and it is certainly not normal for a child to think that they are some horrible person who has been reincarnated and this life is their punishment for the last one, or for a child to think that maybe this is just what hell is like and part of being in hell is not knowing that you’re in hell and your existence is punishment.

Oh do you have to do anything about that?

You have a trillion dollars!! Why can’t you just send a big plane to drop a crate of stuff nearby?

How I build a civilization

1. take a JRPG

2. take a town that’s Pog

3. scramble its name a little bit

4. create a guy who lives there

5. think of a fuck ass arc name (e.g. 7 spoons arc)

6. create a story that could plausibly happen in that arc in that town

6.5) this informs the guy’s backstory (optional)

7. render cinema

Like the guys from Impractical Jokers giving you advice while you’re in bed

“Now tell Alexa to play on Cotton-Eye Joe”

Can you fr*cking not?! You’re an owl and that’s not the sound owls make

Sure, here’s a funny reply — Not as bad as boomers, not as good as me. Okay, that sounds good. Alexa, send post

This is like the best I could do if I swapped bodies with Trump for 24 hours, honestly

“I’ve been called worse things by better people”

Is it reddit? Sure. Can you often use it? No. Is it a guaranteed crit if it lands? Oh yeah

I just wanna x

But I just don’t want you to x or y or z so on and so forth

why didn’t you do a structured analysis of a stupid meme in the c/slop comm?

They’re put downs because this isn’t a debate. I don’t respect your position. Idiot

And then I scroll down and immediately see a well articulated argument???

???

It’s because, as libs, were the adults in the room making the tough decisions. The decision is to always concede to the right and bash to the left btw, pass it on

I agree. That’s obviously stupid and bad. It’s like a caricature making fun of us for being inclusive. Like we’re a group of the people having Walmart meltdowns as a personality and culture.

I usually only do that if they call BJJ karate, if a stranger wearing a right wing image macro on their T shirt, or if I’m in the presence of Dave Chappelle or John Fetterman. My comrades use me as a reliable sensor for the presence of occasionally I’ll do it for the love of the game because I have severed the divine light and can no longer feel the Lord’s presence (I think about dialectic materialism)

That’s literally just society

Maybe there’s something wrong with the way I talk or present myself, but disagreements always turn into some kind of explanation of the gotcha I was supposed to get caught with. Like I have some personal moral failing when it turns out the Vulcan death pinch isn’t real and my brain doesn’t turn off when they say social credit system or Isntreal has a right to defend itself. It’s always some kind of “you can see it my way or you can be foolish” like they’re a gatekeeper of being correct.

It pisses me the fuck off. My other theory is that it’s a divorced guy thing because two of the people I think of are that type of guy.

My meaning wasn’t so much that WoW created and killed role playing games. That would be foolishness! I was hyperbolic and I see how you could see me saying that people wouldn’t be playing online together if it wasn’t for WoW

I see RuneScape as the most advanced and famous MUD and it’s succeeding, at least in terms of users and revenue, like never before.

But in terms of the MMORPG as we know it today? The millions and millions of people invested in it? You could never have a serious conversation about it without WoW coming up. It might be a couple paragraphs in a chapter for RPGs as a whole, but as far as I’ve ever seen it you came before WoW, you tried to fill a different niche than WoW, or you tried to be a WoW killer. It was centralizing. The genre was entirely subject to its gravity.

I agree that there’s an eternal hunger for shared fantasy and I hope there’s a good game on the horizon.

What kind of personality would you give the robot? I see three distinct types of bot for that. You could have a quirk chungus, you could have a House MD-like, or you could have an Iron Giant type.

I think of it like an attribute the same way a deadlift is a feat of strength. In its most distilled form a volatile chess position. Can you, under time pressure, take a position and extrapolate it out through multiple different lines and decide which one is most advantageous for you? How many different lines did you consider? How deep can you go? How did you evaluate them? Everybody good at everything I like is always asking “what do they want? What do they think I want?” and responding in kind.

I almost always think about it in terms of competition, invention, and discovery. Some sort of capacity to push a frontier forward.

I see it as separate from diligence, humility, conscientiousness, etc. because you can make an intelligent play from a dogshit position and you can diligently do something without deeply comprehending it. In fact, I derive a weird pleasure from the cold detached analysis of something that has gone wrong, abstracting pain into euphemistic, sterile, categorized subject matter. “If I turn my back to run and the lion eats me that would be… inadvisable.”

If I’m being honest with you, I disagree.

There’d have been no genre to kill without WoW in the first place the way I see it. The whole situation is a big chain of tragedies, but they made something magical for a moment in time.

Because a lot of the people here are libs and libs are bad (everyone but me, the one true leftist)