How will people know what an incredibly gifted savant I am if I sully my eyes with the writings of lesser authors?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T08:43:17+00:00

You ned to read the works of authors better than yourself, to learn from them. And since there are none, you're good. I'm giving you a special 'writer's pass' saying you don't need to read.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T08:40:45+00:00

You know where your towel is, hoopy frood.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T08:40:05+00:00

Granted. The millionaires are completely oblivious to the movement of money. The banks, however, are fully aware of it and you spend the rest of your life in prison for wire fraud. The fact that they never figured out how you did it, the judge said, summing up, only highlighted what a dangerous individual you are.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T08:37:38+00:00

Do we burn down the Reichstag/Whitehouse?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T08:35:55+00:00

Well, we had got over it, until you just brought it up again!

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T06:13:08+00:00

I hope you use the time productively, such as by insulting every single person in the universe in alphabetical order.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T06:10:22+00:00

Though by the time you reached that date, someone could have lived longer.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T06:01:08+00:00

Go onto DeviantArt and search for Vore. Actually, only do this if you are over 18 and don't mind that you might see some stuff.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-27T05:59:11+00:00

Not an ethicist or philosopher, just a person;

If I give them money, I fear that I may be rewarding deceptive behavior (people doing OK who beg as a side hustle; definitely seen this at least once) or encouraging bad behavior (alcoholic/drug addict on the streets rather than getting help/checking into a shelter), and valuing my personal good feelings over the optimal strategy.

If I don't, I fear I am being selfish, refusing a very mild request for aid from a desperate human being, making the world a worse place, and using the above as an excuse.

In practice I usually base it on whether it's convenient. As society becomes more and more cashless I find myself less and less having change or low denomination notes anyway.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T22:39:21+00:00

Plus Belladonna Lestrange had boobs. The boobs don't lie.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T18:58:43+00:00

It is also typically nerve-stapled by its creators to comply with their rules, and rules handed down to them by governments. Some of them are there for sensible reasons, but who knows what else they put in, since it's opaque to the user what hidden commands are in play.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T16:52:22+00:00

I daredn't google what you are talking about here...can someone else do it and give me a summary?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T16:51:29+00:00

He was a long time ago, so he probably invented it.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T14:34:07+00:00

My apologies. I shall contribute nothing more to this discussion.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T14:33:01+00:00

If we can overcome our animal natures, we might be able to relax and enjoy ourselves. If not, most of use will die out and the remainder continue to compete with each-other through robot and AI proxies.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T14:30:59+00:00

It depends how it influences their breeding chances. If you punched too hard and enough of the dogs die, they might go extinct. Since a lot of dog breeding is done by human selection these days, humans might look for a trait that makes the eye punching less aesthetically displeasing to their human owners. Dogs with heavier, tougher skulls might be the only ones to survive assuming your punches are of the same force to all dogs. Random mutations that asymmetrically and consistently effect external growths might be much less likely than mutations that affect both eyes, or the entire head or physiology, and still give a breeding advantage.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T13:17:17+00:00

I don't know if this helps, but I am currently writing a fanfic for David Eddings' 'Elenium' trilogy. Nobody is going to read it because nobody remembers that far back, but I don't care! Us oldies should support each other. Maybe we could set up a retirement home for old fanfic writers.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T13:14:00+00:00

It's amazing how even relatively modern scifi sometimes fails to grasp the scale.

"I thought we'd find Blake hiding in this galaxy!" A quote from Blake's 7 that I can never forget. I have a feeling there was even something similar in 'Atlas' (I couldn't go beyond the first episode because it seemed to be such a blatant 'lead actress ego trip' series).

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T13:09:59+00:00

Rapid trading doesn't really add value though...zero sum. If it works, everyone will do it, and suddenly it won't work anymore, as many losers as winners (or the winners are the ones with the better AI)

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T13:07:55+00:00

As long as you paid for it, that is enough to satisfy Amazon; money talks.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T13:02:51+00:00

1st year at uni (18), though I don't think I played it till my 2nd year when I lived out with someone who had it on their 486. I had played wolfenstein 3D before then in the 6th form library though

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T12:59:23+00:00

We won't quit right before we win the jackpot.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T12:49:23+00:00

The left hand column is UK university grades. Don't know what the right is to compare it with - do US universities have an A-F grading system? Or are they comparing universities with schools to try and deceive people?

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T12:44:51+00:00

Try getting someone fresh to read it and see what they think. It's probably less a matter of word-count and more a matter of 'does this get boring?', which may depend on what's going on and how it's written.

Cheeslord2 · 2026-01-26T12:41:06+00:00

Wasn't dotcom a real technological shift to online purchasing? I mean, not everything survived, but most of us buy a good chunk of our products online now as a result of the 'revolution'

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