And some of the early tests sound like they were made by retards if "genetic intelligence" is what they were going for.
Well a lot of the early tests were also being used as eugenical barometers and developed with very ulterior motives in mind.
Psychology as a field has a stark difference between "trying to properly understand the brain" and "learning to manipulate the brain to our ends" and its been that way from basically the outset. And category 2 there is often far more numerous, funded, and powerful so it drowns out the rest.
Starvation and head trauma will inevitably change the outcome even if we assume the early tests to be accurate.
Well of course literal brain rotting actions will diminish the brain's ability. But I don't think the equivalent to losing your fingers means your arm muscles are also now less capable, only that you can no longer manage to reach that capacity yourself. Its a pedantic difference in how it manifests in reality, but the difference is huge in the scientific details.
I think that the difference is whether we are testing by group, by age, or by group and age
Of course it will be, the problem is we as a people can no longer properly define a "group" for the purpose of these tests beyond "the entire world" which leaves a lot of improper testing and poor control being thrown into the pot while calculating the "Average."
So in the end, the IQ scale will be useless beyond a very generalized picture until we can sort that out. And I doubt we ever will.
Something has changed about him, and it feels like its personal life related that is bleeding back this way.
He used to be pretty detached, affable and overall professional about all this. His rules were gay but he was someone you could still converse with and he showed a degree of intelligence and knowledge in doing so. I rather liked the guy and its why I think most of us didn't care about him being the only mod for this long.
Post 10/7 he has far more unhinged takes and almost paranoid responses to people. His reasonings are much less "strictly business" about rules and more interpretive.
He literally made the place, and never asked for more mods. Its pretty simple.
And he wasn't that unliked at the beginning. People had a pretty positive opinion of him back on reddit KIA2, especially compared to Antonio the more bullheaded and aggressive of the two. Even for the first few years here, opinion of him wasn't that negative even if there were disagreements. Not positive but not constant complain topics either.
Its only within the last year when the JQ became a much more spammed topic and he himself got very emotionally invested in it that things turned around on him. Made worse by the pedo pajeet making everyone aware of how little he actually shows up.
.they aren't searching through all coupons and thus are painting a false picture.
In this way, I absolutely agree with you it is a scam through a false picture.
But as its also a free program that is kinda doing what it says it will, then I think its simply marketing overhype instead of an outright total falsehood.
Which is still bad, and we should hold them to account on. But that's also like 80% of all ads for any service as well. Most don't have "the lowest prices in town" or "the best pizza" etc. So from a legal standpoint, I don't think its any worse than most advertisements other than being an internet thing (and thereby feeling more new/personal to us).
Its one of those deals where if we were going to hold companies to task for misleading advertisements, we missed the ship a long time ago and now its too normalized to really get the rock moving.
Equating drug addicts with child molesters or serial killers is a tad extreme, don't you think?
No, all of them are negatives upon society with no balancing positive side to them being so*. They may not be on the same level guaranteed, but they are still a danger to all by their existence.
That's without getting into how much cross over group A and B have. I'd wager a large percent of those molesters and killers and every other violent crime (and even many non-violent ones) are on some form of drug.
*A serial killer might be arguably having a positive effect if the killing is of the right people, but that's a very murky and dangerous position so let's ignore that rare possibility.
Being addicted is an affliction
A self-inflicted one, that's what you keep missing. They've chosen to do this to themselves. They damaged their own life and usually the life of everyone around them by their own choices, and its in the pursuit of mostly hedonistic self-pleasure. That is evil in all ways.
That's without even getting into the societal problem, wherein someone has wasted all the time and resources put into raising them to be a productive and upstanding member of society, and is instead choosing to be a complete burden on it.
What's your definition of junkie?
Anyone who does unneeded drugs. Personally, I'd even throw alcohol in with them but people aren't ready to hear that.
I know someone would have an issue with that part.
It doesn't really matter to me much because I A)reject the presupposed notion that "higher IQ makes you just better as a person" that comes along with it and B)know that higher IQs are heavily correlated with so many negative drawbacks that its just as detrimental to have (see their insane neuroticism).
Regardless, they believe it to be true, which is why they keep allowing IQ tests to exist despite it otherwise being anathemic to their politics.
But this always fails because the mean of 100 is actually not a consistent amount
Its not consistent because we rarely re-adjust it anymore due to becoming a "fully globalized" world instead of a lot of independent countries who can have their own mean and bell curve. Especially due to the politics of the "global 100" putting half the planet as sub 70 retards.
Your IQ raises rapidly as you grow, stabilizes into a slow growth, plateaus, and begins a gradual decline after 40, never to rise again.
Your IQ is a capability. Its there with you from the moment you are born and we literally select for age because the guys who made it weren't so retarded they thought a 150 IQ 4 year old could do the same feats as a 150 IQ 50 year old.
If someone is unable to demonstrate their full IQ, that is a problem that the creators of each individual test should be accounting for to draw it out. They fail at it, often because of the politics of the entire idea of having to make a Pidgin test makes whitey uncomfortable talking to African tribesmen.
The entire reason its an IQ test and not a generalized test like from school is because its meant to have controlled for those environmental factors post-birth, and find the genetic brain capabilities.
Honestly, its easy to be smarter than lower percentile people as an animal just because your intelligence isn't being blocked by higher order thinking and emotions to the extent that humans are.
A full force no-function autism guy has an IQ on par and above probably a lot of animals, but because of his "more developed" brain he loses many basic instincts and ability to properly react to stimuli due to a failure in the computer that animals just don't have.
It is, but its useless when you can provide no other valuable service besides it. The EGS spent much of its existence missing critical features and generally being worse than alternatives in almost every way, including actively destroying consumer goodwill by bribing devs with exclusivity contracts (with many devs also burning goodwill in their responses).
The foot in the door is only useful if you have anything worth selling inside, and for the most part EGS is luring people in just for them to nope back out.
The consumer side is a scam but its also one of those situations where "nothing is ever free and you are a fool for assuming such."
So while bad, its harder to evoke sympathy for that because its obvious they'd be getting paid off you somehow.
The entire purpose of IQ is to find someone's intelligence value mostly independent from environmental circumstances. The tests are literally designed with that purpose in mind and are adjusted to make sure they don't punish people for things like literacy or simply not knowing formula, at least in theory they should be.
A genius level IQ wouldn't stop being a genius just because he was born in a hut and never got to go to school, short of extreme malnutrition or damage actually rotting his brain. The test would be written in his ooga booga language (or entirely verbal) and work with basic human instinctual concepts that had nothing to do with education, poverty, or any other excuse blacks use.
That's why this topic cannot even be given the tiniest of spotlights. Because IQ tests by design are a mostly genetic test, and those genetics show all non-Asian PoCs to be borderline retarded on average. Its hard to even discuss them without running afoul of some really non-PC discoveries and topics.
I'd wager if Jews didn't top IQ tests (which I believe because it goes hand in hand with their consistent neuroticism and mental illness), and that feeding into their superiority complexes, they'd be banished entirely. But because they do, we get to play this fast and loose game about it.
I like how they, and many of our "allies," will spend years shitting on us with actual malice, interfering in our politics to a dangerous level, and generally trying to undermine anything we do out of simple pettiness.
But the moment one of our presidents jokes about not taking it anymore and flexes how easy it would be to literally stomp one under heel and make them our property, suddenly its a "real and dangerous threat."
Its such an actual pathetic reaction that makes them look so much worse than if they simply said "lol, try it DRUMPF."
GVH is about half animated and half "2d models vaguely moving behind a text box" like all VNs are.
I think the joke was closer to "we will make an entire game from scratch before these yahoos stop delaying it and release it." And considering they did so with one guy and a bunch of random volunteers doing it for fun, compared to a founded studio with actual experience and history being funded partially by Sony, its still an impressive feat to do so.
Its a classic example of fans giving people what they actually wanted (a game where you can fuck the Snootgirl) while a developer spends hours huffing their own farts making some sort of "statement" in a game about high school dinosaurs.
Toriyama "canonized" him in a random one shot, so now instead he is a caring loving father (only to Goku, never even spares a thought about Raditz) who literally developed a conscience randomly after years of genocide because he saw some aliens who reminded him of his wife and younger son. He is also super duper smarter than any other Saiyan because he somehow was the only one who thought for a second and realized all the red flags Frieza was putting out about killing them. It also added Goku's mother, a literal void of personality who is just a generic nice and caring woman who is nothing like any other Saiyan we've seen.
So basically he just made the "Superman" rip off much more exact, destroyed every reason why fans loved the original Bardock, and retconned a shit ton of Saiyan established lore. Just for a throwaway character he never again references or uses. He ruined him just so he could "own" the character himself (instead of being an original creation of the anime team like all the movies).
At least nu-Broly is still an interesting and good character who was used very well so far despite being a lot more generic.
Its not useful to anyone because it can change on a whim. Its also far less sacred than it once was and now people will gladly pick and choose what parts they like, including the actual series owners.
DB is a great example. Super is literal garbage*, so a lot of fans like myself just ignore its existence and keep the prior Canon (that Toriyama retconned). Bardock is still badass, Broly is insane, and Trunks had purple hair and grew up instead of staying a loser Twink forever. We can even slot in Tapion giving Trunks the sword, Garlic Jr. kicking off Z, and Cooler having the better 5th form than Frieza ever could.
Which nobody can complain about it, as Toriyama himself treated his canon as shit and ignored things at a whim, so we can do the same back to him.
*It will never not be ironic to me that he saw an awful adaption of "his series" and it inspired him to ruin his actual series himself so badly that people turned their opinions on GT around. Great guy, but he should have let it stay dead.
Canon was useful when designating what was the actual show and what was fanfiction being written by a random person.
Once fanfiction became more than just shitty webrings and instead AAA productions by the "owners" of the IP, it became a useless concept.
Those factors are what leads to the lack of self control
They do, but at the end of it all, the self-control is the final decision. Its where all those tragedies cease to evoke sympathy and you make the choice to be the harm-er instead of the harmed.
Getting molested or abused is a major factor in being a pedo, abuser, child hurter of some form. The same applies to them, whatever background they have is tragic but they still made the choice themselves at the end of the day.
You don't stop people from getting addicted by condemning the already condemned
By teaching someone that their actions are forgivable, you take away from the evil of said action by giving them hope that they can come back on the other end clean and absolved.
Every developing junkie thinks they will still be loved, or able to control it, or this or that. That's why they can be tempted to "try it." The consequences have been brushed aside with a lackadaisical attitude of unconditional positive regard and forgiveness that tempts people into that sin.
There are millions of people who've lost their way through no fault of their own more deserving of our time, sympathy, and help. Junkies of any form are not that and hardly deserve not to just be put down like the rabid dogs they are.
I always appreciate when our own anti-woke content creators make the most disgusting thumbnails possible for these videos, and make sure to always include the ugliest of the goblinas whose very face is offensive in it too.
And by appreciative, I mean I refuse to watch their video.