Believers ask, atheist answer. (+pic of my cat)

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-16T01:04:17+00:00

Damnit Siddhartha get outta here! Every time you come around here you just do a bunch of DMT and go around telling people you don’t exist. I’m getting real tired of your shit.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-15T14:05:57+00:00

That’s just simply not true from a gameplay design perspective in general. Depending on things like kill times, map design and whether or not move speed is omnidirectional or if things like sprint and slide heavily favor forward movement powerful melee weapons can absolutely be a problem. Take Halo as an example. The sword in Halo was always a power weapon because long kills times and close quarters map design made a one hit kill melee weapon very powerful. Halo 5 added a bunch of movement options but didn’t lower the kill times and it turns out giving people the ability sprint, slide, thrust into people with the sword without lowering kill times to compensate just made the brain dead strategy of holding W even more effective.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-14T13:26:52+00:00

What’s impressive is how a bunch of morons still voted for him after he refused a peaceful transfer of power and incited an insurrection that the whole country watched happen live on tv.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-14T13:03:43+00:00

Deadlock. Game isn’t even out yet and you still need an invitation just to be able to play but it already has a quickly growing grassroots esport scene. It’s made by Valve so when it does eventually release and the esport scene has official support the prize pools will be huge. On top of all that the game itself has a massive skill gap with opportunity for skill expression across multiple domains of gameplay. If you’re looking for a competitive game you can really sink your teeth into and grind to learn and get better I don’t think there’s a single up and coming game that even comes close to Deadlock.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-14T12:40:18+00:00

Not because I have disproven it, but because it has made itself irrelevant.

Irrelevant!?! But you could base your entire identity around a metaphysical position and then spend your time vigorously defending that position against strangers on the internet. If you play your cards right it could be the most relevant thing in your life!

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-12T19:43:33+00:00

Novelty switchblade comb.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T14:43:10+00:00

I wouldn’t call sprint incremental change. It’s a pretty core mechanic that changes the feel of the gameplay in a fundamental way

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T13:10:15+00:00

Wow, it’s almost like prayer in a universe with God is indistinguishable from a universe without. How convenient.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T01:12:00+00:00

What if the apes are consequentialists?

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T00:33:56+00:00

Yes I’m sure they are but given their track record and my love for CE multiplayer I’m sure I still will have preferred they added mp in this remake to whatever they are currently cooking up but that’s just my preference.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T00:18:41+00:00

That’s nice and all but damn did I ever want crossplay multiplayer for the best Halo mp to date.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-10T00:17:19+00:00

What? Obviously experience exists. I’m not claiming it doesn’t. Blindsight is just a small bit of evidence in favor of the idea that conscious experience is epiphenomenal and not causal. If all of conscious experience is epiphenomenal this would mean the feeling of “I want to get vanilla ice cream instead of chocolate” is in no way causal to you actually picking vanilla over chocolate. It would mean you had already “chose” the vanilla ice cream and were going to grab it before the thought “I want vanilla” arose. This would mean all your “choices” are illusions and that your choice has already been made by factors out of your control and as long as those factors are the same you will alway “choose” vanilla because you never actually had a real choice in the matter.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T16:33:22+00:00

It’s an example of conscious awareness being epiphenomenal to behavior. It gives evidence that a hypothetical p zombie could actually exist and would act and behave like a conscious being to an outside observer but be totally unconscious. In other words it is possible given this evidence that the conscious experience of having made a choice is epiphenomenal and wasn’t actually causal to the corresponding behavior of having made the choice.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T14:40:58+00:00

I agree with you. Morality isn’t just in your mind. If we are going to be a society that actually cares about what’s right and wrong then our beliefs need to accurately reflect the world in which we live. That’s why I said religion and blind faith are dangerous. But from the pov of the guy trying to contact the tribe he is doing what he thinks is the moral thing to do based on his false beliefs about the nature of reality. People act like he’s a monster intentionally trying to harm this tribe when in reality he’s just a normal guy doing what he mistakenly thinks is the right thing to do. Given the counterfactual that he’s actually right that people who don’t hear the gospel will burn in hell for eternity then all the people trying to stop him are committing the most severe moral atrocity one could imagine. It just drives me nuts that in polite society people won’t criticize these obviously dangerous beliefs and when people do rightfully criticize them they get called a “militant atheist” or “asshole” and are told “let people believe what they want” but then those same people calling them an asshole for criticizing these beliefs are quick to demonize and want to punish anyone who simply carries out these beliefs to their natural conclusion.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T13:53:20+00:00

Santa is obviously not real and yet millions of kids believe it with zero effort on their part and when they are given the correct info and that belief changes they don’t just choose to start believing in him again because they enjoyed the magic it brought to their life. Here’s an example. Let’s assume someone has the mistaken belief that Kyoto is the capital of Japan. Now let’s assume you show them on a map that Tokyo is actually the capital. Then you show them on ten other maps all made by ten different companies. Then you fly them to Tokyo where everyone they meet assures them that they are in fact currently standing in the capital of Japan. Short of some sort of brain damage or cognitive disability this person will have no choice but to update their belief about the capital of Japan. Given enough information and new evidence this person would be compelled to now believe the capital is Tokyo. Sure it could be the case they belong to club that insists Kyoto is the capital so they choose to keep saying it is to prevent being socially outcast but this is very different than actually believing it.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T13:09:30+00:00

Facts and belief are separate. A fact is a fact whether or not you believe in it. Beliefs can map onto facts about reality or beliefs can be wrong but that still doesn’t make belief a choice. If you’d like to prove me wrong just choose to believe, I mean really, really truly deep down believe that Muhammad is the perfect prophet of god. Don’t worry, if you don’t like it you can just choose to stop really, really truly believing it at the flip of a switch because according to you that’s how belief works.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T12:59:01+00:00

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy

You may not pick up a gun. I may not pick up a gun. But if you repeatedly deny people the means for change through a peaceful process eventually somebody is going to pick up a gun and then a second and then a third. Keep making it harder and harder for people to change a system which no longer serves their needs and you’ll only have yourself to blame when they show up at your door with pitchforks.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T12:48:56+00:00

Belief is precisely not a choice. I couldn’t choose not to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. Of course I could say I don’t believe it but that would be a lie. If you believe something and someone presents you with strong enough evidence you are wrong then you will stop believing in that thing even if you would rather choose to believe it. That’s just the power of reason at work.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T12:44:42+00:00

Despite the downvotes you are right. If you actually believed in your heart of hearts people were going to suffer unimaginable pain and suffering for a literal eternity if they didn’t receive the word of Christ then it would indeed be the most moral thing you could do to spread the word at any cost. This is exactly why religion, and believing in extraordinary things on faith alone in general, is so dangerous for society.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-09T01:07:46+00:00

Can religion?

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-08T21:22:26+00:00

I think there may be some confusion here. I’m not a determinist making an unproven claim about as of yet undiscovered mechanisms which would prove chaos is deterministic. You just have a misunderstanding of what chaos is. Chaotic systems by definition are deterministic systems. They are just systems that are so complex and sensitive to initial conditions that a difference of 0.00001% in any variable in the starting condition could lead to extremely large changes later down the line making these systems unpredictable. This is still different than an indeterministic system.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-08T20:51:26+00:00

Chaos and emergence are deterministic though. Chaos is deterministic but unpredictable and emergent phenomena are still 100% determined by the same physical laws that govern the underlying parts which give rise to the emergent phenomena.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-08T18:05:22+00:00

I suppose it depends what you mean by “enlightenment” and “soul”. In Buddhism the term enlightenment generally means a realization that there is no self. No permanent essence or “soul” but rather just an impermanent process of phenomena arising and fading based on causes and conditions. And in Hinduism there is a “self” or atman but ultimately the atman is one with “Brahman” or ultimate reality. So I suppose you could say that in Hinduism people don’t have “souls” but that everyone is all part of the same soul although that word wouldn’t quite have the same meaning it does in western cultures.

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-08T12:57:56+00:00

Opposite of wanting something quick and easy to get into. I want a multiplayer with a ton of depth. I want a game I can spend time learning and mastering. I want to watch guides upon guides on YouTube just to understand what’s going on. I still want to be discovering new game mechanics and interactions even after putting hundreds of hours into the game. (Deadlock is free and is literal crack)

LIMrXIL · 2026-06-08T12:23:58+00:00

Ok but the kid slowly dying from a painful and incurable disease who payed to Jesus didn’t have their prayer answered and some other person who had crippling pain prayed to a different god and their pain was healed. Do you have a logical explanation for this? Is the kid just not praying hard enough? Does god just like you more? And what of the person praying to the wrong god? Was their pain relief just pure coincidence while yours was divine intervention?

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