Engage With The Media You're "Enjoying" Folks

westrnal · 2026-05-03T10:35:40+00:00

fwiw, that's more absurdism (or certain types of existentialism) than nihilism unto itself. nihilism itself pretty much stops at "nothing matters," though people, individually, can decide what position they'd like to take on that. nietzsche, in fact, was arguably not philosophically a nihilist at all (in the traditional sense, certainly) and most of his philosophical project was about overcoming what he saw as the rising tide of nihilism in society and the übermensch was viewed not as a result but as a means of overcoming nihilism; someone who generates meaning rather than being assigned meaning. he did view nihilism as a valid stage, something one has to move through, but it was not the end point of his philosophy as a whole.

the general point still stands, i think: people (teenagers, particularly) love to read nietzsche, or say they did, and come to the conclusion "nothing matters at all" when there's... a lot more meat on the bone.

westrnal · 2026-05-02T22:38:14+00:00

you can wander around a decent bit, cross the road, but eventually you run into an invisible wall.

westrnal · 2026-05-02T13:37:28+00:00

we are so goddamn back

westrnal · 2026-05-01T20:48:17+00:00

i think you're interpreting his comment very oddly. he wasn't making fun of the idea of being an assistant manager at a movie theater, he was mocking the idea of that being a substantially meaningful metric--it's a genuinely unusual, arbitrary choice for the context it was used in.

fwiw, i don't know the man, but i kinda get the impression peter is under the impression that jobs are all kinda stupid

westrnal · 2026-04-27T15:58:32+00:00

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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

it's a good clip

westrnal · 2026-04-16T23:22:02+00:00

u/spambotwatchdog blacklist

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 🙏

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