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I downloaded the Project 64 N64 simulator, and I've been playing Harvest Moon 64 for the past two days.

First of all, you can download Project 64 here: https://www.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_64_Emulators/Windows/9

It's a very small file. It will run on almost any computer that isn't ancient. The first ROM I downloaded for Project 64 was Starcraft 64, which is an incredible game. The ROM for Starcraft 64 is here (Don't click the green "Download" button. There's a countdown right below it that says "Download in 14 seconds" and after the countdown finishes it turns into a "Direct Download" button. That's the button you click to download the ROM.): https://www.freeroms.com/roms/n64/starcraft_64.htm

Harvest Moon 64 is here ( Again, don't click the green "Download" button. There's a countdown right below it that says "Download in 14 seconds" and after the countdown finishes it turns into a "Direct Download" button. That's the button you click to download the ROM.): https://www.freeroms.com/roms/n64/harvest_moom_64.htm

I played Harvest Moon 64 without a walkthrough. Then I tried following this walkthrough: https://strategywiki.org/wi…/Harvest_Moon_64/Spring_(Year_1)

I tried. I think only Chuck Norris himself is capable of following this walkthrough past the first day. So now I will probably never play Harvest moon 64 ever again because every time I think about it I get a migraine.

I also started playing Marapets. My character is naked. I didn't intend that, but whatever, it's nice.

First of all, why is Marapets better than Neopets? Neopets doesn't use "https", so the connection to their server isn't secure. Everything on Marapets uses "https", so I trust Marapets, and why I will never play Neopets ever again.

And on the topic of internet safety, the Old School Runescape java client is insecure in so many ways. I will never play OSRS ever again for that exact reason. The Runescape 3 client uses a secure connection as far as I can tell, so if I ever do play Runescape again, I'm only going to play Runescape 3.

Anyways, back to Marapets. It's very easy to make Marapoints on Marapets because you get free Marapoints for every 30 games you play. The most effortless way, which I use, is just getting the lowest score possible on every game, send score three times, just to get the free Marapoints. It took me about an hour today to make 200k Marapoints that way. So that's just the Flash Games. The "Free Games" and "Points to Play" games also give ridiculously generous rewards just for clicking a button. 👍👍👍👍

I'm a lazy guy.

Also this Harvest Moon 64 video is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPn4Dvz81tk

Apparently, if you use your dog on Karen 78234 times, she falls in love with you. That's the real takeaway from all of Harvest Moon 64 really.

Somebody almost convinced me to start a dispensary.

Here's another interesting thing that happened to me. Again, I won't mention any names. So this guy, who I'm going to call Kyle, said his brother had a blueberry farm, and wanted to start a dispensary. He already had 5 kg. Just for the sake of it, I said I could start a website. He said it would require VPNs, Bitcoin payments, custom Point-of-Sales software, total dark web stuff. So I said I'm out. He said it's a gray area, it would cost $200k to get all the licensing from the government to run a legitimate dispensary, and obviously none of us have the money. He said he had a lot of connections, and if we flipped the oil or whatever, some sort of mix, we would double our capital every round.

Obviously, I turned him down. Who knows how much we would have to dish out if there was a lawsuit or whatever, and probably prison time. I don't know the exact laws for growing or selling marijuana, and the fines and penalties if you're missing one or more licenses. There are probably a million legal fees, and I would guess the Canadian government is making the vast majority of the profits in the marijuana industry.

If you want a good read.

Here's another weird thing that happened to me. So, a couple days ago I was playing runescape, hanging around the GE on W1, there were a billion scammers like there always is, and this guy said he was paying for Yurizan Beltran p*** GIFs, 100k for every 30 GIFs.

So I PMed him: "Why are you paying for p*** when you can just google it?"

And he replied: "My Dell only has Youtube and Gmail unblocked."

So I thought alright, whatever, I'll help a brother out. He gave me his Gmail, and he gave me about 100k. He said "Just so you know I'm not ****ing around."

And he wanted me to send the GIFs through google chat. So I googled a bunch of GIFs, I sent him 30, and I asked him if he wanted 30 more. He said he'd give me 1.5M after I was done sending all 60.

I sent 60 and I asked him if he wanted 30 more. He said he'd give me 4.5M after I sent all 90. Anyways I probably sent every Yurizan Beltran GIF on google images, and he said just to send whatever I thought was good.

I started asking him if he was running a p*** blog or something, because he wanted so many GIFs. He said we should start a blog together, and that he already had a video with 12M views and he's worked with a bunch of producers and he had his own studio and he was a chief ET at an oil rig.

Then he said to send him Yurizan Beltran videos. So I made an xvideos account and downloaded a bunch and sent them. He needed content for the p*** blog that we were gonna run together. He said he already downloaded 900 of his own image files and a bunch of videos.

At this point he's contradicted himself so many times. He said he'd give me 30M and he bought gold and he was going to buy the bonds. I asked if he could just send me money instead. I gave him my paypal. He sent me $50. He had to go.

I've been scratching my head about this whole situation. I haven't messaged him back.

But basically, he claimed that he had a lot of experience, and we were going to promote exclusive videos on Twitter, and people would pay us for the promotions, and he was already running a lot of promotions. I did tell him I was a web designer, so I guess he thought I would help him advertise p***.

I don't know what would have happened if I agreed to continue working with him. So yeah, interesting life experience for sure. 🤔

#nsfw

Nobody listens when you tell things to them straight.

I think your political beliefs depend completely on your "social standing"

My original FB post: https://www.facebook.com/boyuan.tai.5/posts/123027105581198

Full text (And a brief tangent about economics):

As far as what I identify as, I want to identify as someone who pursues truth for its own sake and not for any ulterior motive, because truth is the ultimate motive, but I want to challenge that belief in this post just to see if it is the best belief to identify with.

What else can you pursue? Happiness, love, money, fame, those are the other common ones. But that doesn't mean you can't pursue X, whatever X is.

Say I wanted to pursue jelly beans. My entire purpose in life is to acquire as many jelly beans as possible. Everything I do in every single moment is an attempt to acquire more jelly beans. I sound like a five year old.

Realistically, I don't think anybody above the age of five pursues one single thing at any given point in time.

Scientism tells you that truth is the most noble thing to pursue. Nationalism tells you that serving one's country is the most noble thing to pursue. Catholicism tells you that serving God is the most noble thing to pursue. But in all of these cases, there is an agenda behind it. Scientism allows the administration to live off the work of research scientists. Nationalism allows the administration to live off the work of the military. Catholicism allows the priesthood to live off the wealth of the lower denominations.

There are loads of other examples. If I say that social hierarchy is bad, then I'm a Marxist Communist.

So are social hierarchies good or bad? That depends on two factors: class mobility and your own social standing.

If your social standing is near the top, you want class mobility to be as low as possible so you can stay near the top.

If your social standing is near the bottom, you want class mobility to be as high as possible so you have a good chance of moving up in life.

That's just basic common sense.

Now, if I say there shouldn't be social hierarchy, then I'm an Anarchist.

If I said I don't like social hierarchy, I would be a hypocrite.

So, both Communism and Anarchism have negative connotations in any society with a strong government, simply because a strong government means Nationalism.

I'm going to have to throw in the towel for this post because it's going over my own head. I prefer Anarchism. I like as much freedom and as little regulation as possible. I believe that humans are inherently good. I also believe in my own ability to get by without needing handouts. Not because I'm a particularly hard worker. But I think I'm a good negotiator. Is it wrong to take advantage of a situation? I know that's a very vague question so let me limit the scope of the question. But in complete generality, I think it's wrong to take advantage of a situation if you value the people you're taking advantage of above yourself. I don't honestly believe anybody truly values any other person above themselves, so I'm going to say that anybody is going to take advantage of any situation, given the opportunity. It's what an economist would say.

If there was a $100 bill on the ground, an economist would pick it up. BUT a smarter economist would think to themselves: "Well that can't actually be a $100 bill on the ground, because somebody else would already have picked it up."

BUT an even smarter economist would think to themselves: "Well everybody probably thinks that if that was a real $100 bill then somebody else would've already picked it up, so nobody picked it up." and then pick up the $100 bill.

So would a super smart economist who knows absolutely everything about economics, pick up a $100 bill that's on the ground right in front of them?

I've decided to decide on the right answer to every question so I'll never have to think again.

Link to my original FB post: https://www.facebook.com/boyuan.tai.5/posts/123015615582347

Full text:

Sometimes when I'm thinking to myself in my head, I almost feel like I'm talking to someone else. And then I'm reluctant to let that person go. I know what it is, memories of past conversations, memes, random facts, whatever, but it feels so real. It's almost like when you're having a good dream, and then you wake up, and you want to go back into that dream again because it was better than the here and now. I don't know if it's possible to be in love with oneself, but I'm definitely in love with my own mind, because it carries all the memories of the good things. I'm beginning to understand more and more why people choose to become writers. Not only is writing free from the laws of reality, but it helps us see the deeper truths in reality itself. I chose to be a hermit because I dunno, I like people and I hate people. I don't do this myself, but I understand why people go to social gatherings to be alone. I prefer to view society from the outside in rather than from the inside out. Society itself is a social construct that anybody can mould to their own whim and desire if they're sufficiently intelligent and fully aware of the possible unforeseen consequences. With that said, I don't think it's a good idea to mess with the social order too much. I'm not going to talk about anything particular in this post because the particular things are precisely the things that I'm avoiding by distracting myself with writing. But I think if anybody really reads into what I'm writing, they can probably get what it is that bothers me. I'm being deliberately cryptic. I know there are loads of people who are unintentionally cryptic simply because they can't communicate well, or they overthink and then they say the opposite of what they mean, but I am being deliberately confusing because this isn't about anything. It's purely a linguistic exercise to see what sort of syntactical constructs I can generate to amuse myself. It's like the show Seinfeld. Seinfeld is literally about nothing. The show is just his everyday life. But I guess this isn't exactly like Seinfeld. Seinfeld doesn't offer a higher commentary. There's a complete lack of bias. I would say Seinfeld is nihilistic, life as it is, without a search for any deeper meaning or purpose. The nihilistic theme was very popular in the 90's. Friends had the same gist. Same with 90210 or The O.C. or a host of other shows just epitomize 90's nihilism. I'm not going to revive 90's nihilism because that's all been played out and it's boring now. What I'm talking more about is memes. Or viral Youtube videos. It's a different take on reality altogether. A meme doesn't care about realism whatsoever. In fact, the less realistic a meme is, the funnier it is. I'm going to call this 2010's realism. 90's nihilism was about finding meaning in life precisely by assuming that life was meaningless and then finding the truths the became unshakeable, like love and hope and friendship, and all the bittersweet things that anybody can use to identify the 90's. 2010's realism is about finding out what is real precisely by assuming that nothing is real, that all syntactic constructions are equally valid, and then finding the truths that are unshakeable. For example:

- the political correctness movement - the LGBTQ movement - equal rights for everybody regardless of race, sexuality, whatever - social media bots and whether or not they have passed the Turing test, etc.

Physicists went so far as to question whether the Universe itself is a simulation. So again, 2010's realism. What is real? Obviously there's also cosmetic surgery, the general cosmetics industry, photo editing, video editing, the Snapchat gender swap filter, etc., all challenge realism.

I think we're at the point, philosophically, where we're asking: "What is art, and what is reality, and which do we prefer?"

Obviously, a lot of the stuff I stated originates before the 2010's, but I have to lump it all under a common theme.

It's not a new idea to shove the unpleasant side of things under the rug, and superficially enhancing the pleasant things. But back to equality. If somebody has a sex-change operation, are they their gender, or the gender prior. There are people who believe either. Is your birth gender more real than your current gender? Opinion varies wildly on that topic. Or, to cut out any bearing on an underlying reality, can you just identify as whatever, and be that whatever. For example, furries didn't EXIST until the first person chose to put on a fur suit and identify as a furry.

It's almost the end of the decade. Some people believe you are precisely what you were born as. Other people believe you are just you, now. If you believe the past is more real than the present, then you believe one thing. If you believe the present is more real than the past, then you believe another thing. In my opinion it's a question of your own philosophical assumptions, so either position is equally valid.

As far as whether or not you really are what you identify as, well that's a question of mind versus matter. If you believe in mind over matter, then you really are a tree if you identify as one. Whereas, if you believe in matter over mind, then you're just a person who believes they are a tree. In my opinion, it's another question of your own philosophical assumptions, so either position is equally valid.

BUT an interesting consequence of this philosophical exercise is it answers the question of whether or not God is real. If you identify as a person for whom God is real, then God is real. If you identify as a person for whom God is fake, then God is fake.

Personally, well, first of all, I prefer not to ever discuss the topic of religion, period, because it raises so many questions of hierarchy and social norms and on and on and on, in exactly the same way if you ever discuss your political beliefs, then again it raises a million questions of social responsibility and individual responsibility and on and on and on. But, for the record, I don't believe in God. I trust in myself. Satirically, I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But truthfully, I trust in myself. I don't "believe" in myself, because I'm fallible, like anybody else. I'm not trying to upset the entire religious hierarchy here from the Pope down, or a similar analog if you're Muslim or Buddhist or whomever. I just don't have much particular faith in anything outside of myself. I don't have faith. Maybe I was brainwashed by all the years of Scientism. People have to realize that Scientism, the faith in Science, is itself a religion by definition. And, in this context, with the meanings of the words as I've described above, I can ask this question: "Am I a Christian or a Scientist?" and hopefully you all know what I mean with those words.

I said before I currently don't have faith in anything. So I'm neither a Christian nor a Scientist, with the meanings of the words as I defined above. I was a Scientist for a long time. Nowadays, I think I'm a trial-and-error-and-google-and-past-experience-ist.

And just a minor tangent, a person who has faith in medicine is a Doctor. I've never been a Doctor. With the meaning of the word as I just defined it. I know some stuff works and other stuff is ??????.

I remember somebody made a joke once about how a liberal decided on the right answer to every question so they would never have to think again. I feel like I'm doing that right now, which also labels me as a liberal by that person's definition.

I guess I am a liberal, but hopefully not with all the connotations attached to the word. I like new ideas. New ways of doing things. New ways of thinking about old problems or social constructs. I like new.

Anyways, I will end this post for now, seeing as I've already written a sizeable book, haha.