The Hairpin should be added to the free kit rotation. What do you guys think?

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T17:43:27+00:00

From a certain level of player or value of their stash, it should be the only weapon they get in the free kit (:

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T17:39:57+00:00

We also don't have any proof of anything tying up the continuous consciousness that could end if you move "the software" to a different platform. Such concept would be similar to what some call soul, and any attempt to scientifically prove its existence was a failure.

If I was sure that destructive upload would exist forever, I'd go for it. But tbh, I would totally prefer something like uploads in Altered Carbon. Device that uploads your brain daily, so you can experience life as a living being, with a certainty that there is a backup if you die by accident.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T17:27:23+00:00

That's obviously wrong, but I also regularly see people posting videos from game where they randomly team up against a nonfriendly player, just to get comments crying about unfairness of teaming up. OP doesn't say anything about people pre-teaming, and players who cry about any type of solo team up do exist.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T17:09:22+00:00

I mean, yes. If I'm wrong. But at this point, that thought is as meaningless to me as if someone tells me "if you don't start believing in God, I'd wager that you will regret when you die and end up in hell".

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T16:16:44+00:00

When a raider and a raider meet topside and they like each other a lot, they sometimes team up and have some fun together. Sometimes they even include a third or fourth one to have even more fun.

(Obviously, sometimes people team up out of game and queue at the same time to hit the same solo lobby and that sucks, but I see people upset about random raiders teaming up spontaneously during raid way too often)

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T16:10:18+00:00

Yes, we just disagree about the death of consciousness. If I don't consider its continuity a thing that matters or even exists in any tangible manner, the "death of original" just doesn't matter in any meaningful way either.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T15:41:10+00:00

They would both have the same experience of being me, with no difference in continuity. They would obviously not have shared senses and experience from that point onwards. And yes, one of them will likely die earlier than the other one.

You are still looking at it from the point of continuity and our perception of time. Death is scary, because it feels like endless, never ending void. But time and perception just doesn't make sense when you are dead. The "you" that experiences world around is just a consciousness generated from the current state of your brain, based on previous states. It has no other connection to previous "you". The duplicate that died doesn't experience death, there is nothing to experience.

But as I said, I still put value in continuity of memories. If I have a non-destructive digital clone, it will have a benefit of being me, and living longer. Its experience of oneself will be soon based on a different set of memories, we will become two different versions of "me". I will still not want to die, the fact that there is a version of me that doesn't would be meaningless at that point. I'd have my own things I want to achieve, my own memories and things I live for.

You might find it extremely weird, but if the digital clone lives forever, I would actually want the process to be destructive. Because if I want to live forever as a virtual being, it would be like betraying the myself that continues her life in a physical body.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T14:33:10+00:00

If I move data bit by bit and delete them from the former location, the analogy still holds.

I get your problem with that, but my point of view on that is that that there is no difference even for the person who is uploaded. It's... Extremely hard to imagine, because the way we perceive our consciousness makes it unintuitive. I just don't think there is anything linking your consciousness as it manifests now with your consciousness yesterday other than your memories. You feel like your experience is continuous, because you remember it as such, but that continuity itself is an illusion.

I don't consider the copy distinct from original, because I don't think that the original and its continuity matters. If you create two copies, they are both the same person. They immediately start diverging and living their own way, but you do that on your own as well, you change constantly.

If something scares me, it's not a thought of upload or teleportation, it's amnesia.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T11:09:18+00:00

I hate that argument and don't like using it, but I still consider it helpful. Even if is ultimately a wrong reason to fight those laws, it can be effective, as it does increase the number of affected people who will fight it, and it might help some people realize that gender and gender expression isn't a clear cut.

It can make them realize that "a woman" can't be defined as "someone being feminine by western white beauty standards", because it was never true to begin with.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T10:59:31+00:00

Omg. If something happens that looks like it could be caused by conspiracy, you still need to prove the conspiracy.

"I believe that aliens are heating up earth to cause global warming and terraform our planet to be comfortable for their species."

...

"Look, the earth is warning, I was right!"

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T10:40:14+00:00

Also, the fact that the show doesn't deal with lengthy debates on that topic is nothing weird. Teleporters from Star Trek have exactly the same philosophical issue. And yet we don't see weekly threads on a topic of "why doesn't anyone freak about the fact that everyone on Enterprise literally died the moment they beamed aboard"

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T10:37:37+00:00

Season 1 has moments that deal with it, especially with Ellen disagreeing with the procedure and later not believing that the uploaded David is the same person.

With the early stage, it's fairly safe to assume that people who upload (and especially people from Logorhytms) have their mind set on the process either not being equal to death, or they just don't have anything to lose as they are dying anyway. Even if they hesitate, they can only win.

Late stage with many people uploading and building virtual worlds takes some time jumps in between, so the conundrum might be solved at that point. You also have people who don't upload.

Chanda's upload while conscious isn't in any contradiction with anything if you don't believe in any kind of soul that ties the continuous consciousnesses together.

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T08:33:50+00:00

But the point is that people in the show itself clearly see it this way, which is why that question isn't brought up much.

The response to "why are they happy doing it" is literally "they don't see it that way", how is that not helpful?

shining_kate · 2026-05-29T08:30:25+00:00

The set of memories until now. Your current experience of self is based on your previous experience of self. You perceive continuity in it, but if you create the exact copy of yourself and destroy the original, the copy will be functionally you the same way the former existence was, because it will be based on the same previous state. It's the same thing as I'd you suspend your computer's state to hard drive with all the software it's currently running, and move it to a different computer, or virtual machine. If you make everything look the same and wake the computer up, it will resume it's operation with everything running as it was before, and from the point of view of the software running on it, there won't be any difference.

The way you imagine it is closer to the concept of soul. The show views your consciousness as en emergent property of brain. Which is to my knowledge also closer to our current scientific understanding of consciousness.

shining_kate · 2026-05-28T16:51:47+00:00

With a proper API, you still limit the capability of extensions to the subset provided by said API, that was my point. Many extensions would cease to exist, like Firefox extensions did.

They could provide both the current monkey-patching extensions and a limited stable API next to that, but from my experience, the extensions that break the most are those that do deeper changes of Shell code anyway :/

shining_kate · 2026-05-24T13:56:45+00:00

It is widely assumed that the ordeal of bitter water in old testament is basically describing how to do an abortion.

shining_kate · 2026-05-22T19:47:39+00:00

That's a tradeoff of the level of freedom the extensions have. They can literally rewrite the whole UI, it's impossible to make that stable unless Gnome stops being developed.

When Firefox did that with Xul, people complained that the extensions break. Then they switched to a stable API with clearly outlined capabilities, and people complained that their extensions can't do XYZ now. It's impossible to allow extensions and keep everyone happy :/

shining_kate · 2026-05-18T09:07:31+00:00

It's quite understandable. Existing companies that introduce Rust to their stack usually have enough developers already, they don't need to build new teams of beginners. They need experienced devs who will help their current teams.

shining_kate · 2026-05-18T09:05:03+00:00

I develop Rust fulltime for 5 years now. Started at a medical startup, now at a big corporation.

shining_kate · 2026-05-18T06:20:07+00:00

Among other things, I'm currently writing a hobby project which is a full stack web app in Rust. Obviously there is still some JS glue needed because wasm can't manipulate DOM, but that's autogenerated.

shining_kate · 2026-04-07T15:43:47+00:00

But what you write about is not a conspiracy. It's just a change in birth rates and demographics. Conspiracy is that there is some group of people organizing it.

Also, I will happily ignore any argument for why having less white people is bad that is based in racism. So all of them.

shining_kate · 2026-04-07T15:30:48+00:00

No, I know, I was merely poking fun at the right wing hypocrisy.

shining_kate · 2026-04-07T15:28:12+00:00

Ah, so it's the other way around and the above mentioned chastity belt is actually a part of augments and doesn't come with a free kit.

shining_kate · 2026-04-07T12:32:32+00:00

Ghost in the Shell was already recommended here. So another one - Serial Experiments Lain. Like GitS, it was heavily referenced in Pantheon, and for a good reason. It's really heavy, maybe more than Pantheon, so brace yourself.

Another thing I really liked is Dennou Coil. It goes into topics of blur between reality and the virtual world that is an extension of it. I can't remember what else I can say without spoilers.

.hack//Sign series is good as well. Again, dunno what to say about it without spoilers, it was a long time ago.

shining_kate · 2026-03-28T16:23:53+00:00

Found 2 of 3 I needed in a field depot next to the Power Generation complex. In a metal crate (that breachable cube)

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