bowsamic

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by bowsamic 2y ago
I predicted this response quite well
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by bowsamic 2y ago
On the other hand, this kind of teaching was very destructive to me: I was taught it was shameful to be angry, and my main religious experience was with Buddhism, which says anger is always purely bad. Of course everyone has anger, and so d
873.
by bowsamic 2y ago
As I said in another comment, those are not necessary and really for people who feel compelled by them. I personally ignored them. You can’t ignore them in Riven
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Well first I think that Outer Wilds still does a great job at nudging the player in a direction and making them feel like they are doing important stuff, though sometimes this fails. Ironically I saw how much Jon Blow got lost and hated Out
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I haven't played the latter, but The Witness avoids, as one example, a common problem in games like Riven or many other old adventure games. That is, The Witness understands that huge challenge is completely fine, so long as it's
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I totally agree. The thing about Myst and Riven is that they really are full of the kinds of things that players will naturally try to circumvent by looking up solutions: non-obvious interactable objects, branching paths, easy to accidental
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by bowsamic 2y ago
"to drive to"? This is Germany, we have (very unreliable) public transport :)
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Weird, I see no fires
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by bowsamic 2y ago
The demos seem quite boring to me
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by bowsamic 2y ago
I was in middle of nowhere Sweden last week but the number of daylight hours are so high that far north that even in the dead middle of the night the sky is still blue
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by bowsamic 2y ago
Kant already explained this in the mind of all “technologist know it all” though
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I agree, it can make your life completely hell, for years
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Here in Germany it seems like people buy a lot of books. Actually people make fun of me for having an ebook reader
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by bowsamic 3y ago
How do you know that??
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Freud would like a word
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by bowsamic 3y ago
He SHOULD see water as threatening
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by bowsamic 3y ago
But then they will contest the claim, it will then have to be investigated, and that will cause huge amounts of pointless busywork that will amount to no clear evidence. Not worth it for such a small fine
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by bowsamic 3y ago
How do you know? PBR theorem justifies the idea that the wavefunction is ontological rather than epistemological
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by bowsamic 3y ago
The website you linked doesn’t work at all on iOS
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Gen Z have done this to a few things. Another notable example is redefining breakcore from “extreme technical noisy breakbeats” to “atmospheric ambient drum and bass”
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Yeah it's actually a little terrifying, almost a lack of survival instinct
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by bowsamic 3y ago
Do you think the state should allow parents of children to kill or neglect them if the parents want to? I don't personally and I'm happy for the state to try and save such children. There are countless other examples like this I c
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by bowsamic 3y ago
If you accept something as an axiom and other people don't then it's not a very good axiom. I.e., you will have to justify yourself and your actions to others, who think your actions are wrong. Besides, an axiom is something assum
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by bowsamic 3y ago
> Why do you think you should have freedom to even think, let alone decide, what is good for other people? It's not necessarily good for each person, but good for society. Also I don't even know if I should have that freedom,
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by bowsamic 3y ago
It's very strange that the doctors told her "There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better." Was that an irresponsible off-hand remark or what? Especially given the disorders she has, perhaps if it w
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by bowsamic 3y ago
You have to make an argument that freedom is inherently good, which is not obvious to me. I think it's good to force people to do things in many situations
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by bowsamic 3y ago
The flagging on this site is pretty crazy recently
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I agree, actually most of my memories of that time are of pretty horrible sights online too. Shock gore sites, snuff films, etc. way more often than today
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by bowsamic 3y ago
I don’t think that comment was negative, it starts by saying they are interesting. I’ve seen a lot of art that purposefully juxtaposes itself with trash.
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by bowsamic 3y ago
There isn’t a single contemptuous comment. Did you write this in anticipation of them?

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