Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)

@dymaxion Tactical Breach Wizards is chess, XCOM is warcraft, and Starcraft is go. Different genres. I'm not sure what the opposite of Go is. maybe Risk?

@dymaxion easy mistake. go is a strategy and not a tactics game.

@jovialthunder a game themed after chess that is actually warhammer would be very funny but a warhammer-themed game that is chess would be more fun. but then I'm biased because I only like chess.

@jovialthunder honestly struggling to think of any. closest is "despite being a science fiction tabletop wargame, Lancer is chess" but it doesn't really have the zest

calvin's dad meme All tactics games are either Warhammer or Chess

@QuietMisdreavus yeah I really want one didn't manage to get the order through :blob_pensive:

@jovialthunder oh no!!!! me to!!!

"C doesn't have iterators-- (Part 3)"

https://godbolt.org/z/d47Por9eT

@j12i Deleted my first reply bc it put words in your mouth, sorry.

More calmly: I have a tech job and it pays well, so, yeah, there is a class difference between us. I don't think you're virtue signaling. I do wonder if you think that way about -all- luxury purchases in the 100-300 dollar range, or just food purchases?

fyi virtue signaling about never eating fine dining is stupid. I can have a dinner with my wife that completely blows my mind about the possibilities of what food can be for cheaper than a single night at a mid-quality hotel.

I know not everyone is in a place where they can afford a few hundred dollars for a special occasion but I promise that this is not a "bougie" amount of money. some people buy nintendo switches and some people eat sushi that makes you want to cry, yknow.

@foundseed https://xoxo.zone/@clarity/116467231357727916

@raphaelmorgan Placebo is the easy and obvious one, though I'd also include most things that get labeled "psycho-somatic". If "actions taken within the realm of the consciousness & subconscious can product measurable impacts on the body" doesn't match your definition of "magic" then you've probably just defined magic as "things that aren't real", which is a pretty useless and historically uninformed definition.

those who do not study religion are doomed to repeat it

@annika I would and will

your regular reminder that magic is so real we have to control for it in medical trials because it biases results

@catilac 😍

@neauoire ohhh wait I get it now. that's very neat

@neauoire can you explain what exactly the "'[y^x x^y]/[x^x n]" rule means?

@dante I don't think this means we get an "anarchist revolution" or whatever though. imo marxists need to learn these techniques: this is cultural technology and a weapon that a more centralized movement can employ (or at least a sort of wind-in-the-sails that any successful movement would need to harness)

@dante yeah my personal theory is that, until some future Tipping Point, it's really necessary to win these anarchistic "cultural victories" – Occupy, BLM, trans rights, Palestine, anti-ICE protests. Each effort teaches the next what works and what doesn't, and each one shoves a very real wedge into the overton window, and there's no head for the feds to cut off.