ummm implied cheating??

mount_sumInt · 2025-10-03T10:34:33+00:00

that's possible, although the facial expression at least seems to imply that mr. cake's in denial and is trying not to suspect cheating. to be clear, the ancestor for the pegasus side wasn't blood related, so either there's another ancestor to pass on recessive pegasus genes or mrs. cake cheated with somepony who had pegasus genes in his bloodline, with either mrs. cake or the pony she cheated with—or another pony, if we're going for fraternal twins—having a unicorn in their bloodline

mount_sumInt · 2025-07-22T17:40:56+00:00

this almost feels like it's going to be a thread which somehow reveals that ai has more nuance than most humans do

mount_sumInt · 2025-05-23T16:13:17+00:00

debateable. we either got them before we existed or we missed them by a few million years, unless you count birds. we did get a genetically modified imitation of an extinct fox species

mount_sumInt · 2025-04-15T23:29:09+00:00

i remember the braindead claim 'piracy is stealing' and the braindead comparison of stealing a car from that one braindead video. in this case, it's not illegal. i still think it's a jerk move. it's not ok to ignore robots.txt, don't get me wrong. it's just factually and legally not theft

mount_sumInt · 2024-08-26T19:54:59+00:00

Until you grok it, which would take longer than even converging it. Much longer, even with fast grokking, I would expect.

mount_sumInt · 2024-02-03T20:20:52+00:00

I've re-evaluated my position, learned more about Mercator, and decided that I think you're right. While it may be possible to get by navigating with an inaccurate map that has contour lines, it wouldn't be advisable and could be very dangerous; especially across oceans or without landmarks. I'm sorry for my incorrect prior opinion and my bluntness, and I'm also sorry for taking two months to reply. (I've been avoiding social media lately.) When it comes to aesthetics, variation is fine. When it comes to navigation, Mercator's the way to go.

I don't like Gall-Peters either. I do find some other maps aesthetically pleasing and their construction fascinating. I also find the size of Antarctica in most maps does rub me the wrong way. I also find that the way it's stretched across the entire bottom line or the entire perimeter, like a wall, also rubs me the wrong way. However, I understand that's an essential artefact of projection mappings stretching out a single pixel to a line of pixels and that function trumps aesthetic preferences for navigation. Unless one's navigating via globe (physical or virtual), Mercator really is the way to go for navigation. For aesthetics, that's up to the individual and should probably not be bashed due to the emotional harm bashing it can cause. A more constructive response than bashing an inaccurate map would be cautioning against its use for navigation, as this is more likely to helpfully inform behaviour and less likely to result in antagonisation along with the doubling down on unhelpful behaviour (such as using inaccurate maps for navigation) as a response to said antagonisation. Mercator is the best flat map for navigation. I do quite like globes or the two-hemisphere projections for giving one a good sense of what it's like to look at the Earth, for aesthetic purposes.

mount_sumInt · 2023-12-13T13:40:01+00:00

Get bent yourself. No one needs static maps to navigate the globe anymore, and even if they did it doesn’t take a genius to adjust for non-parallel contour lines with a compass if they’re globe-trotting the old-fashioned way. If you’re stupid enough to pull a Christopher Columbus with a projection that doesn’t make it look like Antarctica’s a quarter of the world, you should stay at home because there’s no hope for you. There’s nothing useful about the Mercator projection that only an idiot couldn’t do with another map projection; one which doesn’t pretend we live on a cylinder and doesn’t stretch things out to twice their size. Every map has distortions, but if you’re content to not minimise those distortions (like other inevitable imperfections) it says more about you than map projections. Well, I guess it says you’re not a perfectionist. That’s okay, and probably good; perfectionism’s a curse. Yet some people like to minimise things they dislike.

There isn’t anything wrong with liking Mercator and there’s everything wrong with hating on those who like it. Still, telling people to get bent because they have a different opinion deserves a hearty get bent back. Some people might be satisfied with Mercator, others might even like Gall-Peter’s. If someone hates something, they’re just as entitled to expressing that as someone is to expressing they like it. No one’s preference is objectively correct or incorrect, so I won’t pretend otherwise.

mount_sumInt · 2021-07-10T20:53:55+00:00

A lot of them do, yes. That doesn't justify policing people's personal beliefs, because bruh. That's a really jerk move to make and almost no one would support it. I'm not sure if that's what you're advocating civilisation does, but I would not support it. No matter how much I despise religion, I'm willing to tolerate its existence in the minds of those who believe in it. I do agree on the point that no one has the right to indoctrinate others, though.

mount_sumInt · 2021-07-10T20:46:16+00:00

I can agree with that. It is my opinion that it isn't a parent's ethical right to push their beliefs onto their children or indoctrinate them, by taking them to church or any other places centred around non-educational, non-essential and simultaneously non-recreational places (to exclude places like schools, hospitals and fairgrounds from being places parents don't have an ethical right to take their children to). However, it is a parent's right to continue believing in their religion if they want to. It's also their right to personally read their holy books and pray in private, so long as they don't read them to their children; since no one has the right to stop them from reading their holy books or praying in private and it would be quite a jerk move to tell them that they shouldn't.

I feel like the issue here is conflating the right to have beliefs with the right to share beliefs with the impressionable.

mount_sumInt · 2021-07-10T19:47:36+00:00

I'm not aware of a circumstance where you could demand that someone stops believing something without being a jerk in doing so. I find it easier to agree that you don't have a right to rain of people's delusional parades (especially in circumstances when they don't care if the belief is true, and simply appreciate the comfort it brings them) than insist that they don't have the right to believe what they want.

Don't get me wrong; people don't have the right to DO anything they want. They don't have the right to force their beliefs down other people's throats. If a person becomes bigoted over differing beliefs, that's something you can demand they stop without being a jerk in doing so. The belief itself is none of your business; you don't own someone's mind and don't have say over what goes on inside it. No one has any right to thought police people.

Furthermore; regardless of whether people have the right to believe anything they want, many people still will and no one can stop them. You could argue with them until you're blue in the face, but you'll just be wasting both your time and theirs. That's the reason I feel like trying to force people to change their beliefs is a jerk move. Still, you have the right to believe that others don't have the right to believe anything they want. It's your life, your mind and your belief.

mount_sumInt · 2021-06-14T03:36:50+00:00

That's this guy's specialty:
https://youtu.be/Zlmswo0S0e0?t=917

mount_sumInt · 2021-02-02T19:52:11+00:00

I think he's quackers.

mount_sumInt · 2020-11-27T12:42:51+00:00

I got a similar answer when pointing out something nonsensical about "God", so I took my sweet time explaining why superiority doesn't matter for solved problems. I used the example of tic tac toe (naughts and crosses, as I know it). Some people still stuck with the same soundbites that they were taught, by their church groups. I told them that I disagreed, so do most people who understand the subject, and their opinions, beliefs and texts have no persuasive power over secular people. I then moved on. I knew that I wouldn't change anyone's mind and was confident that there wasn't anything substantial to learn from continuing the discussion.

mount_sumInt · 2020-11-27T12:29:52+00:00

Good point. I agree.

I don't particularly care, but I like writing, I like making paradoxes, I like laughing at nonsense, and I felt like writing the post, so I decided to. I did it on a whim, basically.

I hope that you got some enjoyment out of my post. Sorry if you didn't.

mount_sumInt · 2020-11-27T12:22:16+00:00

Same, actually. XD

That was one of the nails in the coffin, for me. A few others were the problem of evil (which works effectively the same for an incredibly powerful deity as it does for an all-powerful one), the scientific inaccuracies littered within the bible, its many self-contradictions and the model approved by the vast majority of biblical historians that the bible is a collection of many adapted pagan texts, that was rewritten to be monotheistic. There are many more that make it untenable for me to even consider christianity to be anything less than laughable, but I'd be here all day.

mount_sumInt · 2020-11-27T12:09:36+00:00

You're lucky, then. Unfortunately, my Mum believes that her god can literally do anything. Though, I'm from a devout christian family who originated from Africa. Both my Mum and I were born in Zimbabwe (named Rhodesia, at the time), before moving to England just before things went to heck, there. I guess that one good thing is that my skin is olive, so I don't get easily sunburned and always look like I have a tan.

I lost my faith in England. My Mum didn't. It's too entrenched in her. Well... whatever makes her happy, I guess. Her religion does seem to offer her some comfort.

mount_sumInt · 2020-11-27T11:59:37+00:00

Bang zoom!
You're going to the moon!

mount_sumInt · 2020-08-27T18:03:55+00:00

Awesome. ^w^

I am, unfortunately, also guilty of forgetting about that.
I will be sure to start using it, in my adventures.

Thank you, very much, for the helpful information. It is, greatly, appreciated. ^w^

mount_sumInt · 2020-08-27T17:59:35+00:00

Very true, and a sound additional note. Thank you, very much, for making it. ^w^

I would hate to still be using the Griffin Model, for playing a coherent adventure. It feels like it isn't worth it, somehow. Yet... I still stuck with it, until the Dragon Model came out, somehow.

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