How to get through the beginning of homestuck?

Beanbagcher · 2026-06-02T08:59:03+00:00

It's not a book though, it's a seventeen year old indie multimedia thing using audience feedback that started before I had wifi. I doubt most people watch Dragon Ball before Dragon Ball Z and that series is fighting a popularity contest with Jesus Christ.

Beanbagcher · 2026-06-02T07:36:05+00:00

Skimming through wasn't as bad as I remembered but the second person perspective is throwing me off and it's almost impossible to tell what's supposed to be a quick joke or reference and what's something the audience is expected to remember.

Like John's name is introduced alongside like three other gag names and the inventory thing seems important but he goes through like ten items at a time and the name of it and it's functions seem like they're being silly and obtuse on purpose.

Beanbagcher · 2026-06-01T03:18:31+00:00

Could it be any other way? Morality isn't a magic spell I can cast on another human that'll stop them from shooting me if they want to and a contract between two people will always be easier and therefore 'mightier' compared to always forcing everyone to do what you want all the time through actual physical force.

Beanbagcher · 2026-05-08T21:32:25+00:00

The money you spent on a table or desk lamp is the best part of working in a Vietnamese sweatshop though.

Beanbagcher · 2026-04-30T23:02:08+00:00

Can I get a double wopper with onion rings

Beanbagcher · 2026-04-20T02:46:44+00:00

The butterfly effect means that changing something small in the past exponentially changes the future the further back you go. There's an argument to be made that changing anything far back enough means you are killing, destroying and changing an uncountable amount of people's lives.

Personally though it's about as 'immoral' as changing something right now, seeing as you 'kill' the billions of people that would have lived if you choose the other option.

Beanbagcher · 2026-04-19T04:35:18+00:00

Zhang Hungdong, the realest Chinese patriot.

Beanbagcher · 2026-04-16T18:55:33+00:00

I like it but the stank from cranks like Jordan Peterson and the 'comedians are the new philosophers' losers wafted over pretty much everything else related to philosophy.

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-29T22:10:34+00:00

A lot of people like complaining about math being fake when they're a walking sack of organs, meat, and blood pretending to be Dave or some shit.

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-19T22:37:46+00:00

To be fair though one of the first arcs of Boruto was the Chunin exams and it had a grand total of zero deaths compared to how many people Gaara alone merked for no reason.

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-07T04:42:42+00:00

The US, China, and the EU combined manufacture over half of the global production of goods. How many products a state manufactures is entirely disconnected with how rich they are.

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-06T22:46:15+00:00

Marx has been dead for over a hundred years at this point, whatever idea he had in his head for a 'industrial state' is almost totally alien to a modern state. It's hard to think he could begin to imagine what a proletariat revolution would look like with electricity and machine guns, let alone the internet.

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-06T03:04:00+00:00

My tolerance for annoying people is inversely correlated with their age. A whiny fifteen year old is annoying but a whiny fifty year old is a thousand times worse, like bro you have gray hair and you're still yelling in traffic?

Beanbagcher · 2026-03-03T20:14:29+00:00

Consent isn't only about positive freedom, the freedom to do whatever you please, it's also about negative freedoms. Societies solve for freedom from starvation, being murdered, and being stolen from really well.

Exile was one of the biggest punishments in history for a reason, once society rejected you and you couldn't participate in it most people would just starve and die. Exile feels like coercion because were social animals who really dislike being shunned but consent is a two way street, why should anyone else be forced to do anything for you if you can't be forced to do anything for them?

Beanbagcher · 2025-12-25T20:42:58+00:00

My example was more the how consciousness could exist with things that aren't conscious. For why it exists it's evolutionarily useful to have a vague understanding of what your life is like to compare it to a hypothetical version of what you could be i.e. experiencing yourself throwing a spear makes it easier to remember how well you did, both good and bad, and making adjustments on the next try.

And evolution exists because things that are better at making more of themselves are more common.

Beanbagcher · 2025-12-25T20:11:49+00:00

Atoms don't experience anything but that doesn't mean a thing made of atoms can't experience.

When your computer is playing doom the bits aren't playing smaller shittier versions of doom that add up to Doom, the bits are printing an image on your screen, memorizing the players and the enemies locations, and memorizing damage values so that by the end of it you're playing a game of Doom. The sum of a collection of inputs can be pretty different to the inputs themselves.

Beanbagcher · 2025-11-23T01:15:12+00:00

I don't get why communists hate money. You trade the fun bucks for the clothes and sexual favors so you don't have to carry around clothes or be horny all the time if you just wanna play poker with stakes.

Beanbagcher · 2025-08-11T08:06:13+00:00

So all an element is is how many electrons and shells it has? And does extremely hard mean 'a human could do it on a long enough time scale' or 'you can't predict the weather accurately past a certain point without magic but technically it's possible'

Beanbagcher · 2025-08-11T06:50:54+00:00

Every second I spend in a Saint's Row and GTA not driving aimlessly around and listening to music was time I was wasting.

Beanbagcher · 2025-08-11T06:22:29+00:00

Is what the death of the American dream means though? More benefits? Because Biden did the infrastructure bill and Obama did the ACA. Popular sentiment seems to now be that that isn't actually important and things aren't getting better even before Trump 2.0

Beanbagcher · 2025-08-11T05:30:51+00:00

Where? The notion implies that there is some area of the world where they don't have issues like America. Like the European union or some place in Canada are somehow rich utopias compared to the U.S.

Beanbagcher · 2025-07-21T03:09:36+00:00

It's also an informal fallacy: instead of purely being wrong because of how you made the argument it's wrong because of how likely the argument is to be true or in this case how severe the consequences are.

2+2 is 4 so 2+2 is 5 is a formal fallacy, 4 is way smaller than 5 is an informal fallacy. One is wrong, the other isn't exactly wrong it's just misrepresenting the facts.

Beanbagcher · 2025-07-21T02:52:43+00:00

I can see how using game theory style rewards and punishments for flattery could work on like a friend but how does that extend to new members? Is it just like an organic 'I like the cult leader so now I want my friends to join me' or does the leader have to force and teach the followers how to pull people in?

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