Funny events in anti-woke world

[Agema]

Give how many programmers there are in China we could have 50 Crimson Desert sized games

Sure, but pay for 50 Crimson Deserts, what you'll get is one Crimson Desert and 49 commercial failures.

There is a finite size to demand. As a result, the effect of supplying a lot more games will generally be to crowd out other games*. This will make more games financially unviable, the developers bankrupt and coders needing new jobs until the supply shrinks back down to meet demand.

* It is possible to break into a new market, or convince existing gamers to devote more time/resources and thus expand demand... but I wouldn't rely on that.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I just find that as someone with most of my adult life in alt culture and friend circles, seeing someone like the author try their hand at biological notes for their column like a grandad peering from betwixt their curtains (or just Frasier from the show, uh, Frasier) kinda seems more like they're trying to Pokédex the shadows of Plato's cave, if the cave was up their own arse and lined with mirrors. Or baby's read their first book lol

He certainly is up his own arse.

I spent my late teens to early 30s in the freeparty techno/druggie circles, then I spent 9 years working in student halls at a very artsy university and the last 3 working in the same university, though not directly in halls. So I see a lot of young people, just coming into that stage of early adulthood where they are really trying to show the world who they are by way of their appearance etc. It's just a topic that catches my interest because I see overt "alternative culture" every day. It's funny that i often look around and think that barring the odd quirk it feels like nothing much has changed fashion wise, on the surface at least, I could have seen most of the people I see 25 years ago.

But seriously, that guy can't half write a load of masturbatory prose. Although probably a lot more coherent than me. I think I had some sort of point in that last paragraph, but I'm not quite sure what it was.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Load of waffling blah, just restating positions you've already laid out.

Dude: you just said that distancing and covering one's sneezes will limit transmission. You have undermined every argument you've been furiously making for weeks. This shows crystal clearly that you just throw these empty lines out without any thought put into the meaning or substance.

You said this months ago and you are simply wrong about that.

Buddy, people transmit colds to one another by being in passing contact all the time.

 

[Silvanus]

You said this months ago and you are simply wrong about that.

Ah, the non-sequitur deflection. Classic!

I'm just glad you've finally acknowledged that covering one's sneezes and distancing oneself actually do reduce transmission. All it took was for you to forget what you were arguing (again)!

 

[Gergar12]

Sure, but pay for 50 Crimson Deserts, what you'll get is one Crimson Desert and 49 commercial failures.

There is a finite size to demand. As a result, the effect of supplying a lot more games will generally be to crowd out other games*. This will make more games financially unviable, the developers bankrupt and coders needing new jobs until the supply shrinks back down to meet demand.

* It is possible to break into a new market, or convince existing gamers to devote more time/resources and thus expand demand... but I wouldn't rely on that.

There are a lot more introverts, people who like stories, and even ambiverts than you think. There is also the trend of people moving more into single player games, and not multiplayer games that demand either fast computers, high reflex speeds, and or 'studying' the map for kill-zones, and routes which I find boring.

Plus China is already releasing AA game after AA game, and Black Myth Wukong is a AAA game, Genshin may be funded via MTX right now but was a massive project in the beginning. Also some people want large worlds. Furthermore the thing that stops large scale single-player games from China isn't demand it's piracy, and somewhat face(I have the most of X, Y, and Z).

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

What I don't understand about the current affairs today is how no one wants to fight longer wars, and plans to win them. Even the US is more concerned about fighting, and winning shorter term wars as is France. And countries with capabilities of winning short term wars in the past such as the UK can't even do that as well without help from other countries. Everyone else plays defense or will miscalculate like Russia.

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Also the Ayatollah is likely burning in hell from a JDAM.

What a stupid thing to say.

Why don't countries want to fight long wars? Because long wars cause a lot of death, including the deaths of their own citizens, and citizens don't tend to enjoy that.

The more that the reality of war has been televised and the glamor from it has been removed the less popular they have become. Wars used to be popular when the general population didn't see what was happening, and became increasingly less popular as more people were presented with the realities of warfare.

A "short war" that amounts to a few bombing runs and not a lot of casualties is easier to sell than a long war. They cost less money, fewer lives, and are generally less bloody.

 

[Gergar12]

What a stupid thing to say.

Why don't countries want to fight long wars? Because long wars cause a lot of death, including the deaths of their own citizens, and citizens don't tend to enjoy that.

The more that the reality of war has been televised and the glamor from it has been removed the less popular they have become. Wars used to be popular when the general population didn't see what was happening, and became increasingly less popular as more people were presented with the realities of warfare.

A "short war" that amounts to a few bombing runs and not a lot of casualties is easier to sell than a long war. They cost less money, fewer lives, and are generally less bloody.

I see long wars as worth it in specific circumstances. For example if Greenland, and Canada merited a long war which I don't see it right now, and the US had the critical mass to pacify Canadians, and do so while the EU is distracted it would be worth it if you can keep it. Polk had a long war, and kept his land, Russia had colonization after colonization wars, and kept their lands. Don't even get me started on China who fought everywhere and used to have Mongolia, and for a period of time Taiwan, and sometimes even Vietnam, and the Korea.

Also it's not surprise Polk ranks very highly for me. Without him, the US may not have had California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In fact if you can control the media, and make enough relativity self-sufficient drones AND act in a way that's less worse than Russia and China and be competent about it unlike Putin, or Trump who's basically a fall guy for starting a conversation on Canada.

I am not Canadian(Canadian) or Mexican(Baja California/Mexico) or EU (Greenland) or Cuban(Cuba). My loyalty is to US interests as I am a US citizen. Just as the EU to themselves, China, Russia, etc.

 

[Silvanus]

I see long wars as worth it in specific circumstances. For example if Greenland, and Canada merited a long war which I don't see it right now, and the US had the critical mass to pacify Canadians, and do so while the EU is distracted it would be worth it if you can keep it. Polk had a long war, and kept his land, Russia had colonization after colonization wars, and kept their lands. Don't even get me started on China who fought everywhere and used to have Mongolia, and for a period of time Taiwan, and sometimes even Vietnam, and the Korea.

Also it's not surprise Polk ranks very highly for me. Without him, the US may not have had California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In fact if you can control the media, and make enough relativity self-sufficient drones AND act in a way that's less worse than Russia and China and be competent about it unlike Putin, or Trump who's basically a fall guy for starting a conversation on Canada.

I am not Canadian(Canadian) or Mexican(Baja California/Mexico) or EU (Greenland) or Cuban(Cuba). My loyalty is to US interests as I am a US citizen. Just as the EU to themselves, China, Russia, etc.

In short: you see no issue with imperialism, and will place the expansion of your country's borders over the wellbeing of fellow human beings.

 

[Gergar12]

In short: you see no issue with imperialism, and will place the expansion of your country's borders over the wellbeing of fellow human beings.

My fellow human beings are dickheads, I am so sick of the peacetime monopolies, and the laziness and uninnovative crap we put up with in peacetime. Taiwan who we are suppose to defend is marking up the price of semi-conductors and acts as semi-conductor monopoly, South Korea does the same, and they are part of the SSD oligopoly. Canada does nothing but frack oil (climate change), and hates Indian-Canadians for no reason( I am not Indian by the way) only now allows BYD to come in/gets bullied by fucking Ford. The EU has a monopoly on lithography machines and don't want to make long range cheap EVs that are cheap to repair, Cuban is a dagger aimed at the US eastern seaboard and hosts Russian warships, China has a rare earth monpoly, the US democratic party is competent, but is made up fo the most uninnovative policymakers who get negative five bills past a year.

The last we had a Cold War we got the internet out of it, alongside a bunch of stuff like computers. We need to disrupt the status quo monopolies otherwise as a EU engineer states we will own nothing(housing, EVs, now computers, etc.) , and be happy about it. I would rather fight a war.

 

[Thaluikhain]

My fellow human beings are dickheads, I am so sick of the peacetime monopolies, and the laziness and uninnovative crap we put up with in peacetime. Taiwan who we are suppose to defend is marking up the price of semi-conductors and acts as semi-conductor monopoly, South Korea does the same, and they are part of the SSD oligopoly. Canada does nothing but frack oil (climate change), and hates Indian-Canadians for no reason( I am not Indian by the way) only now allows BYD to come in/gets bullied by fucking Ford. The EU has a monopoly on lithography machines and don't want to make long range cheap EVs that are cheap to repair, Cuban is a dagger aimed at the US eastern seaboard and hosts Russian warships, China has a rare earth monpoly, the US democratic party is competent, but is made up fo the most uninnovative policymakers who get negative five bills past a year.

The last we had a Cold War we got the internet out of it, alongside a bunch of stuff like computers. We need to disrupt the status quo monopolies otherwise as a EU engineer states we will own nothing(housing, EVs, now computers, etc.) , and be happy about it. I would rather fight a war.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I see long wars as worth it in specific circumstances. For example if Greenland, and Canada merited a long war which I don't see it right now, and the US had the critical mass to pacify Canadians, and do so while the EU is distracted it would be worth it if you can keep it. Polk had a long war, and kept his land, Russia had colonization after colonization wars, and kept their lands. Don't even get me started on China who fought everywhere and used to have Mongolia, and for a period of time Taiwan, and sometimes even Vietnam, and the Korea.

Also it's not surprise Polk ranks very highly for me. Without him, the US may not have had California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In fact if you can control the media, and make enough relativity self-sufficient drones AND act in a way that's less worse than Russia and China and be competent about it unlike Putin, or Trump who's basically a fall guy for starting a conversation on Canada.

I am not Canadian(Canadian) or Mexican(Baja California/Mexico) or EU (Greenland) or Cuban(Cuba). My loyalty is to US interests as I am a US citizen. Just as the EU to themselves, China, Russia, etc.

"It's worth it for a million of my countrymen to die so that some rich people can get a lot richer."

What did the US get out of 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam? The wars you listed aren't modern wars. The long wars in the modern age haven't gotten the US any tangible benefits other than feeding the military industrial complex.

In short, I hope you'll be volunteering for the front line when we inevitably invade Iran since you think long wars are great for everyone involved.

 

[Gergar12]

"It's worth it for a million of my countrymen to die so that some rich people can get a lot richer."

What did the US get out of 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam? The wars you listed aren't modern wars. The long wars in the modern age haven't gotten the US any tangible benefits other than feeding the military industrial complex.

In short, I hope you'll be volunteering for the front line when we inevitably invade Iran since you think long wars are great for everyone involved.

I never said Iran and the modern war on terror was worth it, I said getting land was worth it if it works like in Polk's case. Also you can thank MEPs for why I wasn't able to join the US Army.

Also rich people are getting rich in peacetime too, in wartime quite a few of their companies get nationalized.

Edit: Funny you mention this, border patrol keeps spamming me in ads, and recently in a phone-text. But I like immigrants so I rejected it. That and being armed security is the closest I will get to it, but both aren't adventitious enough.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I never said Iran and the modern war on terror was worth it, I said getting land was worth it if it works like in Polk's case.

If there hasn't been a modern war that was worth it then what makes you think it will ever be worth it again?

Also you can thank MEPs for why I wasn't able to join the US Army.

Wouldn't have stopped Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[Gergar12]

If there hasn't been a modern war that was worth it then what makes you think it will ever be worth it again?



Wouldn't have stopped Teddy Roosevelt.

History for one, we don't live in the end of history after all. Land seizures by force aren't going away.

Also MEPs is digital, and they check medical history.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

History for one, we don't live in the end of history after all. Land seizures by force aren't going away.

It hasn't been working out particularly great for the countries currently trying it.

Land grabs will come back eventually due to resource scarcity, but the ones that have happened in the modern age have been purely ideological which is why they're failing. The juice isn't worth the squeeze. That's why Americans are tired of foreign wars, we dumped trillions into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq with nothing to show for it except wasted time, money, and lives.

Due to climate change eventually we'll have to fight resource wars, and those will be long, but they'll be wars of survival. Until we reach that point protracted wars aren't going to be popular.

Also MEPs is digital, and they check medical history.

When Roosevelt couldn't join the Army he made his own military force with blackjack and hookers. What's your excuse? Don't love war enough?

 

[Gergar12]

It hasn't been working out particularly great for the countries currently trying it.

Land grabs will come back eventually due to resource scarcity, but the ones that have happened in the modern age have been purely ideological which is why they're failing. The juice isn't worth the squeeze. That's why Americans are tired of foreign wars, we dumped trillions into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq with nothing to show for it except wasted time, money, and lives.

Due to climate change eventually we'll have to fight resource wars, and those will be long, but they'll be wars of survival. Until we reach that point protracted wars aren't going to be popular.



When Roosevelt couldn't join the Army he made his own military force with blackjack and hookers. What's your excuse? Don't love war enough?

I am not the assistant secretary of the Navy. Plus I never said we had to fight a war today, I heavily implied we should time it better, and calculate it to be just less aggressive and look less bad than China invading Taiwan, and Russia Invading Ukraine. China hasn't invaded yet.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I am not the assistant secretary of the Navy. Plus I never said we had to fight a war today, I heavily implied we should time it better, and calculate it to be just less aggressive and look less bad than China invading Taiwan, and Russia Invading Ukraine. China hasn't invaded yet.

And I heavily implied that those who aren't going to put their life on the line should shut the fuck up.

 

[Silvanus]

My fellow human beings are dickheads, I am so sick of the peacetime monopolies, and the laziness and uninnovative crap we put up with in peacetime.

You've abstracted to the point where you cannot meaningfully grasp life or suffering, so you do not value them. Innovation is meaningless if it does not improve quality of life. Yet you'd sacrifice quality of life for it.

 

[Gergar12]

And I heavily implied that those who aren't going to put their life on the line should shut the fuck up.

Yeah well, I did try, and that's better than most of the people here.

 

[Gergar12]

You've abstracted to the point where you cannot meaningfully grasp life or suffering, so you do not value them. Innovation is meaningless if it does not improve quality of life. Yet you'd sacrifice quality of life for it.

Peacetime degeneracy also makes it so that quality of life will decrease.... when we are all dead from climate change.