Tim Cain certainly was not thinking of Valve when he made that statement about workplace mediocrity.

Ex valve devs have commented on code maintainability and workplace mismanagement. Still, I wouldn't denigrate the technical prowess put into a successful twitch shooter sequel on a custom engine (or if they went the UE/Godot route) as beneath a moderate sized triple-a team. Did the Godot hobbyist come up with a superior smoke implementation? I have my own complaints outside the core gameplay, about the hidden away server browser and retarded official matchmaking systems, so I'm not giving Gaben special treatment, and have held my negative csgo review since trying cs2.

Triple-A gaming is far from the most secretive industry. Think of the secrecy measures put into a federal contractor like Palantir. Or even hardware companies like Micron or AMD. Would be an unnecessarily costly burden that constrains creative output.

"The aphorism "you can't tell a book by its cover" originated in the times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by each purchaser according to his own taste. In those days, you couldn't tell a book by its cover. But publishing has advanced since then: present-day publishers work hard to make the cover something you can tell a book by." - Paul Graham

There's also at least 1 thinkbeforeyousleep video explaining that you should judge people by how they talk and present themselves. It's all signalling theory. Not the same thing as being superficial, perfectly illustrated by how Patrick Bateman only cares about suit labels for self-justifying social status. Richard Feynman is the perfect example, he had a 'low-class' east-coast accent, but was articulate and substantial. He presented himself with the desired effort to attract the audience he wanted.

Or did the video hit a little close to home?

We don't take too kindly to shotgun gossip techniques around here.

Now do the jackasses that installed a psycho soccer-mom as CEO.

In some video, Vee made a point of shaming some leftists that were shitting on mrbeast's giveaways. Whether or not he had a good point about leftist envy, I should have left a loud comment about how one should be very wary of and opininated against normie content plastered across a fresh YouTube front page. That this guy has shady shit going on is secondary to the side-effects of hundreds of millions that will consume this shite, or consume Britney Spears pop slop. A virtuous society does not have lowest common denominators pushed to the top.

First, this is not a homogeneous forum here at kia2. I prefer Israel over Palestine and most other modern Muslin/Middle-East countries, even if I think nation-state support of Israel has been absurd from the onset. I also think it's ridiculous that Kanye West was debanked over his comments, even if that has more to do with the notion of state-entangled banking than absolute control by Jewish elites.

It is apparent that this insular group (that does not include all ethnic or religous Jews) has undue influence in our government and establishment media, and this group uses its past victim-hood as a shield against real criticism of constituent individuals. Thomas Maisie publicizing the Isrealite lobby's insidious tactics comes to mind. Therefore, it's not that Tommy is "baiting the inbred racists", but that he's also paying lip service to a degenerate subsection of the establishment that has fucked him over numerous times.

It's quite simple, I don't want people to choose in-group preference over our nations' sanctity, and I don't want portions of religious or ethnic groups to cry bigotry to deflect legitimate criticism. A subset of Jewish people are very high on the progressive stack, and use this status to act in their immediate interests to the detriment of wider society.

"It's just a prank bro!"

Real libertarians; not the hippies with no understanding of Lysander Spooner, Mises, or Heinlein; have a point about how private (aka polycentric) law beats socialized law. The vastly simplified theory is that if an individual purchases law enforcement services directly, the police are incentivized to serve that individual instead of the state. This does not imply that implementation of privatized services isn't complicated.

This also goes along with other principles, such as an extreme rejection of positive rights. A person isn't entitled to due process just for breathing where he stands, just like he isn't to food and shelter. It's up to the localized polity to decide if that person is permitted to travel or reside there in the first place, and whether to provide due process (or other amenities) or to expel him.

This post makes it evident that current systems de facto fall far short of reasonable ideals. We have a constitution that codifies natural rights, and a populace that forgot that it takes toil (negotiation with neighbors, companies, and other polities) or blood to guarantee those rights. Other comments here provide good policies (including acknowledgement that cost-effective capital punishment is more just than prison in many cases), but don't fully address some root issues of why our judiciary is so contemptible.

And so am I, as long as I'm seeing people on the internet. As soon as you exit, you just see... normal people.

For every person I meet with their own interesting hobbies and unique insights, there's 14 others regurgitating what's on the news, too caught up in their own in-groups, too eager to drug out, etc. 4 out of those 14 are tolerable to talk to for a short duration. There'll be another 10 keeping to themselves or their family. Like Lethn, I'm checked out on socializing irl, at least until I move again.

Lethn's right, the internet got Eternal September'd hard, and many of the remaining geeky spaces got hijacked by left-wing activists.

That's a damning indictment of how far left the overton window has shifted.

No, I blacklisted him within the past 2 weeks for making me listen to "Guys, Jan 6th was super not good". That falls outside my pet peeve of lacking academic rigor, and into willful adherence to The Narrative. His reaction videos were tolerable when the youtube algorithm on my gaming machine isn't feeding me videos I want.

P.S. It's asmongold btw. His faggotry has been pointed out here, for example when Sweet Baby Inc. was blowing up and he called them the real racists. There's a dozen personalities you could swap in. He has also pushed the "Jan 6th was obviously inexcusable" narrative fed to him by mainstream media, on a video about Destiny's appearance on Piers Morgan after the assassination attempt. He has since been on my blacklist as background noise for when I'm playing single-player games. Any video essayist gets blacklisted when I I get any whiff of half-way wokism, including "inclusionism is fine" or "I'm not discussing Chris Avelone in a multi-hour video about Kotor 2's story" (the alt-tech revolution, where these slimy fucks are ultimately ostracized from society can't happen soon enough). The important part is the spectrum of superficially counter-culture types pushing and eating these defenses for the status-quo, the Man, or whatever you want to call it.

For a left-wing example of a lenient adherence to rational consistency, take the few commentators on this video defending the access of third-party anti-virus to the Windows kernel, because 'big business being anti-competive = bad'. As I responded in that comment section, this is protectionist nonsense that has gas pump attendants in New Jersey, or anti grocery store liquor laws. At least with the late 90s internet explorer anti-trust suit, there was a goal for a competitive web browser market for an open internet. The competition for Windows Defender is Linux and BSD, not predatory anti-virus software.

There's also my dissatisfaction with common vernacular and it's tendencies towards unsuitable binaries. There's more than one right-wing, and this 'alternative right' are not normies and psychos freaking out over Doom and Judas Priest. I need to read up on Korzybski's general semantics.

One of the things that has piqued my interest this year is what is definitively leftism and how far back leftism goes, either in direct lineage or through historical reoccurrence. Knowledgeable right-wing spaces (incl. here) have pointed out how Napoleon Bonaparte sided with leftist insanity against a rather reasonable reformation of the nobility. The classical liberals of the time were a minority. Despite a different world-view of several millennia, the dawn of the Roman empire shares many phenomenon. One example Julius Caesar appeasing of lower de facto and de jure social status for political clout regardless of their character, ability to produce value, or strengthen social cohesion. Rome also had the broadening of citizenship over the centuries, tossing aside something that worked instead of correcting the defects of their system. There's also the notorious social decadence of the late-republic, until the fall of the empire, you pointed at in your comment.

I've heard good things about the whole movie, but the storm trooper town guards in this clip really is ordinary for much western live-action choreography.

Seems like this organic, untainted slice of the web shrinks and gets hidden away every year. Just some blog posts, pieces of media, and a link to the guy's pre-indie saturation era game.

Thanks, I'm not that intimately knowledgeable about Windows or malware, and only use it for some games. What I found interesting from HN is that some company had crowdstrike on a Debian machine and that it hosed that system (not recently) due to a specific version and configuration crowdstrike didn't test. To me crowdstrike seems irrelevant for linux land, as opposed to other enterprise practices such as apparmor/selinux and app sandboxing, but I'm not a corporate sysadmin. I originally was on hacker news to skim how newsworthy crowdstrike was before this incident.

Just did some digging, and would you know it, the EU that normie-baiters (such as Asmongold) love is partially responsible. And yes, not grasping that 99% of anti-trust is fundamentally capricous and arbitrary (aka fake and gay) indicates deficient higher-order reasoning. Anti-trust is oft about two big competitors undergoing regulatory capture, and bureaucrats self-justifying jobs rather than the general welfare.

That subreddit got defaced by smarmy srs fucks a few years ago.

I don't agree with sections of this article, but it is disappointing Milei isn't doing everything reasonably within his power to promote right-libertarian principles and policy.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/06/no_author/a-hoppean-dissection-of-javier-milei/

For me, it's not that he made a dark joke, but that Kyle got snared in the lame ass Fahrenheit 451 style manufactured hate. So much for "sticking it to the man", rock n' roll's euphemism for non-conformity that their movie was a PG-13 comedy about. In a more just world, every American susceptible to TDS (or its reverse, unironic trump Idolatry) would be ostracized from enlightened society, or at the very least pre-filtered from voting by an earned franchise.

My only problem with TB is he would pull "both sides mah bad" regarding gamergate.

Shamus Young was pretty substantial (rip), but most of his stuff was not on that website.

What a fuckin flock of pearl clutching sheep in that comment section. 'What about his European ancestors!', an actual case of 'what-aboutism' (conventionalist anti-racsists love to utter that soundbyte when convenient) that is also distracting the gaggle from noticing they're reinforcing first-world-problem culture.

bzbz7932 is the only guy spitting facts in that comment section. I don't see anyone refuting his point that white kids are bullied at nearby schools by blacks. Just a bunch of duckspeaking outside his thread.

Being a masochist, I opened r/all again. r/livestreamfails. No upvoted comments about the incident likely being a nothingburger. 1/5 comments either about pedophilia, or the usual fence-sitting about optics comment thread that gets more engagement than the rest of the comment section. That website is has something wrong at the core.

Fence-sitting comments are always about how a thread is a dumpster-fire, when examination shows someone lit a cigarette 20 ft from the dumpster. That or a pretend-deep observation about public figure's actions look bad, veiled attempts to get others to think said person is bad. Ex: Ted Cruz staying on vacation a day into Texas's blackouts when being a federal legislator has little to do with that job. Nimrods thinking or saying Ted looked bad are why people have to waste time looking busy at their jobs.

I've posted here about theoryofreddit (screenshotted in this twitter post) banning those who participated in covid skeptic subreddits. So, that guy postulating about reddit activity is going to get a constrained response. And, r/redditalternatives got overtaken by the eststablishment leftist culture after the subreddit boycott last year. Ironically, it's futile to have a insightful conversation, on how and why Reddit is shitting the fan, anywhere on Reddit.