Story of my life

Amazon prime is the Pandora of video streaming

I don’t think there’s a singular bad vibe detector though. And even within a narrow type, there’s still multihlevels of threat perception, often paired with expectations vs one’s ability to handle it.

Like, some people have experienced trauma or other bad shit with certain things and get a bad vibe from some stuff, but not other stuff or situations.

And also imagine a manipulative person in a group of, let’s say, ten people. Let’s call them person M (for manipulator). Then there’s person A and person B. Person A sees person M doing shitty stuff, but person A is way smarter than person M, and knows they (person A), is gonna shut down person M’s behavior. And all of that just fits regular, casual conversation for person A, so they don’t see it as really that “shitty”, it’s just an attempt for sway or favor or whatever.

But, person B sitting in the corner only has mild experience with person M’s actions and classifies it as a “bad vibe” and doesn’t know how to handle it very well, and so makes a mental note to poop in person M’s food later.

Person A may be a 900 year old sith CEO and this just isn’t an issue, whereas person B may be a 6 month old drooling wet nosed monkey. Both can notice, but they perceive and handle the situations VERY differently.

🌞 🌈 vibes~ 🌈 🎉

And what a community to do it to. The FUNCTIONAL diy techie 2a hippe crowd that strives for freedom.

Like in what universe would somebody with a brain think “ah yes, let me try to pull a fast one on this group, nothing can go wrong”

I don’t have a printer, but I’m well acquainted with the people who do have printers, and from all walks of life. That is not a “take it and roll over” crowd.

You might as well try to sell Vietnamese children full priced nikes.

Funny, but somehow that’s the most fair take that I think I’ve heard on this video and these robots.

All religion is just an assumed abstraction and proxy of authority of idea.

“There’s a god that says if you defy me, you’ll piss them off and they’re a god and you don’t want that”

Or

“The god of rivers says always pray to the god of rivers because it brings you good luck” <-- be hopeful and respectful of the dangers of rivers. You might as well please the god of seatbelts or the god of taking life or the god of death.

It’s not always control or malice, but it’s always an idea behind it. The problem is when these traditions use fear and tribalism and groupthink to affect bias and prevent change. And then the problem is relying on these mechanisms evolves into dependence.

Also all organized religions are cults. All of them. Every single one. I don’t hate everything about all of them, but organized religion is - undeniably - definitively - objectively - ALL - cults.

Not all power is evil. All religion is power.

Example: Telling children to brush their teeth is power.

I’m so tired.

It’s not inherently us vs them, but it effectively becomes that way because religion is heiarchial and all about authority and taboo and shit. But even that isn’t totally inherently bad: yes, not letting new ideas and variety flourish is bad - but the real issue imo is that the “us” part in the us-vs-them is because it asserts final truth in an existence that requires change AND because it answers questions that need to be actually asked and answered with real truth. Basically, it’s full of lies and deep, foundational reliance on tradition and a fetishistic own fart sniffing bullshit that asserts itself like a self centered molester. It’s time to reinvent the goddamn wheel and ask questions and really think about all of the assumptions we, you, they, and everybody makes. Make the jump and stop inserting your sky daddy everywhere when you’re out of knowledge. Fuck.

/Rant

Building the Torment Nexus.

Kanz Frafka III, leader of the free lemmings, master of the online, keeper of the farts

The willingness to abuse others is low intelligence

Ngl this video pissed me off so much just now that I don’t want to play any games with any microtransactions at all.

Devs will try anything to make money except making a fun game

Edit: oof. That video ended with “I’ll still buy macrotransactions quarterly. Making it stop is impossible.”

How did he get so close, yet when faced with “we are a business and have to make money”, totally caved to late stage capitalism. Destiny players are all cognitively deficient addicts. Late state capitalism is here to stay because everybody’s fucking stupid with no spine.

I had a friend trying to get me into the game. I was like, the game has been out for years, surely they have a ton of old content to play through.

Nope, they just deleted a ton of it. My friend’s reasoning? I kid you not: The game got too big.

I still bought in, only to find ALL of the hostile anti consumer practices, and then some more I’d never even seen before. Separate dungeon keys sold separately. Holy shit that same was so trash. What a waste of money. Whoever came up with and greenlit those business practices should be put on a public list.

Welp, looks like I’m never buying, and therefore using plex

I blame Microslop

I haven’t finished the base game yet! I fell off a year or so ago and have meant to get back into it, but just haven’t gotten there yet. I know that the DLC is supposed to be harder, but still, coming off the baseline talos1 being what it was, I still wanted a higher bar to enter, so to speak, with the challenge puzzles being even more difficult (without being TOO arbitrary and overly convoluted, obv).

1 was great but flawed. Just play it blind and finish it.

2 the puzzles were bizarrely easy, but an incredibly gorgeous game.

Both have great soundtracks too. Definitely a go-at-your-own-pace franchise and very antithetical to modern AAA gaming. Know who Croteam are and Devolver Digital, and their relationship and what they make and what they stand for.

I adore both games and think quite highly of them. Again though, don’t look anything up, ever.

Eugenics is the final boss of racism. It all leads to that, every time.

I feel like the whole concept of souls is just racism. Because for souls to have a concept of existence and value, some sort of identity between life and death must be, implying, basically, eugenics.

“This soul is better than this other soul” etc. An inherent superiority and inferiority, separate from our minds, insulated, even from logic.

Don’t buy this game or anything by the studio ever.

It was a good studio and is a great game, but it was taken over by some really really shitty people in a hostile takeover. A bunch of the core employees got superfucked and have spoken out against it. It was 100% offensive greed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Elysium#Breakup_of_ZA/UM

Oh god. Looking at the Wikipedia entry, it was apparently super messy and still is. I’m not sure what to go by, now. I’d probably still suggest playing it if you care about depth and intelligence of dialogue, which in my book, in this game is SS-Tier.

Some games give you options to pick what to say, you choose one, and your character says something stupid that has nothing to do with what you thought. This game is like the total opposite of it, in that you can 100% read into the perspective and intent, and try to infer several steps out. Super super fun stuff. Very very satisfying.

If you don’t enjoy philosophy and rhetoric, probably pass on the game. Ngl. But, if this type of thing interests you at ALL, give it a shot.

But probably pirate it.

:(

I’m not sure when the Wikipedia page for “generations” was implemented, but I have a feeling the current generational definitions have been defined a lot longer than the past 5 years. Unless your parents are post-end ww2 baby boomers, I see no way for you to have ever been technically considered gen-y.

That being said, I feel like culturally, it wasn’t really until the massive uptick in school shootings (I’m also making a big assumption that you’re American, here) that gen-z was really defined. From memory, I think the high profile Columbine shooting happened in 1999-2001, but school shootings weren’t really considered commonplace until at the earliest the late 2000s, or even early 2010s.

Assuming they weren’t held back in school, the youngest millennial would still have been in highschool until 2014, maybe 2015. Compare that to the oldest millennial, who would have potentially graduated highschool in 1999, maybe 1998.

And since you aren’t even 30 yet (let’s assume 29), that would have the earliest you’d have been slated to graduate highschool at 2014, making you solidly in the shooter generation, gen-z. Again, though, this is assuming you’re American, and the only real culture and history I’m remotely familiar with.

Counterpoint b, though, a lot of people considered people “growing up around the turn of the millennium” to be a millennial. Sooo, yeah. Culturally, sure, close enough, I guess. But technically, nah.