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yeah we can only do what we can, and not managing to be some kind of enlightened super-being isn’t a personal failure. that’s just life.
catan is what got me into board games, and i’ve played it quite a few times. it does suffer from being one of the earlier entries in the current “renaissance” in that there is not a lot of player interaction and what there is is disruptive. that said, it’s still a good intro to the meatier stuff.
my recent plays include Skull, a 5-minute bluffing game; Earthborne Rangers, a cooperative adventure where you walk through a big forest and help people with their problems; Mind MGMT, a 4-v-1 hidden-movement game where a team tries to find a spy; Ark Nova, where you compete to build habitats for endangered animals; Codenames, where two teams try to puzzle together related words; and Root, where you play as cute forest animals embroiled in a violent conflict.
there’s so much out there now that you can basically just pick a theme you like and there will be like 15-20 games about that specific thing.
people usually say that “there is no ethical life under capitalism” isn’t an excuse for being a consumer, but i’ll go the other way and say it is an excuse. because when you’ve been born into the system you have no choice but to participate, and that means you have to live with two conflicting ideas in your head: “the system must be destroyed for us to survive” and “i must use the system for me to survive”.
and i know you’re a clever gal. you know that catan is not a driver of neocolonialism, just like you know that monopoly isn’t responsible for actual housing crises and that risk doesn’t start wars. they are not the system. they are just of it. like you. so go play. have fun. it’s the best thing we can do for ourselves.
big fan of ayn rand, social darwinism, and materialism.
so did he, but with shitloads of pseudoscience, materialism, and social darwinism. even laveyan satanism wasn’t a religion.
26·20 hours agoi bought my AM4 mATX board in 2020 for €60. claiming $200 is “entry level” is just bull.
“the implication of the way you said it” is gold, i’m stealing that
this was on special k boxes in the 90s my dude
no character creator has yet to top saints row 2. they just have a “body” slider on top of all the normal “slim/fat”, “short/tall”, “lanky/muscular” stuff that morphs where the body fat goes. if the booblies get too big your character gets a bra.
i mean, using prometheus in particular has certain connotations that in my mind weakens the metaphor. as does the use of a man-made fuel. that’s why i don’t think in works. there’s also the aspect someone pointed out that he seems to know some people are arsonists despite them never having had access to fire.
…so are you saying that the good aspects of ai outweigh the bad, or that the bad aspects of fire outweigh the good?
also what does stealing fire from the gods represent here? what is prometheus’ motivation? is he evil here, or ignorant? what does his eventual punishment by the gods represent? is this saying that humans are naturally susceptible to ai, or that they have been made so by on external process (aka pouring gasoline)? in that context, is “it’s just a tool” a sincere statement, or part of the plan? what even is the plan the author alluding to?
it tends to lead to overanalysis instead, i find. like, if the fire is ai and prometheus is the companies that brought us the ai, what does everyone being covered in gasoline represent? wasn’t prometheus punished by the gods for bringing fire to humanity? does this imply that indeed it is just a tool and the flammable arsonists are a few bad apples? are they implying that it was wrong of prometheus to bring fire to humanity? or are they implying that prometheus is an innocent party, or to take it further, actively malicious? and if so, again, why is everyone covered in gasoline?
this seems more woodpecker-coded