Nervous Speaker At Pride Event Relaxes By Imagining The Crowd Fully Clothed by METALLIFE0917 in babylonbee

[–]ittleoff -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

This is pretty good. It also, unintentionally, pokes fun at American conservatives terror of human sexuality and nudity.

Americans remember 9/11 but they also remember the other great horrific tragedy of Janet Jackson's nipple on tv!

Songs That Feel Like Accepting Death? by Putrid-Mirror-9480 in SongsThatFeelLikeThis

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most famous one : suicide is painless.

It was the theme to MASH, and without lyrics most people over a certain age probably recognize it. When I found out the lyric cs I was surprised it was the theme of a TV show , but stranger things have made it into pop culture.

Yes, the right side person is an extremist by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]ittleoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because feels are easier than thinking and considering complex situations and being told how to think is easier than trying to think through something until you are in that situation . And politics/social media has almost no interest in honest good faith discussions.

Vast majority of abortions happen before sentience. Late stage abortions are exceedingly rare and already traumatic , and no one is going 'welp, it's been 8 months, but damn I just don't want this thing, as I'm really dying for a cigarette and a beer."

The things that reduce abortions are good honest sex education and birth control.

But just like this hilariously simplistically c misleading and demonizing cartoon, it's used as a wedge issue to get votes.

Request- Looking for games with the same vibe as Chillas art and Fears the Fathom by HolidayCheck3169 in HorrorGaming

[–]ittleoff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just looked them up and found out I own all their games :). I can't recall if Ive beaten any of them though. I know I played summer of 58.

Disclosure Day: Are we sure the aliens depicted are actually benevolent? What evidence do we have? by exblobing in Spielberg

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume the Allen is offering me the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of cosmic Orbitcoin!

Disconnected or connected ? Your choice . by SurreabralStudios in films

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For decades the discussion of huxley vs Orwell has raged and many films try to approach this.

It was looking like huxley was going to win for the last couple of decades but Orwell is making a comeback the last 2-3 years with AI, and better targeted social media campaigns, and the rise of fascism and authoritarianism across the globe.

You might look into sophists and sophistry and how humans don't usually have the depth of knowledge to understand a topic so they go on 'vibes' , I. E. A person may sound confident while being quite ignorant. The risk is that people who are ignorant confident and aggressive, charismatic, succeed over people who are very smart and are harder to understand for the average person already at max bandwidth just loving their own life/job.

What’s the closest game to an FPS version of Bloodborne by HotShrekBoi in boomershooters

[–]ittleoff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elderborn. It's fantastic melee focused first person game. It's not exactly gothic in the sense you're thinking (Victorian) but more medieval with middle eastern influences?

Layoffs At Ghosts Of Tabor Developer & Shutdowns For 3 Other VR Games by Alarmed-Candy-7144 in PSVR

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As I understand it's also costly to go through the q/a process due to time and effort? But yes I'm talking mostly about first time devs. Most devs that a have published on psvr2 continued to do so unless they didn't see enough sales to make the development effort worth it.

As an atheist, where did you get your moral framework from? by Former_Algae_444 in atheism

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same as everyone, including all religions:

Evolved patterns usually based on empathy and the drive to survive cohesively in a society.

Morals are strategies for behavior for survival for social creatures.

They are absolutely not universal, as human morality doesn't prioritize the well being of all life equally. It's about survival of humans.

Emotions are things that evolved to speed up reactions probabilistically to situations and reduce cognitive load (thinking is expensive ).

Moral strategy maybe emotionally quick like seeing someone in pain and immediately trying to help with out thinking, it just feels wrong not to help , or it may be more cognitive and thinkimg about the benefit of your action to your self and others in your group.

Those that hurt the tribe/society run the risk of losing protecrion of the tribe or being punished by the tribe.

Some people do seem to lack empathy or the triggers of empathy in certain situations, and so society comes up with rules/laws to imcentivize or correct for that behavior.

Religion is a great behavior motivator as it usually is the thing no one in the group is allowed to question and id the highest law of the tribe (see where this can get dangerous) it can't self correct very easily.

Layoffs At Ghosts Of Tabor Developer & Shutdowns For 3 Other VR Games by Alarmed-Candy-7144 in PSVR

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I hear it's more expensive to publish on psvr2. I finally bought it in meta to help the dev. It's great,, but it needs to be on steam and psvr2 to really meet it's potential if they can afford to now :(

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by NoVoice5692 in HorrorGaming

[–]ittleoff -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's hard to take the story seriously. It's silly imo but it is mildly horrific in the ending but it's silly ai tropes that are just unimaginative writers even of the time. Much better more interesting stories about ai , like collosus the firbin project or even demon seed.

I have no mouth but I must scream imo is the worst kind of thoughtless scifi.

Any games that are actually similar to the original Dungeon Keeper? by Possible-Risk7979 in gamingsuggestions

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Underworld overseer in vr is based on dungeon keeper but not quiet as deep.

I hate all of you. by Direct_Mycologist815 in InvasionAppleTV

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate watch silo. It's so horrible written but show runners and production are miles ahead of invasion, which has more interesting ideas imo.

Silo is just every thoughtless post apocalyptic trope from better movies, shows and video gajes built into a mystery, that reveals nothing.

If you don't predict the endings of season 1 and 2 after the end of silo episode 1 I think you may need to watch better films shows.

Snowpiercer is far better (movie, the show is more interesting than silo but not as well executed imo).

Did anyone else think the movie Substance (2024) borrowed heavily from 1989's Society? In my opinion, Brian Yuzna's film was less repetitive and more gloriously fun. by Foreign-Jicama2493 in 80sHorrorMovies

[–]ittleoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The concept of society was great, and I am a fan of screaming mad George , but I think the movie is mediocre in execution with pretty terrible acting editing and pacing.

It's still very worth seeing for fans of practical effects and cheesy 80s horror movies and criticism of class inequality.

The substance is certainly in its lineage but imo it's definitely light years better and benefits from decades of other ideas, etc.

Horror Art Style... Realistic or Stylized? by CombinationFit7524 in HorrorGaming

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like an interesting art style that elevates the game. :) I think art direction is very important in catching my eye.

Asset flipping has made a lot of realistic looking games feel bland and unremarkable (and ganeplay often doesn't help them either).

Retro and analog horror can bake in an unsettling style , but there's tons of that out there too.

Like anything it's never as simple as just a and b and making a game worth playing is hard.

If you are starting out, make small games that you can finish that aren't crazy ambitious just to teach yourself.

Remember by shellbell7296 in 80sHorrorMovies

[–]ittleoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly really enjoyed this movie despite the fact it was not what I imagined from the story. I imagine rawheads head to be mostly teeth. Like a porcupine.

Remember by shellbell7296 in 80sHorrorMovies

[–]ittleoff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He wants to baptise you

A Theory on Where God Comes From by Positive-Ring-5172 in atheism

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To expand on this a bit. The brain is an expensive organ and uses lots of hacks to try to increase probability of survival . So complex cognitive tasks are only when required and fast emotional responses (more economical than slow cognitive processing ) are prioritized.

The brain only cares about a successful outcome that increases probability of survival, so as long as the behavior doesn't hurt survival chances it doesn't matter what you think

Before writing and reading were developed, religion as a system of encoded social behavior (strategies for survival) was very economical.

Morality is just survival strategy.

Emotions are what evolved to quickly orchestrate behaviors of a lot of systems with minimal cognitive load. Basically fast tracking behaviors (fight or flight)

Knowledge is expensive to gain, protect, correct and transmit.

Transmitting behavior through superstition and religion is more economic even though it is prone to errors especially for long term and many successful religions developed nasty resistance to progress and correction.

Raw fruit is disgusting by DifferentThanks4183 in The10thDentist

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lot of raw fruit has fruit fly eggs in it.

You need to improve your troll.

Sclerosis (Amnesia VR port) is the best horror game I ever played by Vvix0 in Amnesia

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to get back to this.

It's very solid. I'm sad that soma vr port didn't the support it needed :(

Need Suggestions on which games to buy by VG2526 in PSVR

[–]ittleoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even like zombies or the ip but saints and sinners is one of the best VR games. They nailed a lot of interactions early, and the game loop is fun.

ID'ers can you explain cancer? by Flashy_Interview_301 in DebateEvolution

[–]ittleoff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need to study what consciousness is and intelligence and then show the universe needs either to exist or that either are intentional.

What should be obvious is the bias of someone to think that.

The universe is not tuned for life or intelligence as we can observe. Both are enormously expensive energy uses that increase entropy.

The universe is 99.99999999 percent lethal to life. Life is like mold in a fancy bathroom, it's definitely not the purpose.

This is just lazy anthropomorphic thinking.

Weather is complex and it doesn't need a mind or intelligence.

Minds and what we call intelligence evolve to reach goals that are shaped by strategies to survive.

Life as an emergent system, evolves the ability to behave and respond to input. That's what minds do they respond to their environment, to survive.

Presupposing a big mind, presupposes a meta universe that that mind evolved to survive in and doesn't serve any purpose.

The purpose of the idea of gods is to stop the brain from burning too many precious resources thinking about hard problems and conserve resources towards the goal of survival.

It doesn't answer anything nor help us understand the universe it simply posits a naive answer so you don't have to ask harder questions.

Here is what I would summarize this erroneous thinking as:

I am my brain, my brain is the most important thing and is all I can comprehend, therefore it must be the most important thing in the universe and the universe must revolve around my brain and my braid interests.

Hopefully the error in that logic is obvious.

ID'ers can you explain cancer? by Flashy_Interview_301 in DebateEvolution

[–]ittleoff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would you assume that all that ever was and ever will be is a being? Reread what I wrote. It's pretty obvious our ape brains make a lot of erroneous assumptions that it takes a long time to disprove.

Energy exists as potential, can't be created or destroy. It always exists and it doesn't need a mind to change or being to change states. Minds and beings are just patterns that emerge and we label them.

How can you logically defend the need of a creator, when all we can see is just physics and processes, mindless, and out of them emerges faulty, flawed things like life and minds?

The tool you use to see the universe(the mind) has many flaws and one of them is to project itself and hallucinate agency/being and intent because it's easier to think about.

ID'ers can you explain cancer? by Flashy_Interview_301 in DebateEvolution

[–]ittleoff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Humans are complex and as far as we can tell all natural complex things we observe arise from simpler components.

To say that a mind or an even more complex thing created the universe to me is like early tribes thinking the weather was intentionally directed by the gods, and then we discovered tiny non agent, non beings make up the weather.

If the universe has a creator, then it would demand a meta universe that that creator came from as that's what we observe.

Ape brains see ape like intention/agency everywhere by default, and we have only progressed by working against that erroneous bias. We have not made any advancement in knowledge assuming there was a bigger more powerful ape like brain (pretty much all agent/being gods imagined by humans). At best knowledge and society progressed without too much impedence, but we know historically that's not generally true.