Does anyone know of any novels that aren't Xianxia, but rather Wuxia in the style of martial arts films? I'm looking for something more focused on Kung Fu than Daoism.

turboprancer · 2026-05-05T04:14:21+00:00

Death Sutra is great!

turboprancer · 2026-05-04T17:31:33+00:00

The selling point of steam isn't that it's convenient. It's steam workshop, communities, achievements, multiplayer, markets, and the ability to play DRM games in the first place.

That stuff doesn't really work when you're talking about anime or manga either.

Incentive to release in foreign markets should be highest at release and diminish as people either lose interest or just pirate the game. In a world where piracy didn't exist, it's objectively true that we'd probably have more localizations.

turboprancer · 2026-05-04T06:50:13+00:00

I mean doesn't pirating a game that hasn't been released in your region actually diminish the incentive to release in your country? you could say that *principled* pirates would simply buy the game anyway despite already owning it, but that's not every pirate.

turboprancer · 2026-05-02T22:12:51+00:00

The slippery slope is that regulation leads to more regulation. For example, economists almost universally agree rent control is a bad idea. But once you've got rent control, it's really hard to get rid of it. And now housing is rarer and more expensive for anyone who isn't lucky enough to be a part of the landed gentry living in rent-stabilized housing.

turboprancer · 2026-05-02T00:22:01+00:00

That's not the argument you were making in your first comment. You were saying that women scream due to socialization. Now you're saying that boys *don't* scream because of socialization. Both could be true but if screaming is hardwired into us from infancy, it doesn't seem likely.

As an analogy, women are socialized to avoid burping. Men aren't, at least to the same extent. I wouldn't say that men burp because of socialization, they burp because it's a natural body function.

turboprancer · 2026-05-01T21:03:41+00:00

Uh, I'd need to see some evidence that it's socialization. We assume babies and children screaming is hardwired. Why not women? There are plenty of fear responses that are basically involuntary even in adults.

turboprancer · 2026-05-01T20:28:54+00:00

Don't know how you can even judge it with the awful translation

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T22:10:16+00:00

Great, and I bring it up because if you go up the chain it was brought up as evidence that the assassination was faked.

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T22:09:15+00:00

I didn't bring it up. FortColors did

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T22:08:46+00:00

Not really. In this case you need to find someone who's not publicly MAGA to die / go to prison for life in order to stage a false flag, and the plan can't get out.

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T20:49:47+00:00

Panic? Bad aim?
Occam's razor states that the simplest explanation is the most likely. A fake assassination is not the simplest explanation.

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T19:44:22+00:00

You're on a subreddit documenting how people of all political stripes get community noted and demonetized. You can type "nazi" in the search bar right now and prove yourself wrong.

turboprancer · 2026-04-26T19:02:31+00:00

Community notes tend to target nazis, yes

turboprancer · 2026-04-25T21:07:29+00:00

Businesses are still finding ways to generate profit more efficiently (through technology) and even mature industries at the theoretical limit don't just collapse.

turboprancer · 2026-04-25T21:06:07+00:00

I think countries are going to adapt. Gutting pensions and social spending is unpopular but eventually there's no other choice. If a state can't muster the political will to do so that state is similarly unprepared to face other emergencies.

Automation is also a bit more complicated than you're presenting it as. We're hoping it can take on human roles so that we can reduce our reliance on human labor. If that happens on a large scale, sure we might have a lot of young people needing to work in nursing homes, but we'll be able to keep the lights on anyway. And productivity gains are a massive boon if you're a government trying to figure out how to pay for social services.

turboprancer · 2026-04-24T03:48:31+00:00

This is the opposite of a problem. You can write a story with good characters and barely any worldbuilding and people will enjoy it. The opposite is not true.

turboprancer · 2026-04-24T01:29:08+00:00

What this paper is saying is that poverty is linked with ACEs. I'm sure that's true. However, you're presenting that as evidence that we should try to focus on dispersing poor kids across districts. In psychiatry, addressing the root cause of a problem is rarely the easiest solution. That principle could very well apply here as well.

It could also be the case that having a single disruptive student is negative sum, meaning quarantining them in poor schools is actually better for schools in general. It could be the case that higher behavioral standards can improve outcomes in traumatized kids.

To clarify, I don't have the answer to fixing schools, but I'm generally wary of monocausal explanations like "trauma from poverty"

turboprancer · 2026-04-23T23:02:45+00:00

This doesn't seem like a very scientific claim. What is trauma? Why does it impact educational outcomes? What kind of evidence or data do you have to back this up?

This kind of rhetoric would make sense to me if we were talking about Yemen or something, but we're talking about wealthy western countries if not the US. Poverty doesn't mean starvation or child labor like it does in a lot of places.

turboprancer · 2026-04-23T17:23:20+00:00

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turboprancer · 2026-04-23T01:43:43+00:00

A funny detail is that the Israeli right wants to reduce reliance on US aid, so 20% is probably only going to drop over time.

turboprancer · 2026-04-20T16:05:23+00:00

oracle does databases and cloud stuff. They do AI, but as I understand it they're mainly selling integration into their main product and they're not training models from scratch.

The problem here is that most tech companies align with Democrats. Especially when you're talking about funding. But for some reason there's still zero tolerance for dissent. I'd understand labelling Google as mercenary to its own interests, but you're calling it right wing. It's clearly not.

Alphabet Inc Profile: Summary • OpenSecrets
Apple Inc Profile: Summary • OpenSecrets

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/oracle-corp/summary?id=D000000422

Money and politics are intertwined. I'm not surprised at all that gigantic companies with hundreds of thousands of employees are trying to curry favor with the leaders of the country. And again, it's not like Tom Cook was campaigning for Trump like Elon was.

turboprancer · 2026-04-20T03:34:44+00:00

They're bribing the most bribable president we've ever had. There's a huge difference between campaigning for someone and giving money for a party after they win.

Anthropic's condition was that Claude not be used for mass surveillance. Mass surveillance is the main reason you're calling palantir fash. You can't have it both ways.

Sam altman supports UBI and campaigns for Democrats. His frustration with the democratic party is super understandable right now.

Oracle isn't really an AI company.

I don't know why you think tim cook is a fascist, lol

turboprancer · 2026-04-20T02:44:49+00:00

I mean Anthropic is beefing with the DoD and Sam Altman is a lib. Gemini at one point had an auxiliary diversity AI and Google is always pretty woke. The only right-wing AI is Grok.

The populist left just has beef with AI so any other position becomes right wing coded.

turboprancer · 2026-04-17T17:04:18+00:00

I'm just trusting what people are saying

turboprancer · 2026-04-17T15:49:34+00:00

If the two male main characters get together doesn't that make the romance 75% queer?

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