Aramadon

[PJ • The Andor Guy • 🟢 • @matpolloy]

I love Andor understood how great pushing buttons is and just had dozens and dozens of shots of it.

[Arlen Pavka @ArlenMog1138]

You cannot bring up towns in video games without mentioning Dragon Quest XI's monster huge stupid beautiful towns. 😃

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I consider every modern game in development hell because Square would push these out in 5 years with all having different art directions and combat systems

[✨bi-nosaur✨ @strugglesaurus]

Like sorry lady but your little neurotypical tricks do not work on my stubborn ass brain

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I remember a video where someone made a “robot” that was a human-shaped effigy with a GoPro attached, with a sign indicating it wanted to hitchhike across the country. The vast majority of people who interacted with it were kind, gave it rides, stood it back up if it had fallen over, despite the fact that absolutely no one believes a vaguely man-shaped bit of metal is conscious. The very few people who exhibited cruelty towards it were roundly and viciously condemned.

I think this intuitive morality is correct. We judge actions not primarily based on the impact they have on others, but on what they say about the actors.

I thank my waymos even though they can’t hear me. It is good for my soul to be kind to something that helped me. And I feel an extreme revulsion at people who use abusive AI prompts.

Too many people are really excited at the opportunity to exhibit “safe” sadism.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I disagree with the bioethicists.

Instead, we should kill every last tick. They should be totally eliminated. This scourge should disappear.

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@jwsherrod I thought back to that line in the prequels when Count Dooku gets away while Yoda is stopping a large pillar from falling on Obi Wan and Anakin.

He had to stop whatever else he was doing. He clearly spent more effort than lifting smaller objects. Size mattered.

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@AydinPaladin He threatened to bomb a place that he suspected or even knew had innocent people in it.

And it works, and this is treated as something that helps establish General Hammond as a commanding officer that our heroes can respect.

There's more, but...they couldn't write this today.

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@AydinPaladin I can't imagine them writing someone like General Hammond today, either.

Fans know and love him, but if you think back on his meeting with Colonel O'Neil in abstract terms, you'll remember that in order to get the truth out of O'Neil, he threatened to bomb a place ...

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@EveKeneinan They get away with the idea that feminism "is just the radical idea that women are people" and that women should have human rights.

But then they write entire books of feminist philosophy and act like you are denying women's personhood if you disagree with anything "feminist."

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

Social Media Law: if you share your opinions freely, all parts of your audience will eventually encounter a belief of yours they think is batshit crazy.

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@PelleCreepy I'm so far removed from horror comedy that I don't think I knew that those were two separate movies. Or separate movie series.

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

The in-universe/Watsonian reason is that the Death Star was designed by Geonosians who are capable of flight, completely psychotic and have no concept of the value of an individual life anyway because they're bugs

The out-universe/Doylian reason is that George Lucas is insane (affectionate)

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Aydin Paladin🍸👑🇺🇸🇬🇬✝️📊 @AydinPaladin]

It sounds like they were trying to, but you can't make Stargate today. The heroes are the US military, and the villains are an ethnically diverse group of aliens in human bodies who posed as the various gods of human cultures in antiquity. The one group of aliens that also posed as gods but were benevolent rather than intrinsically evil - and the Goa'uld are intrinsically evil, as is made explicit - posed as the Norse ones.
That's why Stargate has remained untouched while every other franchise is defiled. Too much of the basic premise is fundamentally incompatible with modern Hollywood. There are too many uncomfortable implications.
Seems to me that higher ups got a whiff of what kind of show they were trying to make, and that show being Stargate, put the kibosh on it.
The "fresh new direction" they want to go with instead will have to be utterly unrecognisable. Stargate Universe is the direction Im sure they'd like to go in, but they already made that before the era of "modern Hollywood", and it was universally panned.
There's no getting around the good guys being the military and the bad guys being evil on a genetic level, so the whole premise is anathema. Stargate future-proofed itself, and with 15 proper seasons and 3 films, there really is no need to revisit it. I can continue, as I have for the past 30 years, just regularly rewatch what we already have. Because it's awesome.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

I’ve put a lot of thought into trying to understand the Black Lives Matter moment and the “racial reckoning,” and I believe that the fact that black Americans endure a much higher level of routine crime victimization is a big part of it.

The races of the people in this post are not disclosed, but I think they are probably black because the norms described here are foreign to white communities. White people call the cops when someone steals from us. I don’t believe there are any white people anywhere in America who would feel bad if a white neighbor kid who stole $2000 off our porch lost his college scholarship because we called the cops. That just isn’t how white people work.

Nobody expects that whites will tolerate someone who is identifiable on video stealing an expensive package off their porch and not involve the police, and therefore, packages don’t get stolen off of porches in white neighborhoods. A tremendous amount of propaganda has been disseminated through elite media to convince black people that white people tolerate these kinds of transgressions from each other out of racial solidarity. This has always been a lie. White people do not practice racial solidarity. White people call the cops.

People like the poster — nice, middle-class black folks who work hard and are doing well enough to order expensive stuff from Amazon — perceive that their lives are somewhat worse than they ought to be, which is true. Powerful political, media and NGO interests are telling them that the cause of this is racism, which is not true, and that the solution is solidarity with people like the neighbor kid who keeps stealing Amazon packages, which is completely counterproductive.

What will actually make this poster’s life better is the rule of law being imposed on her neighborhood, which is something that America has failed to do for black communities for 200 years and is the fundamental source of persistent inequities.

The reason you can’t order online packages and have them left on your porch is this neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason you have to put bars over your windows and you can’t park a car on the street in front of your house is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason there is no grocery store or pharmacy nearby is the neighbor kid who steals everything. The reason property values in the neighborhood are not appreciating the way they are elsewhere is the neighbor kid who steals everything. Your life will be better if he goes to prison.

When there is a huge race inequity in who commits crimes, you can either have a huge race inequity in who is punished by the criminal justice system, or you can have a huge race inequity in who is victimized. Americans have chosen the latter, because that is the policy people in the most directly-affected communities vote for.

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

There are many such areas because "experts" are usually educated academics, and academic fields are highly susceptible to ideologies.

Once an academic in field A has been captured by an ideological lens, it is not only possible, but common, that all his judgments in his own area of expertise are distorted to the point that laypeople make sounder judgments.

Not because they know more, but because their ability to see the realities on the ground are not systematically distorted or corrupted by extraneous ideological incentives.

Hence the key conclusion here "Academia seems to impair people's understanding of the world rather than improving it."

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@BrianRoemmele The way he tells it, it sounds like he channeled something.

[CozyWaveDesign @CozyVaporwave]

And this is what Boomers don't get.

They expect that there will be a future reward for delayed gratification because when they were young that was the case.

But in most cases there is no future reward.

Millennials tended to believe that there was a future reward, Gen Z has realized that there is not one.

This is why Gen Z has a different attitude to work than other generations for example. They saw that later Gen X and Millennials worked their butts off and only got screwed over by a system that did not reward hard work.

So if their choices are between working hard with no chance of reward later (pain now, pain later) or not working hard with no chance of reward later (pleasure now, pain later) there's only one correct choice.

[Aramadon @Arammadon]

@bigtroubleBB They'd just think it's a cool skeleton.

Like, is that the "death / muerte" guy I see on the spanish candles at the grocery store?