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Every good idea will be pushed to its breaking point precisely because it’s a good idea.
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Robert Burleson
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Robert Burleson
@robstersauce
Creativity, Persuasion, How to make stuff people like.
Katılım Ağustos 2023
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@FischerKing64 Do you not call your bros when you're driving and swear at BMW drivers together?
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I don’t think people have long telephone conversations any more. This was a tepid way of getting to know another person - you had the voice, exchanged thoughts, but without the pressure of physical presence. You could be yourself and figure another person out.
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@jeremymstamper 10,000 guys immediately decided to dodge the draft, and 5 guys immediately decided to sign up.
It's all about getting those 5 guys.
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How did we convince anyone to fight in Vietnam after this picture was published?
The Name of War@TheNameofWar
An American soldier holds up a jungle centipede during the Vietnam war.
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@HarrySword We have exactly the same thing. There are 4 streaming services and when one of them decides to stream Constantine or Equilibrium or Primer, everyone on Twitter talks about it and the VP of the Unites States retweets the memes.
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When there were only four channels if I.e some obscure 1970’s horror or western was on late at night, next day at college/work chances were *loads* of people would have seen it. So you had this strange sub cultural literacy that has been utterly lost - people randomly quoting
Dave@GamewithDave
People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today
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Stephanie Meyer gets blamed for encouraging this kind of blank-slate-perspective in Twilight.
However you can also see this in classic literature like Moby Dick or The Chosen or Treasure Island where the "main character" is just a thinly-characterized narrator and the real main character is some kind of antihero.
The "I" is the cameraman, essentially.
The commenters in question aren't thinking about it clearly, but there is underlying truth in their discussion.
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This particular pit of discourse has unearthed multiple people who seem to regard first-person narratives as inherently trying to ascribe the story to THEM as the reader, and I'm fascinated as to how one could reach that conclusion, grammatically and/or psychologically
Joyce ★@illjoy_
I’m honestly kind of speechless at how stupid this is
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@m_takewaka They’re all pretty good, the important thing is to avoid Austin, St. Louis, and Charleston.
Visit Fort Worth, Kansas City, and Hemingway instead.
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My American friends, I'm facing a major problem here.
When I say I want to eat American BBQ,
some Americans say, "come to Texas," others say, "come to South Carolina,"
and still others say, "come to Missouri."
I'm confused.
Are you guys going to start a BBQ civil war?
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@MilkAlchemy @vrilliumlive Correct. It would need to be self-piling, possibly with an onboard drilling rig, but it might only move half a mile per day. More like a siege engine, or a way to slowly advance the front line.
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@robstersauce @vrilliumlive That shit will just sink in muddy terrain
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This war will be the one that gets drone warfare banned. Like mustard gas in WW1.
It’s inhumane, cowardly, and achieves nothing besides killing one or two people in the most gruesome way possible.
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!
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Maybe it boils down further to a preference in terminology.
The implicit tribal branding of using soft-sounding words is really strong.
For example, in college I was really interested in the concept of "Open Theism" which is the idea that the future is a human construct and God experiences the universe at the same rate we do. (Thus, something like praying for change isn't paradoxical.)
Basically the extreme opposite view to predestination. Very niche, nothing to do with cultural liberalism.
Nevertheless, everyone I spoke to about this idea assumed I was on some new age hand waving Unitarian bullshit. "Open Theism" just sounds incredibly faggy.
I would explain the concept in detail and people would nod sagely and say "Okay, so you don't believe in hell?" or "Basically Buddhism?"
The shitty branding was more powerful than any amount of context.
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Do all politics just ultimately boil down to whatever your "Ideal Family/Parenting Model" is?
For instance: someone who thinks "gentle parenting" is ideal ... are they more likely to be in favor of open borders and no-cash bail?
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@justalexoki Idk any of the people listed in this documentary, apparently there are infinite parallel manospheres.
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watching "inside the manosphere" and man these are sad beings. so insecure, caught up in the devils work so bad they think they're actually doing something good. so sad to see, and even more sad to imagine all the men watching them, idolizing them in lieu of real role models
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@Kpaxs The key to making this true is to interact with people more, because.
1. What you can convince people do *is* pretty much infinitely negotiable.
2. Nature gets more negotiable the more people you throw at it.
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High-agency people genuinely believe that reality is negotiable in a "there are always more levers to pull" way. It's about having this bone-deep conviction that if you keep poking at something from different angles, eventually something will give.
Kpaxs@Kpaxs
High-agency people are relentless reality-benders who treat life like a puzzle they will solve.
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@tautologer The early era of adventure platformers and shooters before they got so crunchy. And before devs started taking HUD literacy for granted.
Halo 1-3
Uncharted 1-3
Portal 2
Max Payne
Bioshock
TimeSplitters 3
Hitman 2 & 3
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I want to get my dad (late 60s) into video games as a pastime, as an improvement over cable TV news and YouTube shorts. he agrees and is on board, but he's tried playing video games in the past and "they just don't grab me." any recs for a novice gamer? maybe map games?
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@sevensixfive We also literally have sea monsters, we just gave them boring names and moved on.
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If we had elves no one would remark on them because they’d have always been there. We have giraffes dude, the cosmos has always been enchanted
•@yducknow
what a boring planet… no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no ware wolves….. just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people
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@ReviewsPossum Think about it. There’s a reason they had to codify the Prime Directive in every piece of Starfleet propaganda.
And that reason is Captain Barry McCockiner of the USS Conquest
Stripped of titles. His statues torn down. Deleted from every history archive.
Until now.
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@ReviewsPossum Star Trek: Colonies would be a great show about the naughty early years nobody talks about.
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Imagine an advanced civilization deciding it has the moral imperative to meddle in the affairs of less advanced civilizations, impose their sensibilities on them, "civilize" them, take sides in their wars, make them dependent on them, and act as their gods.
That's colonialism.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran on how the Prime Directive is ridiculous: "The idea of leaving any species to die in its own filth when you have the ability to help them, just because you wanna let them get through their normal evolutionary processes is bunk -- it's a bunch of fascist crap. I much prefer the Cub Scout motto." Is he correct?
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@RhysCarefree @vrilliumlive I mean. Once it gets going I bet it’s pretty fast.
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@robstersauce @vrilliumlive How you deploying that 2000 miles away though?
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Nailed it.
The new marketing playbook is to publicly question the morality of your new gizmo, so people don't question the capability.
Similar to the server trick Robert Cialdani talks about. Being honest about a drawback creates credibility, so skilled waiters will just make up a drawback about whatever you ordered, creating trust and compliance when you thank them and change your order.
The server has now sacrificed your opinion of the fish tacos so that you will trust his wine list recommendation.
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Our new Diet Fanta is so tasty, we’re worried it’s going to create a new world order. And we can’t believe we accidentally leaked our concerns about the power of a new taste sensation
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
🚨 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “We are so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence, and yet there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen … There hasn't been a public awareness of the risks.”
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@XFilesAesthetic Smoking man spinoff series would go pretty hard.
Everybody wants to know what the elite conspirators are doing, but nobody asks *how* they're doing.
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Unpopular opinion 👇
The biggest weakness of The X-Files was its mythology ( main conspiracy arc) .
Not because it was confusing but because it made Mulder and Scully feel irrelevant and powerless. As the stakes kept increasing and conspiracy grew larger , they could barely affect it and couldn't stop it.
Ultimately they were reduced to spectators instead of protagonists. And it didn't quite sit right with me.
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@oldpokesroad @benixbt I was not aware of that procreation method thx
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@RVAwonk Cultural permission to say things out loud that most evangelicals have said in private their whole lives.
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Why is everything bad a “demon” or “satanic” all of a sudden? Everywhere I look, someone is describing something in those terms (“evil,” etc) and I don’t understand where it’s coming from or why everyone decided to start speaking like that.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NEW - U.S. Vice President Vance on UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons."
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