Finish your mixed run and play again. Do better next time.

Eternity: vast and unsympathetic, big but meaningless, awesome in scope but profoundly empty

My life on Earth: just for me, connected to many others of equal specialness, meaningful because of its finite nature

I hate evil.

Grungeathan Dampflannel

Thank fucking god

People are not exerting enough of their political will in a material way. All this energy we (myself included) put into having these perfect little opinions on the internet should really be directed at in-person protests, organising, and demanding better. Really shouting in faces type of stuff. That’s what’s up.

They are losing faith in the current system certainly. Corpoganda can easily convince them that they’re dissatisfied with the only redeemable aspect of the status quo

I sent this to my wife across the breakfast table and she got a little offended when I pointed at her. Still laughed.

Big Depression won’t allow it, it’s a scheme to sell more sad

Is that photo AI though?

It just needs a story. What stories have salmon?

Grizzly eats a salmon. Maybe that’s the basis of our creation myth. Is the grizzly bear an antagonist?

No, it’s an impersonal force. Our mythos rejects dualism; we have a time travel fish. The bear represents something else, like circumstance or cupidity.

I’ve had this happen too.

Fox could really point at a democrat and be like “this fucker thinks it’s his job to govern well, can you believe it? Fuck him, right?!” and at least 40 percent of the viewers would be shaking their heads in angry disgust

I can’t even pretend to be Christian, but I also have an interest in the morality/ethics of free will in a seemingly deterministic universe. For the sake of conversation, I’ll try to articulate where my head is at.

The basic idea of determinism might be flawed. We don’t have a grand unified theory of physics at the moment, but the last Stephen Hawking book I read (The Grand Design) gave me the impression - carefully putting no words in his mouth - that every possible universe may in fact exist on some level.

In light of that, it kind of makes a sapient being something extremely privileged - to apprehend the present moment, to make choices between this or that, to see oneself within the larger context and make tenuous connections with others - we are like quasi-divine beings of chaos at the infinite centre of creation.

The universe is determinish. We can apprehend macroscopic forces, trends, material conditions and apply our understanding of natural laws to say X must follow W under prescribed conditions. The universe may be on some deep level completely deterministic on every scale, in ways that elude our ability to comprehend (or even balk at) quantum mechanics. But the question was never whether our fates are bound to good or ill, but what we chose to do with the small amount of insight we have been afforded.

One of the best things I ever heard was that “art is the study of choice”, and I think that there is certainly an art to life. To study ones own choices and make more meaningful choices in light of what we do know about ourselves and the world is the only meaningful sense in which we can have free will, whether the future is set in stone or no.

That may the problem, I don’t happen to have any of my FromSoft titles on PC, and the PS4 won’t talk to my 8BitDo.

They did say they’d pay so presumably there’d be some production value to the affair. I’m seeing a Roman theme, along the lines of “Christians to the lions”.

2A or not 2A, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in South Carolina to suffer the tweets and gators of outrageous assholes, or get strapped against a sea of idiots and by opposing, Luigi them.

Downloaded! I felt bad for not liking OrganicMaps’ interface as much as I like the idea of it, so I’m always on the hunt for something like it that scratches my map itch.

That’s wild, I was just talking about using it with my actual old switch. I’ve got the Pro 2 (the one on the left) and it pairs between the switch and my computer pretty seamlessly. I’m so much more basic than I thought, reading these replies!

I don’t do competitive stuff other than couch multi, but it sounds intense.