nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj Another way to depict it would be through the 8 circles which are tangent to 3 given circles. It's *kind of* how the game depicts it (namely each virtue is *tangent* to those 3 components (Truth, Love, Courage) which it includes), but it's not exactly the same
(See "problem of apollonius")
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 >description of experiencing the texture of the world as akin to a cracked desert.
The dangers of being attracted to experiencing novel stimuli above all else
I think death is special too, although presumably in a very different way from Aella
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw I mislead you with poor sentence construction. I meant that Aella thinks that she is special because she is "nonchalant about death", that she sees no difference between being dead and being alive. As for how your two viewpoints differ, it's too obvious to comment on that much, but I want to say that another thing that struck me about her is how "flat" her worldview seemed. It was like seeing a greyed-out 2D image of buddhism. Makes sense from a neuro perspective, with fried dopamine receptors and all that
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 The first one is from the person you linked, his bio says ice cream maker. The second is Aella yes who posted once about how she showers like once a month. And yes I know all about the Aella physical torture orgies. Don't do LSD kids. Or at least, don't do LSD every single day for an entire year.
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw slapping myself in the head rn for posting screenshots that I didn't bother to read myself. But who needs to read when his pfp vibes are screaming out at you?
I read one of Aella's blog posts about what it's like to do LSD for a year without knowing it was her. I felt this overwhelming sense of bleakness, especially in her description of experiencing the texture of the world as akin to a cracked desert.
It's normal for depressed people to be nonchalant about death, but she seemed to think it was so special, and that was the most pitiable thing. A mind happy to be ending in a pitchblack desert which leads nowhere, a body lying and waiting for death in between the bouts of prostitution.
And then I read enough to figure out that this was Aella (I didn't know she did so much LSD before this either) and I just felt contempt
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 Ice cream making data scientist and prostitute who doesn't shower data scientist should have a science-off
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw are these references to specific people???? The second one sounds on-brand for Aella (the rat who was into torturing people, yes, it's a stunning reversal of usual bio lab power relations)
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw it was actually very orderly, although some unrelated stuff was googled
nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw wait I can't believe this. My friends' favorite website during elementary school is still online: https://www.officeguns.com/
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw Covid activist (replicates weird Twitter polls originally posted by """data scientists""")
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw HAHAHA THE INTRO EDITING
NI SHI ZHONG YAO BAI REN MA
NI CHI LE CHONG ZI MA
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw i wish i could say its based but homie doesnt get enough sleep. please keep her in ur prayers, hope she can get through this + med school after this.
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw I feel compelled to ask: does she *want* to go to med school? (Hope her parents aren't forcing her.)
In any case ,I wish her the best in this difficult stage of becoming, and I hope that, despite it all, she will still have time for life, for friends, for faith.
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj That's a nice pinkie promise to make, it's noble to have kept it.
I think social media and advertising makes things really hard for women. No longer are you competing with other women but you're competing with plastic surgery and photoshop and professional lighting. I see this a lot where men will call a beautiful woman mid just because she doesn't look like some produced-in-a-factory magazine model. It frustrates me and it frustrates me when other women treat beauty as a competition and put others down.
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj a photoshopped woman covered in bronze sculpting is an anime girl being puppeted by a human. That's why I was fascinated by vtubers when I first heard of them. It seemed like another instance of Japan being several steps ahead of the West
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw knowing about closed sets leads to a closed mind to vice and knowing about open sets leads to an open mind about virtue.
i wonder what this makes clopen sets.
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f Thgis has given me countless flashbacks to all the racist jokes in the loony tunes cartoons i watched as a kid
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of our friend and fellow shitposter Hidden, who was tragically cancelled all-too-early in her adulthood for being a fun-loving and cultured kid
meanwhile as a kid I was watching this shit and cartoon network goyslop
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw It's the best manual because it still doesn't have all the important information in it while still being absurdly dense.
nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw this post reminded me to respond to your other one (about the boardgames)!
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f As a certified neutral tilt confirmed Aryan please help me I can't stop putting a ruler to my eyes in the mirror
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f just pull up the corners of your eyes and say "herro" three times and I guarantee you you'll have the positive canthal tilt of your incel stalker's dreams
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj
> Fortunately she has too much schoolwork to get further into physiognomy autism.
based
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw too preoccupied with sin curves to be interested in any sin curves. See grips our convo has come full circle, which is exactly what trig helps you do
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj Telling a woman what a canthal tilt is should be considered emotional abuse fr
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj as a chinky slant-eyed gook, the idea that positive canthal tilt automatically makes you a gigachad / gigastacy has always been hilarious to me
nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj
I pinkie promised a nun that I wouldn't be a misogynist, and as childish as it seems, I put an absurdly high value on pinkie promises. With that disclaimer, I feel like women would have a total breakdown if they found out about all the physiognomy stuff.
I'm not saying that every woman needs to be fat or something, but I do think that general society put some pretty bad standards on women and emphasize the wrong things (being dainty and twig-like instead of working out and eating healthy), emphasized in day-to-day life. A lot of women focus solely on being desirable to men, and this desire exists in way too high of a measure even in women who do actually take themselves seriously, as real humans with real hobbies. Women get so focused on reaching societal beauty standards that they end up developing weird neuroses about this.
Given that this weird pressure exists on a societal level, I think introducing my friend to canthal tilt might have gotten to her more than I expected (she brought up a picture of Mother Mary in her apartment that had negative canthal tilt the next day, plausibly as a joke but I'm not sure). I hope it didn't make her neurotic about her own canthal tilt, because I'd feel awful if it did (especially since this spawned out of a joke between me and my roommate about his canthal tilt and her happening to be at our place when this happened).
Fortunately she has too much schoolwork to get further into physiognomy autism.
nostr:npub1d58lvrjmr4lgpsvh88lx28ujp0nyggc5m3wvrzyf7qqtmu0udrlss4jv5f nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj
> Fortunately she has too much schoolwork to get further into physiognomy autism.
based
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw these math teachers are the worst. mine at least cut me some slack
the most fun lesson was when she hooked up her laptop to a projector, opened winplot, told us about like four parameters that can modify a sine, left it upon us to figure out what each of them does visually and stressed that everyone in the class should have a good understanding of it by the end of the lesson. then she disappeared for half an hour
nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw that sounds like a great way to give one nerd a great understanding of sine curves and all the class hooligans a great understanding of the location of all office supplies in the teacher's desk and how they can be fashioned into lethal weapons
nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 I have a bit of a problem with board games, and I think you're the only person who would have a decent answer.
I would like to play a board game with the following properties:
1) If both players are playing optimally, the win rate of the game must not necessarily be possible for both players to know before the game has begun. (This excludes Chess and Go - which are solvable - and it excludes Rock-Paper-Scissors and Poker because optimal strategies with fixed win rates exist.)
2) The game must be meaningfully playable with a variable number of players.
3) The game's fundamental skill must not be diplomacy. (A sufficiently good player should be able to fight off every other player if they all suck).
For two players, such games exist. For many trading card games, you do not know what your opponent's deck looks like before playing - so it is not possible to calculate your win rate before playing. Large amounts of hidden information solves 1) readily.
For 3+ players, I haven't found such a game. I'm aware that MtG has such a format, but my understanding is that it essentially boils down to diplomacy. Many strategy video games are like this too - Dominions 5 is an exercise in diplomacy at high level play.
I'm a little stuck, because I'm bored with the board games I play - I get proficient at them, and then I can see that highly skilled players simply have a tree memorized and then I get bored. I was wondering if you had any ideas for games which get around this issue.
nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy Not a big board game guy myself, but here are some thoughts:
First, I assure you I understand the severity of the requirements. They basically exclude any game with a well-defined Nash equilibrium. If Poker is out, then so are the Chess variants with randomized starting positions.
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One way to make a game potentially non-solvable is to have an infinite move space.
Tests of speed come to mind: Set (very mathematical), 24 (combining cards using arithmetic to make 24 first), ERS (egyptian rat screw, where you slap if you see a sandwich), and even computer RTS's come to mind (as nostr:npub1y6vdaj364w37g40r42f8apzjjxfzulnepyf4llpthmguqffg302svdqwnv already pointed out). I was once amazed to see people playing 124 (same rules as 24) at lightning fast speed with 16 cards laid out in front of them.
You could also make the move space infinite by allowing arbitrary strings as moves: I've played someone's homebrewed hearts-style card game called "Primes" where the main mechanic was that, at each step, you can reveal one *arbitrary* sentence of information about your cards, such as "I have at least 3 prime-numbered cards", and the goal was to cooperate with a randomly-assigned partner. I've also played a homebrewed card game called "Mao" where a player could earn the right to make a new rule of the game, or change an existing one.
You could instead let the move space consist of pictures: I really enjoy charades-like games, such as skribbl.io and Drawful 2, especially the self-references that emerge when you play with the same group of friends a lot. It's nice for parties but I can't imagine that there's any kind of competitive scene.
Games like mafia and resistance come to mind, although you could argue that they are "diplomacy". In my experience, they are more like "anti-diplomacy" because any 'coalition' would be suspect to accusations of being mafia.
Finally, the game could also be non-solvable by having the rules not be public information. I was intrigued by Betrayal at the House on the Hill because the endgame mechanic is chosen from one of dozens of possibilities written in a big game manual, which you are FORBIDDEN FROM READING in general. Usually the endgames split the players into two groups, and each group knows their own goals and abilities but NOT the ones of the other group, and you discover the new abilities as things play out. This also has the effect of breaking up diplomacy, because your 'coalition' is gonna be fucked when one of the members gets possessed and turns into a banshee who moves in strange ways and wants to eat you.
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If you like trading card games, I'd also check out deck-building games (distinguished by the fact that you build your deck *as* you're playing the game, not beforehand) like Dominion by Rio Grande Games. (Technical remark: I think trading card games are non-solvable in some precise sense, because the act of building your deck is not a randomly-assigned 'state of nature' but is part of your own moveset, so where does the game really end? In contrast, deck-building games like Dominion are solvable, but I find them more fun because players start on an equal footing.)
Scrabble was mentioned, but I think scrabble is solvable in the same sense as Poker is. Still, the hidden information of tiles offers some feeling of non-solvability. I personally like the game Ingenious by Reiner Knizia which is like a more mathematical Scrabble played on a hex grid. You earn points based on how your tiles add to existing lines of same-colored tiles. The "diplomacy" aspect of the game is interesting: since the payoff of each tile in a line increases linearly, you are incentivized to "begin" lines and encourage others to extend them, because then everyone wins, and you can win big when your turn comes around. It feels kinda like investing, where you are trying to seed a boom and then get out before the bust.
Reiner Knizia has a math Ph.D. so it may be interesting to look at his (many) other games. I haven't seen them but lmk if you find anything good!!