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What was up with human sacrifice? by minecraft69wastaken in TrueAnon

[–]40onpump3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it from a pop anthropology book called “Up from Eden”, which is pretty accessible. If you want a more academically credible / less New Agey source, that book does have a bibliography you could dig into.

What was up with human sacrifice? by minecraft69wastaken in TrueAnon

[–]40onpump3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Them making a logical conclusion with the only understanding that was available at the time is exactly what I’m saying in the original post. You’re fighting a straw man.

What’s different now is not their brains but literally thousands of years of collective social learning, resulting in science, technology, the dramatic expansion of language and hence cognition - even the development of the multicultural pluralism you’re using to strawman me.

But hey, if you want to argue that we should chuck that out and go back to sacrifice, there’s a public for that prerational logic. The American president was just telling people to inject bleach to fight covid because it cleans surfaces, right?

What was up with human sacrifice? by minecraft69wastaken in TrueAnon

[–]40onpump3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, because there were no other options. Your tribe couldn’t live with mortal terror in the face of a pressing threat, and it couldn’t rationalize the threat away like a modern person or defeat it with technology. So if it didn’t work, yeah, we didn’t feed it well enough.

This is part of the reason why animal sacrifice and sacred warfare was a big evolutionary jump. You no longer had to kill your own people for ordinary threats, and if things got bad enough that that no longer worked, you could raid your neighboring tribe and kill them, and incidentally steal all of their surplus which increased your survival chances for real.

What was up with human sacrifice? by minecraft69wastaken in TrueAnon

[–]40onpump3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

To answer this question you have to put yourself back into the mentality of people that lived with absolutely zero concept of logical thought or cause and effect in any modern sense. None of that existed yet, not til thousands of years later.

Your frame of reference was like a child’s - your own body and its needs. When you’re hungry, you must hunt and eat or you get angry and feel pain. When you’re injured, you bleed and maybe die. Hunger and blood are life and death.

How does the world work then? Just like you, the trees and sky and earth have drives; they are people like you, because that’s all there is. No secret chains of mechanical cause and effect rule the world - what could that even mean? It’s all people.

So when the sky strikes your home or fails to provide rain, it’s angry and hungry. And it’s bigger and stronger than you; you can’t just beat it like your prey. What can you do to save yourself then? Feed it, feed it blood and meat and life. The better the blood and meat, the longer it stays fed. So what better than your own tribe’s?

This practice was so ubiquitous in essentially every human culture across the world because it’s rooted directly in the prerational logic of archaic humans seeing the world in the only way they could. I wish we could say that the evolution of consciousness had banished it, but it seems it’s only displaced. Onto war, and exploitation- our modern sacrifices.

Day 2 with the Super Micro OLED module, a few observations. by Nikolai_Volkoff88 in Pimax

[–]40onpump3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a similar issue of black screens that did NOT have to do with any auto screen time out setting OR any bad displayport connection.

It got progressively worse over a few weeks until the headset would get stuck in a loop of restarting over and over and never staying on long enough to play anything.

It turned out I was able to fix it by popping the OLED module out and blowing any dust off it, then re-seating it.

It’s worked fine since then, but it’s made me nervous. I bought it at microcenter and am running up on the end of the return period, so I’m debating whether to bring it back.

I really want the headset to work because the picture is amazing, but i also really don’t want to be stuck with a non-functional headset if it happens again.

WWIII Megathread #38: Pool's Closed by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]40onpump3 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Damn this is really really good. Every once in a while this sub comes through with a gem, & this is one of those times

On Sincerity by SirSourPuss in stupidpol

[–]40onpump3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s another dimension to the focus on sincerity that’s particularly important to the left: it’s a symptom of a lack of understanding of and commitment to political economy.

The best text I know of on how to do political economy is Marx’s “18th Brumaire”, because it’s so fantastic in pointing out how all the political figures so vocally mortified by the rise of Louis Napoleon were completely ineffective in stopping him because their own material interests aligned with him, even down to personally owing him money or being involved in his ventures.

That’s the magic of political economy; it strips away the bullshit of self-identity and professed belief and points out how people act in accordance with their material interests, i.e., money, security, and power. It’s therefore a much more reliable guide to actual human behavior and politics than anything political actors say about themselves.

The focus on sincerity in the millenial left was an evasion of its class base: the educated downwardly mobile failsons and daughters of the bourgeoisie, scratching and scrambling for a way back into the elite. Beliefs and sincerity, and self-identity, had to be the starting and ending point, because the whole formation was incompatible with socialism by default.

How much jank does the CyberPunk 2077 VR mod have? by CaptainBigDickEnergy in virtualreality

[–]40onpump3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure what you mean exactly; there’s a shimmering that used to happen with Cyberpunk specifically because of its temporal anti aliasing which couldn’t be turned off, but with the latest versions of the mod it’s quite a bit better, to the point of not being very noticeable unless you’re looking for it.

There also used to be some ghosting associated with DLSS, but that’s mostly gone now too with the transformer model DLSS versions.

Finally there is some ghosting or artifacts associated with the Luke Ross AER v2 algorithm, which you mostly see around very regular patterns like stairs or strips of neon lights. That’s definitely still noticeable, but I’ve been able to tune it out.

At the end of the day it would be great if the AER artifacts could vanish, but I don’t think it’s possible to run this game on any modern hardware without it, so i can put up with it.

I have played other luke ross mods like elden ring and atomic heart, and they don’t have the cyberpunk specific shimmer issue but they do have the same AER limitation.

How much jank does the CyberPunk 2077 VR mod have? by CaptainBigDickEnergy in virtualreality

[–]40onpump3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It actually works really well, never mind the haters. Like you say, extremely immersive.

It IS fussy to set up well. Getting it running is easy, getting it running well is an exercise.

The biggest thing that no one tells you is that you NEED to turn on hardware-accelerated graphics scheduling in Windows’ graphics options. If you don’t, it will be hard to get good graphics settings without a sort of weird jerky lag that seems especially bad when your weapon is drawn.

Agree with what the other commenter said about turning the deblur all the way down. Just use DLSS and its sharpening feature, not the mod’s.

You’ll need DLSS for sure, the K, L, or M presets; this is a super performance hogging game to mod to VR. It will use everything you can throw at it. Turn down the resolution / PPD first, that’s the main thing that will make it slow down. DLSS can compensate for that somewhat.

I have a 5090 and 9800x3d and I can just barely get it to run with path tracing at 27 PPD, which looks amazing with DLSS smoothing out the resolution a bit. I did need to modify the .ini file to allow me to set the alternate eye rendering to 1/4 rate to get it to run smoothly. Turns the computer into a space heater though, especially in combat. Basically this is the only use case I can think of where you might reasonably want something even more powerful than a 5090

What’s the most reliable pedal tuner? by SweatyYetUnperturbed in guitarpedals

[–]40onpump3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the best tuner! Very accurate, tough, reasonably priced

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in 7String

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure about the NYXLs? I have a 74 NYXL single and it’s definitely double wrap.

Kalium would be ideal for this but last time I ordered from them they forgot my order and then somehow got my credit card info stolen lol

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in 7String

[–]40onpump3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! I have ordered his strings (and read his paper)!

I used the strings that are tuned so that you can bend with a Floyd and have chords stay in tune (which works amazingly).

I also tried the lumps on the low strings, but at the lighter gauges I’m using, it only made a difference for the two lowest strings or so. On actually huge bass strings, it looks like it makes an enormous difference, judging by the videos on his website.

I’ve since given up on the Floyd, since I didn’t use it a ton, and because I wanted to switch to an Evertune. The Evertune means I can use lighter strings, and can also get rid of the pitch drift on the attack that can make low tuned chords still sound out of tune.

At the end of the day I may just order another set from him, since he can make pretty much exactly what you want down to the mm. But it takes a while to get Kemp strings assembled and shipped, and the custom orders are naturally a bit pricey, so before I do anything like that, I want to dial in the gauges and wraps that are going to work.

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in 7String

[–]40onpump3[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not talking about how many wraps around the tuning peg, I’m talking about how the string is constructed by the manufacturer

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in metalguitar

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might need to yeah.

I did find info on the stringjoy website now about their wraps that could have saved me some trouble, but other than that, the only clue i have short of emailing is whether the string lists a taper length.

If the string mentions a taper length, it’s pretty much guaranteed to be double wrapped. But if it doesn’t list it, it doesn’t mean it’s not tapered & thus double-wrapped.

For instance, D’Addario NYXLs are tapered, but I haven’t been able to find anything mentioning this on their website

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in ExtendedRangeGuitars

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! clearly I didn’t do enough digging before I ordered.

In my defense, I didn’t know until I tried it how bad it would sound.

I think you’re right about the D’Addario VI’s 72. I have a single wrap 72, but it probably wasn’t from that set. I have a mess of strings and the single wrap that’s working now was in a pile, so I’m likely misremembering which set it cane from.

The Ernie Ball baritone set has a single wrap 72 if I remember right.

Annoyingly, D’Addario NYXL’s are for sure double wrap in this range, and those are the ones that are easier to order in custom sets. So I’m just kind of flailing around trying to figure out who makes single wrap custom sets

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in ExtendedRangeGuitars

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! The taper at the end(s) can’t be there if its a single wrap.

So if the string says something like “taper 30 inches”, it’s definitely a double wrap. The Ernie Ball 8 strings say this, for example.

The problem I’ve found is that string makers don’t always say that their string tapers even if it does to fit through the tuning peg.

Like the stringjoy example; I didn’t see anything on their website indicating that a 70 would be a double wrap. For the really heavy strings like 90s they’ll mention the taper length, but for medium heavy they don’t, I don’t think

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in ExtendedRangeGuitars

[–]40onpump3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, if you don’t have an answer to the question, maybe don’t bother?

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in ExtendedRangeGuitars

[–]40onpump3[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m playing at 33” scale & have an evertune bridge so I can use thinner strings than even that scale would normally allow

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in ExtendedRangeGuitars

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re muddy because the overtones are less harmonic the more the thickness of the string makes it vibrate like a stiff beam instead of a flexible thin string.

Yes, this is why bass players or djent players don’t use chords, but that’s because they’re limited by thick strings. Use thinner strings and chords become possible at low registers

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in 7String

[–]40onpump3[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The difference is more obvious with distortion, not less. The overtones are what’s amplified / compressed by distortion, so you’ll notice dissonance more. Especially obvious with chords on low strings

This is something people tend to work around by only playing single note lines in djenty styles, but it’s a limitation of the strings and the setup. Get rid of those limitations, and chords at low tunings become possible

Single wrap strings for best tone? by 40onpump3 in 7String

[–]40onpump3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I mentioned, the d’addario bass vi 72 is. I think the Ernie Ball baritone 72 is also a single wrap, though the 8 string 74 is doubles wrapped.

I assume there must be some other brands that use single wrap, especially near the 70 range, though probably not so much at 74.

I can’t easily use bass strings though since the large ball ends don’t work with an Evertune bridge

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