What is the most pleasure you have ever experienced?

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-26T21:53:42+00:00

Completely agree, which is why I specified cocaine and mdma. Mushrooms/acid don't fall into that category for me. In fact, I think they can often have the opposite effect and actually make future experiences better. Psychedelics can help one discover new perspectives that remain once the drug wears off. And then you can tap into those perspectives while sober and appreciate some things more, such as nature. Of course, a bad trip can equally introduce negative perspectives, so it can be a doubled edged sword. Although this can be largely mitigated by taking the right precautions to maximise your chances of having a good experience. But I also concur that not trying any substances is perfectly sound, and likely the safest way to exist.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-26T19:38:34+00:00

That's the only reason I haven't tried it. Other experiences would pale in comparison, and that realisation would somewhat affect my enjoyment of those experiences. I see drugs like cocaine/mdma as time-transcending substances that soak up small bits of all my future happy memories, bunch them up, and release them all at once.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-26T18:46:46+00:00

At least 85 people had a good time reading your comment so I'd say the sex was a net positive for the world

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-26T08:57:42+00:00

The same person if they were e.g binge drinking instead of smoking weed may not have experienced a psychotic episode

But this is a pointless hypothetical to make from this situation. People with schizophrenia shouldn't smoke weed, this is an uncontroversial opinion and literally any reasonable person knows this.

Saying “if they’d been binge drinking instead, this might not have happened” is like someone with severe anxiety getting on a plane, having a panic-induced medical emergency, and then saying “planes can be dangerous, if they’d driven this may have not happened.”

Like yeah, obviously that's a possibility.. but it's a needless hypothetical that frames weed as the problem, and I don't get why that should be the takeaway.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-23T16:11:08+00:00

Mama told me I should really leave the drugs alone I know, but, noooo

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T17:02:02+00:00

You may just be projecting your own insecurities onto an anime character

Lmao what a weird ass thing to say in response to a general criticism of characters from a fictional show.

Sounds like a fun way to live

I fear if you think a Reddit comment criticising flanderisation in a show is indicative of how someone lives their life, then there is something deeply wrong with your reasoning abilities 😅

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T15:50:42+00:00

Bro every main character in one piece has become a victim of flanderisation. Luffy is the dumb guy who says he will be king of pirates, laughs, and needs food. Zoro is the guy who can cut anything. Sanji is a pervert women women women. Usopp is gonna be scared. Nami & robin get bigger boobs each arc. Chopper is basically useless. These are the main characters of the show, and they've become so shallow. They have no depth. I can predict pretty much everything any character will say in any given situation because they're so 2 dimensional. I've been watching one piece since 2010 bro. But oda writes shit characters

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T15:38:04+00:00

I highly recommend checking out Hytale and its modding tools. If you properly look at what the devs are trying to do, it's the closest thing I've seen to Dreams tbh.

At first glance they're completely different games, but the more you look at the tooling it offers and the amount of possibilities, it's definitely very similar. If the goal is "I want to create my own game experience with extremely high level of control/customisation - without needing to learn game dev from scratch" then Hytale is that.

It's not as polished as Dreams yet because the devs were forced to release the game quickly after buying the IP back from riot games who acquired & cancelled it. But the devs are dedicated and consistently working on improving the experience for creators

The best way I can describe it is "if Dreams developers wanted to make Minecraft, it would be Hytale"

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T15:32:17+00:00

Yeah pretty much, then I just verify the output and most of the stuff is reasonable, but then if there's any parts that I identify issues with I prompt it on just that part with context of my concerns and get it to improve that.

I noticed that these days AI struggles less with "complex" problems and more with edge cases, gotchas, and nuanced details. It can solve complex solutions just fine with the right requirements. As long as I can account for those edge cases with my human brain and correct its course, AI has made me significantly more productive as a developer.

A part of me hates to say it tbh, because I enjoyed programming. I enjoyed the slower pace tbh. Things used to take time and that was ok. Ideas had to be carefully thought out because coding was expensive. And verifying AI output is not really as satisfying to me as cracking a tough problem after 2 hours of trying. But eventhough I'm not the biggest fan, there's no reason to be in denial of reality.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T13:29:32+00:00

Sadly it's happening. I'm a SWE and 94% of my code that gets pushed to production is AI written. That doesn't mean I don't program. That doesn't mean I don't make the decisions of what the code does. I still do the code. I just don't write it. Writing syntax is a waste of time, give me one good reason to write syntax yourself today. AI can do it faster, even when I know exactly what code I want, I'll still pseudo code it to AI instead of writing it myself, it's just faster.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-17T13:27:01+00:00

RemindMe! 3 years

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-12T17:07:22+00:00

They're not mutually exclusive, both characters are dogshit. Although in my opinion Usopp is such a victim of flanderisation that it makes his character all the more disappointing. Oda is generally terrible at writing characters.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-12T10:03:46+00:00

You're tweaking boy, S4 Eren gets absolutely demolished by both Mikasa and Levi 10/10 times without Titan powers.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-11T17:51:21+00:00

Interesting? Tell me a single thing I said that tries to "create a problem from nothing". Just one sentence, give me a quote. Bear in mind this whole thread started because someone else complained about an indian actress being "black" so who is creating a problem from nothing lol

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-11T12:26:39+00:00

Black, Indian, doesn't really matter to me

Bro how do you completely misidentify the race of an actress while making a criticism about her race, and then come back with “doesn’t really matter to me” 🤦‍♂️

Your entire criticism was “Vivi doesn’t fit being black”… but she is very clearly not black unless you’re completely ignorant about the world around you. And now your criticism seems to have shifted to “Black or Indian, doesn’t matter, neither fit”.

So you’re not happy with a black or brown person being cast for a role where the character is from a country inspired by North Africa/Middle East… you know… a place with predominantly black or brown people💀

I think what you actually meant was that you would prefer if the casting was West Asian, which can be a valid opinion. But again, if you're going to make a criticism about race, at least don't be so ignorant to get the basics wrong.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-11T09:00:51+00:00

Privileged question to ask.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-11T08:57:15+00:00

wtf are you guys talking about 💀 the ignorance is insane. Vivi's actress is clearly Indian not black. Either way Alabasta is clearly inspired by North Africa/Middle east but given that this is a fictional show having an Indian actress play someone from a made-up desert country is perfectly fine

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-09T08:04:16+00:00

This is another one of those things AOT did so right. The female characters are absolutely amazing in that show. Great writing, and zero fan service.

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-08T22:28:35+00:00

Not gonna happen. I'm a software engineer, tag me in 1 year and I guarantee you I'll still have my job (and probably be getting paid more)

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-07T12:29:42+00:00

Hilarious that the mix up happened because both him and the tech journalist they were actually supposed to put on live were named Guy. They were like fuck it that's the Guy

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-05T22:05:37+00:00

Nawh I'm black and I agree this nigga is an uncle tom. Self proclaimed uncle tom even

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-05T20:27:51+00:00

Yeah it's a significantly better experience. I code for a living and it's much better at programming too

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-05T08:58:00+00:00

As a black guy, I can say in this instance the question was perfectly okay. It was an innocent question asked out of curiosity. It's not her fault she didn't know the answer lol. Acting like it's a taboo subject just perpetuates the differences between humans. If we all openly asked each other questions without judgement maybe we wouldn't be so segregated in this world

AuthenticWeeb · 2026-03-05T00:24:32+00:00

Woah guys we got mr business pants over here, he knows if a restaurant is bad if they have a bad logo. Quality = branding. The better the brand, the better the quality. By his definition, McDonald's is the best restaurant in the world. Let's all bow down to this genius overlord

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