@ryo@morena I actually thought that it wasn't working at all in the last few days because nothing would load. For some reason restarting the browser made it work again, though. Well, "WORK".
@udon@ryo ...had the right idea. Nuking Earth? Dropping space colonies on it to destroy it? Sounds good to me. Char did nothing wrong, by the way. Quattro Bajeena would agree. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MhRYoDiQavM
@ryo Meanwhile he was funded by international capitalism and had his entire infrastructure built by its corporations. Also a socialist, and supported by the British empire until it was time for the show to start. Also arguably a Jew himself.
@ryo Me: "All life on Earth is the problem, so we should nuke it off the face of the universe." All problems can be solved through some equal-opportunity genocide. Omnicide?
@ryo@Misato@Yorsshitposter In a LAN? No way. Old console optical drives are slow as fuck. On the PS2, it's faster than the optical drive, but the drive is faster than USB 1.0 (which is what the PS2 has, which is slow as fuck and makes cutscenes not run properly). A hard drive is also faster, of course, but I have the slim PS2.
@ryo@Misato@Yorsshitposter I hate wireless shit with a passion. And you can look up complaints about it, it's a common one about the Wiiamoto. Anyway, after I leave everything I have behind and lose it all, if I get consoles again, I won't get a Wii, I'll just get a GameCube and mod it. I assume you can run games on it from ethernet by now, or at least mod it to run stuff from an SD card. Ideally, every console should just be hooked up to a file server, no disks, no failing optical drives, no nonsense. I modded my PS2 to do that and have seen things like that being done with the Dreamcast, and I assume I can be done on the GameCube as well. That's how every disc-based console should be, because the drives as way too unreliable. Flash carts (like the Everdrive) are enough for superior cartridge-based consoles, though. Then there's also the MiSTer, that can replace a lot of hardware.
@ryo@Misato@Yorsshitposter It doesn't solve the problem. The biggest problem with the SheGayRu Wiiamote is that you have to remove the batteries after every time you use it, because it drains them crazy fast, even while it's on. If you put batteries in it and leave it off for a week, it will still kill the batteries. Even with the classic controller hooked up to it, you still have to use a cursor to select things, and it makes it take more space on the table too. The GameCube controller could solve all of that, but it's fucking Nintendo, so it doesn't work, because people wouldn't use their stupid gimmicks if they weren't forced to.
Oh, and just in case you ask yourself why I even own one, it's because the Wii is a GameCube but with easier piracy. Well, at least now. Back in the day I actually wanted to play a few Wii games, though it being a GameCube was a big selling point when I couldn't emulate it quite perfectly enough. Nowadays, it's a GameCube, but less convenient, which is why I barely ever play it. May not seem like much, but having to put batteries, select things in the menus and then take them off, that is enough for me to never play it when I can just open dmenu and type games.
@ryo@Misato@Yorsshitposter Meanwhile, I use older consoles to watch videos from a flashdrive on a TV from over two decades ago. Using the Wii now. But that's just because the cable that I use for my PS2 is defective and fucks up the audio, and I still have to get another one. I installed a media player on my PS2, but my PS3 is better for that. The Wii is better than the PS2 for that too (player runs more formats, I'm pretty sure), except it has horrible fucking menus with forced motion controls because Nintendo is the Apple of gaming except not overpriced.
@ryo@neo@udon Well, this one won't be a civilization, it will be an enormous computer-controlled hivemind. Not gonna go down so quickly. Those other governments did not have AI, drones, robots with machineguns, all the surveillance technology, "quantum dots", weather control, GMO everything, and an army of zombies that are up to their eyeballs in nanomachines.
@ryo@neo@udon Yeah, having shelter is a good thing, though if I lived in the ancient world, I think I would have ended up like that as well, or maybe getting kicked out of the city state like Diogenes. Life was uncomfortable regardless of what you did unless you were deceiving and robbing other people, but you could at least be free if you didn't have attachments that kept you in one place. People were also a lot more prepared for survival than they are now. There weren't many distractions either, so just wandering around and talking to weirdos was probably the most interesting thing to do. I think I may end up like that at some point if I actually survive getting kicked out of society.
@udon@neo@ryo Well, religions are ideologies and therefore have the exact same issues, so I am against them too. Can they be used for good? Maybe briefly, but not for long, all of them end up being corrupted almost immediately.
In the case of "Christianity", it was co-opted by the Roman government (hell, they even added the book of Romans, a book about how you should obey the government without question or God will be angry) and at this point it's basically the opposite of the teachings of actual Jesus.
Jesus himself was not a fan of the religious institutions of his time. He said himself that you can't serve two masters, in the context of not being able to serve both God and Mammon (money), and his position was basically that you should just sell everything you own and become homeless and go hang out with him, and that you should own a sword, but nothing else is really necessary.
And he hanged out with the rejects of society, so he was not a judgemental cunt like "Christians" are. Even the teachings that weren't excused away and that were actually followed, eventually went away too while all the bad brought in by the psychopaths stayed in there.
Anyway, some of that also happened to Buddha. I know that he wasn't a fan of the religious institutions of his time either, probably not a fan of religion in general. Definitely not a fan of people that are slaves to Mammon either. Really, these figures are very similar to each other, they are of the same general archetype. I like them but hate the people that have been shitting all over their names for thousands of years. The religions that co-opted their teachings for profit and power are trash, but the things that they had to say were good.
@udon@neo@ryo I didn't finish the point about the two masters. Logically, if you can't serve two masters, so you can't serve God and church, or God and government, or God and human systems like religion and ideology. Makes sense to me.
@udon Anyone ever noticed that Tor is the beginning of Torah and that their logo kinda looks like a sideways menorah? Just saying, not saying that it means anything.