Extreme Z7

How 'bout the "I have no stance" response?

@Leo Gura I'm still in my early 20s and I do have one small story from my (really) early 20s. The first time I tried to live on my own and pay for my own rent, I could only afford a very small room barely the size of an average home bathroom. The rent was cheap and I was told the other extra fees (water, electricity, and garbage disposal) would be just be a fraction of the rent. This ended up being true for the rent, water, and garbage, but I feel I was charged way more than I expected for electricity. Something was up. At first, I thought it might be normal. The landlady even pointed out how expensive my electricity bill was at first and suggested it might be because of my laptop. Yes, I used my laptop everyday but something still felt off as I needed to go to work every weekday and I usually liked to spend part of my weekends outside so I wasn't using my laptop that much. But I just went with it. The electricity bill slowly got more expensive over the next few months and I still thought it was may have been normal, albeit weird. I was being given what looked like actual electricity bills with the weirdly high numbers 4x larger than I was originally told. . . and still rising. How would I even challenge that? It's an actual paper bill telling me how much I needed to pay. My suspicions really started to arise when one time bills were due, I didn't receive an electricity bill. The landlady insisted she slid it under my door but there really was nothing there. She then just proceeded to tell me what she claimed was my number for the month and it was predictably higher than what my bill was the previous month. I still didn't say anything at the time and I just paid it. Something was definitely wrong. The laptop was the only high-end electronic I had and I wasn't exactly using it more and more each month. Unfortunately (and also very fortunately), I got fired from my job that month so I didn't have to stay at that crappy place anymore and that was the last time I paid for that bill. I didn't have the mind to bring up my suspicions to her as I was thinking about having to move back to my parent's house at the time. And even if that wasn't the case, I didn't even know if there was a way to prove it and get my money back at all. It was only when I looked back to my time there that the possibility that I've been financially scammed seriously dawned on me. I didn't feel that upset about it, I mostly saw it as a learning experience. I was taken advantage of because of my lack of life experience. Looking back, I would have contacted my uncle immediately when I got that first bill and asked him for advice but that thought didn't even crop up in my mind. I was too arrogant at the time to look for help from people who may have had more experience than me and I just decided I could "figure it out on my own". I have not told this story to anyone because frankly, I just want to move on from it. I didn't want to cause a fuss from my parents or relatives that would force me to have to confront my ex-landlady, I thought it would be a waste of time. Better just to be proactive and earn more money by focusing on my LP. However, the next time I feel something like this is happening again, I will be ready.

The worst city. . . . probably.

And yet somehow they'd still win through voter suppression tactics. Oh America.

Leo made a blog post about this but frankly, I wanted to post this before that but the site wouldn't work for a long while. I think it's good to read the original article because it gives a good general chronological story as to how Tim Pool essentially failed his way to success. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet Really revealing stuff here. I learned that Tim Pool's primary motivation was always personal success and fame but it's also something else when you're embarrassingly incompetent at your work and are in denial of it. Almost no different to Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder: tried to pursue a positive life purpose, failing miserably at it, eventually found a toxic but lucrative career on easy street.

How Boring. Such a sheer lack of charisma from Sargon of Akkad as he tries to "debunk" the Daily Beast article. All he can do is posture "hit piece" while he barely reads what's on the article.

Also allegedly asking a black man what side of the race war he's on. And there's also having the gaul to say “Women are too emotional to be good journalists; their feelings get in the way” even though he was too scared to leave his hotel room to film Turkey's civil unrest. Again "allegedly", but if true then Pool's even dumber than I thought.

I mean. . . this has gotta be a troll, right?

You just can't beat "imagine if Mark Zuckerberg censored MLK and Abraham Lincoln", two famous figures who were assassinated because of the causes they fought for. Pure clownery.

@Leo Gura Would you ever speak with Sam Harris if presented the opportunity? What would you try to tell him? Pardon me if this question has already been asked to you.

Meanwhile in Stage Orange land:

Haha lol. I guess that's something for me to reflect on. I have been getting more into board games lately so I guess I've gotten even more primitive and nerdy.

Ya ever try Dwarf Fortress? Probably the most complex RTS game around. It's free yet mind-boggingly complex. Took me several tutorial videos to learn how to play it.

TV shows aren't bad. You just outgrow most of them.

Ooh Gooooooooddd. . . . When Stage Blue-Orange gets obsessed with racist "comedy". This guy loves mocking Asian accents and calling them "Chinky Chang Wangs". Got himself removed from Blip.tv many years back for pretending ugly space aliens were Jews. His racism legacy is all that and more. Steven Crowder would be proud.

Watch out. You're devolving into conspiracy theorizing. Social media companies always make their TOS policy publicly available for everybody to read. They're usually worded very clearly but with few ambiguities. Same is true for real life crime. That's why we have a legal system to deal with said ambiguities. The solution is not to stop banning people just like we shouldn't stop arresting people. Leo has made a proposition in his Conscious Politics video about sort of an online court system. But even then, it would probably only deal with the most major or controversial cases.

@UDT Dude. . . . do you not like, understand how satire works? Yeah, I didn't mean to quote you directly it was rhetorical I. . . god, I don't feel like explaining this. Now I know you definitely didn't understand 1984. And besides, there's a fundamental problem with basing your knowledge on a subject on only one book. You're always going to end up with too limited a perspective on anything. Read his full quote again. He implies that it would be just as bad as hate speech.

The strong majority of normies are not going to go out of their way to find obscure banned content. They're usually radicalized by some cult-of-personality that they really trust sharing with them dangerous rhetoric. You're a total fool to compare Actualized.org with hate speech. Get some help, man. There has to be something wrong with you to think the very functioning of society is being threatened by not allowing people to yell "burn the gays". We have social norms for a reason. And we must also enforce them in online spaces. P.S. I'm willing to bet you haven't actually read 1984. But if you did, you almost definitely didn't understand it. You're just parroting another right-wing talking point.

@UDT I find it hard to take you seriously when you're fearmongering about online moderation causing strong division. Or in your words, extremism, sub-groups, a split society, and God forbid. . . . WORSE?!!! Let's not forget that the biggest division will always come from getting radicalized by toxic people, especially if you're young. . . or just really stupid. I'm finding it harder and harder to find the ideas of you free speech libertarian types acceptable. There is a strong denial of the dangers of conspiratorial thinking, misinformation campaigns, hate speech, toxic ideologies, bullying, etc. Nobody is oppressing/censuring you just for being Stage Blue, that's only if you're also being an unconscious asshat.

I gotta admit. "How can I be racist, I worship a Middle Eastern brown man" was pretty original. In a dumb kind of way.

https://apnews.com/article/john-mcafee-dead-spain-prison-extradition-c39cc0f375a975946fb83b60cc2bf3d3 He allegedly committed suicide in a Spanish prison after recently being sentenced to be extradited to the U.S. He was potentially facing the rest of his life in prison. Weirdly, I've stumbled upon some supposed John McAfee fans/conspiracy nuts denying that it was suicide and trying to paint him as a martyr. Their proof: McAfee's own paranoid tweets warning that U.S. officials are out to "whack" him and that he would never kill himself. Guess he was also taking lessons from the Trump guidebook to getting people to buy your lunacy.

GameMaker allows you to code as an option. It uses its own programming language which is fairly basic but it's enough to make fairly complex stuff with it to a degree. Admittedly, you could probably still build more complex games with Flash, rip. Rather, Stencyl is a game workstation where you really can't code even if you wanted. Using it to make a game sorta felt like the equivalent of using Fisher Price tools when I tried it out. I'd rather make a game with friggin' RPG Maker, a very popular goto for newbies and amateurs.

Why Dreams failed in two funny videos:

Speaking as someone who has made games in the past, programming is a part of the creative process. The ability to write a game from the ground up allows to really tweak the game world the way you want it to be. There are nuances when it comes to the frame-by-frame processing of a game system that you can have utter control over to make a game a lot deeper than it initially seems. You just can't really make games seriously with stuff like Dreams or Nintendo's Game Builder Garage which works off pre-built templates that you have no say in how they're designed. Not to mention optimizing games with complex systems is just out the window. Maybe watch some videos dissecting how seemingly simplistic games like Doom or Baldi's Basics work. As sort of a Classic Doom expert player myself, I know of just how deep and intricate the game can be in a way that most people who play shooters don't realize. How much more for modern-style shooters?