BenevolentOne

@BenevolentOne@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking at a copy of Newton’s principia and it’s pretty obvious from the first chapter that y’all are fucking idiots. (Except OP, OP is cool).

  Try reading it sometime. Imagine leveling this kind of critique at any other book you’ve never read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Souls is just a polished version of kings field, so having played them all, I’m qualified to say it’s a major step up in the series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s easily the best of the three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You owe it to yourself to borrow an oculus from a 14 year old and play Alyx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We truly are in the Dreamcast vs. N64 years of VR gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was in 2011, 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

  Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

  Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

  And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

  Just for a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨battlecheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The best part is, this dumb cheater has strictly reduced their odds of victory. This is bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we’ll have to learn how to do that.

  For a lot of people, education is “we will hold a gun to your head until you pass the exam”. For a lot of people, education is seminary school, and in many circles the priests are the best educated folks around.

  If I don’t send my kids to school, a nice lady with a uniform and a gun comes around, and this is ‘civilization’?

  It sounds like you’re worried education will, ‘become Bible school at the point of a gun’, but where I am it already is, and these aren’t the new models I’m talking about.

  I’m talking about free access and communication as the pillars of education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you on both points, and the third (these people are idiots), but I’m happy to debate you anyways.

  I think that we must actively dismantle traditional forms of knowledge (copyrights, private libraries, most of education) in favor of developing new completely open archives and internet based methods of organizing, developing, and interacting with knowledge.

  Does that do it for you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not central, just suspicious, but… this is ‘house’ as in astrological house as in the first part of the word ‘horoscope’, not house like a house you live in.

  My background in linguistics consists of a couple chompsky soft-science books and a love of tolkien, but if you actually know something and wanna chat I’d honestly love to dig in on this seriously. DM me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that ‘houses’ and ‘hours’ are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian ‘watch’ and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

  Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said ‘12 hours in a day? I got you bro’, fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

  Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad they fixed the slow/boring difficulty curve the first game had. I shouldn’t need to slog through 20 hours of gameplay before I feel challenged.

  Binged it all weekend, it’s a great game, but folks whining about some of the game’s earlier challenges are unlikely to finish it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about a game developed by two people on their own winning an award which was won last year by a game with a budget somewhere north 100 million dollars?

  Is that a good excuse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the Hugo is usually given to authors of books?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of power fantasy RPG players would have really benefitted from this, they’ll have to stick with postal instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically?