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- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
That’s why I ask for one I can’t for nearly into that category of “brain does this to ease itself of discomfort”
Right, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s not possible to give you one. You have built for yourself a theory that is not falsifiable; every example you might be given will be reinterpreted through the lens of pain, and so it will reaffirm your ideas—because you have designed it to.
Imagine someone wearing purple-tinted glasses while asking people to show them something that wasn’t purple-colored. It can’t be done.
This is more or less why I was asking about what value this idea has for you, what it teaches you about the world. If this idea, that literally all comedy is about processing pain, means something, it leads to some conclusion, then it becomes falsifiable. Right now you’re just offering it as a kind of truism.
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
Yeah, but… I wouldn’t describe a roller coaster as “painful.”
Like, I understand the connection you’re making, but I really have to stretch my words to get there.
I just, I think you’ve found a frame to better understand the world through, and you’re applying it to everything, even when it might not really make sense to. You’re using the concept of “pain” as if it were a fundamental atom of the universe.
It would sort of be like describing an orange as “painful” because the flavor of an orange includes acids.
To be clear im not saying “all jokes therefore are fine […]
I’m not accusing you of anything, don’t worry.
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
Everything is greater commentary on the world. Every bit of knowledge you gain is a puzzle piece that fits into a broader picture.
I can understand your pain idea, but only if I stretch it out to mean a particular kind of expectation and subversion—which is how I actually understand comedy. That is, surprise is an important element of how jokes work. But I imagine that you’re interpreting the unexpected to be some form of pain: that there is some connection between the expected and normalcy, and the unexpected and discomfort.
I don’t find the unexpected to be discomforting, which I think may be the root as to why we disagree.
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
I don’t like “bad puns” at all because I think they’re lazy.
I’ve heard good ones, though. Clever ones.
Also, tangentially and as an art appreciator, the feeling of disgust is plenty enjoyable in the same way that horror is. By feeling something, and then looking inward to understand those feelings, you learn something about yourself and about the world. I pulled myself out of transphobia—the “but could I date one, though” kind—by trying really hard to understand where that disgust was coming from. Turns out I didn’t need it. :p
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
Have you ever audible laughed at the talent of a pun
…Yes.
I didn’t say this in my other comment because I wasn’t sure how to explain it, but you know that “bad puns” are just one particular genre of pun, right?
I mean, I think you’re likely to describe them all as painful regardless. “It is painful that two definitions of a word are not easily reconciled,” or something.
Can I ask you something? I mean sincerely, like I’m trying to understand you as a person. Why do you think this pain model of comedy is useful? You’re describing pain that is so miniscule and modest, but pointing at it nevertheless, insisting that it is pain and thus justifies what you’re saying—what is this revealing to you about the world?
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 2 days ago:
pain is the vulgarity of the joke teller and the feeling of disgust it causes.
I feel like you’re really fitting this horse to a suit you’ve made.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 16 4 days ago:
Aww :)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I want to be dominated by a ghost! She would be translucent—and—can possess your prostate to squeeze and release at high frequencies! Her favorite music is “Scooby Doo-style,” and her favorite activity is rotating furniture when people aren’t looking!
- Comment on Here comes some more holes in the drywall 4 weeks ago:
This post is so unhinged xD I love it
- Comment on Fogey-assed old dude says 4 weeks ago:
I upvoted yours :p
- Comment on Get in my cup! 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to be a Hi-C Sprite mix :(
- Comment on culture 5 weeks ago:
Uh… Do you have aphantasia, perhaps?
- Comment on Painful to recover from 5 weeks ago:
It would not be.
“Success in life” is like knowing how to cook, or being able to get along well with other people.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What gets me so often in retro gaming is the desire of some to “repair” the past.
This would indicate the ‘hate’ is on ideological grounds.
I tend to agree, if I’m being honest. I sometimes see the retro modding community excited about improvements they’ve made: new models swapped in for characters, upscaled backgrounds with 10x the detail that was ever put into them, 4k textures stretched over low-poly objects like an animal wearing a skin suit. And these are called ‘better’. This is how new people are told to play these old games: we have added 4 cups of sugar to make the horrible taste easier to swallow.
I see this and I think… why? Why be this way?
Can you imagine if we raised new generations to treat paintings the same way? The Mona Lisa is not worth seeing because it is too old and ugly, but it can be made tolerable to one’s senses with the new power of AI?
This image is profane. It can only be produced by a sick people.
I worry that people’s desire for this kind of thing indicates a lack of curiosity in life. An unwillingness to do anything not already familiar to them. I would consider this attitude a character flaw in most people, if I met them.
- Comment on rules 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can smell jealousy from a mile away, man. If you want to wear a skimpy outfit, by all means.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I do admit that it’s feasible.
But, considering it has very little to do with the matter at hand, why bring it up? Why bring it up in this way? Why suggest that we and them are in league with each other?
Also, “do you condemn hamas?”
“Do you condemn hamas?”
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“Do you condemn hamas?”
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“Do you condemn hamas?” - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If I recall, it’s actually tit-for-tat with occasional forgiveness. Two tit-for-tats can get stuck in an endless back-and-forth.
Regardless, I love that you brought that up; it’s one of my favorite game theory lessons.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d say (different person) it’s just not relevant. It’s cry-bullying.
If he wants to show evidence, he can. But even then, he ought to be showing it to mods or something—what are we supposed to do about it? Are we suddenly not upset about the secret ban list?
Anyone with a touch of fame, caught in a scandal, loooves talking about the alleged violence of their opponents. Do you remember when BLM was happening and Fox was pretending that the entirety of Portland was on fire? Or literally anything Isreal has said about Gaza?
I don’t actually know that he hasn’t received one, single death threat, but since what he wants is sympathy for his crimes, I’m inclined not to give him any.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t hide them. Votes even on reddit can be a useful temperature check for audience engagement.
I do think it’s funny when people whine about getting downvotes, though; it betrays just a little bit of discomfort with whatever else they’re saying.
- Comment on Keep puffin, dork. 1 month ago:
You could try asking onahole for that. Or Realbotix. Evidently, it would give bored teachers something to do during class.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ahhh, I see. Thanks for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ooh, ribald is a fun word.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can’t wait for 2028 or whenever when they decide arbitrarily that Biden criticizers disappeared between elections, suggesting that we’re paid ops.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The votes represent, in some sense, a social consensus, and consensus actually does matter quite a lot to people.
If you ever see people arguing about which movie is objectively better than some other, that’s what they’re doing. They’re fighting for social capital.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
People aren’t actually answering your question, so I will:
I have no fucking idea what
-1 + 1is supposed to be doing.If it were
“100” - 1 + 1, I might say he’s converting a string to a number, but he isn’t, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think that a person gets a little sympathy for their bad childhood when they show a willingness to be better than that, not before.
Like, I am capable of an absurd degree of forgiveness, but the person in question has to show that they’re worthy of it—they don’t just get it for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. .ml I think censors words like bitch automatically, but that’s just .ml. I’m allowed to view them. I can see all the secret words.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 1 month ago:
You’re kind of missing the point, I think deliberately so, but maybe that’s mean of me.
It’s clear, though, that you don’t respect the element of skill or overcoming adversity as it relates to the non-textual story being told. That the difficulty is a part of Miyazaki’s writing.
If you and I both beat her at the same level of relative difficulty, what’s stopping us from having a conversation?
What is stopping two piano players from having the same conversation?
One could play a very technical, complicated song achieved through years of practice; another could play a lullaby they learned after a month of instruction—should we assume that these two understand the piano in the same way? That they would even enjoy talking to each other about the songs they played, especially if the latter is entirely disinterested in, and even seems somehow insulted by, the achievements of the former?
If two people play the same song at differing skill levels, they will have different experiences, but they’ll still be able to talk about the song, as it is. Their favorite parts to play, the trickiest bits to master.
The Dark Souls conversation really puts me at an impasse because I actually love accessibility settings, but it really bothers me when I see people, probably through a kind of learned helplessness, refuse to engage artistically with the thing that’s been stuck in front of them.
Dark Souls and its ilk are games about “rising to” and by choosing Easy before the game has even begun, you’re kind of failing the very first hurdle. You aren’t learning the piano.
Philosophically, I think you just don’t vibe with what Dark Souls is trying to do. Which is fine. And I would freely admit that an entire industry deciding to follow closely behind Dark Souls’ lead would probably be a worse one.
It might be nice to include less spicy options at a dinner party, but if you were at a hot sauce party, it would seem a little odd to complain about it, no?
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 month ago:
Yeah, I remember what this fuck did to California’s high speed rail.
