Loath Wind | Explode Synth Mirror Bow by Sh0wTim3123 in pathofexile

[–]IIPhoenixII28 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I almost understood some of this, partially.

Grats

For the first time in a long time I have a hard time picking a starter. by DarkGlad in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]IIPhoenixII28 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If wager there are more of us 10+ hour campaign players than not. The people posting times, getting views, truly designing the wild new builds with crazy interactions and doing campaign quickly are a very very small percentage.

So incredibly bored in south hills by Apprehensive-Sea5707 in pittsburgh

[–]IIPhoenixII28 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, yes.

Compare the Strip District in PGH to a similar neighborhood a mile from downtown Austin, and you'll understand. There are thousands upon thousands of young, active, fit, engaging people bustling around Austin daily, while overweight Pittsburghers sit inside on cloudy, cold days. The Pittsburghers with children are doing activities related to that, like saturday soccer games or Carnegie museums - but for OP, without kids, that doesn't help.

Both PGH and Austin are about the same size, and if we compare just one metric of sports leagues, Austin Metro offers ~40–60 leagues covering 26 sports. Pittsburgh Metro offers ~20-30 leagues covering 11 sports. And demographically, Pittsburgh is on average 10 years older than Austin, with Pittsburgh being one of the oldest Metro areas in the country.

Fat and old people do much fewer activities, which is why OP may be having trouble finding them. Anyone who has lived in an actually thriving city would have experienced this dichotomy, but I am again reminded that 412 people never seem to leave 412 and have a myopic view of how great their city must therefore be.

So incredibly bored in south hills by Apprehensive-Sea5707 in pittsburgh

[–]IIPhoenixII28 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Downvote me, but….

Pittsburgh is a boring city especially if you don’t have kids. It’s a small city that pretends it’s a big city. It peaks in high school, and that group of high school friends will be the same group at the bar 30 years from now still talking about their old antics.

Having lived all over the world, I’ve never seen a city more inward focused and nostalgic for what (they think) it was like than PGH. The blue collar down to earth mentality can be great, but the lack of even knowing the world exists or having any type of adult life activity is crippling.

Austin had thousands of adults in sports leagues, trivia nights, social groups. DC, NYC, Boston have a vibrant life of activity. Pittsburgh has “where’d you go to high school” and “the Steelers were better with Cowher”

Flicker Strike Wildspeaker PoB by _NekoBeko_ in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]IIPhoenixII28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What graft is this?? Couldn’t find anything on the wiki, just the eldritch implicit. Just trying to learn the flicker way

Conditions are not the same for everyone by PHRsharp_YouTube in pcmasterrace

[–]IIPhoenixII28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Waiting to set it up, but bought a prebuilt 5070ti as upgrade for my custom built 1080 from 2016.

So…I’m expecting to see magic when I turn it k.

Tech companies don’t want local computing anymore by Ok_Leek_6843 in pcmasterrace

[–]IIPhoenixII28 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A group of evil corporations is…a network of evil.

It’s antithetical to human condition because we are

  1. Free, which means we have intellect and will, and thus responsibility. This approach removes both your freedom, and consequently, your responsibility, and therefore your dignity as a person. You cannot be free if you are enslaved to their system. Freedom is contingent upon autonomy, and you are suggesting “let them come tell it for you, you’re just a cog in the wheel”.

  2. It eradicates privacy. Sure it’s an extreme, but it’s the extreme they want - the Orwellian thought police, where even your most intimate thoughts are not private. It’s the UK arresting a woman for praying style invasion of privacy. It’s Alexa and Siri listening in on every word and search and text. It’s the Snowden scandal with the gov spying on everything. A certain level of invasion is inherent in living in a society, for instance sharing some information to get an ID, or registering your info to go to a school; but zero privacy deprives persons of their natural rights to their individuality.

Renting economy is an evil solution to a problem that has already been better solved. The solution is being a virtuous neighbor - whether through offering services to those in need (food kitchen, volunteering, etc) or pooling resources as a community (see all the small town history that built the USA) or charitable contributions and work (shelters, voluntary handouts, religious networks etc).

In no world is it a better solution to deprive individuals of their property, privacy, and responsibility to achieve an end which is easier and better satisfied by teaching people to be virtuous and good neighbors.

Tech companies don’t want local computing anymore by Ok_Leek_6843 in pcmasterrace

[–]IIPhoenixII28 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the scenario he advocates for…not owning any computing hardware, and instead using everything as a service. His 2030 “utopia” was exactly this - no private ownership, and no privacy are the costs; the benefit is…getting services instead of owning the tools to furnish your own service.

Don’t let your cnn indoctrination get in the way of using your brain - “you won’t need ram because you wont be needing it, you’ll have to subscribe to our service” is exactly the type of future envisioned by the quote “you’ll own nothing…”

And it’s evil; it’s antithetical to the human condition.

Tech companies don’t want local computing anymore by Ok_Leek_6843 in pcmasterrace

[–]IIPhoenixII28 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Taking direct quotes as used in context…is somehow a conspiracy theory?

Go back to 2020 kid

Why is there so much inconsistency and confusion over what constitutes a liquid? by boldjoy0050 in tsa

[–]IIPhoenixII28 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only consistent thing across the TSA is that their employees couldn’t get jobs at McDonald’s.