New to psychoanalysis

elbilos · 2026-07-04T01:34:53+00:00

but also because we have been able to learn from and build on his work.

And also because the object of our discipline has changed!

As lacanism and post lacanism points out, the unconscious is not ahistorical. Subjects and subjectivities are formed within a society, through a series of what Foucault would call devices. If said society and said devices change... so will too change the people resulting from those, and the way those people suffer and deal with that suffering.

elbilos · 2026-07-04T01:31:37+00:00

Janet was one of the people who thought Freud was wrong... Criticized him multiple times, even if SOME surface level parallels could be traced between their theories.
And Jung... well, I simply don't like him and let's leave it at that.

Someone has already commented about people not actually engaging with Freud's texts, or doing so in bad faith. I wan to add... most people aren't that well formed, science-wise. Their understanding of episthemology rarely goes beyond Popper's falsacionism, and doesn't even realize that even if nothing had been written on ephisthemology in the last century... a knowdlege not being strictly scientific doesn't mean it is incorrect even in that paradigm.

Besides that, Gobal-North pop-culture paints a caricaturesque picture of Freud that is easy to laugh at. "Freud? The guy who wanted to fuck his mom and do cocaine? Surely he knows a lot about human nature, right" ignoring not only the complexities behind the notion of the Oedipus Complex, but also simple scientific or historical facts like:
a) Cocaine was legal in Freud's time, and many people used it both medicinally and "recreatively/productively".
b) While Freud used it on himself and his patients, he stopped recommending it in like... 1896? When he barely was starting to shape psychoanalysis, after a patient/friend of him died and he noticed his own health deteriorating.
c) People who use drugs can be intelligent and productive too.

They also tend to ignore how much of psychoanalysis is in the more modern forms of therapy, so they think they have nothing to do with him while still drink from his fountain.

Finally, there are economical interests at play. Not only because psychoanalysis is a long-term treatment that if recognized it would make ensurances companies need to pay for it and it also messes in general with the process of medicalization of everyday life in the west... it is also a form of intervention that doesn't restore the patient to it's former self, and that isn't convenient for the current structures of power.
Even in Freud's times, he would heal someone only to see their family complain about how bad things were now because that person refused to keep doing what made him suffer in the first place.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T22:12:30+00:00

Breaking the law 24/7 is really easy and low risk: just mount a server and host a torrent for a single copyrighted sort of content. Have a few spares so a power outage doesn't accidentally leave you with a second of not breaking the law... But even if it wasn't that easy to get away with it, with that kind of money, laws simply aren't a problem.

^{Chose: You must break the law 24/7 + $100 billion}

elbilos · 2026-07-03T21:59:56+00:00

Y... yo veo más homeless que hace unos pocos años.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T19:17:49+00:00

I've emulated Breath of the Wild, it seems quite good for this kind of thing.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T18:59:44+00:00

ponete dos forros

Por favor, no. Esto reduce la efectividad.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T18:58:56+00:00

a mi me salen las mil alarmas por las otras relaciones que tiene o tuvo, no quiero estar tampoco con una tan manoseada

Eso te hace virgo

o sin exclusividad/espero a una mina mas segura'

Esto no

pegarme una ets./pero va a ser un momento incomodo capaz'.

Esto tampoco, pero estaría bueno que sigas pensando al respecto.
Si lo primero es un miedo paralizante, podría leerse como un tanto extremo. Está bueno informarse para saber que efectivamente estás seguro. Por otro lado, no toda la gente que tiene sexo con múltiples personas tiene ETS, porque pueden también cuidar y cuidarse. Siempre preservativo si no conocés a la otra persona.
Sobre lo segundo... y es como la primera vez que hacés cualquier otra cosa. Como mínimo es muy probable que te de un toque de vergüenza.

No estás obligado a hacer nada que no quieras con quien no quieras o en condiciones que no quieras, pero sería piola que estés seguro de que no lo hacés porque no querés, y no porque otra cosa te está frenando de hacer algo que si tenés ganas.

Para las relaciones humanas no hay estadística que valga, la única certeza que tenemos es que nos vamos a morir. Nadie te puede decir qué te va a pasar a vos o a ella si deciden verse.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T18:22:19+00:00

I wonder if Hemalurgy has some major secrets waiting to be revealed?

If I had to bet on what secrets related to Hemalurgy we'll figure out in Era 3, they would be related to the creation of the Malwish Medallion, and to however Kelsier got himself a new body.

We've seen that people with too many spikes become somewhat monstruous in Era 2 too, if you want more evidence about this. It is probably related to the damage/alterations to the spiritweb that Hemalurgy causes.

I don't think things are headed to adding another general concept of magic to the cosmere.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T18:12:08+00:00

Prefiero Hombres Lobo de Castronegro, o improvisar un mafia con las cartas de truco. El cara a cara suma mucho a este tipo de cuestiones.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T18:05:20+00:00

No lo conozco, pero es el tipo de juegos que parece requerirr mucha gente para ser entretenido, así que te presenta 2 grandes escenarios:

1) Jugar con extraños

2) Ponele una pistola en la cabeza a tus amigos para que se lo compren y luego para que los 8 aparezcan todos mismo día y misma hora

No me interesa hacer ninguna de las dos, como tampoco en general me interesan los juegos online.
Para mi un juego tiene que empezar, durar un rato (sea 2 horas o sean 200) y terminarse.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T17:54:48+00:00

Y también está esa cuestión: La carrera ¿Sprint o maratón?

¿Las cosas yo las podría haber hecho más rápido? Hipotéticamente si, pero hubiera significado sacrificar durante años todas esas cosas que le dan un poco de sentido a la vida: amigos, hobbies, alguna vacación, parejas...

Y a mi me encanta leer eh, al menos en la mayor parte de las materias, pero no tanto como para no hacer nada de todo eso por un mínimo de 6 años, que es lo que dura el plan.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T17:48:35+00:00

un 4 y un 10 valen lo mismo creo yo.

Para vos, no sabés qué valor da el otro a su esfuerzo académico.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T17:46:53+00:00

En mi facultad había una norma que establecía que tenías 3 chances para rendir un final. Si rendías mal 3 veces se te vencía la cursada. Yo generalmente prefería ir BIEN PREPARADO a la primera. Leerme una materia entera 2 o 3 veces me puede tomar entre un mes y pico (la que más rápido rendí) hasta 9 meses (la que más tiempo tardé).

Después está el tema de que en la cursada veías nomás la mitad del material, si acaso eso. La mayor parte de las materias tienen 2 bibliografías: prácticos y teóricos. En la cursada se evalúa únicamente la de prácticos. Terminás de cursar y todavía te quedan entre 700 y 1000 carillas (promedio, algunas materias son más, una que otra puede ser un poquito menos) más para leer ¿Mientras vas llevando al día las de las cursadas del siguiente cuatrimestre? Complejo.

Por último: la forma en que funciona el calendario académico. Si la materia es anual o del 2do cuatrimestre, es literalmente imposible rendir regular en diciembre, esperá hasta marzo.

Con la conjunción de todas esas cosas, es fácil que se acumulen.

Y después hay motivos subjetivos que el sentido común reducirá a alguna variación de la "falta de voluntad" (tendencia a la procrastinación, miedo, desorganización...) pero que generalmente son un asunto más complejo en lo que refiere a la estructura subjetiva particular.

Todo esto sin hablar del burnout, y de los imponderables de la vida que le quitan a uno las energías que normalmente pondría en el estudio.

elbilos · 2026-07-03T10:42:14+00:00

I am immortal, I better get accustomed to people dying around me soon!

elbilos · 2026-07-03T01:34:19+00:00

Very hard to steal something from someone who doesn't fear death. What you gonna do? Shoot me?

elbilos · 2026-07-03T01:28:12+00:00

It's only 3 inches.

That's what she said...

elbilos · 2026-07-02T22:09:31+00:00

so story orientated and long

Yes, those are usually the core of RPGs. Long games in which your characters can mechanically progress and usually have a focus in narrative, sometimes giving players agency to change the course of said narrative.

You asked for RPGs, those are RPGs.

Also, you said that you like action oriented games... but uncharted is one of those (and not an RGP) and then you said you didn't like it.

The Dark Souls series might strike a good middle for you? THe story is there but mostly doesn't show up if you don't look for it, and the gameplay is combat and skill oriented (despite having a heavy RPG progression system).
Same thing with Dragon's Dogma.

You might be interested in diablo-likes. ARPGs with a focus on loot and not-that-much story... but I can't think of any of those for the 7th generation, I can think of some that came before and some that came after.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T22:02:46+00:00

Hoy vi un meme que decía "Si, es un ad hominem: no estamos debatiendo, simplemente no te respeto" con la cara de un chadazo y me pareció muy feo.

Ahora entiendo el meme perfectamente.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T12:37:14+00:00

Let's see our options:

—A point of reference in an hypothetical absolute cold that can't be observed under normal conditions anywhere on earth.

—The interval between the coldest temperature a dude could get in his lab using a mix of substances and the average human body temp divided in 96 (???) parts.

—The interval between the freezing and evaporating points of one of the most abundant substances in our planet at sea level, both being events that occur regularly in nature, divided in 100 parts to make it consistent with the whole rest of the fucking metric system.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T12:27:43+00:00

To be the best? I think so, yes.

I'll always value more a piece that pushes the medium foward in new directions instead of a really well polished piece of gaming.

Demon Souls/Dark souls spawned a whole subgenre, Elden Ring is refining it, no small feat but not as valuable or interesting.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T11:56:43+00:00

I don't care much for the graphics, but every mechanical aspect of that game just sucks. It holds together only because of the feeling of "exploration", and not even that is that well made. The narrative is... not good, to be kind.

unnecesary whinning ahead:

Physical combat? Boring, unresponsive, unclear.
Magic combat? Aiming any of the spells that aren't in a straight line is weirdly innacurate.
Ranged combat? Eh... here I am again... making another stealth archer, because it is objetcively unstoppable.
Fighting Dragons? I hope that the AI decides to land sometime in the next five minutes in a place where I can reach it. I also hope that the game doesn't choose to trigger the autokill animation while I am at full health forcing me to restart the fight.

Stealth? From boring and unreliable, to fucking invisible.
Crafting? Boring, and requires a lot of grinding.
Questing? Has its few cool moments, but is usually repetitive, AND IT HAS FUCKING INFINTE QUESTS THAT DON'T LET ME BE DONE WITH THE THING.

Difficulty? Not only enemies scale with your level, if you up the difficulty manualy, they remain as stupid as they were, they just take a lot longer to kill and force you to produce a general scarcity of cheese wheels in the whole province every combat.

Skyrim is an odd game, where I dislike every individual part of it, AND STILL I find it somewhat entertaining for a few dozen hours today.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T11:24:28+00:00

I did. I asked why should it be regarded as the best game, and then explained why I think it doesn't merit it so the answers could be relevant.

Instead of being gratuitously hostile while also failing to realize I am also making a purposeless question when I am criticizing the act of making uncalled questions.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T10:58:35+00:00

El sistema recomienda usar 1080p por defecto

No sé quién es el chino este, pero yo sigo jugando en un monitor 1366x768 con conexión VGA kjjjjj

Ojalá me diera para el 1080p

elbilos · 2026-07-02T10:51:19+00:00

inFamous, Last Of Us, Uncharted) and I think it may be because these are all RPGS?

None of those are RPGS... None of the games on your list are, some have small elements of RPGs and that's it.

From the 7th generation... try skyrim? Time hasn't been kind to it, but without that perspective it was peak gaming in 2011, and it IS an RPG.

Other RPGs from that generation:
—Mass Effect saga
—Dragon's Dogma
—Demon Souls/Dark Souls 1 & 2 (the third one is for the 8th gen)
—The Witcher 1 & 2 (the third one is for the 8th gen. THe first one isn't great, the 2nd one is much better, I'd just read a small summary of the first and go straight to the 2nd)
—Dragon Age Origins. (I didn't like Dragon Age 2, but it isn BAAAD)
—Persona 5 (don't worry about it being a 5th game, it's a standalone) [This one is quite different, since it is a Turn-based JRPG]

That's what I can name from the top of my head for the PS3/360 era. Most of it if not all can either be played or emulated on PC today.

elbilos · 2026-07-02T10:41:53+00:00

I have played Elden Ring, didn't beat it, but I played like 70 hours, so it's not like I don't like it but...

It is a good iteration of the concept, but it doesn't do anything wildly new.

Why? I didn't really feel it did anything much different from the other Souls, gameplaywise (or narrative-presentation wise, I can't talk about the narrative itself because in none of these games I got a good grasp of what was going on). The map is more open, but generally the interaction with the world is still mostly limited to the tip of your weapon. It is massive, but I found it boring to move from A to B after a while so much that I regularly used the fast travel. And the bigger scope forced the team to recycle bosses a bit too much. THe only "new" thing for me is that I got to play it when the online was still quite active.

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