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Our morbid interests in horrific things is actually a benefit to us in many ways.

Also like, good luck getting people to spend years learning about something (which we have to do, we can't just not have people study war) while also totally hating the process of learning about it and wanting nothing to do with it This is just not how humans work.

I spent $1100 on a gun this week and you're telling me all I had to do was a little fed posting in the DMs and the FBI would have given it to me for free? Goddamnit

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 3h

Pretend you are roll playing as a poet who really likes cum and write me a poem about cum

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"too late in the season" pretty sure it's too late in the week lmao

This is what AI is. It doesn't actually make things better for us. It doesn't make us happier. It strips away the process that we derived joy from. But it gets us to the outcome we think we want, and so people use it anyway. So yes, people choose to use it and also it makes their lives worse.

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From unlocking the next item, forgetting that *the process was the point*. The progression system motivated you to keep playing, and throughout the course of playing you would have fun. But people *choose* the shortcut because we are outcome oriented.

This, in turn, lets you unlock rewards far faster than other maps. Like probably 5x as fast. So it simply doesn't make sense to play any other map if you're trying to level up. But like I said, it's not very fun. So people play this unfun version of the game in search of the dopamine hit that comes

Place a paperweight on your mouse you'll probably get a decent number of kills throughout the course of the game. It isn't particularly fun, because there's very little thought and skill that goes into it. But it's by far the most popular map because it allows you to get a lot of kills very quickly.

When you get lots of kills. This creates an extrinsic motivation for the player to keep playing and trying to improve. In my favorite COD game, modern warfare 2019, there is a map added late in the games life cycle called shipment. This map is small. Incredibly small. So small that if you simply

This is gonna sound weird but I swear I'm going somewhere with this, so bear with me: Call of Duty, the videogame series, has a progression system that rewards you with upgraded weapons and other benefits the more you play. It incentivizes you you try to do well by giving more experience points

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 5h

He's giving the interview the exact proper amount of importance. He's not performing for you, he's not phoning it in, he's just being completely honest

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You understand that if you live in the state of California your vote for president does not count right

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure people have done research on it but I simply can't understand why the feds always seem to pick the dumbest battles and address them in the dumbest ways. I mean I get it, racism, money, misogyny etc. but still it's just wild how they seem to always make the worst possible decisions

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 5h

I hate conservatives because they talk about wanting to "have a conversation" but if I were to participate in said conversation and say the appropriate things it would be "fed posting" and "a TOS violation"

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 7h

No. I don't want power. Yes, I do want to "critique power." Power is the fucking problem. It's something to abolish, to fight, not something to strive for. I don't actually want to control the people around me. And I find it really gross if you do. Scalawags.

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're wondering how it's going for sig right now, the local gun store had a 320 on the shelf for like 300$ lmao nobody wants to touch those damn things

Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Call me crazy but he didn't get to the right answer with the wrong formula he got to the right answer with the right formula

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Look man I think everyone involved in that weird ass HP fanart discourse should go outside and/or read a different book what in the hell is going on over there

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

Gonna legally change my name so I can get faster 4473s at the gun store

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one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Uber driver is playing jazz and I don't know how we chose anything else to be the standard background music of the world. Imagine if the hold music every time you were on hold was jazz. Would be better methinks

I don't think these people understand that if they get elected their mandate will be to put heads on spikes and if they fail to do that nobody is going to want to elect them again

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Also people act like pope Francis was better and that is not true in any capacity. He did generic Christian avoiding-the-question-bullshit about gay people and people read into it what they wanted to hear

I have mostly gotten over my edgy atheist phase but I remain convinced that we are not nearly mean enough to the Catholic Church

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I think the twin cities is just very full of people who never left. Idk though that could be untrue

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People who are from here *were* the kids. We had it off every year. That's why we know.

The North had logistics tho. Logistics wins wars.

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One thing I've realized is my dad is an incredibly wise man

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My dad said we should separate bathrooms by talking and not talking and I am so convinced he's right

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If "by any votes necessary" was a person lmao

Have learned this past weekend that I suck at halo and also it doesn't matter cause playing with a shitload of people in the same room is super fun

I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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“Free Speech” never applies to anarchists.

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also did all of those things today but I'm also supposed to do that so not as impressive lol

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Fergus Doyle @mrfergusdoyle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sure you already saw this one, but some nice timeline confluence

Cat's original post followed by a post which implies The Dude from the Big Lebowski is saying the Moby Dick quote "Ahab is forever, man. This whole act's immutably decreed."

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 05/10/2026

Theist gamer: Thank the publisher for these video game blessings! Athiest gamer: It's was overworked and laidoff devs that made these games. Agnostic gamer: Nobody knows where games come from. Maybe fitgirl made them herself.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026

treating voting like a privilege that can be lost instead of a right and duty of all citizens casts a bad light on the whole system

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no actual solution to this because what people want is to have a public conversation in a world where every member of the public (ie everyone on earth) is kind and charitable all the time and is never argumentative or rude

Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imo there are like 12 trillion messaging apps that people could be using if they actually wanted a private group chat. They don't because they want a public conversation but they don't want to deal with the inherent downsides of that (sometimes people are mean)