Mikina

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were right all along...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I kind of assumed that would probably be the case, and while this kind of reasonable approach to technology, that was highlighted in the book, sounds pretty nice in theory, it does put a lot of power into few hands, which historically (and unfortunately) never works very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were right all along...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The only exposure I have with how Amish work is from Newport’s Digital Mininalism book, and it sounded pretty reasonable. (Don’t know how correct it is, though)

  The way he put it, they don’t outright ban and refuse all technology. Every time a new tech comes out, they have a few people give it a try and then decide as a community if/how to best use it without sacrificing their core values.

  For example - a telephone? We don’t want that, because then it would break the sense of community if you could just call anyone, without having to call on them/meet then for dinner, etc. But, we’ll have one phone in a village in casr we need to call for outside help in an emergency.

  Assuming that’s true, I would suspect that especially in regards to medicine, they would be pretty open. But yeah, I guess it absolutely depends on the community, and how cultish/reasonable are the people making these calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend it, especially the kind where you have a pre-written set of characters and story with semi-scripted events, instead of just being “bring your own character”. It’s such a different experience, because every character has a purpose, has as lot of conflicts, and everything is made to just work.

  For example, one of the best LARPs we had here was a Disco Elysium inspired one, and it’s just such a cool experience.

  But be careful, there is a reason why people compare this kind of LARPing to heroin :D You will probably emotionally crash out after it ends, just like it is pretty addicting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I might’ve been wrong, see other replies to my comment. It might’ve been some kind of honor equipment rental, where you can borrow sporting equipment, instead of it being a locker for people to store things in.

  But the context of the post is basically the same. City did something nice, people vandalized it :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it was definitely how that world worked, and she played that role really well.

  But, the experience (especially in multi-day nonstop LARPs, where you immerse into the world and your character really extensively) is pretty indistinguishable from real-life. At least in how you perceive it. For the few days, your life has these problems now. And you just accept it and get into it, and don’t even consider a difference between real and “imaginary” problems. It’s hard to describe, tbh.

  I was not trying to imply that any of the involved people were grifters, I was mostly talking about the experience of being in a situation like that, where you have to actually talk to someone like that. I’m pretty sure that there wouldn’t be much of a difference between talking to someone who can roleplay well and has spend two days in their character, vs. talking to someone who spent most of their life being indoctrinated like this.

  Or rather, the problem-solving part of it. I had literal days in that world to figure out how to approach this, what to say so it would work in that situation, how to argue with her. I didn’t come up with anything that would work, and things that I came up with were swiftly rebated by fanatic religious speeches. Just like she had a pretty easy time of coming up with arguments I couldn’t say much against, that would still be perfectly in-character, as she told me after the LARP.

  EDIT: I may have misunderstood your comment, sorry :D. Yes, you are right, it was how the world worked - we did eventually all died because some kind of evil has been awakened, lol. But that doesn’t change anything about the experience of having to argue with someone who’s indoctrinated in a cult vs. you, who don’t believe in stuff like that. It’s difficult. From my point of view, they were grifters, because I had no indication of proof of what they are saying, so I did my best to figure out what to do or say, and I couldn’t come up with anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you are right. There seems to be some text on the outside. Might’ve been just some equipment to borrow.

  Ok, it might need more context :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess that the City of Mississauga has installed public equipment lockers for people to store their things in, and within days, all of them had broken glass because someone has stolen the equipment stored inside.

  But I’m just guessing based on the picture. I wouldn’t expect the context to be much different, tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loosing my religion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember playing this 3 day LARP, the kind with pre-written in-depth characters and story that is played over 3 days strait in characeter, in Wild West setting, where I played a Trapper that was about to marry someone from the local village, my family was married into but my parents died shortly after.

  It eventually turned out that the whole village is a cult that eats people to keep some kind of evil imprisoned, and I still can’t forget the nights spent trying to reasonably argue and discuss with my fiance that it’s definitely not ok and we should just leave.

  I obviously never had to have discussions like this in real life, but it was pretty interesting how extremely futile it is. They have so many arguments you can’t say anything against. Once they start with “But this is our purpose given to us by God, if we don’t do this the whole world will end”, or “It was God’s will”, you really don’t have much to say to that to get through.

  Of course, it was just a LARP and she played her character well, but now I can pretty vividly imagine that talking to someone who’s so much into anything like that is extremely difficult, to the point of being futile.

  (I managed to convince her to leave, the winning argument was “Your grandmother tried to poison me, here is proof”, lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, thanks! Managed to get it working, and even found a version with the Czech dub, so all is good! Thanks for reminding me the game exists :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you playing on Linux by chance? I did finfld a few Windows guides, which I assume would ve easier due to Windows Play whatever, but it also sounds like it would make it hell to set up on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 707 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that was my favorite game. If I recall correctly, it also was dubbed in my (Czech) language, which made it awesome.

  I have to check if you can reasonably play it on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fuck them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take a look. This is the second quote from him that resonates with me prety deeply, he seems like a cool guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fuck them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew I recognized him from somewhere.

  I have no idea who he is, but this is my favorite quote ever, as someone who’s both a goth/punk poser and works in cybersecurity.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been waiting for this for a long time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no problem admitting that, it is indeed a repost from Reddit. But it’s also the only April fools that I found genuinly funny, and since I didn’t see it here I wanted to spread the joy :D

  I thought about creditting it, but that’d kind of ruin the joke, plus I don’t really care about creditting Reddit anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been waiting for this for a long time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mindustry is also FOSS, right?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quiver, ladies, quiver⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone is interrested in this, I highly recommend the book Mind Illuminated.

  It’s what sold me on the whole meditation idea even through I was mostly sceptical, by clearly explaining it, and givng reasonable arguments about why it works. It also has a pretty good guide in general, with clear steps to follow and pay attention to.

  I’ve been told by a lot of people that meditation is good and you should do it, with vague reasons why, and this book explained it to me clearly enough to finally get me to give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI generated t-shirts...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it does spread awareness about it harmful effects and how to recognize them.

  I’d say thats a good to tshirt to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people recommend Brave browser.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should probably add /s to that, hah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people recommend Brave browser.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a for profit ad company making a “privacy first browser”.

  Thinking for literaly a second about that sentence should tell you all you need to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going this route, I highly recommend looking into and using OKLAB instead.

  The problem with HSL/HSV is that it’s not perceptually uniform - if you only move HUE to change color, you will get different perceived brightnesses. This is important especially when procedurally generating color palettes, but also makes it harder to pick a color.

  OKLAB solves that issue, and is designed to be uniform. Here is a great article about it, which is funnily enough a blog post that invented the color spectrum, that got noticed and eventually turned into a new industry standard.

  Here is a picture that sums up pretty obviously what is the difference. This is a gradient that moves just the hue.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been wondering - how do you make brown? Don’t really see it on the spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s IMO pretty clear that the purpose of the rule is to rule out AI slop and games that cheapened on artists and replaced them by genAI.

  Expeditin is neither. It feels like an (succesful) AI stunt by a lesser known award show not many people knew about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While there’s no doubt that they have technically break the rules, just the fact that they afaik patched the few textures before this controversy (as far as I know, it’s possible that it was a reaction to this?), this simply sounds like a (very succesful) PR attempt by Indie Game Awards.

  There’s no doubt that Clair Obscire isn’t a AI slop that cheapened on artists or art with GenAI, whis is the spirit of the rules IGA has. If you don’t take the rules literaly, they deserve the award. And that’s IMO important.

  I’ve never heard about IGA before this, so it worked to draw attention to them.

  I’m very OK with having rules in place to reject work where you replaced artists with AI. But this is not the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m used to just sitting to pee, exactly for this reason, but there’s a rare case where I give up and pee standing, i.e when I’m already dressed and it’s way easier, where I used to risk it and pee standing.

  I stopped doing that even in those rare cases when we’ve gotten the blood/horror bathroom mat, something like this, but not branded and from what I presume is the original source (Aliexpress).

  It’s horrifying when you see the mess you’re making, even if you really try not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It comes with an add on countdown timer.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t you just tape the music studio triangle sound/echo dampeners (or whatever it’s called) around the exterior, and add a floor that has those subwoofer dampening triangle legs (to limit contact with the floor for vibration transference)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-masturbation DLC⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest I never really looked into Budhism, but my only experience with the practice is from the amazing Mind Illuminated book, which I think is loosely based on their practice as far as meditation goes, while providing a reasonable context and arguments about why it works. Learning to consciously control your subconsius feels kind of reasonable, and I highly recommend the book to anyone interrested in that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-masturbation DLC⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I’ve never really looked into or talked with almost anyone who’s into oculltism. I do know a few friends who are heavily into the unformalized new-age stuff, and they are definitely not ok to the point it controls their life, but I realize that it’s a spectrum (and I don’t mean it as “it’s autism” way, but that the way people approach even to the new-age stuff can be a spectrum of reasonable-dangeeous). I’m mostly sad because you can’t really talk to people like that, and share cool lore on a topic most people consider downright crazy, because there isn’t any or they haven’t done any research. Even astrology has some cool lore and manuscripts, but they usually don’t care.

  I just think it’s cool, and reading about the practices of different cults and orders is extremely interresting.

  I’d vager a guess that “chaos magick” has a similar problem to LaVeye’s Satanism, where you get a lot of edgy people researching the bare minimum, if even that, and just being edgy. Not that it wasn’t edgy, it’s one of the few movements that was downright off-puting for me due to how extremely selfish and arogant it is (IIRC it’s basically “I m a massive dick and walk over anyone”), but people who don’t even know what they are subscribing to are worse.

  I never got that feeling from chaos magick, it felt just like you said - extremely rational, and was actually the first movement that made sense, as in “I can imagine this actually working”, with the argument “rituals work by nudging your subconsciousness to the direction you need”.

  That’s basically the same as Budhissm does, just by hacks and symbols instead of just sheer practice and will. And we kind of have a proof that budhism works. Image

  And even for someone who doesn’t really believe in magic, this makes sense and I can imagine it actually working.

  Plus, doing rituals is fun, and a little faith gives a pretty fun amount of LARPing into your life, as long as you don’t let it control you and are reasonable about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-masturbation DLC⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually exactly how the 70s “chaos magick” occultism works. If you get past the cringy name, it was one of the more interesting occultistm movements which actually kind of make sense even to me, as someone who’s not really into esoterism (or rather - I like researching it, but would feel dumb practicing since I’m skeptical)

  Their core idea is that all of the other occultist movements and orders are basically all the same - through belief, rituals and symbols you affect your subconscious to manifest change, and it doesn’t matter what “flavor” / dogma / lore you choose to believe in. What matters is that you really truly belive.

  So, a wiccan making circles in a forest while invoicing spirits or someone making a pizza pentagram while invoking Garfield is the same,as long as he believes into it.

  The only thing that matters is that it works for you, and to find what does and what doesn’t they work with “paradigm shifts”, where you decide that " I"m going to try wicca for a year", and then you delve deep into that practice, trying to trully accept it and go all in, noting your experience and results, to see if it works for you.

  After a year, you review your results, and move on to other practice, I.e “I’ll be a christian for a year”, and you really get into it, going to churches, practicing all the daily prayers and rituals, and the like.

  It’s my favorite occultism movement, because it’s o me of the few where I can imagine that it actually makes sense and could work for making your life better, if you have grounded expectations of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds kinda cool tbh. I’m mostly intrigued about the class system, although I’ve bever really looked into it.

  It sounds just like Fellowship, though, and I’m loving that game.