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2015-12-15 at 9:54 AM UTC in ATTACK ON TITAN - THE MOVIEHave you never heard of a live action adaptation before?
protip: they all suck
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2015-12-14 at 2:15 AM UTC in All I think about is animal abuse, heartbreak, killing, drugs, suicide, & pedophilia
I never said children weren't sexually active but there's nothing wrong with a 6 and an 8 year old experimenting, a 9 and an 11 yr old, 2 5 year Olds but in no way shape or form would a 20 something year old experimenting with a youth under the age of 13 ever not be damaging to their personal and sexual growth
How does that make any sense? Presumably the reason pedophilia is wrong is that it risks harming the child, so it seem like for any given behavior it's either damaging to a child or not, I don't get why the age of the other participant matters here? Like what does that change? Weren't you the one who just said children can't give consent? So how could they ever possibly consent sexual acts with their peers? Or is that rape and rape is ok as long as everyone's under a certain age? -
2015-12-13 at 7:06 AM UTC in The sophist hate thread
He also supports the cult-like FDR club. It's probably best not to associate with him.
FDR club? Like the president? He was bretty dope tbh -
2015-12-12 at 8:42 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/meaning-of-life
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.†― Albert Camus
I don't think I'd ever searched for meaning of life quotes before this, because I've always had a critical mentality, been critical of the masses. Generally they're pseudo-profound nice sounding feel-good tidbits that don't actually mean much. My stock answer to being asked would be, plainly: "Why do things have to have meaning? Maybe they just are. I don't think life has any inherent meaning."
But it's funny that the top quote was this by Camus. Never happy, never lived life.
Have you ever read any of Camus' work? I don't think "never happy, never lived life" is really a fair characterization, he was famously vivacious. Part of the widely believed myth of what existentialism is, the exceptional willingness of the public to misappropriate a term with no context as towards what it meant before. The "maybe things just are" is indeed what Camus considered and claimed to have an answer to, it seems like if you're so committed to a world without inherent meaning you'd be interested in one of the relatively few coherent philosophers in history who would have agreed with you. -
2015-12-11 at 6:16 PM UTC in Freewill
That sounds like a pretty useless thing to believe. If their "free will" is unable to affect the real world, how is it really free will?
There are a lot of kinds of dualist, a majority propose some sort of casual interaction between material and non-material (the canonical example being Descartes thinking the pineal gland was the way that the non-material soul controlled the body). There are problems with that approach too, the largest would probably be conjuring evidence for dualism in the first place but then there's also the issue that if we admit interaction of non-material mind with the physical world we seem to face the same dilemma with the non-material world as we faced with the material one, either it behaves deterministically or non deterministically (that seems pretty exhaustive of the options here) and neither really affords room for libertarian free will. -
2015-12-10 at 10:04 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Like, you know how there's a certain feeling associated with a childhood state? You mentioned that the defining characteristic of your memories of early life seem to be a feeling of confusion, of regularly feeling confused. I'm referring to some of the positive aspects though, that distinct "childlike" quality. What is it…novelty, curiosity, a sense of wonder, a certain difference in the quality of emotional experience. You may not be old enough, but do you feel your emotions have dulled over the years? It seems this is generally a natural part of aging. For example, think of how there's commonly a great shift in reading material from fiction to non-fiction. Do you have memories of how enjoyable becoming lost in a good fiction book could be? Are you still able to feel that now, and if so, does it feel much weaker than used to? Video games are a very good reference point as well.
I've definitely experienced the diminished emotionality thing, I think everyone has. Like I think just part of developing an adult psychology is becoming desensitized to certain stimuli. I remember a couple of times growing up where I'd have some big emotional experience (not necessarily negative, just normal growing up shit) and afterwards feeling like I was living in my head, like I was detached from the world a bit. And I've definitely had the video games thing, used to pour an ungodly amount of time into RPGs and such but these days I rarely finish a game I start. I think an important part of psychological development is replacing that emotionality with something else. Like Freud would call this sublimation, the turning of baser impulses into more lofty action but I think Epicurus' static pleasures is closer to the mark. Purely shortsighted hedonistic pursuits (and this is largely the character of child psychology, avoidance of pain, seeking pleasure, generally in the short term) are unsustainable, we become acclimated to them and it takes more and more of an experience to get the same pleasure from it.
By contrast I think most healthy and happy adults have a career or hobby or relationships that get better with time. I'm not sure I can find a paradigmatic case that you'd have experienced. Epicurus used friendship, the longer you've been friends with someone and the better you know them the more (in general) you enjoy their company. I think literature is perhaps a better example, most students have the technical ability to read Joyce or Eliot by the the time they enter highschool but we wouldn't expect them to get much out of it, it wouldn't be very enjoyable. But ask people who are well read and almost all of them will derive more satisfaction from Joyce than from whatever teen fiction is the flavor of the month. Sure there's a level of snobbery, reading Joyce signals something very different than harry potter but I don't think we can dismiss self-reporting based only on that (something had to happen to elevate some authors into high regard but not others). As you becomes better acquainted with English language literature you find reading it to be more and more pleasurable, subtlety that was previously lost is revealed.I've joked about you being a computer science major and the qualities associated with it multiple times, but there's some (a great deal, on average) truth to that. I recall asking you whether you had noticed that libertarians seemed to be over represented in your field and you stated CS majors tended to be aspies/autists or something of that nature. I also remember you posting pictures of a place you used to live in as a child, of the natural scenery, and remarked something like "Holy shit, did I really live here?". A later time you mentioned that you were the kind of child that was more interested in being on a computer than outdoors, I think you mentioned something related on the prior point about the place(s) you lived in as a child, that you didn't really appreciate it at the time. Now, what I'm getting at is, there are fundamental problems with theory of mind, of the limits of information and experience, but do you feel satisfied with the range and depth, the intensity, of emotion you're able to experience? Does it seem significantly stunted compared to others? Have you ever wondered whether you're experiencing things to the fullest extent possible, or at least some vague satisfactory degree. Like, have you seen people watching or participating in something, possibly been with others, and noticed that their emotional reactions seem to be much more frequent, stronger, and have a broader range?
I'm pretty satisfied with my range/intensity of emotional experience. I mean it's a balancing issue right? If you never experience emotional investment then that's anhedonia but with no emotional enhancement that would just be sobbing on the ground the next time you stub your toe or something. There are times when I wish I had a more intense experience (now and then I experience boredom that nothing seems to make better, sometimes I feel like I'm a little distant in relationships) and other times the opposite (my dad being in the hospital has been a rollercoaster, sometimes I'd like to just stop having an opinion on the situation) but on the whole it seems like a good balance.
I think removal of an emotional enhancement is an interesting way of characterizing the psychedelic experience. It explains both "things feeling new again"/greater emotional impact as well as the bad trip experience (negative experiences being similarly amplified). Also the whole regression towards childhood thing. Pet theory for sure, but I think it fits well. And I mean I love tripping but I couldn't deal with that all the time, aside from simply making it difficult to meet survival demands I think there are intrinsically valuable experiences that you just can't have when you're not at least a little detached from the here and now.What this is leading up to, an old time favorite of mine, one of my fascinations: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/...og_post_about/
Have you ever done a NSI-189 cycle? It looks like it's available and you've talked about it a lot. What was your experience?Other benefits noted as well. Just wide ranging anti-depressant effects that could even benefit people who don't qualify for a diagnosis. Internal monologue, negative thought patterns, rumination, optimism, energy/drive, mental clarity, cognitive endurance etc. There's also the very interesting option of using it to "reprogram" behavior. It could be used to rapidly accelerate the acquisition of skills, for the purpose of self-improvement, to change aspects of yourself you dislike and would like to change/improve.
I poked through some reddit threads you posted before (or maybe I found them in searches) but it seems like a number of people report some level of cognitive impairment and concentration issues. Is this a common side effect? Have there been any systematic human trials? -
2015-12-10 at 7:01 AM UTC in Have you ever crywanked?No, but crywank is severely underrated
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2015-12-10 at 6:38 AM UTC in Best decade of music... ... ... ?2010s.
80s was easily the worst decade of popular music in the west but there were some cool experimental things going on so it wasn't a total wasteland. -
2015-12-10 at 3:50 AM UTC in How did Niggas In Space come about?
So where is everyone? They decided to fuck off for good or just don't know about this place? Or is my guess as good as anyone's?
Hard to say. There wasn't a lot of time between idio announcing rdfrn was going to bite the big one and it going offline so I'm sure some people just missed the connection there, but then rdfrn already was fairly slow moving. I'm sure some said fuck it and didn't want to jump to yet another site at each and every juncture since totse. -
2015-12-10 at 3:11 AM UTC in IIT: we recommend eachother technical and cyber security books.The only book I own that pertains to security stuff is Handbook of Applied Cryptography, which is largely a reference volume although the first chapter is an excellent introduction to crypto even for a total novice. It's really invaluable in implementing crypto when you have to and teaches a lot about how things can go wrong. Not something you'd probably read cover to cover, but reading up on the handful of algorithms you see day to day (MD5 and SHA families, AES, and RSA most likely) is interesting and worthwhile.
I think that Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist is the second best introduction to programming ever penned (first has to go to SICP of course and while less interesting than The Little Schemer it ultimately wins out in terms of being more accessible). It presents a view of programming that you don't outgrow at the point you write your first large program (unlike the vast majority of introductory material) and, while a cliche remark, it really does focus on the underlying ideas rather than the brute mechanics of shuffling data around, syntax and such.
For general CS knowledge, I think Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, better known as "The Dragon Book" is a really fundamental text. For a number of reasons compilers embody a lot of the classical problems in computer science. I think at the point a person could be put in a room and write a simple compiler without a reference (beyond like their implementing language's reference material) is the point where they graduate from "beginner" to "capable of solving any solved problem", like not necessarily research level but competent enough that no problem with a known solution would be impossible for them given enough time. I think a majority of professional programmers probably couldn't pass that hurdle.
And finally P&H's Computer Organization and Design is considered the canonical book on processors from the programmer's perspective. I'm not sure how it would do as reading material on its own, it's a really dense book. I read it in the context of a pair of courses in school, both of which I consider among maybe 5 courses I took over my college career that really made the whole four year thing worth it. Anyway, P&H really digs down into the low level mechanics of a processor and some really fascinating automated optimization techniques (which I think are a lot more valuable as takeaways than "hey, I can write fizzbuzz in assembly"). A must read for people who want to know "what's really going on", if only as a cure to that illness. The complexity of even the simple CPUs presented in P&H teaches the important lesson of when to shut up and trust the magical abstractions as though they were divinely imparted immutable and atomic elements of the universe itself. -
2015-12-09 at 7:06 AM UTC in 2 reasons why I haven't been hanging with you niggersLol, not even hating but that chick in the pics is old and doesn't even make it into my milf realm. Like she may have a great personality or something (although I have my doubts about women who are into motorcycles) but on looks alone she's not winning any competitions braj.
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2015-12-09 at 6 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
This is what I'm afraid of becoming: https://www.reddit.com/user/Isochroma-Reborn
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Sounds legit. So how will you know if you've become like this nigga? Like if I told you today that this is what you're like you wouldn't believe me, but if you were that far gone you wouldn't be able to tell anyway. It's like the classic fear of being retarded, you could never find definite evidence in favor of such a hypothesis but you couldn't deny it either, you're left to eternally wonder if you've slipped beyond the point of no return with no way of ever knowing. Scary shit mang -
2015-12-09 at 5:30 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
@Lanny
Not sure if I've mentioned this before, there are so many things I'm aware of even I can't keep track of everything at this point (I also suspect that treating autism spectrum disorder symptoms may also diminish some of the benefits), but have you read about theacrine? It seems to be an interesting alternative to caffeine, and I remember you stating that it works very well for you as a functional stimulant, if only it weren't for the tolerance, and this seems to function very similarly, except without the tolerance buildup. At the very least you may be able to cycle it with caffeine and could manage to have the benefits every day without any significant tolerance. Only downside is that caffeine is cheap as hell, so on a relative basis this is much more expensive, although the daily cost shouldn't be an issue for anyone well off.
Haven't heard of it but it sounds cool, I may give it a shot. I haven't found much room for stims in my schedule of late, I kinda inverted my work schedule. I used to do all my serious work during the day (11am-8pm) and just dinked around in the evening but since I switched jobs a few months ago, although the new one is easier and pays way better, it's not very challenging so I kinda just fuck around during the day and do all my interesting work at night. Which sadly means it's hard to go on the stimulant fueled work rampages I used to love so much, I end up just not sleeping. I've thought about getting disciplined and waking up 8 hours before I have to be at my job and doing my serious work then but I find I really do better sleeping late even when controlling for every other factor I can. I wonder how bad it would be to stim up at like 8pm and knock myself out with etiz or something around 1am a couple of days a week. Probably pretty bad but it still sounds like fun.Starting second job tomorrow goodbye life
Why are you picking up a second job? Something specific you want to save for or is it just necessary to make ends meet? -
2015-12-09 at 5:06 AM UTC in You're locked in jail cell and have to listen to one smash mouth song on a loopHEY NOW
YOUR A ROCK STAR
GET UR GAYME ON
GOOO PLAYYY -
2015-12-09 at 5:02 AM UTC in What Games Are You Currently Playing
First one. I picked up the saga in the current GOG sale and thought I'd try it out. The sound assets suck and the graphics are nothing special, but the gameplay and story are solid.
I want to try out Jeff Vogel's other work, except for Avadon (because I hear it's casual as fuck). I was looking at Nethergate on Steam a few days ago and thinking it would be great if it went on sale soon. Was checking out the sale offers last night, and there was Nethergate, so I bought it.
Just don't like paying full price. I always regret it when I later see the game on sale.
Yeah, Jeff is pretty cool although I think Geneforge is his best stuff (2 is the pinnacle IMO but opinions differ) I can definitely see why people love Avernum, it was just never my cup of tea. All of his games have shit-tier graphics/audio but that's part of what makes them fun, I actually think as he's upgraded to sprites and stuff over the years the writing has fallen off a bit (I remember this one level in GF1 where the description near the beginning is like "the ground slopes upwards to the northeast" but it was put really well and of course the engine doesn't support anything but perfectly flat maps but just from the way it was described and the way enemies came after you I had the uncanny sensation of slogging my way up a hill).
Avadon was fun despite its flaws. It was well balanced but it also meant you never wondered into an area where you got your ass kicked and had to run away, which is a canonical experience for spiderweb games so I can see why people would call it casual. If it's on sale for a few bucks I'd say it's worth picking up although I can sympathize with its critics. -
2015-12-08 at 5:30 AM UTC in I found hella pills while couch spelunkinnnnnn
HAI4U!!!
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2015-12-08 at 5:27 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
He's a child molester and rapist?
Yeah, that's a development. A word to the wise hydro, if that's provable then you have nothing to worry about but if you get caught in a lie, or something you can't prove, in a custody battle then all you've done is hurt yourself. The fact that your husband left, he's not clearly the biological father, and that you're the mother all make a potential custody case weigh strongly in your favor but if you come off as a liar then it's anybody's guess who the kid lands with. Also not that I really have room to give advice but if he wants the kid them maybe that's an opportunity to patch things up. I'm not one of those people who think kids need a father (or a mother, one or the other will, empirically, do) to be healthy/normal but it sounds like the economic situation is such that another parent/income would result in positive life outcomes for your kid. Not just the typical socio-economic signals (although significant, piano lessons vs. playing unorganized basketball or whatever has a statistically significant effect on rates of criminal conviction, income) but being able to spend more undistracted time with your kid (there are a number of studies supporting the correlation between reading ability and the number of words a kid hears. Social isolation and anti-social behaviour starts in infancy).
If your husband really is abusive you shouldn't have anything to do with him, but if the struggle is "incompatible personalities" or whatever(a perfectly valid reason to not want anything to do with a person, but you need to think about the counterbalance of the shared interest in your child) then you should consider coming to a compromise purely in terms of risk/reward. Poor is better than abused, but middle class and raised by loveless parents is probably still better than poor. -
2015-12-08 at 4:30 AM UTC in whirr dropped from their record label for transphobic remarksYeah, when
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dropped back in 2013 it was all the rage with my circle of friends who were into music. The vocals aren't really my cup of tea but the instrumentals are great. -
2015-12-08 at 3:42 AM UTC in What Games Are You Currently Playing
Geneforge. Also, Risen (when it doesn't crash) and Neverwinter Nights. It's RPG season.
Oh man, geneforge is one of my favorite games of all time. Which one are you playing?
I'm on a spree of pirated mediocre AAA titles, Dying Light and FO4 mostly. FO4 is better than I thought it was going to be although it sure has shit-tier perf for a game with negligibly better graphics than its predecessor which came out like 5 years ago. Might start into DA Cisquisition as well just for shits and giggles. -
2015-12-08 at 3:35 AM UTC in whirr dropped from their record label for transphobic remarksWow, that is bullshit. I'm surprised too, Run For Cover is a pretty cool label, guess you never know when someone's gonna go full SJW on you.
Well I'm still going to be following whirr around the bay, transphobic or not (and it seems like they actually aren't).
