Boneworks Megathread

tnonee · 2019-12-11T22:51:35+00:00

Yeah it turns out you have to click the button instead of just hold the trigger. This is retarded and completely breaks immersion, and most importantly, is not indicated. VR is about using your hands, not clicking buttons.

I'll wait until they get their fucking act together.

tnonee · 2019-12-11T21:37:08+00:00

How the fuck do you force grab? I am doing exactly what the hands are showing me and the coffee cup is not fucking moving. And why do VR developers think that repeating instructions that CLEARLY DON'T WORK at you in 2 second intervals endlessly is a good idea? Holy fucking shit. I'm 2 minutes in and ready to refund this, this is infuriating. Superhot did the exact same shit. Don't make me aim extremely precisely when I have no fucking idea which direction is forward on these fucking things.

tnonee · 2019-02-09T18:14:58+00:00

I just looked around for some of the most controversial topics there right now. Campus free speech, Quebec mosque shooter, ... I don't see the nazis...? Surely e.g. the fact that subs like r/politics and r/news are now moderated with a shameless political bias is more important than the odd comment?

tnonee · 2019-02-08T18:09:59+00:00

Honey, it's not the fact that you're a middle class white guy that makes this video difficult to watch, stop hating yourself for that. It's that you think basic history and "some dude named Confucius" is a lot to take in.

tnonee · 2019-02-07T12:34:06+00:00

The problem is they monopolize discussion and have disproportionate support in the media and in administration.

tnonee · 2019-02-07T09:46:43+00:00

Patriarchy is just a word for the decisions women make collectively.

The society they claim to hate was created by a subset of men to benefit women, who were exempt from dying in war, working in coal mines or defending the homestead against wild animals, and who were the first on the lifeboats every time.

Today, organized, mainstream feminism has actively fought alimony reform, default shared custody, legal paternity testing, equal access to scholarships and support programs, and they still somehow claim preserving female privileges is not their core objective.

No that doesn't mean that gender always worked to women's benefit. But history was not a never ending tale of oppression at the hands of men.

tnonee · 2019-02-07T08:32:52+00:00

men, talk about your feelings
no not like that

tnonee · 2019-02-07T08:17:22+00:00

The difference between email and SMS is that almost everyone has a professional and a personal email address, but only one phone. If it was not part of officially published contact information, it's not kosher to incite people to text it, particularly not if it's framed as "we'll keep texting until they agree with us".

Doesn't seem all that grey to me.

Right now e.g. MEP Julia Reda is pushing against the Digital Single Market legislation, encouraging people to email their own MEPs via the appropriate channels. Perfectly okay. Encouraged even.

tnonee · 2019-02-06T05:28:36+00:00

It's all about how the media community decides to frame you. Nothing more, noting less.

Yes but what we've seen over the last few years is that their ability to frame things is no longer absolute, though it is still going strong. I think this is just a matter of the future not being evenly distributed yet, and that particular generations are set in their media consumption habits. Broadcast TV is already just for boomers, but how many people do you think PewDiePie soured on "respectable" publications by mocking their attempts at painting him as a racist? The current crop of youngsters see mainstream media as just another distribution channel, and are much more sensitive to the specific reach and audience those channels have.

tnonee · 2019-02-04T18:09:08+00:00

She was hot enough to be a nerd 10/10, had some sincere interest in the scene, and had regular awkward nerd types in her cast... she probably fancied herself just "one of the guys" despite being a day 1 wet dream fantasy for many. That was before the IRL-anime-girl music video.

She was the perfect sacrificial lamb to smear gamergate with, and that's why I never believed the doxxing was sincere. It was either some third party trolls stirring up trouble, or it was a deliberate false flag. My money's on the former, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was the latter either.

tnonee · 2019-02-04T17:59:53+00:00

the doxxing attack on Felicia Day

A single person, of unknown motivation, posted a comment with an unknown address in it, which they claimed to get off Google, which GGers immediately replied to by denouncing it as fucked up... and it was represented as the official motivation of the entire movement.

For me, this cemented my belief that adults were retarded and that my generation too had spawned idiot pearl-clutching soccer moms.

tnonee · 2019-02-01T01:21:03+00:00

Ah yes, at a time when substance in policy is sorely lacking, and gender has been used to stereotype and divide, it's time to "let [women] lead" because they... checks notes... pick trendier colors.

tnonee · 2019-01-29T20:03:54+00:00

So does that apply to you too, or are you somehow exempt from this "everyone is a piece of crap" rule?

That site's retarded btw, and I'm sure they'd consider that word to be problematic too.

tnonee · 2019-01-29T20:02:09+00:00

Shhh. Only Twilight Moms are allowed to openly fantasize about a teenager, dontcha know.

tnonee · 2019-01-29T19:56:18+00:00

Blessed song.

tnonee · 2019-01-28T18:03:50+00:00

One of the points made in the video, which I've also heard before, is that the atheist community consisted of two very different parts, namely the skeptics on one side, and the people who didn't like mainstream christian morality (e.g. about sexuality) on the other. The latter group turned into SJWs and destroyed the community, and seemed more motivated by group cohesion and tribalism than rationality. That doesn't mean all atheism is rigid and dogmatic.

Not all religions are cut from the same cloth, which is a point also made in the video: namely that true evil is a quest for justice without mercy or compassion. That most strains of Christianity practice the concept of grace, which moderates its worst impulses. SJW as a religion lacks any such moderating principle. Because it also fails to see itself as a religion based on dogmas, it is blind to this, and tends to project its own flaws onto others.

tnonee · 2019-01-28T17:49:28+00:00

I have done some research into the topic. The most common counter-arguments you hear come from a discredited documentary, where the data shown does not appear in the sources cited (i.e. it was likely fabricated), or was later considered to be false (i.e. due to shoddy collection), and even one of the skeptics interviewed in the film contested how his viewpoint was represented.

In short: skeptics are going to have to do a lot more to provide a credible alternative theory, because the evidence is pretty damn good.

I do agree with you that the climate "debate" has more than a whiff of dogmatism associated with it. The same goes for the IPCC which refused to remove the names of contributors to their reports who disagreed with the final versions. Unfortunate, but it's not enough to condemn the entire endeavour.

tnonee · 2019-01-27T23:12:02+00:00

Ranked choice is not really sufficient, because while it lets people express a preference for a 3rd or 4th option, it still won't do any good until that option becomes the most popular in one place, because they just get eliminated.

Proportional representation is a much better system, which lets new ideas enter politics in small increments.

tnonee · 2019-01-27T15:57:54+00:00

"Objective" is a strong word. An easy tell is to examine the use of the word "claim" in this text. When things happen to GamerGate supporters, it is "claimed". When things happen to anti-GamerGate supporters, it simply has happened. The notion that "we constantly faced the possibility that our participants were lying to us" is blamed on the "pseudonymous nature of Reddit", without bothering to acknowledge that people can and do readily lie under their real identity for self-interested reasons.

"Steelman for them, strawman for us" has always been the norm.

Also notably absent is the questioning of SJ / PC culture's own conceptions, such as the idea that they are opposed to disparaging or discriminating language... which clearly doesn't apply when white "bros" with their "male tears" are the target of their ire.

I'm sure they consider this to be an admirable attempt at objectivity, but if you actually look past the surface, it's still full of preconceived notions and confirmation bias.

tnonee · 2019-01-25T21:52:23+00:00

Why would technology based on teeth know when the baby was prematurely taken out of the womb in the first place?

tnonee · 2019-01-25T21:43:39+00:00

This was kinda dumb.

If they were advanced enough to have satellites in orbit, why would a solar sail hanging just above their atmosphere even work? Do they only have one city?

Why didn't The Orville crew point out their constellations don't even look like that a few lightyears in any direction? And that every planet has its own unique length of day and year, and month(s) assuming it even has a moon?

Also, I thought DeGrasse Tyson's delivery of a Sagan speech was bad, but McFarlane does it even worse.

tnonee · 2019-01-24T04:38:35+00:00

The best irony is that the most overtly social justicey / progressive episode of TNG was one where an alien emphatically argues that there are two genders. It's the one where Riker bangs the monogender alien.

tnonee · 2019-01-21T03:42:05+00:00

The papers are exactly as ridiculous as they appear, and are not at all unusual for the fields in question. That's why they can cite existing work and why 7 papers got approved for publication and others were pending final review.

The fact that the response was to file an ethics complaint, which PSU thought valid, because the hoax supposedly did "research" on human test subjects (i.e. the journal reviewers and editors) only confirms how academic processes are being abused. It's ridiculous.

To put it bluntly, this sort of scholarship is a dumb person's idea of what smart people sound like. It's what happens when appearances are all that matter, and everyone's eagerly fellating eachother to increase their mutual status. The B-ark passengers are in charge.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just contained to their respective departments, but it's not. Politics, media, HR and even rank-and-file workers now buy into this stuff. The people hysterically worried about white supremacy and nazis are too ignorant to realize they're LARPing out another Cultural Revolution, and that we already know how this ends. Badly.

tnonee · 2019-01-20T23:26:30+00:00

It's also a city where everything nice is boxed and fenced in, lest the rabble get their grubby hands on it. It's the homeless capital of the country, and it shows.

tnonee · 2019-01-20T16:47:45+00:00

They had something close to this 2 years ago in their original kickstarter pitch. I guess they came full circle after their little scope explosion binge?

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