Putnam

god he looks goofy with those tiny clothes. there's a part here that hits hard enough that my brain mentally fills in his kh2 clothes even though I think the mild goofiness adds to it

when i moved into this apartment I tried the bedroom heater and got this smell really strongly. i left it on and the smoke alarm went off so i haven't used it again

anxiety can fuck you up and holy shit i'm sure being told you have one of the scariest diseases you can get wasn't helping

daria's razor

like "blood of the covenant/water of the womb is the original" is exactly the sort of alexandria's genesis-esque stuff that spreads around on tumblr or reddit due to credulous teens liking the idea. one should really examine all of their beliefs about history in this light

correcting old sayings that are no longer reflective of society is fine. "blood is thicker than water" is rich when people are getting kicked out of their house for who they are. but you don't have to pretend the saying was *always* something more appropriate to modern times. that's silly

How can you vote for that guy? I saw in the papers he said "DUHHH BLUHHH DUHHH KILL BABIES". Can you really stand by that?

dwarf fortress, probably

you can play it with tank controls if you want but the default is none

Steam only shows percents, so more users with the same behavior won't change the statistics

It's just sorta how they were taught, or the culture they were immersed in? My main experience with this is alcohol (I think it's bad), where many of the "average" arguments against my position kinda boil down to "if it's advertised on TV and my parents and friends use it, it can't be *that* bad"

But Can Good Thing Really Be Good If Bad People Are Also Allowed To Get It? is the driving force behind nothing ever happening

i think the US political machine just has a ludicrous obsession with means testing for whatever reason. "student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities" type beat

I put "worse" in quotation marks there 'cause it need not actually be *worse* but you just know a lot of the AAA companies are going to pursue AI for this and then you can remove the quotation marks lol

Yeah, I've been saying that with the way costs are going there's three possibilities:

1. Game prices go up.
2. More whale-chasing microtransactions or gambling mechanics.
3. Games become cheaper to make and "worse".

This trichotomy is kinda controversial when I present it to gamers for some reason

i'm going to keep blaming this on "50% of americans believe on some level in manifestation (that good things can happen purely by believing in them)"

arrow's impossibility but real

i like to read articles on what the finance world is saying about AI stuff and a month ago it was "[Ross] Gerber said that [AI company] valuations are justified because AI companies promise tremendous growth and their profitability is 'just insane.'" and man people will just believe rich guys huh

it feels like a pathological example of some kind. the petersen graph of "how little design can you get away with and still make something engaging". the weierstrass function of "if a game is like X or Y can it really be art". it made me think more than most other works of art i've interacted with

this was fixed 15 years ago, by the way (and it was because swimming still increased the swimming skill for fish, for some reason, and increasing the swimming skill increases attributes)

probably pete davis, really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_k...

i used to have a screenshot of a royalroad commenter saying they're so annoyed at this chapter and they hate how it's going because the chapter contains the main character having a slight setback that isn't immediately fixed by the end of the same chapter but i've lost it

aura loss

your ass used to have padding? lucky. i've got hank hill syndrome. i sit right on my tailbone

i beg of you to consider the consequences of your worldview. the main founder of all this explicitly agreed that children who die of cancer probably "deserve" to (they didn't manifest a cure), because that's consistent, and how do you not see that that's abhortent

people will enthusiastically and openly say "yes" to "are you a practitioner of magical thinking?" almost as much as they'll say "no" and we wonder why people think "my guy being in office will make my life better"

Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action? | Daily Question Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action?

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insanely bleak

the obvious joke here would make me indistinguishable from the angry masses

i've been lucky, my upstairs neighbors are generally great except they have a dog who drops a ball sometimes

Google search for "toeing the line". AI overview claims: "Toting the line" is a misspelling of the idiom "toeing the line,".

thank you google, very cool