Yeah that’s probably the key. While I’m blessed in that I have friends in my life, I don’t really have any gamer friends so it’s also just me vs randoms in these scenarios

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I will just never understand why adults who have seen hundreds of dogs in their life will act like they’ve never seen a dog before anytime they encounter a new dog.

Honestly it’s weird as fuck.

Mental Cruelty and Open Mike Eagle

I’m excited to see if they turn it into a FPS or a Sokoban-type game, since we learned from FF7R that apparently you can radically change the core gameplay mechanic but still call your game a “remake” somehow

I know I’m an old head, but I fall all of these games (Deadlock, Apex Legends, Overwatch, whatever) to be fun for about two hours and then I’m sated.

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal because so many people seem to get so much joy from them.

Good for them, but until EGS starts being more pro- consumer, I’m not spending a cent there

That’s valid, but it’s why I said he’s not just an idiot. I’m not denying he’s an idiot, I’m just saying it’s vastly more nefarious than that.

I can’t recommend Celeste enough, personally.

I will warn you that the platforming can be challenging, but if it’s too stressful Celeste offers almost unparalleled accessibility options that will allow you fine control over the difficulty so no matter your skill level you’ll be able to progress.

Great story, cozy atmosphere but still emotional impact, and the only “fighting” you do is against yourself.

Amazing game, highly recommend Celeste

We have to stop pretending Trump is just some bumbling idiot with misguided by good intentions.

Trump isn’t trying to make workable trade deals with China.

All that Trump is trying to do is cause permanent damage to America at the behest of foreign masters.

And he is succeeding tremendously in his goals.

Stop acting like Trump is a failure, because he’s not, his goals are just antithetical to ours.

The actual audacity

I appreciate this, and it does help turn the ire into pity a bit, but I do worry that unfortunately the effect sort of remains the same regardless

I’ll never recover, personally. The way my world-view was shattered by how many not just nameless strangers, but people I actually know and interact with, are the worst sort of hateful monsters.

My world is a different place now, and I don’t think I’ll ever feel the same.

I remember them being funny back in the day, what happened?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidden-motives/201203/unreliable-memory

What the fuck are you even talking about? You’re beyond grasping at straws if you’re comparing living life according to a concrete moral code based on nothing with the theoretical existence of the Higgs-bosom, which is absolutely not even remotely treated as sacred, and at this point I have to assume you are simply trying to waste my time, because this is fucking stupid.

Because the only way the alternative exists is if we assume the supernatural, and in lieu of evidence to support that, we are unable to do so.

It’s not better, my point is yours doesn’t exist. It is also the exact same moral subjectivism. Period. You’re just choosing a premade character instead of going into the character customizer. You are still making a choice of morality based on your preference, period.

And it’s not that I’m saying definitively with certainty that morality must be subjective, again my philosophy is that nothing is sacred. But objective morality is the claim and claims must be supported before being accepted. This is how scientific inquiry works. You make a claim, you support that claim, and you invite others to challenge your supporting evidence to see if it holds water. You don’t say my claim is true and it’s up to you to disprove it. By that rational, I would invite you to disprove my claim that god is a crab’s vagina who wants us to eat our own hair.

So it’s not that I’m unwaveringly certain in my conviction that morality is inherently subjective, it’s just that it is the default assumption until evidence to the contrary proves otherwise. So unless you have evidence to the contrary, we remain in the default understanding, but as always willing to reassess and adapt our understanding as additional knowledge is acquired.

Because my morality of doing what is best for society includes rejecting ignorance, and what is believing in that which lacks evidence if not ignorance?

I see no value in living my life in a constant state of “okay but what if,” especially when there is absolutely nothing to suggest or imply that the specific what if in question is any more founded than believing that the universe was created by a giant crab’s vagina who only wants just to eat our own hair. It is definitional absurdity, and condoning it would be immoral, in my estimation.

And the important distinction between the case at hand and philosophical arguments is that those are that of theory, not practical application. If you want to talk about god in terms of the abstract, go ahead to your heart’s content; that’s a fascinating field with no shortage of questions to explore. But when you start to put those ideas in practice the real world with completely unfounded yet still concrete assumptions, that actually becomes a fucking problem for society.

That you present deific morality as some alternative to the uncertain subjectivism of reality when it is not an alternative and it does not live outside of it. It is nothing more than delusion born of hubris because it is easier to reject reality and say “no I’m right!” than it is to accept the complicated nature of existence. You aren’t providing an answer to the problem, you’re hoping that if you cover your eyes hard enough the problem will stop existing.

I hate to break it to you, but you are also subject to moral subjectivism, you’re just less honest about it. Your moral frameworks are just as much a matter of consensus, just of the theocratic. You are not immune or superior, you’re just less honest with yourself. You still follow the subjective morality defined by man, just under the guise of higher authority.