I mean, that’s just rude. Do you often insult people as part of your disagreeing?

are you okay

Nope

What would anyone gain from him being propped up post death? I dunno, not loss of faith in Valve and so keep pc gaming in check and healthy.

We know that Valve stands as a threat to Microsoft and keeps them from doing their shittiest moves, they’ve done that for a long time. And that keeps at least Sony from doing the same. Nintendo can’t help themselves, but I’m afraid to think of what they’d become if Microsoft were able to just shit all over everybody and the console wars unthreatened by Valve in the PC space.

I don’t think Valve relies on gaben for much more, but at the same time, we have all seen, historically, what happens when the founder or founding members of huge tech companies leave or die, if gaben died, their image may falter and they might be eventually pushed to IPO, resulting in basically the end of one of the big things that makes Valve special, and so would equate to the “loss” of Valve as a unique/special global tech player.

Kind of like how the loss of the queen of England recently was a weird destabilizer for some parts of Europe. The king took over, more scandals popped up, etc.

I don’t know why people are so quick to poopoo this, it’s all mostly for fun.

So then I thought, what if Valve chose to prop up a gaben projection, as a kind of stabilizer? They totally could, and it wouldn’t be hard or really cost them anything. Change, alone, is hard for people, and I really do think that people underestimate the potential chaos theory effects of minor stuff, and he’s not really a minor guy, he’s a figurehead for one of the most important tech companies in the world. The guy genuinely has a lot of power. Real power, too. My hope is that Valve is filled with good people who are even half as smart and passionate as him, so that when he really does die, they can keep it together. But, we’ll never know until we know. Which is why you wonder these things.

I mean, I guess, or not. It’s pretty easy to shrug it off and say it, or nothing, matters, or to say that it’ll just be fine. But, of course it won’t be, it’s never just fine, power vacuums are always filled by something, and if I am allowed to have hope, I’d like to have hope that the people at Valve actually do care and are thinking AT LEAST about stuff like this. With great power comes great responsibility.

Oh well. I know plenty of people are gonna think this is dumb or I’m ridiculous. I could have just not, or been plain and normal. But… What’s the fun in that?

I think people that aren’t just trying it out and that drink even one drink in a setting more than once a week are alcoholics to varying degrees. I don’t condemn them, but I do think that at that point, the alcohol is a habit, and you are addicted and therefore an alcoholic. Not a raging alcoholic, not a helpless alcoholic, but you have proven yourself able to be, and are, addicted to alcohol and at that point need to be VERY careful.

Also, alcohol is basically just bad for you, fully. Do whatever you want, maybe I’ll join you happily occasionally, but this is the fact of the situation.

Just generate a video every so often, have him say something with the number three, and slowly get older. You could stretch it for another 50 years and people might believe it.

Whomstedestesteries’

Can you give more examples of what you think fits or defines that more?

I think other people have already covered the bases of what I’d suggest, but just for curiosity’s sake, to further clarify this style you’re looking for.

Do you feel like a frog in water that keeps slowly getting hotter? It’s uncomfortable, you know it’s getting worse, but there really isn’t much to do, a lot of people yelling about it, things feel bad, your hands are tied, this isn’t how it’s supposed to be, i want something else, why the fuck is this happening?

Or do you just feel like your life is fine and will be fine and other people are bringing you down?

The heart of my enemies

Don’t underestimate how bad things are going to get and how long it’s going to take and don’t assume who is going to win. Things can, and will, get much, much worse.

Have you heard of the similar meme-theory that Shrek 1 was the last positive thing before it all went down?

Harambe died in 2016. Trump took office in 2017.

This is the reckoning.

Data collection (for AI)

Do you really feel attacked by this post?

If you can’t download the software and then run it on an isolated, air gapped network like on a desert island, then it isn’t self hosting.

The willingness to abuse others is low intelligence

Communists are authoritarians because that’s what communism is, like by definition; it’s hard-left but also authoritarian. That’s literally what separates lib-left from auth-left, the same obviously being for lib-right and auth-right (I’m just going off of the standard four-quadrant political compass, which probably has its own deep, foundational issues).

I have friends who are self proclaimed “tankies”, and talking to them a lot about it, my best understanding of the way they put it is basically:

You need an Iron Fist® to fix anything, and an Iron Fist® to keep it that way.

I also think that .ml probably has a percentage of people from those locations, and most people, period, tend to think their way is the best way. Which is also fairly hard to prove because history keeps being altered and destroyed and humans only live for like 60-90 years and we don’t have a very advanced intergenerational memory. Or maybe we do but just don’t know how to learn very well from it when all it seems to scream is “BREED, EAT, SLEEP, STINKY, TRIBE, SCARY, RUN, FIGHT, SAFE, LOVE”. It’s like some people’s own evolutionary biology tells them to prevent others from learning history to establish dominance and power.

Hard to say whether or not we’ll make it. The solution-path definitely has a lot of construction and destruction.

I think: actual straight people don’t exist, only self hating people who cling desperately to an imagined blood tribe.

That being said, don’t proselytize your ways in other people’s places of love that do you no harm. I think of it like a church: you do you, I’ll do these people :)

Ur mom

Nobody’s gonna notice