Hah, no. If anything it's the other way around: We need more people who have a clue, know their limitiations and the limitations of systems, to design stuff (not "be designers", which is for idiots) , and less asshats with dangerous half-knowledge like you.
So I say... what good can come of thinking about the end of the universe?
Uhm, enlightenment? Or at least a bit of irony?
a lingering misery and awareness that eventually, everything will be gone
Well, that's something to overcome, not something to avoid? I remember when I was a kid and realized I will die one day. I cried all night, thinking about all the cool planets humanity would visit some day, the aliens we might meet (that was long before I knew a lot about what beasts humans can be, and how unlikely we are to treat outer space and the peeps in it any better than our planet). And yes, this is more of the same, but worse, I can't even say "at least *someone* will always be there, even if it's not me".
To me it kinda boils down to that "having vs. being" thing. Yes, everything will end. Everything I could discover and relay will be forgotten. That takes away from what I can HAVE, but nothing from what I can BE. I cannot have fame, I cannot have a family extending unlimited in time, I cannot have possessions. But I can be who I am, whatever that is, just fine.
But hey, the universe will not outright *end* even if the heat deaht assumption is correct, it would probably just wind down without ever fully stopping. Whatever traces we leave, they will reverberate there. Who knows, there might even be life that slows down with it and becomes immortal that way, time being such a relative and personal thing. Who needs even supercomputers for that, life IS a supercomputer already:) And then there's always spirituality. What do I know if there is more than this universe? I don't, and I don't assume there isn't. But I assume that this material universe is finite and will end, that being attached to it is "wrong", at least for me.
I don't want false hope, I get that plenty from people in regards to everyday stuff... but when it comes to everything, nothing can come between me and what is. It doesn't make me unhappy at all, at least not anymore. If anything remembering it helps me take a step back and relax sometimes. "This too shall pass", you know? (Couldn't find the Chuck Berry song of that title, so enjoy this instead if you don't already know it)
It doesn't benefit us to know that one day everything will be goneâ"as long as there is another day in sight, we should work to make that day a bright one.
I actually agree, and that's a beautiful way to put it. For me that's a personal choice I made, not something objective. Like, "Life has no meaning, so I give it meaning X". I liken it to being trapped somewhere: you know oxygen is going to run out in 24 hours, so you might as well have a party and tell stories, instead of clawing at each other and the exit which doesn't exist.
But that's just, like, my opinion, man. I cannot objectively argue against nihilism, and I don't see a need to for myself. I think it's perfectly fine for pretty snowflakes to appear out of and disappear into nothingness. I enjoy it while I exist, and when I don't, not existing will not bother me either. And in a way this makes everything even more mind boggling and beautiful. That life exists and does all these things even though there's really no point, to me is way more beautiful than the arms race that evolution also can be seen as. I mean sure, some flowers are pretty, but that's really just so they live, and the more bland flowers die. So, how pretty exactly is a battleship, knowing why it's shaped that way?
I'd rather consider it a ballet, abstract art; not actual war that will lead to actual victory and actual loss. The spoils of the victor are merely that they will loose the most, when they finally have to check out. I can kinda get behind that. There's this Italian proverb: "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." I love it to bits, because it's not only true, because it throws
How is it trolling if I genuinely believe that calling this stuff "drones" is sucking murderer dick AT BEST, and that calling them unnmanned aerial vehicles is idiotic in any case?
You haven't even got the faintest clue what would constitute trolling, you just know it's an easy defense. Instead of dealing with what I said, make up a motivation for me saying it that allows you to weasel out.
The same goes for "flamebait": I don't pretend to despise you guys just to evoke a reaction, I truly think you're shit, basically. And deep down you know I have a point. "Your butthurt thing", it's so on cue. And even if I call it beforehand, you think you can say "this isn't being butthurt" while being butthurt. It's amazing.
If you are so concerned about drones being used write your Congressman
I'm not even American, you clown. And I think it's past writing letters anyway. Without civil (and hey, even military) disobedience America is fucked dead. I don't know what kind of rock you're living under but that's pretty much public knowledge since the circus you pulled after 9/11. I have plenty of crap in my country, naturally, and you know what I do when I have problems with newspeak stuff? I DON'T USE IT. And I laugh/bitch at people who do. Like, I address the problem where I find it.
As I did just know. And you don't like it, so you want to redirect me to something that does not address that problem at all. My problem with you lot is you being bootlickers, and if your administration changed without you overcoming that, you'd still be bootlickers in spe, nothing would have been solved at all.... while you stopping to be bootlickers would probably change a lot of things, and would make them more bearable until then.
And likewise: if you have such a problem with the questions I raised, why read it? The problem you have, your own stupidity, can much more easily avoided. Me ignoring extrajudicial killings isn't going to make them stop at all, so I prefer to call bootlickers out. That won't stop it either but at least I feel slightly less dirty for being ya'lls contemporary.
Oh, and tinfoil hat? You're just playing idiot bingo, aren't you.... so you're not even AWARE of the shit that is public knowledge, hasn't got shit to do with conspiracy theories, and is happening on your dime? You see, there is being ignorant, and there is being actively ignorant, which kind of makes one guilty of the things one chooses to ignore. Wouldn't want to be in your position, at all.
You'd have to give me citations there, because anything I could find on wikipedia and elsewhere doesn't tell me that at all. As far as I can tell a drone is a remote controlled flying thing. As in, RC. No constraints about wether it's controlled by onboard circuits, an external pilot, and no requirement of feeding back specific signals either. Thanks for at least trying though.
Where is the conspiracy though? What of this is even slightly controversial? You're basically confirming my point by spazzing out and think that refutes it. Nice going there.
And I was asking. I am fully aware that it's more likely that people, as they do, instead of fighting something they should fight, turn it into a thing and a fad, a meme. I actually stated that possibility in my post. But that's no good for the purpose of your spazzing out and running away with a strawman, right? So good riddance to you transparent dumb fuck; next.
Last millenium weq had RC planes and shit. Why call them drones now? Is that to give legitimacy to extrajudicial killings, or is it to derive coolness from them? It's one thing or the other, that's for fucking sure, so tell me. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is such a needy and funny thing to call it... you mean like a paper airplane? Or a helium balloon? WTF people. Oh, and this is bad enough without dragging your kid into it, btw. Just a thought. Now do your butthurt thingy where you mod me down as flamebait or troll, you know you wanna ^^
As somenoe who has been a gamer since childhood, who sometimes plays multiplayer games, who has seen a video or two on youtube, I have to say this made me laugh and nod. Fuck em if they can't take the truth ^^
I'm still not sure if this is a really sad display of irony or the most genius troll I ever encountered... and reading your post again, it kinda sounds like what *really* pisses you off about this is that it happened before Christmas?
Seriously though, society includes all people. This and other killers (not to mention, war and starvation...?! Hey wait a second... what planet are you posting this from, and can I come?) kind of prove right there that we don't live in a great society. We live in a rather sick one. And you don't get to declare people to be outside of society just because they're inconvenient and you would rather not be associated with them. It's all or nothing, and if you wanna "opt out", take your own medicine. It's really not hard to figure out that there is a lot of abuse going on the in mental health sector, and while that certainly doesn't justify a rampage, or taking it out on any "bystanders" in any shape or form for that matter, it IS an injustice, and it IS hurting people, and usually those who can not defend themselves. So your last sentence, "how dare you threaten to hurt others", taken in that context, is kind of a cruel joke. Such fantasies and acting them out ultimately are more a sign of desperation in my books than a power trip. I can't speak to this case, but I know that on a small scale lashing out happens when people are (or feel) cornered. That is not to justify it, but if you want to prevent things you absolutely need to try to understand how they come to be.
But instead you'd rather get revenge, point fingers at a dead murderer as if that is any fucking help. In a way you're peeing on the grave of these kids to get your little shitty fix of self-righteousness. Oh look at me, I'm not a psycho mass murderer, I'm so great. Well fuck you, haha! I know/hope you won't like hearing this, but while people like that killer just shock me, and leave me confused (how could someone..? why would they..?!), you actually fucking *disgust* me. I feel more pity for them than for you. Because I know and understand where you are coming from, and I know how mediocre and evil it is. And since I'm somewhat adult I pray for the age where all that idiocy has been flushed down the toilet; wither to make way for a golden age or the end of all things, I don't care, but you lot fucking suck, that is sure.
...also, invoking the heat death of the universe is seriously Godwinning the discussion. It is not useful to talk about things on that timescale.
How is it useful to talk about things on any other timescale? For what definition of "useful"? What are we trying to achieve here, what is the use of the discussion? To find truth?
The whole system is incredible when considered as a whole
It's amazing how you can say that right after stating that actually considering the whole is not "useful for the discussion":(
As to your notion of giving back, well, if you're talking evolution, you can't help but give back. Even existing in a catatonic state is participating. You don't even need to live; all mass in the universe attracts all other mass. Also, how do predators figure into all that? If a lion killing infant or hurt animals is okay, why is a deranged mass murderer any different? And yes, I'm totally playing devil's advocate. I personally agree with most of what you said, and think that loving all lifeforms is a great way to pass the time; just with the addendum of "not because it's the actual, objective point of it all, but because it's the best I heard or experienced so far".
"Passing the time" brings me back to the heat death of the universe: just because none of us will experience it, it's theoretically possible that sentient beings will. And exactly in your sense of giving back, of giving a fuck as it were, I try to ponder that, even though it's idiotic, because nothing still alive by then will have any resemblance to anything I could think. But I do it anyway, because why not.
And because I like to be extreme when I'm extrapolating, I then consider two possible histories: one of greed, power and suffering -- in that case, the fact that it all ends no matter what is a relief. Not even Hitler 2000 wielding a Matrix Cube could be in power forever. All suffering will end at some point, all torture chambers turn to dust. In that scenario the time limit would be like a fail-safe.
The other history, the one we're all more or less hoping for, one of enlightenment, love and cooperation. In that scenario the heat death of the universe is rather sad, and would mean saying bye to a world full of peace and laughter and friendship. Hopefully "they" (it?) would cherish the memories and fade away without remorse, but one thing is sure, it's part of life, it's gonna happen one way or another. Why not share the grief, the acceptance, the gratitude involved in that? I can only do that while I live, by the time it happens I won't be here.
What would you say is a good time to think about the mortality of all things? A few thousand billion years before it happens? A few thousand years? The day before? Not ever? How about realizing and accepting it from day one? And that does not mean "not giving back" or "just enjoying yourself". It simply means understanding and integrating certain facts. Seeing it for what it is doesn't detract from existance at all. And because I love quotes so much, here's two from Marcus Aurelius:
Turn your body inside out like a piece of cloth, look how it is made from the inside and what it will be when age, sickness and debauchery have taken their toll on it! Of short duration are those who praise as well as those who are praised, those who remember and those who are remembered. And even that happens just in one corner of the world, and even there not everybody agrees with one another, a single person doesn't even agree with themselves. This whole Earth however is but a dot.
Heath death? Meh. This stuff is old as dirt. Speaking of old, the Old Testament has beautiful passages about this stuff, too. As does Fight Club, haha.
You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hyp
IQ is meaningless without the test that measured it. You cannot compare the IQ scores of two different tests. And frankly, I'm pretty sure peeps who devise these tests know it. The one I took in the 90s actually consisted of 7 or 8 scores, and the final IQ "result" was merely the average of them. So "bleh" to pretty much all of this, how is this news...
No sane person would murder small children out of the blue like that.
Not first hand. But order drone strikes or make boardroom decisions that have a orders of magnitude worse outcome? Null problemo. And what's a little food price hike here or there, or millions of dead people, right? Speculate away, Wall Street is just a bunch of boys having some harmless fun.
Wait, those aren't actually sane people... but they surely are accepted as sane by large chunks of their subjects. So excuse me while I see through that moral outrage as the farce that it is. When people diss the small time mass murderer, but ride the cocks of the big time 24/7 ones it's not morality, it's a tragic comedy.
If you give someone suicide as the only option, you're basically begging them to take you out. Not really agreeing with the poster you replied to, but still, wtf was that.
Yeah well, but there is a hard cap on the intellectual achievements of a psychopath. And it's rather tight.
Take for example the rather simple observation that everything is everything. That's not even esoteric, instead the way we divide everything up into concepts and labels is. Yet in order to be selfish you also have to be not bright enough to realize that. So clearly there are some higher level insights that you cannot have as a psychopath, and if you did, you wouldn't be one anymore.
That psychopaths may THINK they are smart when they're really not, and that they can be cunning and manipulative, doesn't warrant calling it "reasoning". I'd call it rationalizing, which is merely mimicking what a fully developed person would do.
How so? Any and all traces you leave will be washed away sooner or later, as will be any and all observers who might notice them. So how can achieving the maximum that's even possible - namely nothing - be a "waste"? What is wasted here? The heat death of the universe is nothing we can or need to avoid; life ends. So? It's still a life where there could just as well have been no life, and while the end result is the same, the in-between bits aren't. Isn't that enough? Pretending there is something to achieve to me would kinda mean failing to observe what it actually is. It just is. You can read meaning into it, but that reading will disappear with you. And so you know I don't mean this in any sort of negative way, consider this:
We feel free to express ourselves because we are ready to fade into emptiness. When we are trying to be active and special and to accomplish something, we cannot express ourselves... So we have enjoyment, we are free. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Go ahead and do that, then... instead of saying someone *could* do it and leaving it at that. Whatever you think the arguments are, spit them out because I know this is going to be some hilarious shit that can be easily torn to shreds.
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I know that... I was essentially asking to be trolled some more:D
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That seems like totally valid criticism to me. So you're saying Qt is equal or inferior in all respects, and uses more resources? You should blog about this, because no amount of googling turns up remotely similar results. As a matter of fact, people seem to be quite happy with Qt, and "shinyness" doesn't even get mentioned in those discussions. Or is shiny just code for "not as fugly".. ? Please elaborate.
Looking for that I also came across this sentence:
Sadly, humans are the only animals that use mirrors for taking deceiving self-portraits to put on social networks
Hah, this is now outdated information! Spiders are actually the *first* creature (we know of to date) to post decoys of themselves on the intrawebs, while humans are kinda late to the game.
Considering most people can't perceive frame rates faster than 30
Are you kidding? Not only do I notice the difference, the difference.is huge. Oh, and remember CRT monitors, with very high refresh rates at lower resolutions? Not even 60fps is "more than enough and well beyond the treshold of noticing a difference". Small dips are noticeable, too.
Of course, I'm talking action games that require precision and aim. I am not talking about cutscenes, "mash button to trigger random crap" gameplay, puzzle games or aimbot-assisted singleplayer. When it comes to actual precision and prediction at breakneck speed, there is no contest between 60 and 30fps. Sure, "most people" wouldn't notice, but "most people" also wouldn't last 5 seconds when playing pinball, so, umh? The question really is, are you making a game, or product that's supposed to entice people with eye candy screenshots instead of offering solid gameplay?
Most game makers seem to have answered that question, and now moved into player statistics, where they focus their actual effort, where their eyes get real big and shiny, where their talks get really in-depth. I actually heard Molyneux say on youtube yesterday how he values "his success as a designer" by wether people are willing to pay for his shit... not, you know, making a game, playtesting it, and saying "this is a good game, and if I'm lucky others will like it as well." Does a musician measure their skill by number of copies sold? Do they treat their audience like lab rats? Bullshit, only a whore would do. And do the fans of whores recognize this? FUCK NO. Ever tried talking sense to a Bieber fan? Gamers are so much worse. "I'm not that bright and this makes me feel cool, please go away" is pretty much the gist of it.
The problem is that if you want a "beginner" developer to do the job right, you probably have to spend just as much of your own time explaining what needs to be changed, and verifying that the resulting changed worked correctly (often sending the change back, re-explaining what needed to be changed, and checking it over again), as it would take you to just do the change yourself in the first place.
Yes, to the beginner who stops the thought experiment right there it would seem like that it just cancels out, true. But the really awesome thing about this invention called "teaching", is that the next time they may require less or even no help, and then they can repeat that process an indefinite amount of times! So instead of 1 - 1 it's more like 1 - 1 + 0.5 + 0.74 + 0.86 + 0.94 + 1 + 1 + 1 + one trillion gazillions. And now that I explained this to you through the power of science, you can use it and teach it to others. Fuck yes!
you have to be very careful that you are not pouring time into somebody who just doesn't get it, and won't ever yield a return on your investment.
Are you talking about teaching something to someone who actually wants to learn it, or handholding them? And how would you know without trying at least once? I don't mean on one person in total, I mean at least once for each person?
Seriously though, the cool thing about making a game, creative app or random "effects" is that you're totally free to experiment, while still learning a LOT, especially the higher you aim. Making a simple game or a starfield is easy, but there is just no ceiling to that stuff; while there are usually limits to how crazy you can get with "serious" apps etc.
Anyone ever noticed how youtube is full of people talking hours an hours and hours and hours about games while they play them? It's amazing, if we spent 1% of that energy on actual problems we'd be golden next week, and I'm talking world peace and food for all like. But no, "I enjoy this, servers cost money". Fuck you, fuck all of us. Your individual feelings or even lifes simply dissappear next to the scale of this bullshit, so any amount of rage I could muster will never be enough either. According to Mencken, sometimes a man feels the urge to hoist the black flag and slit throats, right? Well, paying attention to and thinking about gaming does that to me regularly. It's the ultimate expression of how fucked up we are as a race, and what a freaking optimist Orwell was. Godspeed to all the valiant creative people who are working hard to keep games honest and even elevate it into art, I wish I didn't suck at that; fuck the rest. Not buying their games isn't enough; I cannot be friends with anyone who isn't abusive towards people who play them.
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Hah, no. If anything it's the other way around: We need more people who have a clue, know their limitiations and the limitations of systems, to design stuff (not "be designers", which is for idiots) , and less asshats with dangerous half-knowledge like you.
Uhm, enlightenment? Or at least a bit of irony?
Well, that's something to overcome, not something to avoid? I remember when I was a kid and realized I will die one day. I cried all night, thinking about all the cool planets humanity would visit some day, the aliens we might meet (that was long before I knew a lot about what beasts humans can be, and how unlikely we are to treat outer space and the peeps in it any better than our planet). And yes, this is more of the same, but worse, I can't even say "at least *someone* will always be there, even if it's not me".
To me it kinda boils down to that "having vs. being" thing. Yes, everything will end. Everything I could discover and relay will be forgotten. That takes away from what I can HAVE, but nothing from what I can BE. I cannot have fame, I cannot have a family extending unlimited in time, I cannot have possessions. But I can be who I am, whatever that is, just fine.
But hey, the universe will not outright *end* even if the heat deaht assumption is correct, it would probably just wind down without ever fully stopping. Whatever traces we leave, they will reverberate there. Who knows, there might even be life that slows down with it and becomes immortal that way, time being such a relative and personal thing. Who needs even supercomputers for that, life IS a supercomputer already :) And then there's always spirituality. What do I know if there is more than this universe? I don't, and I don't assume there isn't. But I assume that this material universe is finite and will end, that being attached to it is "wrong", at least for me.
I don't want false hope, I get that plenty from people in regards to everyday stuff... but when it comes to everything, nothing can come between me and what is. It doesn't make me unhappy at all, at least not anymore. If anything remembering it helps me take a step back and relax sometimes. "This too shall pass", you know? (Couldn't find the Chuck Berry song of that title, so enjoy this instead if you don't already know it)
I actually agree, and that's a beautiful way to put it. For me that's a personal choice I made, not something objective. Like, "Life has no meaning, so I give it meaning X". I liken it to being trapped somewhere: you know oxygen is going to run out in 24 hours, so you might as well have a party and tell stories, instead of clawing at each other and the exit which doesn't exist.
But that's just, like, my opinion, man. I cannot objectively argue against nihilism, and I don't see a need to for myself. I think it's perfectly fine for pretty snowflakes to appear out of and disappear into nothingness. I enjoy it while I exist, and when I don't, not existing will not bother me either. And in a way this makes everything even more mind boggling and beautiful. That life exists and does all these things even though there's really no point, to me is way more beautiful than the arms race that evolution also can be seen as. I mean sure, some flowers are pretty, but that's really just so they live, and the more bland flowers die. So, how pretty exactly is a battleship, knowing why it's shaped that way?
I'd rather consider it a ballet, abstract art; not actual war that will lead to actual victory and actual loss. The spoils of the victor are merely that they will loose the most, when they finally have to check out. I can kinda get behind that. There's this Italian proverb: "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." I love it to bits, because it's not only true, because it throws
How is it trolling if I genuinely believe that calling this stuff "drones" is sucking murderer dick AT BEST, and that calling them unnmanned aerial vehicles is idiotic in any case?
You haven't even got the faintest clue what would constitute trolling, you just know it's an easy defense. Instead of dealing with what I said, make up a motivation for me saying it that allows you to weasel out.
The same goes for "flamebait": I don't pretend to despise you guys just to evoke a reaction, I truly think you're shit, basically. And deep down you know I have a point. "Your butthurt thing", it's so on cue. And even if I call it beforehand, you think you can say "this isn't being butthurt" while being butthurt. It's amazing.
I'm not even American, you clown. And I think it's past writing letters anyway. Without civil (and hey, even military) disobedience America is fucked dead. I don't know what kind of rock you're living under but that's pretty much public knowledge since the circus you pulled after 9/11. I have plenty of crap in my country, naturally, and you know what I do when I have problems with newspeak stuff? I DON'T USE IT. And I laugh/bitch at people who do. Like, I address the problem where I find it.
As I did just know. And you don't like it, so you want to redirect me to something that does not address that problem at all. My problem with you lot is you being bootlickers, and if your administration changed without you overcoming that, you'd still be bootlickers in spe, nothing would have been solved at all.... while you stopping to be bootlickers would probably change a lot of things, and would make them more bearable until then.
And likewise: if you have such a problem with the questions I raised, why read it? The problem you have, your own stupidity, can much more easily avoided. Me ignoring extrajudicial killings isn't going to make them stop at all, so I prefer to call bootlickers out. That won't stop it either but at least I feel slightly less dirty for being ya'lls contemporary.
Oh, and tinfoil hat? You're just playing idiot bingo, aren't you.... so you're not even AWARE of the shit that is public knowledge, hasn't got shit to do with conspiracy theories, and is happening on your dime? You see, there is being ignorant, and there is being actively ignorant, which kind of makes one guilty of the things one chooses to ignore. Wouldn't want to be in your position, at all.
You'd have to give me citations there, because anything I could find on wikipedia and elsewhere doesn't tell me that at all. As far as I can tell a drone is a remote controlled flying thing. As in, RC. No constraints about wether it's controlled by onboard circuits, an external pilot, and no requirement of feeding back specific signals either. Thanks for at least trying though.
Where is the conspiracy though? What of this is even slightly controversial? You're basically confirming my point by spazzing out and think that refutes it. Nice going there.
And I was asking. I am fully aware that it's more likely that people, as they do, instead of fighting something they should fight, turn it into a thing and a fad, a meme. I actually stated that possibility in my post. But that's no good for the purpose of your spazzing out and running away with a strawman, right? So good riddance to you transparent dumb fuck; next.
Last millenium weq had RC planes and shit. Why call them drones now? Is that to give legitimacy to extrajudicial killings, or is it to derive coolness from them? It's one thing or the other, that's for fucking sure, so tell me. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is such a needy and funny thing to call it... you mean like a paper airplane? Or a helium balloon? WTF people. Oh, and this is bad enough without dragging your kid into it, btw. Just a thought. Now do your butthurt thingy where you mod me down as flamebait or troll, you know you wanna ^^
As somenoe who has been a gamer since childhood, who sometimes plays multiplayer games, who has seen a video or two on youtube, I have to say this made me laugh and nod. Fuck em if they can't take the truth ^^
I'm still not sure if this is a really sad display of irony or the most genius troll I ever encountered... and reading your post again, it kinda sounds like what *really* pisses you off about this is that it happened before Christmas?
Seriously though, society includes all people. This and other killers (not to mention, war and starvation...?! Hey wait a second... what planet are you posting this from, and can I come?) kind of prove right there that we don't live in a great society. We live in a rather sick one. And you don't get to declare people to be outside of society just because they're inconvenient and you would rather not be associated with them. It's all or nothing, and if you wanna "opt out", take your own medicine. It's really not hard to figure out that there is a lot of abuse going on the in mental health sector, and while that certainly doesn't justify a rampage, or taking it out on any "bystanders" in any shape or form for that matter, it IS an injustice, and it IS hurting people, and usually those who can not defend themselves. So your last sentence, "how dare you threaten to hurt others", taken in that context, is kind of a cruel joke. Such fantasies and acting them out ultimately are more a sign of desperation in my books than a power trip. I can't speak to this case, but I know that on a small scale lashing out happens when people are (or feel) cornered. That is not to justify it, but if you want to prevent things you absolutely need to try to understand how they come to be.
But instead you'd rather get revenge, point fingers at a dead murderer as if that is any fucking help. In a way you're peeing on the grave of these kids to get your little shitty fix of self-righteousness. Oh look at me, I'm not a psycho mass murderer, I'm so great. Well fuck you, haha! I know/hope you won't like hearing this, but while people like that killer just shock me, and leave me confused (how could someone..? why would they..?!), you actually fucking *disgust* me. I feel more pity for them than for you. Because I know and understand where you are coming from, and I know how mediocre and evil it is. And since I'm somewhat adult I pray for the age where all that idiocy has been flushed down the toilet; wither to make way for a golden age or the end of all things, I don't care, but you lot fucking suck, that is sure.
Oh, and Merry Christmas.
How is it useful to talk about things on any other timescale? For what definition of "useful"? What are we trying to achieve here, what is the use of the discussion? To find truth?
It's amazing how you can say that right after stating that actually considering the whole is not "useful for the discussion" :(
As to your notion of giving back, well, if you're talking evolution, you can't help but give back. Even existing in a catatonic state is participating. You don't even need to live; all mass in the universe attracts all other mass. Also, how do predators figure into all that? If a lion killing infant or hurt animals is okay, why is a deranged mass murderer any different? And yes, I'm totally playing devil's advocate. I personally agree with most of what you said, and think that loving all lifeforms is a great way to pass the time; just with the addendum of "not because it's the actual, objective point of it all, but because it's the best I heard or experienced so far".
"Passing the time" brings me back to the heat death of the universe: just because none of us will experience it, it's theoretically possible that sentient beings will. And exactly in your sense of giving back, of giving a fuck as it were, I try to ponder that, even though it's idiotic, because nothing still alive by then will have any resemblance to anything I could think. But I do it anyway, because why not.
And because I like to be extreme when I'm extrapolating, I then consider two possible histories: one of greed, power and suffering -- in that case, the fact that it all ends no matter what is a relief. Not even Hitler 2000 wielding a Matrix Cube could be in power forever. All suffering will end at some point, all torture chambers turn to dust. In that scenario the time limit would be like a fail-safe.
The other history, the one we're all more or less hoping for, one of enlightenment, love and cooperation. In that scenario the heat death of the universe is rather sad, and would mean saying bye to a world full of peace and laughter and friendship. Hopefully "they" (it?) would cherish the memories and fade away without remorse, but one thing is sure, it's part of life, it's gonna happen one way or another. Why not share the grief, the acceptance, the gratitude involved in that? I can only do that while I live, by the time it happens I won't be here.
What would you say is a good time to think about the mortality of all things? A few thousand billion years before it happens? A few thousand years? The day before? Not ever? How about realizing and accepting it from day one? And that does not mean "not giving back" or "just enjoying yourself". It simply means understanding and integrating certain facts. Seeing it for what it is doesn't detract from existance at all. And because I love quotes so much, here's two from Marcus Aurelius:
Heath death? Meh. This stuff is old as dirt. Speaking of old, the Old Testament has beautiful passages about this stuff, too. As does Fight Club, haha.
And that means? That I just have to take your word for your hilarious claim? Your response makes even less sense than your original post.
IQ is meaningless without the test that measured it. You cannot compare the IQ scores of two different tests. And frankly, I'm pretty sure peeps who devise these tests know it. The one I took in the 90s actually consisted of 7 or 8 scores, and the final IQ "result" was merely the average of them. So "bleh" to pretty much all of this, how is this news...
Not first hand. But order drone strikes or make boardroom decisions that have a orders of magnitude worse outcome? Null problemo. And what's a little food price hike here or there, or millions of dead people, right? Speculate away, Wall Street is just a bunch of boys having some harmless fun.
Wait, those aren't actually sane people... but they surely are accepted as sane by large chunks of their subjects. So excuse me while I see through that moral outrage as the farce that it is. When people diss the small time mass murderer, but ride the cocks of the big time 24/7 ones it's not morality, it's a tragic comedy.
Being frustrated with dumbfuckery is wrong? Only a dumb fuck would think so.
If you give someone suicide as the only option, you're basically begging them to take you out. Not really agreeing with the poster you replied to, but still, wtf was that.
Yeah well, but there is a hard cap on the intellectual achievements of a psychopath. And it's rather tight.
Take for example the rather simple observation that everything is everything. That's not even esoteric, instead the way we divide everything up into concepts and labels is. Yet in order to be selfish you also have to be not bright enough to realize that. So clearly there are some higher level insights that you cannot have as a psychopath, and if you did, you wouldn't be one anymore.
That psychopaths may THINK they are smart when they're really not, and that they can be cunning and manipulative, doesn't warrant calling it "reasoning". I'd call it rationalizing, which is merely mimicking what a fully developed person would do.
How so? Any and all traces you leave will be washed away sooner or later, as will be any and all observers who might notice them. So how can achieving the maximum that's even possible - namely nothing - be a "waste"? What is wasted here? The heat death of the universe is nothing we can or need to avoid; life ends. So? It's still a life where there could just as well have been no life, and while the end result is the same, the in-between bits aren't. Isn't that enough? Pretending there is something to achieve to me would kinda mean failing to observe what it actually is. It just is. You can read meaning into it, but that reading will disappear with you. And so you know I don't mean this in any sort of negative way, consider this:
Go ahead and do that, then... instead of saying someone *could* do it and leaving it at that. Whatever you think the arguments are, spit them out because I know this is going to be some hilarious shit that can be easily torn to shreds.
I know that... I was essentially asking to be trolled some more :D
That seems like totally valid criticism to me. So you're saying Qt is equal or inferior in all respects, and uses more resources? You should blog about this, because no amount of googling turns up remotely similar results. As a matter of fact, people seem to be quite happy with Qt, and "shinyness" doesn't even get mentioned in those discussions. Or is shiny just code for "not as fugly" .. ? Please elaborate.
While you may be right that this spider doesn't,
is way wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test#Animal_Species_Capable_of_Passing
Looking for that I also came across this sentence:
Hah, this is now outdated information! Spiders are actually the *first* creature (we know of to date) to post decoys of themselves on the intrawebs, while humans are kinda late to the game.
Yeah, but that's inconvenient and scary. So most people'd rather blame you for their own cowardice. As is demonstrated on here time and time again.
Are you kidding? Not only do I notice the difference, the difference.is huge. Oh, and remember CRT monitors, with very high refresh rates at lower resolutions? Not even 60fps is "more than enough and well beyond the treshold of noticing a difference". Small dips are noticeable, too.
Of course, I'm talking action games that require precision and aim. I am not talking about cutscenes, "mash button to trigger random crap" gameplay, puzzle games or aimbot-assisted singleplayer. When it comes to actual precision and prediction at breakneck speed, there is no contest between 60 and 30fps. Sure, "most people" wouldn't notice, but "most people" also wouldn't last 5 seconds when playing pinball, so, umh? The question really is, are you making a game, or product that's supposed to entice people with eye candy screenshots instead of offering solid gameplay?
Most game makers seem to have answered that question, and now moved into player statistics, where they focus their actual effort, where their eyes get real big and shiny, where their talks get really in-depth. I actually heard Molyneux say on youtube yesterday how he values "his success as a designer" by wether people are willing to pay for his shit... not, you know, making a game, playtesting it, and saying "this is a good game, and if I'm lucky others will like it as well." Does a musician measure their skill by number of copies sold? Do they treat their audience like lab rats? Bullshit, only a whore would do. And do the fans of whores recognize this? FUCK NO. Ever tried talking sense to a Bieber fan? Gamers are so much worse. "I'm not that bright and this makes me feel cool, please go away" is pretty much the gist of it.
Yes, to the beginner who stops the thought experiment right there it would seem like that it just cancels out, true. But the really awesome thing about this invention called "teaching", is that the next time they may require less or even no help, and then they can repeat that process an indefinite amount of times! So instead of 1 - 1 it's more like 1 - 1 + 0.5 + 0.74 + 0.86 + 0.94 + 1 + 1 + 1 + one trillion gazillions. And now that I explained this to you through the power of science, you can use it and teach it to others. Fuck yes!
Are you talking about teaching something to someone who actually wants to learn it, or handholding them? And how would you know without trying at least once? I don't mean on one person in total, I mean at least once for each person?
Oh, you too? :D
Seriously though, the cool thing about making a game, creative app or random "effects" is that you're totally free to experiment, while still learning a LOT, especially the higher you aim. Making a simple game or a starfield is easy, but there is just no ceiling to that stuff; while there are usually limits to how crazy you can get with "serious" apps etc.
Anyone ever noticed how youtube is full of people talking hours an hours and hours and hours about games while they play them? It's amazing, if we spent 1% of that energy on actual problems we'd be golden next week, and I'm talking world peace and food for all like. But no, "I enjoy this, servers cost money". Fuck you, fuck all of us. Your individual feelings or even lifes simply dissappear next to the scale of this bullshit, so any amount of rage I could muster will never be enough either. According to Mencken, sometimes a man feels the urge to hoist the black flag and slit throats, right? Well, paying attention to and thinking about gaming does that to me regularly. It's the ultimate expression of how fucked up we are as a race, and what a freaking optimist Orwell was. Godspeed to all the valiant creative people who are working hard to keep games honest and even elevate it into art, I wish I didn't suck at that; fuck the rest. Not buying their games isn't enough; I cannot be friends with anyone who isn't abusive towards people who play them.