The big boats being rocked by big waves, the big armored guys’ attack in the forest, Polyphemus. The pillage of Troy. It looked cool.

Yeah, I looked at this post when it had seven comments and was a bit disappointed at the negativity for a movie that I enjoyed watching. Now here I am another 42 comments later and nothing has changed.

I went to this movie for three things: the spectacle, the cool sounds, and watching serious actors act seriously. It delivered on all those fronts when I watched it.

Philosophy is composed of two root words, philo and soph. Philo means “love of” and soph means “knowledge” or “knowing”. Put them together and at its core philosophy is the love of knowledge.

In ancient Greece philosophers were contrasted with the sophists, those who proclaimed to know things without respecting whether they knew the correct things. As the roots of modern science began to take shape proto-scientists were referred to as natural philosophers with a love for knowing about the natural world. When universities began offering doctorates, they were named to have a doctorate in philosophy of (phd) their subject to declare a recipient had shown a love of knowledge in their field of study.

If you are trying to learn for the love of the game, you are practicing philosophy. Any attempt to add onto that I can think of just dilutes that or starts breaking to into different fields within philosophy as a whole.

Dang, any suggestions on plastic-free alternatives to chew on? I’ve been chewing gum the past couple weeks to work my jaw more to help my tense jaw muscles.

What you’re partially describing is the demographic transition model, which splits population growth into five stages. The first few involve birth rates remaining high as a country’s development decreases death rates leading to the birth rate decreasing to match the low death rate. The last stage appears to be a little more uncertain than the last time I read up on it, at that time the standard expectation was that birth rates fall below the death rate in highly developed countries leading to a population decrease.

The problem I have with your thinking on the matter is your focus on “brown people” and the use of immigration to keep population growth. Immigration is just a stopgap solution for population decline because it relies on the existence of other, less developed countries for people to immigrate from. But those less developed countries (I assume the brown people you’re talking about) are also stepping through the stages of the demographic transition model as they become more developed, meaning eventually when the whole world is developed the overall population will peak and then decline. At that point, immigration-reliant countries like the US will have the same problems as anti-immigrant countries are starting to run into now. So the problem itself of population decline is not artificial, different developed countries at the leading edge of the charts are just dealing with the natural trend in different (and sometimes racist) ways.

It is a crisis for capitalism, but as long as humanity relies on systems based on an increase of the fundamental economic unit (the consumer), it is a crisis for humanity as well and we should worry about how to alter those systems. Places like South Korea and Japan are the first to have to deal with that shift, but the rest of the world should be paying attention to what does and doesn’t work for them because we’re next.

The problem with intelligence requirements is two-fold.

First, intelligence is difficult to quantify. I often hear that IQ tests are unreliable or only test for certain areas of what could be called intelligence.

Second, such requirements would instantly become politicized and designed to prevent certain groups from being politically active. This exact thing happened after the US civil war when literacy tests were required and designed specifically to keep black people from being able to vote.

Additionally, I just don’t know that intelligence is the quality that matters most. A selfish smart person is just going to be good at benefitting themself politically at the expense of others. The focus should be on getting more people politically active who will use their political power to benefit others beyond themselves. Of course, that’s probably even more difficult to test for than intelligence.

Neat! I wonder about the officers though. Maybe instead of the last officer remaining possibly having the most authority, it’s guaranteed that they will be? After all, what if the last officer doesn’t have the most authority? What happens to the troops without a commander?

It sounds like they treat soldiers as fairly disposable and embrace technology. Maybe officer computers/implants are networked together and, when an officer dies, they automatically reassign and distribute that officer’s troops to other officers based on things like proximity/relative rank?

Sure, but when I’m replying to someone in any context I’m responding to that person and what they said. It being a public forum just means new lines of discussion with other individuals can offshoot from a single comment, with an added layer of public opinion in the form of upvotes and downvotes. Unless explicitly stated, the only posts that I perceive as speaking to the forum as a whole are original posts and oftentimes top level comments on those posts.

Huh. I believe you, but it has literally never entered my mind to go out of my way to tell someone they’re wrong without any attempt to correct their wrongness. What a weird thing to do.

Oh shit, you’ve convinced me. You’re right!

It’s more a belief system the same way a person dislikes sports when asked what their favorite sport is. Still an opinion on which sports ate good, just “none of the above”.

I can burp at will. When my last partner revealed that burping excites them, it became a bit of a thing.

I think it depends on your experience with city builders and resource management games. Having played games like Tropico 4 and some Sim City 3000 I managed to get through the main story on my first try in one 5~8 hour sitting. My friend who is less experienced lost entirely after ~2 hours and stopped there. It’s pretty tough until you know the mechanics, but that’s also part of what makes it so rewarding to survive.

I don’t have much to add, but I just want to say I appreciate that you used ‘corporatocratic’ instead of ‘corporatist’. Mixing those up is a pet peeve of mine.

Frostpunk in the winter is great. I first played it in North Dakota during the 2019 polar vortex when the windchill got down to -50 degrees freedom units (-45 Celsius) with my new game-syncing lights. As the in-game temp got colder and ice crackled across the screen, the lights would brighten white to match and I became more and more aware of the cold creeping into my room through the house’s insulation. It was super immersive. I hope you get the chance to play it this winter!

Neat. The artist name rang a quarter of a bell so I looked them up and and started listening to Full Body at the top of their songs. In the related albums for that album I saw a familiar album cover and it turns out they made Cavern of Catharsis which I listened to a lot ~2019!

I’m listening to Anhedonia now and it has some similar vibes though a slower start. I’ll have to give more of their discography a listen. Thanks for the share!

Just for some numbers, I checked his current net worth and rounding this to $1 trillion and what he spent to $500 million that’s ~.05% of his net worth to break a record amount. My net worth I think is lower than my gross income of ~$70,000, but applying that percent to my income that’s like $35.

I played this game a month ago and really enjoyed it. I think it might have the best tutorial/training montage I’ve played in a game. I don’t think I ran into any serious bugs, sorry to hear you are. I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

Alright I searched for “Is you can see everything satire” and “what does you can see everything satirize” and came up with nothing. Any other suggestions?