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mindbleach ,

Once you pop, you shall not be able to stop.

mindbleach ,

Yo dawg.

mindbleach ,

The general difference is that these bookmarks go away when re-opened. They’re an alternative to leaving a buttload of tabs open.

mindbleach ,

Some people get addicted to being right all the time.

mindbleach ,

I’ve forgotten who but I know one of their content creators was accused of either grooming or at least having inappropriate conversations with a or potentially multiple minors.

James Ryan Haywood did some penis crimes at Rooster Teeth conventions. Basically a dozen variations on “not technically rape.” With fans, of questionable age, on the company dime. As soon as credible accusations arose, his ass was gone, and the rest of Achievement Hunter had exactly one emotional-and-drunk livestream to say they were never going to acknowledge him for the rest of their lives.

His whole personality on-camera and in-game turns out to be really close to how he sincerely acts and thinks. He was not playing a heel.

mindbleach ,

That one hurt.

mindbleach ,

Crash Course was some good shit.

mindbleach ,

Occasionally broken by Arin being a music dork instead of a gaming dork, leading to magic like introducing him to Gen1 Pokemon designs.

… oh god that was nine years ago.

mindbleach ,

I don’t think an edit was necessary, but if you’re gonna edit it, he committed sexual assault against multiple probably-legal-at-the-time fans.

mindbleach ,

In the loyalist mindset, reality is a team sport.

mindbleach ,

Not that guy. But: what people were promised was smartphone guts in a set-top box, for all the novel PSP-grade mobile titles that were limited by touchscreen controls and battery life. What was delivered was Not That. They turned the Kickstarter into a custom microconsole, which is a vulgar word in any context, because it means there’s no goddamn software. The central fucking point was to take advantage of everything on Google Play… or whatever the hell it was called that month. Instead you got a tiny selection of games which were forced to provide free demos. And you could play them with an abysmal controller, which was the one thing these geniuses were supposed to get right for free.

mindbleach ,

Shagohodgepodge.

mindbleach ,

Avoid, frag, potayto, potahto.

mindbleach ,

Grenades are easier, but sure, that’d work.

mindbleach ,

I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol’ book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.

The one that made me put the book down and go ‘yep, atheist’ was “the argument from magic.” You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.

Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don’t actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There’s a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.

mindbleach ,

Considering I’ve seen it printed on booty shorts, yeah, probably not.

mindbleach ,

Reality is a team sport, to some people. They don’t mean things when they say words. They’re just signalling loyalty to their ingroup hierarchy, and playing a dominance game where they get to decide what’s true. It’s not a judgement call. In their worldview there is no objective means to evaluate claims. There’s just whatever their guy says, and whatever our guy says, and their guy is right because he’s their guy.

So please stop falling for it when they declare themselves fiscal experts. They don’t give the slightest shit. They’re just shuffling cards. It’s another song and dance they do, to grasp for narrative legitimacy. Nothing else exists in their moral universe.

mindbleach ,

I don’t care if the robot that speaks English read the entire library.

How else was it going to happen?

mindbleach ,

Rooster Teeth’s “Immersion” did it five years earlier.

mindbleach ,

Could’ve had an episode where they tried as many experiments as they could fit into a two-week production.

mindbleach ,

Do soundtracks count?

“And I-IIII, will always love youuu-uuu, you piece of shit!”

mindbleach ,

“Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king. You piece of shit.”

mindbleach ,

Probably not Ankh-Morpork, because Vetenari is nothing if not competent.

mindbleach ,

Linking to another instance is kind of silly.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/6e34f865-490b-4ac4-a9c8-0bee6f6394cd.webp

mindbleach ,

Situation: there are 14 competing editors.

mindbleach ,

You invaded one of our allies. You’re gonna get some missiles.

mindbleach ,

… by submitting queries to another website that only does what’s ruining search engines.

mindbleach ,

That is not what Firefox has done.

mindbleach ,

Ban them.

Get rid of the entire business model. It’s an abuse. Games make you value arbitrary worthless nonsense - that is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that imaginary form of value is a scam.

mindbleach ,

All while aiming to be cash you can e-mail, and failing at that because its high volatility and low speed make it a completely artificial commodities market with nearly zero real-world applications. It’s a technology that took off because Paypal is the devil and it is arguably worse.

mindbleach ,

All three of them were right, but one of them was doing the wrong amount of cocaine.

mindbleach ,

I had great internet, and it was still frustrating bullshit.

Valve really abused their big-ass sequel to force their DRM’d marketplace upon PC gaming. We just got used to it because they’re competent at UI development and happy with console-level gouging of publishers.

mindbleach ,

My layman’s understanding is that virtual particles can and do emerge from vacuum, but in ways that usually cancel out before affecting anything. Occasionally it does affect normal stuff - see the Casimir effect acting on surfaces very close together.

I personally suspect this is an explanation for dark matter and a possible origin of the universe.

If there’s tiny bits of stuff and anti-stuff blinking in and out of existence, anywhere there’s a big fat nothing, both halves should still exhibit gravity before blipping back out. It wouldn’t show up as normal matter because it spends most of its time not existing. The vacuum really is empty… on average. It just hums with enough short-lived quantum shenanigans to have nonzero mass.

And if this follows a steep curve for distribution, then it’s like blackbody radiation. A hot rock will overwhelmingly emit photon wavelengths near the peak, for any given temperature, but in theory any temperature can emit any wavelength. It just happens with vanishing rarity as you get up into the spicy photons. If vacuum will occasionally fart out a particle and antiparticle, then very occasionally it should fart out two particles and antiparticles, together. And with vanishing rarity it can theoretically fart out an arbitrary quantity of mass, alongside a negation that is presumably equal. But if that’s off by a little bit - if it’s allowed to be off by a little bit - then an equally arbitrary quantity of mass will remain. Even if the masses have to match exactly, they could recombine in ways that produce angular momentum and never properly rejoin. And if vacuum produces gravity, well, anything that’s left will accelerate away in all directions.

On cosmic timescales it’s possible that matter just kinda happens. We’d be left with the question of why the fuck that’s how anything works, and where all this quantum vacuum bullshit came from. But creationist cranks would have to retreat back to the first sentence. In the beginning, there was nothing. And it was slightly heavy.

mindbleach ,

Sodium-ion batteries are likely to be the obvious answer in another decade. Dirt cheap, abundant materials, competitive density.

mindbleach ,

It’s fine, he’s built like a mid-00s CGI zombie.

mindbleach ,

Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.

mindbleach , (edited )

Alternately: 360 no-scope such that firing causes the somersault to stop.

mindbleach ,

You fools. Look up!

It’s not a “moonshot,” it’s a 360 no-scope.

mindbleach ,

Alternately, polish every car window facing east.

Or… skip a step. Line of sight is irrelevant if your aircraft is already exploding!

mindbleach ,

“You see, men, the lethal range is limited by this airy disk… stop giggling!”

mindbleach ,

Do not point laser at remaining eyewall.

mindbleach ,

Yeah I guess you can’t pulse-ablate a mirror made of plastic.

Though it invites a backup strategy of spraying your enemies with molten drone.

mindbleach ,

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

mindbleach ,

Infantalizing people for their own good --> infantalizing people as an insult.

More behavior you need to cut the fuck out.

mindbleach ,

The whole internet is just him and you.

mindbleach ,

Howdy! What’d you think of Mouth Dreams?

mindbleach ,

That’s fair. Honestly most of the effort was spent going back in time to plant a “RIBS” reference in that Tears For Fears video.

mindbleach ,

I would still be using 7 if ransomware wasn’t a thing.

I went back to Mint instead.

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