I think it’s a miracle that we found a way to get humans to cooperate whatsoever. It’s fragile but by assuming everyone is fundamentally self-interested then it just about works.

Other systems assume a higher degree of altruism than humans actually have. Paradoxically this leads to more corruption in those systems, like endemic corruption in communist countries once some people start to play the system.

Capitalism facilitates cooperation but with an underlying game theory assumption of self interest holding it all together.

It depends if you can get your Going Into Games Machine working again

I look like a movie star I’m tall

Sounds like a healthy use of your time

There’s a dumb Italian Horror movie called Del Amore d’ella Muerte (Cemetary Man in English speaking territories) that I absolutely love. It was made in the 90s and stars Rupert Everrit as a graveyard keeper who fights a zombie invasion with his mute assistant.

Hard to explain but the universe they create is very comfy where he’s drinking red wine and shooting zombies.

I use DDG but caveat emptor it’s using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

I still enjoy them on linux.

Not really. I tell them it’s like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.

Bright lights make your pupils shrink

Astonishing listening to the news coverage of that story where the anchors were reading some terminally online nonsense from the teleprompter about Discord “Thug Shakers”

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Personally I’d be cutting off contact from him. No point reaching out to someone who doesn’t want to be in touch. He’s also given you an ‘out’ here by disowning you which makes the situation more simple on the surface. Sometimes you need to think about preserving your own wellbeing.

I don’t believe so but not expert enough on his discography to confirm.

I’m on a local Scottish instance called glasgow.social because the admin is relaxed about free speech without allowing it to become a total cesspool. Almost got kicked off treehouse.systems before I migrated because I suggested political violence was bad - even if left wing people were doing it.

I heard at an old company that being able to read DMs was an extra feature which needed to be paid for, and that my particular company didn’t have it.

That didn’t sound right to me. Especially if the employees could be misusing company property by bullying or selling drugs to each other or something. Surely there would be some legal liability they’d need to cover themselves for?

Probably towards the centre with a tilt towards liberalism but like both in terms of being socially and economically liberal. Ideal government would let everyone do whatever they wanted to until it interfered with anyone else doing whatever they wanted to do.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk (1997), Hunter x Hunter (2011), Ghost in the Shell (movie), Akira (movie), pretty much all of Studio Ghilbi.

Apart from EVA those are fairly good for keeping the creepiness to a minimum. I think Berserk at least contextualises it as being part of a brutal universe in a GoT kind of way.

Kill La Kill is probably the creepiest one I’d still say was good but it crosses the line a few times tbh.

Didn’t think I needed an /s on that statement but maybe I did!

Honestly I do like anime but I have to turn a blind eye to the creepy/ecchi shit in order to enjoy some shows. It’s just a fucked up part of Japanese culture. A bit like how Ignition Remix is still a banger even though R Kelly is a monster.

They are actually 10,000 years old but just happen to have a young body. It’s not a sleazy conceit at all.

Dread is fantastic but they really focused on the action elements of Metroid. This is fine since there are other games that focus on exploration but the stuff it does really well are things like boss fights. The last boss in particular is phenomenal.