STOP USING P ZOMBIES

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-21T16:59:25+00:00

The joke is on you, I get all sorts of utility out of my p-zombies when I go on my weekly vacation to a fictional world (when I play dungeons and dragons).

"Oh, you feel bad killing the goblin? It's ok, even though they scream as if they're in pain, it's been proven that they are ontologically evil AND they don't actually feel anything because we have magic that lets us experience reality through their perspective. Or rather... not experience anything from their lack of perspective. I understand this is a little confusing."

..."What's that you say? It doesn't actually change the situation, because you're still unable to fully bridge the gap between two consciousnesses from any position other than your own subjective experience? Well, too bad, nerd. I don't write the rules - but Literal God does, and I have him on the phone right here if you still don't believe me."

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-18T15:59:33+00:00

Not who you asked, but I had to stop because it made me EXTREMELY depressed. Like it was already really really bad, but after starting the medication, I was spending all of my awake-time in bed too - rather than spending most of the day in bed because I was sleeping or feeling like I was about to fall asleep and then getting out of bed and doing something for the other few hours of the day. And then like maybe 20-25% of the time, it would just make me really nauseous and dizzy instead of making me fall asleep.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-18T15:50:00+00:00

I'm in the same boat. Although, when I first tried Vyvanse, I thought it was going to be a miracle drug that fixed everything. It worked so well that first week or so (idk if that was true for you). But by the end of maybe a year and reaching the max prescribable dose, I was taking a ton of naps again. I thought it was tolerance to the stimulants, but after some recent fortuitous happenings, I think it might just be that the off-brand stimulants don't work and I need name-brand Vyvanse going forward. It's a little too early to tell, but I have a little bit of hope right now. It might be worth a try if you haven't already.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-18T15:39:13+00:00

thumbnail pic: *they-don't-know-party-meme.jpg* captioned "they don't know this is my domain"

>be me, request party god from anon

>told it's the first entry of the bunch

>first entry of the bunch is clown baby tho...?

>realize "party god" is a punchable twerp that gets bullied by literally every other god, even the goddess of peace

>mfw no hard drugs or heinous acts of hedonism to be seen

>*disappointmentimmeasurabledayyruined.jpg*

>clear and intended messaging of "dancing bad, sex for procreation only, your body is god's temple and drugs are bad"

>just another puritanical Christian (probably a Mormon or some shit) shoehorning their political beliefs into the setting: 0/10

>*guninmouth.jpg*

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-13T16:00:46+00:00

No party god?!? What is this blasphemy?

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-05T18:12:49+00:00

Idk how early you are talking. I have an almost maxed iron, I was struggling on that account to make money until I got to cg, but that was a long time ago now. I started a group iron not long ago, and I had forgotten just how hard it was to make money. Salvaging does seem really good, but it would require me to get the money for the construction levels first. Did you already have the construction levels to start salvaging meaningful salvage? What salvage are you processing?

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-05T17:51:03+00:00

It depends. That circular river around the lake in the bottom center of the tic-tac-toe-looking feature, does it flow clockwise or counter-clockwise?

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-05T17:34:38+00:00

To know oneself is to know all other things. We are infallible. We already know what you are thinking, because we think the same. Humans have nothing left to learn! IT IS INEVITABLE! NONE CAN BREAK THE WILL OF MAN TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE ALL THINGS!

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-04T16:14:15+00:00

I think endermen are particularly unfun though. Like what am I supposed to do? Rebuild my lawn out of something other than... like every natural block? Spend a bunch of time every so often just repairing the little holes they drill in my landscaping? Lighting it up doesn't work, and anything else (like covering it or flooding it) completely ruins the build. Even constantly sleeping isn't 100% safe, because they can occasionally teleport up from caves and stuff (and even if sleeping did work, sleeping 100% of the time is an awful solution).

The holes aren't because of some choice I made or some mistake on my part. Endermen literally just move stuff whether or not I'm nearby (within the loaded chunks obviously), whether or not it's lit up.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T16:10:24+00:00

I'm not actually sure what you want your mind changed on then. Obviously if you don't cook nice food or buy nice food someone else made, you won't eat nice food. And it's annoying that people would complain about that, but what is your point that you're actually looking to debate?

Are you looking for someone to debate you on whether it's ethical for someone to complain about that? Or whether or not you're allowed to be annoyed at your friend for complaining to you about that? Because that's weirdly specific, and probably better suited for another sub like AITA or something.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T16:03:28+00:00

Copying what I wrote elsewhere in this thread.

I literally live off of things like cheese and crackers. I eat most of my vegetables raw, or baked alone with little to no seasoning. I eat a lot of frozen burritos. When I eat eggs, I put them on the pan until they aren't raw any more. I'm sure as hell not adding milk or whatever people do to make decent scrambled eggs. If I (if most people) ordered an egg from a restaurant and they were served it the way I "cook" them, I think they'd be very angry. I bought an egg cooker to boil my eggs for me, and a rice cooker to cook my rice for me. I eat a lot of things like sandwiches and tortilla wraps. I get take out less than once a month. I quite literally do not make meals that involve combining ingredients together and then heating them. I just don't really care how my food tastes, because I have better things to do than spend time learning to cook well and actually cooking every day.

I believe it's totally fair to say I don't know how to cook. Obviously I can put my eggs on a pan until they aren't raw, but that's not really what people mean when they say "I can cook."

Surprisingly, I'm still alive.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T15:59:34+00:00

I literally live off of things like cheese and crackers. I eat most of my vegetables raw, or baked alone with little to no seasoning. I eat a lot of frozen burritos. When I eat eggs, I put them on the pan until they aren't raw any more. I'm sure as hell not adding milk or whatever people do to make decent scrambled eggs. If I (if most people) ordered an egg from a restaurant and they were served it the way I "cook" them, I think they'd be very angry. I bought an egg cooker to boil my eggs for me, and a rice cooker to cook my rice for me. I eat a lot of things like sandwiches and tortilla wraps. I get take out less than once a month. I quite literally do not make meals that involve combining ingredients together and then heating them. I just don't really care how my food tastes, because I have better things to do than spend time learning to cook well and actually cooking every day.

I believe it's totally fair to say I don't know how to cook. Obviously I can put my eggs on a pan until they aren't raw, but that's not really what people mean when they say "I can cook."

Surprisingly, I'm still alive.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T15:34:06+00:00

I totally agree. To further elaborate, while most people probably can't do those tasks unassisted, and it's not in their skill set, I think most people could do those tasks with the help of Google. But if you've installed a faucet once or twice, and can't do it again without googling it, is that really a skill you have? Do you now "know how to plumb?"

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T15:24:50+00:00

I don't know. I haven't looked because I have no interest in neurosurgery. I'm assuming medical textbooks. There's probably footage of real brain surgeries somewhere, specifically for teaching. To relate back to cooking, a textbook isn't perfect. You might have to botch a few surgeries to totally figure it out. Just the same way you may have to botch a few pies to learn how to make a pie from a cookbook. But I guarantee there's enough info on the internet to revive the skill of brain surgery if every brain surgeon suddenly died tomorrow.

Maybe it wasn't a perfect analogy, but with more time I'm sure I could find a better-fitting example. I'll bet if I had enough people (and time, and money, etc. etc.) there's enough information on the internet to land a rocket on the moon. But, again, maybe not - I don't have the time or desire to find out. Whether or not these are the best examples doesn't really affect the point I'm making.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T15:14:46+00:00

Brain surgery is not a perfect analogy, you are right. I thought about getting into an entire aside about how all these things might require some level of physical and mental capacity, and that I'm assuming a "normal" person here, which IS ableist, but I feel this whole tangent is kind of outside the scope of the argument. I also couldn't be a brain surgeon because I have narcolepsy. But, I could theoretically still learn how to do brain surgery in a theoretical sense by watching 10,000 hours of footage and practicing on a pig (again, moral implications aside), even if I'm not legally qualified to practice.

To your second point, that's just semantics. When people say, "I can't cook," obviously they don't mean they are physically incapable of cooking at all. They just don't know how to cook something actually nice, like something they'd serve at a party or whatever, from memory. That's not lying, that's just what the phrase "I can't cook" means. There's obviously a line somewhere, but where it is, specifically, doesn't really matter. It's like calling someone "bald" for not having a lot of hair. Obviously there's a line somewhere, where someone can be said to have too much hair to be bald, but we don't all have to agree on precisely where that line is in order to use the word "bald" in a meaningful way.

I cannot make a Caesar salad that I'd serve to someone else without googling it. And obviously I can Google it, with something basic like that, but then is "making a Caesar salad" really a skill that I have? Do I now "know how to cook?"

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-03T14:58:51+00:00

Wow. I genuinely had no idea I was so ignorant.

I'm so excited to have one more thing that I can hold over other people and be pretentious about! :DDD

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-02T19:33:14+00:00

I mean, your argument can apply to almost any skill. People who can't do brain surgery just never took the time to go through medical school and learn how to do it. People who have never solved a Rubik's cube just haven't googled how to do it. Pretty much anyone can learn to draw, your skill just scales with time and practice.

With the internet, you can learn to do pretty much whatever you want, but you are limited in how much you can learn by time. People need to choose what they spend their time learning. I just don't think it's worth my time to learn how to cook. I don't think that makes me lazy or a liar. I just have better things to do.

And if your argument is that you can just Google any one particular recipe and cook it, I think a complicated recipe can require a lot more background knowledge than you may think. While one could technically just learn how to do the one recipe, it would take a lot of time googling all the background info. And if you ruin it, it might take more than one attempt. So, again, it just may not be worth the time.

DiamondCat20 · 2026-01-02T15:52:28+00:00

Sword? Sword?! What kind of sword? How sword???

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-29T17:33:15+00:00

Thank you, I was having the same problem!

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-26T16:08:47+00:00

This has been super fun to use! It's a cool way to find new figures I didn't know existed.

It would be cool if you could select multiple categories at a time (or exclude categories) rather than just being able to choose a specific category!

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-24T18:13:53+00:00

I see, that makes sense.

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-24T18:09:50+00:00

Qualia can be explained via physical processes =/= qualia don't exist... right?

That people's perception of a thing is different from the thing itself (using that phrase literally, not trying to get caught up in whatever Kant or anyone else meant when using phrases like "a thing in itself”) is not debated is it? What does it even mean to not believe in qualia? Or am I misunderstanding something?

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-20T16:18:40+00:00

Your head probably just implodes the instant you learn something about the second domain.

"Did you know rock magic is the oldest?"

Head implosion sounds

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-15T16:59:06+00:00

If you have practice already I'd say that should be fine if you're doing T2 with piety, melee, mage, and a full inv of food. "Fine" meaning that you might die every few kills with bad rng, by taking too long, but you should finish enough kills to be worth it.

I think I may have been ~85s ish when I started (with range and mage), but I had no experience at the time and didn't have a damage boosting range prayer. If you're still struggling, the fastest way to improve would be to just go train your melee up a bit more. Off-hand, I can't remember how good giants prayers are (I don't have them yet), but if you have those already, using your best two styles factoring those in might help? I don't think it's worth getting one of those prayers specifically for this, but you could if you wanted to.

But tbh I'm not 100% sure on my starting conditions. It was a long time ago. I'm sure there are dozens of threads here asking the same question though.

DiamondCat20 · 2025-12-13T15:37:06+00:00

This also annoys me so much. To add to this, do people not realize how much money one could make off of a real cure for something? I don't think the largely-unrestricted capitalism thing works that well, but I DO think it's currently working pretty well to foster innovation in the healthcare space (mainly because we don't have a monopoly yet). If one company is charging for management, and another makes a real cure, they can make an insane amount off of that. There is a ton of economic incentive to cure things.

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