) I'll compromise and say theres a spectrum between the two that each person holds. Where they sit on the spectrum isn't about the person themselves but the topic on hand. If you can be dispassionate about a topic you're more likely to be logical. 
Quote from: Syt on November 07, 2025, 10:49:34 PMNot so much a discount, more a heads up: Battlestar Galactica Deadlock will be removed from sale Nov 15. So if you still want the game, best to pick it up now from Steam, GOG, or Slitherine themselves.
https://www6.slitherine.com/news/battlestar-galactica-deadlock-will-be-phased-out-on-november-15th
The game and DLC (Steam keys) are currently cheapest (according to isthereanydeal) on Fanatical (base game 75% off, DLC 57% off): https://www.fanatical.com/en/franchises/battlestar-galactica
The game is also on GOG (base game 70% off, DLC 50% off): https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=Battlestar&order=desc:score
Quote from: The Brain on November 08, 2025, 04:50:56 PMThe Midnight Club, S1. I liked it, I think it's very well made.
Frankenstein. Not a good movie, I might finish it later but it wasn't interesting enough to finish in one sitting. Apart from severe general blandness, my biggest objection is that they make Frankenstein a simple Reanimator who assembles pre-owned body parts. The whole point of the book is that Frankenstein creates life, and that the Creature confronts his Creator. Book Frankenstein uses body parts in his R&D to understand how the body works, but he doesn't use them for production.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 02:06:59 AMThe camp I identify with i call the rationalists. We believe in cost/benefit analyses, weighing of conflicting principles, and civil discourse as a means of resolving differences, and the primacy of reason, logic, facts and evidence as instruments in that discourse.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 16, 2025, 11:43:12 PMYou are not a part of the serious discussion, you are a prop, an exhibit. Joan is making a heroic, well intentioned, and thankless effort to broker some sort of accomodation between the nutjobs (you) and the centrists. This discussion only has purpose to the extent that it informs Joan of the terrain in which he is operating.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2025, 12:14:54 AMPerhaps you are right. Perhaps dim witted people will invariably be drawn to romanticism over rationalism.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2025, 12:42:22 AMIt's not condescension. It's the subversion of treating your feeble, dim witted attempts at sarcasm as literal.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 14, 2025, 03:23:22 AMSimple pleasures for simple minds.
Quote from: Zoupa on November 08, 2025, 04:15:27 AMI don't know what you're saying dude. How about we just say you win, I'm a terrible piece of shit and everyone's happy.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 02:06:59 AMPlease keep in mind this is a stylization and therefore a simplification.
We constitute two broad camps guided by two different moral codes. The camp I identify with i call the rationalists. We believe in cost/benefit analyses, weighing of conflicting principles, and civil discourse as a means of resolving differences, and the primacy of reason, logic, facts and evidence as instruments in that discourse.
The other camp I now call the romantics. I only recently came up with this label. Previously I used more pejorative terms, this one I think has the advantage of being value-neutral. Romantics believe in two principles AFAICT. Compassion for the weak and loyalty. Those are nice principles. Unfortunately they lead to negative consequences. Oh, one more important principle, the authenticity of emotion in guiding action and thought. Authenticity of emotion combined with compassion produces anger against opponents. Your opponents are no longer just humans with different perspectives, they are evil, not decent human beings who deserve civility. Civility is in fact a show of weakness, a sign that your compassion is not at the level required to be a decent human being. Civility is a lack of commitment to the cause. Romantics are rude and feel very justified in being rude. Romantics also have a different idea about facts and evidence than rationalists do. Romantics believe they have discovered the one great truth that renders things like facts and evidence of lesser importance. Loyalty means romantics have to agree with the untruths (i.e. lies) spoken by their friends and allies.
Rationalists get upset about lies and rudeness. Romantics get upset by evil, i.e. not agreeing with them.
I am happy to answer any questions. I reserve the right not to answer any that are rude.
QuoteThe 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
Over the past year British media organisations have started noticing things that they spent 14 years ignoring, and ignoring things that they spent 14 years noticing.
Never has this been clearer than over the past week, which has been dominated by a series of stories about prisoners being mistakenly released from British prisons.
In reality, these releases are nothing new. In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.
At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.
Yet the second the problem can be blamed on a Labour, rather than a Conservative Government, the combined ranks of the British media suddenly starts to notice it.
This isn't the only example of the 'great noticing' currently taking place in British politics.
Quote from: DGuller on November 08, 2025, 04:56:31 PMI don't have Yi's patience to turn the other cheek perpetually. Zoupa has cussed me out unprovoked repeatedly, to the point that I don't engage in any kind of discourse with him anymore, but I indulged to respond in kind just this one time. I don't consider it bullying, because for one it was a single post by a single poster, not a campaign of harassment by a clique.
QuoteYou know what would help, though? If you directed these kinds of posts at the posters you agree with. You've had a few opportunities just in the last day in this thread, but it was only my post where you decided to talk about the tone. Or is your stance that cussing out people is fine, as long as it's done by people who don't speak out against it?
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