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Comment on What's your favorite video game? Why? in ~games
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Comment on Is there going to be some equivalent to reddit karma? in ~tildes
lozzobear LinkWhat do you think the pros and cons are? Just pure gamification, being able to look at your high scores? I can't say it makes a big difference to my overall Reddit experience.What do you think the pros and cons are? Just pure gamification, being able to look at your high scores? I can't say it makes a big difference to my overall Reddit experience.
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Comment on Anyone interested in a game thread for the NBA finals? in ~sports
lozzobear Link ParentAt the end of the day I think neither KD or Steph has that true alpha dog gene it takes to get past somebody who does, like Lebron. Steph is stoppable if his shot doesn't fall or the refs let...At the end of the day I think neither KD or Steph has that true alpha dog gene it takes to get past somebody who does, like Lebron. Steph is stoppable if his shot doesn't fall or the refs let people beat him up, KD kind of moseys along and gets his either way but it doesn't seem like he can just go into that "I refuse to lose" gear some guys have got. It makes sense to me that they teamed up, they didn't have the personalities to get it done by themselves. If that's what it takes to rub Lebron's nose in shit, then I'm all for it.
I think this postseason has proven the Warriors aren't the superteam people were thinking they were, though. They're soft, beatable and have been very, very lucky with opponent injuries in the playoffs.
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Comment on Anyone interested in a game thread for the NBA finals? in ~sports
lozzobear Link ParentThe 2016 playoffs was a bucket of anuses all round. But I can understand why KD left. Rooting for Russ Russ is either like HOLY SHIT, GOD OF FURY, or FOR FUCKS SAKE RUSS YOU TWAT. I couldn't take it.The 2016 playoffs was a bucket of anuses all round. But I can understand why KD left. Rooting for Russ Russ is either like HOLY SHIT, GOD OF FURY, or FOR FUCKS SAKE RUSS YOU TWAT. I couldn't take it.
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Comment on Anyone interested in a game thread for the NBA finals? in ~sports
lozzobear Link ParentSadly, that wasn't a problem in 2012. I had such high hopes for those guys. Sport is so weird, the coaches treat it like a science, the players treat it like a stage and the audience treats it...Sadly, that wasn't a problem in 2012. I had such high hopes for those guys.
Sport is so weird, the coaches treat it like a science, the players treat it like a stage and the audience treats it like a soap opera.
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Comment on Anyone interested in a game thread for the NBA finals? in ~sports
lozzobear LinkOK but please be aware I'm a complete cunt when Lebron wins anything. Fair warning.OK but please be aware I'm a complete cunt when Lebron wins anything. Fair warning.
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Comment on I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous in ~humanities
lozzobear Link ParentYeah, honestly his bible lecture series breathed a lot of life back into those old stories for me, in a way that never made me feel like I had to take a position of faith. I'd written them off as...Yeah, honestly his bible lecture series breathed a lot of life back into those old stories for me, in a way that never made me feel like I had to take a position of faith. I'd written them off as dusty old superstitious stories like most atheists would, but those lectures repositioned the bible as kind of a historical record of mankind coming to grips with its new cognitive powers after descending from the apes.
And whaddya know, if you use some lateral thinking to strip out the need to fight against the supernatural bits it turns out there's some really interesting stuff stored in these ancient books. You'd hope so, too, given how much work it would've taken to get it from oral tradition into written form and then down through the millennia.
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Comment on I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous in ~humanities
lozzobear Link ParentHe never says the left is wrong about everything. Indeed, I've heard him say the left and right need each other - one for renewal when things go off course, the other to run things prosperously...He never says the left is wrong about everything. Indeed, I've heard him say the left and right need each other - one for renewal when things go off course, the other to run things prosperously when things are going well. Instead he says the radical left is pulling that side of politics way off course. As somebody who would never consider voting Republican, but is also a Cis White Male, it rings true to me.
And you might be wrong about things not being great everywhere. Globally and locally, extreme poverty is lower than ever; despite the massive and growing inequality, everyone's boats do seem to be rising: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview
Things could always be better, for sure, and I don't think Peterson's pushing for people to stop caring. Quite the opposite, he's pushing for people to replace the mindset of complaining with one of tooling up and getting to work on your pet problem in the most effective way you can.
And it's easy to look at inequality figures and think "that's not fair" - I think the same thing, giant wealth sickens me and I always assume people have built it by preying on others - but when living standards at the very bottom are rising faster than ever before it's worth stepping back and wondering whether you're really caring about the poor, or just hating on the rich? There's some mighty punchable faces in the 0.0001%, but if what you really care about is living standards in the third world, the statistics might argue they're doing a better job than you think.
I guess I can understand why people on the far left hate this guy, he's forceful and dismissive. But when people call him alt-right, it says to me they've either glossed over him and only read the headlines, or they somehow entirely missed a very well-stated message.
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Comment on I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous in ~humanities
lozzobear Link ParentI think his spin is more like "yes the world needs changing, but not by people who don't understand how it's currently working, because it's better now in the West than it ever has been, anywhere...I think his spin is more like "yes the world needs changing, but not by people who don't understand how it's currently working, because it's better now in the West than it ever has been, anywhere on Earth. So don't run around protesting, spend your time working on yourself. Make yourself the sort of person who's educated and together enough to make a real difference in a positive direction."
I find his spin on things positive, hopeful and practical.
Witcher 3. I'm not a swords and dragons guy, never had much time for fantasy or supernatural fiction, but this game just rules. Endlessly playable and replayable thanks to all those ambiguous moral choices you're forced into and the downstream effects they can have. My brother spent about three months of his life playing Gwent, which doesn't interest me in the least, but it's in there too.