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If horrible people think I don’t exist, I should probably take that as an “achievement unlocked”, right? Because logically that means that the horrible people can’t observe me and thus they will not be able to be horrible to me. I very much approve of these prospects.

1 week ago · tagged #shitposting #vagueblogging · 11 notes · .permalink

ilzolende:

speakertoyesterday:

sdhs-rationalist:

lisp-case-is-why-it-failed:

another-normal-anomaly:

dagny-hashtaggart:

showerthoughtsofficial:

If we truly are characters in a video game being played by an advanced civilization, the one controlling me is a noob.

Mine is fairly skilled, but resolutely refuses to consult strategy guides and FAQs under any circumstances.

Mine did some clever minmaxing at character design but has been playing half-assedly ever since.

Mine needs to stop fucking around on side quests. Do they not see the dragon right over there?

Mine definitely somehow found some combination of skills in character design that allllllmost gives psionics but not quite, and has just been trying to level into psionics ever since.

Mine decided to be a wizard, in a world with no magic, and took some disadvantages that make the character specific goals of finding a companion hard because they really liked the sound of “read 5x faster” and “develop random obsessions so that you don’t need to take a break”. Also found the best tumor disorder in the world to have to get the points for the disadvantage.

Mine seemed to have accidentally skipped the “physical traits” segment (you know, the one where you can spend skill points and acquire disadvantage points) entirely? I’m just glad the devs don’t seem to treat typing as a separate skill from the base computer use skill.

They clearly spent advantage points on opportunities to meet lots of powerful potential friends and then forgot to create any character drives to interact with people who didn’t have inherently compatible personalities.

Also, I still don’t know why they thought executive function issues were an acceptable source of disadvantage points. That was a bad decision. I get it, you get extra realism points for picking conditions that your character’s family members have, but what did you even spend those points on …

Hair. You spent the points on having the kind of loosely curled hair that makes people ask if I have a perm or use special products, when I don’t. I don’t even find this experience enjoyable. Some of the more popular character hairstyles are locked, and all the prettier ones require at least 10 minutes of game time each day anyway. This is ridiculous.

I think my player just took an idea of a really cool high-level character and didn’t consider how to actually get there and after character creation was like “oh fuck" when the result was actually nigh unplayable and had to spend in-game years just figuring out how this weird mess of a minmax even works.

When your character concept relies on certain drugs 24/7 to be functional you should really have a plan for starting with them instead of heading into the game world with a broken build and barely any way to fix it, no matter how clever your “let’s bump cognition and intuition and run everything else off those instead of their normal base stats” trick is. It’s totally clever though; when you can beat trained competitors by just defaulting on your aptitude rolls you know you’re doing something right but nonetheless one should consider the consequences of starting with basically no skill points in anything. I know the base aptitudes can’t be increased in-game anywhere as easily as skills (especially with that “fast learner” trait) but making the early game utterly torturous for theoretical potential later on might not be the best idea anyway.

And I get it, those special traits and combinations are Expensive, but I’m not sure piling on all kinds of mental health disadvantages is the best source for the points (I know, “with optimal play and migitating them with in-game actions this is a really OP combination” or whatever that strategy guide said, or no it actually wasn’t even a strategy guide it was an off-hand speculation on IRC about how such-and-such combination would be totally exploitable; but then the ‘optimal play’ part is actually really relevant); I know the “badbrains trans girl programmer” is kind of an unbalanced template and a popular FotM for a reason but you should remember the disadvantage points actually do come from somewhere especially if you intend to take the basic idea of the template to absurd extremes.

I guess my player hangs out in the same experimental munchkin channel as sdhs’s because that “almost gives psionics” thing is clearly observable in this build too although my player isn’t trying to push into that direction (it’s certainly interesting how minmaxing and exploiting produces something that basically seems to be trying to route around hardcoded features of the game engine itself as a side effect and probably shows the degree of fucked-upness in my player’s ideas (it’s a very admirable form of fucked-upness though)).

TL;DR my player just skimped on all the skill points and threw in a fuckload of disadvantages to max out on some aptitudes and pile on all the exploitable traits in combinations that are basically “haha look guise: in extremely specific circumstances I can get +omfglolwtfbbq modifiers to these of throws” at the cost of making the combination actually completely unplayable by traditional strategies and is now figuring out the “oh dog wat done” part of actually using it.

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1 week ago · tagged #shitposting #i am an experimental minmax munchkin nightmare · 364 notes · source: reddit.com · .permalink

metagorgon:

speakertoyesterday:

socialjusticemunchkin:

conductivemithril:

socialjusticemunchkin:

conductivemithril:

argumate:

nuclearspaceheater:

sinesalvatorem:

NRx blog: The latest push for transgender activism is designed to inculcate trans acceptance in the most intellectually vulnerable among us and to undermine parental authority.

Me: Haha. Silly reactionaries, thinking that upbringing affects children’s long term behaviour.

It’s actually all a front, on both sides, to deflect the true blame away from Big Plastic, a partly-owned subsidiary of Big Oil.

I want to see the plastic-makes-your-kids-gay meme take off in my lifetime just because of how frickin’ hilarious it’s going to be to watch.

Yo promethea. @socialjusticemunchkin

Plastic makes your kids trans, not gay. Srsly guys we’ve discussed this exact shit already.

Dammit.

As a saving throw, there’s a lot of trans lesbians around here, so maaaaaybe plastics turn cishet guys into trans lesbians?

Of course the reactionaries would define a trans person’s orientation based on their asab, but I can think of at least one pair of trans lesbians dating each other so they’d still consider that gay.

Seems legit, right?

“at least one pair of trans lesbians dating each other”

Technically correct: the MVP of correct!

In reality I seem to be perceiving an excessive predisposition towards poly trans lesbians often dating numerous other poly trans lesbians, which is as close to peak degeneracy as it gets (and they usually tend to be kinky as well). And then they will also be at risk of seducing the reactionaries’ cis wives as well, just for the maximum cuckpoints.

So yes, glorious reactionary upsetness expectably ensuing. Better avoid plastics and chemicals.

…you know what has a lot of plastics and chemicals in them? Computers.

And the computer industry is hospitable to somewhat autistic people, who are at 7 times the risk of being transgender. This is not a coincidence because nothing is a coincidence.

computers are a well-established factor to turn nerd boys into nerd girls. i would know, i was there. maybe it was the ionizing radiation my grandmother warned me about crts…

poly transbian checking the fuck in. where them repressed nrx wives at?

they are not allowed on tumblr because @sinesalvatorem would turn them gay

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1 week ago · tagged #cucked in the cuck by my own cuck #nrx cw #shitposting #just one word: plastics · 124 notes · source: sinesalvatorem · .permalink

trashworks:

@socialjusticemunchkin you’re turning me into an ancap, please stop,

i need some memetic immunization, stat!

welfare is impossible without taxation and centralized coordination… welfare is impossible without taxation and centralized coordination…

don’t worry, “cap” as we know it is impossible with an “an” because there wouldn’t be a way to coerce people into living under a system they don’t want and thus the ancoms and ancaps would actually have to compete for whose system serves people’s needs the best instead of just looting the commons and handing oppressed easily-exploitable labor to cronies the way statcaps and statcoms alike operate

and if property rights were defined according to what organically arises from spontaneous order (it’s not like there would be alternatives), one would expect to see people having things like anarcho-syndicalist communes delivering effectively-welfare from the basic concepts of “our shit, no takey, go away looters” and “it’s actually nice to live in a community where people share things and take care of each other” and thus setting a floor for the possible misery of people

1 week ago · tagged #shitposting · 10 notes · source: trashworks · .permalink

argumate:

anotherpersonhasclaimedthisus:

argumate:

@socialjusticemunchkin, I haven’t engaged with your OpenGov posts because holy hell is that a lot of text and I am a very lazy person.

but a more defensible reason is that the framing of government as software is fundamentally misguided I feel. it drags the debate in a direction that feels more comfortable to geeks (upgrade your government! open source it! hack it!) while obscuring the actual problems that need to be solved and replacing them with the vague idea that existing players are just too dumb to spot obvious wins.

like, if your proposal takes from granted axioms that aren’t even accepted by a majority of the population then it’s going to be a rocky road to acceptance, is part of what I’m saying.

from what I’ve come to expect you’re primarily concerned with the idea that things sold on geek appeal are hyped up cargo cults sans substance and so we should always defer to the interpretations of ancient mystery cults who know better

Now That’s What I Call A Charitable Interpretation, Vol. 16 :)

don’t get me wrong I am all about geek appeal when it comes to geeky things, it’s just that I know how tempting it is to ignore all the domain-specific experience in a particular area and just charge in with One Weird Trick and then be shocked when it turns out not to work (mostly because I’ve done it many times myself).

but to get back on topic, I mean governance models are not closed source, this is important as it undercuts the concept of OpenGov. anyone can grab an existing constitution and run with it, and plenty of nations do, copying bits and pieces into their own constitutions, most of which end up ignored in actual practice which is the only part of governance that actually matters. (eg. see China, where pointing out rights guaranteed in the constitution is subversive).

so the Open part of OpenGov is a misnomer, it really should be MicroGov or ExoGov to continue the software metaphor, as the purpose is to radically slim down and present a minimalist set of interfaces for other non-gov “software”.

I mean if you’re going to go geek, go full geek.

Gnondamnit if it’s a question of naming then I’m totally going to rename it all right, the OpenGov was just a reference to the “open-source platform for providing crucial technologies for governance”.

It’s sg now, in the grand tradition of suckless naming.

1 week ago · tagged #we need a suckless government #shitposting · 22 notes · source: argumate · .permalink

argumate:

anotherpersonhasclaimedthisus:

@argumate :AppleGov, GoogleGov, now we’re talking

it’s not like people don’t treat reddit and tumblr as separate ethnic groups already

here’s that meme you wanted to cure nationalism btw, you’re welcome

slaughter the Android unbelievers

DUAL CITIZENSHIP MASTER RACE

1 week ago · tagged #shitposting · 13 notes · source: anotherpersonhasclaimedthisus · .permalink