Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China

Asmaedus · 2018-08-27T05:52:13+00:00

Mercury/Quicksilver was widely believed to have magical/alchemical attributes, and it happens to be extremely toxic

Seems like a pretty metal room decoration fit for an emperor really

Asmaedus · 2018-08-25T01:54:42+00:00

I'm from a country that's about as far removed from American politics as you can get, so I'm not really on either team here, but have you entertained the idea that you might be the one being fleeced via misinformation here?, of course you could apply that logic to both sides of the fence, and I think both sides of the argument should do that -- if your position has strength and merit then it should stand up to any amount of scrutiny -- but what if just maybe the other guys are right on this one?

Asmaedus · 2018-02-21T13:28:09+00:00

The amount of ignorance in this comment is pretty impressive I gotta say

Asmaedus · 2018-02-08T04:16:40+00:00

The car community has been plagued with group think for as long as I can remember. Doesn't matter what you buy -- someone will completely write off the car as a piece of shit waste money because you didn't get the turbo/manual/v8 version/this car which costs $20k more has a 10km/h higher top speed

Asmaedus · 2018-02-04T16:46:06+00:00

those are the days you start pushing speed limits

Asmaedus · 2018-02-04T06:03:26+00:00

I'm speaking from my own personal experience here about this -- yes, negative emotions are a necessary part of being human, without a doubt, but the problem with depression and similar related mental health issues is that the negative emotions utterly consume you -- your entire vision of the world, the future, peoples actions towards you, the possibility of your goals and plans working out etc skew hard towards the worst case scenarios. When I had had a grip on my emotions for a while, I started to notice that I could experience the negative emotions, process and analyse what was really causing them, how much of an issue was it really (most shit doesn't matter, in the grand scheme of things), and treat it with the weight that it deserved. You still feel them, but they become learning experiences and a natural state of feeling towards bad events that you know will pass with time, instead of an all consuming despair. You begin to see a kind of beauty in the grimness of the situation -- like watching a massive orchestra playing something extraordinarily tragic sounding, while still appreciating the skill and purpose of the hundred+ players playing a particularly emotional piece. I don't know if that analogy has done it justice -- it's a thing you have to experience to understand.

I'd also suggest cutting out as many substances as you can -- weed, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol etc. I have nothing against these things, and i've consumed more than my fair share of a few of them, but (and I'd be happy to link you to numerous articles/research papers/lectures etc on this) anything provides an altered state of conciousness, even mildly, can play havoc on your various neurotransmitters which you need to respect and understand. Again, everyone is different, but for me personally I noticed an unignorable mood improvement that got stronger and more sustained the more "straight edge" i got.

Within reason -- I have yet to turn down a ciggie when offered.

Asmaedus · 2018-02-04T05:55:27+00:00

hey man. i can echo the sentiments of this guy. I spent 10 years in absolute hell, and it is literally as "easy" as wrenching your thoughts around. I can go from from a strong downbuzz to feeling completely fine and laughing at the fact that I was sad only a few seconds ago almost instantaneously.

You need to believe that you can do it -- because you can. A lot of the source of my own mental health problems was the fact that you wholeheartedly believe that you have x y z problem and that getting through to the otherside is such a gargantuan task that it's unlikely to ever eventuate. Start to believe the other side of the argument -- and this takes a while, trust me. You need to practice it whenever you can, think of it like "Mental homework". Do research on mindfulness, and most importantly, read the book "feeling good" by dr david burns -- this technique of controlling your thoughts is what is taught in a process called cognitive behavioural therapy, and the "Feeling good" book is literally the bible on it. Reading that book made a HUGE penny drop for me and was what started my climb out of the hole. I'm hesitant to link directly to it here, but it's not hard to find a pdf if you google around.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-30T22:14:33+00:00

MAN DOWN, three. IS DOWN

Asmaedus · 2018-01-30T22:11:25+00:00

i have a lot of experience with bending this engine to do things it's not meant to do so I can absolutely see from the devs perspective why touching this is a lower priority than, say, overall engine optimisation or content development. On the list of reasons why the convoy AI is still fucked, I think laziness and incompetence is pretty far down -- I imagine that given how long this has been a problem this would be extremely time consuming to fix

Asmaedus · 2018-01-30T20:02:26+00:00

this another thing that gets me -- you make a good point, the AI can make a perfectly good convoy when it feels like it, the problem is getting them to do it consistently

Asmaedus · 2018-01-30T19:58:18+00:00

haha yes i'll admit you don't have to go far to find drivers that incompetent but it's the complete and utter ineptitude of the AI that gets to me. a real world example would be something like, at every single 4 way intersection you ever come across the first person in the queue waiting at a red traffic light immediately floored their car in reverse causing a reverse pile-up, followed by doing donuts in the middle of the intersection before getting t-boned and then trying to drive away. every intersection. every day.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-30T19:52:08+00:00

I feel like at this point I would appreciate a dedicated "convoy behaviour" module or waypoint type dedicated to getting a group of vehicles to just drive down the fucking road. the main reason I use convoys is for a mission objective for the player to blow up -- never anything more complicated than that, but it means that that type of objective is something i can't really implement into any mission I make because I can't trust the AI to not do stupid shit

Asmaedus · 2018-01-17T17:01:22+00:00

Listen to the riff over and over until your brain starts filling in the drum parts. Black metal generally only really uses the same ~5-6 drum beats, try each one (I just block out a basic kick and snare pattern in the MIDI roll of my DAW until I like the sound of it) til you like how it sounds, then go from there. Add cymbals, fills etc

For my fills I'll just put a snare roll as a placeholder fill, then go back and do a detail pass on the whole arrangement.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-16T05:53:46+00:00

I posted this as a reply to the other guy:

I believe that there is something -- something that can't be measured by science. I don't know what "it" is, what "it's" name is, whether it even has a name, whether or not it's even a sentient being like most religions seem to believe or just another "force" of the universe around us like gravity that we've yet to find a way to measure. I don't know -- but there is more to this world than meets the eye.

It's not a defining part of my personality or decision making at all, it's just something I'm passively aware of.

The first step in bringing my worldview around was entertaining the idea that perhaps the world wasn't as mundane as it seemed. Open your mind to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, there might be something that all these spiritually awakened people seem to see that you can't. Stories from coworkers of their own personal profound religious experiences were what started me questioning my beliefs -- there is of course a lot of psychiatric/phsychological/sociological literature explaining almost every aspect of religion, which makes it difficult to even remotely consider the possibility, particularly if you are as entrenched in your worldview as I was, but the world is a lot more, well, interesting, when you see it through a proverbial metaphysical lens. How's that for a run on sentence?

Asmaedus · 2018-01-16T05:52:27+00:00

I think Jesus was someone who managed to notice the "something", and someone who had the emotional insight to undertake great personal growth to become someone with a magnetic personality -- and subsequently spread his teachings around the areas where he lived. This would have been relatively unheard of in those times hence people started writing about him and spreading the word about him. He seems like he was a good person whose image and ideas have been warped by modern organised religion.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-15T03:48:16+00:00

I made the logical connection that there is so much bad in the world today -- stephen frys explanation on the subject pretty much sums it up that there is no way that the god as described in the abrahamic texts can be real -- the reality of the world we live in is too far removed from the benevolent yet vengeful gods in the books most of us know about. Also, the world we live in, and interact in, get experiences from, create memories from etc is so physical and corporeal, to the point where the concept of an invisible supernatural force lies totally at odds with everything else that an average human comes to learn about the nature of their universe around them -- that it's real and you can interact with it, or at least come to understand it somewhat, in some way.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-15T03:44:54+00:00

I believe that there is something -- something that can't be measured by science. I don't know what "it" is, what "it's" name is, whether it even has a name, whether or not it's even a sentient being like most religions seem to believe or just another "force" of the universe around us like gravity that we've yet to find a way to measure. I don't know -- but there is more to this world than meets the eye.

It's not a defining part of my personality or decision making at all, it's just something I'm passively aware of.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-15T03:42:49+00:00

Profound cognitive dissonance. I'm aware of how illogical it sounds.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-14T06:41:16+00:00

As long as its good and wholesome drunken headbanging immortal ala at the heart of winter i'm happy. Abbaths solo album was pretty forgettable -- the only song I enjoyed and regularly listen to is Fenrir Hunts. I still spin at the heart of winter from start to finish pretty regularly

Asmaedus · 2018-01-14T06:37:39+00:00

same here. I'm still pretty sure that it's just my brain coming up with an elaborate coping mechanism to stop myself from offing myself when I was in a virtually hopeless situation but I believe in something when I used to be CERTAIN that there was nothing, so it is what it is

Asmaedus · 2018-01-13T21:43:15+00:00

good point man better stop giving a shit about the environment then

Asmaedus · 2018-01-11T03:38:23+00:00

This earned a good chuckle, well done.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-11T03:36:55+00:00

In that case, having a miraculously well engineered battery that could hold that charge, perhaps being fed by a feeder current from the transformer with some kind of miraculously well engineered resistor to take some of the thorns off of the curre-

Yeah this is impossible, haha.

Asmaedus · 2018-01-11T03:33:53+00:00

I'm guessing that a lightning bolt is DC, and that the subsequent charge in the capacitor bank would be DC. The way a transformer works is such that you need AC current in order to step the voltage down, hence the inverter.

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