What's on your mind?

[Count Chocula]

With the subject of "Who's gonna play James Bond next?" floating around and one name being tossed about being Idris Elba, what's on my mind is wondering why some people have an infarct at the notion of a Black actor playing Bond. He's a fictional character. Not like having a Black actor portray Napoleon.

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[Darkpig]

I was thinking of making a trolley problem game but since I don’t want to exclude people without a morality system there will be no winners or losers. Instead I will add one track with a CEO and if you hit him you will get the Luigi achievement.

 

But realistically there is a high chance that nobody will play it and Nintendo will sue me. Oh well~

[porkybork]

I’ve noticed that if I’m playing any game that has fall damage or bottomless pits of doom, I will die far more frequently from falling than in any combat encounter. Like, I’m playing Doom 2016 right now (hurt me plenty difficulty) and I’ve only died a couple of times during combat despite not being that good at FPS games. On the other hand, I’ve fallen to my death at least 20 times since I’ve started the campaign. 

[Darkpig]

35 minutes ago, porkybork said:

I’ve noticed that if I’m playing any game that has fall damage or bottomless pits of doom, I will die far more frequently from falling than in any combat encounter. Like, I’m playing Doom 2016 right now (hurt me plenty difficulty) and I’ve only died a couple of times during combat despite not being that good at FPS games. On the other hand, I’ve fallen to my death at least 20 times since I’ve started the campaign. 

I get that. It took me 3-4 tries to beat the first level of Doom 2016 on Ultra Nightmare. I fell once because stupid. Isn't Ultra Nightmare supposed to be that difficulty where you are smart enough to avoid stupid shit like that? In my defense the game made me do it.🤪

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[Nevadathehighelf]

On 3/12/2025 at 6:38 AM, Evaloves4 said:

> Another great lesson I have learned recently

 

 

The problem with this theory is that we are not machines.

Human beings just don't do a thing just because it's good. It happens yes, but that's not every action people do. We take care of our kids because we love them, and hoping they'll love us in return and grow up to be an adult one day, not because 'it's the right thing to do'. That's when you get the dead beat dad paying child support, but not being there for his kids.

Or the man who helps an old man cross the street, only for him to die from a heart attack three days later. When we do a thing, we expect something good to come from it; that's the main goal of why we do them. That's an involuntary drive that humans really can't help being motivated by. Chat GPT can do a thing without thought, but this is what separates the humans from the mindless needless robot.

Edited March 16, 2025 by Nevadathehighelf

[Grey Cloud]

On 3/14/2025 at 11:32 PM, chocula said:

He's a fictional character.

Who should have died of old age years ago.

 

Idris Alba did a top job in Cyberpunk.

Edited March 16, 2025 by Grey Cloud

[Grey Cloud]

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Unless it is an anchovy - then that's just taking the piss.

Edited March 16, 2025 by Grey Cloud

[Guest]

> I feel sorry for the tragedy in North Macedonia, where 59 people (youngest 14, oldest 25) died in a fire in discotheque, and more than 150 were injured last night .

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1 hour ago, Nevadathehighelf said:

 

 

The problem with this theory is that we are not machines.

Human beings just don't do a thing just because it's good. It happens yes, but that's not every action people do. We take care of our kids because we love them, and hoping they'll love us in return and grow up to be an adult one day, not because 'it's the right thing to do'. That's when you get the dead beat dad paying child support, but not being there for his kids.

Or the man who helps an old man cross the street, only for him to die from a heart attack three days later. When we do a thing, we expect something good to come from it; that's the main goal of why we do them. That's an involuntary drive that humans really can't help being motivated by. Chat GPT can do a thing without thought, but this is what separates the humans from the mindless needless robot.

> Everything in life has at least two sides. I shared that statement from my own experience, which worked for me. However, I didn't say that it is a universal rule for everyone.

[Darkpig]

5 hours ago, Nevadathehighelf said:

The problem with this theory is that we are not machines.

At least until brain hacking becomes a thing. Although those unethical psychology experiments in the 1960s could theoretically be brain hacking.

 

Man people are crazy.

[porkybork]

1 hour ago, Darkpig said:

Although those unethical psychology experiments in the 1960s could theoretically be brain hacking.

This reminded me of something from high school. I was in this psychology class and we were learning about all these experiments scientists conducted before there were stricter ethical codes, and one of the experiments we learned about was Harlow's Monkey Experiment. Basically, Harlow wanted to study the effects of maternal deprivation and isolation in primates by removing baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers and leaving them in a room with a fake monkey made of wire that provided milk and a fake monkey made of soft fabric that provided comfort. The baby would first go to the wire monkey for milk and then immediately run to the fabric monkey to cuddle with it, spending more time with the fabric monkey despite it not providing any sustenance. Despite the experiment being really dickish to a bunch of baby monkeys, it helped psychological understanding shift away from the Freudian model of childhood development (children attach to their mothers because the mother provides them with sustenance) to the one we have today (children attach to their mothers because they provide sustenance as well as comfort and love).

 

There's more to the study than that, but that was mostly what my teacher focused on. She recently came back to work after going on maternity leave, which probably explained why she did that. It also probably explains why she ended that portion of the lecture by saying, "This experiment showed the researchers at the time that a baby primate's physical contact with their mother plays a much more significant role in their development beyond just giving them food, because apparently babies loving their moms was a huge surprise to these assholes."

[Darkpig]

36 minutes ago, porkybork said:

This reminded me of something from high school. I was in this psychology class and we were learning about all these experiments scientists conducted before there were stricter ethical codes, and one of the experiments we learned about was Harlow's Monkey Experiment. Basically, Harlow wanted to study the effects of maternal deprivation and isolation in primates by removing baby rhesus monkeys from their mothers and leaving them in a room with a fake monkey made of wire that provided milk and a fake monkey made of soft fabric that provided comfort. The baby would first go to the wire monkey for milk and then immediately run to the fabric monkey to cuddle with it, spending more time with the fabric monkey despite it not providing any sustenance. Despite the experiment being really dickish to a bunch of baby monkeys, it helped psychological understanding shift away from the Freudian model of childhood development (children attach to their mothers because the mother provides them with sustenance) to the one we have today (children attach to their mothers because they provide sustenance as well as comfort and love).

 

There's more to the study than that, but that was mostly what my teacher focused on. She recently came back to work after going on maternity leave, which probably explained why she did that. It also probably explains why she ended that portion of the lecture by saying, "This experiment showed the researchers at the time that a baby primate's physical contact with their mother plays a much more significant role in their development beyond just giving them food, because apparently babies loving their moms was a huge surprise to these assholes."

I don't know why Harlow was researching monkeys. If he was looking to study human behavior he probably could have sent out a simple survey and gotten a similar answer as this unethical experiment.

 

I like science but humans somehow take something nice and fuck it up. Still I have heard some places are trying to move away from animal testing and test on financially compensated volunteers instead. Definitely would help the medicine field if they stopped testing on mice because lets face it we're trying to cure humans not mice.

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

On 2/6/2025 at 2:44 PM, belegost said:

What about one that drinks beer, eats cigarettes and carries ammunition?

The original Smokey The Bear?

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

On 3/13/2025 at 11:39 AM, Evaloves4 said:

> I like the sea and beaches, but there is no way I would be on this beach, especially my Prince.

You could just dump a bunch of red dye in the water then run up and down the beach yelling "SHARK!!!! SHARK!!!!..."

 

What could possibly go wrong?

[Grey Cloud]

2 minutes ago, Z0mBieP00Nani said:

You could just dump a bunch of red dye in the water then run up and down the beach yelling "SHARK!!!! SHARK!!!!..."

 

What could possibly go wrong?

Apart from the people killed in the ensuing stampede? 😁

[belegost]

12 minutes ago, Z0mBieP00Nani said:

What could possibly go wrong?

Would a punch to the face count? Because there are no sharks in that entire body of water so nobody would buy it, and some people would take issue with littering.

Edited March 17, 2025 by belegost

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43 minutes ago, Z0mBieP00Nani said:

You could just dump a bunch of red dye in the water then run up and down the beach yelling "SHARK!!!! SHARK!!!!..."

 

What could possibly go wrong?

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

9 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

You'd get the whole beach to yourself... Until they figured it out.

 

I'm guessing that is a picture of a lake side beach though. Where I live, we have sharks. If you look up "shark attacks" "the 20s" and "New Jersey", you'll get some idea of what I mean. I'm pretty sure that was a bull shark.

[Darkpig]

What is on my mind is Early Access Games on Steam. I'm talking about the ones with good overall review scores that plummet upon release. What percentage of the bad reviews are from people who played it after the full release and what percentage are from people who originally gave it a good score but were disappointed when the full release came?

[porkybork]

On 3/15/2025 at 5:13 PM, porkybork said:

I’m playing Doom 2016 right now (hurt me plenty difficulty) and I’ve only died a couple of times during combat despite not being that good at FPS games. On the other hand, I’ve fallen to my death at least 20 times since I’ve started the campaign. 

This part of the post is no longer true. I just finished the Hell on Mars mission, and during each combat encounter here and in the Hell mission I've died at least three times. The summoners and those big fuckers that ram into you can suck my dick.

 

1 hour ago, Darkpig said:

What is on my mind is Early Access Games on Steam. I'm talking about the ones with good overall review scores that plummet upon release. What percentage of the bad reviews are from people who played it after the full release and what percentage are from people who originally gave it a good score but were disappointed when the full release came?

I can't really comment on the cause and effect here, but games not living up to expectations post launch is one of the main reasons why I don't spend money on games until after they've been released. And even then, I'll give it a few weeks at the very least once reviews start coming out.

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[Darkpig]

16 hours ago, porkybork said:

I can't really comment on the cause and effect here, but games not living up to expectations post launch is one of the main reasons why I don't spend money on games until after they've been released. And even then, I'll give it a few weeks at the very least once reviews start coming out.

That is the best way to do it.

Edited March 19, 2025 by Darkpig