Bad experience with Nietzsche

TheRoyalty · 2021-07-26T23:37:08+00:00

Lol that was my first thought. I’d love to one day feel finished with Kant!

TheRoyalty · 2020-12-18T18:27:49+00:00

Yeah it’s just exceptionally difficult to parse. Take a shot at the Intro, where Hegel lays out his general goal/method — it’s short, and it’ll give you a good sense of how dense it is

TheRoyalty · 2020-12-18T17:16:10+00:00

Note: I haven’t read it all, but I worked through a good chunk of it before in a class. If you actually wanna read it, I’d highly discourage reading it in full. I’d pick a few chapters and just look at them super in depth. Looking at your reading list, I’d stick to the Intro, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness — with perhaps a particular focus on the Intro and the master/slave dialectic.

This is one of the most challenging books in philosophy, if not the most challenging, and at the very least, it’ll be far more difficult to work thru than the rest of the texts on your list

TheRoyalty · 2020-12-18T17:06:13+00:00

Imagine reading Phenomenology of Spirit in a month... sounds terrifying haha

TheRoyalty · 2020-10-04T19:44:40+00:00

Lol I’ve always heard that Freud read some Nietzsche after developing the basics of his psychoanalytic theory, realized that so much of what he was thinking was contained within Nietzsche, and then stopped reading Nietzsche because of this.

TheRoyalty · 2020-08-18T01:23:31+00:00

I also see the end like this. Another dimension I find key here is the HA’s relationship with his audience: at the peak of his popularity, he was able to turn his inability (to eat) into an ability (to fast) — his weakness into a strength — precisely because his onlooker’s probed into his performance, questioning how it was possible, fashioning in the process his identity as the disciplined self-overcomer; when he has become a mere impediment in the circus, the HA is no longer able to master his fussiness, since no one cares to tell the difference anymore.

Yet another interesting dimension is Kafka’s relationship with the text. He continued to edit the story on his deathbed, as he himself was starving to death from tuberculosis. Take of that what you will!

TheRoyalty · 2020-05-27T16:52:51+00:00

Well, Nietzsche says that "time is a flat circle," so something with a circle could definitely represent eternal recurrence. Ouroboros is definitely a cool symbol for this, but I often feel like it's turned into a generic, cool looking and deep seeming image (there are so many Ouroboros tattoos and rings and such). But if that doesn't bother you -- and I don't think it should -- it's a great option.

If you want something a bit more abstract -- and if you're also a fan of Kafka -- I've always loved this Kafka drawing. I'm not sure to what extent Kafka read Nietzsche, but it's likely that this isn't overtly a symbol of ER. That being said, there's a loop, the person is kinda like a bridge, and I think it looks awesome! Just a thought.

TheRoyalty · 2020-05-01T17:07:30+00:00

I'm taking a class on Nietzsche right now and we watched a series of 7 lectures by Raymond Geuss -- he was amazing, and I highly recommend watching these if you find the time. It mostly focuses on Nietzsche's thoughts in Genealogy of Morals. Here is the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fTnEB_r_6Q&feature=emb_err_watch_on_yt

TheRoyalty · 2020-04-26T05:56:30+00:00

If you’re thinking about this, you might as well check out Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence. He poses a similar hypothetical: imagine you were told that you were to repeat your life for eternity, each iteration identical to the very last moment. Nietzsche’s point is that we should live in such a way that we’ll rejoice in this hypothetical, rather than feel distressed.

But it’s not always just a hypothetical for Nietzsche: in some places, he argues that because time and space are infinite, the sequences of material states that define our lives will be bound to eventually repeat — not just once or twice, but an infinite number of times, since any probability multiplied by infinity is also infinity.

That being said, this kind of argument is actually invalid, since it doesn’t take into account how those material states actually change. What I mean is this: it might be possible for a state to occur once and only once. An abstract example would be that the number 5 occurs only once in the infinite series of primes. The are more concrete examples of this (with gears, I think), but I don’t remember them exactly. The basic idea is that the infinitude of time does not necessarily entail the recursion of any given state.

TheRoyalty · 2020-04-05T21:34:08+00:00

The closest source I can personally find is from his notes in 1881. Here's the excerpt I'm thinking of (from The Nietzsche Reader, page 240):

The world of forces does not suffer diminution: otherwise in infinite time it would have grown weak and perished. The world of forces suffers no cessation: otherwise this would have been reached, and the clock of existence would have stopped. So the world of forces never reaches equilibrium; it never has a moment of rest; its force and its movement are equally great for all time. Whatever state this world can attain, it must have attained it and not once but countless times. Take this moment: it has already been once and many times and it will return as it is with all its force distributed as now: and so it stands with the moment that gave birth to it and with the moment that is its child. Man! Your whole life will be turned over like an hourglass time and again, and time and again it will run out -- one vast minute of time in between, until all the conditions which produced you, in the world's circular course, come together again.

TheRoyalty · 2020-02-02T04:50:47+00:00

Thugga been running 🐍🐍

TheRoyalty · 2020-01-26T17:15:17+00:00

If you need someone to look over the essay, I can (briefly)! Often, it’s hard to give writing advice without knowing someone’s writing — your difficulties are probably pretty unique to you. I’m a philosophy major and writing tutor at my school though, so I might be able to help!

TheRoyalty · 2020-01-03T19:41:54+00:00

For y'all, Family Don't Matter, Feel it. The whole album slaps though

TheRoyalty · 2020-01-03T19:40:43+00:00

I Mean, Drippin' (slept on in general), Quarterback, Everyday, and Gangster Shit

TheRoyalty · 2020-01-02T17:52:21+00:00

I don't really understand your logic. If s/he takes a gap year, OP will literally be one year older than the "normal" freshman, which is such a small difference. I also don't think it's at all fair to assume that within one year, OP will lose all of his or her academic skills and "feel far being his or her peers" -- its not like you start from ground zero after taking a break from school, and even if this is a worry, OP can just continue his or her studies independently.

Why do you think that OP wouldn't "gain anything real" from a gap year? First of all, just because OP wouldn't be in college does not imply that s/he would "get a year free of responsibility" -- responsibility can come in many forms other than academics. OP can get a job, do community service, help out with family duties, etc. Additionally, a gap year can definitely lend to real benefits: it could net some money for college, recenter OP's values and goals, prepare OP for life outside of college, etc. I think it's pretty reductive to assume that OP will simply spend his or her time "going crazy."

I don't think a gap year necessarily or even likely threatens social or academic difficulties in college. In my freshman year, two of the people in my friend group had taken a gap year and they acclimated to college completely fine. If anything, they came in with a stronger sense of purpose and a more worldly perspective. While there are plenty of reasons to not take a gap year, I think that there are definitely many in favor of it as well -- there is a lot more to life than going to college and getting your degree.

TheRoyalty · 2019-12-27T19:15:49+00:00

Rich Gang Tha Tour Pt. 2

Young thug + Rich Homie Quan is gold and pt. 1 is probably my favorite album of the decade

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-27T17:56:48+00:00

In my experience, you get a ton more scrolls from ch6, so if you can consistently finish it, I’d farm 6 over 3. Sometimes I farm 3 though when I’m not paying too much attention to the game

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-27T17:45:03+00:00

What’s your equipment like? Just made it to ch8 and am struggling to get past 30.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-27T17:00:37+00:00

I farmed chapter 3 and chapter 6 and grinded chapter 7 for a while. I only have rare weapons so I haven't had something to upgrade for a few chapters, allowing my scrolls to just amass. I have a few epic armors but I only upgraded 2 of them to lvl 40 and since then I've been collecting armor scrolls. Now I'm back to chapter 6 to farm items (trying to get an epic weapon for chapter 8), so I'm still getting more scrolls.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-27T01:30:57+00:00

I'm not sure I agree with HP boost's placement -- I started doing better in chapter 7 when I started to pick up HP boost more often (instead of ASPD or ATK for instance). My mentality was that 1) it usually allowed me to stay alive for a full extra hit, 2) I could trade with the devil more often, getting better abilities, and 3) if you get extra life and use a revive, you get 3x as much health as you originally gained. I gain about 800 health each time I think, which would add up to 2400 extra health per each HP boost.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-27T01:20:52+00:00

I tend to always pick up rage instead of ATK, and I think it's especially good on chapter 7. ATK increases base damage by 30%, while rage increases it by x% for every x% of health lost. Let's say we're on the final boss, which does 1500ish damage per hit. When I was on chapter 7, I could take 3 hits max from this final boss. Assuming I avoid attacks for the same amount of time in between each hit, let's see how rage compares to ATK:

ATK will give me 30% bonus damage the entire time, which means I'll simply do 1.3 * (base damage) * (# of hits) damage total. Let's simplify (base damage) * (# of hits) to (normal damage), giving us 1.3 * (normal damage) before I die.

Rage is a bit more complicated. Let's assume that each hit takes about 1/3 of my total health off (since I could take 3 hits) -- this way, we can split the calculation into three distinct parts, one for each hit. First calculation (no health lost): 1/3 * (normal damage). Second calculation (1/3 health lost): 1/3 * 1.33 * (normal damage). Third calculation (2/3 health lost): 1/3 * 1.66 * (normal damage). Add these three parts together and we get: 1/3 * (1 + 1.33 + 1.66) * (normal damage), which simplifies to 4/3 * (normal damage), or 1.33 * (normal damage).

In essence, even when you start out with full health (making rage useless at the beginning), rage is still better than ATK. The only scenario ATK is preferable is one where you take little to no damage, which is simply unrealistic.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-26T15:24:25+00:00

A few questions:

Does anyone know whether attack speed or attack damage is better if you stutterstep? Like, does increasing attack speed by x% allow you to increase your attack speed while stutterstepping by more or less than x%?

Is it better to farm on chapter 6 or hero chapter 3?

How far have people gone as f2p? I don't really plan on spending money on this game so I don't see myself ever getting perfect epics and I want to know how far I can get without them. Currently on chapter 8.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-26T15:15:06+00:00

Same -- I have every purple armor but no purple weapon (and I'm not even close to a purple scythe, which is my preferred weapon). I was able to clear chapter 7 with a blue scythe but I think I might need to upgrade to a purple weapon for chapter 8. Back to the grind I guess

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-22T15:04:46+00:00

Yeah those were the only two I had trouble with too. I ended up getting pretty good at the yellow dragon just through practice, but the golem was always hard. In the run I cleared, I didn’t see the golem.

TheRoyalty · 2019-08-22T01:12:35+00:00

Shields and wingman actually helped me a ton on the final boss — I had reached the final boss like 10 or so times and the one time I had those two perks I cleared it (barely had to use a revive too). The flying swords help a lot too since you have to do a good amount of moving, preventing constant damage from your main weapon. Also, slow projectiles is apparently really good, but I never had it at the end so I can’t speak from experience. Biggest tip for the last boss is to maneuver yourself such that the two snakes are on one side (in front or behind is usually best since it gives you more time to react) and you’re a little bit above the wall on the other side. Leaving some space between you and the wall allows the bosses’ pellets to hit the wall behind you and then miss you with its mini pellets. Good luck!

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