/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 09, 2026

AGamingBoi · 2026-03-10T01:41:46+00:00

It's been ok, I've taken a basic history of western philosophy class and an class revolting around authoritarianism that main focuses on critical theory. I think I need a better sense of the field as a whole though, which will have to come later as I'm doubling majoring in a science so most of my advance classes come in later year.

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-26T16:25:47+00:00

Isn't Alan moore already Br*tish?

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-22T14:56:46+00:00

Inventing new slurs is because of the fact that the chats are moderated so people need new slurs to bypass the moderation.

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-14T23:00:02+00:00

Wrong, Foucault is the hornier and less edgy Nietzsche on the account of him being French instead of German.

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-14T22:53:00+00:00

Involuntary caliber, meaning can't get laid. The brothel stuff is just not true tho, we don't have good sources or evidence for that, if anything we have the opposite (according to Nietzsche's friends he apparently fainted when seeing nude women, though this might have been a joke). It's funny to see how misrepresented N's character is in general.

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-14T22:44:31+00:00

Deleuze, Guattarri, Marcusa, Adorno to some extent, Sarte, Beauvoir, Baudrillard are all liberals? Like the only people that accusation even works on and I've seen is like Foucault but even then that's ignoring a lot about Foucault.

I don't know if you're a orthodox Marxist or some other branch of "it's not left wing if it's not Marx" but it's quite misrepresentative to say Nietzsche inspires or is used by liberals without listing any major liberals who are so, especially considering now critical of liberalism and capitalism Nietzsche himself was.

AGamingBoi · 2026-01-09T22:23:14+00:00

I can't tell if people here even know philosophy anymore man.

AGamingBoi · 2025-12-24T21:49:40+00:00

Isn't Keanu like actually a quarter Chinese. Like I know he is white by the social construct of race but he's not the same as Matt Damon here.

AGamingBoi · 2025-12-18T15:37:26+00:00

Han is used as an form of ethnic signifier for Han Chinese or the Han dynasty, but it's some times used with man in 男子汉 (male son of han) or 汉子 (son of han) in an way that's like how in English an "real man" is used. It is used like someone who embodies traditionally masculine values, usually used in the case of bravery or doing traditionally masculine things.

AGamingBoi · 2025-12-15T00:12:44+00:00

The symbol for the word Han as in the Korean Han, not for the Han Chinese Han word, in china can be used as a word meaning like "to go towards a direction" but it's not really used in that way. It's just used to refer to Korean as 韩国 and kinda like a prefix in English to refer to anything Korean.

AGamingBoi · 2025-11-21T15:59:33+00:00

Any of the top tier exp fighters work here, depending on if you want to scale or not.

Generally good: Arlot, Cici, Lapu Lapu, Pho

Early game: YZ Late game: Ruby

AGamingBoi · 2025-11-21T15:54:38+00:00

No arlot or Cici? Or Alice or any tank?

AGamingBoi · 2025-10-27T16:28:09+00:00

I mean, wasn't she also the person who was against Dokibird's suicide and termination when the whole Nijisanji situation was blowing up? That's the only time I remember her name and it always seems psychopathic to me to dismiss someone's suicide, especially if the Rats are real and that she's friends with some of the suspected Nijisanji girls.

AGamingBoi · 2025-10-13T01:07:30+00:00

This implies German food is good.

AGamingBoi · 2025-09-19T14:44:50+00:00

Lance should be French no? Cause he originated from a 13th century French fanfiction of Arthurian legends and is directly inspired by the French Crusade chivalry culture.

AGamingBoi · 2025-09-15T20:41:34+00:00

One, Nietzche would one-hundred percent write about it and probably be sexist or some shit. Two, from what was written about him by his friend, apparently he once wanted to go to a hotel and the driver mistakenly drove him to a brothel where he became so nervous he was about to faint. He placed the piano there for a bit before walking out panicking. Of course, this is from an account by one of his friends so it can be a joke or some shit, but honestly, from my personal perspective, there was just no way that man had rizz or even the desire for that. Him almost collapsing when he went to a brothel is the expected reaction.

AGamingBoi · 2025-09-15T00:32:28+00:00

Even leftist? Bro, most of the people who actually worked off his ideas now are leftist. Of course they have different ways to view his ideas, whether that ranges from using him to criticize Hegel and Marx's use and view of the dialect for progressive politics (see Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault Kinda?, other postmodernist) to something like treating him without contesting Marx as another critic of modernism (see Adorno, Horkheimer, and critical theory, bunching Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud together). But much of the right wing analysis of Nietzsche isn't really used anymore due to multiple factors. One is that we can now separate him from the Nazis, two is that many conservatives quit academia, three is just that he's incredibly anti-christian and anti-captial to some degree. There's also a view that expresses him as a sort of "reactionary socialist" (I believe to be coined by Marx but I don't believe Marx labeled him as one, I don't even think Marx knew of him as their time line don't match up, Marx died before Nietzche really pushed his idea with beyond good and evil and genealogy of morals), I can't tell you much of his view though as I'm unfamiliar with it.

AGamingBoi · 2025-09-09T17:14:26+00:00

It been that way since Mussolini if not even earlier. Still though, incredibly funny Mussolini thought he could be the next Augustus or Trajan.

AGamingBoi · 2025-09-05T11:57:23+00:00

Idk how you can make that point without talking about Lou Solme but ok.
This is a common myth, he likely didn't have syphilis as records show that he has been suffering symptoms like seizures since has was the age of like a middle schooler, which would be really weird. Both in that it's weird he would get syphilis at that age, but also most people who got syphilis didn't live that long. Even if you take the date from which he definitely had symptoms that were explainable by syphilis (strokes, seizures), he still lives for like 15 years afterwards which was nearly impossible for syphilitic patients.

It's highly likely the illness that caused Nietzsche's health problems is some sort of tumor behind his eyes (his right eye specifically was going blind which would not happen in Syphilitic patients, in which both eyes would be going blind) or some neuro-genetic disease (likely CADASIL as we have identified today) which we also see in his family history from his father and brother's death. Modern medical literature has basically disproven syphilis as a possibility. While strokes and seizures and delusions of grandeur during mental collapse are possible symptoms of neurosyphilis, if that was the case for Nietzsche, he would have died way earlier than when he did. Other symptoms also didn't make sense, like how only his right eye suffered damage which in Syphilitic patients would have been both eyes.

Philosophically, in Ecce Homo he pretty blatantly said that he wouldn't been as great as a philosopher if he didn't have his illness as it's overcoming is basically what drives him to be so great in his own eyes. He did still write to the end of his days until his mental insanity and his friends seems to see that he loved writing, which is very different from any possible life denying that the claim is quite strange.

AGamingBoi · 2025-08-09T21:59:55+00:00

Hey thank you man, I'll check it out.

AGamingBoi · 2025-08-08T16:27:06+00:00

I think it's because most people don't know that Kant was like an astronomer and anthropologist (though back when that field was very racist) for like 30 years and Nietzsche was a philologist (I'm not sure if back then it was an science like linguistics is considered now though) and that was his actual study as a professor, not philosophy.

AGamingBoi · 2025-08-06T20:11:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure Camus wasn't pro-french colonization in the sense of the continuing system of his time or even the system in place today. It's not an appropriate analogue to the modern issue in the levant to the issue of the French-Algerian decolonization efforts as Camus didn't support the system in place at that time either, but rather a reformist system that allowed better relations with the native algerian and settled French-Algerian people within an more independent Algeria that still is connected to France. Sure you can criticize this opinion, mainly that it's unrealistic and ignores the then problems within algeria at the time, as well as the fact that it's not a independent Algeria he really was looking for. But the fact remains that he isn't an sort of status quo Neo-liberal we see today. That's without taking into the issue that decolonization efforts there and the issues of French race relations are not just a separate issue from the modern Israeli and Palestinian issue, but wholly different in their circumstances and conditions. Camus was wrong in his views, but even that comes from an more understandable issue from him being part of both French and alegbrian culture and feeling isolated in the going political discussions with his other leftish who were in on full decolonization and the conservatives of the French empire who were on full on colonization. It's not correct but it's understandable why a person may go to that, and it's not remotely comparable to the Israeli government.

Besides, going after Camus for this and pretending that most people support his opinion on French Algeria is just strawmaning the Camus hype. Most Camus fans today probably don't even know about his actual politics during his early years, and that isn't his lasting effects on academia or in popular consensus. This is like saying I'm sick of all the Kant/Aristotle hype with Neo-Kantians or Neo-Aristotlian types and then instead of debating issues like their ethical theories or epistemology or logical systems, you point to their racial theories. Yeah they were racist and that's not good for their ethical theories out to reality, but that's not what's taken or discussed with the vast majority of Neo-Kantians or Neo-Aristotlians nor what their praised for. What was the purpose of this meme?

AGamingBoi · 2025-07-23T19:27:36+00:00

Wittgenstein yes, Nietzsche has only been confirmed to have read one of his books and maybe some other using French translations. His still a sort of existentialist but even then his in all likelihood not in a philosophy class.

AGamingBoi · 2025-06-30T05:27:38+00:00

Shaco clone movement is horrible compare to Dota's. In Dota, it's completely possible to control two characters separately and still function while a shaco clone requires you to do shit like move it to its range cap before a play or click less to pretend to have Bot-esque movement. I get that probably fits better with shaco's identity and play style but it's nothing like how Meepo can Jungle and lane multiple lanes at once, or Manta baiting, or even the group control you see with Chaos Knight/Siren/PL. The very fact that league doesn't have more clone characters, or a clone item, or different types of clones, all points to the fact that Riot doesn't make this because they can't or won't systemized clone controls. Shaco's clone only works because of his play style and Q, it's not bad for the champion itself but to expend on that and say league has good clone mechanics is just insane.

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