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- Comment on Hmmmm 2 weeks ago:
It’s a timeless classic for sure.
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 weeks ago:
I looked it up, it does look like a line from the original PS1 script. Cid says this line, in the context of Cloud being potentially short-sighted by letting people finish their personal business before entering the Northern Crater.
Cloud: No! What I meant was… What are we all fighting for? I want us all to understand that. Save the planet… for the future of the planet… Sure, that’s all fine. But really, is that really how it is? For me, this is a personal feud. I want to beat Sephiroth. And settle my past. Saving the planet just happens to be part of that. I’ve been thinking. I think we all are fighting for ourselves. For ourselves… and that someone… something… whatever it is, that’s important to us. That’s what we’re fighting for. That’s why we keep up this battle for the planet.
Barret: You’re right… It sounds cool sayin’ it’s to save the planet. But I was the one who blew up that Mako Reactor… Lookin’ back on it now, I can see that wasn’t the right way to do things. I made a lot of friends and innocent bystanders suffer… …At first, it was revenge against Shinra. For attackin’ my town. But now… Yeah. I’m fightin’ for Marlene. For Marlene… For Marlene’s future… Yeah… I guess I want to save the planet for Marlene’s sake…
Cloud: Go and see her. Make sure you’re right, and come back. All of you. Get off the ship and find out your reasons for yourselves. I want you to make sure. Then I want you to come back.
Cid: Maybe ain’t none of us’ll come back. Meteor’s gonna kill us anyway. Let’s just forget any useless struggling!
Cloud: I know why I’m fighting. I’m fighting to save the planet, and that’s that. But besides that, There’s something personal too… A very personal memory that I have. What about you all? I want all of you to find that something within yourselves. If you don’t find it, then that’s okay too. You can’t fight without a reason, right? So, I won’t hold it against you if you don’t come back.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
It’s not perfect, but the basic idea is that assuming malice as default in every scenario will cause one to spiral into paranoia.
It’s not saying “people are never malicious and always just stupid” but just asking someone to take a step back from the situation and ask which is likelier in context.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
Hanlon’s Razor is an old adage that boils down to: when you think someone is intentionally trying to be evil and ruin something, take a step back and ask whether it’s likelier they’re trying to be intentionally malicious, or if they’re just stupid/incompetent.
For example, you go to a restaurant and tell the waiter that you can’t have dairy, so you order a pasta dish without cheese. They bring it out to you, but look, there’s cheese. You can assume either that the waiter or the staff in the kitchen absolutely hate you and intentionally gave you cheese just to spite you…or that they just screwed up and forgot. The latter is probably likelier.
I was half-joking about potentially updating this idea to include an additional stipulation about AI bots online, which are good at looking like stupid people but actually are often malicious. Bots are used to sway political opinions. You have cases where they are trying to pass themselves off as real people to drown out legitimate discourse with a simulation of it, and cases like Musk’s Grok AI where it’s programmed to ignore truth and instead answer questions in ways that further his agenda or inflate his ego.
So sometimes when you see political posts that just defy all logic, or are ignoring a hard truth that is staring them in the face, you’re inclined to ask “How can this person sincerely believe what they’re saying right now?” And often the answer will be that they don’t, because they’re not a person, they’re a bot just regurgitating propagandic talking points.
- Comment on Soviet Onion 2 weeks ago:
Preferably fried and with a side of honey mustard.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
The post is also from 2022, and the tech has changed a bit since then.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
Might be the conspiratorial part of my brain coming through, but I’m half convinced it’s not just a stupid person, but an AI that completely missed the point.
I almost wonder if there shouldn’t be an extension or corollary of Hanlon’s Razor somewhere to account for AI.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be better explained by stupidity, but never attribute to stupidity that which can be better explained by malicious chatbots.”
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 2 weeks ago:
I think you could, but there’s a good chance that it would emerge as a separate religion out of Christianity instead of changing the identity of Christianity. Another user said it well already, that Mormonism and Islam are basically already this.
The new scripture develops upon the ideas of the existing religion, but when a large group rejects the additions, a schism occurs, causing the existing religion to stay mostly the same while the new religion goes off and does its own thing. Hence why Judaism did not stop being a thing when Christianity emerged; enough people rejected the legitimacy of the additions and just continued on as they were.
So theoretically I’d say the answer is yes, but it’d need to be compelling enough to convince the vast majority of Christians to get behind it, otherwise it just becomes its own thing.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
Cooking gets rid of a lot of the acidity, so could be that in addition to texture.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
This is my story except with cheese.
Why did I have to start enjoying the taste of cheese?
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
The concept of purple is older than English, though. I guess when English chose to adopt it is the main question, but should be clarified that the term where “purple” derives from goes back to the ancient Romans, who recognized it as a distinct color used for royalty given the difficulty in obtaining it.
It does have me wondering exactly when red onions first arrived in the UK, because the variety is native to southern Europe. And I wonder what the Romans called that type of onion, which was surely used there before those dirty Britons got their hands on it.
I also know that, when boiled, they yield a very rich, red color. Could maybe be named “red” due to that? Some Orthodox Christians/eastern Europeans traditionally use red onions to dye eggs for Easter.
- Comment on When you KNOW the facts you are more likely to stay safe 2 weeks ago:
I think that same statistic applies to drinking water. So I guess the question is, are people more likely to breathe air or drink water? I’m betting on air, but I don’t know if dying in utero still counts as having imbibed water.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
Most other “indie” games are not indie under that definition, too.
The indie renaissance that occurred in the late 00’s/early 10’s was mostly indie developers obtaining good publisher deals. Some indie developers still self-publish, but the majority don’t. There are even publishers that specialize in indie game publishing.
Balatro, a solo dev project, is not independently published. Blue Prince, another solo dev project, is not independently published. Every game developed by Supergiant is not “indie” (Bastion, Hades, etc.), nor are Stardew, Outer Wilds, Terraria, Subnautica, Dead Cells, etc.
Celeste and Hollow Knight are fully indie, though.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
This is the same use case that people are currently up in arms against Larian for
- Comment on Construction magic 2 weeks ago:
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
- Comment on Construction magic 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the crane crane
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 weeks ago:
Well, late PS3 exclusives. It took a long time for even first party developers to figure out how to take advantage of the hardware. Uncharted 1 and The Last of Us look like they were released during completely different generations.
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
And especially when faced with the difficulty of trying to sue a company in a different country.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
It’s…aight. Not as good as VI yet.
It hasn’t received any significant gameplay changing DLC yet, and usually Civ games don’t really come into their own until then.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
Going lower to drum up interest for the new one I’m guessing?
