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  • edited 2018-06-19 06:04:01
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Thanks guys~
    so we aren't all a bunch of old farts.

    I'm pretty old in anime protagonist years, at least.
    Solution: just imagine all the high-school-age characters are actually in college.

    I mean, it literally can make more sense in some cases, such as for characters are given surprisingly weighty/powerful roles and responsibilities (especially for military-type stuff), and also when it comes to the more fanservicey stuff.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    But only people under 18 can [do something entirely unsafe] because [who even knows]!

    Said circumstances also affect 1 in 1 billion boys and... literally all the girls.
  • I don't think I've held an internet grudge for as long as I've held mine against Heaper's Hangout.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I don't think I've held an internet grudge for as long as I've held mine against Heaper's Hangout.
    Wait, seriously, you're still mad at HH?
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    Reading that reminded me that I did have a few issues with a few people online last year that I mostly got over by forgetting about them.

    Then again I'm practically a genius when it comes to forgetting things.
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Talking about grudges, funny. I just today ventured into a TVT thread on sexism and it turns out LessWrong is pretty much considered a joke nowadays. That is, by people who have actually heard of it. Or unless LessWrong folks molest women, which was the reason why it was brought up in that thread.

    Did you ever had that feeling of vindication, when you see something commonly dissed, remember how you used to diss it years ago, back when everyone but you seemed to really dig it? Like you were some sort of a precursor to a trend, once alone, but now proved right?

    I had it again. A few weeks ago I discovered that my classmate buddy, who writes a backpacking blog, is now considered an in-joke in mountaineering circles because of a blog post on no-budget-no-preparation climbing I considered misguided years ago.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    They basically decided to do a reality show without a crew?
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    I don't think I've held an internet grudge for as long as I've held mine against Heaper's Hangout.

    why do you have a grudge against HH
  • edited 2018-06-24 17:46:37
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    lrdgck wrote: »
    Did you ever had that feeling of vindication, when you see something commonly dissed, remember how you used to diss it years ago, back when everyone but you seemed to really dig it? Like you were some sort of a precursor to a trend, once alone, but now proved right?
    I had my disagreements with my high school's debate team back when I was a student. They were sort of obnoxiously stuck-up and cliquish, and there was so much that one had to do for debate class, especially like team fundraisers and stuff, and fundraising (by hawking donuts to other students or convincing adults to buy $25 "Entertainment" brand coupon books) was actually part of your grade to varying extents.

    Well, a few years ago, the longtime head coach for said team got investigated for various things and ended up stepping down.

    (To be fair, said head coach also did a lot of good by putting our high school on the national scene. But still.)
    I don't think I've held an internet grudge for as long as I've held mine against Heaper's Hangout.

    why do you have a grudge against HH
    Something involving political conversations if I recall correctly, and whether or not "leftism" or something along those lines is an ideology worth supporting. I've chalked it up to the differences between his experiences (being in Venezuela, of all places) and those of people who've been repeatedly screwed by right-wingers here in the United States, that they've basically got very different ideas of what the left/right political axis means to them.

    But I should probably not say too much since I risk misrepresenting what Stormtroper thinks.
  • edited 2018-06-24 21:27:28
    Talking about grudges, funny. I just today ventured into a TVT thread on sexism and it turns out LessWrong is pretty much considered a joke nowadays. That is, by people who have actually heard of it. Or unless LessWrong folks molest women, which was the reason why it was brought up in that thread.

    LessWrong seems reasonable when your experience with it is the occasional linked article, one needs to delve deeper (or hear it from someone else) to get into the dubious parts where they take a rebranded physical or mathematical principle and contort it to make some sort of meta-ideology out of it, then use it to convince themselves that some contentious issue has to be this or that way. For that reason it's not surprising that people who aren't in would stop taking it seriously.

    Well, for that reason and because of Roko's Basilisk. Link for the uninitiated, but beware that you're damning yourself to robot hell.
    Wait, seriously, you're still mad at HH?

    Yes. *shrug* I have stronger reasons to be miffed now than I did back then, and a year from now I'll likely have even stronger reasons.

    ^ Replace "leftism" with "communism*" and couple it with a callous disregard towards those of us who live under governments espousing it and you've got it.

    About the other part, if I went back in time to when I was there, I'd post the same things except without those stupid "maybe I'm misunderstanding/not expressing myself well enough, but" disclaimers. This is not a problem of communication, we all knew what the others meant. No, the source of our conflict is that they want to defend the root/amplifier of all my and my country's problems without me having a say in the matter, the best I may get being the equivalent of "I sympathize with your plight but I want you to shut up about it".

    Also, "left" in Venezuela means more or less the same it does elsewhere. Take what's considered left in Western Europe, add nationalism (it's a big thing in Latin America) and you've got it. The US is an outlier, yes, but like I said it's not a matter of communication.

    [*] They want me to refer to the ideology(ies) in favour of the socialization of the means of production by the label we most commonly use to disparage them and I'm going to do exactly that.

    Also, if this turns into the specifics of what some users said or didn't say, for the purpose of not-backtalking I'm going to ping them here.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    oh, the socialism stuff
  • edited 2018-06-24 21:45:15
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have asked about it, in the interest of not importing drama. Sorry about that.

    But on the topic of political ideologies, I do think that proper governance shouldn't stick slavishly to any ideological intent but be willing to take the best practices from anything and also be flexible and adaptable.

    Like right now in the US some people are talking about how a single-payer healthcare system would be more cost-effective and likely to provide better coverage (assuming that said single "payer" (i.e. the government) is at least half-competent at negotiating prices with insurance companies, but it's not like we as individuals and employers are doing well at all under the current system), because it can spread the risk over more people (a fundamental principle of how insurance works) and because it does have more bargaining power as a monopsony. Yet it's sorta really annoying to hear other people respond with "well that's the government taking over healthcare, fucking socialist leftist communist shit, go away".

    This isn't saying that single-payer is going to be some sort of be-all and end-all to all problems. It's just saying it's likely to be better than what we're struggling with now, and it's also a system that has been implemented to in a number of other countries (such as Canada, various Scandinavian countries, and so on), so there are real-life models that one can build on.

    Regardless, the emphasis should be about practical policy outcomes, not about ideological opinion-pushing. Ideologies, in my opinion, are mere conveniences for labeling general approaches to policymaking, at best, and at worst, forced pigeonholes that narrow people's thinking.
  • You're probably right that the ideal way to look at things is on strictly practical terms, but still, for better or worse, people (including politicians) will refer to political ideologies to support/oppose policies (after all, that's what they're there for), like the hypothetical dude in your post, and often will refer to policies to support/oppose ideologies so as to connect it all, so they're kinda important to talk about even if in principle "the best" course of action is the one to take.

    At some point I wanted to be "ideology-blind" but eh, I gave up.
  • edited 2018-06-25 00:51:26
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I'm just personally sick-and-tired of people (1) tarring each other over their ideological labels, (2) tarring people even on their own side for being insufficiently "pure" according to an ideological issue position checklist, and (3) straitjacketing debate about real-life policymaking into a narrative of struggle for dominance between two sides on a linear scale (which incidentally also makes it look like both sides are equally valid, which they are not, outside of detached philosophical arguments). All three of these have been happening in spades here in the U.S. and it's frankly gotten people nowhere, except into ever more arguments, as well as a tribalist self-sorting into ideological camps that take knee-jerk reactions against opposing camps.
  • edited 2018-06-25 01:09:24
    One gets used to it after a while.

    Also:
    Then again I'm practically a genius when it comes to forgetting things.

    I think I have good memory when it comes to remembering drama.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    Sometimes I think GMH nerds way harder than me but then I remember that today I watched a death game movie and then wrote 3 chapters of a death game story.

    It's hard not to feel like I'm an excessively morbid person at times like this.
  • "In a mad world, only the mad are sane!"-Akira Kurosawa, Ran
    Meh, some rationalists are pretty neat, SlateStarCodex and Thing of Things are quite nice (also the Tumblr part, pretty similar to here-leftish, nerdy, and a higher-than-average percentage of LGBT+ peeps).
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    I hurt my left shoulder... sleeping. How hardcore.
  • I've woken up with scratches on my face

    probably from leaving metal tweezers on the mattress.
  • I woke up once with a swollen eye.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    I woke up once with a cut on my nose, no idea why
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I woke up once with a cut on my nose, no idea why

    I read "cut" as "cat" lol
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    if it had been a cat I'd have been sick the rest of the day.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    @lrdgck why is Poland "purging" its supreme court trending in twitter?
  • edited 2018-07-04 00:04:41
    I hope nothing bad comes out of it.

    I got my internet back... sort of, I got a (highly limited) data plan that I can use for important matters, if I manage it properly perhaps I won't be entirely disconnected from the world. Anyhows, gotta restock on offline material.

    Also I managed to be extra productive by not getting distracted by the 'net while still getting to use it if I needed online help.
  • edited 2018-07-04 05:17:21
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    why is Poland "purging" its supreme court trending in twitter?

    Not an expert but what I've read so far is that they reduced the retirement age from 70 to 65 which means that like 20% (or 40% I can't remember) of all judges suddenly have to retire on Monday.

    There's specifically one lady who is super-not buying it and is turning up to work anyways but I forget her name already and I bet it'll super-not end well.

    Meanwhile, I've proven to myself once again that I can't really write a Death Game story. Despite managing to somehow kill off two entire characters at this point*, the first character who I've given real development and has real bearing on the future of the story I just can't kill off. I've been stuck at the end of Chapter 15 trying to write out a sequence but I just can't do it.

    I think a major part is that this is the first time that two really fleshed out characters are facing off where one intends to kill the other for real. *The other two times involved a character was killed off my a monster thing and a character whose entire purpose for existing was to get killed by another.

    Even writing that second scene still kind of makes me feel guilty two weeks after I've written it. I just wish I'd discovered this (more like, paid attention to my emotions at all) before Chapter danged 15.

    I'm really mad at myself because I did develop some cool concepts for this. The whole backstory was really great I think, with one boy (the one I'm supposed to kill off now) having his family migrate from Azerbaijan to Austria only to get caught up in the Italo War (I'm not sure if I should be writing about Italy going mad, unleashing anti-Nuclear systems and then attempting to take over Europe anyways) and then becoming one of ten refugees to ever manage to escape to America.

    In the VR reality the story is set, a Doppelganger (called a "Doppel", an AI running off a revolutionary new system) of a friend he escaped with tries to get at his memories (which first boy has conveniently forgotten), but nobody knows he's an AI and he sort of just blends with the rest of the cast. From there there's a whole bunch more.

    ...Whilst writing this, I kind of came up with a way to repurpose my story, but it'll take a lot of figuring out to do. My only real issue is whether or not GMH will give me the copyright to his dreams.
  • edited 2018-07-04 07:12:17
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Can I grant you non-exclusive right to use any content from my dream logs?
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    @ glenn: I'm not well-versed in the whole ordeal, I'm not following it closely, so the way I see it is mostly like that. For the folks currently in power to push through every stupidity they feel like, they need to get past the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court. I'm not lawyer, so I don't know what exactly these two can or cannot do, but I can say the ruling folks just can't stand the thought of someone not being "theirs" or having to contend with the opinion of such. So, they're trying their hardest to place their own cronies in these positions. Like I've said, I'm not following because the bullshit these folks are telling us is frankly embarassing, but what fourteen says sounds right.
  • edited 2018-07-04 12:44:11
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    That'd be great! Thanks~

    I think the main reason I haven't stopped writing my death game story yet is because it taught me a lot about writing. I was able to write tighter arcs where a lot of the character's issues and plots are resolved before the end of the story. The stakes also really keep me on my toes; none of the characters have anything to protect or fight for with aside from their lives (I mean, there are things they want, but that kind of pales in comparison to continuing to be alive).

    I actually don't know if I've quit yet, but I have been looking to steal your dreams for my own nefarious purposes for a while so thanks!

    I did write out a bit of a premise for whatever I'd do with them though:
    Evergreen "Eva" Tsui; Geography major, President of her College's Fashion History society and a member of high society. The perfect daughter, until she goes missing.

    Grant Tsui; member of the AV Club, an indoors person with a passion for political science and a huge crush on football player Tate Ridgestone. When his sister goes missing, his investigation leads him to the mysterious virtual world of "Phantoms".

    In 2024, social media and web-archiving have amalgamated into the Big Fill; a VR world where data is compiled and given physical form that developers and analysts can interact with. The five sub-system servers of the Big Fill can only be accessed via a specialized set of equipment that is tightly-regulated by the government. It's not the sort of thing a normal person thinks about.

    But when Grant finds a contract between Eva and the Harvey Corporation for an Indefinite Heist, he realizes that his sister has become one of the "Phantoms" of the Big Fill. People hired by independent contractors, usually subsidiaries of companies that already have a permit to explore the Big Fill.

    Grant is about to give up when he is approached by rogue engineers from a failed tech startup called Locus, who were developing the next generation of VR headgear. They offer him a Dark License to the Big Fill, where the mystery surrounding his sister's hunt for the Gold Peacock Coordination could have serious geopolitical consequences.

    Also apparently I have lots of ideas but they are all "what if it was also a VR isekai?"
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
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    https://www.humblebundle.com/books/chuck-tingle-books

    You can do it now, on the cheap!
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