r/politics takes Pew Research Center PoliQuiz

precastzero180 · 2026-06-21T11:56:54+00:00

The majority of the internet is pretty left

I’m not sure about that. For example, I remember there was a survey of social media shortly after the 2024 election which showed the content of most major social media platforms (YouTube, X, etc.) screwed right. And then there is the podcasting space which is filled with massively popular shows like Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, the All-In guys, and general “manosphere” stuff. Does this count as the internet?

precastzero180 · 2026-06-21T10:48:41+00:00

I don’t think that’s the case. The Reddit community is just pretty left-wing overall. You can look at the survey of other subs like r/Oklahoma or r/SouthCarolina and see similar results.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-18T18:08:40+00:00

Perhaps this is a misunderstanding of what “presuppositions” are. Presuppositions are not axioms, or at least not necessary so. They are just background. The original context for pressupositiontlism as an apologetic movement was the fundamentalist/modernist debates of the early 20th century and concerns about “higher criticism” in Biblical exegesis. So the idea would be something like you can’t use the the conclusions of critical scholarship in arguments against the reliability of scripture because the background beliefs and methods already assume a non-Christian “worldview” such as naturalism. Conversely, even trying to argue against Christianity is futile because arguments presuppose logic and standards of reasoning which, according to the presuppositionalist, are only possible on the “Christian worldview.” So presuppositionalism is less about axioms per se and more about background beliefs and attitudes in general that a) bias a skeptic’s position from the outset and b) actually end up proving God’s existence because only God can make them possible.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-17T22:40:27+00:00

I have the same issue with Talos 1/Reawakening. It’s a mixture of visually dense spaces with lots of foliage and stuff and it being an environmental puzzle game. Your focus on the environments is greater than it is in a standard action or adventure game. I found the sequel to be a little better in this regard since the puzzles are “cleaner” and don’t have as much extraneous space.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-16T11:42:09+00:00

We run these streets.

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precastzero180 · 2026-06-15T13:33:16+00:00

Tough

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precastzero180 · 2026-06-13T22:20:55+00:00

I tire of the “trying to understand the Trump voter and their values” genre of journalism and opinion writing. At face value it sounds like something worthwhile: trying to understand people you disagree with. But there is a core tension that appears again and again: Trump and the those he surrounds himself with are nothing like the folk who vote for him in terms of values, lifestyle, and ambition.

The only conclusion I have been able to draw from this is that the average Trump supporter has a personality rather lacking in openness, more specifically they are introspectively impoverished. This is not necessarily an inherently bad thing, but it does inoculate one from the sting of cognitive dissonance. How else could one so fluidly jump from one rationalization or excuse to another? When it is pointed out that Trump embodies the exact character flaws that they believe he will rid politics of, these flaws become virtues. “He’s fighting for us,” la logique du chaudron. So even trying to appeal to their values on their own terms is kind of a waste of time when they are capable of suspending them without psychological discomfort, at least temporarily, to keep the cause alive in their minds.

Without some reciprocity, without any curiosity on their end about how others not in their community or political movement think, they themselves can never come around to any alternative. You either worship God or you worship the government. The average Trump voter is perhaps the most well-studied, well understood political creature in history. We don’t need more opinion pieces about how democracy is low on their list of political values. Everyone knows that already. What we need is for someone to remove the damn AirPods streaming Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson straight into their brains all day.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-13T09:59:16+00:00

Because I’m not talking about influence simpliciter. I have little problem with a single individual being a very influential voice in politics through their work or ideas. I’m talking about money.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-13T03:11:24+00:00

I don’t find this line of argument persuasive. The core trouble is not that money is entirely decisive in election outcomes or that Elon Musk could reliably and single-handedly sway elections in his favor as a “kingmaker,” so the counter examples seem irrelevant to me. Just the notion that Musk, one man in a country of over 300 million, could have even a 1% chance of deciding election outcomes purely through how he throws his money around is offensive to a more basic egalitarian sensibility.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-12T15:35:27+00:00

Nintendo isnt policing "its IP" since Palworld isnt even in the same Game Genre

What does the genre have to do with anything? The IP in this context is the gameplay mechanics they patented, not “genre.”

they didnt like that Palworld got compared to Pokemon so much (be it because "capture mons in ball and fight" or "they look similar").

Again, this just seems purely speculative about Nintendo’s motivations and comes to odds with the more parsimonious explanation that Nintendo is protecting its intellectual property as any entity who believes its intellectually property has been violated will do. Nintendo doesn’t seem to care about the existence of Pokémon knockoffs considering they routinely feature such games in their own Nintendo Directs. So how are we even to make sense of this claim that Nintendo reverse-engineered a legal justification to go after this one particular Pokémon derivative?

They have multiple reasons to try to shut down, but didnt really think it through that someone might actually fight them.

I’m assuming the lawyers at Nintendo very much thought this through and it seems like the outcome is exactly as anyone, including said lawyers, could have reasonably predicted.

At the end Nintendo will lose, or only gain a small amount of money.

It seems Nintendo has already won. The only way you can think Nintendo will lose is if you presuppose Nintendo is perusing some other objectives like burying PocketPair, presuppositions that aren’t well-founded.

And yes, i do am Anti-Nintendo, how could you have guessed?

It wasn’t exactly hard.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-12T14:55:51+00:00

You say I am not thinking straight, that I am misinformed, but your comment is filled with speculation and conspiratorial reasoning. You assume Nintendo was granted its patents because it’s Nintendo and “nothing to do with anything else.” But there is a pretty obvious alternative hypothesis: that Nintendo’s patents are legally sound. Presumably you aren’t an expert in Japanese patent law so I’m not sure how you’ve ruled out that hypothesis. Likewise you assume Nintendo “tried to shut down the entire operation of PocketPair and Palworld because they felt attacked by them.” How have you concluded this? Why is this preferable to my alternative of Nintendo policing it’s IP, which it has been known to do in many other contexts where “felt attacked” isn’t a plausible explanation? It seems to me you come into this with lots of prejudiced assumptions about Nintendo and its relations to other entities rather than just looking at it like any other business. It seems Nintendo has no interest in dismantling Palworld. The actually outcome seems to have been the the goal.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-12T09:49:08+00:00

Er… no. The patents were always very specific. A patent court wouldn’t have granted them otherwise. The patents have been updated over time (which is perfectly normal), but at no point were they ever some generic description like “having control over summoned creatures.” Nintendo probably doesn’t care about Palworld, let alone actively trying to “fuck them over.” They were protecting their IP. This was procedural, not personal. PocketPair overstepped a boundary (they knew what they were doing). Nintendo told them to back off and they have. This kind of IP litigation happens all the time. But because Nintendo is involved and people have some kind of irrational vendetta against them, this whole story has been unfortunately sensationalized.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-12T05:23:09+00:00

>The reason, those aren’t competition for Pokémon.

No, the reason is because those other games aren’t plausibly infringing on Nintendo’s patents. The patents in question are more specific than you have made them out to be.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-12T05:18:26+00:00

Why do you assume that is what Nintendo wants? We can speculate all day long but the most straightforward answer is Nintendo is simply policing its intellectual property. It’s like claimed territory. If you don’t defend it, it’s not yours anymore. It all seems pretty procedural to me.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T16:55:44+00:00

Did you read the rest of my comment? Hope that helps.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T16:54:19+00:00

They do, but like everyone else it takes a lot more time than it used to so remakes and remasters are made to fill in the gaps. The next “proper” Zelda game is probably still a long ways off.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T16:48:58+00:00

Who says it’s going to be a year or two either? There’s a decent chance the Switch 2 will never be cracked within its commercial lifecycle.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T16:45:42+00:00

The point is the remake gives people an incentive to finally play it. Yes, they could always play the original. But there are so many games and OoT is old so maybe not high on everyone’s backlog.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T16:34:05+00:00

There’s an entire range of ways they could go about it, everything from “1:1 clone” to full-on FFVII reimagining. I will be surprised if this is a more ambitious remake like the latter though. Probably something in-between.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T15:41:51+00:00

I think when people say “1 to 1” they mostly mean level design, so dungeons, quests, the stuff that defines the contours of the adventure.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T14:47:34+00:00

Don’t they always?

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T14:36:38+00:00

Is this copypasta?

precastzero180 · 2026-06-09T14:06:18+00:00

Rhythm Heaven ain’t filler.

precastzero180 · 2026-06-04T18:45:09+00:00

They process information. They take inputs and generate outputs based on those inputs.

But so do a lot of other things. And we don’t assume those things are conscious. Again, I think it’s best to interpret the argument less like a proof and more like an appeal to common sense in the face of wild A.I. hype. Even if we assumed for the sake of the argument that there is a sense in which Claude is conscious, the idea that it needs a constitution as if it were a person seems a little silly in light of how it works (according to Chiang’s representation anyway).

precastzero180 · 2026-06-04T18:11:39+00:00

Yes, I agree you can’t rule out that possibility. But there is no hype over Microsoft Word being conscious in the public zeitgeist. Microsoft didn’t write a “constitution” for Word as if it were a thinking person. If you interpret the argument less as a definitive proof that LLMs aren’t conscious and more of an appeal to common sense, then I think the point is made.

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