BenevolentOne
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- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 8 hours ago:
People probably used a lot of slate+chalk or wax tablets for regular note-taking.
Similarly, archival grade paper and printing is STILL really expensive and folks STILL aren’t doing that for their grocery lists and honey-dos. Not to mention that nearly all of our digital writings are extremely ephemeral. Wont somebody think about the future historians!!!
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 1 week ago:
If they could throw just a little harder and reach my mouth while I lie on the couch, this would be fine.
- Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?" 2 weeks ago:
There are detailed in-world explanations for precisely where the magic comes from, who gets it, why, and how it relates to other physical systems.
It’s as much sci-fi as warp drives, planet cities, telecommunications aliens, ancient AIs, and space pirates…
Anyways, enjoy this quote:
There really is nothing to fear in fantasy unless you are afraid of the freedom of uncertainty. This is why it’s hard for me to imagine that anyone who likes science can dislike fantasy. Both are based so profoundly on the admission of uncertainty, the welcoming acceptance of unanswered questions. Of course the scientist seeks to ask how things are the way they are, not to imagine how they might be otherwise. But are the two operations opposed, or related?
Ursula K. Le Guin, “It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is,” June 2011; collected in No Time to Spare (2017)
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s easily the best of the three.
- Comment on Video gaming 5 weeks ago:
You owe it to yourself to borrow an oculus from a 14 year old and play Alyx.
- Comment on Video gaming 5 weeks ago:
We truly are in the Dreamcast vs. N64 years of VR gaming.
- Comment on Video gaming 5 weeks ago:
That was in 2011, 15 years ago.
- Comment on Video gaming 5 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 2 months ago:
The best part is, this dumb cheater has strictly reduced their odds of victory. This is bait.
- Comment on What would you do? 4 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? 4 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 7 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 1 year 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?