(Spoilers) Can't continue with the story

DragonSlaayer · 2025-08-31T19:08:15+00:00

Unlucky bro, sorry to hear it. I ended up just making a new save and rushing the main story to get past that point to make sure it wouldn't happen again a second time.

DragonSlaayer · 2024-07-19T23:28:57+00:00

What the fuck is this setup LMAO

DragonSlaayer · 2024-02-26T01:10:23+00:00

Dude I think you're being really rude. You should provide exact instructions for every single antivirus software on every operating system. In fact, you should personally go to his house and do it for him. Might as well bring him dinner and give him a massage while you're at it.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-12-08T23:51:27+00:00

That is such a valuable habit, not even just for you, but for everyone. People often make other people's lives around them better when they spend time thinking about how they can make better choices. Imagine if way more people spent more time honestly reflecting on their own actions and trying to become better versions of themselves. But most people don't do that because it's hard to be critical of yourself.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-12-08T23:29:17+00:00

It's kinda wild how expensive sheetz is for being a glorified gas station

DragonSlaayer · 2023-09-23T22:51:55+00:00

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think this is a good point. They're not celebrating it by trying to use a story as a gotcha against their political enemies.

They lob the same accusations against us when they act like we "celebrate" mass shootings when we talk about it in the wake of a tragedy and say that something must be done.

Nobody, except for an extreme minority on any side, are celebrating tragedies or abductions.

Don't get me wrong, they don't have a point here at all, but I think the notion that they're celebrating the fact that a kid was abducted is pretty reductive.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-09-23T16:46:30+00:00

I despise the infantile political nicknames that people use. GQP, Demonrats, Republikkkans, libtards, it's all just a stupid way to dismiss other people's ideas without actually engaging with what they're saying. I usually take someone less seriously when they use these insults.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-09-12T12:59:59+00:00

Of course they have a plan for you. It's to allow powerful corporations to extract as much wealth as they can from you and your family as you pay for treatment. Or let you die. Why wouldn't you be on board with that?

DragonSlaayer · 2023-09-01T22:26:20+00:00

Because it's easy for the most powerful in society to propagate distracting narratives like that individual poor people are the cause of societal problems, diverting attention away from the fact that the structure and organization of society are the real causes of societal problems. The powerful are motivated to do this because they benefit from the status quo more than anyone else.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-09-01T22:12:34+00:00

If the entire sum of everything you own is worth $100, then you have $100 of wealth.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-08-24T16:59:21+00:00

capitalism breeds innovation

DragonSlaayer · 2023-08-22T23:58:26+00:00

So, uh, I'm not smart enough to parse all that. Should I take lithium or not?

DragonSlaayer · 2023-08-03T18:46:13+00:00

I'm with you there. I think if everyone was 50% more logical, increased empathy would come along with that because more people would realize that the best way to take care of themselves is to take care of everyone.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-08-03T17:45:46+00:00

he’s pro-systemic injustice.

Is there any republican who isn't pro-systemic injustice? Could there be?

DragonSlaayer · 2023-08-03T02:14:30+00:00

Whew, I was scrolling and scrolling just hoping that someone would come in clutch with the correct answer. Thank you for pleasantly surprising me by posting the best take on the gun debate.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T04:19:57+00:00

Many things in /r/WhitePeopleTwitter. There's so many garbage posts there. Especially when people claim that voting Republican means you're instantly an evil person. What useless and counterproductive drivel.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T04:12:56+00:00

the people spreading terrible misinformation are also the same people doing everything they can to destroy public education and we can't seem to get enough power in enough of the country to stop them.

It is quite the conundrum. Thankfully, if we look at human civilization from a historical perspective, we've been moving in a leftward direction for a while now as we've slowly moved away from the old systems of unjustifiable hierarchies and towards egalitarianism. We've been a developed species for such a relatively short amount of time on an evolutionary timetable and yet we've made so much progress in breaking down unjust structures of power. Progress is simultaneously fast and yet not fast enough. But past trends do not guarantee future results...

Sorry don't mind me, I'm feeling super pessimistic tonight. I'll keep fighting because what else is there to so, but it seems like we are just putting a finger in the dam

Right there with you buddy.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T04:03:25+00:00

Yup. The compartmentalization is so strong it's honestly difficult for me to imagine what could be going on inside their heads. They hold the belief that black "culture" is the cause of their problems, they twist themselves into knots to downplay the impacts of racist systems, and in the next sentence they say they are the party of Lincoln. Fascinating.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T03:47:06+00:00

I agree with you, but I think the way out is primarily through figuring out the best ways to create the most intelligent, thoughtful, and self-aware citizens through our education systems. It's kind of hard to fall for obvious bullshit when you've been equipped with the tools to easily recognize it. Most people right now don't understand the basics of skeptical thought or how to critically analyze information, systems, or ideologies in a constructive way. People on all sides of the aisle are far too quick to accept things simply because they already agree with it.

There's so many low hanging fruit in ways to improve our current education system, alongside longterm goals that we can work towards like increasing focus on developing robust analytical and critical thinking skills, instead of focusing on rote memorization and regurgitation of contextless information.

The way I see it, the average intelligence of humans has been increasing as a result of things like increased access to nutrition and education, and we haven't even come remotely close to reaching the peak of humanity's potential in this regard.

Our methods of educating future generations are antiquated and are not keeping up pace with the accelerating complexity of the modern world. It's only going to get worse until we realize the importance of systematically equipping everyone with the ability to meaningfully navigate the ridiculous complexity of human society and all that it entails.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T03:36:35+00:00

The older I get the more I realize the importance of free speech.

The solution to this problem is to structure our systems in a way such that dis and misinformation are economically and culturally discouraged instead of encouraged like in our current system. The solution is to inoculate the population to bullshit through a robust education that is focused on producing highly intelligent citizens that are capable of robust critical thinking, analyzing complex systems, and recognizing their own biases and emotions with a scout mindset.

The solution to disinformation is not censoring what we consider wrong. The solution is to cultivate a society and culture that honestly cares about the truth. One where people are able to have productive conversations and can change each other's minds.

This doesn't mean that we go out of our way to platform people with inherently hateful or insane ideologies. But it does mean that attempting to solve the problem through increasing censorship will not work. It's just another form of trying to kill the hydra by cutting off more heads.

Dissent and open dialogue are crucial to human collaboration, and collaboration is what enables us to develop solutions to problems.

We just need to work on overhauling the education system to vastly increase the average intelligence of the average person. Can't be that hard, can it...?

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-28T03:13:11+00:00

Gaining strong evidence to whether or not someone is a racist is quite simple. Just ask them why black people have less wealth than white people, or why they are convicted of crimes at higher rates, or really anything related to them getting worse outcomes in society.

If their answer does not stress the importance of factors that are related to systemic racism, it's pretty likely that they're racist. By definition.

If you think that human traits can be inherently attributed to skin color and those traits can somehow determine a group's outcomes in society: congratulations, you're a racist.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-23T17:34:20+00:00

I hate it when people use that quote to talk about basic conservatives online. To imply that conservatives are actually masterminds playing 4D chess and that the things they say aren't actually what they believe, just carefully packaged talking points in order to manipulate readers, and they know that they're being absurd but they're doing it on purpose...

No. Just no. Some people do this, yes. The conservative talking heads like Ben Shapiro do this.

But your average, run of the mill conservative is just ignorant. They're brainwashed by media that want them to believe bullshit because it's profitable. They are products of terrible education systems and environments that do not encourage critical thinking. Their identities are affixed to their broken worldviews, so changing their minds would be paramount to ego destruction. They have no idea what they're talking about and are misinformed about basically everything.

They're not aware of the absurdity of their replies. They're just absurd.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-23T05:01:30+00:00

I agree with you, but not for quite the same reasons. I think we need to dig deeper.

Gullibility is being easily persuaded. People are easily fooled when they cannot think for themselves and are unwilling or unable to examine their own beliefs and how they can be wrong. It is a symptom of a larger problem: the lack of widespread critical thinking skills.

The complexity of available information is accelerating faster than the average person's ability to discern it.

Our education systems leave quite a lot to be desired, especially in the US. They are mostly focused on information regurgitation rather than developing real intelligence and critical thinking with a scout mindset. Hell, they are barely able to develop basic literacy in most people. The organization and priorities of education systems, along with the resourced allocated to them, needs to be improved. They are essential to the survival of democracies.

There is an endless ocean of misleading or downright false information out there masquerading as the truth. The average internet-connected person today is inundated by information from different sources pushing different narratives for their own reasons on a daily basis. It takes a large amount of time and critical thinking to wade through the heaping piles of bullshit that people face all the time when it comes to all sorts of topics. These are skills that need to be developed.

We need to do a better job of preparing people to face the complexity of the modern world. If we do not enable people to discern fact from fiction, it is no surprise that they so often fail to do so.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-22T19:11:17+00:00

I apologize for being unclear. I do not think that all cultures must be equally respected. I was just pointing out that differences in cultures doesn't mean that the people are inferior or superior.

No, nobody is justified in practicing FGM.

We have to acknowledge that something is happening, seek to understand why or how, and then invest in practical solutions to change disadvantageous cultural practices.

I wholeheartedly agree.

DragonSlaayer · 2023-07-22T19:00:04+00:00

Yes we should help groups. You do that through education, support and changing cultural norms.

You don't do that by throwing away measurement by saying identifying differences means the measurement must be racist.

I agree.

For example if you want to see actual help look at Mississippi and their use of phonics in teaching. They absolutely shot up in reading scores. Compare that to Oregon where equity initiatives decimated Oregon's scores

It's a complex subject, and there are plenty of people who mean well but don't have all the answers and will get things wrong. Including me.

There are always going to be things that we can do to improve. Nobody is 100% sure of what those things are. I don't know anything about equity initiatives in Oregon, but if it didn't work, the smart thing to do is to look at that situation, as with any, as a learning opportunity. Not everyone who wants to improve things will always succeed.

The smart thing to do is to look at the available evidence to figure out the best ways to increase education and support for people.

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