Paul Shire

Writing books, mocap, dating sim game dev

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

wrote a book n put it online until I get it up for sale next month- read it for free while u can😌

[Max @minordissent]

UBI advocacy stems from the naïveté and solipsism that because *I* am a deeply creative latent producer who is oppressed by my wagee job and would actualize my creative potential if only i could have my basic needs met, this must be true for everyone. Its not.

First of all, it’s not even true for these “creatives”. If you aren’t creation maxxing while waging, you wont do it under luxury communism either. Creative work is extremely taxxing and your wage job isn’t actually that hard. The problem is your neuroticism and lack of discipline, not your job. All your necessities being provided for will only make you weaker and gayer such that you’ll make up some new bullshit to get overwhelmed by and then cope by playing video games all day. But worse because you won’t even have “at least i did *something* productive today”, which will magnify
your depression.

Second, luxury communism already exists for the bottom 20% of the population. All their food, housing, etc is completely covered by the state. Entire generations of people who haven’t worked a job in their lives. Do they go on to produce beautiful art and build companies? Or do they go on to get high and kill each other?

The truth is that we are close enough to UBI today that most of the people who will ever become great artists and inventors are already going to do it, and as we get closer all that will happen is the people incapable of anything more than wage slavery (most people) will simply become dysfunctional parasites.

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

@henningsanden electrolytes (all 3) and ice hat chilled from freezer

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

mechs + romance based power = life changing read, get it now, audiobook version coming soon!

[Max @minordissent]

I do this all the time. There is nothing more satisfying than saying “I accept all your premises for the sake of argument. Now watch me destroy your position using your own premises”. It is the ultimate intellectual mogg.

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

ill come back to the project and do this for real someday

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

You have to accept that, for whatever reason, reality is a kind of game where things are almost never what they appear at first glance and the truth usually seems to be a paradox in which the answer is the exact opposite of what seems to make sense. If you want to win the game you have to be clever and see the solution to your problems in inherent contradictions. It wouldn't be a fun game if anyone could win, after all.

So when it comes to soul crushing loneliness, part of the solution is you have to accept that no matter what you do, you are going to feel soul crushing loneliness. You will feel it until you die. Soul crushing loneliness is just a part of having a consciousness and the responsibility that comes with being a human being that has been given the burden of agency that cannot be given away, stolen, borrowed, or avoided.

When you truly, actually accept this fact, and can hold the knowledge of this loneliness in your heart without it overwhelming all your rationality, is the moment when you'll feel the burden of the soul crushing loneliness lifting enough to begin to cultivate yourself and create positive, soul-enriching relationships with others. The acceptance of this loneliness makes it inconsequential to your movement through life, and thus frees you from it.

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

targeted ads kinda scary ngl

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

dualers kindle n audiobook coming soon!

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

Ch 38: First Come First Serve

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

@CaudilloNuclear kaiju # 8 so good

[Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99]

Someone dropped that the games industry woes boiled down to landlords raising rent so everyone can't afford shit kinda made me wanna Sit Down even though I am already sat down.

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

Chapter 36: This Is War

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

Chapter 35 Honestly No

[Nuclear Caudillo🇺🇸🇩🇴 @CaudilloNuclear]

Something something feminism benefits men the most something something husband material

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

Dualers Ch 34: Friends? bio

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

90% of ppl r green thinkers

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

Daughter who loves spooky games will be proud of me forever cause I made this during global game jam with a few friends

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

dualers chapter 31 link n bio

[Paul Shire @DoubleDemonsDev]

mocap + ggj @hellorokoko