Wilson Chambers

Fine measurements of banana equivalent dose.

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@Cernovich 30 years ago I remember them priding themselves as the smart, likable North Americans.

During COVID prevailing culture was downright East German. Masochistic joy over being ruled by neglectful, effete elites.

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@exQUIZitely Lo and behold, there's a retrospective by Warren Davis online. No surprise that it was open collaboration between a tiny group of enthusiastic creators.

https://t.co/rVup05vsfo

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@Gingerblast Edition wars are silly, not least because the history of a product, mechanical design and market culture—through ebb and flow—is fascinating.

5E for me was 2E without the ornament. Both are special and beloved.

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@LaocoonofTroy Lucky for us, we've captured it on 8mm. Local parades drawing hundreds upon hundreds? Halloween as a ticker tape parade of children? Neighborhood pool as rec center? Shared culture and unironic media? Wholesome retro? It was a time.

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@exQUIZitely GW-BASIC! Spent a lot of days in junior high on the PC in the basement. Reverse-engineered stuff from 3-2-1 Contact.

Learned I had a love for game design and no intuition for coding—I would take the long way around for everything! Good times.

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@Cernovich National Geographic History, prob the last gold-framed mag to go bad, spent its 250th page count on 4 "stolen land" spreads, an Inca puff piece and more. Consummate subversion.

Harris? Renaming spree, 50-state apology tour, founding document bonfires, new nat'l anthem...

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@mi_dogy @1776Capitalist @BillMelugin_ Family member discovered their ascending aneurysm by accident. Surgery just a few months later.

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@Grummz I have a Claude account at work. The UI is more intuitive to me, and its multifunction is, frankly, better visibly marketed whether or not it's better.

But the token appetite is voracious. ChatGPT can get C-3P0/Voyager EMH but it's been a pretty reliable assistant.

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@Cernovich As soon as I was able, I drove 30 minutes downtown and back along a couple interstates for Saturday morning youth wind symphony rehearsals. And to other extra-curricular performances and things around town. My folks had other things to do.

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@ScottPresler Investment bubbles are bad enough. This is land and resource use. AI isn't demonstrating the real-world value, or scaling efficiency per improvement, to justify widespread disruption from speculation.

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@Cernovich It's always funny when they forget they don't have a Berlin Wall.

"We'll bury you with confiscatory taxes, and you're just gonna keep on producing"

"Yeah, I'll keep on, but someplace else"

"Wait"

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@exQUIZitely Back then, there was no other choice and as a kid, I had the time. What could be more thrilling than double-tapping a directional key to navigate a mountain pass 5 pixels wide? ...Behind a giant boulder?

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@mtaibbi Went mainstream w/Gen X, and the default mindset became tenant culture—wherein the country just sort of exists and people go about their lives scoffing or indifferent, shrugging when someone implies it's the first-ever instance of founding by conquest or rise by exceptionalism.

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@Cernovich Third parties are instructive symptoms. Faithfully representing your voters? Then it won't be a problem.

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@ZenVehicles @greyhoundblocks @Grummz Yeah, trilogy, but only a sort-of throughline. It's like, you'll want to read Neuromancer to better understand Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive but not really vice-versa.

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@JackPosobiec Sounds like kids want to have fun and be something authentic and earnest. Deconstruction leaves people impoverished and miserable.

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@seanmdav He's telling on himself with the literacy jab, since the Bible is *the* story of Man's incapacity for sufficient moral action and need for the second person of the Godhead to become incarnate and show how it's done.

Humanism is the root; misunderstanding what Man deserves.

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@Gingerblast 8 years ago, some genius in analytics read "I love car tchotchkes but feel judged by auto makers" in a survey, and realized all they're looking for is a dashboard

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@Cernovich 30 years ago this was lampooned as multiculturalism or bleeding heart liberalism, but it's intentionally liquidating resources of a productive country on grounds the nation is illegitimate.

Re: replacement, Obama/Biden admins figured Why wire the cash when they can get it here?

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@Grummz And of course creative design/strategy depends on stakeholders and audiences.

I'm sure there are others, but game devs do seem to have the most conspicuous instances of assuming no one outside the discipline could possibly understand.