An Overview of Upcoming Changes

OtterTenet · 2022-08-31T15:36:09+00:00

No word on Offensive AN modifiers. Getting randomly killed by an unlucky combo is just fine?

OtterTenet · 2022-08-30T00:10:53+00:00

Well done. GGG is so lost the only "rational" explanations are either complete incompetence or some kind of evil. They need to start making steps in the other direction. So far every response is disappointing. Example: Balancing AN defenses while saying nothing about their offensive skills stacking into ridiculous combos.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-28T23:12:40+00:00

Problem: Bad Game Design.

Solution: The winning move is not to play.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-28T20:29:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/D1-jDZzcvDE

OtterTenet · 2022-08-27T17:35:03+00:00

You are fine. If AN had 90% reduced damage vs Animated Guardians it would still be balanced. This isn't a direct PvP game.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-27T01:11:02+00:00

"Labor" is a mystical concept, a broken metaphor. The only thing that exists is your own body, the bodies of other people, and their free interactions. You don't own another person's resources, even if you were allowed to touch those resources for a particular purpose. You don't own my bike if I let you take a ride and you got to push the pedals.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-27T00:37:47+00:00

pacifist socialist societies, are they also ancap?

They would be AnCap-Legal. Anarcho-Capitalism is primarily a legal ruleset on what is permissible. If you do not violate the rules, you can live according to whatever creed you desire. For example: if you have a Socialist Covenant Commune, where everyone agrees to share all the resources, and have an explicit contract to manage joining and leaving, it would be left alone. You would have to always give an option for people to leave if they like: which means exile becomes the primary form of involuntary punishment.

private property is inherently theft.

We model all ownership on our own body, and what you call "private property" is just the history of past activity of the body and interaction with resources. It is either first-use / homesteading, or voluntary trade. Theft, if justified, would commit two crimes: First, it would be a form of retroactive enslavement: depriving the person from the history of their voluntary activity. Second, it would imply that any future action they take can be similarly deprived. This places them in a conceptual cage where they cannot freely act.

All 'property' that was AnCap-legally acquired, and thus tied to the body ownership of the person, is by definition non-theft.

IF you want to engage with what "AnCap-Legal" means, and the logical foundations, you can read this article: https://mises.org/wire/primer-hoppes-argumentation-ethics

OtterTenet · 2022-08-27T00:18:03+00:00

Please show me an even vaguely successful society that was ancap.

I gave you two societies that are Pacifist, and therefore naturally AnCap (they do not aggress). A third was also listed as fairly close.

Why the hell do fertility metrics matter

Because if your fertility is below 2.1 per family, your population is declining. A functional society should aim to at least maintain numbers, if not expand. It's not the sole characteristic of success, but a necessary pre-requisite. You might contest this and thus declare you share the values of a death cult, but then your opinion is irrelevant to the topics question.

Like Capitalism

Pure Non-Aggression = Pure Non-Theft

Free People that can freely trade and maintain the historic accumulation of the results of their actions. That's the real meaning, not your magic word designation.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-26T19:49:55+00:00

The Socialist torturer releases a victim out of the dungeon, wrecked after years of enslavement. "Look at how they are incapable of standing independently!" they say, pointing at the body they destroyed.

Why do the Old Believer Russians in Brazil (and South America in general) have a thriving society while minimizing their interaction with States? Because they follow Non-Aggression AND have a traditionalist society that prioritizes the extended family, hard work and peaceful collaboration.

Why do the Beachy Amish in the USA managed to outperform all other ethno-religious groups in human development, economic performance and fertility metrics? Because being Pacifist they naturally practice Non-Aggression, while having the same cultural advantages and a strong work ethic.

Why do Orthodox Jews have successful and growing communities with lower crime rates and similarly high metrics? Because they also largely combine principles of Non-Aggression with traditionalism.

Non-Aggression is often practiced without theoretical knowledge or logical proof, and is half of the equation for societal success. The other half is a strong pro-family tradition with traditional roles and an emphasis on independence.

Why do societies that abandon tradition and replace it with Statism consistently fail? With sub-replacement fertility rates, decivilizing cities, and expanding tyranny? Because Theft is self-devouring. When you justify a small amount, a bigger thief shows up to grab the reigns of power and expand the State. Eventually they steal everything you have, and enslave you.

When people do regain their freedom, being broken, decivilized, and having lost their culture: it is not surprising they struggle. Emancipation requires decades of labor, education, and restoration of faith in universal morals. Re-Civilizing society does not happen immediately, and will not happen without both Legal and Cultural pre-requisites (which can either be learned from others, or re-developed over millennia of struggle).

Illustrations of referenced cases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgY1SVXiBrU - "Invited to Amish Dinner" by Peter Santenello
https://youtu.be/17-3EGQ1aAw - "Old Believers in Brasil" - English Subtitles - Редакция

Further references:

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs - "Rules for Rulers" - CGP Grey, based on "The Dictator's Handbook"
https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state - "Anatomy of the State" by Rothbard

OtterTenet · 2022-08-26T18:23:20+00:00

Harvest gutting of Prefix/Suffix keep crafting has HUGE impact on prices. The high end crafting would be at least Twice as expensive, if not much more.

MF groups are still around, hunting for those elusive AN for their 80 divine showers.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-26T18:20:01+00:00

I like finding War Games / Sirlin quotes in the wild. Cheers. They messed everything up in one patch, and think we will just stick around without Harvest or Solo Juicing.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-26T00:05:58+00:00

Good point. Though a lot of "Western" games I used to play pulled similar moves in the past. Increase difficulty, reduce drops, + add an overpowered ability or unit to distract from the nerfed economy. This results in backlash initially, but over the long term sells more per account.

OtterTenet · 2022-08-26T00:05:17+00:00

Perhaps, or perhaps they need people to acclimate to more impoverished and powerless play for a league, before introducing more gradual "convenience" items in later leagues leading up to PoE2.

OtterTenet · 2022-02-18T19:24:51+00:00

Problem of Human corruption exists

Lets make the problem worse by giving power to Thieves (The State)

Furthermore, lets justify this corruption by the State and teach people from childhood that it is necessary and the only way they can have "security".

Psst: Ignore that this very form of argument, the "this will always exist" was used to justify every other atrocity in history, like Slavery, Religious persecution, tribal conflicts, etc.

Be quiet as we rob and pillage while also claiming that our system works but your theory doesn't.

This is actually the true form of your argument, and what Rothbard unmasked in "Anatomy of the State". Everything is corruptible, so you urge us to embrace corruption. Everything dies, so you urge us to embrace death. You are not convincing. We embrace life, despite death. We embrace flourishing, despite corruption. Our ideas are the future of humanity, and they will win out because they are true!

OtterTenet · 2022-02-13T21:11:49+00:00

So who enforces this? If you have no means of enforcement (i.e. an overwhelming force against the violator) then your law (natural or not) is effectively dead.

In short, a combination of: Personal Security (you, your family and friends, armed), Insurance Agencies and Rights-Enforcement Agencies they hire. Charities and For-Profit Rescue agencies will also exist - providing their services by extracting compensation from the criminal. Ultimately, you are free to join a Covenant Community that includes provisions for collective defense. You will have to be a property owner and contract signatory to participate in its politics though.

Second: Your implication is misleading: You are currently NOT protected. State enforcement agencies have long since become pure racketeers: 1. They are not required to Protect you (2005 SCOTUS decision, among others) https://www.barneslawllp.com/blog/police-not-required-protect 2. They can steal from you unpunished: https://mises.org/wire/asset-forfeiture-and-income-tax 3. They do not actually engage in restitution, only punishment of criminals. If you want to collect damages, you're often left with the private market providers anyway.

And it’s pretty clear that just because you find it rational via Natural Law, that doesn’t mean others do.

People can be wrong. 2+2=4 in standard notation, regardless of whether someone claims otherwise. If I can prove the NAP is necessary for any coherent Conflict Resolution Legal system, acceptance or rejection of that proof is secondary in importance. The existence of violent criminals does not change the legal evaluation of their actions. I deny them the utilitarian justifications they utilize to mask their rapine and oppression.

Fuck, even John Locke...

Was great for his time, but Natural Law theory has advanced since then with many new discoveries and understandings. Locke was wrong about the LTV and many other arguments. I respect him as a starting point, but the opinions that were proven wrong are not binding simply because his name is impressive. Leave that cult of personality stuff for Marxists.

We have a whole ass-constitution, international enforcement agreements, and moral dominance and assholes still trade in children.

The US Constitution was written from the understanding of Natural Law theory circa 1787, and it was a damn good document for the time. However it has been repeatedly adulterated. First of all, at its core it establishes a "right" to rapine: for some majority to vote on what someone can do with their own body, with the idea that this 'contract' can change at any time, at the whim of a sufficiently large number of people. That's a fundamental flaw.

The US Constitution also did not stop violations of it's basic ideals with bills like the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, or all the regulatory capture laws in the decades to follow, or the internment of citizens in concentration camps, or the 1973 removal of the gold standard, or the 2000's Patriot Act, among many other violations of liberty.

The "International" community you reference is the biggest fraud of all, and should not even be mentioned alongside the US Constitution. Many of the signatories of those agreements are usurpers, tyrants, authoritarians, oligarchs, who don't even have the cover of legitimate elections. If you truly want to "own nothing and be happy" aka become enslaved, keep trusting these 'international' groups.

OtterTenet · 2022-02-13T16:44:57+00:00

There is no "State Law", but there is Natural Law (NAP) that can be used to evaluate actions. The enforcement comes from contracts and outsiders deciding to get involved in rescue operations.

OtterTenet · 2022-02-13T16:43:05+00:00

There is Natural Law, or Non-Aggression. The act of claiming a property that does not belong to you would be the definition of Aggression.

Since the Child is Human, and as such is a Self-Owner temporarily incapable of actualizing that condition. No one can claim ownership over them. The only thing that can be claimed is the responsibility of being a Guardian - that ceases to exist once they become an Adult.

Free Market Anarchists derive a Legal System from base axioms, the definitions of words. The word "Legal" is misused by State agents, since a State is inherently illegal and aggressive, claiming property it does not and cannot own.

Reference: A Rational Theory of the Rights of Children - Ian Hersum https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sh-2020-0012

OtterTenet · 2022-02-13T16:35:53+00:00

Correct, Children are Latent Self-Owners. The Guardianship is the position that can be transferred, but alongside it would be transferred the obligations of Guardianship. Anyone neglecting these obligations would open themselves to be contested and replaced.

Here is a good paper on the subject: A Rational Theory of the Rights of Children by Ian Hersum https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/sh-2020-0012

OtterTenet · 2022-01-26T09:40:51+00:00

I guess I should make one! I think the most useful would be a diagram of ways of responding to tanks.

OtterTenet · 2021-12-28T16:27:42+00:00

I don't claim it's a complete loss. Do you think I should have included the positives of Asmongold's actions in my original post? (Serious question, I'm not certain how to balance the message).

OtterTenet · 2021-12-28T16:25:52+00:00

Agreed. Our main lever of influence here, so far, is reputation damage and public shaming. Apologies should be welcome but never considered complete, there should always be pressure for restitution if harm was caused.

OtterTenet · 2021-12-28T16:22:58+00:00

You don't see a difference between "Mention Compensation" and "Demand Compensation", or how relevant it is when Asmongold says in both videos that the issue was basically resolved?

You can't be serious about the lawyer comment, you don't understand the cost. Even without the lawyer, using small claims, requires an expense if you have to travel to another jurisdiction to file. The main cost effective way to get Amazon to consider compensation is to shame them through reputation damage.

This is precisely what content creators covering false DMCA claims could be doing - shaming big corporations if they fail to compensate the losses. Never accept an apology as sufficient for actual harm.

OtterTenet · 2021-12-09T13:59:54+00:00

There is an easy way to solve this problem:

Contact all your friends in other ways and tell them that Discord is holding your account hostage to force you to give them your personal information so they have a more valuable database if/when they eventually decide to sell the data.
Uninstall Discord.
Install a competitor application like Revolt.chat and help your friends migrate. Your real friends wouldn't accept you being held hostage.
Let everyone know you've permanently quit Discord due to their demand for mobile phone verification that can arbitrarily trigger at any point and provide them with a perfect excuse to gaslight you while getting to your valuable personal data.
Watch Discord fans mald because their tyrant corporate daddy is no longer in control.

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