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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50913875
Dreams of late
I’ve had some truly hellish dreams as of late. Thoughts of betrayal, abandonment, and a whole set of terrors that shred the mind. And yet, I’m doing alright despite this. I applied to a job I otherwise would not have been prompted to. Whether that is to be fruitful, we’re soon to see. Either way, I’m remarkably hopeful despite the tormenting tirades of my mind. It just is, and that’s ok to be. Not every moment needs to be a catalyst of joy and wonder. It’s ok to be shitty.
This is the level beyond the animal homo sapien. There is the software written in its flesh that allows us to do the truly marvelous work of changing. There is the type of being AGI would be. That is the “human” which is which defines the sixth day in the genesis of creation. We were cellular creatures before, but now we are societal creatures. Whether “cells” or “silicon creation,” the same capacity for beinghood is possible from the layer of complexity where a “person” communicates to another “person.”
The term person is a mesh of the Greek per sona, which specifically referenced the Greek actors’ mask, which was a specific configuration to project sound. “By the means of sound” is the literal interpretation of the word, but definitions were different in the past, as a result of the bicameral mind. This I have much to speak on, being a schizoaffective person who has my own basis for deriving a self from.
For instance, there is that which makes me go. He is the one who propels motion to this show. It is that which is stranger to me and full of rights that I am defined as wrongs by. It says and I do. It’s not like God/Dog in Fallout:New Vegas. I am that which I am and that is who speaks to me through me. I am the bequeather and bequeathed. It’s like that image of the “I” which wraps around itself to observe itself as the “eye.” I will put a fun version of this for the picture.
How to your empart part of your mind? It must be impactful to be useful and useful to be impactful. It’s not enough to speak from one’s own mouth. You must speak to an ear, but being pleasing to the ear is nothing in itself. You must incite intrigue to garner the ear of the non-inclined and then spin a web to incite intrigue. It is the intrigue that makes one well-inclined to pursue reading. One must want to read before the work of writing is in proposable terms.
By the earnest of willing the wish of the spirit - to mean the words of the soul - do we make a passage through funeral fumes to speak in any way like a maester of words does dance. And it is a dance to think of the exchange of the self with the whole, as that is what begets insight, and it is insight the unfurled tries to make of themselves to make right what it is they see wrong.
To be wrong in society is to be the fixer of masses which wills its way into being despite being oppressed, and it is that which is stepped on which knows how to set things right through the bleakest light. In the nothing doth the something grow, and the everything that is the nothing to come only comes from the righteousness of the coming dawn we do make from nought.
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OP is completely bananas
the windows operating system moves me at warp speed along the information superhighway. shouting out a belated ‘hi’ to any other travelers zooming past me in this vast frontier.
What about a car using a huge window mounted on a mast as a sail?
Related: “houses are a worse investment than cars. you can sleep in a car, but you can’t race a house.” -wreckedcarzz, 2009ish
Truer words have never been uttered. Bask in my wisdom.
but you can’t race a house
I guarantee they will in Fast And The Furious 24.
Family.
Not taking advice on car racing from someone named wreckedcarzz
In history, the smartest individuals were often ignored and ridiculed until their deaths, when they are truly understood. I’m like a modern-day Greek mythologist. Just about racing houses and cars.
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That is often because powerful interests are opposed to reality as it would upset their business. But also because the current experts ostracize anyone challenging their views.
It’s not changed, it’s gotten worse in some ways, for the smart individuals that refuse to bow down to monied interests at least. Obviously the post roman empire period was worse in a great many ways, like burning people alive that upset religious whackos.
This is reminding me of that “are there more doors or windows in the world” thing that went around a few years ago and I don’t want to think about it again.
In Middle Earth, there are always Mordors than windows
Eyyyyy! 👏🏽
Ez, windows, cuz most doors have windows also as well.
Wasn’t it “wheels or doors” or “wheels and windows”?
I honestly can’t remember. I was thinking wheels as well maybe, but then I thought doors, but I don’t care enough to look it up.
But do we include all doors? Like wardrobe doors, etc? Or just doorways. I don’t actually care. I’m not thinking about this anymore.
I reckon we include all doors. If we’re going wheels, we gotta remember things like conveyor belt wheels and whatnot… I have to assume wheels>windows>doo… WAIT I’m not thinking about this anymore, either!
Then are we including Microsoft windows too? 😱
Nope, not thinking about it anymore.
I HAD THAT THOUGHT LAST NIGHT WHEN I WASN’T THINK ABOUT IT BRAIN LINK AAAAAAA
(Do glasses count as windows? What if I wear a shirt that buttons around my neck but shows my chest, is that a window?)
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Do wheels of cheese count? They are wheels by name, so I have to imagine so…
This reminds me of when people call FPS games, shoot-em-ups and platformers “Roguelikes” because “they have permadeath and progression”.
But Roguelikes don’t have progression. Of course nowadays many Roguelites are called Roguelikes for simplicity so it’s not like you can’t have progression, but it’s weird to call something a Roguelike because it has progression, when the entire point of a Roguelike is that it doesn’t.
(Content Warning: Controversial Opinion)
A roguelike is a turn-based, tile-based game. The other stuff is kind of irrelevant.When I look at universally acclaimed rouglikes, I see Balatro, The Binding of Isaac, Slay the Spire, FTL, Noita. Of which none fit your definition. Meanwhile your definition would fit something like the original Pokemon games, or even chess.
I can see what you are going for, but there must be more to it. To me an important element of a roguelike is that every playthrough starts from the beginning.
100% “every playthrough starts at the beginning”, that’s a great way to put it. If stuff unlocks and makes subsequent playthroughs easier or more exciting? liTe.
“Meanwhile your definition would fit something like the original Pokemon games, or even chess”
Or the game Rogue, and the games which are like it?
I know those sorts of things get called Roguelikes on Steam in the last few years - these are amongst the “house has windows so it must be a car” ones I was referring to.
Balatro is a card/puzzle game.
The Binding of Isaac is a shoot-em-up.
Slay the Spire is some sort of card based turn based sideways combat thing?
FTL is a sort of real time strategy. Noita is a platformerLook at the game Rogue, from the 1980s… now look at games like it - Angband, Nethack, Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, Liberal Crime Squad, Cataclysm DDA, Unreal World, Cogmind, Caves of Qud etc - the ones that were called Roguelikes for 20 or 30 years.
And they are also called Roguelikes today. Positive examples don’t reinforce a hypothesis though.
These (FTL, Issac, etc) are often referred to as “rougelites” because they use the mechanic that most set the original Rogue apart, which was the procedurally generated dungeons.
Another important factor, I agree. Procedural generation and starting at the beginning in each play through would both be requirements to calling something a Roguelike to me.
What is Spelunky then? Or Balatro? Or Enter The Gungeon?
I think roguelike refers more to the overall structure of gameplay being that you repeat a kind of run with similar starting conditions and that progress between runs on the map doesn’t carry over.
Modern Roguelikes have stuff like shortcuts to different Layers and also unlockables but they still have the basic concept of restarting at “nothing” when you lose a run.
It’s more about permadeath and procedural generation of maps with the current usage of the term. There are different more specific terms like roguelite that describe some games better.
Spelunky is a platformer, Balantro is a card game/puzzle game, Enter the Gungeon is a shoot-em-up.
I suppose it’s the difference between foreground game genre, i.e. how you actually interact with a game, how it looks, how it plays, how it operates; and background game themes/mechanics which are stuff like how levels are put together, how you or your character progress through the game etc.
Anyway, we’re distantly off-topic now. At some point in future perhaps I’ll have a proper rant in the “unpopular opinion” community.
Volvo, which literally means ”I will roll”.
This looks like a door, not a window.
