I think it’s a frame of mind. Generally, people are not trained to view media as art, nor to interact with art in any meaningful sense. If you see a video game and subconsciously think “this exists solely for my gratification” then yeah, you’re not gonna be thinking about it much.

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Idk I just have no idea what the hell else to do with my hair. Long all over/short all over just looks bad to me and anything else is too complex for me to do right. It’s not shaved on the sides, but it’s generally a number 1~2.

This is one guy, one single guy, has made a statement as powerful as a protest of thousands. You can say it’s suicide, but not that it’s meaningless. You can say martyrdom is not something to aspire to, but cannot say that it did not take an incredibly rare level of devotion towards a cause that is just. Writing him off as out of his mind is an insult to his determination. I don’t think self-immolating is the most productive thing he could have done, but at the end of the day, if it was, I know I wouldn’t have the guts to follow through on it.

So burned out on my job search. Recently graduated with a degree in computer science, looking for a job as a dev. Finally got my first interview after having sent out 30~50 applications a week since the start of last June. I get in there and it turns out they pulled a bait and switch, they weren’t actually interviewing me for the job I applied for but a completely different one, not a SWE job, not in the same location, and not even full time. I’m starting to think I basically have no chance of getting hired because all I’m hearing is that I need to wait until the market is better, which won’t be until I have a gap of years in my resume with no relevant experience which I can’t explain away. Since I didn’t graduate with a 3.5 GPA and an internship, my degree is apparently not worth wiping my ass with.

Burns doubly bad because this wasn’t the fucking easy path, I busted my ass for this degree. I had to give up on college in my third semester because I lost my scholarship. Lost my scholarship because, who knew, going unmedicated and untreated for suicidal depression and ADD bad enough that I stared at walls for hours wasn’t exactly great for my grades. I clawed my fucking way back in and graduated at 26 and the market’s fundamentally different from when I started so instead of getting a comfortable and well-paying job like everybody and their fucking mother swore up and down I’d get, I instead just owe $20k in loans and spent an extra 6 years living with my parents. Turns out, if you had to work hard to get your degree, that means it’s worthless. You have to be able to pass with a huge margin and have professional experience.

I’m just so lost, man. I’m all out of faith I’ll ever live a life of anything but repeated humiliation and rejection. I’m bitter and I’m angry. I haven’t wanted to just disappear this badly in a long time.

Understanding video games or not, you’d hope they’d at least understand the basic economic reality that addictive products make more money than non-addictive products. That’s why it was banned: it encourages unhealthy usage habits.

Oh I’d absolutely prefer somebody going all in something like that to the exasperating hack. My point is that if your goal is to avoid getting “owned” or whatever you want to call it, the only way to do that is to never actually enjoy something. I guess I’m trying to get across that I think a lot of the cringe discourse is less about what people think is embarrassing and more about avoiding ever feeling embarrassed, which is simply not a realistic thing unless you make yourself miserable.

Surprising that they’re not making money on the game directly. I didn’t really pick the TrueAnon crew as big board game people. I get that they still make money on it indirectly from the attention it’ll bring to the show, but that’s honestly not a huge payoff.

IMO S2 is the peak. It’s the one that feels most like a globe-spanning adventure, which was super cool. S3 is also good in that regard, but Jotaro just isn’t as good as Joseph imo.

My copium take is that there’s no way that the government wouldn’t understand banning “”“player retention mechanics”“” would cause a big divestment. They’re used because they make shittons of reliable money! Did they think it was just because devs are too lazy to come up with actual games? That seems like a pretty basic idea that would come across with even cursory investigation into what’s being regulated. Under this hopeful line of thought, it’d probably be a firing for messaging failure rather than a lack of will to follow through.

At the end of the day one person’s cringe is another person’s cool. There’s an impulse to try to avoid being seen as cringe by anybody and that can only lead to being layered in an unsatisfying ironic detachment. That’s the only way to avoid ever being cringe: avoid being genuine. Understand that this watch is definitely not for everybody, but nothing is. If it doesn’t put off the people you actually respect, who cares?

Because we’re too lazy as a nation for it ever to be acted upon. Nobody wants to fight that war, which really drives the point home that libs and conservatives aren’t actually too different. Everybody’s content to let urban centers be lib strongholds and empty fields be conservative bastions.

I feel safe on this website. I know there’s no point to all of you being feds because they already have microphones in my walls.

The Dark Age, a time of backwardness, illiteracy, and decline. Also, when books were invented.

Christianity (and other organized religions) are vestiges of a very effective way of packaging culture. Replace “God” with “the community” and things make lots of sense. It’s not a terribly new observation that an individual’s perception of reality is constructed by society. Why not simply call that process of construction God? Yeah, when it’s stripped of all forms of communal relations and obligations as all things under capitalism are, you’re left with a very dumb kernel of “imagine a really big wizard” but the fact that it’s endured at all goes to show how deeply woven religion was into the lives of people before us. The difference between religion and superstition is the order: religion is about understanding the world as we experience it. A ghost dog telling you to sell the organs of children is not religion, it is, charitably, superstition.

Believe me, that’s been my mindset for a while now. I’ve been trying to figure out an independent project to work on in the mean time, but I’m having trouble finding something complex enough to be worth doing and easy enough that I can do it.

born to ride public transit, forced to look for fucking parking

I got my degree in computer science even though that was like my 4th or 5th choice because everybody always said it was a guaranteed well-paying job and my higher choices were all “unrealistic” like astrophysics and history. Now, 8 months after I’ve graduated and so many hundred of applications later I stopped bothering to estimate, I still can’t find a fucking job. My friend might be able to put in a good word for me at a Naval research lab, but working for the US Navy would make me feel like an absolute fucking dog, even if it’s just ocean surveying. Even then, it’s not like I’d expect to get hired.

My loser’s lesson to anybody in college: if you hear a lot about a certain field being a guaranteed job, it’s a fucking lie. Do what you enjoy, it’s the least risky option because there’s no guaranteed jobs, but you can at least make sure you’re struggling on your own terms. That, and your actual degree is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Being in college is just the launchpad to get an internship, get one before you graduate no matter what because nobody’s willing to hire somebody with less than a year of work experience.

If there’s arguments that solar is better, sure, I’m sympathetic to those. I can understand if nuclear technology is not safe enough yet for widespread use. I think that arguments about nuclear being inherently unsafe are not convincing, though. As long as each reactor is safer than the last, we can minimize that inherent unsafeness. To take an example from programming: the only bug-free program you’ll ever write is a hello world program. Introducing complexity naturally increases the amount of unaccounted for states. Cutting-edge medical technology is invariably going to have an astronomical amount of unaccounted for states and the bugs that come with them. That doesn’t mean computing has nothing to offer medicine, only that its use must be weighed against alternatives. Fusion might be less inherently unsafe but AFAIK it’s not on the table right now, and we need energy today. China’s investing in nuclear technology, but it hasn’t been neglecting wind and solar, either. Putting feelers around each solution just seems like the no-brainer thing to do.