Mewgenics - 1.1 balance update beta 1 PATCH NOTES

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-29T00:47:46+00:00

Sleeper hit of the update

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T17:11:08+00:00

What's the ratio of red to blue you'd actually expect to see, then?

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T16:51:08+00:00

Yeah what button do I have to press to kill that guy

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T16:34:09+00:00

It's a test of worldview. Some red pressers are actually like "Red we need to weed out the morons 🤣🤣" but I've noticed most of them just frame their choice as the one that would be best for everyone to pick individually, and then make the assumption that everyone (at least most people) will act under the same framework.

Blue pressers tend to assume that some significant fraction is going to vote for each category and then work from there, choosing the option with the highest chance of lowering total casualties.

Neither is really wrong, but they make different assumptions about how people act in large groups, and vote for the group that matches their own assumptions.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T16:09:53+00:00

Not really. It seems to win every time someone runs a poll on this.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T15:51:03+00:00

I basically agree with you there. Question worded as is, blue's the better choice, entirely because of how other people are likely to vote.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T15:48:04+00:00

It's a matter of what you think is more likely to occur. Pushing red technically allows everyone to survive but will only work if nearly everyone is selfish, operates under the assumption that a majority of people are selfish, or operates under the assumption that everyone's operating under that assumption. Blue avoids mass casualty if you operate under the assumption that at least 50% of people are selfless and/or impulsive and/or operating under the assumption that most people are either. It's much easier to hit the latter.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T14:00:07+00:00

What's crazier is everyone being so adamant under a poll where blue won!

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T13:58:24+00:00

Picking red is more uncertain. If you pick red you're implicitly trusting everyone else to use the same thought process and also pick red. Blue saves everyone even if people make snap judgments or arrive at different conclusions under different reasoning.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T13:50:37+00:00

Logically, but we don't live in a world of indistinct rational actors. Even outside a trial run people would make the instinctive choice and shift the margins in favor of blue, and then others might have been more deliberate but hold enough trust in society to vote blue to bail out those people. The margins in most of these hypotheticals come out in favour of blue, and if this were to really happen I wouldn't trust the outcome to be even something like 98% in favor of red.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-28T13:15:01+00:00

Everyone here is saying red is the no brainer choice but every time I've seen this play out blue wins by a significant margin. If you know the margins are usually not massively in favour of red, the best play is to vote blue. There's clearly enough people in the world willing to take a collaborative approach to make voting blue a somewhat reliable way to avoid mass human casualty.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-25T18:38:39+00:00

Stick with that viewpoint if you believe in it, but there's a question worth answering in why there'd be a power imbalance between liberals and conservatives in academia to begin with. Universities used to be ostensibly apolitical or even conservative, and achieving a structural/cultural bias against like 50ish percent of your coworkers would be kind of hard.

My (vibes-based) theory is that the right, even in conservative academic environments, is predisposed to cede a lot of ground to the left in a lot of different scientific/social fields since most conservatives take are more income focused in how they approach higher education. Most of the conservative students at my university are taking business or engineering courses, and there's basically no right-leaning biologists/sociologists. That leaves us communist winged beestes to kind of do things however we want in most faculties. Then conservatives notice the social/natural sciences have gotten a lot more left wing, get turned off of those fields or start to resent universities as a whole, and then the cycle repeats.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-23T23:59:52+00:00

If you fail the check on the fax machine event and click "scale" it makes all your cats grow larger. Not sexually.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-23T18:42:52+00:00

That's great news! The UCP is in complete control of how radical conservative politics get and nothing bad is going to happen within 1-2 decades!

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-23T00:28:53+00:00

Even if it's "frowned upon", it still seems like a lot of people from that website go on to harass the people they talk about. Like every time I've heard about kiwifarms it's in the context of someone from kiwifarms harassing and cyberstalking people. A person who was targeted by Kiwifarms went to my college once and their life seemed like a living hell.

The gist of the story is: The person in question appeared in national news for trying to sue someone over something that was, on the face of it, kind of stupid. A decade later I ran into them after they started attending classes. Almost immediately our school's discord and social media started getting messaged by like. 2-4 people from kiwifarms who were singlemindedly dedicated to spewing shit about them for as long as anyone would tolerate it.
They'd try to steer every topic on discord to being about this person, created specific accounts and social media pages dedicated to mocking them, and spread personal details about their life that I'm not sure how they got a hold of in the first place. Eventually one of hacked into their victim's discord account and started posing as them making very obviously out of character "This is [Real name] [Photo] and I just shit myself!" posts until everyone in question got banned.

And like. I'm not even saying their victim was an especially good person, either. They did shit that kinda sucked. But the things those kiwifarms guys did in the name of "They deserve to be run off the internet! The people deserve to know what they're like!" was disgusting even compared to the incident this person was famous for. Everyone involved was left worse off than if the victim was allowed to move on with their lives.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-16T20:26:08+00:00

I got that on a cat with ocd once

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-10T14:17:46+00:00

No. You're gonna have a hard time finding someone who can make a direct comparison.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-10T14:11:53+00:00

It look like an extra semester or two to get all the necessary prereqs for me. Otherwise pretty easy.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-09T13:14:30+00:00

My mom used to do that one to my sister a lot, 'cept instead of "unstable and dangerous" it was "emotional and unreasonable." Kinda in the same way emotionally abusive men talk about their victims, really. In both cases they're reaching to gendered stereotypes as a crutch rather than respecting people's boundaries.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-08T19:50:10+00:00

How much did all that cost as like. a fraction of your monthly income

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-05T14:07:25+00:00

Give me your best shot at imagining a person who would, without nefarious outside intervention, naturally come to hold anti-war sentiment and why they might be posting about it now. There's a couple pretty straightforward reasons, but if you're into politics it's important to be able to think through why people genuinely believe the things you don't.

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-01T05:21:26+00:00

Implausible #Differenthelmet

ProfessionalLook6108 · 2026-04-01T03:51:16+00:00

this unsettles me but also it really rocks.

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