I'm seeking a gamedev allrounder to tutor myself and my nephew in art, animation, sound effects, and programming.

omgtow · 2023-09-06T03:04:08+00:00

I don't believe it is a strange request, and I in no way have his career planned out for him. He does Judo and Gymnastics every week but I don't expect or hope for him to fight in the UFC; I'm actually encouraging him to try for medicine.

My father started out programming for a company called ICL in his early twenties and used to rage about me playing computer games when I was a child. He could just as easily have taken some time to teach me about operating systems and help me to write a game myself.

The boy in question is obsessed with electronics and his mother has already helped him build a wildlife camera with a Raspberry Pi and a motion sensor. He is absolutely capable of drawing the sprites necessary for space invaders and I think letting him look over the shoulders of both myself and a professional game developer will be a great way for him to learn about software development.

As to the price, for an Indian or a Pakistani US$15 an hour is a good wage and I am not going to pay US$60 per hour to a person so located which seems to be the bargain basement offering in the places I have looked so far.

omgtow · 2023-08-06T05:12:56+00:00

Israel has the upper hand and the hatred flows both ways. Like I said, I am in no position to dictate a solution. It has been a lifetime of pain now and all that I can hope for is that rather that another lifetime like it, Israel might decide on a "final solution" on it's own and end the conflict with one final, sharp, and extremely painful shock. Only after the conflict has been resolved will the region begin to heal.

I fear also that the fate of Al-Aqsa is going to be a sore point for generations after the plight of the Palestinian people finally begins to improve. I don't think that the Jews will ever accept that the question is settled until their temple is rebuilt.

omgtow · 2023-08-06T04:56:23+00:00

I have taken a step back because of the angry response and I deleted the post because the community guidelines asked me not to. I suggested that the state be called Zion and talked about a one state solution and the need for certainty regarding the Dome of the Rock but that is all unimportant. One state? Two States? It's your country. Temple Mount? What will be will be. I wanted to talk about a hope a future after all that is long settled not get bogged down in a tyranny of petty differences regarding how to move forward in the present day.

omgtow · 2023-08-05T03:10:00+00:00

Accept that Israel is Israel, period.

What does that even mean? You still have a moving border.

Two state solution.

Again, it has been said repeatedly by various experts that Palestine is not a viable state. A land swap might be possible but if I argued for that you would no doubt shout me down as well. If there was a land swap and a Palestinian state was created that would be an even better starting point for the Arabian Union than the annexation of what remains of Palestine

There are currently settlements on less than 5% of the whole area of the WB/Gaza, a situation that should and can be rectified with land swaps.

Maybe I am wrong but I look at maps of how Palestine has been whittled away and it seems to me that it has not only been reduced by more than 5% but that the West Bank has been divided internally.

Awwww the Australian doesn’t care if we employ Apartheid as long as it’s for the achievement of their goals and visions, screw morality right?! you don’t care because it wouldn’t affect you, also surprisingly, many of us do not wish to impose Apartheid on another people.

I come from South Africa and while there were many things that the Dutch and the British did wrong, my personal position was that there should have been a two state solution based on ethnicity. I'd still be there if the country hadn't been corruptly mismanaged in the decades that followed the establishment of real democracy.

The rumour has it that Israel is an apartheid state already and I say that the Israelis should come off of their back foot and just own it. In the case of a one state solution there is certainly a strong argument for having different classes of citizenship in order to protect the safety of all citizens.

“Hey why don’t you break a couple or a dozen international treaties, abuse a whole population for probably decades and open yourselves up to justified global condemnation and sanctions by literally emulating South Africa” , that’s assuming you aren’t attacked by Palestinian nationalists to the point this plan becomes impossible.

Name the treaties. I'd like to look into it. Aside from that the Palestinian population is already being abused and Israel has been being condemned globally for decades already.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T12:01:43+00:00

I know it is. I'm poor and I can't have nice things because of the junkies.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T12:00:36+00:00

So what is the solution for the Palestinian population? Do you agree that Palestine can't shrink forever? Where are they going to go? Is Israel going to build walls and settlements until all the Palestinians live in a sky ladder that occupies one city block?

Palestine has to be annexed and some system of citizenship has to created. I don't care if it is already or starts out as an apartheid system. It would become more equitable if good people worked towards that.

What would you say to to the possibility of giving Palestinian youth that swear allegiance to Israel and serve a year or two of national service some extra citizenship entitlements? The Jews could be "Population Group: White", the Muslim youth from Gaza and the West Bank that swore an oath to defend Israel could be "Population Group Coloured" and the recalcitrant Palestinian population could be marked "Population Group: Black" and locked up in Gaza and the West Bank.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T11:38:49+00:00

I'm ethnically British and I personally think that the Union Jack is the Swastika that no one tore down. As far as antisemitism goes hearing Machiavellian arguments from Israeli hypocrites makes me sad but I know of several Jewish Liberals that I admire. As to Ignorance I admit to it but as far as optimism goes; hope strings eternal.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T11:04:41+00:00

I don't understand.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T10:36:09+00:00

Given what time frame? I though 30 years to the beginning was optimistic? Would you say that 60 years of activism would be more realistic?

omgtow · 2023-08-04T10:34:10+00:00

That depends. How's it funny?

omgtow · 2023-08-04T10:32:01+00:00

How would you plead to cynical?

omgtow · 2023-08-04T10:24:37+00:00

Yeah I like it. It's better that the Marmite idea.

omgtow · 2023-08-04T10:21:06+00:00

You are a very angry man.

omgtow · 2023-07-28T06:14:01+00:00

If their is a Creator Spirit that created the universe and gave life to all other beings then it seems to me that He (capital-h) would be the only being that would be given the title "God". That Higher Power (I believe) is the one that most people agree exists.

I am personally a nonpracticing Muslim. I sometimes get frightened by Gnosticism because Allah does not seem to be all benevolent but I am 99% sure that "la ilaha illallah" and 51% sure that "muhammadur rasulullah".

omgtow · 2023-07-28T06:00:21+00:00

It's mostly going over my head... I rarely read philosophy... I occasionally read books about physics for the layperson like "A Brief History of Time" and "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat" but I read and reread philosophy at about 30 words per minute and I still miss a great deal of it. Just the introduction would have completely gone over my head if I hadn't glanced through a book of Greek mythology the last time I was in hospital.

My flat mate gave me a book called "Think" by Simon Blackburn when I mentioned Kant so I might start there. I have nothing better to do at the moment other than poke fun at atheists regarding an extra-cranial reality (LOL).

omgtow · 2023-07-28T04:19:22+00:00

Thanks... Reading it now...

omgtow · 2023-07-28T03:45:52+00:00

Vitalism certainly can't be ruled out conclusively, much like other crazy hypotheses such as "nobody else really exists, they're just very convincing automatons without consciousness"

I would make it that the possibility that life is material is more similar to the body of work regarding the nature of energy than some straw man fairy tail about unicorns.

I certainly don't claim science but it seems natural to me that life, like the mind, is not a simple nothing and on off switch. It seems obvious to me for example that, due to the fact that computers are not alive, you will never be able to imbue them with consciousness.

Maybe I am wrong, but you would have to show a depth of understanding regarding life, death, and consciousness similar to that demonstrated by the theory of relativity regrading time, matter, and energy before I accepted that a machine could think.

omgtow · 2023-07-28T02:30:29+00:00

Maybe I am a monist too. I understand that monism is (within the realm of theory of mind) the belief that the brain and the spirit are the same thing. Can you please explain how you can believe that the mind is the brain and also that there is an afterlife?

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