Brian Littrell

I make video games, not music.

I mostly post stupid ideas to remind myself of them later, but every once in a while I might say something sane.

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@St_Rev The Path of Exile devs have been explicit about this sort of thing being intentional, to make you "feel the weight" of items. Being able to know what items to ignore as being a waste of time is part of the expertise of the game, etc.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ At one point I was thinking that he wrote it specifically as a response to Foundation, and it grew from there.

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I remember hearing the idea that belief in some absurd ideas serves as a costly signal of being part of a group. If you can't use something like religion for that purpose then maybe you need to find another one?

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Surely someone has thought of taking the citizenship system from Starship Troopers and applying it to immigration at some point?

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@tracewoodgrains

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Maybe pretty soon we can get drones that are quiet enough that we can have Ioun Stones

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@ylecun @Agisuticaeagis @elonmusk @Devon_Eriksen_ anarchism is the opposite of authoritarianism. democracy is a form of authority.

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@beffjezos The bitter lesson

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@philosophymeme0 https://t.co/NN2nOGkp72

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@eigenrobot I posed something pretty close to this to ChatGPT a few days ago lol, about genetic lineage diluting but memes continuing.

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Air conditioners move heat from inside the house to the outside. They are the organs that cause buildings to be life forms.

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Version of "They Live" where what you see is actually correct but the glasses convince some people that aliens are behind everything.

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@harryh @micsolana Paging Bastiat

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But "commodification" is exactly what today most assures that such basic needs are actually met.

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Was talking about how it was odd that the painting showed the son as dismembered, and that it implied that once they were freed by Zeus they would have had to regenerate.

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Saturn Devouring His Son

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@iowahawkblog

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I caught a wiki edit of Evil-Lyn many years ago and I forgot to share it in honor of the new movie.

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@pmarca The learning rate on the model is turned up too high

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