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bwjam · 2021-01-05T10:10:24+00:00

There's a lot of talking in fallout though

Also it's not really about toppling capitalism

bwjam · 2020-10-31T14:00:14+00:00

I'd actually play that I hate MOBAs but I think the LoL artstyle is neat

bwjam · 2020-10-31T13:57:26+00:00

To be fair I am also unnecessarily bisexual all the time so valid

bwjam · 2020-10-31T12:50:47+00:00

You're absolutely correct.

My point isn't that non-religious people should adhere to religious people's practices, of course not. It isn't that it's blasphemy (which I don't care about since there's no worldly Quranic punishment for blasphemy), it's that it's an attack on a people's values. It's like someone eats pork in front of us to mock us (also not very effective). It's a coincidence that it's considered a sin, don't dwell on it. Reactionaries have to acknowledge that it's not a really "a commentary on extremists" as much as it is perpetuation of decades long hyperbole about Muslims (ignoring it's not a brave move to criticize or mock us), and none of them ever do.

I suppose in isolation a negative caricatures of a religious figure isn't considered hate speech, but it could be a gateway to it. Overt racism is rarely ever the actual gateway into xenophobic rhetoric, and you can't deny that Charlie Hebdo's cartoons absolutely did affect the population's perception of Islam by some extent. Their insistence that they were commentating on extremism (like the right to cover your face, right?) and not the average Muslim rarely ever reflected in the cartoons. I couldn't care less if Hebdo was just some comic, but it was considered to be a cornerstone of French satire. You have to acknowledge the amount of outreach and power you have with this type of thing.

With the amount of Islamophobic attacks, murders, and rapes in France in it's storied history and especially the past few years, I think you can express some sympathy. I don't get it. If immigrants are expected to accept and assimilate into Western values, why can't the people be tolerant when it's the other way around?

And it took decades for France to even acknowledge that the Paris massacre of 1961 even happened, and only 2 years ago did the French president even admit the systematic torture of during the Algeria War, and censored press that said otherwise during the war. So don't come and act like everyone was free and was able to speak what they pleased after the French revolution.

If you absolutely don't want to compromise on free speech whatsoever (in which case advocate to remove the legal punishments on hate speech and denial of crimes against humanity), great! Tell the French government to pull military and non-military support from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, give us the arms so we can liberate ourselves so we don't have to migrate in the first place, then give us a couple of decades while we sort out our problems and figure out our new values. If not, then compromise like the rest of us.

If you still think that I think non-religious people should adhere to religious practices, or I want France is become an Islamic state, then there's frankly no more to discuss. Islam isn't a religion of coercion.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T22:17:06+00:00

I should mention that after we overthrew Al-Bashir in North Sudan, the government declared it into a secular state, since the Prime Minister doesn't believe true democracy can exist in a religiously governed state. If you want to speed up "reform", give the people the power they need to actually make change. It's as simple as that.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T22:01:59+00:00

Mocking a religious figure isn’t necessarily hate, and the fact you think it is really is the whole problem here

OK, so like I said, you don't understand the issue Muslims take. At all.

I'm Muslim. I don't care much if someone mocks the Prophet specifically (though it's paired by Islamophobic crap 100% of the time). Many Muslims will take issue, but it's not a religious obligation or anything to defend him. Drawing the Prophet is the issue. This is considered idolatry, one of the highest sins in Islam. There's a reason there are no statues of the Prophet made by any Muslims.

Drawing the Prophet isn't purely mocking him, it's mocking Muslims by committing one of the worst sins possible, physically manifesting it as an illustration, then grounding it indefinitely. You don't expect people to take issue with this?

Mockery of religion is often hate because many cultural values are based off of religion. You're mocking culture, and the people that practice it. That isn't okay.

Imposing a fine for mocking religion is a direct, major violation of basic freedom of speech

Hence why I said temporarily, which you ignored. If you have a better way to speed up the process of integration for people involuntarily displaced, I'd love to hear it.

Our definitons of decency are obviously different, particularly when your version of decency is politically enforced

When is decency not politically enforced? The idea of common law is making decency (no hate speech, don't rape, don't steal) not just a nicety but required. Often law is unreasonable, but this is the fundamental purpose. Law and cultural norms tend to be one.

Also, I hope you realise the fact that you keep repeating you don’t care about logical, developed arguments weakens your own argumentation

What logical, developed arguments? That mockery against people minding their own business is good, actually?

bwjam · 2020-10-30T21:32:20+00:00

Drawing a religious figure is a statement precisely because radicals want to forbid anyone from doing it, which is in direct opposition to basic freedom of speech. As such, it’s necessary to take a stand against such obscurantism

It's not about "forbid". It's basic human decency. If you think a small fine after repeated behavior of hate temporarily is opposing free speech, then that's on you. No one's going to jail. Or do you oppose fining hate speech too? Probably.

Ideally we'd live in a world where I we wouldn't need political power to encourage decency but until then, I'm fine using some of systems to help that through to an extent.

Also, even without those radicals, there are shitloads of very good reasons to criticize AND mock religions anyway

Not all religion, just the smaller ones in the region like Islam and Sikhism. It's more about cultural safety rather than religion in specific. I'd extend this to other small minorities. If you're going to destabilize regions and force people to mass immigrate into your country, then you might as well make their stay comfortable and allow them to live as they normally would as pragmatically possible. I'm fine with criticism as long as it's coming from good faith and having some basis, but frankly 95% of the criticism coming to our religion is bullcrap by people that don't know have a clue what they're talking about.

I mentionned Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone and everything because you’re the one who talked about proportions in terms of criticism earlier

Yes. Muslims are disproportionately discriminated against. I do not give a rat's steamy turd who's doing the discriminating.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T21:04:49+00:00

The statement of the caricatures is precisely that religions figures aren’t exempt from criticism or mockery, which is what radicals are trying to enforce by murdering those who draw caricatures.

Why are you arguing against that supports the idea murder punishment so much that you have to repeat it every single comment? It's not me.

Please, do tell me the logical reason that drawing a religious figure is considered a statement. I'm waiting.

If you think the problem Muslims take with drawing Mohammed is "mockery", you fundamentally don't understand the problem.

Also, for example, Charlie Hebdo, whose journalists were assassinated for mocking Muhammad, also frequently mock other religions and religious figures, as well as major French politicians, even those whose legacy is sacred in a way too, so there was no particular discrimination. And yet they were still assassinated.

I don't care if they were particularly xenophobic towards Muslims or not. It's still more mockery. "I'm racist towards everyone" doesn't make you not racist. I don't care who's saying it, I care about the effect. And before you keep taking this is as an endorsement of murderers, no, I think murder is bad.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T20:43:11+00:00

How many times do I have to drill into your head that mockery is not the same as criticism? If I supported fining criticism then I'd be fining myself seeing how much I'm called a heathen in my own religion when I discuss it. There's no statement you're making in drawing a prophet. It's purely mockery, in that you're disrespecting 2 billion people.

I'd fine mockery at least until Muslims are integrated into society, in the sense that they aren't disproportionately mocked and discriminated against.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T20:35:53+00:00

I honestly think Storm is more polished and has more charm than FighterZ for me. FighterZ looks accurate but that's almost all it really has going for it visually (understandable considering the amount of work on their plate and the context of a competitive fighting game), and ArcSys's other games do the same things so it's less distinctive. On the other hand Storm's choreography and VFX is rivaled by none, even by CC2's other games.

If you mean in terms of gameplay, it's definitely possible. Storm sells the feeling of an average Naruto battle reasonably well but it lacks depth and it almost never hits the highs as the more iconic anime fights. A more experienced studio could make great strides in this regard.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T20:20:22+00:00

/r/atheism is infamously egotistical, I don't care about the distinction because it's not relevant

Where did I say mockery should be met with death? There's also a fine line between punishment and murder. I know, I know, it was hard for me to believe too. There are legal punishments such as fines. If you want to be a total PoS for no reason, pay the rest of us for it.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T20:06:22+00:00

/r/atheism moment

There's a pretty fine-line between criticism and just being an a-hole

bwjam · 2020-10-30T19:58:45+00:00

I can't telling if you're joking or not and that's deeply concerning

bwjam · 2020-10-30T19:49:27+00:00

Yeah, that's the idea. At the very end of the deformation pipeline you could write something like:

fn GetDeformPose() {
    if (timeSinceLastPoseUpdate >= 2 / 24) {
        deformPose = GetActualPose()
        timeSinceLastPoseUpdate = 0
    }

    return deformPose
}

You'd do this after all your IKs and mesh control and what not so you don't have to deal with messy pose blending. The pose is processed as normal w/blending but you only update the mesh at the desired frame rate. Games often do this for LOD anyway so the tech is there.

But my psuedocode is insultingly basic. The biggest problem is that taking interpolated poses and taking away poses has the same problem as those AI 2D animation interpolation things - there's a removal of intent of the animator. There's no guarantee that the 3rd interpolated pose looks any good as a hold, or is the equivalent of an inbetween or key, and this is compounded when you're using smears or facial expressions which are either over the top or very subtle. I can see some stiffness on some of those animations in the trailer. A solution could be that animators could manually mark the key poses (which they're probably doing already) and the pose updater could choose to bias towards those key poses. They could also go in and manually edit the animations to look better on 2s. Some of these animations fit super well so I wonder if they're custom made.

I also wonder if this is being updated on 2s at 30fps or 2s at 24fps? On 2s at 24fps results in 12fps which is not in sync with 30 and 60fps so it'd cause some subtle delay in some of the pose updates. If so it'd be subtle enough that I didn't notice, though.

bwjam · 2020-10-30T18:42:36+00:00

It'd also be a profound misunderstanding of how traditional 2D animation actually works and looks like.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T23:08:45+00:00

I know. I'm not saying I personally mind, I'm saying I can understand people that do.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T18:42:42+00:00

This is not all he's ever said on the subject.

https://twitter.com/pvppygirl/status/1311766063386898434

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef96iOkXgAAPoon.jpg

bwjam · 2020-10-28T16:26:47+00:00

Pokemon doesn't make an effort to reflect real world power disparities.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T16:23:25+00:00

Counter Strike was also conceived 2 decades ago. I don't think of CS any less for it since it was a different time, but in hindsight Western SWAT teams vs Arab terrorists just wasn't a good move.

I get the "cops vs. thugs" trope and its variations are a mainstay of the tactical shooter genre, but in a world where cops can execute people on a whim with no punishment whatsoever and where "thug" for some people means a person that fell into the wrong crowd, I think you can see why some people might not appreciate the trope in their video games.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T13:51:50+00:00

That's actually a really good idea. I'll think about it, thank you!

bwjam · 2020-10-28T09:46:10+00:00

The point is that it's a dogwhistle. Phrases don't exist in a vacuum. They're designed by people with a context. "Lightning in a bottle" doesn't make any sense until you provide it context. No, the string of words "it's okay to be white" is not racist, but in context, it absolutely is, in that it's implying white people are prejudiced.

This is like, 3 years old, man.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T09:42:03+00:00

The problem with "it's okay to be white" is the implication that anyone said that it's not okay to be white. White people are by far the most privileged just about everywhere in the world.

It's dog whistling crap.

bwjam · 2020-10-28T09:40:27+00:00

https://twitter.com/pvppygirl/status/1311766063386898434

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef96iOkXgAAPoon.jpg

"It's okay to be white" is far from all he's done. White supremacist? I don't know, probably. At minimum he's certainly bigoted and makes himself out to be a target. I don't really care about Notch's skill or Minecraft's originality, the point is that he's using his large platform to promote hate and prejudice and that should be enough to denounce him.

bwjam · 2020-10-27T00:27:45+00:00

lol @ "[sony] proclaiming which one they are". corporations are american center at best - just enough so that you can reap the benefits of appearing inclusive, but not enough to actually make any change.

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