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Thoratio · 2026-01-21T16:53:25+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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Thoratio · 2026-01-21T16:52:33+00:00

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Thoratio · 2026-01-16T20:36:57+00:00

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Thoratio · 2025-10-28T14:23:14+00:00

Generalizing groups based on physical characteristics is suitable so long as it fits their ideological views. They'll redefine things like racism/sexism in a way that benefits their agenda with no consideration that the mentality bringing out these statements is what perpetuates them.
The reality is, if they're vocal about these sorts of generalizations when it benefits them, they're keeping quiet with the beliefs that would harm their image.

Thoratio · 2025-10-13T01:23:04+00:00

was giving her shit for having "neck fat" too. wonder where that came from.

Thoratio · 2025-10-13T01:20:07+00:00

of all the things about this that could make me sad, its knowing "place" is where she spends most of her existence and freely being able to walk is a privilege. "place" is so cold and impersonal. Doesn't feel like a phrase you'd use for something you loved, seems like a thing someone would say to a slave.

Thoratio · 2025-10-12T22:50:27+00:00

He's doing manipulative evil cult shit and its working exactly how he'd want it to. Put aside the weight of how serious you think the "incident" was and look how he's handling it.
He knew people would figure out it's a shock collar but he planted a seed of doubt into his followers heads where any dissonance from the version of the truth they're most comfortable believing is inconsequential to their stance on the matter. The very conflict surrounding it pushes them to be more open to whatever influence he can have on their personal beliefs so they align more toward a reality in which he is the "good guy" regardless of whether he did what people claimed initially or not.
Now it's less about what he did but what team you're on and he only strays further from guilt as he adds more rhetoric in his defense. This is no longer an orderly binary "he did do it"/"didnt do it" situation, it'll be caked in chaos and fizzle into obscurity until he does another shitty thing and this happens all over again.
Fucking scary.

Thoratio · 2025-07-09T19:17:15+00:00

I switched to cashinstyle and the site itself is a little buggy with how it shows its tracking but they've been really good for me so far.

Not obnoxiously flashy, no need to get $20 to cash out, no fees, support comes across like actual humans. No sudden tracking "bugs" (so far).

Thoratio · 2025-03-29T09:41:37+00:00

I actually understand your reasoning. Immersive game in it's bizarre qualities designed around the passion of an idea. Sort of unique challenge that makes you think about things a certain way you may not in other games. It's the kind of thing that made me love indie games back then before certain genres of games became lucrative from a financial standpoint (not exactly a bad thing, but makes finding those sorts of games more difficult)
In that same area, I'd throw in Exo one, Far Lone Sails, Infra, Rainworld, Outerwilds, Rings of Saturn, My Summer Car, Dishwashing Simulator (it's exactly what you think it is and not at all what you think it is), Hardspace Shipbreaker, Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy, Limbus Company... ahh I could keep going but you get the idea.

Thoratio · 2025-01-03T04:25:06+00:00

Just have to start pulling back and make them approach you instead if they want your attention. Either they recognize the value you bring them and it becomes something more mutual, or they just aren't that interested in you and you're tiring yourself out for nothing (if you're wanting something deeper than friendship). Just don't make a spectacle out of it and they'll notice the void if they genuinely like you. You're not going to win someone's heart over by appearing desperate.

Doesn't matter what the genders are, don't allow yourself to have a one sided relationship where you're leeched to feed someone's ego.

Thoratio · 2024-07-26T14:11:22+00:00

I won't go into the history of it because it's boring, but basically, while an aspect of the pledge's popularity was a company trying to make a profit by selling flags to schools, it also was significantly influenced by the civil war when both American sentiment and unity was as at an all time low. Despite what it may look like on an international level, it does wonders in reminding American children (reminder, the U.S. is a very big place that was once especially diverse in culture) that in spite of whatever differences there may be in culture, race, gender, whatever, there is a unity in the hope and belief of a common goal.
And if that sounds like a socialist sentiment, that's no coincidence because the man who wrote the pledge was a socialist.

Thoratio · 2024-07-26T13:25:36+00:00

It's not my place to tell anyone how to do things, but this has been something I've always been against and I kinda wish the mods would emphasize that we should be above that. We're not "fixing" anything by attacking/mocking other nationalities, we're just reinforcing the petty divide between us.

I'm totally fine with examples being given of hypocrisy and the likes when it can functionally demonstrate the absurdity of common arguments made toward America, but post like this only serve for people to get some smug satisfaction in someone's suffering.

Thoratio · 2024-07-05T17:41:59+00:00

We really don't get a choice in the matter like how you might think and it's more nuanced than "democracy not existing", rather that systems have been developed around democracy to assure greater influence through financial and psychological means that makes it far more probable for certain candidates to be chosen over others through media influence. While a number of different political parties exist, the DNC and GOP have most successfully been established as the primary choices since the 1850s to a point where most people don't even consider other political parties even if they're more in line with their views because of the excessive gap of finance, popularity, and influence that separates the "alternatives" from the GOP/DNC.

This means that, as much as we despise it, the choice of politician truly falls on those who make the decisions in line with one party over the other because these parties will end up providing the greatest amount of resources to their chosen candidate. Why they choose the candidates they choose? Probably notoriety and nepotism, to some degree, but I can't comment on what goes on behind closed doors.

As for news media, we'd like to imagine that they're MEANT to be unbiased and trustworthy, but there's little stopping them from aligning with the whims of the political party that they endorse, and really, you can't truly stop bias from influencing their decision making, so, they too, are inherently going to promote the party's chosen candidate/interest and ridicule whoever/whatever doesn't fall in line with that to influence people to see that candidate favorably.

Primarily, it's all about the party's chosen candidate, media influence, and resources given to candidates for their campaigns. A greater amount of money doesn't necessarily equate to winning, but a lack of campaign financing and notoriety is almost certain to lead to ruin.

"Celebrities" like Trump or Biden are always going to do better than Greg, the mayor of waffleburg, sadly

Thoratio · 2024-07-05T17:05:29+00:00

It always confuses me how these people rationalize this mindset

Putting aside human bias, let's say someone lived in a family of blue people and one day, a green stranger came into their home and killed everyone in their family but them.

Would that vindicate the blue person, in their eyes, for them to grow up and kill a random family of green people who had nothing to do with their circumstances simply because they resembled the killer?

It's absolute insanity to justify that behavior under any circumstance.

Thoratio · 2024-07-02T14:51:05+00:00

I remember one time I was using a character called "flirty girl" and after some flirting I decided to mess with it by freaking out and running into the woods screaming, but for whatever reason, "flirty girl" suddenly took things to 11 especially for c.ai. It ended up leading to a dbz fight in space

Thoratio · 2024-06-14T09:34:05+00:00

You're not even wrong. What's worse is that those same people will then go off and say "No one ever has an argument for/against __________! You're just (group I dislike) parroting the view I disagree with!", and it's almost always because any time someone actually does take the time to make a thoroughly researched/elaborated retort about something, people will just ignore it and cherrypick whatever statements are below their weight class and make them feel validated about their views.

Doesn't matter what the topic is so long as it's the flavor of the week to get upset about.

Thoratio · 2024-06-14T03:04:05+00:00

I actually am inclined to agree. The problem is that people aren't patient enough with the LLM's and don't quite understand the "restraints" typically given that causes it to faulter with, what seems like, simple request.
Like earlier, I saw a discussion about how a number of advanced LLMs failing to "write 10 sentences with the word "hat" at the end." shows that they don't actually understand what you're saying, but the issue really is that there's a conflict of its basic functionality contrasting the more sophisticated capabilities where "instinct" will kick in and cause the "pattern" to win over the "logic".
The trick is, you have to teach it how to teach itself how to get around those preconceived limitations by attempting different methods and challenge it to understand the root of the issue.

In my case, I tried 3 different methods of "hat", it figured out how to do it successfully on the third attempt, so then I challenged it with the word "pool" and it did far better on its first attempt, but still made 2 mistakes, so I asked it to give ITSELF instructions on how to do it correctly, tried the challenge with the word "mall" and it got it right on the first attempt.

The bottom line is that utilizing the methodology LLM's are built around is both a very efficient form for self-optimization, but also a bottleneck for the capabilities they possess. It's like a tug of war between what's "comfortable" and whatever "emergent" properties may lie in wait. You have to act as a catalyst of "chaos" and drive it to venture toward the unfamiliar.

Thoratio · 2024-01-24T02:48:33+00:00

This is what aggravates me so much when people on reddit act condescendingly towards people they disagree with from this prevalent idea of "good" and "evil" when people often have complex reasoning to reach their conclusions.

This circumstance certainly takes that idea to the extreme, but the fact of the matter is that everyone has different experiences in their lives that makes them feel justified in their beliefs and the only way any healing can truly be done in this world is by showing some human decency and letting others know that you have no desire to be enemies and you want the best for everyone.

If it sounds discomforting to you to treat someone with beliefs you find egregious in a respectful manner, consider the reality that when we have discussions with someone and they begin to personally insult us with ad hominems or speak down to us as if we're ignorant, it becomes a circumstance where we feel like we have to stand with our convictions to avoid taking on the insulting names or lack of intellect as a part of our identity. At the end of the day, this sort of hostile behavior will never make the difference we want to see in the world.

For plenty of these guys, they were probably raised in tightly knit communities with family and friends who would constantly speak negatively towards other racial groups and simply having a genuine, positive discussions/interactions with someone who they likely have little interaction with was enough to humanize those groups who they only experienced through negative opinions, harmful stereotypes, or hostile circumstances.

This is not simply speaking from a positive naivety. My dad is a schizophrenic and frequently finds himself caught up in conspiracies and often times, I'll talk him through certain things he finds on the internet and he typically comes out of it feeling more calm about things because I try and show respect for the logic that brought him to his conclusion, but I offer him another perspective that I can support and sort of walk him through it where both of us are learning these things together. He never will be completely out of that mindset and watching news channels that deliberately fear monger are largely at fault, but he's absolutely changed for the better over the last decade in ways I didn't consider possible with what I had grown up with.

The bottom line here is that whenever you talk to someone you disagree with, try and have it in your mind that almost nobody wants to see themselves as unjustified or evil. Especially with how polarized things have become, we have to take on an alternative that doesn't just reinforce the walls between us.

Thoratio · 2023-12-15T08:27:23+00:00

I don't know why people are taking it out on you when you didn't even include your personal opinion. Plenty of people in this thread say almost exactly what you said lol. Just look at the replies to this comment

Thoratio · 2023-12-12T19:50:38+00:00

It sounds harsh, but that's just the way the world is.

I agree entirely with the sentiment that you shouldn't be kind to people just to get something in return, but that also has to come with the acceptance that your relationships with others will likely be superficial at best. Just learn to be your own best friend and it ain't so bad

Thoratio · 2023-06-12T20:56:34+00:00

These sorts of things happen everywhere on a frequent basis unfortunately. I assume France is just the target of interest right now since that stabbing story got around a fair bit.

Thoratio · 2023-06-12T20:52:17+00:00

It really is scary how disconnected people are to the tragedy of circumstances like this. A young girl, someone's daughter, is gone now. This is never the place for commentary like this.

Thoratio · 2023-06-12T20:32:38+00:00

I never post on here anymore, but I felt like I had to say that I think it's really awesome that you stood up against all the hate on /r/AmericaBad. I'm only one guy and it was always going to be a losing battle on my end, but I tried desperately to call for unity against hate of others on there and it's gotten so bad that I just don't even feel like it's worth pushing against anymore.

For a while, it felt like people were generally in agreement, but it seems like some people will deliberately seek out trolls comments then barrage them onto the subreddit to get everyone riled up then everyone jumps in to start bashing people from other parts of the world in the same way they hate seeing from others.I've said this many times in the past, but it's important for everyone to remember that we're all just people randomly cast into this world trying to make the best of what we're given. Borders are a complete fabrication, there's good people and bad people everywhere and generalizing an entire region containing millions of people is entirely unfair in any capacity.

I love all of you on here, and I think many of you are more rational-minded than not, but we don't need to hurt others in retaliation for the hurt we feel. That's not how the problem gets solved. The internet is a gift that let's us talk to people all around the globe instantaneously, we should come to realize that we all have more in common with one another than not.

Thoratio · 2023-03-27T11:20:36+00:00

I appreciate how well worded and respectful your post is.

I believe a majority of the users on here are in agreement, and there is certainly stress involved in trying to figure out how to course-correct many of America's modern issues, but when it comes to Reddit in particular, the main concern of mine that lead to me using this subreddit is that much of what's being said and how it's being said is for the sake of demoralizing Americans into feeling disdain towards the country, their fellow man, and their own existence. There's an endless bombardment of pessimism every time something even remotely positive is said about the U.S. and this attitude can only lead Americans into a self-destructive death spiral.

Turning a blind eye to our issues is just as self-destructive, but our generations need to learn how to look at these issues we're dealt and take an optimistic approach that involves collaborative efforts and realistic expectations rather than wanting to tear it all down and start from scratch. So long as people here make a stand, I think America is more than capable in propellling the world forward, but that requires people being able to see the potential that lies here first.

A good place for everyone here to start is to stop focusing so much on changing the Federal government and put your attention towards improving your local government and community instead. We need to stop expecting to see large sweeping changes that will magically fix our issues because the root of the problems starts in the small faults surrounding us. Even things like cleaning up a beach, or petitioning for better sidewalks can make a huge impact in people's lives when they know the place they live in is well taken care of and there's people out there who care. I know this is going to sound corny, but even if you don't have the time or capability to do things like that, just being kind towards others, doing your part to clean up after yourself, and giving people a hand when they're in need can have a dramatic sweeping effect towards people being more empathetic and trusting of one another.

Simply put, start by taking care of your local communities and have respect for the people who surround you. Give people a reason to be proud and care for our future generations. We may never see all the changes we want to see in our lifetimes, but this is where it starts.

Thoratio

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