[[Right]] Wing Political Savvy

 Beside a few querulous far right extremists, no one is even pretending to give a shit that America has no functioning presidency right now.
https://twitter.com/xenocosmography/status/1815381505864020424

 America hasn't had a functioning president for the last 248 years.
 Today on revenge is sour, you have political problems because you keep behaving as if america has a president. All suffering comes from delusion.

 America's culture is [nobody could possibly be stupid enough to believe that]. Nobody could possibly be stupid enough believe america is a democracy and has a president. Except the [[right]] wing *(left of hitler, a socialist) gets so high on their own supply they're surprised when DNC presidents can be uninstalled as simply as a screensaver.

 Like I'm glad you noticed america doesn't have a president sometimes. China hasn't yet noticed mao was bad for china. China is highly vulnerable to being mao'd a second time, as a result. The [[right]] noticed that the assassination absolutely clinched trump at the ballot box...but hasn't yet realized that if you can steal an election once, you can steal an election twice. The ballots are irrelevant. You might as well just piss on it. Being used as toilet paper is the most useful a ballot can hope to be. When, in 2025, america still doesn't have a functioning president, will they forget 2024?

 I suppose this settles the question. Why was biden chosen? Simply to humiliate voters, to let them know their place? Naw, it was because removing a doddering senile has-been is easy. Why bother with the inconvenience of grassy knolls and so on? Simply inefficient. It's not like he does any work.

Female Lust is Defective

 The most common and strongest driver of women's horniness is betrayal. Specifically a traitor who gets away with it.

 When a man says it's important to be attractive to women, he is declaring it is his intention to betray you. If he hasn't done it already, it's only because he hasn't yet managed to secure his getaway driver. Don't worry, he'll have a plan worked out soon. He genuinely thinks it's important and isn't going to get lazy or forget.

 

 To a woman, treachery and parasitism is exactly what [high status] means.
 Women keep letting themselves to be drawn to men who abuse everyone else, then acting shocked when he treats her the same way. "No no you're supposed to abuse everyone except me! I'm the exception!" "Oh no, how could he do this to me, who could have possibly seen this coming."
 Women are specifically attracted to bad ideas, and their plan is to ride the tiger, trying to suppress the badness using female game or whatever. I repeat: if associating with you is not a bad idea, it's startlingly difficult to make a woman wet. It's not an emergent property. Being hueg incidentally makes it cheaper to beat someone up but that's not the point. It's being a bad idea in and of itself; being hueg or whatever is merely the means. The [danger] she wants is the risk you'll do to her what she loves so much when you do it to everyone else. 

 Red pill dating advice is basically to trick her into thinking she has you tricked or appeased, but to [[accidentally]] slip the bounds from time to time to show you both need to be appeased and can be restrained, somehow, by a woman. E.g. muscles mean nothing if you would never use them to hit her.

 

 It's a major reason white government hasn't been tried. If you're not abusing your underlings the women lose interest. A king trying good will go tyrannical to make his wife more excited about the bedroom. Telling folk what to do is not enough, they have to want to refuse but fail.  

 

 Why can't male peer groups allow women, especially unattached unrestrained women? φαγγωτρυ? No, the opposite: someone always tries to appeal to the woman by shanking one of his former friends. An ingroup man witnessing this realizes he wants to do the same thing, and realizes all the other men are realizing the same thing. Cooperation and femininity are antonyms. P.S. Phi alpha gamma omega tau rho ypsilon.

 It is not a coincidence that profound thinkers across time and space keep trying to make celibacy a major virtue. 

 

 P.P.S. I just now noticed that chastity is particular to women, while celibacy is particular to men. They're very different behaviours. Male chastity is trivial, unavoidable. Female celibacy is impossible, it's a self-contradiction. 

 P.P.P.S. It is also not a coincidence that the virtue-celibates keep failing to make their system coherent.

Elite Overproduction is not Elite

 Reminder that elites do not behave at all like "overproduced" [[elites]]. 

 

 A society made solely of geniuses would be amazing. A society of the intensely pious would be unfathomably glorious. "But who would take out the garbage?" The point of a genius is they're smarter than you and can solve problems that you can't solve, lol. What is impossible for you is easy for them. 

 Elites are very much born, not made. If you try to keep an elite from their elite education, they will smite you and get it anyway. For elites, self-teaching was the only real option in any case. The question is whether, after being (self) raised, they support your society or oppose and undermine it. The idea that anyone can choose to produce more or fewer is a hilarious egalitarian superstition.

 A [produced] elite is by definition not an elite. He's a commoner given delusions of grandeur. 

 If elites could genuinely be produced, the correct answer would be to maximize it. Only stop when costs get so high that more marginal elites were being destroyed than produced. 

 Since instead it's impossible, by inspection a society with a cadre of commoners playacting at being elites is going to have issues. Especially if large parts of the government are dedicated to materially supporting the stage illusion. Narcissists have fragile egos, and it's expensive to coddle these delicate snowflakes, especially for long periods of time.

 Imagine a government so weak it has to hire theatre kids to pretend to be aristocrats, or it will collapse. Impressively feeble.

 

Readership Increasing, Which is Concerning

 Most of my readers read out of guilt. 

 Don't do that. You can stop, it's okay.

 

 Readership numbers for this time last year are now invisible on the time series. Looks like a flat line hugging zero. 

 There's some twisted idea about "seeing both sides" or "getting out of your echo chamber" or "getting a wide array of views," and, well, if they could articulate it properly this post would be well pointless, because they would have already figured it out. This is one of those times where, if you word the problem precisely, the solution is not only easy, it is unavoidable. 

 Here's the question: what did you manage to do, as a result of reading my blog, that you couldn't have otherwise done?

 Nothing? Is it nothing?

 Okay, do you read for entertainment? We all have to waste time sometimes.

 ...no? 

 Do the accounting. If it's not entertaining, and it's not making you more powerful, stop. 

 Also wtf why are you all using chrome. how much do you enjoy being spied on

 Apparently I've picked on america enough that they, at least, have partially learned what's good for them, and my readership is completely dominated by [other]. Of identifiable regions, it's hong kong followed by singapore. That is, actual capitalists, so that's nice. America is down in third. These are absolute numbers, meaning considering per capita that's quite the ratio. Spain, of all places, in fifth. Below spain it's probably dominated by bots and scammers seeking vulnerabilities, but who knows. The difference between me and the government is that I'm aware the numbers are miles away from clean.

 Dear HK and SG, you're also brutal to your own children and tell 'em it's for their own good, but at least you don't tell the rest of the world you're the shining beacon of morality because you """ended""" slavery. You don't torture your kids for 13 years then kick 'em out when it turns out that wasn't good for them. In absolute terms you're traitors to your own blood, unquestionably worse than mythological!hitler, but so is everyone else and you don't double down. In relative terms you're kicking all of the ass.

 Wait, hold on, getting spied on in HK and SG is largely harmless. You're too far afield for the CIA to care, aside from extreme edge cases. Indeed I actively recommend orientals use american spyware rather than local oriental spyware (and vice-versa).  E.g. americans should be using weibo and the chinese should be using twitter, never the reverse.

Uniformity is Dystopia

 I have a recurring dream which, unusually, only occurs during the day. It's a dream about the failure of global communication, leading to a fractal elaboration of societies. Each neighbourhood, each house, even individual rooms, detailing themselves to infinity as they no longer have to "get along" or in any way be compatible with anything except what is immediately next door.

 I think the worst tyranny of the black government might be the imposition of legibility. Naturally, the tyrannized immediately become enthusiastic participants, attempting to make themselves understandable not only to the drooling-moron tyrant, but to everyone in some [[global]] [[conversation]]. At the cost of even the shallowest version of profundity. The lowest common denominator is lower and lower the wider the society must reach, so, of course, they deliberately reach for the widest possible [[international]] community. Childishness as virtue. The more immature, the better - less the curiosity inherent to childhood. Toddler-. 

 It is walls and barriers and divisions and inscrutability that lead to depth. Unity levels so aggressively, it razes everything to the dirt. Every community should be incomprehensible fae to every other.

 

 If there was no way to know what a place was like except by going there, it would mean every place could be different, every little nook could be a new possibility, spanning a massive cosmic space, instead of being yet another copy of every other place. 

 If every place wasn't striving to be readable to someone else who literally experiences night while they're having day, then while certainly not required, every place could reach for endless depth. Each tiny local quirk could lead to a whole explorable culture.

 There would be no way to know if what you're looking for is only a few streets over or a half-hemisphere away, and in return, there would be a nonzero possibility of finding it. It would, you know, exist at all.

 A crude metaphor: imagine building codes didn't have to be centralized, so there were parasitic buildings deliberately grafted onto others. Or not, as the local conditions dictated. Imagine every possible variation on Kowloon Walled City, and imagine they all existed. Open, closed, tall, deep, artificial, natural. The point being, really, that you can't imagine it. The point being that you would have to go and look, instead of explicitly having no need to. 

 As always, there is no need to wait for permission. You can turn off the TV. Could start right now.

 Doubtless you've already realized rather than being a fractal of possibilities, it would only be the fractal of various kinds of self-destruction. Dissolution, but now inefficiently so, lacking a central distributor of self-abnegation lore. Profound only by accident. Yet, I dream anyway. 

 You don't have to lie to deal with self-hatred. Accept that the buddhists are right and the purpose of the afterlife is to stop reincarnating. Then, distract yourself. Don't dwell on it. Don't think about it. Throw yourself into...not-yourself. 

 Even under ideal conditions, many places would still be samey. At least, samey across a particular city. Biomes don't vary drastically from inch to inch. 

 It couldn't possibly be worse if they didn't have to be samey. 

 

 Global connection is local isolation, which is the true isolation. It is due to pathetically attempting to reach so far that nothing, even the immediate and trivial, is grasped. 

 Global isolation is local connection, local identity, local Existence.

Guide: Metroid NES

 I fired up Metroid 1 because a video was slow and often boring, and accidentally got gud. Here are my findings.

 

 Most importantly, screw attack is easy mode. You can get the most powerful videogame upgrade ever and blitz your way through everything before tourian, except Kraid. I ended up leaving missiles on because I hate how the varia suit looks. With the screw attack, it's not like I need to shoot. 

 Screw attack quirks: it's not really supposed to work within one tile of the platform you jumped from, which makes the hitbox weird. Invincible rippers can hit you since they don't die on contact. It will let you kick zoomers and other short enemies on the upswing, although the timing is tight. Sometimes other enemies attacking at knee height will do damage instead of taking damage.
 If you want to kill zoomers by landing on them, then you need to jump from below their platform. If you want to kill enemies on platforms below you, you can't. Move down, attack up.
 You can jump straight up in a somersault, by letting go of forward at the same time you jump. Although you will activate obligatory sideways movement if you start moving after jumping.  

 

The beginning of the game is real slow, since they expect you to backtrack through all of brinstar twice or more. I will also call out the fact the first vertical corridor is absurdly long and tedious. Pacing lol. Definitely don't fall down. I found I don't want or need to go back for the varia suit. Although I do like the eye-searing purple/cyan missile mode.
 If you also dislike the varia's looks but want to use it (perhaps for acid and lava), there's a handy easy password that lets you start unsuited. Two twos. https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Metroid/Passwords

 You don't need missiles before tourian for anything except doors, and metroids drop 30 missiles at a time. You can kill two metroids at once if they're on top of each other. Stick your gun in there and shoot. If you kill metroids in pairs or even gather them up by letting them latch onto you, you can quickly refill missiles. 

 Accounting: every missile pickup you can't use because you're full is a wasted missile, so before tourian you might as well use them anyway. If you feel like shooting something with a missile, just do it.

 When I first played Metroid I didn't memorize the layout and I did kill everything I saw. Both of these are serious mistakes. Enemies are bullet sponges and I often have to wait for them to even be shootable, never mind in the way. Moreover, drops on these easily-avoided enemies are terrible. 

 If I do need to refill health (and can't get to metroids yet) then I don't use zoomers &c or the spawning pipes. Kill things which drop 20s. Ideally, one-shot leapers or desgeegas (the leaper clones) with the screw attack. The five energy from respawners is regularly not worth picking up, because it lets the pipe spawn another.

 Metroid 1 strongly rewards aggression. The best way to kill Kraid is not to try to avoid or freeze all his claws and spikes, but to get inside him and go for the damage race. Either missiles or bombs will work fine. His belly spikes will block the missile and it will hurt him anyway if Samus' gun is already inside him. Likewise if a particular room seems dangerous, I don't try to be more careful, I blast my way through it as quickly as possible.

 The map of Metroid is small and simple enough that remembering the whole thing is perfectly viable. In particular, keep in mind refill rooms with high density of 20-energy drops. It is said that Ridley's lair is easier than Kraid's. This is true. I would guess it's due to having 20-droppers everywhere, whereas Kraid's is littered with fivers. Ridley's is also smaller.

 There is one exception to aggression, in green norfair. The tall eye/egg pillars with lava. I can't escape the tallest pair, and there's a multiviola perfectly positioned to spawn and knock samus down into there. Instead, be very very careful in this one place. Do note there's a weird second-controller suicide combo, so if you fall in with the varia suit and aren't using save states for some reason, you don't have to wait ten minutes to die from the lava.

 

 Know a technical limitation: scrolling can't happen in both directions. Only vertical or only horizontal. Vertical corridors can't have secret passages on their sides, and horizontal ones can't have them on the floor or ceiling. Cuts way down on bombing/shooting every block. All those copy-pasted rooms also mean secret passages are copy-pasted. 

 

 If it seems to you that drops mysteriously stopped dropping, it's because they did. Rooms have a limited number for some reason. Max about ten missile drops (20), less if the room didn't roll high on missiles, and energy too will slow way down after a bit. Change rooms to refresh the pool.  

 Yes, you can get cheap-shot while entering or exiting a door. On entering, it reminds you that enemies can and should be baited into unwise attacks. On exit, remember that samus is extremely well armoured and a few stray hits here and there don't matter. Don't bother with annoyance or frustration, just keep blitzing.

 Ice beam + screw attack would be a nasty combo, except I can't stop shooting two icicles at once, instantly unfreezing them, and anyway stopping to freeze them is superfluous. The things with good drops aren't hard to hit with the screw attack, while the things with bad drops have bad drops and are best left alone.
 If you can shoot one time (or three times) stuns are OP in every game and Metroid is no exception.
 Ice beam + screw attack would be the best if you ever needed to shoot, since missiles are relatively plentiful, meaning ice beam's weakness wouldn't matter. But you have the screw attack, so it really really doesn't matter.
 It would be much better if the wave beam was before the screw attack, instead of the reverse. The only real use for the wave beam is letting me murder floor enemies more murderously. 

 Oh wait I could deliberately shoot two to miss and aim with the third.

 

 Everything in a particular area does the same damage. Brinstar is 8, norfair is 10, hideout 1 is 20, hideout 2 is 24, and tourian is 30, with the bizarre exception of mother brain who does 20.

 I've heard that doing 100% is a pain since there's no percentage tracker. Um, guys, you can get six energy tanks and 255 missiles. If you have less than that you haven't picked up everything yet. Cool? Cool. You get 75 missiles for each hideout boss, so there's 105/5 = 21 missile packs in the world. 

 The e-tank in kraid's room is very easy to get by dropping off the higher ledge rather than the closer one. Can also bomb jump over the close ledge, from the arena floor.

 Exploit: you can jump in midair using various means. Mainly by unmorphing from a ball. As long as you don't move sideways after the unmorph, you can jump at any time. Conveniently, unmorph uses the jump button, so you can mash.
 Technique: bomb jump, then unmorph and normal jump. I regularly do this to get over ice beam obstacles even when I have the ice beam and don't need to.
 There's that one super-hard jump in Ridley's lair. All that's over there is one missile, and it takes like two minutes to reset if you miss the jump. Use a save state. Or the exploit. Or just skip it.

 I put my toe into super metroid and I don't like it anymore. Metroid's movement is kinda jank but sm's is worse. Symbolize it this way: in sm you can easily jump two screens, meaning you have no idea what you're jumping into. It's also easy as piss. Get the spazer beam and missiles are obsolete...
 The only metroid game with genuinely dangerous metroids is the first, and even then it's merely a learning curve thing.

 In metroid 1 you can triple bomb jump. It's done by simply holding B (for bomb) until it works. This means there can go backwards through Kraid's one-way passages. There's no point, but it is possible.

Newsreaders Feared Nuclear War Because They Love Nuclear War

 Nuclear war scared the boomers so much because they knew if they had a big red ragnarok button, they would smash it. No hesitation. The button would be fully depressed before they even thought to think about it. The hand would already be pushing it by the time they consciously noticed the button is there.

 Humans are comically evil. Saturday morning cartoon villains. Conquer the world, then kill everyone in it.
 But without, like, blood, because that's icky. Everyone would die in sanitary agony, see. Like they do in cartoons.

 Won't admit it even to themselves, of course. If you offer one an omnincidal world emperorship, they would turn it down. However, if you put them in front of that button, after they've already pressed it, they would be delighted and fulfilled. Especially if they get to watch the dying. 

 Try not to admit it, anyway. They were aware enough that they were terrified someone at the consoles was like them.
 For one, you're not supposed to be the guy getting killed, you're supposed to be the guy doing the killing. The end is nothing. The guy who pressed the button is going to end up dead too. The means are everything. For two, how are you supposed to torment your children if you're both dead? Evil is incoherent: the omnicidal urge conflicts with deep sadistic needs. Humans like hell because knowing their own children are in torment gives them deep comfort, and there's always the possibility they will be allowed to do the tormenting themselves, if they suck up to Satan enough.

potus is an attack, not a reward

 The american political game is responsibility laundering. The job of potus is to take the blame, the very opposite of getting away with it. The only kind of prize this can be is a booby prize. 

 You try to force your rivals to take the office while stringently avoiding it yourself. 

 The biden faction's rivals not only forced biden to take office, likely exploiting his cognitive decline, but forced his faction to falsify the election for that purpose. A tremendous propaganda coup. 

 Do you think the deep state didn't know they would lose in ukraine? I don't. I think one faction provoked it deliberately precisely because they knew it was a losing proposition, and wanted to drain the biden deep state faction's coffers. The bidens can't afford to lose ukraine, and likewise can't afford to keep it. The ploy has succeeded well beyond what was needed.

 The election merely sped up the process. Made responsibility for ukraine completely unavoidable for the ukraine-owning faction. Merely not letting someone else's crisis go to waste.

 What if the hunter laptop was released by biden's own faction, in a desperate attempt to dissuade their own foot soldiers? It didn't work, lol.
 Evil can't hire competence, and, then, this happens. All these electioneers who think american politics is something more than rewarding your friends and stiffing your enemies....
 Due to all the responsibility laundering, it's even more dangerous to directly command your foot soldiers than it is to let their command structure get seized by enemy agents. Usurpation-positive Regime.
 To commoners, the losing strategy always sounds better than a winning strategy. More persuasive. It's remarkable that these sorts of unintentional betrayals don't happen constantly. Perhaps it's a MAD thing, and revenge is sour. The biden faction found themselves in such a bad situation that they couldn't credibly threaten to subvert their enemies anymore, i.e. they had already lost, thus 2019 happened.

 Until the debate, all the deep state factions were "cooperating" in "protecting" the dignity of the nation or whatever, but the biden rivals have concluded victory is thoroughly decided, and now, simply...stopped providing air cover for him.