If y'all haven't been listening to the Vacation Bible School podcast (hosted by Jason Kirk from the Shutdown Fullcast), I highly recommend checking out the latest episode about Leviticus.
Learn how to use this truly bizarre book against fundamentalist bigots! Discover that God once explicitly commanded us to become a socialist commune every 7 years!
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shift+f1 stuff:
look, I was never much of a grosjean fan, I basically considered him a slightly (ever so slightly!) more exciting hulkenberg
but hearing about his indie car success makes me view him in a new light, maybe F1 just wasn't his game and he was actually destined for a whole different series
good on him, if he shines brightest away from formula then I'd be overjoyed to cheer him on
I've started listening to Lions Led by Donkeys, a podcast discussing military disasters, incompetence and weird history. It's low budget but quite good. It's very much just sitting listening to 2 (sometimes 3) guys shoot the shit about some fascinating stuff.
I've started listening to Lions Led by Donkeys, a podcast discussing military disasters, incompetence and weird history. It's low budget but quite good. It's very much just sitting listening to 2 (sometimes 3) guys shoot the shit about some fascinating stuff.
Their series on the Japan-Russia war was very good
I've started listening to Lions Led by Donkeys, a podcast discussing military disasters, incompetence and weird history. It's low budget but quite good. It's very much just sitting listening to 2 (sometimes 3) guys shoot the shit about some fascinating stuff.
Their series on the Japan-Russia war was very good
I'm only a few episodes in but the hillariously bad nazi Armor special and Q&A ep are my favorites so far
I am here for waypoint giving praise to Evil Within 2 this week. That game was kind of ignored and overlooked since it came out in such a stacked year but I will always go to bat for it.
I am here for waypoint giving praise to Evil Within 2 this week. That game was kind of ignored and overlooked since it came out in such a stacked year but I will always go to bat for it.
I loved the game deeply as I was playing it, and my fondness for it has only grown with time, and it's real satisfying to hear people gush about it still
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My only real problem with ED2 is that the difficulty right at the start is real rough. The first like 2 hours of the game are significantly harder than the rest.
Which isn't a unique problem for sure. Same thing happened to me in RE8.
It sounds like it has basically nothing to do with evil within 1?
I wonder if it would've done better if they'd just rebranded it as a new game I stead of a sequel to a mediocre disappointment
I quit Evil Within 1 within an hour, couldn't stand it. Evil Within 2 is quite possibly in my top 10 games ever. Absolute night-and-day difference in quality, across the board. It's almost perverse that they have to share a name
It sounds like it has basically nothing to do with evil within 1?
I wonder if it would've done better if they'd just rebranded it as a new game I stead of a sequel to a mediocre disappointment
It has only the barest connections to the first game, yeah
At most, you could just look up a plot summary on Youtube of EW1 and that'll be more than enough. EW1 is just an absolute slog to play.
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EW2 is full of flashbacks to the first game that will make you think they're closely connected but actually all of those scenes are original to the sequel
I've recently been listening to the archives of Oh No Ross and Carrie. People will believe absolutely fucking anything, won't they?
Yep. Scientists recently discovered a gene that explains why. It's a gene that causes a cognitive imbalance and it's only found in humans, lemmings and moths.
I've recently been listening to the archives of Oh No Ross and Carrie. People will believe absolutely fucking anything, won't they?
Yep. Scientists recently discovered a gene that explains why. It's a gene that causes a cognitive imbalance and it's only found in humans, lemmings and moths.
A lot of conspiracy/cult/paranormal/alt-med/etc stuff ONRaC covers basically boils down to "special knowledge that makes YOU part of something IMPORTANT"
you can get a lot of people absolutely hooked on that feeling, even/especially people who think they're too good for it - just look at how much sway guys like J*rdan P*t*rson or W*m H*f had in the Reddit lifestyle sphere for a while
conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
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conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
another factor is that not everybody in these groups is necessarily a die-hard believer, but the social aspects of the group are very important to them and they are willing to go along to maintain that
conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
I read a book called acts of god about how the US likes to attribute environmental disasters and the destruction they cause to happenstance, rather than choices we make about things like building patterns
conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
Wait
Didn't you lose your house roof in a tornado...?
I believe he is accurately describing what happened to his then-roommate.
Evil Within 2 is definitely improved by being about a dude who's had experience with this weird matrix and who is also traumatised by his last time through this weird matrix
Evil Within 1 is still bad and not really worth playing, but i think it would take some incredibly deft writing to hit the good character beats that 2 hits if it were a standalone game and not a sequel to this other game
Here's my beef with how patrick klepek talks about psychobreak. He says it's like if shinji mikami made resident evil 4 again in 2014 but resident evil 4 whips ass and is amazing to play in 2021.
Here's my beef with how patrick klepek talks about psychobreak. He says it's like if shinji mikami made resident evil 4 again in 2014 but resident evil 4 whips ass and is amazing to play in 2021.
Are you sure that was a qualitative statement and not just Patrick talking about design styles?
Here's my beef with how patrick klepek talks about psychobreak. He says it's like if shinji mikami made resident evil 4 again in 2014 but resident evil 4 whips ass and is amazing to play in 2021.
Are you sure that was a qualitative statement and not just Patrick talking about design styles?
I'm not sure how similar the design styles can be if psychobreak is apparently intolerable to play and resident evil 4 is one of the best video games
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so I had this notion to write a really bigass philosophical post about My Thoughts re: cults/conspiratorial ingroups, the three Viennese schools of Psychotherapy and their analysis of the base driving force behind men's actions, the mixed curse and blessing of our sapience and the ever present need, particularly expressed via dissection of capitalist and fascist ideologies, to resolve the anxiety of death
but then I figured, eh, fuck it, I should only dedicate that kind of highfalutin analysis into things that actually matter, like Fallen London lore implications
basically it comes down to people's sense of self revolving around an integrated concept of meaning and power in order to handle perceptions of helplessness in the face of material and metaphysical inferiority, and while these coalesce into different forms based on innumerable factors, the nature of highly unequal western socio-economics together with a glut of unsupervised information distribution means
Shit Be Fucked
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
Wait
Didn't you lose your house roof in a tornado...?
I believe he is accurately describing what happened to his then-roommate.
Yuuuuuuup
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Here's my beef with how patrick klepek talks about psychobreak. He says it's like if shinji mikami made resident evil 4 again in 2014 but resident evil 4 whips ass and is amazing to play in 2021.
Are you sure that was a qualitative statement and not just Patrick talking about design styles?
I'm not sure how similar the design styles can be if psychobreak is apparently intolerable to play and resident evil 4 is one of the best video games
Similar? I was suggesting Patrick was referring to how design styles have changed in the last seven years that Evil Within 2 has not picked up on.
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conspiracy theories are viewpoint reinforcing ego boosts. you know the ***truth*** and all those sheeple out there don't
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
Wait
Didn't you lose your house roof in a tornado...?
I believe he is accurately describing what happened to his then-roommate.
Yuuuuuuup
lmao
who puts their gold in the attic?
1) gold is mad heavy
2) you bury treasure ya dingus
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Oh also the Balkans.
but this bit? it is a good bit
Learn how to use this truly bizarre book against fundamentalist bigots! Discover that God once explicitly commanded us to become a socialist commune every 7 years!
look, I was never much of a grosjean fan, I basically considered him a slightly (ever so slightly!) more exciting hulkenberg
but hearing about his indie car success makes me view him in a new light, maybe F1 just wasn't his game and he was actually destined for a whole different series
good on him, if he shines brightest away from formula then I'd be overjoyed to cheer him on
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Their series on the Japan-Russia war was very good
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I'm only a few episodes in but the hillariously bad nazi Armor special and Q&A ep are my favorites so far
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I loved the game deeply as I was playing it, and my fondness for it has only grown with time, and it's real satisfying to hear people gush about it still
I wonder if it would've done better if they'd just rebranded it as a new game I stead of a sequel to a mediocre disappointment
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Which isn't a unique problem for sure. Same thing happened to me in RE8.
I quit Evil Within 1 within an hour, couldn't stand it. Evil Within 2 is quite possibly in my top 10 games ever. Absolute night-and-day difference in quality, across the board. It's almost perverse that they have to share a name
They definitely wanted to go with the batshit twist reveal of 1 as the framework for the story of 2.
Don't be a Goofus (Rob Zacny)
Be a Gallant (Rob Zacny one week later)
It has only the barest connections to the first game, yeah
At most, you could just look up a plot summary on Youtube of EW1 and that'll be more than enough. EW1 is just an absolute slog to play.
Yep. Scientists recently discovered a gene that explains why. It's a gene that causes a cognitive imbalance and it's only found in humans, lemmings and moths.
Well shit...
you can get a lot of people absolutely hooked on that feeling, even/especially people who think they're too good for it - just look at how much sway guys like J*rdan P*t*rson or W*m H*f had in the Reddit lifestyle sphere for a while
it's not surprise they are very addicting
I think that's true for some/many people, yeah
But conspiracy theories for a lot of other people are a way of seeing order in chaos and happenstance. Uncertainty is scary for a lot of folks, and something that says, "There IS a pattern, you don't need to be scared of the unknown any more" is very appealing.
For some folks, tragedy on a wide-enough scale short-circuits their brain. It's easier to believe in a cabal of all-powerful bad guys than to believe that tragedy is unpredictable, that it can just happen, that life is more fragile and unpredictable than they realized.
For some folks they go deep into a conspiracy hole, don't trust the banks to hold their gold, hide it in the roof, and then lose it all when a once in a lifetime tornado destroys their roof specifically.
I read a book called acts of god about how the US likes to attribute environmental disasters and the destruction they cause to happenstance, rather than choices we make about things like building patterns
Wait
Didn't you lose your house roof in a tornado...?
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I believe he is accurately describing what happened to his then-roommate.
Evil Within 1 is still bad and not really worth playing, but i think it would take some incredibly deft writing to hit the good character beats that 2 hits if it were a standalone game and not a sequel to this other game
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Are you sure that was a qualitative statement and not just Patrick talking about design styles?
I'm not sure how similar the design styles can be if psychobreak is apparently intolerable to play and resident evil 4 is one of the best video games
but then I figured, eh, fuck it, I should only dedicate that kind of highfalutin analysis into things that actually matter, like Fallen London lore implications
basically it comes down to people's sense of self revolving around an integrated concept of meaning and power in order to handle perceptions of helplessness in the face of material and metaphysical inferiority, and while these coalesce into different forms based on innumerable factors, the nature of highly unequal western socio-economics together with a glut of unsupervised information distribution means
Shit Be Fucked
Yuuuuuuup
Similar? I was suggesting Patrick was referring to how design styles have changed in the last seven years that Evil Within 2 has not picked up on.
lmao
who puts their gold in the attic?
1) gold is mad heavy
2) you bury treasure ya dingus