“Bacon identified a lacuna in the methodological habits of inquiry. What lacked in the seventeenth century was a: “consciously formulated technique of research, an art of interpretation, a method whose rules had been written down”. In order to make understanding and ‘truth’ manifest, Bacon highlighted that inquiry lacked a procedure of honing ones knowledge through the practice of a technique itself. The assumption that Bacon made was that a ‘sure plan’ was necessary in order to access ‘truth’. What was deemed requisite for accessing truth was “a ‘way’ of understanding, an ‘art’ or ‘method’ of inquiry, an ‘instrument’ which…shall supplement the weakness of natural reason: in short, what is required is a formulated technique of inquiry”. Once again, Oakeshott draws the reader’s attention to his single greatest critique of Rationalism: the sovereignty of technique.
The sovereignty of technique begins with Bacon precisely as he identifies that ‘truth’ is not manifest, it does not merely make itself accessibly immanent to the individual, but rather through a technique, a ‘method’, truth is uncovered. Such technique would only become manifest if it can be accordingly codified, and subsequently made objective in its certainty of success. ‘The art of research’ that Bacon recommends has a three-fold character. Firstly, it appears as a set of rules. A technique of inquiry can be formulated as a detailed set of guidelines, which can be learned by heart. Thus the priority of technical knowledge, as something that can be learned, is at the heart of Bacon’s scientific method. Secondly, this set of rules may be applied mechanically. This technique of inquiry is truly a technique because it is replicable by any who seek ‘truth’, and can be practiced time and again, simply, by following the same steps of procedure to achieve success repeatedly. It is the interplay between these first and second characters which make Bacon’s technique of enquiry a ‘method’ in and of itself. Lastly, Bacon’s ‘method’ is universal in character. Bacon’s method is grasped as a ‘true’ technique because it is applicable in all scenarios, in all forms of inquiry, irrespective of the subject matter. At least supposedly.
What Oakeshott identifies as being critically significant is that such a form of technique is itself plausible in the first instance. What Bacon proposes is a universal key to accessing any and all forms of truth, irrespective of subjectivity. Such a proposition is what Oakeshott is deeply critical of. “For what is proposed – infallible rules of discovery – is something very remarkable, a sort of philosopher’s stone, a key to open all doors, a ‘master science’”. In this the primacy of method comes to bear and its universality apparent in certainty.”
“I like calling people “old friend”, especially children, we are all old souls, having shared as many adventures as we have ahead”
“important implications of retrocausality”
“algorithmic music is like pornography: it can be an intense sensory experience but it cannot be “intimate,” because there is no chance of confronting shared human consciousness, and no chance of elevating your own consciousness through that confrontation”
“Do you even know how mathematically ideal the circle of fifths is?
Here’s a project that predict chord progressions of music with 96% accuracy: https://gabrantes.github.io/chordnet/#/
Do you even know what a chord progression is?
“B-b-but muh soul!”
The Blacks randomly disregarding note timing is about as impressive as the autists randomly disregarding time signatures: it isn’t
Adding your own flavor of time isn’t soul”
“To make a fiberglass body for a racecar you first need a mold. There are a few ways to make a mold.
The old and inexpensive way is to use wood sections, fill the area inbetween sections with foam, and sand that down flat.
The easy and expensive way is to slide someone with a giant CNC router several thousand dollars and a CAD model, and the foam model shows up on your doorstep a few weeks later.
I chose the middle ground, which is where I use my medium-sized CNC router, go buy a bunch of insulating foam from the hardware store, and machine the body in several smaller pieces, gluing them together after.
So there is the difficult cheap way. And an easy expensive way. And my way, which is both easy and inexpensive.
As long as everything goes right the first time.”
“The front needs to be done well.
So, we’re going to start at the back.”
“I realize Greedy Goblin has an error. He feels the need to justify persecuting M&S. Trust and inclusion are taken for granted, instead of distrust and the need for trades to be profitable.
M&S: “I want X.”
Me: “What are you paying me for it?” …. “That’s too low, bye.” Story over. The End.”
“longhousing can also be summarized as making kids fear bad deals tomorrow to make them accept a worse deal today. “if you don’t do what i want i’ll get mad” actually now that i wrote it out i think it’s a simpler principle.
“[A]lways attack – whether it is a counterattack or an attack in response to an attack. In the time it takes to evaluate the effects of an attacker’s attack, you could have attacked. Whatever has happened has already happened, and the effect is what the effect is, and no matter the effect – if you will want to attack, attack without pausing to find out what happened to you. It takes focus to do this. People are naturally inclined to respond more powerfully to things happening to them than to things they are doing. This reflex must be overcome so it cannot be used against you.”
it’s just a battle of wills.
or even without talking about battle, they’ll get mad if deal doesn’t pass. but what will you get? they can’t know what you get. they’re driving a sale, but they can’t make you sign on the line that is dotted.
alternatively again, this is the difference between a scam and a fraud. fraud is deception. scam is open. they’re lying, but it’s open: they know it, you know it, you know they know it and they know you know it and they know you know they know it.. “but i didn’t want to do it” it’s time to follow the voice in your heart and not the voice in your ears.”
“Putting a finer point on it, Gevlon starts with the assumption everyone is a cooperator, but wants to prove that certain easily-identifiable groups are not cooperators.
That’s wrong, if someone wants to be considered a cooperator, they have to ~explicitly ask and then earn that right.”
“hmmmmmmmmmmm
that does seem to simplify greedygoblins model with basically no loss
though makes me think something unrelated. “everyone is a cooperator” or things like it is like a carryover from a past people today havent or have barely experienced. but then why do we believe it? its like how old people used to get respect, ‘if you’re still alive you must have done something right’, except reversed, ‘if he’s in front of me he must not have ever defected on anyone in serious times’. except this isn no true. it must’ve been true at some point but it is not true. neither side has figured it out. unstable equilibrium. clark’s industrial revolution, except for decay and degeneration. omae wa mo shindeiru.
my view on greedygoblins model now is it can be simplified as
“[x] will [cooperate with me]”
1. x = the unknown
2. x = other people
3. x = certain other people
4. x = i”
“Times are no longer serious, ergo, defectors run free.
“””High trust””” == “most criminals are executed, hence I can trust he’s not a criminal” lol
You only get high trust if, when someone treats you like a criminal, you attempt to have them executed. “”High trust”” is approximating ‘most’ criminals are executed as ‘all’ criminals have been executed, then cowardly running from confrontation that challenges this assumption.
Lex talionis had that problem too. Even if revenge is legitimized as retribution, the victims keep trying to forgive the perpetrator. Someone regularly has to prod them into executing the deterrence. (Not me, but you may have noticed I’m not normal…)”
“well, being able to trade the right to execution definitely made it a lot better than today.
“does anyone want this guy dead”: possibly
“does one guy want this guy dead”: unlikely
“does the state (‘everyone’) want this guy dead”: not going to happen
trade really is important.
i wonder what other trades were a big deal that no longer happen.
first one that comes to mind is adult adoption: solves the problem of all your sons sucking.”
“One of the strangest things about millenioids is that they experience their own infantilisation as bureaucratic discipline. They “grow up” by managing their own arrested development, a “caregiver” to the child they remain, and they feel this at the level of a duty.”
“How is murdering thousands of innocents liberal?”
“Far more would’ve died without the nuke.
It was the right decision.”
“How many people did Russia lose taking Berlin?
Now, how many people would Russia and America have lost invading mountainous Japan, where our tank focus would be nullified by the horrific terrain?”
“”How many people did Russia lose taking Berlin?” Is the correct answer not enough?”
“Do you know the number?”
“I don’t know how many Russians were lost taking Berlin, but I think the estimates from Operation Olympic (Americans only) are 350,000- 1M. Why?”
“That’s the capacity for urban fighting in WW2, which relied heavily on indiscriminate carpet bombing, artillery, and widespread massacres everywhere
How well do you think tanks would have done in mountains during 1945?”
“What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position?”
“Disease is caused by environmental & foodborne toxins and is how the body detoxes, bacteria eating dead & toxic tissue, giving you symptoms when they are escorted out from the body, doctors kill more people than they save, hospitals are a net negative, pathogens is a meme, viruses are made by the body as a cleaning agents, almost all pharmaceuticals are stored in the body for the rest of your life, almost all pharmaceuticals are toxic not just in their side effects but their actual stated purpose is also bad in itself because all you’re doing is preventing the body from detoxing, basically the only beneficial things doctors do is set bones and stop bleedings, they are carpenters without understanding biology in the slightest.”
“50 years ago the mafia would stop by your business, and shake you down for money “or else”. Today in big blue cities, those people moved into non-profit sector which is much more profitable and legal.”
“strong evidence for my childhood “low verbal intelligence people can’t perceive the important differences between similar words and so believe that high verbal intelligence people are being pretentious when they’re being precise” theory
like i really try to avoid feeding the wolf inside me that whispers “people who claim you’re pretentious or condescending are just dumb and intimidated by your intelligence” but it’d help if y’all would stop sneaking him your table scraps behind my back”
“”Some people in Europe and the United States said that if Ukraine was accepted into NATO, Putin would not attack it. And now they say that if Ukraine loses, Putin will attack NATO! You can see the logic. They are trying to terrify the people “ Lavrov.”
“I’ll say this, I’ve always this guy is kinda retarded but he has in a *very practical way* btfo of bitcoin and even gold in a hyperinflationary scenario which is actually happening in Argentina and I don’t even think he meant to do that, it was unintentional.
This is a must-watch for anyone here.
This video has made me rethink the entire idea behind hyperinflation and the hedges that people think of like gold and bitcoin.
It should scare the fuck out of anyone here.
tldr; you just can’t get currency in a hyperinflationary scenario, it won’t be available, no one will actually want to trade it with you for your btc or gold.”
“Imma keep it real chief. No third worlder is going to tell their secrets to a honkey which is why this guy is naive and wrong as fuck.
You know how scientists discovered rats react differently to men and women administering drugs, possibly making all research after the 80s useless?
Yeah it’s something like that with this guys videos”
“wait til u realized that most research r done under artificial light”
“If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you.”
“No, that would be crazy.”
“What if I jumped off a bridge?”
“Filtered.”
“Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on Vedal.”
“That’s actually kinda funny.”
“Skyline average daily ridership even lower than last year:”
“$10 billion to build, $85 million/year in operating costs
Only 3000 riders per day! LOL”
“Are you in favor of transit or not lol”
“Shouldn’t we start from the maximally useful segments?
There is a tendency in U.S. transit to follow the Willie Brown strategy. Build out the useless peripheral segments first — dig a really big hole — so when there are the inevitable cost and schedule overruns the $$$ simply must be found to continue on to the actually good bits”
“My first reaction was wow willie brown ruins everything.
My second reaction was wow willie brown was a genius, look at all the other comments on OP, this really is What The People Want”
“”It doesn’t really go anywhere of note yet”
“The initial operating segment was never going to have high ridership by itself, once the next phase opens next year and eventually the portion to downtown in 2031, ridership will sky rocket.”
““hey bro what’s an incomplete system?” “i don’t know lets just bash this line””
“Too early to judge. They need to build a network and rework land use. The current routing is also subpar…””
“>Elira: nothing happened
>Vox: due to all the Horrible Things that happened
So which is it?”
“Reminds me of when the 2020 riots were happening, there were people with victim complexes calling out others with white guilt/hero complexes for describing them the events as “everything that’s been going on”.”
“From a long term geopolitical view, the US were the aggressors in in Japanese-American relations ever since the Perry expeditions.”
“It’s often forgotten that Perry would have been court martialed for disobeying a direct order of the President if not for the outbreak of the Civil War”
“That’s why it’s ironic that Tristan’s style advice is “achieve this body shape.” This is not style advice; this is fitness advice
He’s also incorrect that King Charles uses his tailor, Huntsman. Charles has never used Huntsman. He has used Kent & Haste, A&S, and Malcolm Plews”
“Comparing oneself to an icon is always a red flag”
“It doesn’t help that EVERY normal human is poor as shit now. The problem with the economy is that VERY lazy fat fuck CEO wants to be the 1%.
What they don’t realize is 5hat there’s a static amount of money in the economy, that’s how value works. So when every fucking dollar is siphoned into the hands of 8 fucking faggots, the rest of us 8 trillion people literally can not buy anything even if we wanted to. They’re asking people to give them $600 when people can’t even pay rent anymore.”
“Milankovitch cycles don’t explain the current warming trend. Based on the current orbital and axial changes, we should be experiencing a very gradual cooling trend as we entered the next ice age. Try again.”
“>don’t explain the current warming trend
but whatever it is
its causing the ice caps to melt……….. on mars
so yeah, its a celestial phenomenon”
“We are talking about Earth not Mars.”
“BUY MY GAAAAAME”
“why is singing so cringe”
“Expression of emotions and soul will never be cringe, we’ve been doing it since we were cavemen, if anything it’s as primal as fighting or having sex.
I swear the souls ran out after 2000″
“Somewhere around there, there’s definitely an entire generation of completely brainwashed dumbasses between the ages of 18 and 24, that just forgot what it means to take it easy.”
“kids now think everything is cringe, unaware that what they consider “fire” is equally as cringe, what did you expect?”
“what the fuck happened to the internet that sincerity and enjoyment are now cringe?”
“Yeah, these days especially are lacking in sincerity and passion. FF7 remake for example is the most horribly corporate garbage I’ve ever seen.”
“Just to take stock of where we’re at: in coalition with the right, a Democratic president is backing a violent crackdown on freedom of speech that will split the coalition that narrowly elected him in support of another state’s right to kill and destroy with total impunity.”
“Where you’re at is Toronto, Ontario
Every time”
“It’s almost as if our foreign policy, education, criminal justice system, news and entertainment media, fiscal policy, trade policy, environmental policy, and much more are all working in concert to produce dystopia.
I guess it’s just incompetence and unintended consequences.”
“If Trump did nothing else he demonstrated that Western decline is the result of deliberate policy choices.”
“My aunt got to fly the Concorde, just by chance. She volunteered to give up her seat for someone on her Air France flight (Paris to NYC) and was told she’d be put on the next flight out. When she got on the plane she thought it was a bit small, and didn’t realize she was on the Concorde till they announced they were supersonic. She made it to New York before her original flight landed.”
“Something I find quite frankly baffling about the Normie American morality about the pacific war is that everything done to Japan up till August of 1945 was justified and totally kosher, but the moment the Atomic bombs fell it was the worst thing ever.”
“There are several non-exclusive answers to this question of which the most straightforward is that in August 1945, American bombing went from an aid to communist expansion to a threat.”
“Tbh I find the “asians can’t innovate” line oft-repeated here to be kind of facetious. It’s true *historically* the west has been the best at it, but as it stands most of the recent innovations in my field have been from Japanese people in the 80s or modern China or Taiwan.”
“I think if you wanted to classify relative strengths in science it would work like this:
Europeans: foundational intellectual paradigms, “Naturphilosophie”
Orientals: craftsmanship, “pre-paradigm” experimentation
Americans: large scale engineering, organization, and logistics
Europeans: “Why does it work?”
Orientals: “We know it works, but we don’t know why.”
Americans: “What’s the most valuable thing to scale up?””
“I told this to my White House colleagues back in 2020… and nothing happened. I was probably early.
I think Shaun is right.”
“Prevention requires cohesion
When cohesion isn’t performing, all that is left is game theory”
“>malware anticheat for a coop game
>who fucking cares
>sony account
>i will refund
what the fuck is this”
“Sane people aren’t paranoid or inconvenienced by something that takes one minute to complete.”
“know what else takes me a minute to complete? leaving a negative review and blacklisting sony and arrowhead from my steam store”
“On the Blizzard forums, there was this guy named Craig who would spend around 8-12 hours a day on the Overwatch section of the forums basically acting as an unpayed customer support agent. He would make detailed wiki-style posts and video showcases, gave live updates for every esports match ever, and basically went into every negative thread to make a reply shilling for blizzard. He did this for free for 6 years and 39,000 forum posts. Then Blizzard decided to hire him on as community managers, and half a year later he changed his username to “kaedi” and started livestreaming in his free time with a female VTUber avatar. These are the kind of people who become community managers”
“What happened to Dead or Alive?”
“Without Itagaki the franchise became plagued with perverts and it lost sight of it’s origins.”
“6 killed the series due to pandering to the mentally ill censorship crowd, which scared off the coomers. Game was alive and well during DOA5, super easy to get a lobby in seconds. Also they ruined the matchmaking, which allowed casuals to have fun. Coomers literally sustained 5 for it’s life until 6 released. Also TK is super greedy with season passes and shit.”
“>censors: we want thing to change before we buy
>maker: ok, thing changed
>audience: wtf, we won’t buy changed thing
>maker: ok, will the censors buy changed thing?
>censor: lol no
>maker: oh
Simple as.”
“its just Dead now.”
“-Original creator left the company under a cloud, along with several members of his team
-Koei-Tecmo resolved to never put a maverick like him in charge of their development teams again, promotes unqualified yes-men from within to fill the openings
-Makes a leftist LA-based gook their creative director for the next game, he tells them that the West is changing and sexy girls are no longer acceptable and won’t sell
-Releases a new fighting game with all new character models, game is a mess mechanically that requires 3 different versions, all sold at full price, to iron out the kinks and become solid
-Promotional focus for the game’s release is a re-focus away from sexy girls and fanservice and concentrate only on fighting, girls are dressed in relatively conservative outfits in all promotional materials
-In order to boost sales while the mechanical problems are sorted out, developer releases what would eventually become $1200 total worth of sexy dlc costumes for the girls
-Handheld DOA game gets fingered by Swedish distributors for having ‘sexualized’ characters who are under 18, which runs afoul of Sweden’s porn laws, developers mock this by creating a character who appears underage, makes her Swedish, and makes Sweden’s National Day her birthday, and then bends the knee and ages all characters up to at least 18 forevermore
-Realizing the latest fighting game is getting long in the tooth and not willing to give up the dlc cash bonanza, reluctantly announce next installment of beach volleyball spinoff. Eventually change release details to restrict sales to Asia only, citing previous concerns about Western feminist culture to justify no release to NA or EU, fans import english-subtitled version anyway.
-Volleyball ends up being a shoestring budget cash-grab and quickly unveils predatorily-priced dlc scheme. Japanese fans rebel and force lead designer to apologize on a live-stream. Developer releases all planned dlc for free and then pulls support for the game in a fit of pique.
-Discovers that gacha players will willingly pay thousands of dollars for exactly the kind of empty game features that the console players just refused to. Develops a gacha game based off the console version. Also restricts game release to Japan only, with a later SEA version with english subtitles also being restricted and not available to Western players. Western players quickly get the game anyway after Steam forgot to region-lock it on release day, and via VPN workaround after they fixed it.
>Promo a ‘Big Announcement’ for fans, assumed to be reveal of next fighting game. Turns out to be just the end of dlc and support for previous fighting game and to explain they have no more plans on the horizon for a new game.
-Several months later announce next fighting game
-New game is rushed in development, with developer explaining it will now focus on eSports. LA-based gook returns with his second attempt to de-sexy the game. Girls are all dressed conservatively again, and initial footage and demo is released without breast physics, leading to the assumption that DOA’s signature feature had been cut to pander to Western feminists and eSports fags.
-Demo is trash, with only new diversity character having full moveset and older established characters gimped. Biggest player is a homo Negro who wears a big blue wolf’s head mask to tournaments.
-Developer puts awkward mechanics guy in charge of promotion, tells him to sell game as unsexy to Westerners, and full of fanservice to Jap. Forgets that internet exists.
-Awkward mechanics assures Westerners game will be woke. Western journalists point to Japan-only gacha as proof of rape-culture still being systemic at developer.
-Game releases with cut features, no guest characters, one intro/outro for each character, and most costumes being palette swaps. Game fails to garner a spot at that year’s EVO despite the pandering by developer.
-Despite being mechanically solid, fans stay away after shabby treatment from developer. Developer continues to try to have things both ways, shoehorning in popular but unsuited gacha characters but also unveiling censorship toggle to add black matte texture to more revealing outfits, tries to start up dlc buffet again but fails.
-Tries to make players pay to change character hair color, as well as to change it back to original.
-Mechanics guy is kicked upstairs and then falls on his sword to let his bosses save face. Eventually leaves the company under a cloud. LA-based gook keeps his job.
-Developer rakes in cash from gacha but abandons any other DOA games, focuses on newer titles and renting their team out to other studios.”
“Reminds me, wild it’s been 5 years since the Core Values incident already. That shit only gets funnier in hindsight.
>The hard cut to MK11 fatalities to protect the children.
>McRib’s whole spiel about core values only to be exposed as a pedo immediately afterwards.“
“”Core Values” was divine karma delivered upon the FGC for their hubris and arrogance. I can never be too mad at Tecmo about the state of DoA, because it at the very least expose how much shit the FGC was full of, and why they should never be pandered to or listened to ever again. The casualizing state of fighting games and the FGC now is DoAs’s revenge and I’m partly okay with that these days.”
“1 kg of glass needed at least 2400 kg of wood to produce, such examples can be multiplied endlessly. Dutch were ahead of everyone for a century but never broke through as they were stuck with peat, its not enough to have inventiveness without easy coal”
“Why English were forced to move to coal ahead of other parts of the world? Because use of charcoal was wiping out their forests
5kg wood to produce 1 kg charcoal
8kg of charcoal to produce 1kg of pig iron
…
Even wood rich US would have found it difficult to continue reliance on charcoal, interesting that they didn’t move to coal till almost 1840, as wood was abundantly available, England on the other hand moved to coal in 1750’s itself, 100 years difference”
“Yeah, some minerals require comical levels of mining to extract. Gold is like 20 tons of rock per ounce.”
“Anyway the big rush now is undersea mining apparently much do the horror of the the West”
“Partly driven by the “green transition” because EV’s, wind turbines etc all need more metals which means greater demand
There is also the fact that people don’t want a big copper mine in their backyard & thus getting a permit can take a decade+, less of an issue in the deep sea”
“Yeah OK, this is about to be the most stolen GoFundMe in the history of stolen GoFundMe’s. Fraternities “will have input” (but won’t just get the cash?) They’re setting up an “independent entity” with a “board of directors” (that they will staff and draw salaries from?)”
“And of course, this board of directors should be compensated fairly. And also of course, a law firm will need to be hired to draw up these contracts to ensure proper disbursement, and they should be compensated as well”
“Watched this like Yeltsin in a Texan supermarket, the Chinese have already won
“In the Western Bloc, thousands of us would have share a low-BMI cosplayer via an app! When I saw that level of abundance for the first time, I knew our system had failed””
“You can protest against just about anything on college campus. The government, patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, racism, Whiteness, police brutality, etc. happens all the time.
But protest Israel, and you will be beaten and expelled.
Kind of gives up the game doesn’t it?”
“You can’t protest against nіggers or the age of consent or women having political rights”
“Literally nothing is organic anymore, is it? Everything is neatly polished and presented to you in a product that’s been optimized by bean counters and protected by lawyers. You can only pay them for the favor of sharing it with you, and you can never make it a genuine part of your existence. You are merely given enough hint of joy so as to continue extracting as much money from you as possible.”
“lmao i guess this is what america feels like. Should’ve gotten the clue when you realized there existed paid bathrooms. I mean who the fuck charges you for taking a shit? only in burgerland. You still have time to leave that hellhole you know”
“At one point a bunch of secret satellite espionage data was laundered as remote viewing… Supposedly hiring a clairvoyant to look at a location from above, but unable to see through coverings, see from up close, etc. Symbolically fits as aerial realm was seen as domain of demons”
“And it’s not as difficult as it sounds. It’s much more difficult.”
“Videos like this are build diaries but I like to wrap them up into a How To so people doing similar things can learn from them. And some of you will point out that I have not conveyed a successful way to make a polycarbonate windshield. And that is because this is not a video on how to make a windshield, but how to turbocharge your oven. The polycarbonate windshield video comes later, after I figure out how to make a polycarbonate windshield. I do have two more blanks, but the difficulty of this path is becoming clear. A lot more clear than my windshields.
And yes, I am on track to spending more money making this windshield had I just paid somebody else to form it in the first place. But you forget: we do not do these projects because they are less expensive. We do them because we are not smart enough to know that they won’t be less expensive. This is a lesson that I will never learn.”
“Chicken and Geese are “intimidation builds”.
Most animals will react confused and rather piss off when a supposedly smaller and weaker animal starts threatening and charging them. Maybe they have the rabies or something, better not mess with them.
Among predators the wolf is also based on intimidation tactics, as the wolf is typically smaller and weaker than the prey they go for so they intimidate to make the prey run away and THEN snatch them. Prey that stands its ground will fight back and is too much of a risk to attack.
But here is humans using intimidation tactics against lions:”
“Did you fuckos see the latest Department of Labor report?!
They say only 1 out 3 men under 35 is in the workforce now.
Young men are REFUSING to contribute and pay their way, they just want to run away into Japanese fantasy worlds. It’s an utter disgrace.
How are these indolent bastards even surviving? I moved out at 18 on the dot I couldn’t wait to be independent and out of Mom’s house. What the fuck is wrong with these kids?!”
“1929
>most goods were manufactured out of steel, by a hand-operated hydraulic press with a die, cut into the shape of the product you wanted to make
>operated by an irish or Italian immigrant in the Midwestern United States
>zero bank regulations
>every stock was some sort of ponzi scheme
2024
>most goods are manufactured by a reciprocating screw injecting plastic (garbage left over when they’re done making gasoline) into a mould, that automatically removes the part and drops it onto the ground. One employee can babysit multiple of these machines
>operated by US, Japanese, Euro, or Taiwanese owned companies in China, Malaysia, Haiti, or Mexico
>tight banking regulations, with a few concerning cracks
>only half of all companies are unprofitable nightmares kept alive by debt and promises of the future, the largest 10 are profitable but the lion’s share of profit comes from offering services to other literal scams (Web Services)“
“>the largest 10
they own all other companies. someone post the chart showing 6 names controlling well over 100 brands which were all individual companies at one point.”
“>Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cutsa t Bethesda
have these developers considered making good games?”
“Weren’t Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within succesful?”
“Like other large corporations with multiple revenue streams, they care about maximizing return on investment (ROI). Their decision making works as follows:
>Business unit A receives X dollars for expenses. Business unit A generates Y dollars as revenue. So X/Y gives us our profit margin and ROI. Business unit B has a lower ROI than business unit A. Therefore, we should dismantle business unit B and invest that money into business unit A.
So even profitable products or teams get cut if they aren’t the most profitable thing the business thinks they could do with that money. Welcome to investment-driven capitalism, where every business and employee is a widget to be moved around or cast aside.”
“>rotations
>threat/aggro meter
>addons/plugins
>no unit collision
>every class/job does the same thing
>max level in 5 hours
>ideal combat is standing still and pressing skills off cooldown
>”PvP MMOs” when MMOs are primarily driven by PvE content
Anything else wrong with the MMO genre?”
“the genre has been defined by novelty. first gen mmos were multiplayer with stranger online, second gen added an adventure game on top you could play with others.
there needs to be some innovation and novel tech before the genre can properly advance beyond the era of wow and its various clones. i don’t think that switching the genre of the game on top of the new interactions will work. .hack’s The World or ‘The Oasis’ from Ready Player One for the normies would probably be what it looks like.
the issue is that augmented reality tech isn’t advanced, ubiquitous or cheap enough to handle it”
“a good MMO has
>unique classes that are still overall balanced (one can be better at X things as long as another is better at Y and both X and Y are worth being good at)
>immersive/lengthy leveling process that gives you plenty of freedom in how to play
>interactive profession system that isn’t just botted and actually utilizes and reutilizes a wide variety of materials from start to finish
>ample reason to interact with other players in a mutually beneficial way
>challenging raid/dungeon content that doesn’t just rely on enforcing meta comps
>plenty of casual/side content and social content that has staying power
>your progress doesn’t evaporate with each patch, and a great deal of the systems extend between expansions
basically nothing is like this (anymore) though. The fact that people are seriously hyping up Exitscam of Creation shows how pathetic the state of the genre is”
“>>”PvP MMOs” when MMOs are primarily driven by PvE content
the whole reasons mmo worked was because they were pvp focused and relied on the players to generate the content. the reason they dont work “anymore” is because they are PVE focused.”
“I’m more annoyed with fact that everything now feels like a single player game, there is zero reason to interact with people.”
“They took out all the need for communication and partying. That’s what really killed the genre. MMORPGs should be inconvenient to the point that you need other people to play.”
“Admissions re: covid vaxx injuries are classic example of demoralization tactic Michael Hoffman called “freeze & thaw.” A crime is committed & the public is gaslit into believing it never occurred. Then ppl are gradually exposed to fact that they were both victimized AND fooled.”
“I had bought a steel utensil rack made in China that rusted in 2 years but it was cheaper
But the one made in USA expensive but still running for almost 17 years and not speck of rust”
“The US importer was presented with the option of a better rack at a higher price or an inferior rack at a lower price.
He chose the latter because expected consumers in the US to choose likewise.
But “China bad!” right?”
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
“It’s never the guys who are actually machines for making money who post stuff like this”
“if the laws of physics is the best weapon anyone can invest in, then suppression of physics is the best way to protect that weapon”
“Drugs are worth too much to entrust to an naive/innocent mule! That’s why ~all drug mules are in fact guilty.”
“One among many symptoms and signs of the city’s growing poverty is that today, as an economy, it is too poor even to repair its rundown subway system, water-supply system, roads and bridges, although in the days when the city was economically vigorous it was able, from its own revenues, to carry the capital costs of creating these great systems, and much more.”
“Boycott protonmail.
Can anyone suggest some good decentralized alternative email and/or VPN providers?”
“How the fuck are you supposed to even build either of those? A VPN by it’s very nature is centralized since you will have to connect to a gateway. Email requires a dedicated server to receive and send messages.
If you aren’t a retard you can do both of these yourselves but it will be centralized.
Pro-tip: most people, even those working in tech are too retarded to do this.”
“Well…
Kinda
It’s why vpn’s are scams, tunneling and encryption are good security because every tunnel is a potential computer that won’t provide information to whoever is trying to find you. Encryption makes it harder for people to read whatever you were doing
a VPN offers both those things on the promise that you won’t be anonymous, and they keep all the encryption keys.
Which defeats the purpose for most people who care about such things.
I guess it works out well for state funded entities. But you are still basically forced to build your own.”
“Watching the slowly-developing advance of Russian forces across the line in Ukraine I’ve been brought back in mind of an excellent book I’ve read several times – Military Power by Stephen Biddle.
Using mathematical modeling, Biddle predicted that future wars would move slower at the tactical level than we were used to from the experience of WWII. This was due to technological trends in the range and effectiveness of modern weaponry forcing armies to operate in a more dispersed, methodical fashion so as to minimize their exposure to fire in a sort of neomodern reversion to the conditions of WWI. He also predicted that failures to do so would be punished with increasing severity as anything that could be discovered by increasingly omnipresent battlefield surveillance could be engaged effectively with precise and deadly weapons.
His recommendation on the optimum rate of advance for an army attempting to break through an enemy front line under modern conditions was a mere one kilometer per day; similarly he recommended that reserves be moved into position quite slowly to block such an advance to avoid their destruction by interdiction fire. Only once that breach in the front is slowly levered open can forces then mass into fast-moving columns to strike into the enemy’s lightly-held rear areas.”
“Funny to me that mass Chinese immigration to Hongcouver, which destroyed housing prices, wasn’t enough to wake the Canadian, but Indian behavior was.”
“Geology 101:
Tunnels thru Rome are easy. You’re digging thru clay.
Manhattan is solid ROCK. so hard it took decades to dig its water tunnels & 200+ feet deep to not disrupt foundations of the DENSITY you support.”
“Tunnelling under Rome is in fact a continuous archeological dig
It’s hard to accept we’re so much worse at this than the stereotypically lazy, corrupt, and incompetent Italians. But we really are!”
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