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mircea_popescu: moar liek 0x706c 616e 6573 6869 6674 203a 2074 6f72 amirite.
mircea_popescu: in other news, pillars of eternity is a fucking great "good old Infinity engine days". up there with planescape : torment i'd say (not as deliberately-artsy-quirky-???).
mircea_popescu: i got ~all the pre-2005 or so games. i got gothic, i got everything, 100s of titles. diablo 2.
mircea_popescu: an' the relationship between THAT and the usgistani sadnesses is entirely like between historical penguin and extant penguin -- simple misnomerism.
mircea_popescu: but the relationship between the european university and the "found some cool shit, hit it with hammer, ran off with pieces to our troglodyte hovel" british college is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: all of them, no exceptions, princeton
of great fame, stanford, mit, what have you -- they survive as sovereign funds, exactly like china's (only much smaller, worse managed and with way shittier portofolios) with an entirely spuriously magic cap on.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: the penguin was long gone by the time they were sewing those disgusies.
mircea_popescu: the us wanna-be oxfords are like you know, kids at the special needs preserve dressing up in penguin costumes.
mircea_popescu: i suppose lisp stands as a leftover of the time you speak of, so it must've existed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, very easy to get new business STAR!!!! from socialist machine. they pick one, "congrats son, now you're Cuban Mark VII"
mircea_popescu: i honestly don't recall a time anyone took cs for not-tradeschool.
mircea_popescu: afaik all the "oh, not trade school, true universal education, APPLIED MATH!!!" hullaballoo ever produced was ~xml/wikipedia/that sorta thing. a lot of very overbearing, insufferable, nonsensically overspecified minutia.
mircea_popescu: but... "if you're too dumb to make it in math and too lazy/weird to make it in business... CS IS YOUR TICKET TO FOOD!!!"
mircea_popescu: basically they went ahead and did our passive mesh network thing
mircea_popescu: they really don't want the shits ever turned off, do they.
mircea_popescu: sorta "unity"/"ubuntu"/whatever intellectual-abandonware.
mircea_popescu: there should be a short story about this, 1988 soviets don't spontaneously combust, but instead invade. find a mexican dude in all of new york
mircea_popescu: by "the retards" i meant whatever's currently left holding the power ranger flag
mircea_popescu: and THEN you gotta fix various half-installed libgdev and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: b) install gcc. and then make. because it SHIPS WITHOUT THESE. and then of course discover the current versions don't match what the kernel was compiled with.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz, getting nvidia driver installed on gaming box requires a) arcana getting rid of "nouveau" (their derpy cvasi-driver). and no, absolutely nothing of system internals is exposed on tabletOS, you gotta know what you're doing in a terminal ahead of time, there's no "visual GUI" way or manner to even touch anything system-relevant.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, pillars of eternity is a great baldur-like i never knew about.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in sad lulz, the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-08#1917766 item most eminently does not live up to the legacy of the name ; there's none of that exquisite attention to detail that made the original. the dialogue's terrible, both in conception as implementation, the maps are shoddily made...
☝︎ mircea_popescu: as
anil dash would no doubt wish to know, "are you even familiar with the redemption cycles in that culture".
mircea_popescu: it's been the pantsuit kick for the past few years, "hurr durr nignogs matter, herp derp freedoms dont"
mircea_popescu: in other news, the russkis apparently made a vampire-succubus-orc mod for king's bounty while nobody was looking.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but if we live in a shit world today, it's in no small part because ~everyone has neglected to crush bitchslap the provincialist lobby lo these many decades.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : apparently cca 2016 steam had a "run windows titles under linux" thing.
mircea_popescu: well, "fighting corruption", right ? uppity dweebs, went into poker room to dump their edgecase links.
mircea_popescu: this is not so. gambling in the old style, along with prostitution and not listening to your parents were traditionally important pillars of republic.
mircea_popescu: "oh, we're making so much money now [burning down the oilfields]". lasted for what, ten-fifteen years, now it's fucking dead.
mircea_popescu: neither premises are any longer true, the slots "market" is like the disco pants / 70s hairdos market.
mircea_popescu: item existed at a certain point because from one hand technology sucked just enough to be able to make that kinda blinkenlichten box but no better ; and from the other hand because country bumpkin were just bored enough at home on the farm to find the box entertaining.
mircea_popescu: for the record, there is NO MARKET and absolutely no fucking need for slots games/machines/whatever. they're the contemporary equivalent of buggy whips
mircea_popescu:
https://www.sosgame.com/ << other sduch lulz. "We are saddened to share that SOS and SOS: Classic has been permanently shut down. However you can use this website to play free Slot Games and win $25 per day by simply spending time on this website. [...] Free slots were created as a consequence of a growing need of the market to play slots..."
mircea_popescu: how the fuck are they gonna make a game worth half a 32 inch monitor is anyone's fucking guess.