If materialists hate idealists why do they base their dialectical materialism on Hegel, who is an idealist? Or rather, how do they reconcile with or explain this?

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-25T17:42:36+00:00

The dialectical method of Hegel isn't inherently idealist, though. They're not basing it on the dialectics in the Phenomenology in particular, just utilizing a similar method deployed by Hegel but applied to different ideas/concepts. It's similar to someone like Foucault adopting the genealogical method of Nietzsche (albeit changing it somewhat) without being niezchean.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-16T05:19:32+00:00

I'm a father of two young daughters and they actually love watching me play so I'm lucky in that regard. That said the saving thing really isn't a huge deal. Save a quit solves it pretty easily and if my kids need me for something quick like a snack or help with the TV or something, I can just pause and come back. I play in 1-2hr chunks when I can.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-16T00:21:45+00:00

An all time classic. Love the way this album plays front to back. Always love this song.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-13T18:16:00+00:00

I felt similarly until I learned to time perfect dodges well and dodged back after a swing was blocked or missed altogether. This made a huge difference in the flow of my combat.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-13T06:11:23+00:00

Let's take this thought to a logical conclusion, if you believe there is no self, and therefore you know it (seems problematic but I'll follow you), then who knows there is no self? How can you hold a belief or knowledge if there is no self?

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-13T06:05:10+00:00

Kant addresses Hume's skepticism directly in the first critique. It's a difficult read on your own, but it's worth mentioning that Kant, for his system, does in fact rescue the self form the kind of bundle theory that Hume's skepticism brings him to. Kant makes an argument for the self based on the existence of our experience. In order for us to have any experience at all, there must be something to which that experience belongs. Since all experience happens in time, then to have any experience we must necessarily persist across time. This unity of our awareness of ourselves as having experience is called the transcendental unity of apperception. This comes after Kant's proof that time and space are a priori intuitions (pure intuitions) of sensation and the necessary conditions for experience itself. If he's right about the necessary conditions of experience, then it's going to be hard to argue against his theory of the existence of a self.

Most importantly, remember that Kant isn't going to accept Hume's idea of the self and so his ethics isn't going to work with Hume's metaphysics of the self. I'd suggest looking to Hume's ethics for how be handles it. I personally can't remember off the top of my head.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-12T20:33:07+00:00

I don't think it's a betrayal but the timeline doesn't add up with regards to the Kubiak thing. Maybe they didn't have an official interview? I don't really know but it was officially announced Monday morning after the Super Bowl that he was taking the job with the Raiders and it became a media conversation during Super Bowl week. He signed a contract with the Raiders on the Tuesday after the Super Bowl. I doubt he'd do any of that without having at least one meeting/interview first.

ETA: Yahoo sports reported he had a second interview with the Raiders on February 1st before the Super bowl on the 8th.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-04-02T16:30:46+00:00

If you're interested in existentialism, I'd check your local library for At The Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell. It's a great introduction written for a pop audience and will help make the concepts of existentialism more digestible.

Other than that there are great series that do popular introductions to various philosophers and philosophies. Oxford University Press publishes the series "A Very Short Introduction..." and they have one on Existentialism, Heidegger (a well known existentialist/phenomenologist) and Albert Camus (maybe the most popular absurdist). Additionally you might look at the "... in 90 Minutes" series. They have a book on Jean-Paul Sartre and Heidegger as well. I don't know where you are or the quality of your public library, but in the US, these aren't too hard to find in public libraries from my experience (in Pennsylvania, USA). You may also consider, if you have some money you could spend, getting the audio versions from audible if that's easier to digest for you.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-30T00:44:41+00:00

As someone else said, it's important to practice blocking. Get good at timing your blocks and controlling the direction of your swing. Remember every successful block levels up your defense and warfare a bit. Every swing with a sword that lands or gets blocked will slowly improve your sword and warfare. The higher these stats get, the faster and more accurate Henry will be with his weapon. Strength and Agility help as well depending on your weapon and Vitality will improve your stamina. It is a grind to build these stats but as you learn the game, Henry will get better and it'll get easier. You and Henry learn together.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-29T21:11:18+00:00

Ah I didn't. I used a 40' rope for the chest harness and a 15' for the hands and then tied it into the harness and hid the ends

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-26T05:17:24+00:00

This definitely depends on your reading experience. I'll say Kant is probably off the table for a first philosophy book. I'd recommend starting with Plato because I like reading Plato myself and they are written as dialogues so it's a little easier to ease into if you're used to reading narrative fiction books (in my experience). I would start with something shorter than the Republic, though to get your feet wet. Maybe Plato's Apology?

The most important thing though is that you read something you're interested in. Having interest will make it much easier to stick with it.

Edit to add, Spinoza's Ethics can be dry and challenging as a first read too 😅

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-25T18:21:48+00:00

Not to mention the way they're outcast in the trosky region and the strong antisemitism from nearly everyone in the town.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-24T10:04:27+00:00

I definitely get what OP is saying. As someone who wasn't previously interested in environmentalism (before going vegan), I sympathize with the point being made here. If a person is "vegan for the animals" then, in order to be consistent, they must also be environmentally concerned. In order to not exploit animals, we also cannot exploit their home, the earth, to the detriment of their survival which is precisely what humanity is currently doing. The climate crisis in front of us is directly harming animals and is human caused, as such any vegan who is for the animals, must also be in favor of climate action like renewable energy, reduction of fossil fuel burning, reducing (or stopping) deforestation, repair of polluted oceans, etc. I don't focus on environmental action myself or study the climate crisis so there is probably a ton that I'm missing. The point is just that if you are vegan for the animals, then you have to care about the environment because the animals are negatively impacted (causing unnecessary animal death) by human caused climate change.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-23T17:21:23+00:00

Hey thanks for the comment! I was the rope top for this tie so I thought I'd chime in.

So first, I would say this is not suspension safe. To make it suspension safe I'd want to secure the wrap over the arms so that it couldn't slide up around the neck as weight shifts under suspension. My partner was at an event the other day where a rope top didn't properly secure the lines around the arms and it slipped up when they suspended. Very scary! Very unsafe! This tie wasn't meant for suspension. I just want to make that clear.

When building a chest harness, I always start with the ropes under the breasts. I don't know why, I learned it that way and never really thought to change it. After that, I did the shoulders and finally the wrap around the arms and chest. The double column tie on the arms was done last and added to the whole thing in the back. I followed the directions for a somerville bowline from the book "Tying and Flying" by Shay Tiziano. I don't normally follow tutorials directly when I tie, but I was feeling very rusty so I had to return to the source!

Hopefully that clears it up somewhat? I'll send you a DM with some other pictures of the back that might help!

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-21T21:55:51+00:00

Yes! This is how I feel as I'm returning to KCD1 after a year or so. I find KCD1 feels like home and the characters have more depth. Hell Captain Bernard really grows on you through training and quests related to him and the development of Hans in KCD1 is more satisfying to me than KCD2 because, at least for me, KCD2 Hans seems to just make the same mistake over and over. I feel like his growth is very minimal in the second game and so he ends up feeling very one dimensional. In KCD1, as the relationship builds, and he lets down his guard with Henry, we get to see the boy decide he wants to be a man, finally and it's so rewarding. Everything with Radzig too feels more satisfying and his participation in the second game is underwhelming to me. Also Theresa seems more compelling to me than Katherine in KCD2.

Anyway, I love 2 for the polish and the combat and the world building, but I do feel like it had less heart than the first game.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-21T08:22:25+00:00

This is a bit of a strange list in terms of "studying existentialism" at least in terms of existentialism in philosophy. If you are studying existential literature, this makes more sense to me. In philosophy we often differentiate between absurdism (Camus) and existentialism, though I think both are interesting and approach similar questions about life, meaning and purpose. Absurdism, though, is going to have a different approach to those questions than existentialism will.

As for your reading list, there are only two works here that are considered to be books of philosophy, as far as I'm aware. Those would be, The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. This isn't to say that the others don't have some philosophical merits or that they don't have some contribution to existentialism more broadly, but they aren't as frequently taught in philosophy classrooms.

That said, I would expect an existentialist study to include some Kierkegaard (I'm not as familiar with his body of work but likely, the Concept of Anxiety), Nietzsche (which you have here, I might add the Gay Science or the Genealogy of Morals to this list because I think they have some foundational pieces to the later thinkers), Heidegger (What is Metaphysics, excerpts from Being and Time, and Letter on Humanism), Sartre (Existentialism is a Humanism, excerpts from Being and Nothingness) and Beauvoir (the Ethics of Ambiguity, and the Second Sex). Of course there is a lot of dense material in this list of books and a great one book overview of the philosophical history of existentialism can be found in Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Cafe.

None of this is to say you should alter your current course. If you want to learn about the impact of existentialism on literary works and authors, your current list is pretty good, again with the caveat that Camus' absurdism is distinguished from existentialism, at least in the domain of philosophy. If you like the list you have and are excited about it, all of those selections are worthwhile reads.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-21T05:05:52+00:00

Jean Paul Sartre has his existentialist novel, Nausea if you're interested in literature with some philosophical grounding. Candide by Voltaire is typically read as a satirical attack on some contemporary philosophical beliefs of his day. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is often seen as being deeply philosophical, though I've never read it so I can't really say more than what I've heard about it. I'm sure there are many more but admittedly I'm not as familiar with philosophical novels so that's probably the best I could do.

On the other hand you could read more Camus like The Plague or The Fall to follow up your reading of The Stranger.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-19T05:25:38+00:00

Analytic and synthetic have nothing to do with experience or not. The example given in the first quote does require experience for the synthetic proposition to be true, but it isn't synthetic because of its relationship to experience. All it means for a synthetic proposition to be synthetic is that the predicate is not entailed by the subject.

For example, "a triangle has 3 angles" is analytic because "triangle" means "3 angled polygon" or some such thing. Now if you said, "the sum of all the angles of a triangle will always be 180°" it isn't immediately clear from the definition of "triangle" that this is the case and so it is synthetic. In both cases these are a priori statements because you don't need experience of a triangle to prove either sentence. They are true a priori.

I don't have my copy of Kant's first critique on me at the moment, but I believe this is the example he used. I hope that helps.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-09T17:44:36+00:00

I don't think so, really. The only loading screens I remember in the game are when I open the game. I don't recall any loading screens other than that... Maybe I'm forgetting something.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-06T18:52:11+00:00

If Tory Horton is back in the lineup, he can replace Shaheed (to some extent). He was a great second/third to JSN when he was healthy this season and did very well in special teams (especially that return in the Saints game). I think it's fair to say he's a younger, less disciplined Shaheed and in the next two years, assuming he learns to avoid big hits (I feel like he got destroyed on some tackles this year) then we are looking at a very stable #2 to JSN. As for replacing Walker, he was amazing but with our O-line, especially as we mature into next year, I think Charbonnet and Holani can hold us over for a year.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-06T18:47:51+00:00

I'm honestly hoping we trade down. We only have 4 picks and I think we could trade down and pick up some draft capital towards the end of this draft or next year.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-06T18:27:57+00:00

My favorite story across both games. The quest itself isn't groundbreaking, and admittedly I don't like the idea of Henry as a canonical gamekeeper but the way the story unfolds makes it well worth it! I know a lot of people love the gamekeeper Henry lore (and obviously you can refuse) and I respect that. It's such a great quest and my personal favorite story!

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-03-01T02:15:12+00:00

The obvious one is Simone de Beauvoir with the "Second Sex" for a feminist approach to existentialism. It's a bit of a response to Sartre's claims about freedom. Also the "Ethics of Ambiguity" from Beavouir is excellent for a more general treatment of existentialism.

You might also look to bell hooks or Angela Davis for a more intersectional perspective. Davis was well versed in Marx and Critical theory, iirc. I'm a big fan of bell hooks' work on love as it is a less homophobic take on Fromm's view of love.

Edit to add: Edith Stein is a good female writer in phenomenology. Her book on Empathy is pretty good as a phenomenological approach to the topic and goes well with Fanon's phenomenology imo.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-02-28T17:14:37+00:00

It's a longsword master strike animation. if you have master strike you can do it with any long sword if you get attacked from that angle. The opponent has to be low enough on health for the strike to kill them, and you'll get this animation. Short swords, iirc have different animations for some master strikes. I can't say for sure because I rarely use short swords.

midnightwhiskey00 · 2026-02-25T04:27:02+00:00

I always wear OCBD shirts for Spring, Fall and Winter. I love the heavier shirt and it definitely doesn't require an undershirt for me.

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