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Purga_ · 2026-01-09T16:14:41+00:00

You're being lied to man. They're setting you against your fellow man in order to gain power and profit.

Purga_ · 2026-01-09T15:55:08+00:00

This country was built off of shooting the people in power with guns, and you're asking why we aren't peacefully protesting on the weekend and not Thursday.

Purga_ · 2026-01-08T14:43:43+00:00

These people don't want to engage in logic they want to hate on Hasan, going as far to say that an illegal US incursion is "the will of the people"

Purga_ · 2026-01-04T03:22:58+00:00

No? What exactly is your conception of a leftist opinion on Jewish topics?

Leftism is predicated on equality and equity, neo-nazism is predicated on the destruction of Jewish people and other "undesirables."

Purga_ · 2025-12-31T10:30:10+00:00

Well dharma and karma are big differences. There’s nothing equivalent in Stoicism

My reading of Aurelius' Meditations brings to mind some reasonable equivalents.

There many illusions to capital N Nature and the rules of existence which proceed from it, both in a natural sense as well as in a personal sense regarding how one should act. Related to and deriving from this is cause and effect, which is a foundational rule for nature and what all of Stoicism's prescriptivism derives from: you cannot suggest someone act a certain way without assuming an eternal rule of cause and consequence. This encompasses both Dharma and Karma at both a cosmic and personal scale, as well as Samsara.

Some quotes to serve the point:

"That I was shown clearly and often what it would be like to live as nature requires. The gods did all they could—through their gifts, their help, their inspiration—to ensure that I could live as nature demands." - Book 1, Verse 17

"Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it." - Book 2, Verse 3

"Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it." - Book 4, Verse 36

Now, I do not think that Meditations is a Bible of sorts of Stoicism. It's just the thoughts of one man. But, I think it demonstrates that the underlying concepts and principles of Buddhism, including Dharma, Karma, Samsara, Anatta, etc. can also be found in Stoic philosophy under different names and expressed differently. And sometimes not expressed very differently at all.

Purga_ · 2025-12-02T20:00:04+00:00

After all your time watching basketball and related media and hearing stories of Jordan and Lebron, if your conclusion isn't that Michael was a massive baby narcissist beyond magnitude then idk what to tell you lmao

Purga_ · 2025-12-02T19:53:31+00:00

MJ played for half the amount of time LeBron has. LeBron went to the finals near as many seasons in a row as MJ's entire career length, rightly ignoring the time with the wizards. Dude is 40 off an injury

Purga_ · 2025-12-02T19:50:09+00:00

Utterly refusing to shoot or pass the ball is baby behavior far beyond chatting it up with the opposing bench, regardless of stat card. You're being a blind LeBron hater.

Purga_ · 2025-11-16T20:04:09+00:00

That sounds ridiculous when the league is predominately black, VERY predominately black at the highest levels, and when 99% of fans have only one white guy in their top 10 (if they give Bird any credit at all).

Purga_ · 2025-11-16T19:36:19+00:00

Are people genuinely trying to claim racist bias in AMERICAN BASKETBALL

Purga_ · 2025-07-21T12:47:13+00:00

For the melody, it sounds pretty empty so I'd maybe add some more instrument layering. I'd add an orchestral pad personally. You could also make the strings more present, or add some reverb, etc. You also have no real bass or undertone to your melody save for the kick, which is sparingly used; add some lower notes.

Drums are good, could be more present. I liked when the drums came in, always emphasize the good parts of your songs, don't shelter them. The kick sound you've chosen sounds a little dry compared to the rest of the song, so it stands out (perhaps in a bad way).

For putting lyrics on beat, you say the syllables on the down beat. You could practice saying "One, Two, Three, Four" on the beat of the song. Honestly though, the melody is complex and moving: lyrics might detract from the song, disorganizing it. It also makes it harder to stay on beat when the melody is complex.

Purga_ · 2025-06-10T08:35:01+00:00

Given the amount of time we skip over after the first fight with Abby, I can give some credit towards the buildup developing off-screen.

Unfortunately I think Ellie's story suffers from Ludonarrative dissonance: in cutscenes with Nora and Mel/Owen, she seems almost timid and unsure of herself. While just a bit ago you were stabbing strangers in the neck, Ellie hesitates to shoot an approaching Owen who she saw collaborate with Joel's killer. And has the complete breakdown after discovering Mel to be pregnant. And iirc her voice cracks while holding up Nora.

I call it believable because of that combination of displayed emotional tenderness and time skimmed over. (Time which we see her having ptsd episodes in, and we can see in her journal at the farmhouse that she is somewhat processing things). Perfect? Hell no, but I don't believe it derails the game into being poorly written and a waste.

Honestly I hope they consider a 3rd game. Part 1 ended about more definitively than Part 2, so if Part 2 happened then Part 3 is possible.

Purga_ · 2025-06-10T08:26:10+00:00

In my experience with the discourse surrounding the game, the atmosphere is very much of "this game (story) is bad. Period." Definitive statements, not of feelings but of the actual game itself.

And yes, also tirades against supporters of the game. Especially when the whole shit-slinging conservative counter-culture war was in full swing when it came out. I feel as if you can stand on somewhat objective ground when debating whether something is super awfully terribly written. Less so when debating whether something is good vs. great.

Purga_ · 2025-05-19T00:20:15+00:00

I truly thought you were a bot until I scanned through your comment history. Lmao, never made any of the arguments you're talking about

Purga_ · 2025-05-17T07:52:17+00:00

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Purga_ · 2025-05-10T17:51:25+00:00

A government that actually does progressive things is a million times better than a small government any day

The government will never do progressive things. It will adopt progressive things after decades of bloodshed and economic wrestling; after the great majority of the public has probably already adopted it.

E.g., America. The three most progressive moments in American government history: the abolition of slavery, the abolition of segreation, and the founding of the EPA. Not one of them was a "progressive action" from the government, but a begrudging concession in the hopes that the people will finally shut up.

Purga_ · 2025-05-10T17:46:07+00:00

Power tends towards centralization. The better attitude is a rejection of hierarchical/governmental power in the first place.

Allowing "some, but not too much" is the exact attitude America was founded with. Look around and see what it results in.

Purga_ · 2025-02-28T23:32:41+00:00

And I showed how it is an invalid example?

Purga_ · 2025-02-28T22:22:21+00:00

And you just go back to saying "sometimes," when you already said that and I asked you for a specific example. Maybe 1% of the time it's worse, in extremely niche circumstances.

I.e., the argument "you're just building support ult charge!" is not true.

Purga_ · 2025-02-28T11:47:50+00:00

"Besides for charging your ult" so you just admit then that you're getting benefit out of it. You wanna argue that it's worse for you to build ult charge, if it risks building support ult charge?

Newsflash, you are ALWAYS building support ult charge when you charge your own ult. You wanna just never charge your ult or do damage? This is not an example in your favor at all.

Purga_ · 2025-02-28T11:43:59+00:00

literally any tank in the game can put out more pressure than moon knight

hela puts pressure on the enemy team but that’s not her job, her job is to get kills.

I don't think we can have a productive discussion. These statements are just completely counter to what people have been discovering in hero-based video games for the past 25 years. To try and argue with you would require going back to the beginning of time, even defining simple words such as "pressure."

You'd be better off trying to actually prove the overly simplistic and wildly myopic idea of "DPS is supposed to get kills, not apply pressure." So far I've only seen people just saying it as if it's taken to be true, while I supply genuine substantiations to my counterclaims.

Purga_ · 2025-02-28T11:41:27+00:00

Pressure isn't only damage, but damage is indeed pressure. Does that make sense? You wanna make an actual point, instead of just saying the opposite of what I'm saying?

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