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- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 9 hours ago:
Did she make music? Holy shit - if you have a link I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to her for years. She’s genuinely a major inspiration for my painting and art.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 9 hours ago:
Modding is a really under appreciated art form.
Downloading unhinged Morrowind mods in the mid naughts exposed me to new franchises, music, ideas… Like this banger, which plays at some point in the Underground 2 along with this one. (btw, Dawnguard is Emil or whoever wrote it ripping off story beats from a 20 year old Morrowind mod based on the Underworld series lol)
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 10 hours ago:
I play heavily modded Elder Scrolls, where my character never touches the main story.
My favorite Morrowind run was a princess who ended up creating an agricultural baron, buying up every plantation and owning probably hundreds of slaves. She also got into the skooma business on the side (needed money for all of her dresses). Morrowind had a ton of wacky mods that were just fun to play in general - people made Star Wars and LOTR questlines. There’s also the work of Tommy Khajiit (RIP), which is something unique and which has never gotten the respect it deserved. (Or Lady Rae - she liked to recollect the game bright neon colors, and basically got bullied out of the modding community.)
Skyrim is a hunting/vagrant simulator for me. I usually play a Dunmer refugee and avoid the in-game quests entirely. Survival and economy mods to make the focus of the gameplay getting enough gold to afford a room for the night, tweaks to loot to make things more “mundane.”
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 1 day ago:
MetaFilter has a good system for that, they’re effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators.
MetaFilter has at multiple points been on the verge of shutting down, now? IIRC, you pay $5 for an account.
- Comment on How to love 1 day ago:
Hey, it’s a list of my ex husbands favorite tips and tricks!
Did you know that “square breathing” exercises are not helpful when someone’s yelling at you to do them?
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 1 day ago:
Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor.
And these results are taken at face value by a shocking number of people. I’ve gotten into niche academic arguments where someone just copy and pasted the AIs completed hallucinated response as “evidence.”
I experimented with using AI to generate basic quizzes for students on concepts like atomic theory or conservation of energy, but maybe 2/20 questions it came up with were any form of accurate/useful. Even when it’s not making shit up entirely, the information is so shallow as to be useless.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 day ago:
True. It’s just a slogan in the same way that “being White is all right” is or “All Lives Matter” is. It’s not supposed to mean what it means. It’s a code.
Like - once, 4chan (/pol/ and /b/ primarily, early mid 2010s) that it would be funny to make drinking milk a racist thing. It was explicitly discussed how this would make people upset about people drinking milk, and how this would be funny. The alt right weirdos in on the joke get the joke, leftists are befuddled and outraged, the stupid conservative weirdos are laughing at the dumb liberals and their cancel culture getting worked up about milk. Same thing with that pinched thumb and index finger “okay” symbol. 14 and 88 have lost their plausible deniability in most spaces at least.
Very similarly, the idea of MAPS was a /pol/ operation that was carried out to delegitimize the LGBT movement. The idea of people identifying with a sexual orientation based on being exclusively attracted to children, to the point of creating a pride flag, was mostly a /pol/ op. This is not to say that there aren’t creeps who did actually identify as such as a consequence of this movement, but it wasn’t a natural movement of creeps.
Language games. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. The means something entirely different even in just human there.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 days ago:
Gotta love how “”””radfems”””” love the term “adult human female” too.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 days ago:
Which, like, how?
That app fucking sucks and they forced all the good ones to shut down.
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 2 days ago:
Before Skyrim changed Alduin lore, Alduin was Akatosh. The Time Dragon Akatosh ate the world at the end of each era/“kalpa”, with the world being reformed and reshaped. More about the natural cycles of the world and history. (Time is kind of a big thing in the series - the Dragon Breaks at the end of Daggerfall - time breaks in such a way that multiple contradictory things happen simultaneously. It is kinda cool that the most fascinating part of lore is a ass pull to make every ending of Daggerfall canon and not have to pick one)
Skyrim separated Akatosh and Alduin (and there are some in game books justifying this change in theology.) Akatosh is still good god, Alduin is now some sort of independent entity that is just purely evil.
It would have been much more interesting if Alduin was still Akatosh. If the point of the game were you saying - no, I don’t want the world to end even if it is “supposed to” - there could have been some interesting actual plot to break up the dungeon fetch quests. There could have been some tower lore even, that would have been fun.
It reminds me of the flattening of Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion. Like yeah, he’s part of the House of Troubles and not great but I think he’d actually promise something of value to the Mythic Dawn? Also, maybe not fuck them over for lols? He wasn’t just The Devil with the serial numbers filed off.
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 2 days ago:
I hope TES 6 never comes out. Skyrim was a disappointment anyway, I don’t think my heart could take it if they made another story about a big bad wanting to destroy the world for no reason at all.
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- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 3 days ago:
The tweaking isn’t in conversation, but I’m pretty sure they have gone and corrected for certain responses. Alex Jones was crowing about how it “knew” that men can’t get pregnant.
- Comment on Hamster 3 days ago:
It would have helped if my E&M class had been more than triple integrals and geometry.
Idk - would it kill physics profs to graph shit in Desmos so you can visualize some of these fields? Or start with simple examples? I know how to do a partial fraction decomp, but if I’m spending all of my time on tedious algebra and then fuck up the integral in such a way that I accidentally made something that looks like what Papa Wolfram gives you when you ask him to integrate 1/(x^5 + 1) - then you don’t know if you did fuck up or not, because maybe there’s some trick or this has significance and blargggggh.
I wanted to become a physics teacher specifically, just because I hated the way I was taught physics so much. (I hate the way chemistry is taught too, but I also hate chemistry. Unfortunately, I’ve only got to teach physics as a sort of concessionary “elective” that they tossed SPED students and the basketball star in…)
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I prefer sucking dick for free. When guys pay, they get a bit entitled about it and it’s less fun (can’t take a TMJ break).
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 4 days ago:
She went to the kind of Uber wealthy private school you get to go to when your grandpa literally discovered the electron. Easy to say when two Nobel prize winners have funded your education and lifestyle.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
Feynman has so much great stuff to plagiarize.
I think in precalculus at least, something like this is not too hard to show and explain to a student. This would be a fine “final” thing to end the typical high school math career on - showing how all of the different concepts you’ve explored come together.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
Imaginary numbers are best understood as symbolizing rotation. If we’re imagining a number line here, “looking back from infinity” - at a scale where Grahams number looks like the mass of an atom expressed in kilograms, i would not be in that infinite set of numbers, it would be a point above that line and creating a perpendicular plane to it.
I hate the term “imaginary” because it’s misleading. Most high school algebra teachers don’t understand what they mean either, so people learn about these things called “imaginary” numbers, never learn any applications with them, hopefully graph them at best, and then move on understanding nothing new about math.
Students also tend to get really confused about it as possibly a variable, (it’s really annoying with second year algebra courses, where e and logs show up). We say “ah yeah, if you get a negative sign, just pull it out as an i and don’t worry about it. or just say no real solutions.”
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
Shouldn’t have i in there, or j if you’re using that to represent the imaginary number.
The complex plane is separate.
Let epsilon be substantially greater than zero…
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
After calculus though, they just expect you to cope with fucked up coefficients. In Diff Eq, sometimes you do just get something like 3/111 cos (6/111 x). It gets harder to come up with examples that work out with nice integers.
Physics can also have some really beautiful math, look at Lissajous figures. Once you understand the connections between e, the imaginary plane, and sine/cosine, you get some profound understandings about how things electric and magnetic fields work.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 5 days ago:
It’s asinine to require me to be connected to the internet to use my computer. My work laptop was absolutely useless without the internet. There’s supposed to be a pin/password thing that lets you bypass this, but it would work maybe 30% of the time.
I also don’t get why I have to give Microsoft my name and an email address for my video game machine. (I get steam and proton yada yada, but I’m often playing anything that you can barely get to work on its native system - has anyone actually got EYE : Divine Cybermancy for more than ten minutes?)
Windows XP and 7 hit the mark I think. XP let you take it apart in beautiful ways, and had all kinds of wonderful eccentricities - which is also the problem, because XP was insecure af. Windows 7 got right what they figured out by Vista Service Pack 2 as far as security. Less aesthetics, less access to the internals, but also probably “better” for a normie.
The rule is supposedly that every other one is good or something. Maybe 12 will be good?
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Hyped that Nintendo discovered gay people exist.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
Is it a “risk” if it’s the desired outcome?
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 1 week ago:
Yeah - see the thing about the evil trans pedos that totally exist and are kidnapping children to chop their penises off - they just aren’t following the rules for sex with children. It’s gotta be between an adult man and a young girl he can groom and abuse into being a perfect child-wife-slave forever (ever notice the baby voice fundie women like the Duggers tend to have?)
Economically, socially, spirituality (even if you divorce the 45 that groomed you into getting hitched at 18 - Jesus hated divorce!) dependent. Of course, once he takes an interest in that sophomore in the youth ministry, it’s her fault for not putting out enough.
“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.”
- Comment on History is rewritten by victors. How can I find books about actual history? 1 week ago:
By definition a primary source is not “re-written”.
Then there are no ancient primary sources. I don’t think you understand ancient or medieval concepts of authorship, or document transmission.
- Comment on History is rewritten by victors. How can I find books about actual history? 1 week ago:
What time periods/places are you interested in? I am able to and would be happy to give you a detailed list of primary and secondary sources for a good chunk of concepts.
That’s the big thing - historians tend to focus. Even the university “western history from 1500” or whatever are going to vary a lot by what the professor is interested in and focused on. Behind just focusing on like a whole country or time period, they get super specific and do shit like figure out that whole undocumented kingdoms existed based on numismatic work (coins) or look at things like architectural influences that the crusaders brought back and can be seen in their classes (I had a prof who had a whole feminist interpretation of medieval castle architecture)
Your comment alludes to the history of religion, which is definitely a complicated topic and has its own complexities in historiography (the study of history and techniques). Religion has interactions with so many other spheres, and so you have also often dive deeply into the culture and history of the specific people who practiced it to understand the why - which is hard, because religious interpretations that are common now tend to get read backwards into the text.
I’d be happy to give you a list of sources for any religion as well.
- Comment on Preparing for the new America 1 week ago:
My idea as a transgender man who struggles with mental illness - if I am safe, than health cis men are also safe.
Maybe it’s not “use people as a buffer” but the start fighting now.
I know I am in danger and there is nothing I can do about it. Many cis men can do things now, that would improve my life and help push up against this rising tide of fascism.
- Comment on Preparing for the new America 1 week ago:
They probably won’t come for you (unless you’re very politically vocal) until after they’re done with immigrants, LGBTQ folks, the mentally ill…
So if you don’t want them to come for you, help make sure they don’t get to wrap up those groups first. Maybe advocate on behalf of some of those folks - your voice has more clout.
