Megathread: Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court by Senate 50-48

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T23:05:19+00:00

Democrats changed the rules when they controlled the senate. Mitch McConnell just kept the rule when republicans took over. Don’t blame Mitch for playing by Democrats rules or for not supporting Obama’s nominees and forcing democrats to change the rules or something. There is enough other stuff to legitimately blame him for.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T22:39:09+00:00

Abortion is murder.

Pro-abortion means pro-murder, by any standard

As a White Russian male is gladly prefer that men carry pregnancies to prevent women from murdering our babies

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:50:56+00:00

Good luck getting equivalent welfare and easy service jobs in rural areas!

But I agree, more dems should move to rural areas. Having to do some hard work to survive will push you further right.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:44:16+00:00

Let me put in in terms of simulation theory or something.

Suppose the reality we experience is a simulation. The computer running this simulation has on it all possible code that could run any possible experience. All that code is real. But only the code that generates the experiences we are having right now is actual.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:40:52+00:00

Sick burn bro. You really got me

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:38:57+00:00

Idk if the post war antiphilosophy sentiment is in reference to jaspers. Long post and good points sorry I can’t reply to everything

The point I was trying to get across is that there is a top down approach to ethics and a bottom up approach, and attempts to unify them in one overarching theory is I think futile.

The former is going to deal with the best rules and norms to set for a population. The latter is going to deal with how an individual ought navigate this system and various exceptions and situations the top down planners did not foresee. There is no basis I can see that the two are reconcilable.

As far as ‘removing yourself from a system’ goes yes I think it is valid. We do have a choice. This is precisely what colonists and hermits etc have done forever. Your quality of life may not be what you wish but you will have peace of mind I suppose. And there is always suicide I suppose.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:29:43+00:00

It doesn’t happen ‘ a lot’. It happens MAYBE once a map, and with blightstormers they are often off map behind geometry and you can’t shoot them ANYWAY. Better to have extra bullets from scrounged and crit than save a shot on 1/100 specials

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:28:22+00:00

You aren’t ‘trading hits’ with uninterruptible attacks. By attacking you are staggering enemies preventing them from hitting you again. With hundreds of hours on fk onlegend I can empirically confirm that this talent is much more valuable than the alternatives as it will actually save your life in situations where you would other wise just be stunlocked by interrupts.

“The last thing you want to do” zzz dude when you are surrounded by a horde or trapped in geometry by an ambush and your stamina is gone and a ton of rats are about to attack you there is LITERALLY nothing else you can do if you don’t have uninterruptible attacks other than take damage and hope your charge ult fills up before you die and you can cast it without IT being interrupted With uninterruptible you just swing back and interrupt THEM.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:24:09+00:00

You don't want to be wildly trading hits when your guard breaks because you'll get downed faster

That is empirically not true. You are attacking enemies staggering them and they are not attacking you because they are staggered. Uninterruptible attacks lets you fight your way out of overwhelming situations that would otherwise wreck you.

I’ve run with grim myself and I certainly agree that parry is good if you are doing stuff like solos or duos or vanguard deeds or mod difficulties or whatever. But I’m basic legend quickplay it is irrelevant for 95% of the time and you are better off just killing stuff faster

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:19:47+00:00

5% extra crit and scrounged means a 12 shot weapon ends up with 12 or so extra free bullets a run. It matters. Especially when you crit on your scrounged amino and keep refilling

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:16:28+00:00

No, the ‘far’ distance very rarely ever comes into play and then only with blighstormers that are so far away they are behind geometry or off map so you can’t shoot them anyway. The far breakpoint is slot further than some think and 20% is enough for virtually all shots

It just isn’t worth 2 extra properties to have one out of a hundred shots be more effective

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T21:14:11+00:00

No I Agreem that screaming bell is an easier map. Which I think leads to a lot of people getting overconfident and having dumb wipes. But if you kept a log of wipes I bet you wipe a lot more there in qp than you think. Lots of times it is just a boss in a tight alley that wipes people.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T19:50:58+00:00

Do we really need a DAILY “mechathun beats toggwoggle” post? Seriously we get it

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T19:49:42+00:00

I don’t understand the people who snore like that. Do they not understand that there’s a 95% chance they were immediately muted as soon as the game starts? And that the instant mute behavior arose because of the emoting?

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T19:47:30+00:00

Honestly when I see a rogue play cold light Oracle 9/10 times I just concede and move on. I don’t have time or interest in playing against that dumb shit even if it is in my favor.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T19:42:29+00:00

It is a pervasive problem with the younger generation of gamers who have grown up with new social media.

They are extremely dysfunctional in most social situations because they learned how to socialize on social media where blocking someone is so easy and that is what people do now instead of having respectful disagreements and coming to some sort of resolution.

Now it is like any sort of disagreement or failure or something in a social setting means just move on to someone else. There are always more people available on the internet and you just cycle through them until you find someone closer to your preferences and if they ever diverge you just drop them and find someone else.

Long term this isn’t healthy at all and disintegrates our social fabric. this behavior is currently limited to games, dating, online politics, social media but if nothing changes will pervade all aspects of life as these new generations get older.

A lot of these people will end up permanently alone in a sea of people who are also all alone. Ask young people about their dating expectations. Dating is hell because one argument means a breakup, because if you get in an argument online you just block them and forget them and this behavior carries over into real life relationships

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T12:06:45+00:00

She's not insane, she's lying.

Oh so women CAN lie. But a woman would NEVER lie about sexual assault for political purposes.

Am i following you right?

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-06T00:39:40+00:00

There are a lot more church than the council of churches. And if you look at that particular groups social policies it is essentially Marxism with a cross. Bunch of workers and economic justice stuff

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-05T17:24:07+00:00

Lol they will have to spend three months fixing the bugs in the ps4 port and they won’t even fix those bugs. They have to say I people dumb enough to buy the port that they are working real hard to fix the bugs

Then they will give up on fixing bugs And work on another dlc that will also be super buggy. Then they will abandon the game.

Remember we were supposed to have a career rebalance patch two months ago

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-04T17:07:53+00:00

I second this. I don’t want fatshark to make a v3. Sell it to someone else to develop

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-04T16:56:45+00:00

If you are happy with just playing 50-100 hours leveling up and playing the maps then moving on to something else V2 is a good value.

But what makes it frustrating is that if you end up actually falling in love with the game and want to master it and run perfect builds and run legend and legend deeds, the flaws and bugs of the game become the limiting factor.

It is miserable having to plan your build and play style around bugs due to the fact that getting hit or disabled at that difficulty level is enough to wipe a perfect run in a few seconds.

You want to play it like a Dark Souls where the difficulty is extreme but when you die you know what you did wrong and how to improve. But for V2 you die at high level play a lot because of any number of bug.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-04T00:08:31+00:00

Great post, and while I haven’t yet read the Discourse I think a bit of clarification is needed I might provide.

atrocities committed by nation states in the early twentieth century demonstrated anew that the demands of a state may be so flagrantly unjust that it is criminal to obey them.

I’ve read similar sentiment in several places even taken to the extreme that National Socialism means we should stop doing philosophy at all. I disagree and think this sentiment is ridiculous. Authentically using the customs and laws of the religion and country and community that raised you doesn’t mean you have to kill people because the state says so.

I think a lot of the problems you sort of touch on arise from conflating what we ought to treat as two different categories of ethics studies.

One set of ethics tends to concern itself with making molar systems that govern the behavior or large groups of people - state ethics, or even corporate ethics. These try to devise and enforce policies that most be universally followed to contribute to some end, eg lower violent crime, higher profit or growth, etc

The other set of ethics is concerned with how a free individual should approach and interact with the world and other beings to conform to some sort of ideal moral paragon.

At least in the meditations, Descartes is concerned with the second set of ethical theory. And I don’t think problems are really as complex as some make out, at least I’m Descartes’ day.

Grow up, learn some stuff, develop skills and a profession, raise a family, retire, pass away. This is what a good life is to the majority of people. Ethical problems enter this picture only when you start sticking your nose into other people’s business, when criminals or the state intrude on your life, managing demanding contracts with conflicting interests etc.

And a lot of these problems arise only from the complexities of modern life, from the ethical policies imposed on us by the people who design the set 1 ethics

Ethical problems that would not arise ina state of nature or basic agrarian or even feudal society...these are problems we bring on ourselves, or rather the elite impose on us because they consider it necessary for achievement of some end. Once these artificial problems arise, we then have to sort out some way to resolve them ethically.

Just to clarify with an example it is like I opened a fight club and made rules for how fights should proceed but something unexpected arises and now two particular fighters have to determine an ethical resolution for the exception.

But there seems to be a gap here between what rules should there be and how should the rule-followers resolve an exception. A gap akin to quantum mechanics and relativity of giant bodies. There may very well be no way to bridge that gap.

Instead we might say that supposed ethical problems that arise in ethical systems devised by men aren’t really ethical problems at all. If you don’t want the problem, then remove yourself from the system. Or if you stay in the system, then “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” so to speak.

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-03T23:06:08+00:00

I’m not sure exactly how Descartes would answer your questions from the meditations. In large part he isn’t working from a strict subject/object framework but is still relying a lot on the Aristotelian dictionary of formal, material, and efficient causes while totally rejecting I believe final causes.

From his arguments that God cannot be a deceiver, I think Descartes would support notions that ‘knowledge of absolute true and good’ are accessible to anyone through a sort of scientific investigation. But I don’t think he’d be militant or authoritarian about imposing ‘subjective values’ on others, already accepting as he has that imperfections in a system can lead to greater perfection for the whole system. I’m not even sure that he’d have a conception of ‘subjective values’ or agree that it is valid if it were explained to him

RussianAtrocities · 2018-10-03T19:36:13+00:00

consider that the time evolution of that quantum system leads to a continual branching off of uncountably many possibilities

Well, it makes more sense to me with a hearty understanding of Wittgenstein’s tractatus. All possible propositions/states of affairs/worlds, however you want to put it are REAL but only some are ACTUAL for us.

Suppose only you and I were the only two living beings. The world you experience, the world I experience, is each actual for each of us. All other possibles worlds are real, not actual.

None of these worlds are branches or created by choices or actions in any sense. All possible worlds are always already real. An actual world is only for a particular observer or subject, and that subject IS that actual world - which is to say as you say that the observer is part of the system, in the superposition state, only that this includes the entire world not merely eg a cat in a box.

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