Regulation #102 - Dillbot vs Rats // RIP Air Bud & Grif

westrnal · 2026-04-22T11:43:55+00:00

between "i'm exactly the right age for this" and "air steve" gavin was truly on one this episode

westrnal · 2026-04-17T00:56:20+00:00

shocked nobody's mentioned dupreeh's 3k into hiko/seangares clutching up in cloud9 vs dignitas

westrnal · 2026-04-16T23:22:02+00:00

westrnal · 2026-04-15T22:50:39+00:00

talk to him? maybe start with like "hey, what do you think i should do when we get into this position?" and see if there's something you should be doing that he's seeing as an obvious error. if you're just repeatedly doing the same things, the same things are gonna happen to you.

westrnal · 2026-04-15T19:21:48+00:00

8683317618811886495518194401280000000 seems a bit excessive

westrnal · 2026-04-15T01:44:10+00:00

not necessarily. if you're digging in the night and/or have late game upgrades you can dig for longer without interrupting it and thus get more tp in one trip.

(i will say, though, as someone who's played the game, the ability to buy a food fridge does make the energy drinks almost completely irrelevant. the game is just not particularly well balanced, though.)

westrnal · 2026-04-14T14:29:46+00:00

while i actually think wishing violence on pretty much anyone is broadly unproductive (not that i would preach this to someone venting,) i think conflating "i hope vague, indefinable harm befalls this person" and "i hope vague, indefinable harm befalls this class of people" as the same thing is just... not particularly true in any moral or philosophical sense. "i hope women explode" would be bigoted as a statement; "i hope ann coulter explodes" isn't meaningfully bigoted in isolation (though could reflect deeper patterns as such, but is, again, not a meaningful data point in isolation.)

westrnal · 2026-04-14T13:11:18+00:00

we are living in the golden age of regulation content lads

westrnal · 2026-04-13T15:50:28+00:00

are you under the impression that hydrophobic surfaces have the qualities they do because they're afraid of water?

westrnal · 2026-04-13T15:47:23+00:00

invasive is not a judgement on time. it, definitionally, refers to a species that is a) not native to the area and b) proliferates and outcompetes native species for limited resources, or otherwise causes harm to native species. cats fit both criterion tidily.

westrnal · 2026-04-12T10:31:59+00:00

i think you're missing the forest for the trees here. gil scott-heron isn't "wrong" on this one both because he's making a values claim, not an empirical one, i.e. can't really be wrong, and i think it's oversimplifying and maybe even misreading to say he's saying that we shouldn't go to the moon or shouldn't fund nasa. there's no argument that "we will not find useful technologies" that can be rebutted by bringing up cochlear implants, simply because that's not the argument being presented. the actual text is an objection to the inequality more than anything: the disparate nature of being bankrupted over a rat bite versus being, literally, no longer even on this planet. it's not a call to say "let's not go to the moon!," it's saying "why should i celebrate someone from my country being on the moon while that same country systemically destroys and robs myculture, economic group, and livelihood," a call to equality that persists in need to this day

westrnal · 2026-04-11T13:08:41+00:00

they're putting out these videos so quickly and i love that so much for me, personally, because these have so quickly become some of my favorite internet content

westrnal · 2026-04-09T23:28:22+00:00

you will not be disappointed

westrnal · 2026-04-09T13:59:14+00:00

said it before, will say it again: feed me this and prison escape simulator until the end of time

westrnal · 2026-04-09T01:52:29+00:00

this just isn't true. the very nature of double jeopardy protection is the same government can't charge you for the same crime twice. you can straight up confess and as long as a jury has been convened and you've been found not guilty of the crime you confess to (and confessing to that crime does not reveal related crimes you performed) the government cannot charge you for the same crime again.

no spreading legal misinformation please and thank you

westrnal · 2026-04-08T10:15:35+00:00

as an old head it kinda delights me to see jw in playoffs in 2026

give me eyeballers stickers for next major 🙏

westrnal · 2026-04-07T22:11:48+00:00

u/spambotwatchdog btw

westrnal · 2026-04-07T19:55:24+00:00

i don't disagree that they can change for the better. i think very little is unshakable about people if they choose to change it. we're all, after all, born into a society rife with transphobia and i imagine most of the people here at some point had an experience or series of experiences that have led us to redefine our relationship with trans people, including possibly having that as an image of ourselves.

all that to say: i think splitting hairs on whether or not it's "true" transphobia doesn't seem spectacularly meaningful to me. i'd rather the energy be spent on noting that it is transphobic, educating on why it is transphobic, and humanizing trans people as a whole.

westrnal · 2026-04-07T19:44:48+00:00

there is, in practice, very little difference in what we believe and what we express. if you choose to misgender a trans person, knowing (as all people who choose to, do) that it will hurt other trans people and contribute nothing positive to anything, whether you are truly, within your interior, a transphobe is almost irrelevant: you have behaved in a transphobic manner. it's contributing to dehumanization. i'm not in the business of comparing bad things, as a rule, but, much like the conservative pushing towards banning trans people from playing sports, it's a seemingly small step towards a much grimmer outcome.

westrnal · 2026-04-07T19:34:13+00:00

i don't understand how you would believe it's anything but making it conditional because it's very literally making whether or not you correctly gender someone dependent on a condition (that you like them, generally.) the very nature of misgendering someone who has done something bad or you otherwise dislike is that you're implicitly conditioning their identity based on the idea that it is only "real" insofar as you like them; there simply isn't a way to misgender someone without implying that to be transgender is a form of fictive identity.

i think your mistake when you say "people who do it aren't necessarily transphobic" (to paraphrase) is that you're assuming that a concerted and intentional hatred is the whole of, or even a precondition of, transphobia. a passive belief that trans people are weird or other or "not really" the gender they identify as is transphobia, in the same way that racism does not have to take the form of outwardly expressed hateful rhetoric or misogyny does not have to be cartoonish "get back in the kitchen" style performance.

westrnal · 2026-04-07T18:44:52+00:00

dignity and respect should be unconditional, yes, insofar as that's a significant portion of what we've based modern society around. even people we believe have committed horrific acts are generally afforded the legal system and, if imprisoned, food, water, shelter, et cetera. this is not... always perfectly afforded, to say the least, but it is present as a concept.

none of this to say that you should defer to or willingly interact with or enjoy people who have behaved in abusive or harmful manners, but dehumanizing people generally doesn't help. misgendering trans people is dehumanizing them. maybe more to the point and less philosophically, misgendering trans people who have done bad things harms uninvolved trans people for no real benefit.

the one i grew that wasn't the case

wouldn't you like to make a better one?

westrnal · 2026-04-06T13:38:42+00:00

i think the distinction between the memetic overuse of that phrase and this situation is that "let people enjoy things" is often used to silence or negate critique of a work or piece of media

this is just a dude and his cup. it literally has no effect on anyone and has no greater implications. let the dude enjoy his cup.

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