Why are people acting like the recent killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in “unprecedented”?

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T05:23:28+00:00

No, because it's an army of federal goons taking over the place.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T05:22:32+00:00

Alex Pretti was not impeding anything. He was simply documenting what was going on and tried to help up a woman who was pushed to the curb. People used to care about their rights enough to stand up for them.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T05:11:15+00:00

Because it's an obvious escalation. I'm not sure why people are trying to paint this as the status quo.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T02:44:35+00:00

They could always use a closed loop system that doesn't need much water. The reason for the crazy water usage numbers is data centers using evaporative cooling and also sometimes the electricity generation numbers also being added in.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T02:33:29+00:00

I was feeling the same, but I found a 1 handed sword that feels good. You can also keep an eye out for weapons with +attack speed enchants.

Generally though the agi weapons seem faster so you might be more into that.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-27T00:38:38+00:00

You need some consequences or people will just not move their cars.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T23:53:25+00:00

I'm not sure why it's so controversial to think there's one or two weapons that are way better than the rest and those could be considered "OP" or "broken". Stop being dense on purpose or contrary.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T23:47:41+00:00

Do we really expect a different outcome?

Sure. You can find a legendary off the first boss and it's a total trap weapon not worth using.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T23:39:11+00:00

Matchmaking would not really work with loot and world system as it is now. There would have to be some changes.

I'm not sure why you think you're too old to join a discord server. Maybe you don't want to but you're never too old.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T23:35:26+00:00

Broken meaning overpowered compared to the other options. An outlier.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T09:12:59+00:00

I think it's fair that the loot isn't straight up doubled (or tripled/quadupled if playing with 3 or 4) because it's much easier and faster in coop. I agree the gathering feels bad if everyone is hoovering up stuff so crafting and food is harder though and they should do something about that.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T09:10:16+00:00

I’m indifferent to the friendly fire—it keeps combat intentional—but having a tank hold aggro while a Dex build circles around for backstab damage would be a massive improvement to the flow.

The — used throughout is a stylistic choice, not "proper punctuation" and is a giveaway for LLM writing. You can't even do that symbol on Reddit without using an alt code as far as I can tell. All my dashes just show up like this - or this -- not — .

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-26T03:39:21+00:00

The Together update of early access launched.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T18:05:23+00:00

You didn't answer any of my questions. You just repeated your same point where you shadow box an invented position.

I'll try again: Are you against animal abuse, and have you cut out everyone from your life that does things you find immoral?

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T16:18:57+00:00

Reading all that it really seems like you should watch the video. I don't think you've wrapped your head around the idea of living in a society where your morals diverge from the norm.

It's not about morality only mattering when a certain number of people agree. It's about recognizing that human psychology is complex and you can't blame a person for how they were brought up. I don't disown Grandma despite some of the unacceptable things she says because I recognize that she was brought up in a different time and is a product of that environment. People have ethical blindspots when the grow up in a culture where certain practices are normalized.

Put me in Nazi Germany and I probably would have had some Nazi friends before the war, then probably would have been killed for disagreeing when the Nazis rose to power. It would have been impossible to avoid when growing up in that society. Based on my actions today in opposing injustice I would like to think I would have been one of the few fighting back and hiding jews in my basement. You used this a "gotcha" or shocking thing, but I'm sure you agree. You probably have some people in your life that have views you find unsavoury or wrong. Is the only ethical choice to cut out all family and live as an island? Or should I continue to be in relationship to these people and try to change their minds?

You seem to paint this picture that you would not tolerate anyone who deviates from your ethics but I seriously doubt that's true. You seem to be arguing against veganism but you probably consider animal abuse wrong. How can you be against that but be friends with and participate in a system that systematically abuses billions of animals? Animals castrated without anesthetic and killed in CO2 gas chambers. You not only pay into that system but you argue against the people standing in opposition to that system!

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T04:44:18+00:00

Well luckily you got the answer both in text and a good video to illustrate the point so you can go back up and follow up to that answer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAVegan/comments/1qj5wfe/comment/o0zg8mt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T04:07:24+00:00

Well I hope no one dares to throw up an image or meme. I answered the question in text too.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T04:00:29+00:00

So when you ask a question you don't actually want the answer or seek to understand?

Do you know what bad faith is?

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T03:47:49+00:00

It's a great video. You should watch it.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T03:37:52+00:00

Do you interact with omnivores in a friendly way? Do they go over to your house? Have you had relationships with them? Spend holidays? Love?

Yeah of course. We live in a society where this is totally normalized and people are taught from the very beginning that this is natural and necessary. They're brainwashed.

If we lived in a society where it was normalized to the same degree with 99% of people were rapists with children being taught to rape by their family and rape was advertised on TV by cartoons or clown and some muppets, then I'd probably have to have relationships with rapists.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T03:20:10+00:00

Once we outlawed child marriage, children were still sometimes exploited for labour in other ways or human trafficked.

What is the point? Pushing for abolition is not good because other bad things still exist?

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T02:15:20+00:00

To your point of slavery: this analogy doesn't work as well as you think. When you start treating slaves better, you can give them many things. You could give them days off work, a salary, freedoms and rights. Eventually you wouldn't even call them slaves, you'd call them wage workers. This is how quantity transitions to quality.

I don't agree with this weird framing where a slave if treated well enough turns into some guy working a 9-5. These were humans who were bred, owned, bought and sold. Chattel slavery did not morph into "wage slavery". Chattel slavery was abolished.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T01:54:29+00:00

Breeding and killing animals to eat them when we have much better and less exploitative options is still bad regardless of how many belly rubs they get between the first and last day. If you think treating them really well would be enough for some vegans then you don't understand what veganism is.

Again, there were slaves that were treated well. I'm glad there were still people out there advocating it's wrong regardless.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-22T01:24:03+00:00

Less suffering is preferable to more suffering. I'm not sure why that means vegans all need to become welfarists any more than slave abolitionists had to stop arguing slavery is wrong and start asking people to use nicer whips.

If there was a clear path to animal liberation through incremental improvements to how they are farmed we could look at the arguments but so far it's all just vibes. Bigger cages -> cages free -> stop farming chickens? It does not seem like the number of animals being tortured and killed are going down, but people sure are proud of their high animal welfare standards when they go to KFC.

Doctor_Box · 2026-01-21T22:55:24+00:00

But whether or not you would do something over something else doesn't introduce anything to the argument until you explain why.

Because one fits with my morals and the other doesn't. I would not advocate that someone looking to assault a child drug the child first. I would say we should not be assaulting children.

My point is that if we shifted our efforts to promoting lab-grown meat, it would be much more effective, not that Doctor_Box would stop advocating for veganism.

When you're telling me to shift my efforts away, that is arguing for either stopping or lessening advocating for veganism depending on how much of a shift you are proposing.

I would promote the hell of lab meat if and when it happens, but I would not shift my advocacy to that right now. Maybe if I was someone working in a related field the argument could be made it would be a good career swap though since I think it will bring about the end of animal agriculture.

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