holygon

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[–] holygon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Oh I just found it 10 seconds before you answered, but I really appreciate the help!

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Do you know where this quote is from? I'm having a hard time finding it, but would love to read more.

Edit: Found the source right after typing this haha. It's "Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate" by Jean-Paul Sartre. Here is a PDF. It's on Page 13 of the book (Page 36 of the PDF)

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're interested in something fun, there's an old blog post about how terrible the Thieves Guild questline is:

https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=14422

It's a bit long, but I think it's very entertaining. Deep dive into every single plot hole, and nonsensical story beat.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, what is competition? The entire point of a competition is that someone wins, and someone loses. When the entire structure is a competition, then if enough time passes most participants will have lost, and only one will stand victorious. The concept of free market competition will always end in monopoly, and every anti-trust mechanism is just a way to slow this down, not an actual solution. Capitalism will never create a solution to this either, as monopoly is the logical goal of capitalism. When monopoly exists, the capitalists have the most power. Of course capitalism will benefit the capitalists. It would be weird if it didn't.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's actually not named that originally in Danish. It's named "Under Sandet", which means "Under The Sand". I think this title is a little bit more poetic, and less on the nose than "Land of Mine" hahahha. Just some context, if you're interested.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

The detached vibe is just a personality trait that he actually kinda has a hard time with himself. He's said in multiple podcasts that people often find him rude the first time he meets someone, and his friends has to clarify that he's really nice to the people he just met. He just has a hard time focusing on being actively engaged due to the way his ADHD manifests. Watch him on Sad Boyz with Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika if you're interested.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.

Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.

I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You are right that he wrote about it, but it was in his book To Kill A Nation, and not Against Empire. Here is the direct quote from the book:

As the war dragged on and NATO officials saw press attention drifting toward the contrary story—namely that the bombing was killing civilians—“NATO stepped up its claims about Serb 'killing fields,'” notes the Wall Street Journal.2 Widely varying but horrendous figures from official sources went largely unchallenged by the media. Support for the bombings remained firm among Clinton supporters in Congress (including the one professed “socialist,” Bernard Sanders [Ind.-Vt.]), and among self-described humanitarian groups such as Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, and Concern Worldwide, along with “peace” groups, and various NGOs—many of whom seem to have convinced themselves that NATO was defending Kosovo from a holocaust.

Just searched through my copy of both Against Empire and To Kill A Nation to make sure party-parenti

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I have all of it, and I will never share with any of you society

[–] holygon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I just like to listen to Welcome To Night Vale while trying to fall asleep powercry-1

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