Deestan

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Deestan,

Sabine Hossenfelder, used to love her takes on physics until she fell in the usual expert’s trap of believing she can talk equally usefully about things OUTSIDE her expertise.

First trans care, which missed a few important nuances. Then autism, which had a decades-old perspective and was at best “not informative”.

Then hoo boy Capitalism where she made a huge tangled MESS confusing and conflating markets with monetary systems and credit, all apparently based off half-remembered textbooks from 1950 using long-disproven historical claims.

A lot of criticism was sent her way. None was acknowledged, or apparently taken to heart. Repeatedly.

From skillfully presenting physics with a “explain it like I’m 5” style, she’s now spouting any trending topic in a “explained by a 5 year old” style.

Deestan,

It’s more like the opposite - it is an argument that the rights of trans people aren’t some new exotic social movement that we need to think carefully about. It’s that regular human rights that we already mostly agree on should naturally apply to trans people.

Deestan,

GTA 6 release date leaked - here’s everything we know

Deestan,

A) Exploiting and fuelling fear of a vulnerable group is evil.

B) They don’t get the benefit of “may turn out to be false”. They get to start at “fuck these bullshit lies”.

Deestan,

I guess PETA are useful for making regular vegans seem extremely tolerant and reasonable.

Deestan,

Go to Google and search the site from orbit.

First few results are keyword sponsor ads from the same site taking you to their front page instead of what you searched for.

Deestan,

And no cunt algorithm to bury content just cause of some fucking cursewords.

Deestan,

When there is competition for the front page, this is a valid consideration.

Deestan,

I have a game development joke. It’s going to be great. I just need a team to write and perform it.

Deestan,

Please take a break from whichever podcast you are listening to.

Don’t let your identity become tied to paranoia and anger, it will only isolate you.

Deestan,

Shoutout to Canadian comedy gang LoadingReadyRun who did ditch Twitter and move completely to Mastodon. youtu.be/jh5buGkQVQI

Deestan,

My team warcrimes good. Your team warcrimes bad.

Deestan,

Guilt by association is weak. Association through multiple steps even more so.

Deestan,

is this memes

Deestan,

While The Escapist grew stronger and bigger year after year under Nick, their owners at Gamur were upset the site didn’t reek of panic and despair like a good corporate environment should.

Deestan,

Adventure is Nigh, Cold Take, Design Delve, Stuff of Legend, 3 Minute Reviews, some documentaries like the Spiritfarer one.

They have more, but those are what I watched.

Deestan,

Strictly no. But the overlap is significant.

Being able to say things about a thing can be accomplished by memorizing trivia.

Knowing what the thing is implies understanding. This does not automatically follow from knowing trivia.

Though people tend to build an understanding while amassing trivia, so it’s considered a good enough approximation for schools. Hence multiple choice tests. Personally, I think it is lazy and incentivizes wrong ways to teach and bad ways to study.

Also also, this is why the prevalence of internet access and now ChatGPT is so scary for schools: Students can easily provide this appoximated understanding without having any.

Deestan,

Let’s see if they can outcompete The Escapist’s new series: Zero Employees

Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?

Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...

Deestan,

Northern Europe perspective: This was a minor but ongoing part of public discourse until well into the 90s, to my recollection.

It didn’t take real root, and my theory of that is that our racists are generally fascists who consider physical strength and fitness to be high values. Intellect and arts are for weaklings. Going into detail on how the Africans had an advantage on speed, strength and agility but were still somehow inferior required too much mental gymnastics.

Deestan, (edited )

He refused to sign an NDA, so he explains briefly in the Twitter thread, and we’ll probably hear more later.

In short: Sudden firing (as in, locked out of Slack and email while at work while being informed of being fired) for not “meeting goals”, where goals were not clearly defined.

Deestan,

Looks like standard corporate damage control NDA where you are not allowed to discuss the reason or terms of your firing. Usually illegally demanded to get severance pay.

Deestan,

Zero notice, zero rights, immediate lockout, zero dignity. The kind of firing that breaks at least 8 laws in most European countries.

Deestan,

Sebastian “Frost” Ruiz’s stuff has quickly gained loving fans. I recommend looking at his Cold Take ot Stuff of Legend stuff if you haven’t.

Deestan,

Vote for the system least likely to break you and you allies while you work to dismantle it.

Deestan,

Sorry, but I think you didn’t get that job because the hiring manager actually did a fair assessment of your abilities.

Deestan,

I believe in you

Deestan,

I don’t really understand your question, but hopefully something here will clarify: edition.cnn.com/2019/12/31/business/…/index.html

Deestan,

That sounds amazing but I can’t find that by searching for it. Do you have a link?

Deestan,

This cutesy idea of making hardware pretend to be human and have a fake need for dignity is disgusting.

If I smash my thumb, I can yell at my hammer to go fuck a cactus and throw it on the floor. I don’t need any moral panic as if I am going to cuss out humans if I get away with yelling at my hammer.

Deestan,

It bit me. It must be punished.

Deestan,

Meanwhile, over on Reddit, several members of the Xbox community have labelled this marketing stunt “vomit inducing” and “unacceptable”.

People still on Reddit want someone to take their complaints seriously? Empirically speaking, they will accept this.

Deestan,

Yep, that’s more significant for sure. People on any online forum are a loud minority.

It is a cheap dig, but I just found it funny that people who have demonstrated with (lack of) action that they do in fact not care enough to change their habits use a term like “unacceptable”.

List of 20 great Horror Adventure Games (adventuregamehotspot.com)

We’ve limited ourselves to only one game per series, and of course there are many frightening adventures not included here. No list will be exhaustive, but our choices reflect a wide range of looks and styles and gameplay that will surely appeal to the fearmonger in any horror fan. If you find thrills in chills, and crave...

Deestan,

If you want a fun LP of Phantasmagoria 2, the lead actors of Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 got together recently to play it on stream. www.youtube.com/live/hw5iLuVC0w4

Deestan,

Also also, they did a Phantasmagoria 1 playthrough and Roberta Williams herself showed up in the live chat during one of the episodes!

Deestan,

+1 for city block design in SE. It has too much recipe interaction and breadth of ingredients for a main bus to be pleasant.

Deestan,

Same here! I started with bus, then moved on to train-based design that is slowly turning into a block design. Trying out many multiple block patterns spread wide and connected by rail.

Deestan,

Kojima, the driving force of Metal Gear is gone. What is left is a corporate committee who through focus testing and guesswork try to keep the franchise on the road roughly in the same direction it has been going and avoid crashing into stuff.

They will make any new version look and feel as much as possible as the previous games, only deviating for committee-approved reasons of monetization, trend chasing, or marketing appeal.

What they will not and can not do is to strap a rocket to the roof of Metal Gear Solid, take a hard right and drive the car off the road and into the hills and launch it over Mount Everest. They don’t have the will, the auteur ability, or the trust of the fanbase.

Kojima could do that, which is what made the franchise what it is today.

MGS is dead, but Konami owns the pelt. What comes out next is just taxidermy with animatronics.

Deestan,

I get your argument, but I’d say it makes room for a legit reason to control and identify hardware, not ban it.

Deestan,

neodymium batteries

Did you mean magnets? I’ve heard of those, but not batteries.

Deestan,

Well, my military experience says glass can feel safe from regular gun sounds.

We were using H&K AG3 with 7.62mm ammo, which is pretty strong as guns go. Both outdoor and indoor ranges. Bottles, windows, my glasses, windshields, mirrors, never had anything crack.

So it would have to be a very constructed setup and very brittle glass for it to break glass.

Deestan,

Ah, thanks. I thought one was the “international name” for it.

Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?

I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...

Deestan,

Another thing Wonder does well with difficulty is letting the yoshis be invulnerable and less complex (no form change).

Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9?

I’ve been re-watching star trek voyager recently, and I’ve heard when filming, they didn’t clear the wide angle of filming equipment, so it’s not as simple as just going back to the original film. With the advancement of AI, is it only a matter of time until older programs like this are released with more updated...

Deestan,

4:3 - Jumpscare, gremlin jumps in from off-camera.

16:9 AI upsized - Gremlin hangs out awkwardly to the left of the characters for half a minute, then jumps in.

Deestan,

Haha, yes. I spent 15 minutes trying to remember the term for the pan/zoom-to-reveal comedy effect before giving up and settling on a botched jumpscare.

Deestan,

Link takes me to a kbin login page. Is there an open link available?

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