That’s exactly what I was thinking. At no point do I ever see the synths being a problem. By default they’re strictly driven by the institute and have no autonomy, on their own they’re literally a slave class vying for freedom. No one ever turns on you, no one ever betrays you, every single character you encounter is exactly honest about who they are and whether or not they’re good people.

If they wanted a sense of paranoia, they should have had encountera where you’re attacked by doubles of your recently dismissed party members, or characters with more than one dimension.

Don’t need to. You’re gorgeous, as each human naturally is. Any stance to the opposite is based purely on opinion and those only go as far as the people that hold them.

A ton, but the one I’m most inclined to talk about is The Thing (1982). We rewatch it almost weekly since I introduced my spouse to it which is amazing because each time we spend about an hour afterwards dissecting the things motives, the order of replacements, different theories, etc. It’s truely one of the best movies ever made. The practical effects get a ton of praise, but for me it’s just gotta efficiently the movie is at what it does. You know every character within minutes of their appearance, you feel the alienation and paranoia, and the thing itself is so inexplicable that even after hundreds of watches in my life time I genuinely can’t rationalize why it does what it does.

The 2011 one would have been better if they left in the pilot alien and had better set and custome guys. It doesn’t feel like a pequal, it feels like a remake set in 2011.

I was using sync thing and syncfork previously, but they didn’t allow me to sort my new files into the existing structures without getting on the computer and sorting them that way. Id like to cut out the middleman that is my desktop and just move things directly to the server if possible.

My money is on jared letto

I’ll be honest, weakening the point of a counter protest under a regime that doesn’t listen to protests and encourages it’s followets to hunt good people for sport is like saying you’re watering down my water with ice. The only way this counter protest would make any lasting changes to our society is if that bomb went off.

This is an art style that takes me back to watching dumb videos on the internet in 2007.

So the cool s has no verified origin ans has occured in childlore functionally spontaneously across every demographic. It occurs in every nation with very little variation, regardless of language, and as far as symbols go, it’s remarkably complex to be appearing so consistently with 14 distinct lines.

For this reason, my silly theory is actually that it’s the yellow sign. The symbol of the eldrich elder god of manipupations of the cthulhu mythos, the king in yellow, Hastur. Thus, among his mind warping eldritch knowledge is the true secret to writing your full name in the cool S font.

Same. I waa too poor to buy a computer growing up so all my tech was scavenged out of dumps and off the side of the road until my late 20s. I still have an IDE to usb in my drawee and a stack of hard drives older than my child.

I’m currently looking for a good laser printer myself, if I get my hands on one I’ll pass the deets to you.

As much as I love these quippy jokes at their expense, I feel that our reliance on humor allows for ambiguity. The only appropriate response to anyone saying they’re an alpha male is, “that’s really fucking stupid.”

Start at the very beginning and just watch every episode. A lot of tge older ones aren’t amazing or memorable or ground breaking, but every single one of them is enjoyable and the amazing ones are spaced out well enough that you have time to ponder them funing thd lesser episodes.

I havent made them myself, I drafted them for a student to make for her special needs sibling. That said, I have some really nice headphones with broken plastic that I’ve been meaning to modify.

I modeled it off of a pair of Panasonic EAH-20 that I had back in highschool but with wider bands to allow a bit more robustness and with holes and slots for 3m screws.

That’s exactly my point in teaching it. Ethics are something he came into by nature but good strategy and the assessment of variables is something he is not good at. I think it will do him well.

I’m not a fan of monster hunter and souls games. I’ve given them try aftet try, but they just don’t jive with me. Part of it is the jrpg aesthetic. I was never a final fantasy kid so it just doesn’t hit me the way sword and sorcery do. I’m not a get gud player. When a game gets tough, I get weird and I love games that encourage me to do things unexpected instead of hitting me with a stick for not doing the expected. Monster hunter feels very similar on that aspect, I get no satisfaction for perfectly executing a button combo, I get satisfaction from finding an unexpected gear combo.

If they’re your game, l love that for you. I like seeing people have fun. I just don’t find it there personally.

I picked up a copy of The Art of War for a few bucks. I’ve read it before, but I’m reading it again with hopes of teaching it to my kid in conjunction to teaching him Magic the Gathering. 90% of my success in life comes from implementing skills I learned from mtg into other things and Sun Tsu is basically a primer for good magic strategy.

After that it’s Tao Te Ching. So by high school he’ll have the skills to change wheat he can and the understanding to weather what he can’t.

I have templates for metal parts you can cut and bend with hand tools and a cheap dremel. I can send it to you if you want.

My low stakes conspiracy is that Shel Silverstein is actually Grigori Rasputin. I have nothing to support this and I will not be accepting criticism.

The ideal route to anarchist as I understand it wouldn’t be taking away the weapons, it would be taking away the concepts of power. Musk’s power is predicated on the idea that he owns more things ranked by percieved value than I do. That value is an agreed upon concept, enforced by the government that we participate in. If the stock market and dollar bill are replaced overnight with a barter system, his power would plumit to the value of assets he can physically provide himself.

Right now, oil executives have the power to dictate nations. If collectivly the majority of people just refuse to use cars, their power is now subject to a different scale. If enough of a given society makes this change fast enough, or change to something so rigorously coordinated that it cannot be exploited, then the power of the system fizzles and the ability to use force goes with it. How are you going to bomb a nation of hippy comunes if 90% of your soldiers are now in the comunes?

It’s an interesting stance, but I don’t personally buy it. It requires a level of group effort that we’re not capable of. Personally, I feel a rigid and open source technocracy would be the easier option. Computers aren’t subject to opinion or emotions and have been a billion times more capable than our best politicians for nearly a century.

I think the point theyre making is that our current system has a consolidation of threat. We know the exact names of every one in the 1% and government agents advertise their affiliation. In an anarchist society, every member of your current community and every outside community has to now be assessed for their likelihood to take up arms and become a threat.

In our current system, the government functions as the biggest fish. If any one person or group attempts to exert their will on the masses without the government’s approval, they become a big enough fish for the government to eat them. We in turn are the fish that survive by hiding in the shadows of the shark, too small to be a meal and too weak to exist without it, but safe from the larger dangers of the sea. To kill the shark would mean every fish bigger than us is now dangerous.