AlkaliMarxist [he/him]

Secret lists of blacklisted government critics?

How Orwellian

You build things to take estimated future capacity, not things that are fully utilised the day you finish.

I know the US would never build public services, must be cause they aren’t motivated by money.

I’m guessing our subs are nuclear capable, because we’re the good guys, and their subs are nuclear attack subs, because they’re the bad guys.

I was only joking, but I personally prefer the simple conversions in metric.

“Your units are arbitrary!” I yell as I measure something by how many of my own feet fit along one side.

That’s my interpretation of the creative process behind fiction and invention also. You take a familiar concept in your mind and mutate it with the goal of either making something more efficient or effective (invention) or of creating engaging narrative (fiction).

Depends on how unique the thought needs to be. You could simply count up from 0 and eventually you’d encounter a number you’d never thought of before, like 145,398, which I’m pretty sure is a number I’ve never thought about. You could do this forever and still be having technically unique thoughts.

The problem, I think, is that all thoughts seem to be a product of previous thoughts. Totally new thoughts are driven by external stimuli. We can, however, mutate an existing thought into a new one. I think this would be my process, take a common thought and change one aspect of it at a time until it’s unrecognizable.

“Ricer” is a disparaging term for a Japanese car enthusiast because the Japanese are thought to eat a lot of rice. It is that simple.

Are they bears that have been hexed? People turned into bears by hexes? Bears casting hexes on us??

Who are these people!?

Things that work for me, not necessarily recommendations:

• Mindfulness practices
• Always be a little bit too busy for comfort, keeps you from dwelling on things
• Smoke; weed or tobacco, both help
• Deliberately cultivate positive self-talk, don’t just uncritically accept whatever you mind tells you

Well that depends on your interpretation of what justifies war. If you think nothing does, than obviously nothing will. I don’t think Russia is justified, but that their position is understandable. The Ukrainian military shelled Russian speaking civilians in Donbas. They also, deliberately or not, fired over the border and killed Russian citizens in Russia. They dammed a river supplying 80% of the fresh water into Crimea which had rebelled and join the Russian Federation. Ukraine was also seeking NATO membership, which would mean that anything that could have constituted an attack on Ukraine by Russian would have triggered war with all of NATO, meaning that unless Russia acted now Ukraine could have continued to kill Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity with impunity under NATO’s protection. Basically with Ukraine in NATO, the US could trivially engineer a full scale war with Russia at any time.

Parts of Ukraine are heavily populated by people of Russian decent, who speak Russian, they are discriminated against by the government and by ethnic Ukrainians. Before the invasion Ukraine had made it mandatory for all public servants to speak Ukrainian for example. The US assisted right wing militia to coup the Ukrainian government in 2014 because the president was seen as pro-Russia.

There was an ongoing civil war, drawn along ethnic lines. The US always intended to escalate this conflict as a way to hurt Russia and Putin decided to strike before he had to face a NATO protected belligerent on the border. You might not agree that this is justification, but I think it puts paid to the suggestion that the war was merely territorial aggression by an inherently militaristic government against a peaceful one.

PSX

• Jade Cocoon - Fantasy style Japanese RPG with Pokemon-esque monster battles
• Monster Rancher 2 - Another monster battling game but with a sim/management style
• Tombi/Tomba - weird platformer/rpg-lite hybrid
• Ridge Racer Type 4 - not so underrated but I feel forgotten, banger soundtrack
• Dino Crisis - Resident evil but with dinosaurs
• Kula World - Puzzle game where you play as a beach ball traversing blocks floating in the void without popping
• Nuclear Strike - Not a great game, but the cutscenes have a Red Alert style cheesiness I like a lot.

Neogeo

• Metal Slug - Platformer with Shmup characteristics.

If you can go up to PS2 then Road Trip Adventure is a Racing/RPG where you play as sentient cars. Janky controls though.

Ah, wanted to reply but the site keeps breaking on me!

Boundary Break is a good one too, been following for a while, I like to get a glimpse of the weird left-overs and strange things that show up in games. I’ve seen a few more good channels like that and I wish I’d subbed to them so I could recommend them now!

I’m a bit the same wrt speedruns, I like the creative ways people find to exploit code, and then the absurd level of mechanical precision that goes into polishing those runs until they’re prefect is cool to see too.

Thanks, I hope you all enjoy pictures of owls and pointless but vitriolic struggle sessions.

Got excited, then realized I’d already seen it. I like these kind of videos too, something very satisfying about the creativity plus the dedication to pull this stuff off.

Maybe https://www.youtube.com/@DisplacedGamers/videos it’s a bit dry and code heavy comparatively though.

https://www.youtube.com/@SwankyBox mods old games for challenges and to show off cut content and stuff.

Lots of “history of speedrun records” channels have a similar vibe, but not quite the same thing.