platforming requires more precision because Mario has a round hitbox instead of a square one.

Same thing happened in the Crash remasters iirc

Plagiarism by SBI, I've already seen child literacy advocates cosplaying* as the guy on the right, years ago.

*(Tangentially - and with a fuck you for all the disingenuous, groomerfaggot enablers who like to claim this insanity is amplified by the internet and you never see it irl - that same library was actually my childhood library.)

Great, thanks for the links. I'll have a read when I can. On a quick skim, the Greek guy seems a bit overcome by fanboyism, but I don't consider that a reason to discount his whole account.

I'm more than just open to it, I'm actually fixated on questions of consciousness these days. I have a collection of reflections and ramblings in a text file which I feel some sort of moral responsibility to try and turn into a book or something some day, myself, though I have a poor record with following through with that sort of thing and no paper credentials to make it seem authoritative.

This could prompt me to look into the Tao/Dao some more since it seems like it could have a lot of overlap, cheers. Taoism remains in a blind spot for me unlike several other spiritual traditions I've come to take pointers from (much like the Perennialists). Who knows, maybe I'll go find this Chang myself.

The Wim Hof stuff is interesting. It bleeds over into stuff I've been dwelling on recently with regards to the process/nature of consciousness itself and what it means for an individual's sense of purpose and their 'self-actualisation', which feeds back around to health in the end, either directly through some undiscovered process or indirectly through the kinds of general health decisions one ends up making.

I can't lay claim to having been an early questioner of the lies surrounding healthcare but I'm hoping never to be duped again. I don't know exactly what my stance is on virology and epidemiology these days other than I am now armed with the knowledge that a) virology was preceded as a science by vaccinology, by centuries, and depended on many of the assumptions of vaccinology in its infancy and b) vaccinology is literally 300+ year old technology based on the gut feelings of a feminist fujoshi noblewoman who saw it practiced in Turkey. The first 100 years after Jenner's smallpox vaxx appear to have been, upon examination of the numbers, a stats-rigging exercise to desperately try and manufacture a false success out of it, while the more sensible physicians stood around and scratched their heads wondering wtf kind of psyop this all was (just like covid).

All of this stuff became the foundational assumptions of virology. To the extent that these fields are intertwined, they now feel like a couple of sinking ships tied to eachother. Maybe one is still potentially sea-worthy and maybe not, but if they choose to stay tethered then they can both sink as far as I'm concerned.

Kary Mullis agreed with you, certainly on aids as a product of lifestyle factors.

Accurate or not, the model of invisible contagious diseases surrounding us at all times is a trojan horse of an idea in the sense that unless you very clearly identify the causes of ill health, any assumptions of specific, latent threats become a source of fear which tyrants can scam you with. It's a concept of scientifically-derived original sin, of which there can exist any number, all of them needing a vaccine baptism to wash away at the earliest possibility (but you'll also still need the confessional for the rest of your life).

It was known and accepted for a long time that the vast majority of Polio 'cases' are asymptomatic. But this acceptance also allowed humanity to fall into a semantic definitional game, where the dictionaries are written by commie trannies who then beat us over the head with them. One of the main arguments for the efficacy of the Polio vaccine was how rates declined just after it - which was also not long after Coxsackie virus was discovered and became a perfect category to catch all the cases of non-paralytic Polio going around. No wonder Polio declined massively, since 'asymptomatic Polio' was suddenly called something else. We've seen the same definitional games with flu, covid, delta, omicron, flu-like symptoms, long covid, measles, shingles, herpes, monkeypox, 'Mpox' (which is totally different we swear), etc. right now, all to further the goals of the medical establishment and divert discussion away from elephants in the room, such as improving natural immunity and avoiding products which might ruin it.

And I just discovered this:

Taxonomy: There were 29 species of coxsackieviruses until 1999, when two of them were abolished and the rest merged into other species.

Huh. So 1999, the same year they thought they'd completely eradicated Polio 2, was also the year they felt that 'coxsackievirus' wasn't useful as its own distinctive category any more. Fancy that.

Within 2 days there were 0 articles about the protests just seemingly out-of-place commentary how the benevolent lords of the EU sadly had to delay the policies leading to the protests, but wich are totally 100% supergood and necessary because climate change.

While the media was in full gatekeeping mode, i was watching videos of armored police vehicels being pushed aside by tractors, police being covered in menure and outright beaten. Stuff that you normally would have on 24/7 rotation in the statemedia with the usual lies intermixed.

To emphasise this, consider the difference in reporting between the civil disturbances in Ireland vs those in the UK right now. The Irish citizenry are going further than the British, frequently setting fire to refugee housing every week, but the British govt is actually cracking down harder. This is because the British cops think they can't lose against their own people, given the scale of the opposition and the tools on each side.

Contrastingly, the Irish government thinks it CAN lose, because it's smaller. So in Ireland the same thing you describe has happened from the political side - cautious re-examination of immigration policy, gradual de-escalation of condemnation (they don't go much further than 'it's unacceptable' in their soundbytes these days), and growing media silence on all these mysterious fires...

wifing a hairy Spanish feminist

Aye carumba.... Just as long as you don't cut off your massive balls.

'Polio Type 2' was thought to be eradicated in 1999.

In August 2020, Africa was declared free of “wild” polio (Scherbel-Ball, 2020). Unfortunately, recent isolates of polio virus in water supplies in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, have proved to be virulent mutants of Sabin's oral vaccine strain of type 2 poliovirus.

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Thus, in 2018, the type 2 vaccine virus caused 33 deaths and paralyzed 105 children. In 2019, it caused 196 cases of paralysis. Work has been underway to develop a new improved oral type 2 vaccine that cannot revert to virulence so easily.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/human-poliovirus-2

Hmmmm.

How exactly does carpetbombing cause Polio to spontaneously manifest in a population anyway? Is it due to all the international travel into the Gaza strip (/s)? If that's the (retarded) argument, it sounds like a good case against open borders, especially from Pakistan, one of the only countries on the globe classified as having endemic Polio. Was it [redacted group] using bioweapons? That discussion can't be had here. Or was it due to germs and lack of sanitary living conditions? Which would mean what they refer to as 'Polio' is not in fact a virus.

Various factors really activate the almonds. But if Hamas (by way of the Gaza Health Ministry) is the other hand clapping, begging the WHO to come in and vaxx Gazan kids, the Palestinians are really fucked from all sides.

Why does a woman need a feminine name? That's discriminatory. Change absolutely nothing for transphobic bigots, or else go even more masculine, like Boris, Olaf or Tharg.

I clicked half a dozen random titles from random genres I found in the genre menu. They all worked and loaded fast.

The 'fake clones' still being around shows how easy a problem this is to solve and how this really should be an unwinnable battle for the rights holders, if there's any assertiveness in the community. Reason being, all the files are still hosted on 3rd party uploaders and the links are presumably in some database or xml or whatever. The fake sites are just pointing to the same files the original used to. There's hundreds of thousands of individual uploads to deal with. That takedown battle takes a lot of effort and is a digital forever-war, so copyright attack dogs go to the links aggregator which is 9anime. Which is a site that can always be replaced, even if it's with what was the inferior choice up until now, but that 'inferiority' becomes a 'glass missing some water' vs 'glass almost 100% full' perspective question. Ofc those links need maintaining in the longer term, so the sooner a trustworthy steward takes over the intermediary role, the better...

Yeah it's sad for the zoomies who are more concerned about their anime library and disqus comments or whatever, but tbh it was arguably unwise to make any kind of personal profile even on the original 9anime, given what just happened.

Generalists are definitely under-appreciated. One of the refuges of the scientismo is to knock people back by saying akshully black is white because you don't have enough detailed knowledge in X field.

It has ramifications for human progress for sure. I was recently watching the Tucker podcast with Casey Means, the former surgeon and health researcher. She described medical education in the USA as multiple disciplines where no specialist is ever taught to look at the whole system of the body, hardly any being taught about nutrition for example. And as it turns out, of course, one of the best ways to never reach a solution to a profitable problem (chronic health issues in the wider public) is to break it down into various sub-specialties, all of which need their own paid specialist, gatekeeping their field using opaque language, and discouraging them from talking to eachother or from forming a generalised overview of how human health works. So you end up just finding multiple expensive non-solutions and that's more important than being actually correct, because you respected all the various specialists sufficiently and you followed the accepted process.

The one thing I would say is that I think intelligence is a tool and not a virtue. It's not as simple as either having intelligence or not having it, and a person's worth, morally and spiritually, doesn't scale linearly with an IQ graph. The bell curve meme is accurate-ish but I think it goes deeper than that (ie. you're not automatically an insufferable twat just because you're a midwit).

This seems like an overly obvious thing to say, yet at the same time I think a lot of people (irl, not necessarily on this forum) act like the ultimate goal of life is to prove you're smarter than everyone around you and that there's some innate moral value to clawing your way up the ladder of intellect. The important thing is not just to have intelligence and show it off but to do something with it that amplifies your value system.

'If only I could understand absolutely everything that was going on right now and completely destroy my enemies with facts and logic!' - noble human qualities like humility can teach you the former is impossible and remind you that the latter is important not because your enemies are dumb, but because they're evil, which is not the same thing. Evil being dumb is good because it suggests an easier win, but make that association too much and you fall in the trap of always thinking 'my enemies are dumber than me' and also 'smart must be good'.

between smart with a high IQ and intelligent

I have a pet theory that what we casually refer to as 'intelligence' or smarts is actually a three-pronged function of fundamental aspects of the way we think.

1. would be actual brainpower in terms of processing speed, the ability to be faced with completely new information and to process it into different information or meaningful conclusions quickly - like the high IQs or indeed autistic savants who can look at a number pattern or visual puzzle in an IQ test and waste minimal time on it.

2. would be knowledge base - your wealth of 'book smarts' or 'life experience' you can draw on, independent of the time or prompting you require to do it. This also depends on the strength of your memory and would account for why long and short term memory loss can affect intellect in different ways.

3. 'wisdom' on the D&D char sheet, which I'd define as your ability to usefully pattern-match your knowledge base (2) to the world around you, independent of speed. You might be faced with new info and be able to perform transformations on it quickly in your head as in (1), but the new info might also correspond to old info in your knowledge store(2) which would affect the nature of this info and the way you should process it, so unless you're good at the application of knowledge to reality(3), every wider conclusion you're reaching could be trash.

so it's basically 'int'(in GHz)/Knowledge/Wis. I want to find a different term than 'Intelligence' for the first one, because that's the word everyone is already so attached to even though I think the concept is broader, but I can't think of one.

You can theory craft these to come up with archetypes that cover every kind of person across the board, such as a sheltered person with no life experience (low in #2), who is nevertheless academically gifted (high in #1) and able to apply their limited knowledge to a broad range of situations, like childish fables or Karl Pilkington outsmarting Ricky Gervais using comparisons he would never think of (high #3). Karl for his part would be low Int/low knowledge(I know he's experienced a lot but he always seems to go back to comparisons from his childhood and home life)/high Wis.

All the academics and researchers during the pandemic who continue to parrot covid lies are - the good faith ones at least - High Int (they deal with complex models and maybe they out-argue the uneducated in the heat of the moment), High Knowledge (lot of stuff to remember, lot of years behind the microscope), and zero fucking Wis ('lol idiot how could ALL my inputs be wrong, I guess EVERYONE in politics and science is lying huh?? conspiracy theorist! oh and you must be one of those nazis they told me about too!')

Hope he's doing well. I made a small contribution to his legal fees back in the day. It's been a rollercoaster for the last 10 years and still only feels like we're on another chain lift before the next drop.

Denuvoshit. LetThemFight.jpg

Literally the gayest of the gay fake pandemic candidates, since it is a gay physical-contact STD.

If covidians mention it to you fearfully, just describe it the way you recall seeing it described last time: as 'a disease for men who have sex with men' to be particularly concerned about. Don't laugh or smirk, look serious, sympathetic and concerned - after all this description is what the ever-reliable MSM used. Force the normalfag to face clown world absurdity and their own retardation if they want to keep up their hysterics.

Others already mentioned the price/performance of beyer DT 770s. Didn't want to make a redundant post since I've been leaning on those as a headphone for 5+ years.

Last Christmas, though, I took a punt on a set of in-ear earphones, despite never liking earbuds up until that point (and earbuds being all that exist in this tier any more). What I ordered was a pair of FiiO-FH3 earphones which come with multiple earbuds of varying size and material. They've basically replaced the beyers for me, especially the sponge buds which create a nice bassy seal. Gambly purchase for me yet I Can Recommend.

Pretending to remember feeling indignant about your dad being racist when you were 6? Bullshit. This is 100% something that's been drilled into him by the mother, much like his trannification if that's the same kid.

Also it's well-timed to coincide with the establishment attempting to turn the screws on Musk, but not well scripted (eg. oblivious to the hypocrisy of implying somebody's racist because they're from a certain country). So there's the incredible stupidity of a teenager but the conniving of an adult - again, points to a woman at the wheel.

She even announced her conversion to Christianity last year.

It's PR, it's not about actual risk assessment or being honest. Anyway, Butler PA is probably one of the safest places in the country for him atm.

He can go where he wants, but the point is that whenever Kamala suggests he goes anywhere, he should respond 'oh look she's trying to kill me.'

This is such an open goal for Trump:

I don't trust the security there, she's trying to have me killed since Biden's stooges failed

I'll debate at places which I deem safe, but if I'm shot there you'll know who's responsible

Probably won't use this because of something cuckish about lowering the temperature.

Whether or not a combatant has a vestigial pussy or ingrown penis has zero relevance to their participation in a combative sport, when they have an obviously male frame too. The distinction is only worthwhile to trannies attempting to blur the rules.

tldr; discord trannies, unironically.

Got it, I see what you're saying.

Not trying to call you out, but can you give an example of somebody labeled a TERF who is not a TERF?

The reason I suspect this is a meaningless distinction is that TERF is a label applied by feminists, to feminists, exclusively. And I personally do not give a fuck what feminists think of other feminists.