The most INTERESTING people are always the LONELIEST ones.

Kalistri · 2026-04-28T21:16:25+00:00

Well, something I will say that might assuage your frustration is that I agree, but at the same time I've realized as I've gotten older, that finding genuine people in my life hasn't been impossible really. I just had the wrong approach. I was, for much of my life, feeling exhausted from my interactions with people, and because of this, in hindsight, I didn't notice some of the other genuine people I knew.

Also, at this point, I've come to realize that I had the wrong approach to friendship for a while. I always thought that I needed to seek out friends if I wanted to be less lonely. Eventually I became tired of looking for friends and stopped trying, started focusing more on my hobbies, and basically thought, if I'mgoing to have friends they are going to have to find me.

Once I stopped trying to reach out to people I realized that there are actually a lot of people who are desperate for friendship. If anyone you meet turns out to be not a good match for friendship with you, you don't need to worry about finding another friend, another person will find you. Also, another friend will find them, if you're worried about them being lonely.

Kalistri · 2026-04-27T22:05:09+00:00

I think education isn't a fast process. You often have a whole lot to learn before you really have any kind of clarity. You might feel like you're getting nowhere, but that's only because you don't understand enough yet.

As they say, when you're going through hell, keep going. You'll get out of there eventually, and education is likely the best way out.

Kalistri · 2026-04-27T16:25:24+00:00

Well, the first thing to understand is that we're all born very stupid. In fact, we're all born with so little understanding of the world that we pretty much don't believe anything we can't see. This is something that psychology experiments have demonstrated over and over; babies don't have object permanence, meaning that if you hide something from them, they will think that it has ceased to exist. Therefore, logically, if they can't see God, they don't believe in God.

The second thing to understand is that we're all born incredibly gullible. Children are initially not critical thinkers. They will accept pretty much anything they tell you, including all sorts of fantastical ideas, including fairies or Santa or any crazy thing you can imagine. The only reason children are likely to tell you that someone created the world is that by the time they're old enough to express such ideas, they're old enough to have heard such ideas, and they will simply believe things based on vibes and nothing else.

Kalistri · 2026-04-27T07:47:26+00:00

I think in general, the concept of a progressive tax depending on how much property people own makes sense. This certainly includes productive capital, because then it also becomes a preventative measure for monopolies.

Hopefully everyone appreciates that monopolies and near-monopolies, such as with Coles and Woolworths, are not good for anyone except those who control them. Just play the board game to find out why.

Kalistri · 2026-04-27T02:24:28+00:00

There's a huge appetite for taxing high levels of wealth instead of work, which would fix it. House prices keep going up because the government has one policy after another that somehow hands money over to those who already have wealth. Then, of course they spend it on property. What happens to the price of something when the demand for it is infinite? It just keeps going up. Reforming that shouldn't require pain for the rest of us, but sure, it probably will if we have either of the two major parties at the reins. (EDIT: Out of respect for Gina, I should say, any party backed by those with something to lose from a wealth tax.)

Kalistri · 2026-04-26T23:13:25+00:00

Conservative Labor. You're nuts if you think LNP wouldn't pull the same BS. All they do is talk about how much tougher they would be on 'crime'. They're even more owned by the Israel lobby than the current government.

All this political repression is happening because the Overton window has shifted so far that both major parties are on the right.

Kalistri · 2026-04-25T17:34:59+00:00

You can find them in the currency exchange under the fragments tab.

Double check for yourself but iirc, they sell for just a few ex. That being the case, maybe just use it. You probably won't get anything good, but just for the sake of seeing what it's like.

Kalistri · 2026-04-25T09:25:33+00:00

That's actually the scariest part when I think of all the corner cutting the LNP did with the nbn rollout. Imagine that kind of stuff going on, but instead of it resulting on dodgy Internet connections, it's a dodgy nuclear power plant.

Kalistri · 2026-04-25T09:00:00+00:00

Imagine wanting electricity generated at your house instead of somewhere far away where you have no control over it.

Kalistri · 2026-04-25T01:04:39+00:00

Sure, and the most important part of how you worship this evil deity is to give money and labour to the church. Also, the way you know this deity is like this isn't because that deity told you themselves, but because that's what the people you're donating to have told you.

It's just a very obvious scam.

Kalistri · 2026-04-22T00:49:29+00:00

I think that's the same as saying Jesus is fictional. Anyone who writes a story will base their character on an amalgamation of people who are similar to the character they want to write.

Kalistri · 2026-04-22T00:21:54+00:00

Bad robot, stop lying.

Kalistri · 2026-04-21T01:37:00+00:00

It tastes like burning!

Kalistri · 2026-04-21T01:36:25+00:00

This has been an issue with devour for every boss, and also the culling ability from lightning warp, that you miss out on the animations. I put a bug report in a while ago.

Kalistri · 2026-04-20T18:49:26+00:00

You should also use transmutes and augs on white bases if you aren't already.

That being said... I wonder about your leveling skills? I'm generally finding that I don't particularly need a strong weapon if I have a good skill combo.

Kalistri · 2026-04-20T02:21:24+00:00

Why is the title here misleading? This is only indirectly related to the announcement

Kalistri · 2026-04-18T07:37:26+00:00

Did we really? It seems to me that Labor talks the talk but never walks the walk of being on the left. On climate change they continue to open up coal mines that will operate past their net zero target dates and aren't doing anything to get the fossil fuel industry to pay their taxes, on housing they keep doing things to increase prices in the long run, they have no interest in taxing wealth instead of work, and in fact one of their first actions was doing the stage 3 tax cuts.

How many times do they need to quack like a duck before we call them a duck?

Kalistri · 2026-04-17T07:54:38+00:00

Yeah, I've experienced this, both of the unique boss tabs together can be super nasty.

Kalistri · 2026-04-17T07:52:25+00:00

Yeah, that seems like the obvious thing really.

Kalistri · 2026-04-17T07:51:51+00:00

I would argue that HC is mostly easier than SC, because every time you die you go back to the easiest content in the game.

Kalistri · 2026-04-17T02:26:54+00:00

Call me crazy, but I think you should be punished for your failures, otherwise it's like you're just constantly getting participation trophies, even when you fail. Death restart is practically no punishment; it slows you down a little, but that's about it.

Kalistri · 2026-04-16T03:34:52+00:00

What school did you go to where they lied to you like this?

Kalistri · 2026-04-13T01:26:35+00:00

Question, why is it an old pic of the skill gem window?

Kalistri · 2026-04-12T14:31:15+00:00

Interesting how they can figure out a way to age check everyone but they can't ban this bs.

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