a goofy mascot that keeps doing weird things.

Sounds like exactly what a king should be.

This book

was a lifesaver for me fresh out of college and not knowing what the hell to do in the kitchen.

I made the “mistake” of heavily investing in real estate in Fable 3, so when the time came to choose between “Fund the army to defend against the dark lord” or “Bankrupt the orphanage” I just paid for the whole thing out of pocket and broke the moral dilemma. Oops, I guess?

Except for “Fuck the Pain Away.” That’s about clipping grocery store coupons.

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My mom made money as a lobbyist when I was a kid.

She lobbied on behalf of family farms that wanted to limit the use of bovine growth hormones, either because they had moral objections to pumping their cows full of steroids or because its use gave advantages to factory dairy farms over small family operations.

Lobbying is a disease on democracy, but there are moral cases for its existence in certain circumstances.

Red Alert 2

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Super Mario Brothers 3

God that’s good!

Bird shot… big bird shot.

Praise to Shai Hulud. May his passing cleanse the world.

It seems to me like there’s a lot of talk in the vein of “AI will never be able to meaningfully replace humans at [Task X],” and not enough talk about what we should do to prepare for the possibility of AI replacing humans at those tasks.

Like, right now, AI can create shitty art and write shitty code, but are we prepared for what happens if and when it can do those things well? We’ve got to acknowledge that human lives have inherent value, and not just because they can do things that machines can’t.

Is it not normal to think about what I would do if I was diagnosed with rapidly-developing irreversible dementia, or if there was some horrifyingly painful apocalypse approaching, or if literally everyone I care about in the world all died and I was left all alone?

Comparing the attacks and India’s response to 9/11 is apt because America’s response led to America wasting billions if not trillions of dollars fighting a series of wars that had the primary effect of making people hate us even more than they did before, and also led our national politics down an ever stupider road than we were on before and let us directly to the point where we have our own tinpot dictator.

If history should teach us anything, it’s that America’s response to 9/11 is the absolute opposite of what one should do when attacked, if one wants to have a better long-term outcome.

Horizon Zero Dawn would have been awesome with a nemesis system, especially if it was applied to the robo-dinosaurs. You could have the in-universe justification that a particular robot uploads its consciousness upon death and downloads into a new body, and now it remembers how you killed it before and it will adapt accordingly. Start having epic robots that know you, and you have to keep an eye out for them, but also upon being destroyed they could dispense better scraps.

Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.

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There was a great interview with a woman who had written a book on the Manosphere and she said that it’s “funnel-shaped,” which is to say that the first stages are nowhere near as extreme as the ones they lead to. It starts off by talking to lonely young men and telling them that their feelings are valid and that they have value, both of which are things that young men very much do need to hear! But the pipeline then moves them from that to “Your feelings of isolation aren’t your fault” to “Your negative feelings are women’s fault,” and then you’re off the primrose path to “Women aren’t people” and “Women deserve any horrible treatment you can think of.”

But the earliest stages are ones of finding young men that aren’t having their emotional or structural needs met, and filling that vacuum in.

Boy asks Pope if his atheist father is in heaven.

Humility, patience, kindness, grace, and rationality. Would that we should have more leaders like him in the future.

I got cold-called by one of those “We’ll buy your house!” scam outfits one time asking if I was interested in selling my modest single-story, two bedroom / one bathroom house.

Me: Not really!

Them: Well, if you were going to, what price would you hope to get?

Me: You know what, let’s say five million dollars.

Them: Uh… is this the house at [my address]?

Me: Sure is!

Them: And… five million? You’re firm on that?

Me: Well, anything is negotiable, of course. I’ve got to go now, bye!

And I just really hope that I wasted a little bit more of their time that day, but if someone were to make a horrible paperwork error and accidentally offer me five million dollars for a house worth a fraction of that, that’s really on them, I’d say.