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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.
Said circumstances also affect 1 in 1 billion boys and... literally all the girls.
Then again I'm practically a genius when it comes to forgetting things.
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.
why do you have a grudge against HH
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
At some point I wanted to be "ideology-blind" but eh, I gave up.
Also:
I think I have good memory when it comes to remembering drama.
It's hard not to feel like I'm an excessively morbid person at times like this.
probably from leaving metal tweezers on the mattress.
I read "cut" as "cat" lol
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.
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.
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:
Also apparently I have lots of ideas but they are all "what if it was also a VR isekai?"
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/chuck-tingle-books
You can do it now, on the cheap!