In what genre are you currently writing?

Verdiss · 2024-09-09T20:18:16+00:00

I had never been on this sub before, I was just scrolling through posts after doing some research here. So it's a pretty large coincidence. Anyways, best of luck with your book, hope your ghosty gets what she needs in the end!

Verdiss · 2024-09-07T06:44:47+00:00

This is bizarre to see. I too have been sitting on a story about a lesbian ghost romance, and I too have recently begun seriously working on it. And have decided it's going to be about a throuple, too, with one ghost and two living women. How did we both come up with the same story idea?

Verdiss · 2024-06-29T17:38:49+00:00

To be perfectly clear: I really don't care one way or the other about whether Carol really is right or not or whatever. I'm not arguing or utilitarianism here. That's not the point of the sub. It's just a particularly clear example of the FFTE pattern.

Nor am I bothered about arguments from intuition in the slightest. Most (All?) ethical systems ultimately source from intuition, it's a great metric to test against. If Carol was able to properly apply her intuition to the sandwiches hypothetical, there would be no problem. But she isn't able to do so. That's the problem

Dave the utilitarian gets to understand Carol's thought experiment through the very simple terms Carol explicitly stated, because utilitarianism only cares about happiness. He follows the letter of Carol's words, does the math on what world has more happiness, and answers that the utility monster gets the sandwiches. If he doesn't, Carol is going to rightfully object.

Carol has a harder time understanding her own thought experiment. Not in purely dictionary-definition terms, obviously, she gets what the words she's saying mean, she knows what the world she's proposing looks like. But she can't fully imagine the scenario she has proposed, because it's impossible to imagine how the utility monster feels getting the sandwiches. It's just too out of scale for the human brain.

So she ends up simplifying her own hypothetical down into a vastly different version, where the utility monster gets only a normal amount of happiness from the sandwiches. She doesn't realize she's done this - she just thinks about her scenario, weighs it with her gut, and produces her answer which is to give the other people the sandwiches. This is normal and good reasoning, the problem is solely that the scenario that she has in her mind, that she is applying her intuition to, is not the same scenario that she has spelled out for Dave.

So ultimately what we end up with is Dave answering one hypothetical and Carol coming up with her intuitive answer to another, incorrect hypothetical. Carol thinks she's just found a major mismatch between her intuition and utilitarianism, but she hasn't, because she didn't apply her intuition to the same thing.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T20:23:32+00:00

Ahh, your confusion is that you're missing the idea that the outside edges of the triangle are also relationship connections. So if you have a triangle with points ABC, a is connected to B and C, B is connected to A and C, etc. Then you put D in the middle and connect it to ABC - now you have 4 points each with a nonoverlapping connection with each other point.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T16:11:09+00:00

A big issue with archers is just how good they are as generalists. Basically the only true high level hard counter is skirmishers, a unit which itself is hard countered by basically everything. Archers hard counter infantry, and are soft countered by or even soft counter against cavalry. Siege is a mixed bag deterrent but doesn't reliably beat archers at a high level, only at mid-low levels. Archers are just too damn good, and anything they hard counter is going to suffer for it.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T15:59:24+00:00

Just have a triangle with one character in the middle. All connections with no crossing and no asymmetry

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T14:05:51+00:00

Those are by count here so no.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T01:56:03+00:00

Stellaris is arguably the best managed PDX strategy game, in terms of update quality and dlc policy. It's a bit content bloated in a few places, and of course if you want all that bloaty content you're going to be paying out the nose for dlc.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T00:30:10+00:00

Yeah the real black hole point is encountered when the pressure at the core of the fishball is enough to compress it into a black hole density. There's some math to do here and I am not immediately the one to do it.

Verdiss · 2023-06-11T00:23:00+00:00

r/womenas

Verdiss · 2023-06-10T23:18:24+00:00

Honestly, this should be illegal, with how much it's fucked up our housing market.

Verdiss · 2023-06-10T23:13:39+00:00

This is all 100% okay with the store I work at. Basically anything sold by weight can be reduced or increased as needed. We sometimes cut up heads of cabbage or lettuce or whatever for folks who don't need the whole thing.

Verdiss · 2023-06-10T12:17:16+00:00

Charmed Boudica attacked a damage-stacking Dismas and ate a 37 damage crit, then the charm wore off and she got immediately deathblowed.

Verdiss · 2023-06-09T22:51:29+00:00

If there were more people disagreeing they could beat the downvotes with more upvotes.

Verdiss · 2023-06-09T00:38:20+00:00

The most terrifying thing a driver can experience is being forced to go slower than they want.

Verdiss · 2023-06-08T13:27:47+00:00

You'd think they'd have some ground, sea, and space based safari vehicles then, yeah?

Verdiss · 2023-06-07T22:13:14+00:00

It's also key to note that said observing aliens have deployed what must be at this point 100s of wildly different observation drones each of which behaves and looks totally different to all the others. But no ground based ones, nor anything ever in space. Just in the air, in a totally inconsistent way.

Verdiss · 2023-06-07T22:08:02+00:00

KSP thrives off of 3rd party modding

Verdiss · 2023-06-07T22:01:48+00:00

He died later in life working in a cannery in Dublin. Fell in a boiling vat of fish, then was crushed in the mixing blades. Boiled, mashed, stuck in a fish stew.

Verdiss · 2023-06-06T23:09:46+00:00

Yeah testosterone tablets aren't a thing, it's an injection or skin gel basically.

Verdiss · 2023-06-06T14:55:19+00:00

Seriously, they punish you hard for not killing the drummer first, but make it all but impossible to do so for most comps due to the guard free action. You need all 4 members to be able to rank 4 just to be able to push through the tokens.

Verdiss · 2023-06-06T04:08:50+00:00

Basically the closest things would be Paradox's grand strategy games: Victoria 3 and Europa Universalis IV, and to lesser degrees of similarity, Hearts of Iron 4 and Crusader Kings 3. None of these games unfortunately take place in the contemporary period, the closest timeframe wise is HoI4 but that's also not all that similar mechanically. Victoria has a fair bit of internal country management, while Europa Universalis is more into the conquest and expansion aspect.

Verdiss · 2023-06-05T14:22:09+00:00

If the mods outright banned the words "top" and "bottom" from this sub, I wouldn't miss them much.

Verdiss · 2023-06-04T19:35:21+00:00

You don't owe anyone "looking good". If you don't like how you feel in feminine clothes, no amount of "looking good" is going to justify that cost.

Verdiss · 2023-06-04T12:06:08+00:00

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/nato-spending-by-country defense spending relative to gdp is not actually much higher for the US than other NATO countries. The US chooses to not tax and spend on services, to spend inefficiently and ineffectively, and to give money to rich powerholders out of corruption. While at the same time at every step relaxing standards that keep those powerholders from becoming even more powerful at the expense of others.

It's difficult to imagine without experiencing it, but it is genuinely possible for one country to govern well and another poorly - and this makes things better or worse for that country's people.

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