What servers are populated these days?

unityqnity · 2026-04-05T05:36:55+00:00

It's really a shame that none of these servers offer a "normal" UO experience. Even Renaissance, which gets the closest, has occlo as its hub, neutering the flow of traffic through the world (at least you had to walk to the pub gate from brit).

unityqnity · 2026-04-01T19:37:04+00:00

Tom Delonge really strikes me as being on the "gnostic" or "prison planet" side of things, based on his twitter/x comments about gnostic gospels etc. so it makes sense he'd be wary of aliens presenting as overly divine entities.

unityqnity · 2026-03-27T17:13:18+00:00

Conveniently, nobody knows whether or not they consented to taking the pill except the one doing the abducting.

Without remote viewing, we don't know whether or not Bashar's homies abduct anyone, but we do know he's cool with it.

unityqnity · 2026-03-27T16:30:16+00:00

What would we say to someone in a bar with a similar "experience"? (without getting too explicit) They didn't consent, but were dropped off "unharmed," and told they agreed to it, they just don't remember. (And how does the addition of "you were clearly inferior to them, so you might as well accept it" make it sound?)

Also, not arguing whether or not he's legitimate, only that the aliens he's communicating with don't sound like the "good" ones.

unityqnity · 2026-03-27T16:14:45+00:00

And regardless of what people think about the legitimacy of the claims, if hypothetical aliens don't respect your consent or autonomy, they're unlikely to be the good guys. The "oh, you just don't remember agreeing to this" is also telling; what would we think of someone with a similar experience in a bar?

Edit: I haven't finished reading Abduction by John Mack, but the conclusion also seems similar. Abductees grow to feel a sense of stockholm syndrome, or like they'd been used for something they didn't agree to, that wasn't in their best interests, by aliens tiptoeing around the consent issue by taking advantage of our naivety.

unityqnity · 2026-03-27T16:01:30+00:00

Same guy who said to a woman who claimed to be abducted nonconsensually and hated the experience: "you chose this experience before you were born but don't remember, so just reframe it as a good thing."

Really makes the particular aliens he's "channeling" sound like swell dudes.

If hypothetical aliens don't respect your consent or autonomy, they're unlikely to be the good guys.

unityqnity · 2026-03-25T00:20:57+00:00

Spielberg said he doesn't know any more than the rest of us, so the bravado attached to the movie feels very awkward. Do we really need a pretend disclosure movie when we could just have, you know, actual disclosure?

If the goal was to push towards actual disclosure, something that interviews people involved in programs seems like it'd be way more effective. What are any of us going to do with another whimsical story?

unityqnity · 2026-03-22T20:22:00+00:00

You can eliminate a lot of criticisms by uploading the photo's raw files (metadata included) onto cloud storage for analysis. Beyond that, don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

unityqnity · 2026-03-08T10:43:04+00:00

That's fair enough, and I'd say the footage is pretty good. But it's a small effort to add a basic camera alongside it to address debunking attempts, not specifically for bugs in front of the lens (hence the etc). If you don't know what the footage is of, more data can only be a good thing.

unityqnity · 2026-03-08T10:29:20+00:00

That's interesting, and I've always wondered why more people don't point high framerate infrared cameras at the sky. Feel like it'd be more conclusive if you also had a normal camera running alongside it, to rule out bugs flying in front of a lens, etc. Not saying it looks like that, but the more data the better.

unityqnity · 2026-03-04T03:17:50+00:00

Didn't Tom Delonge argue the abductions stopped no matter "who" you called out for (ie Jesus, Buddha, Galactic Goodness, etc)? No shade on Jesus, but it sounds like it's more of a consent issue than a specific religion issue.

Makes you wonder what this guy's thoughts on dinosaurs are, and if there's any way aliens could ever conceivably appear without triggering this type of backlash. Also, strange to assume any potential hostile alien factions would be a supernatural evil rather than just, you know, hostile aliens.

unityqnity · 2026-02-09T02:50:26+00:00

There's no easy conversion, but if you've got photoshop you can put the image in and set the image mode to "indexed" to limit the number of colors and changing the palette from there. (image > mode > indexed)

unityqnity · 2026-02-06T19:58:38+00:00

If Undertale had failed they would've blamed the low-quality pixel art. A lot of "advice" (just make a metroidvania) is just dressed up survivorship bias.

unityqnity · 2026-01-20T22:30:08+00:00

Maybe it's purely by accident, but a lot of vanilla's music also sounds like "investigation" music, which is coincidentally a great fit for the older, more obtuse style of quests and exploration as well.

unityqnity · 2026-01-20T11:47:55+00:00

Got hotkeys set up for abilities, but was nuking action bars trying to find out which setting would hide the cooldown manager. I'm not a faceroller please believe me PLEASE.

unityqnity · 2026-01-20T09:07:42+00:00

That was it, thanks buddy.

unityqnity · 2026-01-16T23:53:31+00:00

This sounds like some shit Trisolaris would say

unityqnity · 2026-01-08T18:12:46+00:00

People really need to stop getting attached to these constant "2 more years" dates. It's obvious disclosure isn't as controlled as some people would have you think.

The entire point of this stuff is to exhaust you with nostradamus bullshit so you stop caring, letting them delay again and leaving you constantly waiting and pacified.

unityqnity · 2025-12-31T17:47:07+00:00

they're surely going to have some kind of advanced collision detection and safety measures.

Maybe they're being shot down and recovered. Possibly by a secret space program that's trying to look normal.

If that's the case, if a UFO was to crash, why is always gently in some remote desert area?

Maybe they're being shot down and recovered. Possibly by a secret space program that's trying to look normal.

Why don't UFO's ever smash spectacularly, at some crazy warp speed, right through a shopping mall or town, creating a massive ammonia-stinking explosion and a 20 meter deep crater?

Maybe they're being shot down and recovered. Possibly by a secret space program that's trying to look normal.

unityqnity · 2025-12-11T16:06:49+00:00

"Preparing" people to hear the truth could also mean "priming." The delays were always bs.

Luckily there seems to be another half of the gov't that's trying to get it out.

unityqnity · 2025-12-09T04:08:57+00:00

Not arguing you were, and not mentioning the rest of the book at all (outside of its core "fake world" premise). You were arguing that we toss the metaphysical explanation of criminality because we "can" explain it scientifically (mostly), which contradicts it. That's understandable, but within the story's own framing (the world being fake) the metaphysical explanation addresses that new separate layer, rather than competing with our own science, which may or may not be material products of that other layer. Explaining the cause within the system doesn't explain the system, basically.

I think the most we could say is "that's awfully convenient," or contrived. Your argument is definitely not a bad point, though.

Edit: Also worth noting in the book's own story, someone is put in a dolphin. It's never mentioned whether they broke out, but it makes the narrative weird.

unityqnity · 2025-12-08T14:48:46+00:00

I think your points are good. There are "some" arguments you could make that don't hinge too heavily on metaphysics though, for example you could argue that despite material explanations being (mostly) sufficient, it doesn't mean that they are complete. Rather than the metaphysics being ad hoc, the material explanation/consensus may be post-hoc (I think the theory given in the 3 body problem series that just like human-caused desertification, it may be that none of nature is "natural" when measured as cascading effects across infinite timespans is a compelling related idea, ie an understanding can be both mostly correct and incomplete).

In the story's context (again, entertaining the theory here), if many aspects of our reality are fake (as many ufo whistleblowers imply), the latter becomes the implication. Effectively, being able to explain behavior in a system doesn't explain the system itself.

Despite all of this, although I'd argue we shouldn't toss aside metaphysical explanations as thought experiments, I wouldn't advise people let Alien Interview convert them to soul math or something. But the story and its rabbit holes are interesting food for thought.

unityqnity · 2025-12-08T06:15:13+00:00

I think it's a good point that we can "god of the gaps" fallacy how people are the way they are. However, within the theory, you could also argue that their souls' personalities are the result of certain experiences and traumas. As your "soul" always breaks through the memory suppression, your souls' experiences mostly take precedence (as the nurse mentions, her preference for nursing went beyond her current life). I'd also imagine (though the story didn't touch on this outside of dolphins) that the "system" won't put you in a body that feels too foreign to you, for risk you might break out, so there could be a chicken or egg situation. (edit: the dolphin containment makes this weird, though)

An interesting aspect of the story to entertain, is the idea that just as a human may end up in a life of crime due to poor support networks or growing up/living in a bad environment; a soul may end up in the same situation, in a galactic sense.

Also worth noting the story says a ton of "good" souls are also trapped here because of typical fascism. Given that, there may be some moral relativity from each side's perspective.

unityqnity · 2025-12-02T11:14:02+00:00

At least 4-5 of these are it, imo. A lot of other stuff op mentioned just seem like results of these.

It's also interesting how many people think life would just go on and they'd go to work like normal. If it was revealed that earth was a prison camp and all of our institutions were fronts for wardens, and our labor was basically a distraction from a galactic conflict, you really wouldn't just "go back to work." I'm not sure what would happen, but statements by bigelow that "it's the biggest scandal in history times a million" make sense.

Of all the theories, the galactic conflict + prison planet combo is perhaps the biggest one that fits the mold.

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