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by psyc 5y ago
> Satan actually rebelled against a negligent or malicious God for humanity's sake I doubt it's the one you're thinking of, but this was also the gist of Memnoch the Devil, the 5th Vampire Chronicles book.
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by psyc 5y ago
I think this assertion is terribly outdated for 'serious' (Console/AAA) games and 'professional' game developers. I can remember as far back as 2007 interviewing for an XBox360 job, and being asked to describe in de
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by psyc 5y ago
I recently had a reason to play a couple of old flash games. One of them I found a player that would run it. The other, I could not find any player that would run it. I can understand Adobe discontinuing Flash - that's normal. I really
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by psyc 5y ago
FWIW, after I learned/memorized the semantics of C++, it did take me at least 3 years of writing lousy code to develop a sense of how to structure a program, e.g. what ‘should’ be a class, when inheritance is appropriate, etc. As for t
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by psyc 5y ago
Still don't have even the vaguest beginnings of a clue what the fuck a monad is, after reading 50 articles promising to make it simple, as well as their accompanying 500-comment HN threads. I suspect the real problem is that, as a C&#x
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by psyc 5y ago
Again, it's regional. I have lived in places (Washington state, I think, as well as the South) where to my ear people said 'carrot' like 'care'. But where I'm from (northeast) carrot sounds like calculus, car s
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by psyc 5y ago
Right, but what sound does ‘a’ have for you? In my region, car, carrot, and care are 3 different vowel sounds (with ‘car’ being totally different from the others) and ‘character’ sounds like ‘carrot’ and not at all like ‘car’.
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by psyc 5y ago
It must be a deep part of human nature. In my early 20s, my friends and I were anti-war, anti-authority, somewhat nihilistic. On 9/11 we instantaneously felt a drive to get involved. Talk of enlisting etc. Weirdly, I simultaneously hel
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by psyc 5y ago
No. I’ve been a cubist for decades and it’s uncommon for people to say “Rubik’s”. Partly because hardly anyone prefers the original brand. Partly because insiders know what “cube” refers to.
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by psyc 5y ago
But you didn't give the most charitable interpretation. You inferred an extremely uncharitable one, placing words in GP's mouth.
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by psyc 5y ago
Because we can’t exercise their agency for them. Strategically it’s more useful to ask what would they do if we did such. Asking why can’t they just be peaceful isn’t that useful at this stage.
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by psyc 5y ago
It’s all so depressingly primitive. Half of me wants to protest that surely we’re more enlightened than this in current year. The other half would settle for everyone else admitting that yes we are definitely still this backwards.
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by psyc 5y ago
The following shall not be construed as defending Putin’s point of view, so don’t even. Suppose my neighbor is a thug. A gang member. And he doesn’t like me. I have every right to date his little sister. We’re all free adults. My intentions
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by psyc 5y ago
Freedom? Or sovereignty? Because I bet Americans would die for sovereignty. But we take liberty so much for granted that we continually debate trading it to boost all manner of hypothetical social utilitarian metrics.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m not, but if I was it would be for enjoyment, and perspective (or “mind expansion”)
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by psyc 5y ago
"Private!! DID I not tell you to put your phone in airplane mode?" "Sir yes sir!"
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by psyc 5y ago
Hmm. Trying to think of an instance when history reflected kindly on a li’l lite persecution of an entire population. Someone help me out?
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m the same with music and games!
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by psyc 5y ago
Sure. I’m like the person you replied to. It’s three things. 1) It took me 25+ years to amass the expertise. 2) It’s a hobby first, and a career second. 3) Since the beginning I always choose to see how things are the same more than how the
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by psyc 5y ago
It is possible. Contradiction dissolved.
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by psyc 5y ago
Please forward your suggestions to CIA. I am beginning to worry that they have run out of ideas.
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by psyc 5y ago
Carlson's manner of speech here is intended to make you take a giant step back, look, and think. This is very threatening to people for whom beliefs are packages you subscribe to, not things you arrive at with effort. Folks can make an
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by psyc 5y ago
Here’s another anecdote that might be more to your liking. It’s true, BTW. I started drawing seriously when I was 12. Everyone considered me really amazing by 16. I consider myself to have plateaued at 20. I’m not aware of having improved i
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by psyc 5y ago
“Today a young man on acid realized…”
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m sorry but you’re swirling separate concepts together as well as misunderstanding Trump’s persona. I have uncles who talk exactly like this because it makes them sound worldly. Like it’s what they would have done if they had the motive
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by psyc 5y ago
That clearly reads to me as cynical admiration of the strategy, not support for its actual execution. And no those aren’t the same thing.
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by psyc 5y ago
It did not. FBI turned Sabu, and he rolled on the rest.
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by psyc 5y ago
But they can’t go to LiveLeak. The videos on the platforms you listed will be mostly talk. Nothing too graphic, nothing deemed hateful.
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by psyc 5y ago
Instead it’s up to the social media companies, who we know are invested in controlling content on their platforms. And [what I perceive as] a majority of HN users have been arguing all along that it’s wholly their prerogative to censor what
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by psyc 5y ago
I can think of a couple of niche forums that are so dead, that would be feasible. Keywords: so dead

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