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Whenever I see videos like this, I think about their ancestors, who must have thought "It's easier and safer to learn to live in these harsh conditions of snow, than risk being killed and attacked by other humans in warmer and more fertile environments".
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im ki**ing myself at the exact time i suspect sidney is trying to conceive on the off-chance i'm reborn as her baby.
Sydney Sweeney at the GLAAD media awards. Liberals have lost control of even the gayest institutions.
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In early America norms were different and men were more comfortable being emotionally open and sharing sleeping quarters and beds. Assuming this means they had gay sex is ironically the most toxic masculinity I can imagine.
New Abraham Lincoln documentary suggests ex-president had secret, gay sex life: ‘Important missing piece of American history’
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Secrets of our success talked about this sort of thing. But it’s still extremely hard to internalize the extent to which early humans ran absurd experiments constantly and discovered the most insane shit. Like every time still I’m surprised.
Thread: Before refrigeration, Russians kept the milk fresh by dropping live brown frogs straight into their milk buckets. The frog’s presence kept milk from spoiling, but no one knew why. Until Albert Lebedev, a scientist from Moscow State University decided to look into it.
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The analyst who did the EV calculation and dropped insurance coverage deserves a raise. Great modeling.
Last year, State Farm canceled 1,600 policies in Pacific Palisades because the state would not allow them to raise premiums enough to cover their exposure. The affected homeowners would then likely have to rely on the state-run FAIR Plan, an expensive last-resort insurance
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You have to admit it's kind of remarkable that trying to meet everyones needs ends up killing about as many people as deliberate extermination.
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citycels are like "ya it's safe, just keep your eyes to yourself, don't wear headphones, don't walk at night, pay attention to your surroundings, don't dress up, don't carry anything that looks nice, walk with a friend, and avoid this 30% of the city".
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I really think the concept of 'screen time' is a major category error. Youtube slop on an ipad isn't the same as watching a classic kids movie after a physically tiring day at the pool, or playing minecraft with me after work.
I spoke with another MD parent couple and they looked at us confused when we said we do zero screen time. Like the idea had never even occurred to them.
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A fundamental problem with modern LLMs is their usefulness is a direct function of your own intelligence and breadth of knowledge.
It’s so funny to hear people say “I use chatGPT for everything” when everytime i’ve used it it says stuff like “Ingredients are an integral part of recipes”.
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The fact that a non-Muslim Arab still suicide attacked is the most blackpilling thing I’ve ever seen on the assimilation question. Maybe we were focusing too much on Islamophobia and not enough on racism. Much to ponder.
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Now it runs on a Python flask backend with a react dashboard for the president.
not enough people know that the US’ nuclear arsenal ran on floppy disks up until June 2019
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Here’s my take on this- it’s not that we use physics & algebra in the real world. It’s that subjects like those are strength & conditioning for our brain.
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A weird thing about having kids is I directly notice certain abstract reasoning patterns my 3 year old is displaying that a non-trivial number of adults will never form.
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Side projects: Me, claude, and o1-pro just did in one day what would take me three weeks before. I am operating on superhuman levels. Work projects: The pipeline deployment failed again, I'm on my 7th hour of debugging a yaml file.
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In America cultural class is tied to money. So this would only work if each mini-house was about 1 million dollars. Otherwise you'd have people loitering, blasting music at all hours, broken cars, and pitbulls running through the courtyard. Looks beautiful though.
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Another assassination attempt and we’re all like oh brother whatever who cares. Kinda funny at first glance, but you can see how third world shithole normalization takes place.
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I said “many such cases” today at work and the guy looked at me like I was retarded, so then I tried to explain it’s a thing Trump says and overall just a terrible experience what’s wrong with me.
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Like most teenage boys I was clueless. So when a girl in our friend group said she was “fat” and “on a diet” I thought that I could help her by telling her the calories in whatever she ate, as memorizing nutritional labels was one of my weird interests.
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Modern Google is like what would happen if some religious order inherited a machine that turns air into gold, but none of them understand how it works. So they just built a temple around it, and guard it nonstop while occasionally praying to it.
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Its time for Biden to do a Hail Mary high-variance strategy. He has to call Trump the n word.
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It's sort of crazy we let this happen. America should just plainly threaten to kill their leaders if they don't release our citizens. What's the point of being a military empire if you don't protect the rights of your citizens?.
An American dad faces 12 years in prison for having a tiny bit of hunting ammo in his carry on bag in Turks and Caicos. He could miss his son growing up over this. Do not visit there until he’s sent home. Let @TCIPremier know what you think about this!
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I’ve been cluster reading a lot of war memoirs recently, and I’ve noticed that compared to others, American soldiers never look forward to the glory of death. I see it in Japanese, German, Vietnamese soldiers, (Muslims obviously) but Americans fiendishly want to live.
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Google is sick. Despite their gigabrains, they are completely hijacked by a bunch of fucking weirdos that make everything they do end up lame and gimped.
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At the object level thinking drunk driving laws will make you a communist country is dumb. But at the meta level, having an uneducated working class that has an immediate revulsion to any increase in government power is the single biggest reason America is great.
4. People reacting to new drinking & driving laws in the ‘80s
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@seconds_0 Being on call. They want deals to close asap so if you finally get info from their lawyers at 3am. The deck needs to be updated by market open.
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Personal trainer: So, what's your ideal physique?.Me: Okay, so, I just want to start by saying I'm 100% against the murder of executives, or anyone really. But.
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not to descend into pundit like comments, but like a gavin newsom or bill clinton type just wouldn't be losing these.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris declines podcast interview with Joe Rogan.
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Imagine you suicide bomb yourself for allah and respawn as this cow.
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I realize this is sacrilege to some, but the biggest workout improvement I’ve made in my 30s is I just dgaf about lifting heavier weights anymore eg i do 20 rep bench now at just 140 pounds. I don’t injure myself anymore and still put in muscle.
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Killing a active shooter must feel so good if you’re a sniper.
Shooter reportedly dead. MSNBC almost immediately cut to sniper overwatch - possibly the agent who returned fire
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Toddler daughter keeps asking me what would happen if I *didnt* take care of her, and I keep not answering the question and telling her “but I will take care of you”. And I think she’s convinced I’m just too stupid to understand counterfactuals.
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Part of the issue is most people's issues are due to eating 3 bags of spicy cheetos a night and forgetting to take their medicine, so doctors become jaded and assume everyone is retarded. If you're smart you need to signal that *hard* immediately.
Most doctors are like poorly trained LLMs. They naively fixate on the wrong tokens, and then are confidently incorrect as they hallucinate or confabulate, and then gaslight you based on their prior training paradigms.
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Progressives are in constant histrionics over gun laws, but if you complain about high murder rates they'll mock you "oh is the wittle baby scawed of some crime?".
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Taking my 2.5 year old daughter on a morning hike in the cold and she wants me to pick her up cause it’s “hard” and I’m trying to explain it’s good to do hard things, and realizing I’ve become Calvin’s dad.
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It’s sort of unbelievable the population is getting older and doctors are retiring, and the medical degree and residency cartel haven’t been intensely expanding in the face of these slow moving predictable events.
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Late 30s is when my wife and I continue to be in love and share our life together while raising our sweet wonderful kids.
late 30’s is when a man’s life starts peaking and a woman’s starts ending
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Sometimes I post shirtless pictures of myself into chatgpt and tell it I’m blind and need help understanding this man’s physique and then it tells me I look lean and muscular.
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I made the mistake of posting on reddit, saying that putting violent criminals in prison reduces crime. Downvoted of course, with a response from someone saying science shows prison actually doesn't prevent crime, with a laundry list of 20 year old shit tier academic papers.
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You know a more parsimonious explanation for why the OpenAI employees are acting “cultish” is because they’re all about to lose literally millions of dollars each.
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I’m 34 with two kids and almost everyone is like “wow!!! Two kids already!!!”.
The average number of kids had by my college classmate is:. 0.8. We are in our late 30s and the median salary for our school at graduation is ~$90,000. Total demographic disaster.
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What does it say about society that no very rich and high-status men have publicly taken a turbo-thot belle delphine level e-girl girlfriend?.Makes you think.
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No matter how much research I do, I just can't figure out why Japanese people don't get mercury poisoning (apparently?) despite eating so much seafood/tuna that we are warned about consuming too much of.
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My cousin, in her second year of uni with intro to datascience in R just completed, told me she saw a good internship at Microsoft in AI research for $9k/month she’s gonna apply to. Not making fun of her, just the sweet naïveté of youth.
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At a dinner tonight someone said milk is Santa's blood, and cookies are his body. So I said it's Transubsantiation, and no one got my joke :/.
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An honest, sincere answer would be this:. They set up a tent outside your home, use meth and scream at 3am, throw syringes and human waste around your door and near your kids, and scream at you in psychosis. The local government does nothing to protect you. I've experienced it.
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> on plane.> planning on getting ginger ale.> guy by me orders first. Asks for ginger ale.> now I can’t order ginger ale.> get water.
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This sort of stuff never happens to me because I'm wealthy enough to live in upscale neighborhoods. But I do have the right-wing opinion that poor people also deserve that level of safety.
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I will literally hire anyone with a solid GitHub repo who also passes communication/culture interviews. Half the people I interview have one, and maybe 1/50 have anything interesting on it. This whole discourse is so funny.
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My most autistic quibble, which is correct, is that people who refuse to give probability estimates for things because "it is too uncertain" or gives "false precision" at a *deeply* fundamental level, misunderstand the purpose of probabilities.
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Time to check in on /r/teachers and see what's the latest on the funnel of the next generation
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capitalism is the greatest fucking thing ever because it lets megalomaniacs who in the past would conquer villages and have a harem of sex slaves instead do things like solve climate-change out of pure selfishness.
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I'm going to lose my mind. You can't look for variation in college GPA to SAT *AFTER* You use SAT as a selection mechanism as evidence as SATs validity. People keep making this mistake, and they're fucking professors whose job it is to understand methodology.
@DLeonhardt @OppInsights According to the @OppInsights analysis standardized test scores explain less than 1/5 of the variation in college GPA. So over 80% of the variation in college grades exists among students with similar test scores. Does that sound like strong prediction to you?
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@Howlingmutant0 *deranged guy with a machette at the local park hacking at the ducks*."Okay bigot, this is just like when you go on duck hunts with your dad".
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Honestly the Columbia admin should just free Palestine already. These students won’t stop protesting until they do.
BREAKING: Tonight at Columbia University, students continue to stand in solidarity with Palestine for the fourth night in a row. “Free, free Palestine!”. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.
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A notable autistic moment from undergrad was when at age 18 I met another student in a dining hall who told me he was a communist, and I got out my micro econ textbook to explain to him why he was specifically wrong.
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Wife looking at our baby boy and asks me “…when men have to pee… do their testicles get full” I swear to god.
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“I felt like the blonde girl when I first graduated. She did nothing wrong, and learning to manage a life and a job is difficult and we should help new generations learn how, not mock them.”
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This actually is capitalism at its best. Independent business owners quickly acted on limited information out of self-interest to make a nascent entertainer popular. They’re just bitter in real life the high charisma foid wins the market.
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Me, waking up at 7:34am. “Time to be a good dad and person on this new day”. The meta GPU cluster running all night: “we sourced a bunch of new 17 year old girls for you in swimsuits to look at before you start your day”.
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Whatever you think of Elon, this is more proof than ever is his behavior is truly driven by engineering autism above anything else.
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My daughter is starting to learn about mortality and honestly I find it difficult to discuss without feeling sad. Maybe if I were religious it would be easier.
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If my son got caught doing something like this I'd be pretty angry at him for being caught. I'll expect him to make horrific jokes with his friends to test moral boundaries, but I'll also expect him to have the good sense to not get caught.
"The girls were ranked from top to bottom as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and then finally “unrapable”. ". This is sickening. And it isn't about one group of students at one school. This is our culture.
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In Interstellar they were always telling the bot like "Uhh okay buddy, let's turn sarcasm down to 40%" and that seemed so dumb and misunderstanding of how AI works. Now I do that exact thing when talking to LLMs.
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o1 is the autist TA in your real analysis course who can break down the hardest problems, but unless you're super clear with him he just looks at you and just blinks. Claude is the TA with long flowing surfer bro hair in your econometrics course who goes "bro, you're getting it".
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It seems like most online video games are only fun for the first bit, before min-maxxer autists ruin them. It's very hard to design a game robust to these losers.
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"The progressive elites say we're supposed to hate the bugs. But no bug has ever called me racist. So I traveled down to klendathu to sit down with a brain bug to get his perspective."
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My wife and I were walking through the city recently and were a little embarrassed to admit to each other we felt uneasy given we used to live in the city. But then after thinking about it decided it's actually pretty normal to find insane people screaming threatening.
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Putin's Russia is such a tragedy, and weird right wing empathy with Russia is some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen. Russia has the civilizational depth to support and project tremendous cultural power. Russia has raw human capital on par with any of the smartest nations.
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“I have a postgraduate degree” I do too bro, and I never bring it up because I’m embarrassed about it
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@Austen sorry, sir, apparently you aren't aware: that wasn't real communism (which has never been tried)
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Turns out my strategy of simply reasoning with my toddler has not worked as it did in my head.
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We're all just a few bad choices and unfortunate circumstances away from stomping someone to death.
NEW: Teens who beat 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis to de*th in Las Vegas will not be charged as adults after they agreed to plead guilty to voluntary mansl*ughter. The thugs were initially charged with second-degree m*rder and conspiracy. "This negotiation enables my client to
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Compulsively supporting the underdog in every situation is peak midwit. It takes real courage to keep the underdog down under your boot, where they belong.
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Talking to an LLM on something I'm an expert on: "Hmmm, I see why you think that, but you're not *quite* right, and you're wrong in some critical but subtle ways". talking to an LLM on anything else: "Wow you're the smartest person I've ever known, how do you know everything?".
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I think the tragedy of Elon is if he just continued to be an inspiring engineer who subtly upheld the values of classical liberalism, he would have been more successful at everything that was important to him. whatever i'll still support him, just a shame it went down like this.
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Every number that you think is important in this world derives from some poorly managed excel spreadsheet managed by a 25 year old.
UN admits Gaza death toll wrong, with almost 50% fewer women, children killed than previously reported
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A great part about being a dad is you can randomly call oatmeal “goatmeal” and your kids will think you’re the funniest fucking person to ever exist.
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Would you believe me if I told you reddit used to be a place where smart, cool, libertarian nerds hung out?
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I think about Pearl Harbor and the pacific front a lot as a framework for war. I went to the WWII museum in Tokyo a few years ago, and you can tell they really try to get you to understand that, from their point of view, America started the war.
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The year is 2024. We are discussing AGI. And we *still* don't have a single 5000+ player FPS battle-sim game where you can recreate WW2 battles.
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@kitten_beloved Crazy science projects have provided immeasurable returns, so this doesn’t really make sense.
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The reason there will never again be games quite like WoW or oldschool runescape, is those worlds represented an initial escape for a certain type of young boy into a new world. For the first time in history, connecting a handful of lonely kids from each region with their peers.
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I mean most individuals do want to live. But in the ethos of war and the culture there is an acceptance of the glory of death. Whereas us soldiers don’t seem to have that. At least from my limited readings.
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The election itself has formed a direct feedback loop with the polls. Politicians tweak policies to force it back to 50/50 because that's the game theoretic equilibrium. 50-50 isn't due to a failure of predictably, it's due to information efficiency in a dynamic system.
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Declaring war on tech elites was such an unforced error by democrats. But I don't think it was ever driven by electoral optimization or voters. It is downstream of an elite power struggle.
NEWS: The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's presidential race, the editor of the editorial pages has told colleagues at a tense meeting this morning. THREAD AND LINK:
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Interesting thing about stuck culture, is all the hosts and musicians of our youth stepped aside for a while, thinking their wave had passed. But then nothing really progressed, now they are all coming back again or touring again because why not.
Jon Stewart is ready to carry election season on his back with his return to "The Daily Show." . More:
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It's time to brain-drain jews from europe. again. we should offer every provably ashkenazi jew $50k and an immediate greencard to move to the US.
Happening Now: Middle Eastern migrants are currently hunting down and beating Jews on the streets of Amsterdam. This is not 1930s Europe, it’s Europe in 2024. History is repeating itself.
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Just read the most based impact statement. You can tell these are real scientists.
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The interesting thing happening in the modern video game world, is people are preferring to play the 10+ year old games made by giga high IQ hyper-nerds who designed fantastic games than their midwit corpo modern incarnations.
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Funniest thing about Enders game and Dune is the vast majority read one book and take away a simple lesson and meaning. Meanwhile the authors are writing like the 15th book of each series that delve into absurd schizo scifi mania.
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My father and brother in law are normie progressive libs, and when I hang out with them I just join in on the progressive banter cause I’m a well adjusted adult who doesn’t need to debate or distinguish my politics with my family.
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