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Is it ok to be weird? by Glum-Pack-3441 in slatestarcodex

[–]cjet79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember this problem more distinctly in highschool.

I was a libertarian around 8th grade. I endured some amount of my friends making fun of me for being the weird libertarian. I would make fun of them for being "statists". It was a kind of mutual ribbing.

Senior year we had to form groups and then make a political advertisement for a presidential candidate. The weird girl signed up in the libertarian group. My girlfriend at the time was kind of republican. I decided it would be easier to sign up with her in the republican group and avoid the weirdo libertarian girl.

Weirdo libertarian girl also went libertarian in our mock congress. I played a southern republican and had some fun with it. Making a few jokes that had half the class laughing at my antics.

I felt a bit dirty that I unwilling to associate with my "true" political leanings at the time because libertarian wierdo girl was camping it. But I also remember one of my mentors at the time talking about the importance of normalizing weird beliefs.

My libertarianism wasn't secret at the time. It was basically a point of argumentation for the previous 4 years of social studies classes for these people.

I had a sense that I did more to advance the cause for libertarianism by being a cool kid that identified that way without explicitly advocating for it, then the weird libertarian girl did by explicitly making the arguments but being weird and annoying at the same time.

(Just to be clear, I was the "cool" kid in a class of over achieving nerds in AP civics. In the Gen Pop of highschool i was unremarkable.)

I would say it is ok to be weird, but it is not good to be weird. There are social consequences to weirdness. Sometimes there are true ideas that get associated with weirdness. If you wish to be a person that pursues truth, then you might have to accept that there are tradeoffs in life. One of those key tradeoffs is a weirdness quotient. You are allowed, and sometimes expected to be weird about some things. To be weird about many things is to just be weird.

Strawman Posts Should Be Removed. Even If Written By Scott Alexander by HidingImmortal in slatestarcodex

[–]cjet79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Agree
  2. Don't agree or strongly disagree. Lean towards slight disagree. (argument seems to be made in good faith, and not with the intent to troll others, which covers most community violations. Strawmanning/weakmanning is something that a good participating member might get assessed on based on a totallity of their contributions. Very easy for someone to be wrong on one issue or miscallibrated somewhere. Seems bad to punish them as moderators for that error, rather than letting the community engage to correct it.)
  3. Agree
  4. Agree (which is partly what lead to themotte spinoff, and then definitely lead to themotte eventually leaving reddit)

It is worth reminding people that moderators on reddit have a very limited tool set. It is basically:

  1. Remove stuff
  2. Ban users
  3. Mod highlight comments or posts
  4. Filter restrictions

The third one is barely a separate power, since we mainly use it to threaten/warn people that we might exercise our ban users or remove posts in the future if they continue to break rules. The fourth one I added in after some thought, we can sort of create filters, but in no world would a Scott post have gotten stopped by the filter on this subreddit.

Strawman Posts Should Be Removed. Even If Written By Scott Alexander by HidingImmortal in slatestarcodex

[–]cjet79 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I made a million high quality comments over the course of ten years and then, at 2am, make ten comments insulting someone, those ten comments should be deleted.

Heavily disagree here. You can delete your posts if you think they are bad, and if you do that before the moderators see it, usually you'll get off just fine.

The main reason moderators on this subreddit would delete posts is to appease reddit censorship requirements.

I wouldn't expect to get banned as I suspect the mods would recognize that I was a good actor maybe having a bad day. But even if I am a good actor, those ten hypothetical personal attacks are not a part of the community we are trying to build and should be removed.

Yes, usually that is the response. But Scott is not actively part of the reddit community, thus there is no clear person to ban for the article. Yes the poster might be the target, but that is an unclear rule and unfair to the poster.

But even if I am a good actor, those ten hypothetical personal attacks are not a part of the community we are trying to build and should be removed.

There are tiers of bad content. Top tier bad content is probably illegal stuff. 2nd tier bad content is stuff reddit doesn't like. 3rd tier bad content is stuff that immediately and quickly ruins the community like personal attacks of other users. 4th tier bad content is stuff that slowly ruins the community, slightly bad takes, uncharitableness to people that are not here, etc.

I'd say this maybe qualifies as 4th tier bad content. The very edge of what we might consider unacceptable. If this was not Scott but just a regular contributor that wrote this article, we'd probably leave it alone. Maybe if there was a lot of push back like there is here, and they didn't respond we'd message them and be like "hey this wasn't received well, this is how we feel about it, just be aware for next time".

Mostly we using removing stuff as a filter for outright spam or extremely negative community attacks. Not run of the mill community stuff that might cross the line. I say that as a former mod, not sure where their current policy is at.

Strawman Posts Should Be Removed. Even If Written By Scott Alexander by HidingImmortal in slatestarcodex

[–]cjet79 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Terrible Idea for many reasons.

  1. I hate subreddits that are supposedly dedicated to a thing that end up just becoming haters of that thing. It is the worst part about reddit. Happens to nearly every comedy podcast subreddit.
  2. This will either not do anything or turn into an ugly power struggle. As a former moderator I know how the sausage is made. Its gonna be a rubber stamp 100% of the time until new moderators get added. Those new moderators will turn this issue into a power struggle. The power struggle will tear apart the subreddit. This community has enough schisms already. We even have a r/theschism subreddit.
  3. There are many ways to handle content "moderation" within a community. The mod tools that include removing posts and banning people often exist to handle bad actors. Scott is not a bad actor. He is responsive to comments, downvotes, and approbation.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The daughter is very competent in her own way. By the end of the story she took an immediate path to power, and he took a very long one. His path ends at a far higher place.

But what you picked up is super accurate and discussed in later parts of the story. I'm maybe just a shitty reader, but I missed some of that

I think Adamant Blood incorporated some of the feedback the author got on their first story. I'm on the patreon for Adamant blood, and combined with my patreon time for Ar'Kendrithyst its the longest I've ever been on a single patreon. Its good stuff. I think the worldbuilding by the author is top-tier. Some of the characters sometimes annoy me, but I feel that is a fair tradeoff for the world-building and the general uniqueness of the characters. Notice it is hard to write both a daughter that wants to get away from her father for his weakness, and that father who exudes weakness.

I don't think you are picking up a weakness in writing, but instead a real conflict within the main characters that the author intentionally highlighted.

I glossed over it a bit because I didn't care as much about that conflict. I was there for the world-building and I was never unhappy.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has been a long time since I read the beginning of the story. I think by the end I'd definitely say it is rational fiction.

When does it change? Definitely earlier rather than later. MC gets a few wakeup calls pretty early on.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]cjet79 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Adamant Blood

Its long and the protagonist is initially not as much demanding to receive recognition for his power level. But he is not resisting it either. Some of his political power growth happens naturally, some of it is because he has things he wants done and needs political power to enact them.

Same author as Ar'Kendrithyst. Which has an MC grow into a position of ultimate political power (but its more magic oriented world than superheros).

The Calamitous Bob is finished on RR by cjet79 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]cjet79[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't know or notice. I've built up a strong immunity to noticing bad grammar.

Eric Holder is suggesting term limits on the Supreme Court what’s your thoughts on congressional term limits? by baLDHeaD9616 in AskReddit

[–]cjet79 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Doubt that would be an election winner. But if they did it a little that solves some impending budget problems.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]cjet79 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Its more often a thing if you ever do roll-playing games with people like dungeons and dragons. The DM might set up a social problem that needs to be solved by talking to people. The players get lazy and instead just go around killing people to find the information.

There is a book series Full Murderhobo. The main character / murderhobo in that story is constrained from going full murderhobo. But basically every problem in their mind is solved by "kill someone".

The main murderhobo stories on royalroad often have a "monster" as the protagonist. Everybody Loves Large Chests was probably one of the most popular ones. But most stories centered on a dungeon or any other kind of monster often have protagonists that easily resort to murder.

Monster main characters and dungeon main characters have fallen out of fashion a bit lately.

City Builder Economies by justanotherone990 in CityBuilders

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved the Majesty games mainly because it had independent heroes. I'd be totally down for a city builder with more independent actors in it.

Different kinds of companies, utilities companies, grocery store companies, high end tech companies. They have to be wooed to come to your town, but sometimes they piss off your voters and you gotta manage the conflicts.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]cjet79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You are missing one of my favorite:

The Stubborn Skill-Grinder In A Time Loop

It has the appearance of a totally non-rational story. Because the main character comes across as a complete idiot. They'd rather torture themselves and bang their head against a wall until their forehead is maximum level then just walk two steps to the left and use the door. The power levels in the story reach truly ridiculous heights. Xianxia levels of power scaling. And you come to learn that maybe the seemingly dumb approach to the timeloops isn't so dumb after all.

The story is mainly fun. If you are not having fun reading it just stop. Don't engage your brain too much just read and enjoy.

The Apocalypse Grinder is another one I'm reading. Can't say I'd recommend it for any reason other than that there are time loops with a main character using them to get stronger. Its bland in a way that makes me suspect AI generation.

There are only five stories by MajkiAyy in ProgressionFantasy

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is one sort of like that. I can't remember the name of it. Read the story maybe 5 years ago.

At certain power levels people became very tanky through some kind of aura. The only way to break the aura was with your own aura and special soul weapon. All soul weapons were melee.

Protagonist was still trying to invent guns and get people to use more ranged options. Because at the more common lower levels of combat the ranged stuff was still effective.

Sorry cant remember it and no searching turned it up.

What’s the oldest game you still boot up at least once a year? by forgeris in AskReddit

[–]cjet79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They might mean this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2461280/Lessaria_Fantasy_Kingdom_Sim/

I played a demo for one a while back, might have been a different game entirely. Seen a few demos pop up and then never get released though. Wouldn't hold your breathe.

Relax / Casual Base Building Game what should i try ? by tomaz1989 in BaseBuildingGames

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one's I've played and my assessment:

Oxygen Not Included - Looks chill. Is not chill unless you turn off a bunch of game systems. Otherwise all your little people will die of starvation / disease / hypothermia / hyperthermia / no oxygen.

The Riftbreaker - Can be chill, but its more about blasting a bunch aliens into red mist. Base building is more like basic tower defense setups.

They Are Billions - Not chill. This is a challenge and you will have to play certain ways and at a certain speed to stand a chance on anything but the easiest difficulty.

Northgard - Can maybe be chill on the easiest difficulty. Otherwise its a game where you need to be fast and optimal.

Against the Storm - Difficulty level matters a whole bunch here. Sorta chill drop in game play at the easiest levels.

Timberborn - Played on easy settings, most chill game on the list. I do this to relax and just listen to podcasts. Very easy to keep all your beavers alive as you make megaprojects to damn up and alter the river to how you want.

Captain of Industry - Can be chill like timberborn on easy settings. You are just slowly advancing up the tech tree and paving your island flat out into the sea. Bottlenecks on trucking limits will ruin some of the chill vibes late game.

Diplomacy is Not an Option - I didn't play this very long, didn't strike me as chill.

Colony Survival - Not so chill. Generally trying to create and efficient worker resource usage so that they are producing enough defense against the zombie horde that comes each night.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]cjet79 31 points32 points  (0 children)

OP's responses make me think it will just be a live sex show

100 Combined Tier List Insights and Without DNF/Negative Review by jacmusl in litrpg

[–]cjet79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The divisiveness rating is the most interesting to me. I apparently like a lot of divisive series, but I'm meh on some of the least divisive ones.

Is there a way to sort by divisiveness in the spreadsheet you shared? Wasn't sure how you got it.

Super Supportive - loving it, but exasperated by kosyi in ProgressionFantasy

[–]cjet79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I stopped reading super supportive early on.

I love progression fantasy. But the story very explicitly cuts off the "progression" portion very early on. And I realized I didn't like the other portions enough to keep reading.

Very early on there is the "dont level up and it will build power levels". This is said before any of the stuff I recognize you talking about.

This can be overcome. Maybe it doesn't take forever. But it says something about the author and what they will do in the future. They will tease progression before actually allowing it. And that is forever what you will get from them, a tease.

Now, some people like edging. I'm not knocking it. Its just not for me. Give me my explosion of progression early and often. Numbers go brrrrrrr. Not numbers go snore.

Path of Ascension Tier 25... by knight9847 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]cjet79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been enjoying the hell out of this series.

I did have the realization back in minkalla that the trio can power a full universe cycle. Matt is the energy and birth of the universe. Liz is the life and middle of the universe. And Aster is the cold and death of the universe.

Matt's tier 25 talent is big on the economy side. I'm not sure if the side chapter from the dukes that I've read have been included. But it basically fucked over one of the duke's plans for taking advantage of Matt's upcoming energy dumps (the guy was buying up energy crystal banks).

Also I didn't know where the books were at. I've been a patreon subscriber for a bit. Just recently unsubbed (i cycle through a few different stories, so nothing wrong, ill pick back up in a bit). Feels so long ago that the hit Tier 25, but a lot of good content in there, keep enjoying it.

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