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mircea_popescu: when did this become a discursive style anyway, "general statement, unsubstantiated claim, restatement of general statement, restatement of unsubstantiated claim, second restatement of general statement, second restatement of unsubstantiated claim, and then move into "we" territory.
mircea_popescu: unemployed lousy public school teachers on the rampage.
mircea_popescu: aaaaand by line 862 the schmuck's rehashed the same intro three times while proposing his spin on it also three times. substantiation is still implicitly promised but i lost hope of delivery and who the fuck is the author anyway ?
mircea_popescu: dat piece o shit site. 3k lines page, content starts at line 798
mircea_popescu: supposedly ultima online was major. i never really got into the series.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: imagine, origin worth 30mn in 1992, watsap worth 20 bn in 2014.
mircea_popescu: well, legendary ultima creator, lord british etc. yes.
mircea_popescu: It is clear to me that I, Richard Garriott, am an essential ingredient of at least the Ultimate Ultima, if not more broadly the Ultimate RPG. Perhaps one day, now that the people who pushed me out of EA more than a decade ago are long since gone, EA will recognize that together, we could rebuild that franchise in a way that they have failed to do in the intervening years. Richard Garriott is an essential ingredient in
mircea_popescu: "Since I am no longer at the helm of UO, let’s look at where it has gone in my absence. Elves and ninjas have been added into the game, things I specifically had banned. This is only a small example of why and how Ultima has drifted away from Richard Garriott, but I have not drifted away from Ultima. Overused, irrelevant & reused RPG elements are not the essence of my Ultimate RPG.
mircea_popescu: the eternal dilemma of the margins : self owned by the local idiots ? or by a distant, thus disinterested if actually competent empire.
mircea_popescu: what's a thousand sq ft in downtown athens go for these days ?
mircea_popescu: much like idiot couples that "can't stand each other" to hear them talk, but then go have bad sex twice a week.
mircea_popescu: nobody has "any trust" of the theoretical verbal kind in banks, then they go use them 100%
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aren't these the same banks that stole 90% of cypriot funds a coupla years ago ? what trust.
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mircea_popescu: nevertheless, obese people are an offense to humanity.
mircea_popescu: seems beyond fucking stupid to frame that discussion in terms of banning tobacco. or for that matter, banning tobacco.
mircea_popescu: Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar from Portalarium Raises Two Million Dollars in Crowd Funding
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mircea_popescu: no fucking idea what they think it'll do, not like we don't have original copies.
mircea_popescu: punkman "let's put the blockchain into such a state it's no longer a blochcain"
mircea_popescu: this mental masturbation of inserting us into things as if it matters. it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_modem> no 'war on drugz' - no sinaloa << dude, forget it. he was there before the us, he'll be there after.
mircea_popescu: first mexican beheading, a woman. not empowering enough for the derpstablishment ?
mircea_popescu: how is such a great story not in hollywood i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: this was a woman, married, with children. to a drug cartel boss. whose enemies sent a slick kid to seduce her, which the kid did. and he convinced her to withdraw millions of $ from her husband's secret stashes in the us
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know the fascinating story of one guadalupe leija serrano ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, as in all dead empires. caragiale notes the case of the 1900s hungarian who declares that he'd rather eat soap wrapped in the hungarian flag than cheese in plain white paper.
mircea_popescu: ie, the first step to establish if some item sucked was, "is it romanian made ?" for if it were...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you gotta appreciate, at least at the time, being romanian was, to romanians, mostly a derogation.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i actually owned the town and their sorry asses to boot. but hey.
mircea_popescu: so then when i wanted to meet them she arranged a meeting and they were liek "oh, he's definitely not romanian"
mircea_popescu: best anecdote to illustrate this being, of course, that i had a (us born) woman over, many years ago, and she made some local friends (clueless kids all excioted about this english speaking american woman that knows computers and with nary an idea about the world around them)
mircea_popescu: chiefly on the grounds of not subscribing to various idiocies that there as anywhere constitute the spirit of propriety.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i meant was merely that i don't generally seem very romanian to romanians themselves
mircea_popescu: which is an ancient pecenegian clan. about as romanian as it gets.
mircea_popescu: how did that quote go, "In confronting that which they feared, he had become something else in their eyes...and no longer their champion."
mircea_popescu: there were like.... maaaybe two notable romanians. one was german
mircea_popescu: you get to be the first dragon, for lack of notable historical anything.
mircea_popescu: this is fascinating. perhaps the only advantage of being romanian, but also perhaps the only advantage that could truly be called an advantage
mircea_popescu: (this term, which probably does not exist in english, should probably be very much akin the xtian practice of eating crackers)
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i dun feel cosubstantial with the idiots of the past.
mircea_popescu: or just them, the lot of them, up to an unspecified and unspecifiable border