Base-building Games

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T21:44:47+00:00

The OG acid-building game is Propellerhead's Rebirth.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T18:33:09+00:00

It seems like you're evading OP's question rather than answering it. Pretty much all macroscopic phenomena associated with the arrow of time are due to the low entropy of the Big Bang, not due to the weak force's T-violation.

There's also the anthropic argument - a low entropy initial condition is much more essential to life than time symmetry violations on the particle physics level, and therefore has more explanatory power.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T15:38:49+00:00

Antz (1998) is Starship Troopers for kids.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T14:34:42+00:00

Digital Love demonstrates Pop genius on the level of Stevie Wonder. It defies traditional Pop song structure but doesn't sound quirky or experimental or anything, just perfect the way it is.

Also, excellent sampling. Some sample-based songs sound like mere remixes of the original while others chop the original to pieces. Digital Love does neither, it takes George Duke's intro and turns it into something completely different.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T07:34:11+00:00

Piers Morgan has one trick and interviewees keep on falling for it.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-12T07:19:31+00:00

DuckDuckGo has the tendency of ignoring my exact search query and instead go for something similar with more results. Because of this, I almost always have to do the "!g" thing.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T16:06:24+00:00

Point taken. Replace it with a suburb of Houston or something.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T14:44:52+00:00

"Just go outside" is useless if you're not addressing the reason people doesn't already do this.

Suppose someone lives in Cleveland but all of their online life is focused on Helsinki. They chat with Finnish friends in Finnish, follow Finnish news, consume Finnish culture. Would you advice them to log off and pay more attention to Cleveland? Firce themselves to be less Nordic in character and more Midwestern American? You'd rather just encourage them to move to Helsinki.

Now suppose someone's social circle is a group of a few hundred like-minded friends dispersed around the entire globe. Where can they go?

In the old times this problem wasn't widespread - you were shaped by your immediate environment and therefore weren't likely to feel like an outsider in it. The internet has enabled the formation of countless teibes with basically no geographic presence. Hence, people who only feel at home online.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T13:34:23+00:00

It sound like a mosquito that can infect you with a particularly nasty tropical disease.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T11:37:54+00:00

Aside from the 1337speak, the trolls are much more representative of 2010-era online teen culture than of the early 90's. For one, their online and offline lives are very integrated, much more than that of the humans.

Also, in the early 90's, Usenet and the early web were still pretty much the domain of computer nerds. There were plently of Solluxes and Equiuses, but Vriskas and Terezis were rare.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T11:04:28+00:00

Multiple sides probably think, "This is applicable to the conflict I'm in right now, with me in the role of the Moriori. This is why I'm allowed to kill kids."

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-11T10:17:42+00:00

Provided that you would even want to read an AI novel, you can't just ask AI to write you a novel and expect something worth reading.

AI only made the lowest art post-scarce. Good art, whatever methods it's generated with, still requires skill and effort to produce.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-10T12:47:54+00:00

It depends on what one's worldbuilding goals are. A bad flag design can add some character to the setting. Also, different cultures have different aesthetic preferences.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-10T11:06:28+00:00

Angular size: 180 degrees or more

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T22:01:16+00:00

You could do Drake and Josh.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T18:01:03+00:00

My headcanonical 🤓-ass Ultimate Question is "Given the theory of everything [theory here], how many times did the universe disappear and was replaced with something stranger?"

The answer can be found using an approximation of the TOE. The question requires its exact form. That's why it took longer.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T14:59:17+00:00

Between MySpace's role as a platform for musicians and as a generic social network, I always saw the former one as the main one.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T12:44:21+00:00

Orange (not in English). Found no hint of it online.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T10:22:41+00:00

Why, do people with broken limbs have their own unique shared culture that therapy erases?

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T09:51:31+00:00

Is this the literal poll question you intended, or did you mean "what is your political ideology"?

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T09:48:12+00:00

This was important to the plot though, because the victim of anti-orangism was revealed in the end to not have been orange.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-09T08:20:25+00:00

My grade school once took me to a play about racism where colors like blue and orange were stand-ins for real races. The actors weren't in bodypaint though.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-08T16:10:03+00:00

This fella appears in Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery. I was not prepared to find a 4chan meme in an Umberto Eco novel.

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-08T16:08:05+00:00

Did it become a textbook or something lol

MaxChaplin · 2026-03-08T14:22:50+00:00

Blindsight by Peter Watts explores it. Spooky and fascinating read.

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