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internet connection wizard

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bug dogs

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concept: bratty, arrogant, spoiled princess who's blissfully unaware that the peasant revolution has succeeded and her position has been made entirely symbolic. the only reason she's still alive at all is because no one considered her enough of a threat to bother executing.

everyone in the country thinks she's adorable, in a pathetic sort of way, so they make sure she never figures out the truth. she's treated like a mascot, or a roadside attraction, or perhaps a particularly amusing pet. she spends most of her time at her estate, being pampered by her maids and her personal guard of knights. every once in a while, she's loaded up into a carriage and carted through the streets of town for the people to see. the crowds cheer and coo at her, and she happily smiles and waves back, thinking they're praising her for her wise and steadfast leadership. after all, what else are princesses for?

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Wizards are not naturally immortal, in fact creating their own form of immortality is their graduate thesis.

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A little water clears us of this deed.

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Reading Mouse Trap has got me thinking about Jack Slash's characterisation again, and it's fantastic. He's so uncreative, and it's so obvious from the start. Names his group the "Slaughterhouse Nine". His trial is "uhhh. do their trials again". Bet really just has this emperor's new clothes situation with the multiverse's most deriviative man running around calling himself an artist, but no one can call him on it without him casting Woe! Siberian Be Upon Ye.

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rwby morrowind au

oz is nerevar and oscar is the nerevarine. qrow is caius.

the tribunal are the other three headmasters; i'm not quite certain on my assignments, but rn i'm leaning towards theodore = vivec, ironwood = almalexia, and lionheart = sotha sil.

the god of light is azura and the god of darkness is lorkhan.

i don't know about the rest of them lol.

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i love using this website as god intended: barely post anything yourself, reblog everything

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The machine spirit was kinky and needed discipline

my friend: I accidentally dropped my headphones and now they won't connect :(

me: oh nooo try dropping them again

my wife: *laughs*

friend: I mean they can't get MORE broken *drops headphones*

headphones: *connect*

us: :O

us: why did that work??

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I started swearing by the machine god in a sort of reference to warhammer 40k (like the stories, but the wargame is a blatant cash grab).

Now I can't stop. I mean, the mechanicus idea of the machine god (not the omnissiah - which is the emperor and is to the machine god the same way that jesus is to god in christian theology), is not too different to my own beliefs. So I am not bothered too much, but randomly swearing on the machine god in classical latin where one would normally say 'jesus' or 'god damn it' has gotten me a fair few strange looks.

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"whats up" => "nothing much, you?"

"hows it going/how you doing?" => "pretty good/cant complain/Im here"

"hey" => "hey"

"good to see you" => "likewise"

"Good morning" => "good morning/ it sure is morning"

Of course, these are for strangers. If someone has a regular appearance in your life, then they should be expected to get used to your quirks; such as infodumping. If they cannot accept that, then they aren't worth caring about their opinion of you anyway.

people pleasers are really fucked when someone asks questions like "what's up"

wdym what's the correct answer here. how do i get a good grade in this interaction

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genuinely fucked up that if i want to interact with someone online i have to say words and have a conversation instead of just mashing my face against them like a cat

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"how autistic are you about typography" i notice when authors use en dashes instead of em dashes.

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An actually good example of a Schelling point would be something like the use of binary, especially for mathematical operations. Given that binary is the minimal you need for a positional system, and it makes all sorts of calculations trivially easy, it is no wonder that multiple cultures throughout history independently came up with its use. It would also be why we would expect extra-terrestrial civilizations to at least know how to recognize binary, regardless of the actual representation of it. You need no prior communication; mathematics alone will make binary attractive to develop.

The idea of a Schelling point (or focal point) is that it's something two people can arrive at without prior coordination.

It really drives me nuts when people call something a Schelling point and just completely forget about the "without prior coordination" aspect. Like, if I go to New York and a guy calls me and says "hey, let's meet at Grand Central Station at noon", that's definitely different from us selecting Grand Central Station in the absence of talking to each other.

The "without prior communication" thing is what's interesting about a Schelling point. It's what makes it a Schelling point.

And yes, this is about Nate Silver's On the Edge again, I'm sorry.

Bitcoin is not an example of a Schelling point, and it's absurd to me that you could write a book that's at least partly about game theory and claim that it is. There is quite a lot of communication happening with regards to "what's popular", there are people whose entire job revolves around screaming to the rooftops about how awesome particular cryptocurrencies or artworks are. This is entirely explained by network effects, first-mover advantage, and active communication.

He also makes the argument that art prices are an example of Schelling points, and no, that's not true, they're the result of a lot of complex social and market dynamics that involve huge amounts of explicit communication and coordination.

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So to catch you up to speed

Luigi Mangione is an innocent man who has not been confirmed to have been involved in any crime.

We have police documents confirming he was not DNA tested or fingerprinted, and confirmation no usable DNA or fingerprints were recovered at the crime scene due to incomplete prints and immense DNA contamination of New Yorks streets.

No evidence has linked him to the crime.

No facial recognition has even remotely come close to identifying the cctv suspects face as that of Luigi. His own family and friends do not see a resemblance. Most people agree the features in the cctv do not match the very well documented features of Luigi Mangione.

Luigi Mangione has no history of violence nor with firearms. He is a vegan pacifist with no history of mental illness and an aversion to killing even bugs.

He is still only a SUSPECT and all involvement in any crimes are merely ALLEGED at this time. Alleged by the most corrupt police force in the entire nation; the NYPD who do more organized crime than they've ever stopped.

Luigi Mangione's attorneys confirmed they have been shown absolutely nothing that even places Luigi at the scene of the crime.

People have repeatedly tried to recreate the entire timeline of events and found it is not physically possible to do what was alleged in the time frame police gave. Especially dubious for Luigi Mangione to have done given his recent, crippling back injury.

Luigi Mangione in his own words has said police planted evidence on him and are not being honest about his arrest or what he had on him at the time.

There is no body cam footage of Luigi's arrest.

There is no autopsy report for Brian Thompson.

Luigi has so far been:

Stripped of his hat, jacket and shoes and forced to walk in the cold in December wearing wet socks.

Forced to urinate on himself where police then took and published humiliation photos of him.

He was then stripped of his shirt pants and socks and put in a blue psychiatric gown and strapped to a chair inmates called "the torture chair" and left for prolonged periods of time. To the point the entire inmate population at the prison protested in anger.

He was slammed unto a brick wall, choked, and shoved by various police officers for no reason.

Was marched through nyc at gunpoint by officers with military firearms, forced to wear chains

Was called a murderer by the mayor of NYC on national television.

Was then placed in solitary confinement for weeks. Something extremely damaging psychologically to be exposed to for even just a few days. Something usually reserved for cannibals.

He is now being forced to sleep on the floor despite again, a crippling back injury.

Again, he has not even had trial yet. He is an innocent man by the very definition of the law. He has nothing tying him to any crime. And even the crime itself was a nobody being shot in a city where nobodies are shot everyday, seven days a week. And those shooters don't get this treatment. Cannibals don't get this treatment. Serial killers don't get this treatment. Why are they doing this? Because we entered an oligarchy and they want people who are rich to matter more than people who are not. The NO ONE, no name, insignificant person that Brian THOMPSON always was and WILL ALWAYS BE is more important because of his net worth, to the fascist oligarchy we've entered into, than the innocent man, data scientist and robotics engineer with a promising future that is Luigi Mangione.

The NYPD doesn't want him to be innocent. They are torturing him gleefully and postponing his trial because they know he's innocent. They just want to scare the public into understanding that the ultra rich, even those who's names will never be remembered as anything other than markings on a never visited tombstone, are the only persons who matter now. Not yours. Never yours. You're poor. They'll torture you without a trial too. Your life means nothing to them. Your children dying in school shootings means nothing to them. Pinning a crime on an innocent man they can beat to scare the public out of class consciousness is the only thing that matters to them now. Depose them.

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I'm not offended; you have been perfectly reasonable. You're criticism is valid and constructive. I also have ADHD and Autism, so I tend to view things from the lens of 'I spend so much time thinking on my words and being understood clearly' so I do tend to think others do so as well.

I also don't think I was terribly mean save perhaps the 'fuck off' at the end there. I laid out exactly why I thought they were creating an argument in bad faith then responded with a 'fuck you'. Additionally, it is quite likely I was emotionally drained from work, so was less likely to assume the positive light.

I want to add; I appreciate you taking the time to explain your side. I largely agree that I was too forceful/aggressive. I should have ended on a more positive/constructive note than just 'fuck you'. Perhaps I have just seen too much bigotry on the internet, so that is my knee-jerk reaction. I will self reflect on it.