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Serious / Re: Coronavirus panic room thread
« on: January 07, 2022, 07:05:17 PM »do ppl still believe in this charade?not if you're subhuman
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Serious / Re: Coronavirus panic room thread« on: January 07, 2022, 07:05:17 PM »do ppl still believe in this charade?not if you're subhuman 92
The Flood / Re: What have you been reading lately?« on: January 06, 2022, 02:39:24 PM »
i'm about to read Dune, which i planned on having read before the movie came out, but i never got around to it—this turned out to be fine, though, because i guess the movie doesn't cover the entire story anyway
i don't want to read the entire novel yet—i only want to read as far as the movie goes into it (which i haven't seen, so i'm gonna have to look that up somehow) that way, if i'm ever discussing the movie with people, i won't have to hold my tongue about what happens, or risk accidentally spoiling shit for them that said, i was never much one for sci-fi shit, so my expectations are actually pretty low 93
The Flood / Re: What have you been reading lately?« on: January 05, 2022, 10:20:28 PM »Would ya believe me if I told you it's been at least a couple years since I read any books? Sucks in earnest, I just pick something up and then drop it. Don't seem to have the enthusiasm I used to.gonna be brutally honest i'm surprised any of you read at all 94
Gaming / Re: Backlog 2020/2021« on: January 02, 2022, 02:56:27 PM »Gonna see if I can't bring it to 75 by the end of the year.Well, I pretty much did it. Planning on getting into more horror games in 2022, among other things. Currently about to start Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. 96
The Flood / Re: It's almost Christmas« on: December 21, 2021, 04:40:53 PM »
student loan forgiveness
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Gaming / Re: Pokemon Legends Arceus« on: December 14, 2021, 10:55:19 AM »
Really on the fence about this game. I'll probably wait for reviews.
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Gaming / Re: Backlog 2020/2021« on: December 14, 2021, 01:28:08 AM »
Picked up both Castlevania collections during a Black Friday sale, so I've been marathoning those. The original NES game is an all-time favorite of mine, so I figured it was about time for me to try out the rest, since they've been made so accessible now.
To rank the ones I've beaten so far: 1. Castlevania 2. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 3. Super Castlevania IV 4. Castlevania: Bloodlines 5. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood 6. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 7. Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge 8. Kid Dracula 9. Castlevania: Dracula X 10. Castlevania: The Adventure All beaten over the past week or so, which brings the total number of games I've beaten this year to 67. Gonna see if I can't bring it to 75 by the end of the year. Castlevania: Bloodlines is the only game I still need to beat in the Anniversary Collection, but since Rondo of Blood technically came out before it in Japan, I've decided to play that first—even though I had to pick it up in a separate package. I also have an ongoing Metroid Dread playthrough, been enjoying that as well but I need to pick it back up. edit: Beat Bloodlines, Rondo of Blood, and Dracula X. Bloodlines wound up surprising me with how good it was, but Rondo of Blood wound up disappointing me a bit—but it's still way better than its SNES counterpart, Dracula X. 99
The Flood / Re: I’m basically an ultra Chad now« on: November 28, 2021, 06:13:33 PM »
i'm happy for you
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Gaming / Re: Backlog 2020/2021« on: November 28, 2021, 06:13:03 PM »Death StrandingHow are you liking it? 101
Also I see that Challenger, Dustin and Deci are all banned. What happened there?dustin's been banned for years and years for reasons i don't remember, but he was an assclown challenger and deci just wanted to leave the site, but i'm in challenger's discord, and he's doing okay 102
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The Flood / Re: Hey so uh« on: November 17, 2021, 02:28:17 PM »yeah actually, she's gonna introduce me to her son Ngo tomorrowGot a gf yet VerbNOW it's 20 years oldnot for another eight monthsthanks so much for this legitimate and non-semantic contribution 105
The Flood / Re: Hey so uh« on: November 17, 2021, 09:08:06 AM »NOW it's 20 years oldnot for another eight monthsthanks so much for this legitimate and non-semantic contribution 106
The Flood / Re: donald trump thread« on: November 13, 2021, 12:40:12 AM »>Interviewer says the chants were awfulHe never agreed that the chants were awful. His first and only response was an attempt to justify their anger. 107
The Flood / Re: An exclusive, BEHIND THE SCENES look at my personal imgur uploads (past 8 yrs)« on: November 04, 2021, 11:50:56 AM »
unlisting the video doesn't allow you to circumvent youtube's ToS, and nobody (except das and whoever is that cretin who claims to be in a relationship with you) wants to see your dick
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The Flood / Re: An exclusive, BEHIND THE SCENES look at my personal imgur uploads (past 8 yrs)« on: November 04, 2021, 11:45:21 AM »
in terms of audio, there wasn't
visually, there was enough nudity to warrant reporting the video, which i did 109
The Flood / Re: An exclusive, BEHIND THE SCENES look at my personal imgur uploads (past 8 yrs)« on: November 04, 2021, 10:55:54 AM »
Quote from video at the 4:00 mark:
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The Flood / Re: What is the first movie you remember looking at critically?« on: October 30, 2021, 04:10:03 PM »
you know, i'm not really sure, but i do remember loving pretty much any movie that you'd put in front of me as a kid—the very idea of movies being "bad" hadn't entered my brain until i saw the Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993
i saw it very young, maybe 9 or 10, and i wanted to love it, because the idea of adapting a video game series that i was such a huge fan of to film was the most exciting thing ever i had my dad pick up a VHS tape of it from blockbuster, and he must have known how bad it was, because he wouldn't even watch it with me (and we watched everything together) and as i'm watching it, it was probably the most baffling headfuck piece of media i had ever seen up until that point, such that i genuinely did not know how to respond—it felt to me how i imagine losing your virginity to your elementary school teacher would feel, or something, where even if i had the vocabulary to describe what i had just experienced, i wouldn't even be able to, because my mind would not have been developed enough to even comprehend it "what WAS that? did i enjoy that? why was it so weird? i don't think i enjoyed that, actually—i don't think i enjoyed that at all" you know, just completely dumbfounded that's when i learned that not all movies are good—but it's kind of hard to pinpoint when i started to develop a sense of criticism, or an understanding of what makes good/bad filmmaking 111
The Flood / Re: So glad to know that the company I work for has my back« on: October 30, 2021, 06:07:27 AM »Nope I don't hate or fear Trans, I just find it a headache having distinguish between transexual, transvestite, pre-op, post-op, ladyboy, boylady?...do a little bit of reading and ask questions if you don't understand something—that's all you really need to do the stereotype that transpeople will fly off the handle if you slip up is generally not true, and the ones that refuse to be patient with those of you who are a little slower on the uptake are generally disliked by the reasonable ones that make up the majority of the trans community, most of whom completely understand that some concepts can be pretty difficult to wrap your head around if you've never had to think about stuff like "what gender am i" before to help you out a bit, for example, i don't think anyone really uses the word "transvestite" anymore, and it doesn't actually refer to any kind of transgender individual anyway—it's only used to describe cross-dressers, or people who dress up like the opposite sex without identifying as the opposite sex (such as drag queens, who mainly do it for fun, not because they are having an identity crisis) "transexual" is also not really used anymore, either, because the whole point of being trans is not identifying with your biological sex—therefore, the more accurate term is "transgender." the barebones basic distinction between sex and gender (that can be used as a rule of thumb) is that sex is what's going on physically, and gender is what's going on mentally if you are a cisgender man, that means that your sex and gender happen to match, just like the majority of humans when there's a mismatch between sex and gender, you get transgenderism—and because people are strange and complex and unique and have different circumstances, everyone's going to have a unique case of it it's not really important to know EVERY little thing about this stuff, especially if you don't happen to know any Ts anyway, but as long as you remain open and respectful of people, that's really the only thing anyone wants at the end of the day (and yes, you're allowed to make mistakes) 112
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 29, 2021, 12:46:34 PM »
"going to hell just means i get to hang out with [celebrity/musician/historical figure that i admire], which sounds like a pretty good time"
"getting fucked by demons sounds pretty hot anyway" "something something masochism lol" don't do it das 113
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 27, 2021, 08:23:45 PM »Second, Verb, you seem to be not understanding that the entire point is that the possibility of one of the 100 condemning you is what constitutes the game theory outcome of it being necessary for you to be that one.i understand it just fine—everything you're saying is logically sound i literally just don't like that you used the word "guarantee," because it's simply inaccurate let's change the scenario so that all 100 people make their choice simultaneously, and that you're part of the group—you, with your supreme knowledge of game theory, mark down the first option as your choice, and against all odds, it's revealed to you that everyone else voted for the second option what would your reaction be? the way i see it, it's a good thing the option to relinquish your immortality was baked into the hypothetical, otherwise you'd have the biggest fucking egg on your face Quote You're for some reason stuck way back at unlikely and impossiblei don't see it as "way back"—i see this question as further along the conversation than what you're pondering, because the root of it is more concerned with the ethics of the situation, which is a fundamentally deeper question than "what's the best strategy to 'win' at this game" you're trying to play the game to "win" it, because you think reducing your choice down to what produces the "highest self-benefit" is how you "win" a game like this you're the kind of guy who watches a show like Squid Game for the games and not the message a more high-minded person could argue that the "best" option would be to put your own personal comfort at stake and be willing to have yourself tortured for all eternity for the sake of keeping your principles, your innocence, or even just maintaining a clean conscience the way you look at the "game" only applies if you equate making it out alive and unharmed as "winning," which is understandable if incredibly basic and middlebrow 115
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 27, 2021, 07:56:07 PM »Actually you are the one being obtuse because the difference between unlikely and impossible is so irrelevant to this discussion that there is no reason to bring it uphe used the word "guarantee" wrong, and i carefully explained to him why it was when someone is wrong, they have to be corrected—it doesn't matter if it's "relevant" (which it is, you're just being your typical dumbass self as usual) Quote It's like if I said "you won't spontaneously combust right now" and you said "ah but there is a chance you could"yes, because if you said that you could NEVER spontaneously combust, then you're missing the point of the word "spontaneously," and that is something that ought to be corrected, because it's bad to be wrong glad you get it, good job 116
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 27, 2021, 03:31:19 PM »but this hypothetical doesn't really observe complex human behavior—it observes the choice between a simple binary of options for which there exist compelling reasons to take either, depending on your dispositionHuman behaviour isn't a coin flip.Nah, you can't just ignore the entirety of game theory.if whatever you think "game theory" means clashes with basic, fundamental things like stochasticity that hard, i think i can we don't know how the islanders are chosen, so we can assume that they'd be chosen randomly take a random youtube video with at least 100 dislikes, but a like/dislike ratio of 99:1—out of all the people who rated this video one way or the other, let's randomly select 100 of those people out of those randomly selected individuals, it's very unlikely that all 100 of them voted to dislike the video, but since we already know that 100 people did, we already know that there's a remote possibility of such a thing occurring it's the same principle here, except rather than using raw data to support my position, i'm essentially using common sense—i'm personally fairly confident that there's more than 100 people on this planet of 7.9 billion who would never have anyone tortured under any circumstances, even if it would grant them immortality to put it another way, in order to disagree with my position, you would have to believe that the world's population contains less than 100 people who would choose the second option, and that you also just happen to be speaking to one of them—that would be pretty remarkable knowing that these people exist is enough to say that it isn't guaranteed that someone on that island will vote to fuck everyone over—you can only be 99.99999% sure if you want, but you cannot be 100% sure unless you happen to know all of the people on the island i'm basically explaining the difference between "unlikely" and "impossible" to you right now, which i don't think i should have to do, so i can only assume you already understand this, and that you're just being semantically imprecise or deliberately obtuse 117
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 27, 2021, 02:21:33 PM »Can't wait to torture this idiot for a trillion years while I'm chilling in paradisewhich is another thing that separates this from a true prisoner's dilemma in the sense that having the choice-makers be randomly chosen is imbalanced—why should some random person get to choose first over another random person? what's the logic behind that? if i were second in line, and the very first person chose to fuck everyone over, that kinda just throws the whole experiment out the window right off the bat then again, the closer you model the hypothetical after the prisoner's dilemma, the more you might as well just be thinking about the prisoner's dilemma, where the choices are made simultaneously between just two people YouTube ^ the most optimal response to the prisoner's dilemma, but only if the "prisoners" (obviously contestants in this case) are allowed to communicate with each other 118
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 27, 2021, 02:16:37 PM »Nah, you can't just ignore the entirety of game theory.if whatever you think "game theory" means clashes with basic, fundamental things like stochasticity that hard, i think i can do you deny that if you flip a coin a million times, you COULD get heads every single time? or do you think it's literally impossible for that to happen (you know, instead of just extremely unlikely) 119
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 26, 2021, 06:38:59 PM »it's not necessarily about trust—it's also about you, personally, NOT wanting 99 people to suffer for all eternity and understanding that you have the power to prevent thatIt is though. in fact it'd probably be many. Every person who realizes that the choice it trusting 99 other people completely, or not, is not going to blindly trust 99 other people randomly selected from the population.Out of 100 people it's guaranteed one willit isn't guaranteed, there's no way to be sure of that do you know how easy it would be for me to find 99 people who would take the second option? even if i had a hard time, if you assume any number of people would share my mentality, there's no reason to suspect that it would be impossible for 99 others to feel the same the furthest you can go is "it's overwhelmingly likely"—you can't guarantee it any more than i can guarantee the opposite if it was 100 dahuterschuters on this island, then you'd be wise to choose the first option, but not everybody is you (or someone like you), and that's the point—i'm sure there have been countless stories written about this level of myopia 120
The Flood / Re: A hypothetical for you« on: October 26, 2021, 04:32:29 PM »Out of 100 people it's guaranteed one willit isn't guaranteed, there's no way to be sure of that otherwise, you're sadly correct |