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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 25m

daria's razor

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 27m

like "blood of the covenant/water of the womb is the original" is exactly the sort of alexandria's genesis-esque stuff that spreads around on tumblr or reddit due to credulous teens liking the idea. one should really examine all of their beliefs about history in this light

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 29m

correcting old sayings that are no longer reflective of society is fine. "blood is thicker than water" is rich when people are getting kicked out of their house for who they are. but you don't have to pretend the saying was *always* something more appropriate to modern times. that's silly

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 5h

How can you vote for that guy? I saw in the papers he said "DUHHH BLUHHH DUHHH KILL BABIES". Can you really stand by that?

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 1d

dwarf fortress, probably

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 1d

you can play it with tank controls if you want but the default is none

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 1d

Steam only shows percents, so more users with the same behavior won't change the statistics

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 1d

It's just sorta how they were taught, or the culture they were immersed in? My main experience with this is alcohol (I think it's bad), where many of the "average" arguments against my position kinda boil down to "if it's advertised on TV and my parents and friends use it, it can't be *that* bad"

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 4d

But Can Good Thing Really Be Good If Bad People Are Also Allowed To Get It? is the driving force behind nothing ever happening

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 4d

i think the US political machine just has a ludicrous obsession with means testing for whatever reason. "student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities" type beat

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 4d

I put "worse" in quotation marks there 'cause it need not actually be *worse* but you just know a lot of the AAA companies are going to pursue AI for this and then you can remove the quotation marks lol

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I've been saying that with the way costs are going there's three possibilities:

1. Game prices go up.
2. More whale-chasing microtransactions or gambling mechanics.
3. Games become cheaper to make and "worse".

This trichotomy is kinda controversial when I present it to gamers for some reason

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 5d

i'm going to keep blaming this on "50% of americans believe on some level in manifestation (that good things can happen purely by believing in them)"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 5d

arrow's impossibility but real

Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 6d

i like to read articles on what the finance world is saying about AI stuff and a month ago it was "[Ross] Gerber said that [AI company] valuations are justified because AI companies promise tremendous growth and their profitability is 'just insane.'" and man people will just believe rich guys huh

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7d

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 6d

it feels like a pathological example of some kind. the petersen graph of "how little design can you get away with and still make something engaging". the weierstrass function of "if a game is like X or Y can it really be art". it made me think more than most other works of art i've interacted with

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 10d

this was fixed 15 years ago, by the way (and it was because swimming still increased the swimming skill for fish, for some reason, and increasing the swimming skill increases attributes)

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 18d

probably pete davis, really
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_k...

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 24d

i used to have a screenshot of a royalroad commenter saying they're so annoyed at this chapter and they hate how it's going because the chapter contains the main character having a slight setback that isn't immediately fixed by the end of the same chapter but i've lost it

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 24d

aura loss

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 26d

your ass used to have padding? lucky. i've got hank hill syndrome. i sit right on my tailbone

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 27d

i beg of you to consider the consequences of your worldview. the main founder of all this explicitly agreed that children who die of cancer probably "deserve" to (they didn't manifest a cure), because that's consistent, and how do you not see that that's abhortent

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 27d

people will enthusiastically and openly say "yes" to "are you a practitioner of magical thinking?" almost as much as they'll say "no" and we wonder why people think "my guy being in office will make my life better"

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 27d

today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

insanely bleak

Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action? | Daily Question

Do you believe in manifesting — that thinking positively or visualizing something can help make it happen, even without taking any other action?

today.yougov.com

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Putnam @putnam3145.bsky.social · 29d

the obvious joke here would make me indistinguishable from the angry masses