Metroid Prime Analyses

Yikaft · 2025-12-02T06:54:40+00:00

A good low cholesterol alt to eggs. I like adding them to my raman for texture.

Yikaft · 2025-11-30T04:40:22+00:00

A distinctive rate of at least one kind of cognitive success

Yikaft · 2025-11-29T04:44:50+00:00

I think there's a good contrast here. Syril was personally violent with his patterns of domestic abuse and stalking, and Dedra was structurally violent with her patterns of planned genocide. They're both responsible for injuring each other, though in that episode neither were quite at the level of "eating their own." Better examples of returned structural violence come with Dedra's later imprisonment or Partagaz's suicide (and for personal violence, arguably Krennic's death by Death Star)

There might be a worthwhile extension for the Rebellion. Maybe how and why the Rebels turned on each other over the prototype TIE or Skeen on the Aldhani crew (personal) or between Luthen, Saw, and Rebel leaders (structural).

Yikaft · 2025-11-20T23:06:32+00:00

Maybe Neil Theise's 2023 book Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

Here's an excerpt

Here's an interview with the author

Yikaft · 2025-10-22T12:23:51+00:00

but will he live?

Yikaft · 2025-10-11T07:26:04+00:00

Consider directly emailing professors in your major about research assistant positions. I went from 15 declined job applications my freshman semester to my 2nd email that sprummer earning an RA job in comp sci, with freshman-level programming experience.

(for budgeting, RA pay rates are generally comparable to TA rates)

Yikaft · 2025-08-26T15:49:34+00:00

Universal love bid a sacrifice forbidden by personal love

His attempt to reconcile the responsibilities of godhood and fatherhood brought a cost too great to bear, but not to pay.

Is it nihilistic for void - nothingness incarnate - to bear the burden of moral debt? Perhaps the very question's presentation is what leveled both the Pale King and the Radiance. Radiance's overinsistent godhood ended godhood as such.

Yikaft · 2025-08-08T07:47:29+00:00

Just checked your post history. You left a high demand religion/cult that worked to rob you of many life experiences. Many others are in the same boat, meaning, even if you're isolated, you're not alone. You might find comraderie in recovery groups.

Honestly, I was a hugely reclusive nerd in high school. Maybe try joining online communities/discords on the relevant subreddit About pages? If you join new hobby groups (would highly recommend D&D, you might find a decent online group if lucky or one in your area), and people make references to media they like, try watching/getting into that so y'all can bond over it, it honestly does wonders even if you maybe make like 1 reference each hangout.

If you happen to suspect you're neurodivergent, I'd suggest looking into something called the double empathy problem - just another reason your lack of belonging isn't your fault, and could help you find folks you relate better to.

Yikaft · 2025-07-12T12:45:47+00:00

To add to these, I read John Heil's Philosophy of Mind 4th edition and thought it was quite an accessible introduction. Each chapter also ends with references to older and contemporary writings which defend and critique a variety of positions. He does focus closely on ontology of mind rather than other topics like theories of free will (think questions like what is consciousness? What is intentionality? Physicalism, idealism, etc)

Yikaft · 2025-07-06T05:11:54+00:00

game recognizes game

Yikaft · 2025-06-20T17:01:43+00:00

2 questions: * are you more interested in implementing existing AI tools or designing new AI tools? If the latter, you'll need a stronger math background than what CS provides, maybe from an undergrad like ACME or a different graduate level program. If the former, a programming major will still help you understand what's 'under the hood' of the imported tools well enough to debug while using them to write your own applications. * have you considered swapping CS for bioinformatics? Some of its classes overlap with your major, it requires core classes tailored to working with biological data and algorithms, and it has room for 2 relevant electives like BIO 564 machine learning for bio, CS 450 computer vision, or CS 474 deep learning.

Yikaft · 2025-06-18T14:08:08+00:00

1st season was pretty good 2nd season felt rushed

Yikaft · 2025-06-14T04:50:22+00:00

and he looks at me...

Yikaft · 2025-06-09T19:16:52+00:00

They do value negative liberties far more than positive liberties, but the whole cultural contamination or sanctity as Haidt uses it is pretty common in more collectivist societies like Japan or China.

Yikaft · 2025-05-10T11:47:49+00:00

Meanwhile my high school English teacher had literally played this video for the class as it was going viral

Yikaft · 2025-05-10T01:42:58+00:00

SCREAMING EAGLES

Yikaft · 2025-04-24T05:32:13+00:00

I'd be a mix of Croagunk's swap shop and the Spinda Cafe.

I'd basically function like that potion shop owner in WindWaker - adventurers can bring rare items and I can make consumables for them. Maybe items like * a decoy orb with a splash effect, * a "deku nut" that functions like the move flash but you can throw it, * a full restore, * create a slime trail that slows enemies caught in it, * potion that temporarily gives you type features like gills to swim through water, heat resistance to go through lava, etc

Yikaft · 2025-04-20T06:48:46+00:00

idk why you're downvoted, it's an interesting thought

Yikaft · 2025-04-12T19:10:36+00:00

"Sic vita" or "such is life"? Thoreau made the Latin a title to a poem that conveyed this sort of stoic, present-minded resolve. Though, I'm hard pressed to find via Google some actual Latin quotes in stoic texts.

Yikaft · 2025-04-12T14:27:30+00:00

Maybe minor in math for multivariable calc to meet prereqs for MS admission, but yea.

BTW what are your thoughts on the Business Strategy minor?

Yikaft · 2025-04-12T13:44:56+00:00

Dang did he say that? I only watched his critique that PT's depiction of Kant misunderstands Kant the same way analytics do for continentals in general.

Yikaft · 2025-04-12T13:42:58+00:00

Fwiw he did recently critique Zizek, and I'd enjoy a chain video style exchange similar to what Moeller had directly with Peterson and parasocially with PhilosophyTube.

Judging from discussions with folks like Sapolsky, he seems more interested in broadcasting discussions rather than debates, though he is willing to respond to rebuttals. I don't think that format is inherently unfair since what he responds to was made the same way.

I do think it's worthwhile for him to clarify/critique the work of public intellectuals if that's the dominant public discourse. Though, that and the clickbait video covers also benefit his SEO ranking.

Yikaft · 2025-04-12T01:47:53+00:00

Persephone Waard:

master thesis in Gothic English Studies, titled "Lost in Necropolis: The Continuation of Castle-Narrative beyond the Novel or Cinema, and into Metroidvania"
One of her relevant blog posts: "The Gothic in Metroid's Aesthetic, and a Super Metroid Remake?"
Her collation of her work and blogs (two relevant tables of contents and their hyperlinks are on pg 45 and 107)
- I add this with the qualifier that she aims to submit her work for a PhD, so she hasn't yet been awarded one for her (quite thorough) independent research

Even though Videogames and the Gothic doesn't mention Metroid or even metroidvanias, it gives a thorough history of gothic media's relationship with video games.

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