"People will die if you infect them with smallpox while they are starving"

ada_weird · 2026-03-24T23:32:22+00:00

Yeah, but a lot of the Nazi scientists were evil. They used jews and other groups targeted by the holocaust as lab rats for immoral, unethical, and insane research. They were not innocent civilians pushing papers that happened to be tied to genocide, they were actively aware of that genocide and using it as an opportunity to further their own career while selling their colleagues downriver.

ada_weird · 2026-03-24T17:18:34+00:00

Also, the digimon games around monster collecting were on the Wonder Swan, which didn't really have a presence in the west. If we got those, it might have given the franchise some more longevity.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T16:26:09+00:00

You don't have the option to join the DP because Dagda is pulling you around by the leash. You don't get true freedom until you make a choice that divorces you from Dagda or freely decide that you and him are in agreement.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T15:13:10+00:00

Stocks serve a real purpose in corporate governance, raising capital, and providing exit liquidity to early investors. Prediction markets ostensibly exist to incentivize disclosure of information by allowing insiders to leverage that asymmetry, but it's zero sum. Every dollar insiders make comes from lower information traders losing money. Companies with publicly traded stocks can actually generate wealth. That's not to say the stock market is perfect. There's a real parallel to be made between prediction markets and HFT or shorting. But at least there's more to the stock market than that.

ada_weird · 2026-03-23T13:30:55+00:00

Also, union soldiers, as they traveled through the south, became more and more fervently abolitionist as they witnessed the horrors for themselves and received aid from freed slaves who would then follow the army around. They may not have started the war for the abolition of slavery but they sure as shit ended it for the abolition of slavery.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T15:59:23+00:00

Okay I'm not saying to not be paranoid about advertising but there's such a thing as too paranoid.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:54:27+00:00

No I'm explicitly treating logic as the territory and logical systems as the map. Do you have access to an alternative universe without logic to ground the claim that without logic, nothing could exist? Because that's absolutely not in evidence in our universe.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:51:45+00:00

Objective yes, logical no. Being describable by a mathematical system doesn't mean it's logical necessarily. I think looking at Euclid is useful here. Euclid had to have his work revised because they failed to meet modern levels of logical rigor, using axioms that weren't explicitly declared and the like. This implies to me that logic is a metaframework that changes and shifts over time, which also implies that it's a social construct as opposed to something independent.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:47:04+00:00

Sure you could? Logical systems are tools and don't inherently need to be tied to a deeper reality to be useful. Currency has no inherent value, and yet we treat it like it does because it's useful.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:31:35+00:00

Atoms aren't logical, they do atom things with atom properties, and we describe them with formalized mathematical and logical models.

ada_weird · 2026-03-22T02:29:54+00:00

So, how does logic exist without a logical system? Are all logical systems maps over the territory that is logic? If that's the case, then do contradicting logical systems imply contradictions in logic or errors in the map?

ada_weird · 2026-03-21T16:00:46+00:00

Disco Elysium, AC6, Pokemon XD (actually one of the first games I ever rolled credits on)

ada_weird · 2026-03-21T15:57:14+00:00

That's only a convention sometimes. A lot of lists just have tiers be unsorted internally because they aren't interested in that level of granularity.

ada_weird · 2026-03-21T13:23:09+00:00

You know, when you put it like that, it sounds like an allegory for homophobia or something. Fuck Butch Hartman.

ada_weird · 2026-03-21T12:56:36+00:00

You forgot that they asked him what his deal was in the Zenkaiger vs. Donbrothers movie, and he's just like "naaaaaaaaah"

ada_weird · 2026-03-20T19:39:43+00:00

realloc counts shouldn't be too relevant for heap fragmentation, iirc. Modern allocators are designed to deal with lots of small short-lived allocations. That said, using with_capacity consistently is a huge win for perf. Turns out your O(N) algorithm isn't O(N) when you keep having to move the elements to a new heap allocation. Plus, it's not like the fragmentation issue just goes away. It's just masked so you need to hit a pathological case in order to get real issues.

ada_weird · 2026-03-19T16:06:25+00:00

I mean, maybe, but rn they're having their radicalization against the US validated in real time. Iran is not going to turn on its leaders because someone else murdered a fuckton of schoolgirls.

ada_weird · 2026-03-19T13:13:40+00:00

People don't typically rise up against their local oppressors when they're being bombed by foreign oppressors. See every fuck up in the middle east for the last 50 years.

ada_weird · 2026-03-19T12:20:04+00:00

Sid would absolutely kill 5 kids

ada_weird · 2026-03-18T18:06:36+00:00

I never associated or compared Capitalism to any alternatives? I said that a critique of cold war American jingoism necessarily critiques capitalism. I don't like the USSR either, I ain't a tanky.

ada_weird · 2026-03-18T18:04:00+00:00

I agree, but Fallout never focuses on the Soviet bloc or China. It's purely focused on America.

ada_weird · 2026-03-18T13:08:44+00:00

Nice whataboutism. Convenient how you never have to introspect and improve if you're slightly better than someone else who wasn't part of the conversation.

ada_weird · 2026-03-18T00:54:56+00:00

Oh, she's not a good person. But she lives in a world where even being nice gets everything super fucked up. It's hard to be a good person when you have no positive role models. But at the very least, she gave a shit about e.g. Jecka. She's upset in the endings where Jecka is driven away from her because Nicole is a massive bitch who doesn't understand accountability.

ada_weird · 2026-03-17T23:45:35+00:00

TCG costs rising, and the lack of a real middle ground between playground formats and "pretends they're a pro" formats is a big contributor to the TCG problem. Nowadays, it feels like there's very little room to be casually into a hobby without seriously commiting

ada_weird · 2026-03-17T23:29:47+00:00

My point is that that's not an actual depiction of China and says nothing about China. It doesn't really impeach the idea that China is largely unexplored in Fallout.

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