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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 20:00:13 JST 
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@bronze @BowsacNoodle This tactic has worked on bots before, but in this case (I hate to rain on the fun) he was playing along with it to spell out "fuck you" with the first letter of each line. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 11:46:05 JST
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@sickburnbro They will push this shit as far as they possibly can to solidify him as a republican even though dems literally endorse this tactic to fuck primaries. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 11:08:14 JST
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@thendrix @graf @sun I can already see them trying to solidify "He was registered as a republican" into the public consciousness for weeks to come, even though this is a tactic liberals endorse and gloat about doing. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:01:59 JST
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@graf @BigDawg869789 >you will never again talk anime with freshman dorm bros on a Friday evening pirating the English patch of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody through campus wifi
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 06:05:09 JST
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@sickburnbro Apparently the original preprint was rejected a couple years ago because "the methodology doesn't match the conclusion." Has a new version finished the process? -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:54:57 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer @merchantHelios Some gameplay mechanics are fun as hell though, like navigating an invisible maze of nuke ghosts who you can only see while standing still, and who can only see you while you're breathing. Balancing movement, breath, and your rapidly-deteriorating grenades is always a thrill.
Also got a surprise mission to infiltrate a huge mule camp (timer started immediately, so no backing out). I left a poisoned decoy package to be caught by their scanners as bait, tried to run away, but slipped on a rock, so the baby started crying from the fall--leaving me hiding behind a boulder trying to be stealthy while soothing a crying baby. The mules rolled up in a vehicle so I stole it for ten seconds before getting peppered with electric spears. 10/10. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:27:29 JST
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@merchantHelios @Dicer I'm only about halfway, but off the top of my head most directly are things like the sense of duty or obligation to do work one doesn't believe in, but that others insist is necessary. The chemical side of the feeling of productivity from working, the gamification of work. The biology of feeling connected. The upkeep of connections between humans like with physical bridges, and the heavenly inverted bridges (rainbows) which connect the dead.
A little deeper is dealing with death, including handling stillbirth as a man. Coping with loss and grief, but also the commodification of human bodies, and others de-personifying the fetus you're taking care of as not a real person. There are a lot of little wordplay connections (look up "rainbow baby"), and hand imagery everywhere with the invisible dead explicitly connecting to the world of the living by making handprints; for some like stillborn children, handprints are the only impression they leave behind.
I can't give a full picture yet, but it's been a great experience with very creative gameplay elements I've never seen before. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 16:15:05 JST
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Death Stranding feels as much like an artistic expression like a niche book or painting as it does a game.
It's good to see a literal genius have complete creative freedom over a work and also not give a fuck whether it will appeal to general audiences. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 09:09:38 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer The point is people try to appeal to the "consistency" of a moral framework, yet are obviously working backwards to shoehorn it.
Nobody starts with a framework (Bentham's utilitarianism, Kant's categorical imperitive, Rawls's veil of ignorance, libertarians' non-aggression principle etc.) and uses it to decide right from wrong. Instead they seem to have already decided what's right and wrong, then (after that) try to retroactively invent a framework which matches the view they already held.
This becomes apparent given the special exceptions they tend to make. "Murder is always wrong."
>What if it's an evil tyrant though?
"Okay, well, hang on, uhm, that's different because yada yada"
They all do this, inventing exceptions as soon as someone pokes at the margins. It's obviously just invented after the fact, not something consulted beforehand. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 08:58:42 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer I'm not trolling. It just seems like you're defining morality as "things humans evolved to like and dislike." -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 08:54:23 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer If you only want to appeal to evolved responses, you'll come to the same conclusion I'm at. Indicators of sanity and the ability to cooperate (like following easy-to-follow societal standards) are also things we evolved to be on the lookout for and reward/punish.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 08:50:40 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer There is no interspecies agreement because dolphins are about as dumb as toddlers so can't comprehend the rules of contracts, and most humans aren't aware of anyone having been saved by one. There's even a misconception that they're more dangerous than sharks, yet even people who believe that still aren't cool with farming them because "they're intelligent." It shows how ex-post these reasons are.
If you wanna dig up stories of pigs or cows willfully saving humans they've grown attached to, they're out there, because this kind of thing is more of a gradient than a binary.
>Sexual assaults
If you mean somebody wandering around the street naked is probably a sexual deviant, sure, but calling it wrong is just agreeing "This is wrong because we agree it's wrong." The fact that it's icky is good enough.
>somebody deemed infertile might still be fertile
The scenario has baked into it that one of both of the parties is infertile. Imagine that however you want (like complete removal of ovaries) but even after that, most would still say that doesn't make it fine for a father to screw his daughter or something. People still oppose it, and invent new reasons as needed. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 08:09:17 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @Dicer Being social or capable of showing kindness to humans isn't unique to animals we don't eat. There's even the common misconception dolphins harm more people than sharks--yet the people who believe that still generally oppose ranching and eating them.
The nudity example is good because people will try and come up with reasons after the fact, like hygiene or something, yet still oppose it even after that is removed from the equation.
Like with incest people point to higher risk of birth defects, but when it's changed to remove that chance, they get stuck. "Is father-daughter incest still wrong if one of them has become infertile?" People stumble over themselves to rationalize into some kind of logical consistency instead of just conceding the fact: things can be wrong without needing an explanation. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 07:15:58 JST
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@Dicer These kinds of things all feel like rationalizations though. Dolphins are useless to us but we still find it unconscionable to eat them. I've seen people cite dolphin intelligence, yet pigs are smarter than dogs, so brains can't be the deciding factor either.
Then people have to form these multi-dimensional analyses to try and form a consistent model of right from wrong, when really that has everything backwards. We make decisions on what's moral without running any complex computations, or waiting for the results of tests and studies. Somehow we just know.
Plato formed this model of human behavior where "reason" is like a driver and "emotion" is a horse being told where to go, but Jonathan Haidt is probably more correct saying it's the opposite. Emotion is the driver, and it tells reason where to go. We point logic in the direction our gut instinct wants to end up, and it finds a way to get us there.
We already determined by instinct that incest is wrong, then after the fact we go jumping through hoops to try and logically deduce why it must be wrong. It's a dumb little game of pretend we play that switches the driver with the horse. It's unnecessary.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 07:15:57 JST
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@Dicer I only use the dolphin example because people generally feel it's "wrong" to eat them, but when pressed can't give a reason besides them being kind of smart--which isn't exactly consistent because we eat other smarter animals.
People do eat dogs, but the fact it usually requires something like famines or extreme poverty points to a priority. When we have the freedom to, they're among the first things we spare. No well-adjusted person will gut their chihuahua because they just didn't feel like eating out that night. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 07:13:47 JST
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It's pretty weird we pretend consistency is some virtue.
>everybody would save a loved one over a stranger
>we're fine eating pigs, but not dogs
>you can be naked in a shower, but not on a bus
It's actually extremely useful that we can make special exceptions for behaviors without having to justify why.
Inconsistency is a feature, not a bug. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 15:34:07 JST
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@bybonsonofphola @PinochetsCommieCopter They'll use the gyroscopes built into phones (for camera stabilization and GPS direction) to find the correct angles for mortars. It's easy to assume they have an Africa-tier INT stat since they live in clay retard houses, but they can employ creativity. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 12:42:28 JST
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>particle physicists finding yet another extremely tiny thing every year and desperately trying to convince you it's actually super important this time
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 04:53:42 JST
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@LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior In hentai it's the easiest fetish to ignore since it's entirely non-visual. When it's mentioned in a passing line you can just skip that text and pretend they're classmates or something. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 16:54:38 JST
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@Curvin I'm sitting on 900 hours in MH4 because something about that gameplay loop is addictive. Makes me want to craft everything to always have a weapon/element/armor combo no matter what monster I'm up against.
Jack of all trades when it comes to weapon types, but favorite is the charge blade. Will need to pull up my guild card's chart sometime.
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