wait people think the bathroom should be the same room as living/sleeping/cooking? what the actual fuck. like that could kinda almost work (not really) with literally one person in this multi-function room, but having families or groups live in something like that is just asking for increased risk of SV/SA imo. your horny uncle should not get to watch his niece shit. teenagers need private spaces to experiment with masturbation. a significant portion of adults and adolescents with a penis likely wake up with a rock hard erection in the morning, you should not have to go through that in the same bed or room as the rest of your extended family. i’m glad i’m not on twitter.

based kim training the populace to be ninjas with comically difficult anime training regimens (pulling trains, strapped to missiles, forced to hunt rats for survival, etc.)

yea, especially for military models of historical and real stuff.

even if i were to accept that, it only moves the goalposts of understanding linguistically. what is the soul made of? where is it? how does it interact with our body? these questions make sense whether you use the word ‘soul’ or ‘consciousness’, and regardless of your ontology

yes, i definitely feel that as someone that loves offroad vehicles and racing in general

hmm now why might a country like america need a bunch of air support so far from its borders all the time? most other countries seem to get along fine with only one or two carriers or none at all…

thats basically already what they are, most aircraft carriers have at least one other level on the inside where aircraft are stored and maintained, and there is usually a big paved elevator platform to move aircraft between the flight deck and the interior hangars

this seems true for pretty much any male-dominated hobby, men ruin everything they form communities around. its true for games, guns, history, military, sci fi, martial arts, metal music, anime, etc… how do straight men even stay attracted to straight women, they gatekeep each other out of their hobbies (or rather, men gatekeep both women from ‘men’s hobbies’ and men from ‘women’s hobbies’), idk how any straight couple survives without shared interests other than fucking. like the stereotypical boomer couple doesn’t do anything together except eat.

also his ukraine takes

materialism resolves into animism when analyzed closely

humans = complex physical processes from whence ‘human minds’ arise as an emergent property

in other words, when a physical phenomena becomes complex enough, or has a structure of a certain type, it is capable of producing the ‘immaterial’ (in the sense that ‘information’ is immaterial, or is ‘the same information’ regardless of its physical instantiation in different media) phenomena we call ‘thought’ or ‘mentation’

its a main facet of materialism that mental phenomena supervene upon/arise from/are equivalent to physical phenomena, are only instantiated in the form of physical processes

now compare the relative complexity, in terms of information processing instantiated in the form of physical processes, of a human and, say, The Sun

is The Sun any less complicated, in all its detailed particle movements, than a human brain? Sure, the structure is vastly different, but there remain regularities (homeostasis, even) in a dynamic physical process.

Is there any real reason to say, then, that consciousness (in its material conception as a physical process or emergent property of such) can only arise from one kind of physical phenomena (human/earth animal brains/nervous systems) and no other? What, specifically, about the earth animal nervous system differentiates it from EVERY SINGLE OTHER PHYSICAL PROCESS in this sense of ability to generate consciousness? What about the physics of the human brain would ever imply anything like the rich inner life we have, any more than a plant or a rock or a vibrating quantum field or a calculator or empty vacuum?

If one special physical process can mysteriously generate the phenomenon of consciousness, in a way that is difficult to verify in others in an objective sense even with verbal self-reports, how can we say whether any other physical process can generate this phenomenon or something like it?

like any good marketing campaign they have content for every target demographic lol

on the 360 playing battlefield bad company i assumed terrain destruction and stuff would be the norm in the future and maps would be a lot bigger with more people, i was too stupid to realize that the most important part of gaming is that the graphics get un-noticeably, incrementally better over time without any fundamental changes to gameplay or possible art styles, everything must be bland and ‘photorealistic’ or else it must be Fortnite. I used to assume a good game would get a sequel in a year or two and have significance game improvements, now i wait a decade or more to get the exact same game but with higher resolution and frame rate and new microtransactions

to be fair Kojima is probably a Trotskyist, there’s a whole radio monologue by Ocelot about how ‘this flag doesn’t mean anything here’ if you call while looking at the USSR flag in MGSV

its not so much praised for being full throated communist propaganda as much as for not being full throated imperialist propaganda. its leagues better than a james bond film because in MGS3 they explicitly avoid anti-communist or anti-soviet talking points, the BBEG Volgin is a rogue actor and the USA and international capital (in the form of the Patriots and the Philosophers Legacy fund) ends up being basically responsible for everything that happens. ANY other game in the same setting and themes would take the chance to be super anti-communist and anti-soviet.

MGS2 and 4 and PW are actually super based though.

the alpha dominates, sports players only follow their coach/alpha’s orders. the alpha is the guy that owns the team, not the guy playing for it

i hate this pseudoscience ideology and that i understand it

hes fantasy batman crossed with forest gump, a mary sue ‘the best ever at fighting’ character and master detective who ‘tries to stay out of politics’ but ends up being involved in every important thing that ever happens anywhere, and gets the opportunity to fuck every woman mage in the land. every person in the setting that isn’t also a witcher or a mage rightfully sees him as an inhuman monster, it does the x-men thing where it portrays the superhuman monster-people as ‘oppressed minorities’, meanwhile accidentally justifying their oppression by making them actually materially physically very dangerous to those around them. early in the 3rd game these 3 human guys will team up on the witcher for making a politically controversial statement, expecting a bit of a scuffle or fist fight brawl, and he decapitates them all with his superhuman sword skills. they were unarmed.

EXACTLY

i’ve never gotten ‘fun’ or ‘satisfaction’ out of beating a difficult videogame, even when i beat MGS3, which is one of my favorite games of all time, on the European Extreme difficulty, i just get that ‘thank goodness i don’t have to do that anymore’ vibe like i got done with a particularly unpleasant chore.

i will never beat a dark souls game. i could, but it would be (and has been so far) a joyless slog of grinding for resources so that i can make any new weapons or armor i find actually worth using. getting new items isn’t fun, it only means awkwardly travelling to whatever region has enemies that drop the most titanite shards and spending hours battling enemies in a region you finished hours ago just so that the new item does more than a pittance of damage. plus i really really expected elden ring to have any kind of climbing, even a simple ledge-clamber, after sekiro’s ninja-parkour, and instead all we got was a useless crouch button and a less flavorful jumping mechanic. they’ve essentially been re-releasing the same game with a different map since demon’s souls. overrated trash series, from software should have stuck to armored core games imo and i’m only partially saying that because i am obsessed with mechs. i would rather play EVE online and i hate spreadsheets.