see Michelangelo's David to get your rocks off, you don't go to see Greek sculptures to get your rocks off, it's to see a thing of beauty that speaks to something deep inside you that seeks beauty.
A lot of video game commentators back when such things mattered were incredibly happy when the end of the era of dark and gritty brown "realistic" environments ended because they were excited to see beautiful environments and designs again. It isn't because they wanted to pork the environments, it's because beauty is important beyond the surface, at least for those who behold that beauty.
Rejecting beauty for postmodernism isn't the future, it's the past, and it's a past that's already failed. Beauty isn't a set of shackles, it's something that affects our hearts and makes us strive for more beauty. We aren't logic machines with gears and sprockets and turbines, we're human beings who carry a piece of all life going back to the first single celled organism in each of our cells. The fact that we're humans matters, particularly to us. Any ideology that would reject our humanity will not continue and I think we're seeing the death throes of that ideology now. It was never going to last long.
A lot of video game commentators back when such things mattered were incredibly happy when the end of the era of dark and gritty brown "realistic" environments ended because they were excited to see beautiful environments and designs again. It isn't because they wanted to pork the environments, it's because beauty is important beyond the surface, at least for those who behold that beauty.
Rejecting beauty for postmodernism isn't the future, it's the past, and it's a past that's already failed. Beauty isn't a set of shackles, it's something that affects our hearts and makes us strive for more beauty. We aren't logic machines with gears and sprockets and turbines, we're human beings who carry a piece of all life going back to the first single celled organism in each of our cells. The fact that we're humans matters, particularly to us. Any ideology that would reject our humanity will not continue and I think we're seeing the death throes of that ideology now. It was never going to last long.
Even though I'm a canuckistani I'm not usually that gung ho about metric, but I have to admit metric heads are nice, it's like "the number of mm is the number you need"
Publishing my first book and also posting the audio version on YouTube helped me to realize something a lot of these people don't understand: You don't just magically get sales because you made a thing, you need to have a good thing worth buying, and you need to find ways to convince people to buy it.
Some people think "Oh, well these companies have established franchises", but established franchises got to where they are by making a good thing people wanted to buy, and once they stopped providing such a thing, the franchises collapsed.
Ultimately, it's simply that there are rules of reality we need to follow as people who produce something for public consumption. Part of the process of becoming a professional writer, or showrunner, or game developer, is figuring out what those rules are and following them, or else either your product won't sell if you're doing it on your own, or your company will have to stop letting you make stuff if you're doing it as part of an organization.
I think they're missing these basics because a lot of the tourists who injected themselves into the AAA space and the games journalism space grew up with a Marxist worldview that makes them think the capital is the building with fungible and faceless people inside rather than the output of specific, talented people who make things others want. It also assumes that the work that goes into the thing is related to the value of a thing, but that's totally wrong -- just look at games like Concord, which cost hundreds of millions and took countless man-hours, but is a worthless IP, or Dustborne, which is another expensive game that took lots of time to produce but is a worthless IP. Recall also this year that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (which I'm sure also took a lot of time to make, and also had a pair of major franchises attached to it, first in the Batman franchise, and second in the Arkham franchise) was first discounted to 5 dollars, and then I think delisted entirely from game stores. Millions to create this media, only to have it worth 0.
Some people think "Oh, well these companies have established franchises", but established franchises got to where they are by making a good thing people wanted to buy, and once they stopped providing such a thing, the franchises collapsed.
Ultimately, it's simply that there are rules of reality we need to follow as people who produce something for public consumption. Part of the process of becoming a professional writer, or showrunner, or game developer, is figuring out what those rules are and following them, or else either your product won't sell if you're doing it on your own, or your company will have to stop letting you make stuff if you're doing it as part of an organization.
I think they're missing these basics because a lot of the tourists who injected themselves into the AAA space and the games journalism space grew up with a Marxist worldview that makes them think the capital is the building with fungible and faceless people inside rather than the output of specific, talented people who make things others want. It also assumes that the work that goes into the thing is related to the value of a thing, but that's totally wrong -- just look at games like Concord, which cost hundreds of millions and took countless man-hours, but is a worthless IP, or Dustborne, which is another expensive game that took lots of time to produce but is a worthless IP. Recall also this year that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (which I'm sure also took a lot of time to make, and also had a pair of major franchises attached to it, first in the Batman franchise, and second in the Arkham franchise) was first discounted to 5 dollars, and then I think delisted entirely from game stores. Millions to create this media, only to have it worth 0.
Before he went totally nuts, I used to really enjoy watching Thunderf00t, but if you listened only to him you'd think that Elon successfully did this once barely. Successfully recovering rockets 100 times in a year is imo really a notable achievement.
I don't know about how much it changes the economics of spaceflight solely because I just don't know. But it sure seems like it ought to change a lot.
I don't know about how much it changes the economics of spaceflight solely because I just don't know. But it sure seems like it ought to change a lot.
Working class vs. the unborn.
"Thou shalt keep giving us money from our grandkids. Sell every last one of them to bankers so we can continue living a more comfortable life."
"Thou shalt keep giving us money from our grandkids. Sell every last one of them to bankers so we can continue living a more comfortable life."
Thought the original PS3 was like 750. I bought a used SUV with a safety for 500 that year.
"in other news, today hackers were able to successfully breach the only cans app, potentially exposing millions of smart toilets."
"day 761. It has been over 2 years since I have had to open a terminal window to do something relatively benign. I can feel my sanity slipping."