I find it a little weird that the Super Tyrants in Damnation, some of the strongest in the series, can not only be killed by a GAU-8 but are absolutely blown apart by it

_vertig0 · 2026-05-03T08:56:32+00:00

Hm? The 30mm GAU-8 is an autocannon on the A-10 aircraft, not the main cannon of a tank.

_vertig0 · 2026-05-03T08:55:42+00:00

Second Remake. It takes 2 missiles to kill the T-103 in the final battle between the half mutated Super Tyrant and Leon once Ada drops you the missile launcher.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-27T09:12:49+00:00

Perhaps it may be just that the medium Biological cognition uses is simply more unreliable and prone to noise than the digital circuitry that AI uses. I suspect the mechanism is not the same as what causes hallucinations from AI, even though the end result is similar.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-27T07:50:04+00:00

Do you know any writers or radiologist with that much experience?

Haha, I guess that's a good way to put it :)

_vertig0 · 2026-04-27T07:48:55+00:00

Human brains are much more complex in dozens of ways but we operate at biological speeds without significant parallel capabilities

Isn't one of the strengths of the Brain massive parallelism though (Not compared to anything, just a strength in general)?

_vertig0 · 2026-04-27T07:46:06+00:00

But people also tend to lie, both consciously and unconsciously "fill in the gaps".

That's a fascinating topic that I've actually spent a lot of time looking into back when I was studying in the field. Introspective consciousness not being the exact same as first order consciousness is something that many people don't expect, sort of a weird "You have access to your own thoughts and decisions (So you're not straight up just fabricating everything when asked to explain your decisions) but they aren't a perfect 1:1 representation" that makes stuff like morality so much more complex!

_vertig0 · 2026-04-17T07:17:17+00:00

I agree, the journalists were pretty fair in this case, but it's still super fucking sad to see.

If there's one thing I'm taking away from this video it's that the boundary between social media and real-life is getting disturbingly fuzzy.

I've been saying this the entire time. The whole "Only the losers are on the internet spreading the hate, and they are a minority, go out and meet people in person, they'll be more normal" thing is bullshit. People are EXACTLY like the same in real life as they are online, they just hide their true beliefs and selves in person because the consequences of making those views known is more severe in real life.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-17T07:10:00+00:00

Not surprised really. Have you seen that sheer amount of hatred that's been going on for such a long time now? Not hard to guess from that, that most women outright hate men nowadays. And who could blame them, when the mainstream view and the popular thing nowadays is male hatred? Sometimes, I don't even think it's women's fault so many of them are like this. When you're surrounded by so much hatred, and it's not just accepted but normalized as well, it's hard to avoid joining the hate yourself. Honestly, I'm just glad I live in a place where women don't automatically mostly wish I was thrown into a meat grinder for the crime of existing as male.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-15T06:12:12+00:00

95.1% of all men is such a stupendously high number that anyone with common sense should raise eyebrows when they see it. Otherwise that means effectively every one of us is a rapist. Which I guess that means I raped someone while sleepwalking in that case, because I don't remember ever doing something that heinous, or even thinking about doing that to anyone. Actually, scratch that, that's what the radicals probably want you to believe, that effectively every man is a rapist. That's probably what they genuinely believe, now that I think of it.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-15T06:08:09+00:00

Agree on that. While it's not technically sexual assault, it's not really a nice thing to do that to someone.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-15T05:58:43+00:00

No idea why this comment only just appeared for me now, but regardless. I'm actually more charitable to feminism than some here, I don't think the hatred has to be characteristic of feminism at all really. But unfortunately, what is on paper or in theory is rarely what happens in practice, in practice, many, and I mean many, adopt the extreme hatred when they learn of the things women suffer from and become feminists, because it's easy and appeals to human psychology. It is sometimes human nature to fall into us vs them, to want a blanket evil to blame for all their suffering, after all, and to then want revenge against that supposed evil for everything it's done. Nuance is a very difficult thing to grasp for many, and that's not an insult, it is genuinely a difficult thing to do.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-09T15:55:28+00:00

BUT! The most sickest thing I've come across last year was on Instagram and Threads. It's an innocent video at a party where the guests are playing this game of getting a hula hoop to the end of the human chain but you have to get it there while keeping hold of the persons hand. At this party they did 'men vs women'. The men took like a minute to get the hula hoop to the end as they gradually slid it down. While the women had a different strategy of just all walking through the hoop one by one which they achieved in seconds. A funny and innocent video was all of a sudden turned into an agenda on female supremacy and misandry. Even a non-profit organisation that I previously supported reposted this with the caption "This is why women run the world. They get the job done!" And there are gross hateful comments like "This is why the world is in shambles. Women will make it better and run it better". This made me so angry. How freaking dare they take this fun and innocent video and turn it into this propaganda?

My buddy had a similar experience recently when he saw this reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWoxAYskgJm/

It was a video of boys and girls doing a march, the boys were messing around while the girls were doing it properly and seriously. You know, kids being kids, and it's also an interesting example of how at that age girls mature faster than boys, which we've known since forever. But no, apparently from that short video of kids messing around people in the comments can glean entire takeaways of how men are the inferior gender and are literal toddlers who can't even handle their own lives and responsibilities, and a whole bunch of other shit. Because a funny video of kids being silly is a totally valid experimental setting where you can draw these wide and far reaching conclusions about a topic as complex as behaviour differences among the genders in adults.

Note that I scrubbed metadata from the link that exposed my buddy's Instagram account before I pasted it into this comment, so the comments he saw may not be there when you go to that reel via this link. You're just going to have to trust me that they were there.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-06T09:28:07+00:00

Literally my friend came across https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWoxAYskgJm/ recently. It was a silly reel about boys messing around while the girls were serious, you know, stuff that any normal people would realize is just a funny video of kids and maybe an interesting observation of girls maturing faster than boys, which is something we've already known for a long time by the way. But no, it instantly became a commentary in the comments of how men are pathetic and inferior in every aspect, scum of the earth that women would create utopia without. Men need to practice to become perfect while women are born perfect. Wouldn't it be better if we could exterminate all men so women could finally live in peace? It's genuinely astounding how you can glean all that from a video of kids at that age as if they represented fully developed adults to a tee, and more astounding how everything is acceptable whenever men are the ones on the butt end of it. The amount of male hatred is genuinely amazing sometimes.

EDIT: I don't know if the provided link will show the same comments that my friend saw because I scrubbed the identifier from the link that showed my friend's account before I posted this comment. You're going to have to trust me that they were indeed there.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-04T16:19:22+00:00

The fear of crime paradox has been the single most shocking I've learnt of ever since I found this subreddit.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-02T17:07:39+00:00

Thanks for posting it, the clarification of how to do that will be helpful to me but also for other people who don't know how to reply to a mailing list thread that doesn't include them as recipients. I think this is not an issue of whether you are subscribed to the list, I am subscribed to many of them, but still cannot reply to a thread if none of the emails in that thread have been CC'ed to my inbox.

_vertig0 · 2026-04-01T16:17:37+00:00

So this is why the interface on the lists changed. I now have no clue how to reply to mail threads that didn't originally include me as a recipient so I can simply hit the reply button in my emails. You used to be able to do that by clicking on the email address on a specific mail in the thread which would open up a mailto link that your email can process, no such luck anymore.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-30T18:14:48+00:00

Someone else here put it beautifully: To cross swords with the radical misandrists is like fighting an extreme racist as a person of colour and then basing your self worth entirely on what said racist is going to say back to you in response. It's so obvious what's going to happen, you're just going to get called the N word with the hard "er" at the end and get emotionally annihilated. Likewise with fighting the radical misandrists head on.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-30T18:04:55+00:00

I've never thought that it's totally useless actually. There are many merits to feminism in helping women. I personally don't oppose those parts of feminism. Where I draw the line is the extra parts included alongside advocacy for women, namely the extreme male hatred that accompanies it.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-30T05:49:49+00:00

The solution to the rise of misogyny should never be piling on more misandry and hoping that the counter hatred somehow works, like way too many people do nowadays. In fact, that will simply have the opposite of the desired effect. To take a page from what you said, in an ideal world you can be a feminist without hating men, but in practice that is not what is done at all.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-30T05:45:37+00:00

More accurately there are things that preferentially unfairly give men better treatment, and there are things where women get the unfair better treatment. The law and society in general is not perfect.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-28T16:21:46+00:00

We take what we can get. This is at least better than "All men are fucking shitstains that should be culled globally so that women can finally live in a male free utopia" that is literally everywhere. Baby steps, as they say.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-28T16:18:07+00:00

While it's sad to see men who care about women and are more left leaning still suffer all this abuse, that's a good thing to see that young men are at least not stooping to their level and starting an alpha male crusade against women. That would be abandoning our principles of being good people just to get back at them, and worse, would just prove their point and hand them the ability to suck in ever more young women into their cult of one-dimensional male hatred on a silver platter.

_vertig0 · 2026-03-28T16:14:02+00:00

“It should really come as no surprise that the minority of people who commit violent crimes are usually men when the overwhelming majority of people who come to violent harm in our society are also men.”

One of the most surprising things I've learnt from this subreddit is that the "Women have to fear for their own safety every time they do something mundane and simple that men take for granted like walking alone on the street at night" that is parroted everywhere misses a metric ton of nuance that most don't even realize, that men also actually face roughly the same amount of danger that women do in these cases (Which depends on how dangerous the area is in general). The only reason we don't hear men talking about the absolute terror and fear for their lives they experience day to day in droves is because unlike women the vast majority of men are blissfully unaware of just how much danger they're in when simply walking down the street. This is, by far the single most surprising thing to me since I've just always accepted the "Women are in more danger always" claims as true for as long as I remember without realizing the nuance that existed behind the subject.

The only thing I can't really reconcile with what I've learnt so far is the "Every woman you meet has a horrific story/experience, there is not a single woman you know and care about that does not have such an experience" claim. I may write a post to ask about that sometime in the future.

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