Living through aphorisms is not a good idea, though. It takes more heart and character to be over 30 and have money and realize the significance and responsibility you have to your community than it does to be over thirty, with money, and wallow in selfishness. I'm 46, have plenty of money, and a strong determination to focus on overall community improvement for the betterment of my family, and the left is the path to that achievement. But when I was 20 and poor? I was a deluded libertarian. It helped being a libertarian when I had no money, as it did for so many others I knew back then like myself, because the philosophy told you that you had more control over your own life (or wanted it) and that made young libertarians feel more righteously indignant every time you had to pay the state for a DL or get car insurance.
Missing from this thread are actual artists and their experiences. I know many artists, including family, who equate the bottom dropping out of their market for physical art media with the arrival of the internet. Some have managed to transition online to continue to make some sort of money, but all of the artists I know agree that the internet killed the art economy in a special way....the work, no mater how much time, effort, skill and craftsmanship was needed, became badly devalued non coincidentally with the rise of the internet.
I don't know if this is an accurate assessment (one could pin it on economic issues and a lack of cash to spend on nonessential art pieces....or a decline in housing ownership, meaning a decline in the number of potential art buyers who actually have space to represent their desired pieces) but the art industry is definitely in a death spiral and most artists are now people who do art when they aren't trying to juggle a day job.
TFA is based on a sample size of 100. So....take this with a grain of salt. But how many households are "netflix only" and also excluding youtube? My five year old knows what commercials are because of youtube. Also, Hulu.
It seems like the top issue here, assuming Pew-Die-Pie was actually attempting some sort of social commentary on Fiverr, is that Pew-Die=Pie, the guy normally known for juvenile play-throughs of bad games and some sort of jumpscare show, was way out of his comfort zone in a sad attempt at some sort of messaging.
Or put another way: if you want to to deliver an important message, maybe who you are by reputation and how you do this matters.
You're giving me a headache here. First to clarify: staunch atheist here but with a background in archaeology and a more than lifelong interest in mythology.
You can, and likely do, have a historical figure on whom a great many archaic beliefs and concepts are placed both to recognize the generational and cultural symbolism of what came before and to make the newer faith more tenable to the older pagan believers who might need to sense that this Jesus guy is on par with Mithras and others. This is not evidence that there was no historical figure, but rather evidence that there was a great deal of syncretism in effect. This is a pretty well establish phenomenon that is going on, and while it is fascinating, it is not a compelling argument against the existence of a live spiritual figure that is later retconned into something much, much greater than he was in life when the need arose.
As someone who is currently unemployed and without insurance, I can assure you that Obamacare DOES NOT provide free, or even reduced rate, insurance to you if you're unemployed. If you live in a state that didn't expand its Medicaid insurance program, the only thing Obamacare provides when you're unemployed with no income is a waiver so that you don't have to pay the penalty for not having insurance. Gee, thanks Obama.
Thank your state representatives for refusing to participate in the exchange and set up proper Medicaid expansions. (I think that was what you meant, but the sarcasm meter was wavering near zero so hard to say).
Hey, I have lots of republican friends, and I wouldn't label any of them as deliberately racist. But when your house has a few leaks, and everyone keeps insisting that the roof is just fine because they don't have a leak where they're standing at that exact moment, one can only conclude that your house has some problems whether you want to deal with it or not.
If you can get the racially motivated members out of your party, then it might be possible to talk cogently about real immigration fixes without racism rearing up in every conversation. Now...this may not be a realistic solution, but I generally subscribe to the notion that it's generally better to be on the side of the fence the white supremacists aren't on. Or...put another way.....if you can't get rid of them, then maybe you need to look more closely at how aligned you really are to the rest of your fellow conservatives. How many of these allies are hurting, rather than helping your non-racist immigration reform ideas?
Wow...it's actually pretty easy to conclude that the real problem here is 2,000 year old religions that won't change to conform to modern standards of ethical living and respect, rather than arguing that the real problem is a 2.5 century old government that is willing to change to reflect the reality of ethical culture and human rights today. Weird.
Always read the article before posting. The conclusion, on reading it, is inescapable: the refugees from mexico that Trump wants to deport are rape survivors, and we are deporting an enormous number of illegal immigrant women and children back to the country from which they were trying to flee a rape culture that was abusing them, badly, through the entire "escape process."
So el Trumpo is trying to deport rape victims back to their abusers. Bravo again for the low information president.
No Man's Sky is not like going in to a massage parlor and getting a kick in the balls instead of a nice rub down.
It is, actually, more like walking in to a massage parlor that has some signs suggesting happy endings are a free bonus, and when you walk in, you find instead a sleazy porn-house self-service station, an empty bottle of lube, handful of VHS porn tapes, and a broken DVD player.
Actually, go find some of the reviews of the game on Youtube (Jim Sterling and Angry Joe's reviews are pretty amusing and address this). The specific stuff they are addressing is not "boom wow Destiny redux" but actual specific claims the dev stated, in television interviews and other similar recorded venues, that pretty clearly made claims that are demonstrably false....and not without playing for 50+ hours.
Did some people have unrealistic expectations? Obviously. But the ones pointing out that the final product does not match what was demo'd or stated aren't wrong.
Luckily, I bought the game on a lark and didn't know about any of the claims, expectations or other nonsense. I've found it to be a completely average space-based survival crafting game, except with fewer "threats" and no players griefing me (ironically one of the statements from the dev as that grieving was possible...hah! If I had paid attention I would have probably not bought the game.)
I feel like all the comments could be parsed out better if people could identify if they are young or old first, and if they have ever been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, or are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Maybe also if you actually think (as the guy writing the original article did) that spoiling the end of a book somehow makes it better.
Seriously....those saying they watched pretty much anything at greater than the intended speed are just freaking me out right now. I can't even conceive of why under any condition I would ever watch something like this; the enjoyment--the experience--would be destroyed by the accelerated playthrough.
Quaifiers: I'm middle-aged and have never been diagnosed with any disorder. And I hate spoiling a book's ending; knowing the ending of a work of fiction usually leads to me putting the book down at that point.
I couldn't even make it through the initial sample in the WaPo article. If I had to watch television at that speed, then I simply wouldn't watch television.
Actually it technically goes all the way back to Rene Descartes and his "deceiving demon" scenario. The principle is exactly the same, but Descartes is at least grounded in reality...he recognizes that there's a consciousness/experience issue, and that while one cannot assert that reality is not a fabrication/illusion, you can assert your own personal existence (cogito ergo sum). The computer simulation is just the latest feasible model for suggesting we cannot trust our experiences to represent actual reality.
For this to be a computer simulation, knowing what we know, it implies at least the following:
1. the simulation can not only simulate the physical world, but can also simulate consciousness
2. Our definition of consciousness as simulated excludes the existence of external awareness, suggesting we're all part of the program. But if the program is being experienced by programmers/users anyone reading this who is not a progammer or user is likely not "real" in the conventional sense
3. However, since we know we are conscious, or programmed to think we are, then it raises questions about the definition of both this awareness and actual sentience. In fact it cascades into a whole mess of questions that soon leads to the same line of thought about how our universe works, how we relate to it, and where it came from. It is almost tautological, in fact....
4. Leading to the notion that if a simulation is sufficiently indistinguishable from "the real thing" then how do you recognize when you're in the real world vs. the simulation?
5. And if it is a simulation, all it proves is that there's an operant higher level of reality which we haven't ye developed an empircal method of detection for, and may never be able to due to programming issues
6. And if that's true, then we're back to square one, with Descartes' demon, realizing that the only certainty we have is that we are able to perceive our self-awareness --even if that self-awareness could be a simulation, it is still something we each indelibly hold in our personal experience to be the point of definition for who we are, regardless of our sensory experiences.....So yeah, from the philosopher's view all Elon Musk has done is reframe the question Descartes already posed with a more contemporary framework.
The interesting part is that it means you had migration patterns 15 thousand years earlier than prior evidence suggests. It doesn't sound at all unrealistic to me, but it's nice to see good, hard evidence popping up to support the idea.
The damage to the carcass would be distinctly different if the wounds were received perimortem vs. postmortem...and much more so if it was 10, 000 years later to a frozen carcass. Basic forensic anthropology; I haven't RTFA but it would be really, really difficult from an archaeological perspective to confuse damage to a frozen mummy with perimortem injuries. (Not a practicing archaeologist, but I did get my degree in the subject).
That is all quite cogent and true, but please remember, most people would love to have those money management problems. Not the typical problems salaries under $100K tend to have, like running short on rent, being unable to afford basic utilities, constant medical or school debt that will haunt you for decades, and the never-ending risk that one major health issue or bad accident will put you in poverty and reduce your quality of life from a square meal to ramen, or worse, hand-outs.
I feel your pain, and wish I had it; the stress of money management with a $250 million fortune is something I would gladly take in place of worrying daily about the perpetual risk of losing it all due to one bad week.
I think that says more about your nephew and his level of exposure to such games. My four year old plays Lego games (Lego Batman, Lego Star Wars, Lego Marvel) and is sufficiently "indoctrinated" into open-world gaming that when he plays more limiting games he is disappointed.
Your story is great, but unfortunately has never been typical of the education children receive at any point in the last 60-odd years. What you're describing can and will happen when parents care enough to invest in their children and their education....but that is not typical of most families.
Owning both, I've found that the technical merits are mostly smoke and mirrors....with the caveat that a few games do run better on the PS4 than the Xbox One, and I tested this out on at least one title (Shadows of Mordor) and noticed that while it plays fine on the X1 it's performance on the PS4 was noticeably smoother.
Beyond that.....Xbox One's two main advantages I've found are: you can add an external hard drive and run games from it (huge plus) and it has the Halo and Gears of War franchises if you're into that (which I am). Also, it's got backwards compatibility now (limited, but focusing on titles most people probably have or would want).
PS4 however, is a smoother OS, better hardware, has the Uncharted series, and I love the newer Ps4 controllers, which are dramatically better than the old PS3 controllers. Miles of difference on the controllers (for me, anyway). That said, the X1 controllers are actually pretty decent as well.
Owning both, what I do is get the "big, serious" games I plan to invest time in on the PS4, (such as Fallout 4, Destiny and CoD:BO3) and everything else I am slightly less serious about on the Xbox 1 since it has the space for it (ironically, I got Batman: Arkham Knight, Mad Max and Star Wars: Battlfront on the X1 and have been playing them to death).
All other differences are superficial.
Reading these comments are enough to indicate there's a problem.
Jesus Christ....does no one also associate "bro" context with the frat boys who dunked you all in the punch while dishing out painful wedgies? It's not just women who should find the term annoying.....it's an affront to everyone except man children, essentially.
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Living through aphorisms is not a good idea, though. It takes more heart and character to be over 30 and have money and realize the significance and responsibility you have to your community than it does to be over thirty, with money, and wallow in selfishness. I'm 46, have plenty of money, and a strong determination to focus on overall community improvement for the betterment of my family, and the left is the path to that achievement. But when I was 20 and poor? I was a deluded libertarian. It helped being a libertarian when I had no money, as it did for so many others I knew back then like myself, because the philosophy told you that you had more control over your own life (or wanted it) and that made young libertarians feel more righteously indignant every time you had to pay the state for a DL or get car insurance.
Missing from this thread are actual artists and their experiences. I know many artists, including family, who equate the bottom dropping out of their market for physical art media with the arrival of the internet. Some have managed to transition online to continue to make some sort of money, but all of the artists I know agree that the internet killed the art economy in a special way....the work, no mater how much time, effort, skill and craftsmanship was needed, became badly devalued non coincidentally with the rise of the internet. I don't know if this is an accurate assessment (one could pin it on economic issues and a lack of cash to spend on nonessential art pieces....or a decline in housing ownership, meaning a decline in the number of potential art buyers who actually have space to represent their desired pieces) but the art industry is definitely in a death spiral and most artists are now people who do art when they aren't trying to juggle a day job.
TFA is based on a sample size of 100. So....take this with a grain of salt. But how many households are "netflix only" and also excluding youtube? My five year old knows what commercials are because of youtube. Also, Hulu.
It seems like the top issue here, assuming Pew-Die-Pie was actually attempting some sort of social commentary on Fiverr, is that Pew-Die=Pie, the guy normally known for juvenile play-throughs of bad games and some sort of jumpscare show, was way out of his comfort zone in a sad attempt at some sort of messaging. Or put another way: if you want to to deliver an important message, maybe who you are by reputation and how you do this matters.
You're giving me a headache here. First to clarify: staunch atheist here but with a background in archaeology and a more than lifelong interest in mythology. You can, and likely do, have a historical figure on whom a great many archaic beliefs and concepts are placed both to recognize the generational and cultural symbolism of what came before and to make the newer faith more tenable to the older pagan believers who might need to sense that this Jesus guy is on par with Mithras and others. This is not evidence that there was no historical figure, but rather evidence that there was a great deal of syncretism in effect. This is a pretty well establish phenomenon that is going on, and while it is fascinating, it is not a compelling argument against the existence of a live spiritual figure that is later retconned into something much, much greater than he was in life when the need arose.
As someone who is currently unemployed and without insurance, I can assure you that Obamacare DOES NOT provide free, or even reduced rate, insurance to you if you're unemployed. If you live in a state that didn't expand its Medicaid insurance program, the only thing Obamacare provides when you're unemployed with no income is a waiver so that you don't have to pay the penalty for not having insurance. Gee, thanks Obama.
Thank your state representatives for refusing to participate in the exchange and set up proper Medicaid expansions. (I think that was what you meant, but the sarcasm meter was wavering near zero so hard to say).
Hey, I have lots of republican friends, and I wouldn't label any of them as deliberately racist. But when your house has a few leaks, and everyone keeps insisting that the roof is just fine because they don't have a leak where they're standing at that exact moment, one can only conclude that your house has some problems whether you want to deal with it or not. If you can get the racially motivated members out of your party, then it might be possible to talk cogently about real immigration fixes without racism rearing up in every conversation. Now...this may not be a realistic solution, but I generally subscribe to the notion that it's generally better to be on the side of the fence the white supremacists aren't on. Or...put another way.....if you can't get rid of them, then maybe you need to look more closely at how aligned you really are to the rest of your fellow conservatives. How many of these allies are hurting, rather than helping your non-racist immigration reform ideas?
Wow...it's actually pretty easy to conclude that the real problem here is 2,000 year old religions that won't change to conform to modern standards of ethical living and respect, rather than arguing that the real problem is a 2.5 century old government that is willing to change to reflect the reality of ethical culture and human rights today. Weird.
Always read the article before posting. The conclusion, on reading it, is inescapable: the refugees from mexico that Trump wants to deport are rape survivors, and we are deporting an enormous number of illegal immigrant women and children back to the country from which they were trying to flee a rape culture that was abusing them, badly, through the entire "escape process." So el Trumpo is trying to deport rape victims back to their abusers. Bravo again for the low information president.
No Man's Sky is not like going in to a massage parlor and getting a kick in the balls instead of a nice rub down.
It is, actually, more like walking in to a massage parlor that has some signs suggesting happy endings are a free bonus, and when you walk in, you find instead a sleazy porn-house self-service station, an empty bottle of lube, handful of VHS porn tapes, and a broken DVD player.
Actually, go find some of the reviews of the game on Youtube (Jim Sterling and Angry Joe's reviews are pretty amusing and address this). The specific stuff they are addressing is not "boom wow Destiny redux" but actual specific claims the dev stated, in television interviews and other similar recorded venues, that pretty clearly made claims that are demonstrably false....and not without playing for 50+ hours.
Did some people have unrealistic expectations? Obviously. But the ones pointing out that the final product does not match what was demo'd or stated aren't wrong.
Luckily, I bought the game on a lark and didn't know about any of the claims, expectations or other nonsense. I've found it to be a completely average space-based survival crafting game, except with fewer "threats" and no players griefing me (ironically one of the statements from the dev as that grieving was possible...hah! If I had paid attention I would have probably not bought the game.)
I feel like all the comments could be parsed out better if people could identify if they are young or old first, and if they have ever been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, or are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Maybe also if you actually think (as the guy writing the original article did) that spoiling the end of a book somehow makes it better.
Seriously....those saying they watched pretty much anything at greater than the intended speed are just freaking me out right now. I can't even conceive of why under any condition I would ever watch something like this; the enjoyment--the experience--would be destroyed by the accelerated playthrough.
Quaifiers: I'm middle-aged and have never been diagnosed with any disorder. And I hate spoiling a book's ending; knowing the ending of a work of fiction usually leads to me putting the book down at that point.
I couldn't even make it through the initial sample in the WaPo article. If I had to watch television at that speed, then I simply wouldn't watch television.
Actually it technically goes all the way back to Rene Descartes and his "deceiving demon" scenario. The principle is exactly the same, but Descartes is at least grounded in reality...he recognizes that there's a consciousness/experience issue, and that while one cannot assert that reality is not a fabrication/illusion, you can assert your own personal existence (cogito ergo sum). The computer simulation is just the latest feasible model for suggesting we cannot trust our experiences to represent actual reality. For this to be a computer simulation, knowing what we know, it implies at least the following: 1. the simulation can not only simulate the physical world, but can also simulate consciousness 2. Our definition of consciousness as simulated excludes the existence of external awareness, suggesting we're all part of the program. But if the program is being experienced by programmers/users anyone reading this who is not a progammer or user is likely not "real" in the conventional sense 3. However, since we know we are conscious, or programmed to think we are, then it raises questions about the definition of both this awareness and actual sentience. In fact it cascades into a whole mess of questions that soon leads to the same line of thought about how our universe works, how we relate to it, and where it came from. It is almost tautological, in fact.... 4. Leading to the notion that if a simulation is sufficiently indistinguishable from "the real thing" then how do you recognize when you're in the real world vs. the simulation? 5. And if it is a simulation, all it proves is that there's an operant higher level of reality which we haven't ye developed an empircal method of detection for, and may never be able to due to programming issues 6. And if that's true, then we're back to square one, with Descartes' demon, realizing that the only certainty we have is that we are able to perceive our self-awareness --even if that self-awareness could be a simulation, it is still something we each indelibly hold in our personal experience to be the point of definition for who we are, regardless of our sensory experiences. ....So yeah, from the philosopher's view all Elon Musk has done is reframe the question Descartes already posed with a more contemporary framework.
So what you're admitting is that our ancient ancestors could definitely show you a thing or two about hunting mammoths.
The interesting part is that it means you had migration patterns 15 thousand years earlier than prior evidence suggests. It doesn't sound at all unrealistic to me, but it's nice to see good, hard evidence popping up to support the idea.
Not 45,000 years ago in this location. They most definitely would have been anatomically modern homo sapiens.
The damage to the carcass would be distinctly different if the wounds were received perimortem vs. postmortem...and much more so if it was 10, 000 years later to a frozen carcass. Basic forensic anthropology; I haven't RTFA but it would be really, really difficult from an archaeological perspective to confuse damage to a frozen mummy with perimortem injuries. (Not a practicing archaeologist, but I did get my degree in the subject).
Also, it turns out it's 72 nerdy male virgins who spend most of their time pedantically arguing the finer points of Star Trek canon.
That is all quite cogent and true, but please remember, most people would love to have those money management problems. Not the typical problems salaries under $100K tend to have, like running short on rent, being unable to afford basic utilities, constant medical or school debt that will haunt you for decades, and the never-ending risk that one major health issue or bad accident will put you in poverty and reduce your quality of life from a square meal to ramen, or worse, hand-outs. I feel your pain, and wish I had it; the stress of money management with a $250 million fortune is something I would gladly take in place of worrying daily about the perpetual risk of losing it all due to one bad week.
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I think that says more about your nephew and his level of exposure to such games. My four year old plays Lego games (Lego Batman, Lego Star Wars, Lego Marvel) and is sufficiently "indoctrinated" into open-world gaming that when he plays more limiting games he is disappointed.
Your story is great, but unfortunately has never been typical of the education children receive at any point in the last 60-odd years. What you're describing can and will happen when parents care enough to invest in their children and their education....but that is not typical of most families.
Owning both, I've found that the technical merits are mostly smoke and mirrors....with the caveat that a few games do run better on the PS4 than the Xbox One, and I tested this out on at least one title (Shadows of Mordor) and noticed that while it plays fine on the X1 it's performance on the PS4 was noticeably smoother. Beyond that.....Xbox One's two main advantages I've found are: you can add an external hard drive and run games from it (huge plus) and it has the Halo and Gears of War franchises if you're into that (which I am). Also, it's got backwards compatibility now (limited, but focusing on titles most people probably have or would want). PS4 however, is a smoother OS, better hardware, has the Uncharted series, and I love the newer Ps4 controllers, which are dramatically better than the old PS3 controllers. Miles of difference on the controllers (for me, anyway). That said, the X1 controllers are actually pretty decent as well. Owning both, what I do is get the "big, serious" games I plan to invest time in on the PS4, (such as Fallout 4, Destiny and CoD:BO3) and everything else I am slightly less serious about on the Xbox 1 since it has the space for it (ironically, I got Batman: Arkham Knight, Mad Max and Star Wars: Battlfront on the X1 and have been playing them to death). All other differences are superficial.
Reading these comments are enough to indicate there's a problem. Jesus Christ....does no one also associate "bro" context with the frat boys who dunked you all in the punch while dishing out painful wedgies? It's not just women who should find the term annoying.....it's an affront to everyone except man children, essentially.