ogmios
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What art style you want to reproduce? 6 days ago:
I’m not certain if there’s actually a name for it, but I’m rather partial to this style I see all over the place in which a human artist uses physical media to create something which evokes emotions in the audience.
- Comment on Pikachu Becomes Viral Symbol of Resistance During Anti-Erdoğan Protest In Turkey 6 days ago:
That’s why they hate memes so much.
- Comment on If you work hard enough, your work will [pay off].’ And that’s not true. 1 week ago:
Those three pillars are my best assessment of how I managed to find myself as the singular best in the world at what I was doing (nothing career worthy, though it did point me in that direction). I was lucky that my parents got me started on it at a very young age, my other hobbies were strongly synergistic meaning I was spending much of my time developing related skills, when I first got into it I just randomly happened to meet up with the group that I reached the top with, so being surrounded by such excellent company had a massive impact. I met so many people who had very strong talent and dedicated themselves, but just never got the breaks I did. But like you said, it was largely because I already had the talent from early childhood learning and had remained dedicated my whole life that I was capable of fitting in when I did meet the right people.
I strongly recommend everyone read Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth,” as he argues very strongly, with some great anecdotes from his life, for the importance of preparing to receive good luck.
- Comment on Creator of HaveIBeenPwned Data Breach Site Falls for Phishing Email 1 week ago:
It’s a pretty great example to highlight just how insecure the digital environment is. Only takes one tiny mistake to open yourself up to significant harm.
- Comment on Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland 1 week ago:
That’s what raising a family is about.
- Comment on If you work hard enough, your work will [pay off].’ And that’s not true. 1 week ago:
you can try your best and still fail
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ask yourself what you think your country would look like if the Internet was hyper fixated on every single bad example anyone could find within your borders.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
I think your argument relates closely to something I’ve noticed happening over and over with more than just game developers. Far too often I see people expressing frustration that the Internet doesn’t give them more accurate information about the real world. Way too many people, apparently including many of the richest and most powerful people alive, have come to see the Internet as a magical machine that will do anything they want it to do… if only people would use it differently! Like, they legitimately seem to expect the entire population to post their entire lives online, unfiltered, so they can be used as automatons by people they’ve never even met.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
… I think you’re confusing the false god “Forethought” with the real God from gnostic writings.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
If your understanding of Christianity is based upon how well mainstream Christianity understands it, then you don’t actually understand it, only the warped form that it takes after thousands of years of infighting and political manoeuvring. For example, did you know that at one point it was actually taboo to depict Christ as a human?
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 1 week ago:
Yea, both Democrats and Republicans have a pretty solid history of voting in lock step on matters of giving themselves more power.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
Christianity is virtually always represented by those who either don’t understand it, or are deliberately slandering it.
- Comment on How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished? 5 weeks ago:
How do you know it isn’t actually Eden, but you just focus on all the wrong things to see it?
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 month ago:
Trying to push the entire world’s population into the same spaces. Sometimes, it actually does make sense to have spaces specifically for those with common experiences, like men’s and women’s spaces.
Social media NEEDING new content by the minute simply in order to survive.
Heavy reliance on volunteer moderation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bingo.
The only people you actually end up reaching are people with good intentions who don’t need to hear it in the first place. “Stop taking advantage of people” is a message which can usually be dispensed only by force. The moral panic over “toxic masculinity” did very little to affect those who actually caused problems, but a great deal to disenfranchise those who would actually make bad actors stop taking advantage of others.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 2 months ago:
People can understand the business case for something, but still disagree with the resulting behaviour. A large part of the issues people have with business is that things which are perfectly sensible legally result in antagonistic scenarios in practical application. I’d be willing to bet that people would be a lot less touchy about it if such legal considerations weren’t increasingly encroaching on their everyday lives through things like social media and consumer products.
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 2 months ago:
Try actually comprehending what you read. I’m saying it’s understandable that they’re giving companies time to adjust their formulas/processes. I have not once said the ban is a bad idea. Frankly, as my first comment stated quite clearly, I’m very happy this is happening.
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 2 months ago:
You really ought to learn to hold more than a single thought in your head at the same time. It’s a very valuable skill which helps navigate this crazy life, like recognizing in this case that there are ordinary people relying upon their jobs to feed their families who would be significantly harmed if the government were to focus exclusively on one thing only when making decisions.
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 2 months ago:
Yea man, lets swing around the power of government wildly to conform with whatever the headlines say today, absolutely and without mercy. I’m sure that will create a functional society.
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 2 months ago:
It’s kind of understandable though. It would be pretty shitty to tell companies using completely legal means that they have to immediately change their products and methods or shut down.
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 2 months ago:
Better late than never. Great to see some positive news.
- Comment on Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged” 2 months ago:
I suppose they’re attempting to survive what they see coming.
- Comment on What anime is in your PTW but haven't gotten a chance to watch it? 2 months ago:
I watched most of the first season of Mushishi, and ended up falling out of love with it. I’m not sure if it did ever end up going anywhere, but more than half way through there was still no cohesion or connection between episodes.
- Comment on 'Ending that completely': Facebook gets rid of fact-checkers in wake of Trump's election 2 months ago:
They “trust me” dumb fucks
They trusted that Zucker was a hell of a lot smarter than he actually is.
Oops.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 2 months ago:
You’re supposed to recognize their undisputed superiority and turn yourselves into automatons for their pleasure, having no other options available to you.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 months ago:
The dude has been plagued by scandals for the past decade. It’s honestly shocking that he managed to last this long.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 months ago:
There’s been a concerted effort over the last several decades to push a men vs women dynamic online, and most men don’t buy into it, so it’s really just been people shitting all over men without consequence.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 months ago:
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I personally like the feeling of two equal and opposite forces pushing against each other, cancelling each other out and creating a firm, unchanged, structure no matter how much force is applied. I do the same while doing squats sometimes, and it feels more stable.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 2 months ago:
It’s absolutely worth an entire lifetime of exploration. But dismissing things you can’t explain away immediately with chemical processes, as some sort of unknowable sorcery is exactly why I call it reductive. As far as I’m concerned, maintaining a reverence for the fact that you will never be capable of conclusively explaining such things, because there is vastly more detail involved than even a thousand lifetimes could ever uncover, is necessary if you want to actually begin to learn about what’s really happening.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 2 months ago:
Frankly, this kind of reductive deconstruction of human experience is a huge part of what’s going wrong with society. Music is created by people who dedicate themselves to exploring the world we experience, and discovering nuance which evoke feelings which can not be simply explained, betraying the existence of deeper layers of human experience than anything directly available to cold analysis. Certainly there are then those who copy the form of works created by such artists, who actually do treat music that way, but the result is like the output of a LLM, and repetition of such a style is like training AI on it’s own data, progressively degrading what was once there.