• Macusuweru •

I concur that the eyes are the window to the soul. When I’m trying to gaze deeply into my own soul, I unconsciously run to a mirror and stare into my own eyes and see myself.

Carpet floors seem a little useless to me. Why not have tile and cover it with a rug? Carpets trap smells, if they get wet they can get moldy, they fall apart over time, leaving bits everywhere…

If you had St. Francis of Assisi in a computer, and you iterated 1000s of simulations to find the one where he kicked a dog, this would tell you almost nothing about his love of / hatred for animals And mentioning the fact, without mentioning the search, would be deceptive

@animalologist “I’d date the one with your soul and soon enough I’d have a hot girlfriend again, because the body is a reflection of the soul” seems pretty solid to me. “It would be annoying for the first few weeks before you looked like yourself again.”

My jaw literally will not re-hinge. There is no good answer this is the final boss

@SandyofCthulhu Before you sit down to play. Either you can use dice so this is impossible or you can reorganize the game so this is more difficult/easier/funner to do. Naturally, the second option is harder but I just like the idea of it.

@SandyofCthulhu Where you can interrogate your opponent to see what sort of Elder sign they have, or the card you draw is going to be discarded and not show up again. The failure state of this philosophy is card counting. Where the optimal way to play is to write the equivalent of a stats paper

As many of you know, all modern boardgaming is divided into two factions - casual gamers and avid gamers. Avid gamers can't usually enjoy the classic casual games - Monopoly, Scrabble, etc. can be a real drag when you're used to better things. Luckily, casual gamers can enjoy many real games - you just have to pick the right ones. My wife is emphatically casual, for instance but she's happy to play Ticket to Ride or Collosseum. Now the problem arises, for me, within the avid gamers which are ALSO split into two factions - ameritrash and eurogamers. Now, the great stereotype is that ameritrash are huge sprawling totally unbalanced super fun games and eurogames are tightly-balanced, carefully-crafted snoozefests, but of course there is overlap and exceptions. The iconic Ameritrash is Axis & Allies while the poster child for Eurogames is often Settlers of Cataan. Now one stereotype of eurogamers which is spot on is that they hate any random element. When I designed Cthulhu Wars, I had two random elements. First the hidden Elder Signs - when you take one, no one knows its value except you. The other is combat, which is dice-based. IMMEDIATELY after publication I had suggestions from Eurogamers how to "fix" my game. Make all the Elder Signs 2 points. Replace the combat dice with a fixed sequence of results. This was urged upon me innocently, with apparently no idea that I could possibly disagree because how could randomness be good? But I LIKE some randomness in a game. When I'm shaking a fistful of dice, hoping and praying for a decent roll, the thrill of expectation, the joy or tragedy of the result to me all add to the fun. The randomness of the Elder Signs means that you are never really sure if you are ahead - there's danger and risk added to the game. Like you, I hate games that are totally random - but you get enough Elder Signs and combat rolls in Cthulhu Wars that it balances out. And since strategy is even MORE important, everyone who's played it has seen someone with consistently good die rolls lose to someone who outwitted them. Now, I think my way of playing is the best. But if you buy my game, it belongs to you. You can change the rules as you please. Just don't blame me if the results are not all you hoped for. Also please tell the other players you changed the rules. It's only fair.

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It is possible to live a rich and fulfilling life doing nothing but you want to do. You simply have to let your mind work with your emotions and choose at every moment to do things that are worth it. Deny neither costs nor benefits.

Hell yeah!

Enemies are a byproduct of your desire

@BigGuyHimself @paleonormie Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony

@paleonormie Hm name one

The list of reasons it’s a bad idea to build housing deep underground is so long that you will never finish listing them, science will discover new disadvantages faster than you can update your documents

@wylfcen Haven’t met enough people to find out if it works yet. I estimate that I judge somewhere around 2% of people as virtuous. Make your own judgements.

@wylfcen Yeah. I cycled through this a few times. Realized I hated the people I was friends with. Here a foundation I’m trying out. There is such a thing as virtue. I’m going to find virtuous people and try to associate with them. If they’re not virtuous, goodbye.

@orthonormalist No. For one, sometimes precedents need to be set. I don’t know much about the legal system but an artificial block like that isn’t the solution. I totally support a civilian organization that records and campaigns against individuals who do this though. No need for lawfare.

If you instigate a Supreme Court case and lose it 9-0 you should be banished from public office, disbarred, etc.

MEAT COMPUTATIONS

People really don’t know what superpower means. EVERYTHING is done by the U.S. at higher levels. Our poor have more money than most countries rich. If you are taking medicine the chances that it was either wholly developed or developed using US based research is extremely high. We have enough military force to glass a country on the other side of the world and the only reason we know about it is because of the global communication system we invented and built shows us videos of it. With the tiny fraction of our GDP we dedicate to space exploration we are building a moon base with the second of several planned missions due to launch tomorrow. Our healthcare costs look extreme from the outside before you realize they’re that much higher because we have that much more money to spend on our healthcare. We have ridiculously large social safety nets eliminating deaths from poverty. Let’s not even get into culture, our media has displaced nearly all other cultures music and movie industries. Our artists sell out stadiums across the world. Being a superpower means if you’re using a piece of new technology, listening to music, watching a movie, going to the doctor, speaking to a family member, getting bombed, learning about deep space/ ocean/ dna/ physics anywhere in the world you are experiencing American dominance.

@TaupeAvenger Practically, how much nuclear material is out there and how much energy is it putting out? What does global power consumption vs global radioactive material energy output look like?

For about $20B, California could build 3 more nuclear reactors and completely eliminate our use of fossil fuels for electricity. Of course instead we’re closing the two at Diablo Canyon for no good reason.

@SenorKrinkle777 @3DGAN Brother I’m not Japanese I’m just a weeb lmao

@macusuweru @3DGAN I'm glad this understanding exists seemingly everywhere, if I ever visit (and I hope I do) I never want to come across as disrespectful, if I visit I'm a guest in your country I should act accordingly

たぶん、来日外国人が一番心得るべきは 「日本人は謝らない人が大嫌い、心の底から嫌い」 これです。やり過ぎたり間違ったとして、注意したり咎めたりした場合は謝ってしまえば話はすぐ済むんですね。結構多くの場合、来日在日外国人とのトラブルとは、謝らず開き直る、反駁する、強弁するからでしょう

@SenorKrinkle777 @3DGAN Every human emotion has a time and place. What time and place would anger be more appropriate than when you are faced with injustice? That is not a weakness, and anyone who claims it is is evil.

@3DGAN how should one handle being falsely accused? If I genuinely made a mistake I will of course apologize but I get upset when falsely accused, one of my weaknesses