a111: Logged on 2019-06-07 21:06 asciilifeform: what was this ? ( a mud ? )
mircea_popescu: kinda how it's fascinating to me how all sorta things end these days.
mircea_popescu: nothing seems to ever live up in death to the pretenses it puts up while alive.
mircea_popescu: it's just... look, i guess a preoccupation with gravestones and old musty writs and whatall else is to some degree a professional deformation / professionalized mental issue. but nevertheless, consider : slashdot. fucking slashdot, yes, the people who named the site so that lamers couldn't tell it each other over the phone, calling each other from the video store (which, face it, early ,com internet was 100% videostore cle
mircea_popescu: sells in the end for 1,5mn or some shit. that site fucking owned the internet before altavista could return a search page on "google"
mircea_popescu: gigaom, this "big deal" specialist/experiencialist/entrepreneur/moasa-sa pe gheata.
mircea_popescu: just went away. arianna huffington, right, "mover and shaker", america's most politially influential whatever the fuck dumb cunt, right /
mircea_popescu: all these big deals were here at some point. at some point in my lifetime. frankly, it doesn't seem so much earlier than today's breakfast.
mircea_popescu: tons and tons of fruit flies with driveways and car payments, pretending to granite gravestones and "a normal life". THEY'RE FUCKING FLIES.
mircea_popescu: they've gotten cheeky btw, i recall the furore when blizzard dared break the tacit "no game shall cost over 19.95". by now ? 80 euros (ie, aboyut a benjie).
mircea_popescu: how the fuck are they gonna make a game worth half a 32 inch monitor is anyone's fucking guess.
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: 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: 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: neither premises are any longer true, the slots "market" is like the disco pants / 70s hairdos market.
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: 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: well, "fighting corruption", right ? uppity dweebs, went into poker room to dump their edgecase links.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : apparently cca 2016 steam had a "run windows titles under linux" thing.
BingoBoingo: In old country news, flood waters are approaching 1993 levels, but no one has managed to break anyone else's walls though some enterprising urban youth tried to wash out their town
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 news, the russkis apparently made a vampire-succubus-orc mod for king's bounty while nobody was looking.
☟︎ hanbot:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-08#1917763 << haha check out the scare-quotes on supposedly sacred institution: Publishers in Japan argue that the graphic depiction of underage boys and girls having sexual relations in manga doesn’t necessarily exploit real children, and that such a move would infringe on someone’s “freedom of expression.”
☝︎ mircea_popescu: it's been the pantsuit kick for the past few years, "hurr durr nignogs matter, herp derp freedoms dont"
hanbot: sure. i'm used to seeing freedom used on slavemaker apparati like stickers proclaiming some homeopathic garbage is detoxifying or whatever, though. FREEDOM!!1 Eat it and live forever, pleb! rare to see it approached like the foreign, dead carcass i suppose it actually has become, like this, poked with a stick from a distance, "freedom of expression".
mircea_popescu: as
anil dash would no doubt wish to know, "are you even familiar with the redemption cycles in that culture".
auctionbot: Buy order # 1048: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Heard: 75mn from Mocky outbidding PeterL. Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:30.974170 UTC (34 hours 12 mins)
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...
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-06-08 11:49 mircea_popescu: in other news, the russkis apparently made a vampire-succubus-orc mod for king's bounty while nobody was looking.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated cnomad 1 at 2018/06/12 21:46:46 << dood either ran off with my boards or else produced an image of some sort ; we don't know the future yet
auctionbot: Buy order # 1048: 500 WFF, WU esta bien Opening: 154mn ecu Leading Bid: 75mn ecu Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:30.974170 UTC (31 hours 58 mins)
auctionbot: Buy order # 1049: 2835 WFF, Wire Only Opening: 400mn ecu Leading Bid: 390mn ecu Ending: 2019-06-09 12:19:43.167056 UTC (31 hours 58 mins)
billymg: hi all, i've been quite busy but was still keeping up with the logs
a111: Logged on 2019-05-27 21:35 diana_coman: in other stepping-in-all-the-holes : it seems I found a fail-mode of mp-wp browser interface namely if one pastes the content of a post first and only then (possibly after it rushes to quick save it or whatevers) the title, it fails miserably as it apparently tries to save it with title "" (notwithstanding that no, it should not, there is actually a title to it)
billymg: tried a few different ways, letting it auto-save with no title, explicitly saving with no title, both of those with a space only: " "
billymg: always seems to save with the post id as expected
billymg: i slapped some parts together for my fx build, and was able to confirm that this particular asrock board does not support ecc ram
https://archive.is/CFyzn (for any readers using lulazon and looking for an am3+ mobo)
a111: Logged on 2019-05-13 17:54 lobbes: I've been doing some hard thinking lately, about what I want in life, and about how I'm way too content with my current living situation in the reich. The problem is that man can indeed be content ~anywhere. Nevertheless, I find myself being sucked closer and closer to the intake of the mass chumpatron. My time, my money, my sanity, slowly but surely slipping away with each day
billymg: in my current situation, there is not enough leftover energy for the tasks i'd like to be doing. this could be helped by transferring to a less demanding galley but my current thinking is to do my time, save resources, and then make it a clean break
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, pillars of eternity is a great baldur-like i never knew about.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-22 14:23 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw they always Officially print 'when crossing the border' (recall the ru d00d kidnapped 'in spain' etc.) it's the new 'shot while escape'.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-02 01:24 mircea_popescu: so you know, "usa is the powerfulest thing ever" "reheheally" / "oh, #metoo matters" "where ?" and so on ad infinitum.