POTUS ages extremely rapidly and Putin doesn't.
Does Putin have a much less stressful job than POTUS?
Better fit: POTUS doesn't have time to cook for himself, so he's on a strict diet. The diet is American, though, so it's horrible for you. They're not exactly poisoning him on purpose by they might as well be.
If you can't lose it's not sportsmanlike, and it's boring. Winning a rigged game is a chore, not playtime. When you first throw the cheats on in a game, yeah sure it's fun, but ultimately if you can win a game by standing there and waiting, it gets old fast.
You can tell gamers don't like games from things like the Darkest Dungeon mod classes. They're all, without exception, overpowered. You have a choice of mildly overpowered and wildly overpowered. You get gamers to like your class mod by making them win without effort. Then they say things like, "Modded DD is so much fun," which makes it sound like they just added a few unusual mechanics. In reality they're trying to make you think they like unmodded nontrivialized DD when they plain don't.
They don't like games, they like the social effect of games. Want to be a gamer without having to be a player. They want the cachet of the "hard" game, but don't want to actually play a hard game. In many cases, don't want to play at all. If you've ever run a book club you know getting them to actually read the book can be like pulling teeth. Without special circumstances, getting three people to all play a game is the same way.
In fact even Red Hook gets in on it; the plague doctor is a wildly OP mod class, except she comes standard in the base game.
The problem game companies face is that gamers don't like games but don't want the rigging to be obvious, for obvious reasons. They want the cheats to be default but to not feel like the cheats are default. "Wow you almost lost there!" Without actually ever losing. No matter how objectively bad you are at the game. It's a smoke-and-mirrors industry.
Don't ask me what's going on with "RP"G players who say they're in it for the story. Really? You wanted a story and you turned to a video game of all things? Shakespeare isn't good. You have to search hard to find a dedicated novelist who is barely passable. (Single-author stories are bad nearly by definition.) "RP"G player: "Those assholes have it too easy. I want a story explained by text boxes in scenes of under two minutes."
You know, when the NPCs repeat themselves verbatim every time they're poked, it really pulls me into the game. How about you? I especially like how in non-Chrono Trigger you have to sit there and listen to their entire word-for-word repetition, like a good little boy.
Maybe ""RP"G players are easily distracted and it never occurs to them to use a story format that isn't designed for 10-year-old attention spans. Maybe they're really arrested at 10 years old. Very puzzling.
Exception: puzzle gamers seem to like puzzles they're actually bad at. I'm not 100% sure though, since I'm not a huge fan of puzzle games (too restrictive and artificial) so I don't play them, so I can't tell if the puzzles are hard because they're hard, or the puzzles seem hard because I'm a rank amateur and the folk I watch playing them are idiots.
My pet peeve is object permanence. There's hardly any game that doesn't play like a fever dream. You drop a thing and it ceases to exist. You blow up a mountain, but if you scroll it off-screen it magically re-appears. Alternatively you fire a nuclear bunker-buster at a wall and it makes a 'dink' noise and pastes a scuff mark on it. You beat the boss and they join your party, but lose every single one of their boss abilities, with no explanation.
There are no normie games. (Maybe peggle and other barely-games.) There's crazy-folk games and hardcore games. Mostly crazies. Luckily for the games industry, America has no shortage of cracked minds.
"God definitely agrees with all of my moral positions and God's relationship with other people is entirely my business."
"No I'm not prideful why would you even say that."
https://nitter.42l.fr/terrorising_a/status/1531279738723090434
Hint: this person intentionally named themselves terrorizing, and misspelled it. I think in their heart of hearts they might think of themselves as a terrorist. Criminal scum who attacks worthless civilians for no good reason. I might take them at their word on this one. They should know, shouldn't they?
In other pointless news, redditors want an island and it went even more reddit than you might expect. https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/meme-insider/a-year-after-getting-scammed-reddit-island-users-are-putting-their-faith-into-a-crypto-libertarian-who-just-got-out-of-a-honduras-prison
I cannot stop laughing about this. Reddit: even more reddit than you can possibly imagine.
Hey, uh, imagine how someone who can legitimately afford an island would react to losing $500.
The kind of person who buys a mummy is cursed.
"You know what? My house doesn't have enough dead bodies. I need more corpses in my house."
God: "Okay. Body = body ++. Prayer granted."
The fruits of Christianity: "The Thirty Years' War[l] took place largely within the Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1648. One of the most destructive wars in European history, it caused an estimated 4.5 to 8 million deaths, while some areas of Germany experienced population declines of over 50%."
Though recall it's not some horrible exogenous devil inflicting itself on hapless peasants. The peoples of these lands could have rejected the obviously evil and insane cult at any time, but didn't. Instead, they seem to rather like it, much the way the sovoks miss Stalinist repression. I'm on record saying Communism is highly educational, however, it seems only the upper classes get the joke. Putin clearly gets it, but Russians, by and large, do not.
Christianity could have come to an accord with itself, instead of immediately launching itself into a frothing rage. Christianity could have followed its own "feed your enemy" and "turn the other cheek" doctrines.
Christianity could have restrained the Hapsburgs and Bourbons.
Christianity could have shut down Sophist Luther before he narcissist'd all over Germany.
Christianity could have at least disavowed the war and minded its own business.
Didn't.
On the plus side, it was very educational. If you're a bit slow and can't tell Christianity is basically Satanism by reading the book, you can tell when Christians reveal they don't believe in the words coming out of their own mouths. Show them no more respect than they show themselves. Has there ever been a Pope who wasn't a mafia don? I've never seen an account of one.
It's kind of a bad sign when your religious patriarch is always an atheist.
I particularly like this bit: "The agreement was undermined by the expansion of Protestantism beyond its 1555 boundaries, into areas previously dominated by Catholicism."
Catholics are bad. Protestants are worse. But don't worry, now we have Wokism, which blows them both out of the water. Christianity is inherently heretical and can't suppress heretics-relative-to-Christianity without undermining itself.
Speaking of Communism...
It plain makes sense, if you think about it in reverse. If Man is Fallen, what kind of religion is likely to succeed among Men? A forsaken one. It would be weird if it wasn't inherently heretical. Christianity, like all narcissists, tells you all about itself. "We're sinners." Christianity is the religion for humans who want to sin. Catholicism means universal sin for everyone.
"In the pagan Greco-Roman world, it was taken for granted that men had
the right to expose a newborn baby for any reason, or even no reason."
https://www.unz.com/isteve/does-this-pyramid-make-me-look-fat/#comment-5363607
Like today, women were mute, incapable of speaking. They couldn't argue against infanticide or in any way petition their husband.
They were also, like today, incapable of asking a man not to infanticide before they married him. Because, as above, women are mute.
Non-fluent.
Incapable of speaking.
Restricted to animal grunts, like beasts. Worse than beasts.
It's perfectly logical, see?
America respects women. It gets it from Christianity.
P.S. The man pays for the baby and therefore the baby is the man's property, end of story. Anything else is irresponsible.
I just realized Rationalism was a bunch of Communists who were dead sure they could Rationally demonstrate the validity of Communism. It turns out the opposite of that obtains, so they dropped rationalism.
Well, again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brights_movement
You can safely look at the "Enlightenment" two ways. 1) a bunch of Communists. 2) a bunch of Sophists who want everyone else to believe in Communism because rich people are smart and won't put up with any of their guff. A not-fool and his money are not-soon to part, unless you part everyone with their money.
Economics tells us that cooperation is good for the economy, and Communism isn't cooperative. Economics is very logical, which made Rationalists break out in hives. They desperately tried to Communize economics, but ultimately you can't do that without unmistakably betraying logic.
The truly effective way to be altruistic is not to be altruistic at all. Altruism is irresponsible. Reckless and destructive. If you want to help someone, buy them. If you want to save a forest, buy it. If you want to shut down a pipeline, buy it. Purchase the responsibility. Everything else is terrorism, and the joke is I'm perfectly serious.
And so on and so forth.
It really gets me that charities are in fact terrorist organizations. I don't quite chuckle, but I almost chuckle infinitely. "Unfortunately, he would have been fine,
except that you just severed his spinal cord. How do you feel? Is your
reaction: “Oh well, at least I tried?”" The founder of MADD couldn't possibly have stayed in charge of MADD, because personnel is policy and she's not a terrorist. Her choices were to shut it down or get ousted; there was no other possible outcome.
Selling your soul for power is to be applauded. Most sell it for a nickel and some pocket lint. They yell, "Take my money!" to the Devil, in the hopes of appearing to be a good person. Don't even wait for a contract and assurances. Selling your soul for power is a massive step up from the normal baseline. Wanting to rule in hell instead of serving in heaven makes you upper class; most will get mad if you don't offer to let them serve in hell.
Recalling that Fascists are fallen Communists, a post-rat is a somewhat less fallen Communist. They like to signal affinity for "woo" and occultism and stuff, because that signals opposition to the tainted, heretical Rationalism. They really believe social status can be equally re-distributed, if you just...something...somethingly. They'll figure it out, I'm sure.
There's two classes who can have this kind of faith in Communism; forsaken idiots, and psychopaths. And the second don't count. It seemed Yudkowsky was cynically running a cult (for narcissists, as with all cults) because he was cynically running a cult. He doesn't genuinely believe what he says - not at the "meta" level, as they say.
Naturally all their social arrangements rapidly became abusive. What do you suppose is going to happen when you gather a bunch of narcissists in the room and promise they're going to change the world?
Naturally nobody will in fact become particularly rational. That wasn't the intent.
Truth is a jealous bitch. She won't tolerate the slightest bit of cheating. Not only must she be your top priority, she has to be your only priority. Flirt with her frivolously only if you're a pure masochist.
As you should be able to work out on your own, for religious nutjobs, social ties are the top priority. Truth won't touch a Communist with a ten-foot pole. They could only aspire to a snowball's chance in hell.
You only feed hospital food to someone you hate. It's not even fit for dogs. It tastes that bad because it's actively poisonous.
"You need to eat!" Starving is healthier. It's industrial diarrhea and should be flatly refused.
At best, hospitals immediately reveal that they have no interest in your health. Addressing the miniscule possibility that they want to make you healthy, they are wholly incapable of pursuing this aim.
Evil, or shockingly incompetent? Whatever you choose, the rational reaction is: stay the fuck away.
Usually, if you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer. Americans get the enviable position of being the product instead of the customer but having to pay anyway.
I guess they call their medicine system the best in the world because they genuinely love being oppressed that much. "Come to America and get victimized harder than anywhere else!" They love it; don't try to take away their sadistic torture industry.
Just, you know, acknowledge it's a sadistic torture industry, not medicine. If you want actual medicine, don't go anywhere near it.
