Angry_Autist (he/him)

Every person who mentions that podcast gets a free block.

Here’s yours baked fresh!

I wish I could tell you he looked creepy or we had some bad vibes but he was just a guy in the office. That part bugs me the most

Correct on first guess, unfortunately

If you don’t know, you’re better off

So my mentor’s mentor used to program for some ancient TI machine that used drum memory. He was a master of his craft and wrote his code deliberately so it would physically align with the next rotation of the drum, ensuring the fastest reads possible, and it cut tons of time off of every process run on them.

I can’t even imagine what it is like to even write naked binary, let alone make sure every single one of my operation sets are the same length.

Arguably it was perfect optimization.

He still got laid off with zero thought when the time came.

I’s there a lesson here? I don’t know, I’m drunk

Some fuckwad printed out several hundred illegal pictures in the middle of the day in a place accessible to everyone and with high foot traffic.

Needless to say he was walked out by the cops.

Authoritarianism will never die, there will always be people wanting to be dictator.

Violence is needed to hack back the sprouting fronds of fascism wherever it arises, but it will never stop arising, and Normandy wasn’t won with a strongly worded letter.

I am serious enough that I have punched nazis before and look forward to a time when I can punch nazis again.

Violence is necessary for a functioning society to address those that reject the social contract that are not amenable to rationale.

Some people are more dangerous alive than the disruption their death would have caused.

I appreciate and understand that you are a strict pacifist, and that you feel it is a worthwhile life to follow, and I agree with you.

The problem is, in order for most of the populace to be pacifists, there still needs to be agents of violence to remove the disruptors who wish to co-opt or destroy our society that are not amenable to words.

Your ideology cannot exist in the real word as it will be consumed by other ideologies that do not eschew violence.

I have played Dwarf Fortress and I consider myself quite good, pulled off a bunch of tricky megaproject engineering tasks and mastered hydraulics and lava flows.

Most people consider Dwarf Fortress a very hard game. I consider it a moderately hard game.

Noita is a

FUCKING

hard game

And I say that as a person with likely more than 20k hours in game.

I bought it, played it for 2 hours, got tired of dying to invisible poisoned zones and uninstalled.

I WANT to like the game but it is really stupidly buggy and claustrophobic

I’ve got 1k+ hours in both Fallout 4 and Skyrim, bought them both on opening day.

Haven’t finished either of their main quests, for Fallout I just really didn’t care at all about Shaun.

Hermaevs’ youtube channel has a no-hit RL1 boss run where she shows Morgott’s safe spacing and timing, got me through and now I’m trying to RL1 Radahn and I’m stuck there lol

I don’t know if it still works but abusing the physics engine to make kinetic ship obliterating shotguns added an easy extra hundred hours to my gameplay.

Tactics on how to spot propaganda

shared stories of propaganda sources exposed

Little know practices of the putinbots for study purposes

there’s a fucktonne of stuff that’s better than 35 renditions of ‘no shit sherlok’.

Can we get a little deeper of a discussion as our top comment please? We used to be better than this…

Most upvoted top 2/3rds of the thread are all repeats of the same ‘yeah no shit’.

The remaining 1/3 is actual discussion…

Nearly all media is owned by conservative white men that willingly court fascism if it means lower taxes.

You’d be surprised the things they can figure out with modern forensics, maybe low oxygen in the remaining tissue, maybe a special enzyme that activates in the lungs when you are carbon dioxide poisoned.

The leaps in detection technology even in the last ten years are astounding.

In higher circles, wealth is considered a measure of competence.

It is a core tenet of capitalism: “Well if he’s such a bad businessman, why is he so rich?”

One of the ways they hide their incompetence is buying the talents of other, actually skilled people.

Another is ostentatious displays of wealth to impress other members of the owner class of your absolute flushness of cash and calmness of mind to keep faith in whatever your schemes are this week to stay relevant

Billionaires should not exist, and a trillionaire is simple an abomination

I dunno what the movie was called, I was 7 and had fallen asleep in front of the TV. When I woke up there two ‘grey’ aliens of in hindsight terrible costumes crouching in some bushes.

I had never seen a depiction of a grey alien before that and my uncanny valley sensor peaked higher than ever at any other point in my life and I ran to my room without even shutting off the tv.

It’s funny to look back and remember that as a moment of legit fear, knowing what I do now.