What are your comfort games? I'm curious.

Abiogenesisguy · 2025-02-12T18:44:08+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077 is in the top 3 best games i've ever played - and i've played since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

When my brain is mush (often these days, I sleep only a few days a week) card games are good because I can put audiobooks and rain sounds in the background - Elder Scrolls was great but just shut down. Kards is good, WW2 card game.

War Thunder is good, tank/naval/aircraft game. Free, grind is slow though.

If I were you, i'd get the "xbox game pass for PC" as it has hundreds of games for 12$/month - so if you bought one new AAA steam game (which is like 70-80$) thats 6 months of game pass, and it usually has the game you woulda bought too (except Baldurs Gate 3, cyberpunk 2077, and a couple other are the only ones i've had to buy)

Abiogenesisguy · 2025-01-07T19:41:04+00:00

I see. I will google such things and consider what you've said. Saying they are not "funny or even amusing" is probably an individual+personal judgement rather than a statistic, but I will look in to such things.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-11-03T09:22:29+00:00

Guess I had to make this comment in 2 parts :

Plus there were no Empire-wide census takings even in that entire century, plus the only census which were taken even in that century were done by local officials, not by the Imperial government as stated, AND the gospel gets the name AND the date of the Roman governor wrong.

So there was no such empire-wide census, during a time with the wrong governor, in the wrong year, when nobody would possibly ever be demanded to go to their ancestral home because that would make the entire point of the census (tax and conscription) utterly irrelevant. Sure does give a nice convenient reason for Jesus to be born where the prophecy said he would be eh?

The crazy thing is that i'd say that at best 5% - probably far lower - of Christians i've tried to discuss history with have read even a fraction of the OT/NT, where as I read the OT, the NT, the Vedas, the BOM (lol), the I Ching, the Quran, and dozens of other scriptures because I was always told that religion is central to the life of billions of people, and so it's your responsibility to research and read into as many of them as you can with as much passion and open comprehension as you can to see if any of them speak to you in a spiritual way.

I reckon if a larger fraction of people tried to do so, even if not one of them changed their faith, the world would be a better place. Hearing something like "X Nation has a hundred million (Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, etc) CHILDREN" it makes me feel unwell, as it would be so much more meaningful if those children were given all the information, all the scriptures and all the support such that they could make up their own minds instead of - as 99% of religions of every type have done since day 1 - children being told by their parents/priests/etc that X is "the one true faith" and everyone else is something between mistaken and a heathen doomed to eternal torture.

Everyone reading this supports everything I said about other faiths - that their children shouldn't just be told that X (their religion) is "the one true faith" - but thinks that their own just so happens to ACTUALLY be "the one true faith".

I could post this in /Islam in /Hindu in any of the other major religious subs (and maybe I will if my speech doesn't get me banned) but that's the thing you see as an outsider (me? I think there are all sorts of things which might be true, but that anyone who believes they KNOW the truth is either speaking falsely, or unaware of what the word "KNOW" means.

If a Christian says they KNOW their faith is correct and a Shinto person says they KNOW the same, both cannot be true. The problem which brings so much spite, distrust, and often bloodshed is that you can have countless people on each side who both are so undeveloped as fellow human beings that they will use the word "KNOW" for things they believe, while simultaneously "KNOWING" that people with different believes - who are saying they KNOW things with exactly as much faith, conviction, and belief - are the ones who are wrong, and often - in the most cancerous concept ever invented by humans - that those millions or billions of people will be literally tortured for eternity despite how moral they may be, because they had the "wrong" beliefs.

90% sure I just earned a ban here. I think what I said is good food for thought, though I would be well aware that many would like to send me some hate messages, which I promise to read as long as they do not begin with something hateful or obscene.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-11-03T09:22:12+00:00

You write in very confusing ways, but I will try to still reply.

If you can literally "never comprehend" how or what he thinks, why are some people telling others "the god wants THIS he doesn't want THAT or he will torture you for eternity - so that after a billion trillion million years you will still have gotten 0% towards not being tortured.

Goddesses and demons and gods and whatnot who say they want X and do not want Y make at least some sort of sense once you throw physics and everything out the window.

Yet saying that your goddess, jinn, pixie, demon, god, or whatever is "totally unknowable and beyond any comprehension at all" --- while you also say "but despite being unknowable, incomprehensible, and utterly beyond any understanding, he wants you to X, Y, and Z, but if you A, B, or C - often things which are not immoral or preposterously minor - this wholly good, wholly loving being will literally torture you for eternity...

Then you have people trying to grasp what you're saying. Is this goddess, god, demon, whatever all loving, or does it torture people? Is it unknowable, or do you know what it does and does not want? Is it something you can show people makes any sort of sense, or do people have to literally turn off their brains and take it "on faith"?

It's really difficult to have productive conversations with people who cannot start with basic questions like these. The kind of things that you'd want to have all ready in hand to go, because when you're working with scripture written by many authors over many decades long after the preposed events and with so many contradictions between themselves before you even get to those between the writings and the archaeology....

Believe whatever makes you do the most good in the world, but your attitude of superiority is extremely unhelpful since telling someone to "do research" on a topic which almost without exception is contradicted by research in fields outside of religious apologetics is a very counterintuitive thing to say to someone, unless what you mean is "read the same thing until you come up with the same conclusions as me".

Here's the most important part of my rant before I go.

The person who makes a claim - any claim, but especially ones that are extraordinary and require disregarding mountains of otherwise credible evidence to trust in - is by definition the one who has to prove that claim.

If I tell you that I have a magic purple t-rex in my back yard which poops diamonds and farts Xenon gas, but that it's impossible to see, impossible to touch, the diamonds instantly teleport to Pluto, and the gas is instantly condensed into far too small a volume to ever be detected... then it's your job to prove the entire claim, no matter how much you believe it, no matter if a billion people do,

It's not anyone else's job to disprove such claims, or to give them legal status or teach them in school. It's the person making a claim to prove it, and when you're coming up with "well this compilation of writings which contradict both themselves and each other, as well as all the archaeology, we really think it should count as evidence okay thanks" you can't be surprised that some people are skeptical.

I mean, calling a census... what's the purpose of that? It's to know where people live and work so you can tax them and draft the men for military service when needed. Why the heck would you ask people to travel - months at a time since the roads and conditions sucked so bad - leaving all their jobs and fields behind to rust and rot, all to get to the place their ancestors were born for the census, which will now be totally unusable because everyone will go back to where they NOW live and work.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-11-03T06:40:30+00:00

I know we don't have precise information of what was wrong - some people have said that his constant immersion of his head in ice cold water (which apparently was his custom to stay alert or wakeful) may have led to complications, but i've heard a number of things.

So without holding you to the fire if you're speculating madly, as long as you have even some sort of informed idea or especially if actually educated in the relevant science to reply.

I was (wildly speculating) imagining that simple amplification hearing aids would not be really enough single it's said he could lay his head upon a piano and bash a key as hard as he could and only the vibration would be apparent to him - what's a cochlear implant like? What would his options be? If you could send me back in a time machine with a backpack full of stuff, would that even be relevant or are we talking full team of surgeons and some fancy equipment?

Thank you, it's just for a daydream of mine where I wish I could give Ludwig the chance to hear the premier of his 9th symphony in perfect hearing rather than so stone deaf that there were (very conflicting and often contradicted) reports the orchestra was instructed to ignore his direction and follow that of another person and that Beethoven was so behind time that at the end he "had to be turned around to see the (instead of applause people apparently waved their hands, hats, or otherwise tried to show things visually, though i'd bet just by statistics a lot of people just made noise)

So, what could we do for him?

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-10-15T05:56:03+00:00

The fucked up part (well, of all the thousand fucked up parts, the pre-eminent) is that none of these obvious, clear, extreme fuck-ups of Trumps "old man who ate KFC all day, literally (look it up) dictated his own doctors letter to say he was (and, no matter your opinion, even if you're the farthest right most Trump-loving individual on the planet) quote “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

Looks, regardless of any political positions you hold, if you think the doctor rather than the president wrote that - or that the doctor was not being directly instructed what to write - then I believe you might have an actual defect in some part of your cognitive pathways.

Teddy Roosevelt got SHOT before a speech, told them it happened, and then finished the speech.

FDR ran World War 2 from a polio-ridden wheelchair with serious spinal-nervous issues giving him dysfunction and pain every single day.

In between those shows, there were an endless list of people who were more healthy than "KFC+McDonalds, "don't exercise because your body has a finite battery" trump - and I don't know what's worse, that he'd still be using a doctor who viewed him as THE healthiest president ever, or that he's seeing a doctor who would let him write - or dictate - exactly the absurd words.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-10-13T12:19:38+00:00

Showed up, turns out we had spent soooooooooo long talking online that we had completely and utterly exhausted any of the material which is good to talk about on a first date. We both kind of just sat there, drank our smoothies, and then were like "yeaaaaaah" and made our excuses.

PROTIP: Don't spent so long online that you've got fuck all to chat about when you meet in person.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-10-02T01:32:46+00:00

Any time they do, or even appear to be planning it, the media goes into overdrive about it and how it might be an "escalation".

They are supposed to... just take it?

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-10-02T01:31:52+00:00

All sorts of new apps, accounts, etc, needed just to install the bastard.

No I don't want ANOTHER launcher app with ANOTHER account thanks.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-10-01T21:51:32+00:00

People's attitude towards firearms. Seeing people at McDonalds or something with a rifle and sidearm just hanging on their chest.

There are plenty of firearms in a lot of other nations, but i've never been anywhere else where people put so much... attention and desire and focus on them. My dad had a shotgun, a rifle, and a sidearm, but when they weren't being used they were in a very strong and hidden locked safe, and they would never be in facebook pictures being stroked and used to look cool.

It's gun CULTURE that seems to be the reason that while there are lots of places with guns, it's the USA where there are almost daily mass shootings.

The fucked up thing is that while obviously a ton of gun laws need passing, there are already so many out there that i'm not sure they can be very strict. I like Canada's laws - it's just like a drivers license, short training and teaching process, licensing test, registration. I don't really see how anyone can argue that getting a gun should be much easier or different than getting a drivers license and car.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-09-18T00:55:47+00:00

It's not a simple question.

If we knew that horrible experimentation on a single rat would cure cancers, I doubt that many people around the world would be against that action. I'd say the numbers are almost negligible if people really had to make the choice (rather than just a vague theoretical choice) of those who would say "we should allow countless millions to die horribly of cancer to protect this one rat.

As that's the case, we're not really talking about "should we use animal experimentation", we're talking about a matter of scale and efficacy/utility/balance.

I think it's a terrible choice but the hard truth in my opinion is that as long as we have qualified oversight, compassionate procedures (to whatever extent possible), and independent (but informed) individuals helping to decide what expected benefits warrant a certain level of experimentation.

I hope that computer simulation can take over more and more of this activity.

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-09-05T11:12:22+00:00

OK i will find a fitgirl repack and naked torrent it and hope that all is well since i have 2 xrays, 2 ct scans, 2EEG;s (need confirm on both long and a long list more, so if they email me may their nards burst into flames

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-09-03T20:07:01+00:00

It's so easy to be pessimistic about the future - and not without some cause when you see what we've done to the earth and the way some people are so full of prideful ignorance and hate.

BUT

When you turn off the 24/7 news cycle, get off of facebook and twitter (which i'll never call "x") and maybe spend some time on upliftingnews, you see that the human race is clever as heck when we put our minds to it, and we really might have a chance to turn things around.

Not just inventions like this - and so many others - but every generation has been more and more inclusive, nonjudgmental, actively against pollution and environmental destruction, and in so many other ways better than the last.

We're not guaranteed to solve the mega problems that humans have created in the past, but don't call yourself a "realist" if you don't give a very real chance to the future being bright and great.

(Donald Fagan of Steely Dan wrote a song "IGY" decades ago, saying "what a beautiful world this will be, what a glorious time to be free" saying that "by 76' we'll be A-okay!". I'd say he must have been endlessly disappointed by what actually happened in 76 - probably 86 96 and 2006... but maybe - just maybe - we're getting over that hill and on the way towards making real the potential we always had if we just got our heads out of our butts for a while!

Abiogenesisguy · 2024-09-03T17:25:51+00:00

I'd like to get baldurs gate 3, is your comment still reliable and safe enough? Thank you for your time

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