KoboldCoterie

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
True equality!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The term is connected to misogyny. If someone just wants to give up dating and that’s the end of it, there’s no reason for anyone to be ticked off by that idea. It’s the doomer attitude surrounding it and the effects of it that cause problems. You used the term ‘black pill’, which has specific connotations - it’s not simply choosing to give up dating.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

The term black pill, first popularized in the 2010s on the incel blog Omega Virgin Revolt, refers to accepting the futility of fighting against a feminist system. Blackpilled incels are encouraged to either commit suicide or “go ER”/be a “hERo,” referencing Elliot Rodger’s 2014 Isla Vista murder spree that has been called an act of misogynistic terrorism.

(Source: Britannica
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve said this before (and caught flak for it) but I think the solution to this is to apply a heavy additional tax to vacant homes (as defined as any home that isn’t occupied by a permanent resident for more than 6 months a year), and increase the tax exponentially for each residence beyond the first owned by the same company or individual.

At some point, you make it so expensive to keep unoccupied properties that they’re better off letting people live there for free than continuing to let them go unoccupied. Use all of the proceeds from this tax to assist homeless people or build new dense housing developments.

“But Kobold, what about soandso with their summer home?” If you can afford a second home, you can afford to pay a bit more tax on it to benefit the public good.

“But Kobold, a lot of those homes that are vacant are run-down, or are in places nobody actually wants to live!” Doesn’t matter. If they’re vacant, tax them. Use the money to build dense housing in the places where people do want to live. If the place is too run-down to be occupied, the owner can tear it down and do something else with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This seems like a novelty that people would watch one time and then promptly forget about. Where’s the appeal in this at all? Not even from an “AI BAD” standpoint, but just, like… why?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So, Primer, then? Where you turn on the time machine at the point you want to return to, and when you get into it in the future you’re returned to that point?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

My real wonder would be if the majority of Americans would okay the amount of money it would cost to save that one man?

Depends where the money is coming from. Military budget? Absolutely. Being taken from social services and whatnot? No. The amount of money that would cost could save so many more lives if it was used for things here. Choosing to spend it on saving an astronaut rather than on, for example, feeding homeless people and distributing medication and disaster relief is like a version of the trolley problem where the trolley is already heading for the 1 person, but you have the option of switching it to the other track to kill more people if you want to. I’d have a really hard time calling that moral by any metric.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Also some absolutely great dialog / voice acting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America in a New Gilded Age? Wealth, Power, and Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Give that the gilded age was characterized by a massive spike in wages… No. No, we aren’t. Or rather, yes, we are, but only for a very select few people. For the rest of us, we’re entering into a new depression.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

‘Cause I been drivin’ and puttin’ so long,

I didn’t realize the water is gone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corruption fetishists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Terraria
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, but a multiplayer game which starts with, for example, 4 players could be reduced to 2 players before it ends, so they have to specify ‘begins with’ to keep that multiplayer game from also being a two-player game at that point.

And this really sums up the level of semantics and minutia that requires a 299 page comprehensive rule PDF for a card game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Or any interaction that requires understanding layers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In all fairness, the instructions you actually need to know to play the game could be summarized in a single page (with the caveat that there will be a lot of edge cases that won’t be adequately explained there); tournament judges and, to a lesser extent, tournament players are the only folks who need to know the majority of what’s in that PDF.

That said, the game is super archaic and hard to learn, and any player who thinks otherwise is probably either playing only at a super basic level, or just isn’t considering how long they’ve been playing and how much nuance they’ve accumulated. Sorry you had a shitty experience; your friends absolutely should not have tried to throw you into the deep end like that. You sound like you already know, but to reiterate it, this was absolutely not a failing on your part and was 100% your friends’ fault.

If you actually want to try the game (and I completely understand if you don’t), you can go to a game store that sells MtG products and ask for a (free) intro deck. They’re small decks with simpler cards and a booklet explaining the basic game rules that can be helpful to learn the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wow. If you told me this was satire, I’d 100% believe you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Here, just use this easy quick-reference PDF.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Come in with some bolt cutters. Free the milk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Really, the whole basis for the anti-AI arguments seem to boil down to “It feels wrong that a billionaire’s corporation should be able to take the work of artists and writers and, without paying them for it, use it to create a tool that is then used to put them out of work.” And that’s absolutely 100% true, but it unfortunately doesn’t hold any legal weight, and the terms we currently have to describe intellectual property theft simply aren’t sufficient to describe what’s going on here. Until new laws are passed, I don’t see any of these attempts to stop AI going anywhere, but I’d love to be proven incorrect.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The question wasn’t, “Could this be used as evidence?”, it was “Would this exonerate you?”

Maybe we’re answering two different questions, but I don’t see this being enough to exonerate anyone without some supporting evidence to go with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s like saying you couldn’t have committed a crime because your TV was on at the time; it seems too flimsy to even be usable if you didn’t have some other form of evidence supporting that it was actually you using it to go along with it. I’m not a lawyer, so it’s possible I’m totally wrong, but surely no competent lawyer would expect that to work and no judge would take that as evidence on its own merits.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It wouldn’t exonerate you, unless you could prove beyond a doubt that it was you using the phone. It’d be easy, if you were planning a murder, to give an accomplice your phone and have them use it all night to cover for you. It might be able to be used in conjunction with other evidence, though, to assist in your defense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh to go back...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I remember when I was in middle school, I saw my older brother working on a Unix system and it looked like he was some elite hacker. Now, it’s the same look I get from my kid any time he sees me doing anything in the terminal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh to go back...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe I needed to add a \s to that. :D
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh to go back...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Swordfish was always one of my favorites.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh to go back...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hacking scenes in old movies are ridiculous to look back on. Always some crazy GUI-heavy pseudo-video game with people clattering away madly on keyboards and tense music playing. So unlike hacking scenes of today, which are obviously much more realistic to appeal to a refined modern audience. We’ve truly come a long way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your approaches to donating?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have heard that small recurring donations are more helpful in general than larger one-time donations, so that’s what I tend to do - small recurring donations to services I use or creators whose content I consume. I tend to only do this when the service or content is primarily donation-supported, though.

This is also easier for me to manage, because it becomes a monthly recurring cost and I can see easily how much I’m spending on donations and adjust them as needed, whereas with larger one-time donations, I tend to lose track of how much the total is in a given period.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I believe their meaning was, ‘Do you have to see boots on the ground before you call it a war?’, not accusing you personally of wanting war.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make dinosaurs weirder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

At that rate, they could just also invent a space faring dinosaur civilization from the same fragments of information and it would be just as grounded in reality.

I want to live on that planet. It can’t possibly be doing worse than we are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Simply adding one word would have made the title much less misleading.

‘JD Vance gets briefly suspended from bluesky ‘just 12 minutes after first post’’

As it stands, it strongly implies that his first post caused him to get suspended, and that he’s still suspended now. I’m not even sure why this is considered newsworthy. Why did someone even bother writing this article? Answer is, I’d wager, because the headline makes it sound sensational when it’s in fact not, and it drives clicks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t think that the omission of the very relevant followup fact from the title is misleading, perhaps intentionally so, to someone only glancing at headlines?