Sunsofold

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[–] Sunsofold 1 points 47 minutes ago

Hmm, not that I can think of offhand. Maybe something akin to existential nihilism or temporal nihilism.
Though, consequentialism isn't belief in the existence of consequences, meaning events caused by an action, but rather belief that consequences are the way one judges a particular action's moral quality. Other systems of determining moral quality are available.

[–] Sunsofold 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (2 children)

I certainly like humus more than humans, so...

But seriously, anti-natalism sits on consequentialism as a hard to deny entailment. If you believe in consequentialism and utilitarianism, you're basically there.

[–] Sunsofold 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm wierder than most, so take this with the proverbial grain of salt.

First, the fact you are reaching out, even like this, is a good start. Don't let the urge die if you can keep it up.

As for next steps, find your people. Is there someone out there who you see 'speaking truth?' Do they have a community? Find it. (People on here can help to a certain extent if you are willing to share, which I know can be a bit scary online)

What about your other interests? Do you game? There are communities for that. (Famously there are a lot of femboy gamer communities. They aren't going to hate you for being gender-non-conforming.) There are streamer/youtuber communities. (Check out Phedran, a cool gal with a chill comm. No hate for gender-non-conformers there.) Do you like a particular fandom? Same. Drum circles, writing/reading groups, secular action groups, (you like caring for people? Try volunteering. There's a 'Food Not Bombs' chapter in all the urban centers of Ohio. Even if you only go once a weekbecause of the long drive, you might find your people.) philosophy study groups (special mention: Quarantine Collective, very inclusive but not in a 'repeat the party slogans' way) and who knows what else. Do something you love and do it with people.
Is there a local queer community where you are? (coffee shop, bar, whatever) Even if you aren't gay, you don't have to take on any particular identity to socialize. The community is usually very welcoming of those who aren't locked into the old fashioned gender norms, and at the least, aren't likely to hate you for that kind of BS reason.

You have options. Keep the momentum going and grab one.

[–] Sunsofold 2 points 21 hours ago

That's the hollowing out. They gutted things and didn't put anything in the hole, like a bad taxidermist.

[–] Sunsofold 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

It was a disappointment to me in a number of ways as well.

Regarding the removal of the old stuff, I can sort of get it, but they screwed it up. No more metis as, effectively, a slur? Makes sense. Seriously offensive to those people. No more intra-werewolf racism? No historical bad blood? I get that it's offensive to some people, but that's the point of not only werewolf, but the entire World of Darkness. It's a WORLD of DARKNESS. A (fleshed out system of lore) of (the things that make you uncomfortable or scared). Despite DnD dorks trying to make it superheroes with fangs, Vampire is a personal horror game in which you make reasonable decisions that slowly turn you into a monster. Werewolf was about confronting the grim truth that often the 'heroes' battling against 'evil' are often just as fucked up as the ones they are fighting against. Changeling is a game about PTSD. Wraith is a game about the death beyond death, being forgotten. The whole set is about stepping into the shoes of those we call 'monsters' and seeing things from their perspective. Some people call things edgy but this is, by and large, just a way to dismiss things that make them uncomfortable. It provides an ironic distance that lets them feel superior when someone asks them philosophical questions. So, when they stripped all that out in an effort to appease the idiots who can't bear the existence of fictional hypocrisy as a teaching metaphor, they strip out the Darkness from their World of Darkness. And then, even more foolishly, by not replacing them with something else, they end up with no World to their World of Darkness. It's just an of. Who wants to play some 'of' guys? Anyone?

Without the lore, then to be good, it has to have good mechanisms at least, but they used the same formula as with Vampire, which somehow made it past playtesting, though I will never guess how. The flaws, merits, and backgrounds stuff was absurd, and to keep it from clashing with Vampire, they didn't fix it for WW. The XP system also clashes with itself, never committing to an idea fully. The rage/critical dice system is cool, though just a touch complex for something like WW, where feels like it should be dumber but punchier. I could see trading some punchy speed for depth, or vice versa, but WW kind of fails at both.

Now, I will say, the thematic warform change was great. I love the interplay that exists in the space of 'I have power, but I have to be afraid to use it because I can't fully control it.' It recreates some of that tension that the lore scrapping removed. The darkness is no longer in the culture of the werewolves, it's in you. That's excellent fodder for stories.

And the Harano/Hauglosk system is also great. Faced with the end of the world, do you fall to despair, unable to fight a battle you know you can't truly win, or do you let the war consume you, letting you and everything you hold dear be destroyed, as long as the enemy dies first. This is also excellent fodder for stories.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I'll be signing copies of my books in the lobby for the next hour.

[–] Sunsofold 1 points 2 days ago

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[–] Sunsofold 7 points 2 days ago

Try each. One of the great things about Linux is how easy it is to just hop around. Spin up a ventoy USB with those and maybe even a few other ISOs. Then boot into each one and go through the process of finding a piece of software (krita, for instance) and running it. Do a doodle of a dog and run a few filters or something. Doing so will tell you which one you like, which one your computer likes, etc.

[–] Sunsofold 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the Irish American...

[–] Sunsofold 8 points 3 days ago

The mockery in 'chav' is not about class, but choices in relation to class. Class is not chosen. That particular 'look' is certainly chosen.

This is a young man in a pub. They might call him working class, but few would call him a 'chav.'

The young men in your provided images are absolutely the sort who would be called chavs, not because of something intrinsic to themselves, and not because they work for a living, if they do, but because of the choices they have made in how they present themselves to the world.

The chav look is not respected because it simultaneously follows neither the unwritten rules of modesty and dignity that the working class often use to claim moral superiority over the wealthy, nor the unwritten rules of 'tasteful conspicuous consumption' used among the wealthy as their in-group lanuage. It is part of a subculture within working class spaces that attempts to draw esteem via conspicuous consumption, but without wealth. It is a subculture which has 'bought in' on the consumerist ethos which says 'who has the shiniest hat, and the most attention, is the best person.' The message is subtle, but present.

You can be attracted to the aesthetic, just as some people are attracted to the aesthetic of prison inmates, serial killers, fascist uniforms, etc, but the real-world versions of those things are not something to hold in esteem, regardless of how hot they might be. You aren't the first person to be attracted to an aesthetic tied to a problematic culture, and you won't be the last.

[–] Sunsofold 27 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Interviews have always been a crappy way to determine candidate quality. Eventually people started to realize this, but then their idea was just 'what if we did the same thing, but twice?'

[–] Sunsofold 3 points 4 days ago

To be precise, the element giving Trump and his people the ability to do the things they do seems to be simply that they do them without consideration. You can do a lot if you don't worry about the repercussions or consequences.

[–] Sunsofold 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have been wanting a Linux phone for ages but I can't afford a librem and pine seems to have stalled out. Just found out about Furi and now I'm wondering if it really is that good. It's still expensive but it at least doesn't look like it'd choke on running a calculator app.

 
 
 

After seeing this post I just thought it would be an interesting discussion. Obvious limits apply of 'you have to have at least some documentation,' so I'm not talking about something where there is none, and the feature set minimum would be less a question of whether you could complete X arbitrary project and more 'does the feature set make it easy to do everything?' You could essentially write everything in assembly, but would you want to?

On an arbitrary 1-10 scale, (1 being 'I'll build the features from nothing as long as the docs are good' and 10 being 'Who needs documentation? I'll happily read through the undocumented code until I find the ones that make magic happen.') where do your preferences lie?

Oh, and integers only. You can be nuanced in your ideas but no 5.5s allowed.

 
 
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A coworker showed me a trailer some years back. It was first person view, maybe horror, sci-fi setting like a ship/space station with flesh the colour and texture of an eye socket growing over everything. There were other elements modeled after body parts, like bones, teeth, intestines, etc.

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