codexarcanum
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- Comment on Something to think about 22 hours ago:
Seems I’ve been dup’d
- Comment on Something to think about 1 day ago:
Slowly sliding a switch labeled “Dubstep” towards on and checking the crowd reaction at each step like a DJ at a corporate event.
- Comment on Bird 2 days ago:
And now folks, realize that this is true of every single thing that humans think about.
You put a duck and a sparrow side by side and maybe it seems obvious that, while not the same, these two things have something deeply in common. But most people have never considered them in one thought. When you get into abstract ideas like “freedom” or “socialism” is it any surprise that most people can’t even recognize them, let alone agree on any commonalities?
You spend all day arranging dogs next to bears going “do you see how these are both canine-form mammals?” and the public is watching a tiktok while dismissing you going “Uh bears aren’t pets, what a dumbass!”
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 days ago:
Alright, so here’s my case for Thief, the Looking Glass Studios game.
Thief, on its own, is a great game and basically shares the claim to originating a lot of ideas behind stealth in games along with MGS, which came out the same year.
What many don’t know is how incredibly innovative what they were doing with their engine tech was. In another timeline, id software were mildly successful action game makers while LGS became the industry defining mega success. The Dark Engine refines a lot of ideas present in Ultima Underworld and marries them to tech that was decades ahead of its time.
Check out the opening and closing of this long talk: youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
Thief had, probably, the first ECS in gaming. They also had their own rendering technique using “portals” that was a bit slower than id’s BSP trees but allowed for insane geometry. They also had an incredible system for events called stimulus-response that was doing things like Breath of the Wild’s “chemistry engine” again, decades before it would be rediscovered.
They weren’t just making games, these were really simulations of a limited world with complex interactions. If the rest of the industry had caught onto their good practices, who knows what the landscape would look like today!
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 days ago:
Doom
I could write an essay significantly larger than the game itself and it wouldn’t be as powerful of an argument as just saying the name with the weight of legacy it commands.
- Comment on Hot birds in your area iykyk 6 days ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Meh! Call me a wet blanket but I’ve been on the internet since before 4chan, so I’m pretty familiar with the Nazi bar problem and I’m long past accepting “just jokes.”
- Comment on How it started... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Actually I see something completely different 1 week ago:
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 1 week ago:
Voyager for Android doesn’t show them, so I have no idea what any of you look like anyway!
- Comment on It's the truth 1 week ago:
Stern Asian Grandma is most displeased with how spicy my dish was yet again, and demands i add a heaping spoonful of chilli crunch to fix it!
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 2 weeks ago:
Fair cop, I didn’t check source I just saw it mentioned elsewhere. His company being valued at just over a billlion probably confused people.
I grant that there’s a difference of degrees here, but him being “just” an unethical millionaire doesn’t substantially change my views on the situation.
Someone in another thread mentioned polyamory which I find a personally interesting angle as well, since I practice relationship anarchy. This situation would just never happen to me because all my paramours know each other and know about the activies we do together. It makes me suspicious of these stories because while I also enjoy laughing at a rich guy getting caught, I don’t like that it culturally reinforces this idea of monogamy as a core value and that breaking the trust of such monogamy should have public consequences.
Obviously the last thing I want is society-wide condemnation of the wrong aspect of this situation. It isnt the having a side-piece that’s the problem, it’s the lying to your primary partner (and everyone else) that actually creates the trouble.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia | 404 Media 2 weeks ago:
Their reaction is what set it all off too. Even the singer immediately speculates that they’re having an affair because of how they acted. So yeah, even if he wasn’t a billionaire, somebody probably would have doxxed him anyway because there are tons of people that like drama and know they can make money off it. That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media. Lots and lots of people there want to make money and clout by exploiting any avenue for drama and engagement.
Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue? We’ve created a society of unempathetic monsters.
- Comment on Some stephen king type shit idk 2 weeks ago:
There’s a few actual versions of the pin pulling games now. I liked this one for Android called “How to Loot”, pretty fun little time waster.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Crisps? Chips.
Fries? Chips.
Chips? Chips.
Hashbrowns? Chips
Latkes? Chips.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 2 weeks ago:
I love 😬 that we’re now at the point where “is this real?” is ambiguous between:
- did the story factually occur in our shared reality?
- was this story actually posted to 4chan?
- did a human even make this image?
And at this juncture with the common addition of “chat, is this real?” we can further add:
- does the audience exist?
- does the person sharing the image exist?
- do I exist?
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on how did he do that? 2 weeks ago:
Is this gain?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The spoken language of the native people of the Philippines; still one of the country’s official languages and spoken by a majority of the population.
- Comment on [DJ Khaled voice] Anotha one 2 weeks ago:
Ive never seen these before and I’m enthralled! The music and visual style reminds me a lot of Cruelty Squad. Is there an accepted name for this “genre”? It’s almost like pre-AI slop but with a pedal-to-the-floor surrealism that elevates it tremendously.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 2 weeks ago:
It gets worse actually. You can define a number system using any power of 2 amount of i-like units in a similar relationship to quaternions using the Cayley-Dickson construction
Fascinatingly, you lose some property of the algebra at each step. Quaternions aren’t commutative: ABC != CBA. Octonians aren’t associative: (AB)C != A(BC). Once you get into 16 i’s with subscripts, it really gets crazy.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 weeks ago:
The GBA SP really was a great portable. I carried my black\silver “executive” model everywhere and felt cool as shit at the time.
Those PS2 ads though, holy shit, what was Sony smoking back then?
- Comment on M'ananas 3 weeks ago:
Tangerdarin’
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 3 weeks ago:
People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.
Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.
And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.
- Comment on Krafton suddenly replace three Subnautica 2 leads with one of the execs behind Callisto Protocol 4 weeks ago:
Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World’s and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won’t be announced any time soon.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 4 weeks ago:
I’d never noticed that in this order, it’s almost π!
Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 4 weeks ago:
🧐: 0 is the origin of time, the big bang (if you believe in that kind if thing)
The problem then is figuring out when earth (and then human) time starts, but we can just add some arbitrary offsets that feel right and everyone agrees on.
- Comment on Hidden hands and smoke filled rooms 4 weeks ago:
Xenu makes a dollar
Don’t trust the birds or limes
Thats why I shit
In liminal spaces and times
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 5 weeks ago:
It isn’t just about intuition as randomly judged by how you or anyone else feels about it. Humans do a lot of things on 0 to 100 and 0 to 10 scales. Literally the basis of the metric system. But all measurements are arbitrary comparisons to some target object: “the meter”.
So a temperature scale that closely aligns the 0 to 100 scale to the minimum and maximum commonly experienced surface temperature of the planet we live on is going to feel more natural to use than one which aligns to the boiling point of water, something we don’t usually encounter in nature.
Now we do encounter boiling liquids, and hotter, in labs and in kitchens, which is why C probably feels natural to scientists and people who cook a lot.
But the resolution of it isn’t particularly intuitive. What does 1\100th of the aggregate temperature of boiling water have to do with anything? Why a linear scale? It takes more energy to add 1°C of heat to an ice cube than to the equivalent amount of 20°C (“room temperature”) water.
Measurements are about both precision and repeatability, but also about conveying information in an easily understandable way. Sometimes those goals conflict, particularly when a scale of measurement is used in both informal and formal settings.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 5 weeks ago:
“Includes” was the wrong word, its like the opposite of hyperbole here. The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30. It isnt that it “includes” it, the entire useful portion of the meter is dedicated to it.
