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bounce: could try and organise
a few community officers or whatever you'd like to call'em, have them organise meet-ups, in-game parties, whatever.
bounce has no idea what drives the generic gamer, though. been years since I happened to play along with
a bunch of fanatical gamers. mostly starcraft on university computers.
bounce: dunno. could be...
a lack of athmosphere maybe?
mircea_popescu: but with
a bunch of 3man lvl 3guilds that's never going to be within reach
pLambert: HIF just released their quarterly staement, price is dropping like
a rock
BingoBoingo: Eh, maybe they just got bored being in
a large guild that has already "won" the game?
mircea_popescu: i mean don;'t get me wrong, im not butthurt or anything, join
a 2 year old game and own the top guild on one shard within what, 4-5 months is not trivial.
mircea_popescu: i guess if i go looking for it, the "they're just retarded" theory actually has
a lot of support.
mircea_popescu: well that's the thing, i'm not about to spend
a ton of time derping in guild chat or w/e.
Shakespeare: really being
a leader in WoW fucking blows
artifexd: Maybe he/she wants to be revered. It is easier to be the big fish in
a small pond.
mircea_popescu: then they joined the other guild. im like wtf you dummies, you three go join two dudes in
a lvl 4 guild ? why don't they join you in your lvl 13 guild wtf.
mircea_popescu: some earlier dudes (whgich is when istarted suspecting i may have
a problem) wanted permission to raid with some other guild. i was like fine
Shakespeare: some people want to excel, whether achieved or not, they aspire to be
a top raider
ozbot:
A virtual socioeconomic problem pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
rithm: that's
a real line of text too
rithm: recently in #bitcoin-mining: <Meldrysha> i bought
a antminer u2+. but cgminer or bfg miner cant find the antminer. can anyone help me with my bad english?^^
gribble: asciilifeform ystarnaud sitting in
a tree, k-i-s-s...
mircea_popescu: ;;echo $randomnick $randomnick sitting in
a tree, k-i-s-s...
cazalla: you know you can have the best of both worlds with
a meyer lemon, i have
a tree, best lemons in the world
mircea_popescu: blood gushing everywhere. and my apple... now has
a tooth in it.
MisterE: my stomach is
a rock so I dunno why i eat chilies by the truckload
mircea_popescu: true story : me in
a park, on bench, with apple. big fat red juicy apple. little girl sorta shyly eyeing my apple from
a safe distance. so i extend it for her to take
a bite. she bites and sorta... gets stuck ? starts shaking her head and eventually pulls away ?
pankkake: I like the small oranges, clementines and mandarins, maybe because I'm
a filthy individualist?
MisterE: hmm I do like me
a fresh orange juice in the morning but lately the acid is not my friend :/
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. i really see it there. i love myself
a summer evening apple, but also
a winter morning orange.
pankkake: too busy derping answers
a lot of questions :/
MisterE: any change of getting
a raping from assbot?
mircea_popescu: this isn't really meant as
a first line "learn about bitcoin and share your feelings" venue anyway. there's the various forums and social media sites for that.
pankkake: looks like
a list of users active on #bitcoin-assets
artifexd: ;;later tell kakobrekla Why did assbot rate
a bunch of people?
MisterE: I read
a city minted
a coin, only the local gov can mine it, and they're giving it for charitable things people do to help the city. now you can exchange for
a title or crappy council resolution but trying to make more incentives for it.
mircea_popescu: that's the winklevoss twins, in
a word : scum facebook sorta-drug with it.
mircea_popescu: and every time something looks like it's going that way, the filth tries to hitch
a ride.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony basically it's like this : society consists at all times of some people in the center, and
a bunch of nuts at the edges. they are at the edges because they suck.
fluffypony: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are ready and proud to announce, to educate the rest 99% of the population who has never heard about crypto currencies. The CHECKMATE Trading System. Using Eccentric Trade Matrix Harmonic Acceleration Technology. The one & only truly revolutionary trading platform based on quantum physics & electron flow dynamics mathematical formulas.
A 6 dimensional chess game we have invented that will forever change how crypto
fluffypony: cazalla: all of the coins with
a ** next to the total supply you can disregard
MisterE: how could you make
a coin to help carbon emissions?
pankkake: I should have made the bet last more, but April 1st was
a good date
MisterE: there's
a bitbet about dog still worffing
mircea_popescu: so basically... doge owner and operator spending 100 of his last 1xx btc in
a doomed but desperate attempt to save his pump and dump scheme from oblivion
fluffypony: from Reddit: "It's
a Bitcoin investor that is going to capitalize on the ingenuity and creativity of Dogecoin."
fluffypony: so someone placed
a ~100 BTC buy order on Cryptsy for Dogecoin last night
MisterE: I think some jerks here actually accelerate when you're in
a crosswalk
MisterE: when royal family travels pedestrian overpasses are blocked, not for security, but because no one can be positioned higher than
a royal.
MisterE: and anyone important here gets
a police escort there's dozens maybe hundreds
a day
MisterE: so pedestrians are on the bottom ofc and have to wait for everything, then motorbikes (mopeds), then cars, then trucks (medium size) then busses because state owned bug dgaf and will hammer you) then big trucks with like trailers and finally everyone yields to the lat model Mercedes Benz . This is because the Benz may be driven by
a well connected person who could make problems for you so fucks in Benzes flaunt everyone
mircea_popescu: humiliating the police force is pretty much the test. if they don't understand that they have to get out of the way of *some people* it ain't
a country worth living in.
MisterE: tbh it effects me very little maybe once every other month in
a minor driving incident
mircea_popescu: MisterE try and tell
a us cop that he either gets on his knees or he loses his job. then go pay his boss to fire him.
MisterE: US is nearly as corrupt but has
a fucking elaborate system to shield it behind
mircea_popescu: people keep saying "corrupt" like it's
a bad thing, but i seriously have been making it one of my top indicators
MisterE: and nothing
a little cash cant fix here even if I fuck up
mircea_popescu: i remember some ridiculous thing where some blogger said she found
a cockroach in her soup and then had to take down the post because the eatery objected
MisterE: I'm involved with
a case now
MisterE: \\\truth is
a defense if you can afford to defend yourself defamation is prosecuted by the state and has
a very chilling effect
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is one of those fucktarded south asian countries which
a) still has libel and b) truth is no defense to it ?
MisterE: reminds me of talking about saving face, Thai Air plane went off runway recently, monor accident few people roughed up but before deplaning or doing anything they had
a crew out there covering the Thai logs
mircea_popescu: "The North Carolina Attorney General's Office is now joining other states investigating
a massive data breach at
a credit reporting agency that has put 200 million Social Security numbers at risk."
mircea_popescu: haha which reminds me, there used to be this whore advertised as
a cum grader
MisterE: find
a good school, build somethign nearby
cazalla: mircea_popescu: tassie is small, i'll find an area with
a school within an hour and the wife can drive him
MisterE: yea I sort of did want to live in
a beach town
a coupl eyears
MisterE: my last place was about 80sqm, near the beach,
a duplex, 2 bed 1nice bath and full kitchen (not often found here) and rent $230
mircea_popescu: food (actual, as opposed to whatever the fuck us fastfood is) will run you ten bux
a day and so on
mircea_popescu: how not ? i've lived pretty much all over the world. living space costs you something in the range of
a dollar per square foot per year.
MisterE: I get out to hk and cx and sg often so BKK is
a great base
MisterE: I irc
a lot and hang out at the foreign corespondent's club and stay sane that way
mircea_popescu: MisterE actually i think i get whart you mean re vacations. costa rica is
a pleasure, but yeah the locals are really slow.
mircea_popescu: so basically, thailand is
a set of old landed gentry trying their best to stick to relevancy ? sorta like argentina ?
MisterE: they lost billions on
a populist rice pledging scheme
fluffypony: where
a poor/middle-class person can virtually be wiped out by making
a major mistake
fluffypony: MisterE: I think that's sometimes/often
a product of "I inherited money so making money was
a matter of only making
a few major mistakes"
MisterE: actually it's not
a meritocracy, rich here often are the most stupid
MisterE: well it could be if used right but, since only wealthy kids here can afford Western teachers it's lazy dumb rich kids who cry to daddy when you try to get them to do anything productive then daddy calls school and teacher has
a problem
MisterE: thats
a terrible thing about the education system here teachers don't judge students because of the cultural / social hierarchy teachers are rated by students with rich parents
mircea_popescu:
a product, willy-nilly, ends up looking like its userbase.
MisterE: school gave
a colleague
a hard time for not teaching Office iirc. He was only talking about cross platform compatibility but got called in for
a discussion because students had complained
mircea_popescu: and you're doing more for
a better world than any vegetarian/ecologist/occupywallstreet/other idjit.
fluffypony: well I'm talking more from
a business stand point than an education one
MisterE: yea it's terrible I got out of teaching ASAP but good way to land in
a country and get the lay of the land and make
a few connections