mircea_popescu: maybe in the end the story reduces to "i'm just uncurious enough"

mircea_popescu: i simply do not care what those examples may be, i expect to be the example for them.

mircea_popescu: i don't think i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be a difference of style.

mircea_popescu: (other than the memory hole effect, of course)

mircea_popescu: how do you know the places google takes you to have any info ?

mircea_popescu: if i want to find out what X said i don't go to ask google, i go ask x. etc.

mircea_popescu: and if you don't believe it anyway, then why bother with the box ?

mircea_popescu: do you now go through life with the notion in your head that chicken broth is a fuel oil ?

mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: if it's some pop cult reference i either ask someone in the know or else ud/tvtropes. if it's some actual thing i usually know enough to know what to read.

mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm not the sort of hayseed that needs to search the web. but i assume there isn't, because it's a hard problem. there not being, however, does nothing for google, imo.

mircea_popescu: "this pressed shit gun doesn't work" "is there an alternative ?"

mircea_popescu: jurov dja happen to have any idea how to package linux code for steam ?

mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have a reddit acct that's aged enough to make subreddits ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: is that you trolling ?

mircea_popescu: punkman the article is very carefully engineered to bilk, which is why i linked it.

mircea_popescu: (very often these numbers are fudged, it's not x people, it's two famblies. sort of like swining, except they don;t fuck.)

mircea_popescu: i have my doubts indie efforts can manage more than ~4, really, which is essentially a double date

mircea_popescu: 5, they said.

mircea_popescu: "We ended up operating for five months without money or payments to the team here. It was a difficult period, where some of us were awkwardly standing in front of cashiers having our credit cards declined, drawing from any possible savings, and borrowing money from our friends and family. But we made it to the other side!"

mircea_popescu: never move for babes. the whole concept of babedom is they gotta move.

mircea_popescu: hows tx trinque ?

mircea_popescu: the mutatis mutandis equivalent of this nonsense has existed for a longtime. doesn't even need that much mutation.

mircea_popescu: the intellectual decay, over two short generations, is fucking awesome.

mircea_popescu: “I used to play a lot of complicated games like Dungeon Keeper " oh come the fuck on. dungeon keeper's main appeal was that is simplicity incarnated.

mircea_popescu: that's the guy's entire shtick. if your paradigm is stupid enough to not allow useful statements to be made, its inconsistency can not be proven. !godel approach to linguistic production.

mircea_popescu: "his shit makes sense, in its own paradigm" "sure. so does anything. his paradigm is pretty stupid" "can you formally prove this ?" "no. because..."

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski to me he's seriously another timecube.

mircea_popescu: fuck this shit omfg.

mircea_popescu: In fact death isn’t mentioned at all. Neither is failure. Death in the traditional video game sense is absent."

mircea_popescu: "This feeds directly into Hall’s development process. Pac-Man 256 – a new version of Pac-Man that, if you’re good enough, literally never ends. Pac-Man as an endless runner. Or Crossy Road, an endless version of Frogger. In both games you are never punished for dying. Often you are rewarded.

mircea_popescu: "Penny’s hatred of losing is legendary in the Hall household. Every time there was a possibility of her losing a game, she’d close the app and toss the phone away. Every time a game threatened to kill her she would quit. Immediately."

mircea_popescu: dude that kotaku article...

mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: might be a while, but hey, until then, more psycho material to examine will be produced.

mircea_popescu: anyway, he's to that day when sec/cftc/etc figure out that if they wanna play, they gotta behere, and play by the rules. and when academitards figure out that if they wanna play, they... gotta be here. and play by the rules. and when random tard etc.

mircea_popescu: the part where the bed was made to piss you right in the forehead right back hasn't yet sunk in

mircea_popescu: so now they're "stress testing" aka if you won't care about my screaming im going to wet the bet.

mircea_popescu: but after the massacre they got for their hopes this year, everything's tumbleweed city. r/bitcoin like r/buttcoin, the ever more numerous forums etc.

mircea_popescu: it's funny what impotence does to people. they'd like to be part of bitcoin, EXCEPT not on bitcoin terms. they wanna do it on their own terms. originally they hoped that derping on social media might do it,

mircea_popescu: turns out someone was "stress testing" by echoing malleated txn.

mircea_popescu: i don't actually keep track.

mircea_popescu: from experience, it's cheaper to create this stuff than to catalogue it.

mircea_popescu: http://yachtclubgames.com/2014/08/sales-one-month/ << here's one kickstarter that apparently made it. took ~300k in free money, made so-so successful game.

mircea_popescu: ly couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. Finally, I felt redeemed. This was a path that was more than a dozen years in the making, but I had finally made it."