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2015-08-15 at 6:14 AM UTC in ATTN: Crazy Mike(Or anyone that wants to make a simple game)
I would download it as it looks pretty cool/fun but I honestly dont trust any piece of software you guys link to. Pass me the source code and if it looks good ill compile it myself but other than that I am sure this is either an NSA backdoor or your own back door into my hard drive.
Lol, do you have any idea what a "backdoor" looks like or how to find one ithe source of a large project? -
2015-08-15 at 6:08 AM UTC in ur so cool with ur little trianglesWhoooooooooooo are you? Whoopoookoooiiiiiiuoooo are you. Man, the who are a shitty band.
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2015-08-15 at 4:20 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
or, you could be sitting in a fancy italian villa and enjoy the illusion of working in a shithole cubicle
Lol, I wouldn't rule it out. I mean it's trivial to think of examples of people longing for what is objectively a lower quality of life. We've romanticised the agrarian lifestyle to the point that the idea of owning a small ranch or farm and living off that actually seems desirable despite the fact it has effectively 0 chance of making people happier and has historically always been a relatively hellish existence when compared to the luxury of the life of a modern professional.https://lockedinprism.bandcamp.com/a...n-not-delusion
new album, put alot of effort into it, can u guys check it out, free of course, full instrumentation n shit
Nice mang, you definitely are improving. I liked some of your earlier stuff in a sorta ironic way but this album actually has some nice riffs/fuzz in it that I'd be like "yeah, that's cool" if I just stumbled on it. What's your split in terms of time spent on recording vs. mixing? What do you use to stitch the tracks together?That isn't realistic yet anyway.
It has to do with hardware requirements. Without foveated rendering they're just unrealistic to achieve mass appeal, which would cause VR to flounder for a while, or at least achieve much slower growth than it could have. Regardless, resolution is only part of the picture, there are multiple aspects that can increase visual quality and immersion without it.
Why do you say that? I mean good hardware support would help make it feasible on lower end GPUs (I mean still kinda high end GPUs imaginably but it expands the market regardless) but if it's the visual effect you're after you can shim it in at the fragment shader if you really want.There's a problem with reading fine text in VR right now, so it would really be a terrible idea, for now.
I mean the obvious issue for oculus is the lack of resolution. Do you mean a more general issue with any VR setup? Because that would be interesting, and a link appreciated. But I tend to think that with a retina-level resolution at that viewing distance you could do screen-on-screen simulation without too much difficulty although I obviously haven't tried it. Like I'm sure there are a dozen clever hacks you could pull to improve the experience/performance, but even a naive approach should be sufficient at sufficient resolution.Life has no inherent meaning, I am unable to find satisfactory subjective value. Of course that doesn't make me feel better.
Have you ever seriously engaged with the works of any existentialist philosopher? If you don't mind something a little dry I'd suggest Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism or Camus' The Stranger or The Myth of Sisyphus (the former is a novel, the latter an essay. The Stranger is probably more fun to read but more cryptic/open to interpretation than Sisyphus). You should also make an effort to avoid complecting politics in the equation (Sartre was largely a communist, Camus rejected communism and that came through in The Stranger and Heidegger (another famous existentialist) joined the nazi party during WWII so the mindset kind runs the gamut of political positions. I'm not saying it's going to change your life or whatever but I think the works from that movement are interesting, firstly, and secondly the classical existentialists do a really excellent job of, at least, cataloging and recognizing the anguish of an honest confrontation with modern society and it's issues but also giving us a way of thinking about our situation in honestly and without self delusion and still finding some solace or even happiness in it. -
2015-08-15 at 3:36 AM UTC in While I was away I put together a website featruring nostalgapornSaw "nostalgia porn" and was expecting some vintage bushy porn clips and shit. Not really my gig but neither is jerking off over a story of how america used to be that in many ways never even existed so I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or not.
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2015-08-15 at 3:32 AM UTC in Cooking Ethiopian for the First TimeI fucking love ethiopian food, if you've never had it you should give it a try. Hate the niggers all you want, but these particular niggers cook some grade A stuff. Even slave owners had their slaves prepare their meals so even the most racist among you should be able to give the stuff a try.
Anyway, I wanted to try making it myself for kicks. The biggest hurdle was finding teff flour which is the main ingredient in making injera (that spongy sour bread that all the other stuff is served on). Had to make the hike to whole foods and fight my way through the hordes of hipsters to get some but by god I did it (and as it all trips to whole foods I didn't manage to make it out with just what I went in for, sigh). Now I gotta see if making this shit actually works, excited to give it a try. To start I'm just making Yekik Alchia which is split peas in a turmeric sauce since it didn't require an insane number of spices I didn't have like many of the other dishes I looked at but if it goes well I'm going to try to working up to being able to make a few of the typical stews/sauces/whatever that you find in restaurants for a more kinda authentic vibe.
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2015-08-15 at 3:21 AM UTC in Pork - the most politically incorrect of all meatsBefore I take the time to respond to that video I just want to ask you if you really think it demonstrates an internal inconsistency in ethical vegetarianism?
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2015-08-15 at 3:11 AM UTC in Python Based, Multi-pass encoder & Heuristic Sandbox AV evasion tool.Cool stuff mang, I was looking over the source code. One of the things it talks about is "carving out a code cave", when in the source means walking over the binary and looking for long runs of null bytes. Is 0x00 x86's NOP instruction or is something else going on there? I have a decent understanding of processor design/assembly but I've never worked with x86 specifically.
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2015-08-15 at 2:59 AM UTC in I hate it when I pay more than I have to for something.
Women are idiots who buy whatever the jedis are selling.
Having had many jedi friends in highschool I have to say that at least in that age range I think the opposite is the case. I've seen damn smart men brought low by unfortunate looks and any women who would give them attention. -
2015-08-15 at 2:49 AM UTC in Pork - the most politically incorrect of all meatsAs it goes the pork industry is actually considerably more ethical than poultry. In general larger animals require fewer fatalities to satisfy demand and battery hens undoubtedly has the most horrible existence of just about anything in the meat industry. I can't speak to how pigs are raised in general but I understand they require fewer non-recycled resources to raise than cows so from the ethical vegetarian's perspective pork is actually a fairly "politically correct" meat, at least relative to other north american mainstays.
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2015-08-14 at 4:10 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionOculus fucked up with the mediocre resolution, makes solid simulation of computer screens basically impossible which would be an amazing application. Imagine a desktop with some shitty $20 CRT you use for booting and as soon as you got it running you could fire up a simulation of like a 6 array of virtual desktops or something. You could be in some shitty cubicle or something but enjoy working and web browsing or whatever in a fancy italian villa or at the top of a newyork high rise or something.
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2015-08-14 at 7:21 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition"I'm, the dour in dowry,
I'm your boyfriend"
I saw two pieces of graffiti on my way to work today. The first was "The G8 Nations are approaching final judgment, the USA is fucked" and the second was "I <3 pussy" where <3 was a heart shape. I saw the first and legitimately wanted to punch the person who drew it, may not kill them but fucking hurt them at least. Doomsday thinking is what can fuck out civilization more than any actual meaningful event.The second made me laugh. The raw, crude, honest expression seemed authentic. I walked past a young woman shortly after, a few inches shorter than me, blonde hair, sun glasses and a long patterned skirt. I thought to myself "watchout blood, some nigga loves pussy and he'd prolly love yours too" as I walked past her. I like that dumb faggots who draw shit on random surfaces somehow have an ability to impose themselves on my consciousness, it's a nice refreshing change from a world in which I increasingly control my situation. Some of the wealthiest men in this city still have to walk by and see "I love pussy" on their way to work to lord over hundreds of thousands of employees they think they control for money just as I have to in order to lord over my tiny dominion.
Damn, I'd almost be a democrat if only I were a little dumber. -
2015-08-14 at 7:05 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
for real. memantine is great. The only nootropic I've found to actually do what it claims.
this lol, although I started about the time you did and I'm still on a 5mg dose and still feeling the effects. Malice has claimed human variation for dose differences, I'm obviously only one data point, but I suspect the typical alzheimer's protocol is just about the optimum for relatively healthy adults. -
2015-08-14 at 7:02 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition@golum
I've been looking for a sustainable sleep aid for like years, nothing you can reliably get works very well but by sticking a bunch of shit together you can make it work pretty well. Valerian is the best thing I've found for regular use and making you feel drowsy and able to sleep baring anything interfering but it isn't really strong enough to knock you the fuck out like you sometimes need. Melatonin is pretty dope in the sense that it make you feel pretty sleepy within an hour of taking it (good combo with valerian) and keeps you down for a while but the downsides are that if you have to wake up before 8-10 hours you feel groggy as a motherfucker and if you take it too regularly it makes some people depressed as all fucking hell (I've never in my life contemplated suicide so seriously as when I took melatonin every day for a week, I was in a blunted daze for like a week afterwards). I keep a benzo (etzi, but I'm sure other would work) on hard for when you really need to sleep but it's just not happening and a good indica ("good" being the important part here, bottom shelf shit doesn't do the trick, if you're paying less than $15 a gram (medical prices) you're probably not getting what you need), which is useful for when you're somewhere between the regular and "gotta fucking sleep or else, benzos take my soul" kind of nights.You can also pick up some zzzquil OTC, it's never done much for me but then some people are just non-responders, just beware you can't take it on any regular basis, gotta cycle it with other shit.
@PoC
What psychedelics have you tried? First time I tried an LSD analogue was a few months ago and I've had an enduring sense of a nebulous "purpose" or just generalized well being since then (although I've tripped fairly frequently since). Like I used to think the whole "a trip shows you what you need to see" idea was kinda BS but in my experience a good trip really does bring up the greatest objects of obsession in my mind and present a unique opportunity to confront and resolve them. My experience with depression is pretty limited and it can definitely be uncomfortable sometimes but I figure if you've been living with that shit for so long a crazy ass trip, even the worst trip you could have, to see what you can see can't be that bad relative to what the day-to-day has been.What a painful character to listen to, at least I keep myself away from people and don't say anything, but I don't think I'm naturally nearly that bad.
Haha, I know that feel mang. When I see characters in shows and shit (or even real people) doing neurotic/autistic/whatever shit I can't help but imposing myself on them and feeling a kind of sympathetic shame. It's bad, just makes me tense my muscles and vaguely want to run from the room. Sometimes I'll feel an impulse to tease/bully people I see doing things I think "I'd do that if I were alone/less self conscious" and it's pretty hard to stop. It's like that scene in fruits basket about hating people who remind you of your own flaws or whatever.Should have the opium within two weeks. It really is incredible that such a large percentage of the population lacks the capacity for a such a simple process. Would you like to try some, Lanny? You would have to wait at a specific time and place on your knees with your mouth open and eyes closed, within 20 seconds a stranger you will never see will drop the solution, enough for a very enjoyable evaluation, into your mouth. You will have to trust that they will now poison you. You don't think I would do that, do you?
I don't think you would poison me and would _almost_ be willing to bet my life on it but considering how trivial it would be to but some god damned opium I would never do it. Money is cheap mang, life is costly.Things have begun to chill out here some. Getting the MIL's health issues squared away so she can work more. Other than that been working alot myself. my old therpaist I told you guys about left and my new one is ok but not nearly as young. :(
New therapist is also a chick? Just out of curiousity what would you think of a guy therapist, would you talk to them?
I was thinking about it and like I tend to associate like "good listening skills" (lol) and empathy and stuff with women so I feel like a gal would be better as a therapist but I mean I'm faggy enough to give a guy a shot if that's who ended up being my shrink. -
2015-08-14 at 5:42 AM UTC in "Name Whiskers"
Speaking of PI, I'm drinking a Keystone Light and I'm 31 years old.
There's a guy at work who I work with who actually went to school with me and we got hired at about the same time but he's in his early 30s but asian so it's hard to tell so it's always kinda weird reminder when it comes up that he's a decade older than me. Like he's chill but like the other day I asked him if he wanted to go to happy hour with some other people we work with and he was all like "nahh" and I was like "oh yeah, he's 30, he probably doesn't want to get shitfaced with some overpaid 20somethings". Anyway, the point here is being 30 is fine, just do you mangggggg -
2015-08-14 at 5:29 AM UTC in I hate it when I pay more than I have to for something.
You have the mentality of the jedi. Perhaps the reason you hate them is because you see so much of yourself in them, the parts you hate the most and wish to keep hidden, refuse to accept.
This lol, Iron John's jediness is almost startling at times. At the depths of his scathing reprisals his buried admiration and respect for jedis is made abundantly clear. The man would be dangerous had be not been born a goyim, I tell you what. -
2015-08-14 at 5:25 AM UTC in is everyone evil
See the thing is, i'd have a lot more sympathy for them if they didn't feel like they had the right to threaten me through the government, with imprisonment and even death(if i resist arrest) to further their redistributionist policies.
It's hard to imagine a way to advocate wealth redistribution that doesn't involve something that could be melodramatically described as "threats of imprisonment and even death". In fact it's hard to think of any policy, including pretty innocuous things like roads and public education, that don't involve implicit "threats of imprisonment and even death" to libertarians.Think about it for a second, when you're broke and you really, really need to pay your rent, do you go out in the streets robbing people at gunpoint? Or do you ask family and friends for support?
What is this question supposed to prove? If it were me personally I would, of course, go to my family and friends because I have those things (and because I don't think I could really rob a person a gunpoint), but if I didn't I guess I'd give it a whirl since I don't have anything else to lose and it's a pretty safe bet my life is worth more than other people get out of whatever I'd be able to steal from them.I agree 100% everyone should get what they want, but who's gonna' foot the bill? Money just doesn't magically appear out of no where. You also can't just simply turn the printing presses on because that will cause inflation at first and hyper-inflation should it continue unbridled.
Sure, material value definitely doesn't appear from nowhere. Like I said before, pouring money on people who will squander it is not a great plan for improving collective utility, but the question here is not "how do we get to where we want to be" but first "where do we want to be". I propose where we want to be is people being as happy as they can be, as opposed to getting what they "deserve" under the various quasi-moral-frameworks that we find on the right. We can not, at this point in history, give everyone everything they want. But we can do better or worse and it seems pretty clear to me that systems that obsess over "deserving" (which usually translates to a very specific and very western conception of property law) are less well equipped to maximize human well being than systems that have human well being as an explicit goal.Everyone deserves happiness and existence, but last time i checked no one was handing it to me on a silver platter, i have to work my ass off to provide food for myself, thereby ensuring my continued existence and possibly happiness. Point being, people make their own future. If you want to blow your entire salary on coke, that's fine, sure i have sympathy for the fact that you were not able to make a better choice for yourself but don't ask me to pay for your mistakes.
Again there's this mythos of what people "deserve". "I'm paying for someone else's mistakes" is just a framejob cooked up by the right. You latch onto examples like "someone blew their salary on coke and now I have to pay to support them". I don't support government funding of unproductive drug habits, that's just something that gets pinned on the left for no good reason. I support any program that has leads to an effective reduction in human suffering. The implicit premise of the (largely fictional) "welfare queen" situation is that supporting the less fortunate will somehow encourage people to impoverish themselves so they can rake in state benefits. Aside from by and large being a fantasy, this rhetoric is disingenuous because that's not what the left supports at all, and if you could demonstrate that was the case all but the most radical reaches for the left wing would back out of support of such policy.Sure, if it all was like you portray it to be, the simple fact of the matter is, you seem to have no clue as to what the right actually wants, believes, or cares about.
Where, exactly, have I made comment on what the right actually wants, believes, or cares about? I made a claim about those who accept deontological principles other than utility and caring but that's provable a priori, if you disagree I welcome you to challenge it with whatever argument you have. But by and large I refrain from making comment about what motivates others (except in jest) since it's by and large irrelevant. The important thing is if given policy helps or hinders human well being, and those are the terms I prefer to engage such discussions in rather than motives. -
2015-08-14 at 4:51 AM UTC in is everyone evil
It was an insult. You didn't get that?
I got that you were trying to be dismissive. I have you the benefit of the doubt, however, and assumed you wouldn't waste your time doing nothing more than insulting people on the internet who will, obviously, never take it to heart. I took you to be at least quasi-serious, my bad I guess. But I have to wonder why you replied to me if your first post wasn't meant to be taken seriously at all.what are you talking about going with my gut? the stuff I am saying is elemental to life in general, to being a human. all that socialist stuff is all made up, and pretty much an artifact of the 20th century. hopefully it stays there.
lol, what are you talking about? "all made up"? How exactly is anything in your ideology any less made up than in mine? What is the issue with being made up? It seems like just about anything we interact with these days (technology, social systems, man-made materials) is "made up" in some sense. It sort of sounds like you're just trying to back out of having to make a defensible argument at this point. -
2015-08-14 at 4:46 AM UTC in is everyone evil
That's simply due to the fact that you refuse to believe libertarian policies would be beneficial to society as a whole.
Wrong. If you could make a compelling case that libertarian policies really were the best way to maximize human well being then I'd happily support them. My commitment is to utilitarianism before leftism.
But can you say the same? If I could prove somehow that violating a policy of non-aggression is the best way to ensure the maximal well being of people on the whole, would be be willing to support such a policy? If your answer is no then it just proves my point.The libertarian school of thought is more than the NAP
I'm aware there's more to libertarianism than NAP but it is generally presented as an inviolable rule which is enough to make my point.also, it's not as if the NAP is some arbitrary rule some people came up with, it has a solid philosophical/ethical foundation, calling it dogmatic is disingenuous to say the least.
You've brought up Molyneux before, so I can't say there's literally no argument for Molyneux is hardly well respected in the field of ethics and besides his inability to garner general recognition in the academy I think even staunch libertarians will have a hard time reading his work can calling it an argument from first principles.Humor me for a second Lan, say tommorow it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that libertarian policies actually increase net human well-being. Will you then forsake your socialist ideology?
Like I said above, I would in an instant. And just so it's not forgotten, I'll reiterate my question, can you say the same? If it could be demonstrated beyond doubt that NAP would cause a net reduction in human well-being would you abandon it in favor of leftist principles? -
2015-08-14 at 3:36 AM UTC in is everyone evil
Lanny thinks that my ideas, the concept of people taking care of themselves, is ridiculous,
Wrong, I think that everyone making their own decisions in everything is suboptimal.and believes that humanity should be ruled by a class of intellectual elites, probably because he is highly intelligent and hopes to take his place among the overlords…
Based on what exactly? I have no desire to govern, in fact I have to actively work to avoid taking on the small amount of authority over others that I'm offered in the workplace. I advocate rule by the best but I'm under no delusion that I'm the best at anything really.yet his ideas fail every time they are tried
Which ideas when tried where? Show me a true aristocracy ruled by evidence-based decision making that's failed and I'll admit I was wrong. Protip: you can'tand mine are the way humanity has lived for tens of thousands of years.
Humanity rampantly raped, murdered, and died prematurely for tens of thousands of years. Do you really think early human history is a compelling case for a system of governance? -
2015-08-14 at 3:20 AM UTC in is everyone evil
I am not ok with 'control by the competent', and that is it. You advocate it, and that is it. There it is.
So then you admit that calling me a "subservient weenie" was just a pointless insult that wasn't based on anything? Good, I agree.As I said, it is a waste of time to discuss this with you, as you will just say things like 'but science and math!'
Where have I ever said anything that even approaches "but science and math!"? You're just putting words in my mouth now.These disciplines are ever-changing, and there are no absolutes, even in the ivory tower world. If I am going to be ruled by fallible humans, science or not, I would rather just trust my own judgement. I mean, our science and math overlord elites aren't going anywhere, and if I need their services, I can pay them to do so.
What are you even trying to say here? It's better to just go with your gut than like, try to reason your way to an answer? That's how we get cults and people who gamble their retirement at casinos and shit. If you want to deny the legitimacy of... everything that isn't your personal opinion then you can do that I guess but be advised it's historically been a pretty shitty approach to getting anything done.
