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You will get banned from the Fighters Guild for knowing what a hypotenuse is.
Scalpers do suck in general, but in any situation where there a large problem, you should be looking upsteam to the producers to fix it. Ask them why they've produced so low an amount that scalping is a profitable endeavor on the large scale.
And if it's about CCGs then I'm sorry but I have zero sympathy. you're playing the physical gacha, of course the producers don't care for your best interests, why are you mad that the Hobby About Costing Lots of Money for No Reason is costing Lots of Money?
From what I understand, historically pokemon has been way more accessible than other tcgs, and the companies behind the tcg responded by kind of sectioning off meta cards and speculator's cards into two halves of the franchise, with suppliers taking measures like limited purchases. But the scalpers are uninterested in learning or navigating the differences and make life worse for players and kids getting into the series, hoarding even super cheap $1 cards.
If you're talking ygo or mtg tho yeah that's fair.
my observations from hanging out in the retro emulation handheld gaming scene lately
I feel like it's valid to like small computers for themselves though
Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there
Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now
So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon
And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.
Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives
Yeah that's what happens when the Seattle weirdos visit SF
did you know? you can use your hands to give this thing horrible brain damage.
It's kind of weird to see paranoia go from a leftist feminine thing (bad) to a conservative masculine thing (good) in like 15 years
I was about to point out that at least the feminine kind tried to rationalize itself on real problems (like elevatorgate was 1 degree from epstein) but the masculine flavor only seems like it doesn't because they're making the same form of arguments but racist behind closed doors
A slight guilty pleasure of mine is looking at the absolutely psychotic advice some ‘How to be a masculine man’ videos are giving and then going into the comments to see the most performative shit going.
No Ian, you’re just a dweeb. Constantly scanning for threats makes you a fucking meerkat.
It's 3am and I'm thinking about time travel and physics.
I don't know math and this is mostly fed by documentary listening. These aren't insights to be shared, it's just me articulating thoughts that are most likely fundamentally wrong but I'm not equipped to shake.
So, like, I don't really get what's wrong with retrocausal qm interpretations, probably because no math. Going on naive intuitions I feel like it gels with general relativity pretty well and can lead to a non-local account for things.
Time in gr is pretty much just another direction.
So block universe. I guess I'm not entirely clear what an 'event' is, but I guess excitement in some qm field. I guess I imagine it propagating (not sure what that means outside time) like an expanding bubble; interfering with other events, which can act like observation. These patterns of interference build histories. But like this isn't really special with respect to time, the effect should be similar to if you're coasting x, y, or z.
So like, A, B, C observers, i j are two supernova between them, A i B j C. i goes off, j goes off. Depending on the distance between them in t and xyz, like A sees i, then j. C sees j then i. B sees i and j simultaneously. There's not really something special about t in the way I've conceptualized this, though in reality I guess it's negative with respect to xyz (or vice versa). But that implies the same set up 90 degrees off doesn't actually imply anything about the order A B C see i and j, it's pretty much just what's happening in space.
So if you move from your spot you get slightly different accounts of events as they might wash over you in a slightly different order, but they're already propagating as fast as light, so you end up agreeing on the past pretty much in any case once your in the bubbles. But move faster than events can propagate and you would end up escaping their causal wake, so you'd end up in a history where things haven't happened (yet).
Different histories might be like different worlds, in a sense. You'd also be strongly displaced in space before you might start to notice anything, however.
Like if we're points the reason for an arrow of time is you can only 'see' events that have become tangent to you, after they've interfered with everything you can reach. The events you're building a history of don't emanate from you, except the events you are. But this is symmetrical. So like, even if you're travelling perpendicular to t you end up building up your own history and from your perspective you're always going to look like you're going forward.
Feel like I've smuggled in a separate time than the direction t. QM's definition of time seems different than gr's for whatever that's worth but maybe not necessary still.
We're all kinda riding tangents whatever directions we're going. We're complex and there's a lot of waves involved in us so we're mostly traveling in the same direction, riding approximately the same tangents, interfering with ourselves as our events broadcast themselves so creating a common history growing faster than we move.
Maybe things are passing by back in time all the time, into smaller spheres. But they broadcast their own events as they pass us by. So we end up experiencing them as if they're something moving forward in time from our perspective. So it ends up just looking like passing each other by.
Except cpt symmetry implies that's wrong. We'd probably see like antimatter stars orbiting matter stars or something. I guess that's where I need to think when I get stuck on this again
war is god's way of teaching geography, unless you already knew geography in which case war is god's way of teaching commodity economics
The best revenge should be the kind that breaks the cycle. As a final victory to lord over the other party forever (which of course requires the other party to still exist). Which means it has to be the kind that involves taking a high road, not some excessive display of strength or some stabbing when the back is turned.
If you're an atheist, why are you an atheist?
Problem of evil (or some variant on it, e.g. injustice, pain, etc.)
God's perfections are logically inconsistent
God has no explanatory role in the natural sciences
Existence of God inconsistent with plurality of being
Some other argument persuaded me
Raised without God, never thought about it
Religious trauma, rejected the whole shebang
Vibe's off, just seems wrong
Something Else
Not an atheist
Not really sure if it's an argument or something else, but I found out other people believe completely incompatible things and mostly got obsessed with the epistemological justifications people had for believing what they believed, especially how many people believed people deserved eternal torment for failing to be proselytized to. Like the problem of evil could just mean we live in a gnostic world, but it seemed like people would fall for pascal's wager while not realizing they'd fail another religion's or something. Bad arguments that don't even sayisfy desires, let alone stand.
Eventually that exposed me to a bunch of different arguments and I sided with the atheists overall.
Maybe the 'moment' was realizing that what I called god (something abstract, symbolic, phenomenological etc representing naturalistic processes) wasn't what most people meant by god (pretty much a literal dude), and maybe that counts as the science argument, but that was downstream epistemological concerns.
Still kind of there, maybe? Or back there? I kinda believe in 'god' in the same sense that I believe ideologies exist or like memes exist in the original sense. But that's not "the creator of the universe" or "the greatest moral thing", that's an idea like communism or neoconservatism or idk art movements. Profoundly different than what anyone means.
apropos of nothing, regarding the "is your red my red" qualia question
I think I think we're fundamentally "programmed" the same way, in that the symmetry math our brains compute ends up building color the same way, but hardware factors result in people seeing with different saturation, textures, etc
So our reds would line up assuming we're both trichromatic and plugged into each other, but someone else might be living in a 4K OLED universe when you're living in dusty 360p CRT universe, or something.
I feel that liberals need to understand that things can get better in some areas but worse in others when it comes to the whole "march of progress" thing.
and like if you consider things just from, like, maslow's hierarchy, (not that it's deeply 'real', but it's a starting place), things like eroding public trust, privacy issues, the dispensability of workers in relation to their jobs, and the threat of homelessness compounded by rising housing costs are attacks on lower rungs of the pyramid than where a lot of modern benefits are paying off.
And this is kind of a horrible thing to say, but even infant mortality was more of a hit to the higher steps of the pyramid than the lower. Knowing people who dealt with it, when a child dies before really developing their own personality, the caregivers aren't really attached like family, but it's almost like the infant is an extension of the caregivers' identity, which hits at the self-actualization and esteem levels. In any case the parents' own safety or physiological needs usually aren't threatened by something like SIDS, but something like homelessness does.
Behold!
A Cursed Image!
(I had to see this with mine own eyes and I feel compelled to inflict it upon all of you)
4 legs?????
YOU WIN MOST CURSED TAGS THANK YOU
THE SAGA FUCKING CONTINUES
GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE POST
WORSE IT GOT WORSE
It is a very visibly double pregnant centaur standing between a vet’s office and a doctor’s office do try to keep up
I like to imagine that a centaur tailor would have patterns ready for all the style of centaur pants:
Of course, as our lady is rocking the sundress look, I’m just going to assume she’s going au naturale on the front half. Gotta keep it aired out, you know? Keeps things smelling fresh.
Unfortunately, my Centaur Anatomical Charts do not cover the Reproductive System. Alas
How is she wearing high heels? Hooves don't have heels!
You are quite right!
She isn’t wearing heels!
Those are her hooves
Seriously. Zoom in.
Strange
No one ever knows what to say to that
So she grew cow hooves or a mix between horse and cow, and trained them to grow into that shape? That's like training your toenails into ballet pointe shoes.
Oh I’m sure she got them done somewhere
I am depressed by the lack of reference in this curséd thread to John Varley's Gaia trilogy and his Titanides.
*sigh* It's like no one reads the classics anymore...
Holy shit you were not kidding
At least she's wearing horse panties on the horse half?? And from the human doctor's expression, it looks like he's at least one of the baby daddies.
Finally!
Someone looked at that Doctor’s expression!
Like. My guy is very happy to see her.
i'd recognize that face anywhere
@misstextures i must show you this as an act of revenge
I don't remember what I did for you to show this monstrosity upon me but I probably deserve it to be honest
i still haven't recovered after the monsters inc
TF YOU MEAN THIS ISNT A 10K NOTE POST RB'D BY @hellsite-hall-of-fame?????
As for clothing, anything that snaps or buckles is unlikely for anatomical reasons.
So they'd likely wear something similar to a loincloth up front with a caparison tossed over their back half.
Which is surprisingly close to what she's wearing in the actual image except she's decided to have her ass all out, likely as a kink thing.
Did they say motherfucking centaur parthenogenesis
I think I found the source? No, it does not provide context (that I saw) (but I didn't look very hard).
Frankly I'm willing to let the double pregnancy slide because I can imagine writing some worldbuilding where that makes sense.
BUT I CANNOT EXCUSE THE HIGH-HOOVES, WHAT THE FUCK
Why is everyone so focused on the centaur that PIG has been STABBED!!!
Why is everyone
so focused on the centaur
that PIG has been STABBED!!!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
FRESH DISCOURSE WE GOT FRESH DISCOURSE COME GET IT WHILE ITS HOT
it just kinda hit me but i feel like luke 23:34 should really undermine most forms of christianity
like from their perspective god is modeling forgiveness by signalling it towards unrepentant mortals crucifying him out of ignorance
like there could still be a liberal christianity where the point is being christian helps you live a more moral life, but this really undermines the need for strict orthodoxy, right?
takfiring each other over monophysitism or some soccer mom in your ward being a unitarian deep down because she doesn't understand the mystery of the trinity is bullshit if people are doing the whole give unto the poor thing, shouldn't that be?
people seem to be under the impression that men are allowed to show emotion, it's just that it's anger that's allowed, and like, not really?
Anger is only tolerated to the extent it is because confronting it inevitably leads to escalating a situation. Which means it's really only challenged from above. Because absolutely the forces responsible for the patriarchy come down on it if it's directed upwards. So much of western culture is built on cartoonish ideas of stoicism which is ultimately due to the way gentiles took over christianity, the major force governing the family in the west for the last like 1600 years. Even secular or non-Christian men inevitably find themselves with some pressure from this kind of thinking because participating in western culture requires understanding things like Roman mythology or such, and the whole arc to build something like Plato's republic. Latin used to be the language of academia and law, most of the scientific revolution came from finding out how aristo-tle was just, like, wrong about a lot of things, of course it left a ton of baggage like unquestioned cultural values about submitting, especially towards an aristo-cracy.
And like funny enough the Buddhist and Hindu worlds have often similar hang-ups with analogous philosophies to stoicism and repression. And the Islamic world is just an early branch of the west, inheriting a lot of our greek philosophy shit, like platonism.
Like when it comes down to power structures tend to reinforce whatever makes them stable. Which means servility. Which means repression, not passion. It's just it's a power structure, so it redirects inevitable friction downwards.
That also includes the other big negative emotion, fear. Which is why the big "im in control of my emotions" guys blame the immigrant or gays or so on. You'd be crazy if you claimed men aren't pressured to be courageous, even if that idea of courage is often marred with false courage, yet the fear remains. So with the negative drives the friction is directed downward, at other men as well as women.
And like, there is righteous anger. There is righteous fear. Just look at the responses to the injustices of Trump's ICE or Biden's crackdown on student protestors.
It's not because there's some immaterial male quality that just makes us angry and afraid. If you direct that upward, you're fired, your church stages an intervention, etc. You really actually don't have a license to be afraid or angry as a dude, the incentive structures just pressure you to direct it out of sight.
"This study found that blocking internet access on phones led to better mental health for youth!"
Look inside
75% dropoff rate
hey so is there possibly a survivorship bias in that some youth don't have a viable replacement for the social outlets on their phones
Imagine studying whether getting strapped to a table and sprayed with a water hose is a fun experience. You look only at the people who go through an entire two-hour spraying session. Your dropoff rate is something like 80%, and you collect data from just the spray-loving sickos.
Your study inherently selected for people willing to participate in this unpleasant experience, and then you didn't report on what the people who tapped out early had to say, either.
That means your result is worse than garbage! It's actively refusing to look at the majority of information obtained!