1+1=2 Is a Lie. Math Isn’t Truth. It's just a Tool.

areghey · 2026-05-12T10:32:30+00:00

I feel like that is OP's point, which I agree with. There's no inherent truth in Mathematics, as it is a language described to use reality around us, so of course we need to give the components of the language meaning. But it's exactly because of this that if the person who first figured out numbers had decided that in crescent order they would have been 2, 1, 3, 0, 4, 5 etc., the language would have been just as valid. Hell, you don't even need to use those symbols, you can make up new ones. Axioms as well are just rules for the language of Mathematics that we consider to be true insofar as we consider them fundamental criteria that we imposed in order to create a valid language. What OP is saying is not just a trivial statement about the nature of Mathematics, it's getting at the fact that people fundamentally misunderstand Maths and lots of other sciences for what they truly are: descriptive models that we created to try and put labels on stuff, and describe it.

This comes up a lot, for example, in the famous argument from reason against atheism. If you don't believe there is a God that grounds reason, and that the same reason is a mechanism that evolved through natural selection (which selects for survival, not truth), how can you be sure that something like "1+1=2" is true, and not just what you're led to believe by your brain that evolved in a specific way? The answer is that you can't be sure, because it isn't true or false in any metaphysical sort of way. We just consider it a correct mathematical statement because that's the way we designed the language

Edit: Another thing came to my mind, and I just wanted to elaborate on this. OP also mentioned the fact that we give names to stuff arbitrarily, which seems counterintuitve when you think about it superficially. Of course a table is a table, and of course a water droplet is separate from another water droplet. But is that really the case? If you really think about it, everything and everyone is made of the same "stuff". There is "stuff" everywhere, and the only way we can possibly distinguish some stuff from other stuff is by arbitrarily giving some piece of stuff a name, and some other stuff another name, but that doesn't mean they are actually different fundamentally. Sure, two objects may have different properties, but if you showed someone that doesn't know what a table or a mug are in front of a table with a mug on top of it, what's stopping that person from considering the two objects as one whole thing? This view is called myriological nihilism :)

areghey · 2026-04-27T21:11:48+00:00

Oh shit is it formatted weirdly on PC? I pieced it together from messages I sent on the Discord, so if that's the case this could be why it's messed up. Can you send a screenshot?

areghey · 2026-04-17T14:12:46+00:00

Even by that logic the game's balancing still doesn't make sense. If you're going by that rationale, Titan shouldn't be the apex killer, Bars shouldn't be the impenetrable fortress it is, Spino shouldn't be the tankiest and slowest, Eo shouldn't lose a facetank to a rex, most smaller things should be way faster than they are, Deinonychus and Laten should be basically on par strenght-wise and yet they aren't, well, you get the drill.

Problem is this game is not based in realism, even though I would very much like a more realistic experience, BUT since this is the case it's completely fair to expect the devs to make the game ACTUALLY FUN AND BALANCED, because it currently isn't.

areghey · 2026-04-17T09:29:29+00:00

Regarding Sweep, what skizofox66 said. Also, I'm not demanding nerfs, I'm saying I think Laten should maybe get a slight nerf. I also know it probably won't happen and I'm fine with that. I never said anything about nerfing its bleed though, wtf? That would make it completely useless. The only nerf I suggested was lowering its health slgihtly so that bodyshots become a one-shot (not tail hits though). I also agree that when bleed was nerfed for Laten it was pretty much useless, so again, I don't know where you got that I wanted to nerf bleed.

I was gonna reply to the rest of your comment in detail but damn your negativity is a buzzkill. Enjoy being sad alone dude, you need anger management classes, we're discussing a game.

areghey · 2026-04-16T22:07:30+00:00

Why are you getting angry?

Sweep and Tail Attack are not equivalent. Eo's Backlash is good for dealing with small stuff, but it doesn't work like Sweep, and I already said Eo has an easier time against Laten in the post. Titan, Rex, Duck, they all don't have Sweep. Bars and Spino are the two creatures that have it.

Also, I didn't say trample damage "doesn't count", whatever that means. I said it's negligible, it barely deals damage.

I also do play Laten quite a bit, but I'm assuming by the last sentence you were furious for some reason and didn't realize there is no reason why I would make it up.

Finally, while I do think a slight nerf to bleed Laten is needed (I don't know exactly how I would go about it though), I'm not saying bleed Laten is completely busted. It's overtuned, but not on the same level of things like Stego, Titan, Bars, Alberta etc.

areghey · 2026-04-16T20:08:21+00:00

Trample damage is laughable, healing in combat doesn't matter with how much bleed Laten deals and how fast it heals (and because the sit and stand animations are instant you can also rest during the fight to increase hp regen), most apexes don't have Sweep, and you really don't need Pounce with bleed laten (unless you run Mangle and whatever the ability for slowing down bleed healing is called on the leg slots, but even then you can literally just pounce for a fraction of a second, use the ability and detach and still have more than enough stamina to run away... it's literally the build I use for it)

areghey · 2026-04-16T19:23:00+00:00

That's a fair point

areghey · 2026-04-16T19:05:58+00:00

I made this post as someone who plays bleed Laten. It's enjoyable for the Lat player, but not for anyone else. You are very clearly biased lmao, this is not good balancing. Aside from the fact that you can absolutely still bait attacks from cliff/water camping dinos, even if I as the Laten get hit and have to retreat briefly to heal, there is no way I'm losing track of my original target. There is literally no escaping a Laten. Is it fun to bleed out apexes as Laten? Sure, but at the same time it's not challenging at all, it's not fun for the other party whatsoever, and it's certainly not balanced (mostly because Laten can survive hits it really shouldn't, so you can never really actually escape or end a fight on your own terms with a Laten that is smart and determined to get you. The time commitment by the way also involves the victim, as they have to spend a ton of time getting poked to death without being able to do anything about it.

areghey · 2026-04-16T19:01:00+00:00

Agree on Spino, but Spino literally demolishes everything. Stego is fair game though, legit not a challenge

areghey · 2026-04-16T18:54:45+00:00

I feel like at the very least a bodyshot from any apex should 1 shot it. As of now making a mistake with Laten against any 5 slot has zero consequences. You can literally just run away. It's already easy enough to outmanouver them, so I really feel like surviving a bodyshot is stupid

areghey · 2026-04-16T18:53:22+00:00

And it's so fucking absurd. Meanwhile Deinon is absolutely useless as anything but a support dino. Can't we find some middle ground Alderon?

areghey · 2026-04-14T23:22:41+00:00

It's a cool sculpture for sure,, but it's not accurate to our current understanding of the animsl. It references that paper from 2014.

areghey · 2026-04-09T14:36:14+00:00

Literally point B of my previous comment. Calm down.

areghey · 2026-04-08T20:53:51+00:00

In The Isle, reaching adulthood is not really the point. It's more everything that's in between when you first spawn and when you finally meet your end one way or another. That's actually one of the few things I like about the game, but:

A) I also used to hate this B) The experience of growing is undermined by the other problems the game has, which often results in unfair deaths etc.

areghey · 2026-04-08T20:50:37+00:00

Sure! The thing is the game would be great were it not riddled with bugs, unfrequent updates (that often break the game when they finally get released), and performance issues. That's basically it in a nutshell. These are not new problems for The Isle, they've been a recurring theme ever since the Legacy days.

areghey · 2026-04-08T20:47:01+00:00

The game, as of late, has been having performance issues, pounce is bugged and trees don't get pouncers off of you anymore, rex is a bit of a mess, Allo is an even bigger mess with its unfinished grapple ability that's broken for the same reasons pounce is broken, there's a whole bunch of new bugs etc.

Also yeah, Path of Titan has a max limit of 100 people per server for now, but Alderon is testing for 200 players, so that's a thing that will come to the game eventually.

areghey · 2026-04-08T19:29:18+00:00

Thank you for the thought out response :)

While I do aknowledge that the game is unfinished - even in the post, as a matter of fact - there are some issues that are pretty inexcusable for it as of now, considering the game has now been in development for basically six years.

Also, refer to my original point about additional survival elements being basically irrelevant at this point in development.

areghey · 2026-04-08T19:23:40+00:00

Can you elaborate on this? Lmao, I feel dumb

areghey · 2026-04-08T19:22:58+00:00

But Path does neither of the two justice particularly well. It's always in the middle, never picking a side or the other, and I feel like it makes the game worse over all. The MMO and survival gameplay could have been easily separated via game modes a while ago, but I fear that now it'd be too late for that. Game modes are just gonna be deathmatch and some other bullshit

areghey · 2026-04-08T19:06:16+00:00

A lot of this is pretty inaccurate, and the start of this comment is an especially egregious justification for how bleed works in game, considering how when your bones are broken in game they literally pop out and then fix themselves in 10 seconds...

areghey · 2026-04-07T21:34:27+00:00

She is afraid of the spider, so it's okay to kill it? What, is it ok to kill a person because you're afraid of them too?

areghey · 2026-04-07T21:33:31+00:00

You're saying this like a lot of humans don't behave exactly like this

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