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mircea_popescu: "On October 8th, 2013, just a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched,
the game landed on Steam. And in just one day, I had made nearly $15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as I made in
the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In
two days, I surpassed it. In one week, I had made over $50,000 in gross revenue… more
than I did in
the last
three years as a game maker and barista. My fami
mircea_popescu: gheo
thinks... if i say no, he's gonna
think im poor. if i say yes he's gonna ask for some.
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of
the aids joke. dja know
the aids joke ?
ascii_field: grep his book (on my www warez dir, in
the logz)
mircea_popescu: it's pretty cool. not really
translucent. a little around
the edges.
mircea_popescu: i have some obsidian i
took out of a guatemalan pavement wiht my own hands.
ascii_field: (worst possible material! imagine if it were not
translucent - who would use it?)
mircea_popescu: does anyone seriously propose
the "google is useful" myth anymore even ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "here's
this new gasoline, it has no caloric power" "what does it have
then ?" "strong odor, slightly carcinogenic, stains..."
mircea_popescu: there is
that. pretty much my objection
to reddit is "all
the stupid i stomp out on a daily basis minus
the
toe suckling and etc"
ascii_field: if i needed arbitrary and
tedious nonsense for anything, i'd visit a church
mircea_popescu: well
then how are you going
to overturn
the empire or how did
that quote go.
ascii_field does not deal with
teenz in any capacity whatsoever.
they may as well be penguins or kangaroos.
mircea_popescu: has nothing
to do with brain power. it's a matter of language. youth culture, it's just its own kind of arbitrary nonsense.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> why would someone admit
to 'my work is shit' ? << it's an hipster
thing. irony.
ascii_field: in
the sense where everyone who
touches such a
thing shares
the sin - yes.
trinque: its still your fault if it doesn't work even if it's made of gum and
twigs
ascii_field: they can always come and fillet panda kittens at
the belching workschwitzes here.
trinque: I saw a great deal of
that
trinque: and
the implication
that "if
this doesn't work it is not my fault"
trinque: along with
that goes
this "LOL everything is shit" attitude
trinque: the portland software scene is mostly about stapling open source
together
punkman: or are getting paid
to work on horrible
things
ascii_field: why would someone admit
to 'my work is shit' ?
trinque: you will find people here
that give a shit about
their name
trinque: BingoBoingo:
that could be
trinque: even
the software devs sit around laughing about how lazy
they are
BingoBoingo: But I'm discussing
the people. Far more
texan
than
Texans are
BingoBoingo: Missouri has
two rivers and
the Ohio river
terminus. Vast amounts of bulk goods constantly moving
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 04:03:36;
trinque: if you don't work here you're fucking nobody
BingoBoingo: <trinque> and I maintain
that
there's something far better about
these people
than any other state in
the US, such
that it stands a hair of a chance
to survive it << I'm
telling you Missouri is even more
Texan
than
Texas
trinque: and I maintain
that
there's something far better about
these people
than any other state in
the US, such
that it stands a hair of a chance
to survive it
trinque: industy
throughout, agriculture, so on
ascii_field: trinque: my point was
that:
tanstaafl (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu: alaska is far away and everything has
to be shipped at great expense.
ascii_field: usg
takes less?
then moar for
the landlord
to harvest
trinque: point being *the workers
there* cared about
the stupid gas station
ascii_field: betcha
the filling station in anchorage is sterile
trinque: obviously not
the only factor
trinque: Amarillo's a pretty boring
town and even
the gas station was spotless, workers
there were goddamn on point and asking me what I needed, sir
trinque: turns out when you let people keep more of
their own goddamn money
the
thing just sorts itself
trinque: as soon as I hit
the
TX border, industry!
mircea_popescu: "i remember 30 years ago used
to get 150 bumps
to
the yard. y u no make road like used
to!"
mircea_popescu: my
theory is
that
the bumps are from aged female nostalgia for
their earlier
time in a car. which a male owned, like he owned
their
teenaged ass.
ascii_field: my
theory was
that
the bumps are from nostalgia for crappy orcish roads...
mircea_popescu: punkman
that's pretty stupid.
the only reason
they even have
the half a shot
they have currently is
the rape.
mircea_popescu: let's shake everyone
that passes
through a street because hey, we can't just shoot whosoever speeds and kills a kid or whatever.
assbot: Muslims Say
They Will Make It Legal
to Rape White Christian Women When
They
Take Over Europe - Freedom Outpost ... (
http://bit.ly/1Z26jSf )
mircea_popescu: the one "innovation"
that cooled me off
the "civilised" world were
the fcucking speed bumps.
mircea_popescu: while its
true
that security contraptions never deliver any security, it is nevertheless
the case
that
they do require a rent. because everything
that exists des.
ascii_field: the interlock
thing is actually a rather harsh punishment, as i understand - for instance, it sometimes demands a blow... while
the car is moving
punkman: they might upgrade
to buttplug alcohol sensor on driver's seat,
that might be
tricky
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 03:25:16; mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into
the damned
thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into
the damned
thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <PeterL> wow,
that MPOE, did somebody drop some bad news about MP
today? << i dunno dude, i woke up and it was like...
PeterL: wow,
that MPOE, did somebody drop some bad news about MP
today?
gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in
the #b-a irc yeshiva for a while
☟︎ btcdrak: "smart money" has been
trying
to prop up
the price for
the last 9 months...
mircea_popescu: btcdrak kinda what we've been doing. VC circus got bled
to death, i very much wish
to see if
they're still going
to keep
the
tail up and we dun has
to do what
told bs next year, after
the massacre.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski your first pr
thing could be
to get @sandbaydev
to
take btc payment ffs. what is
this, 1995 ?
btcdrak: there's a real reason why a nasty and sustained crash in
the bitcoin price would be good for Bitcoin, it would flush out all
these idiot companies and
their VCs.
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: LOL, what has litecoin's spam handling got
to do with
tx malleability? maybe
they paid for a fiverr extra for
that gem.
better: Ok.
Thanks.
This is not available now. I will check later again.
mircea_popescu: better
tx is 802cb1fd782aa383c97126c3a0792d81c71d8c3897b74d9e62e1660c01684fe5 for some reason has
trouble broadcasting
mircea_popescu: yes but which of
the half dozen or so single bitcent bets is yours. right click on
the date
to get
the url.
ben_vulpes: programming being
the lathework, i suppose.