"Sure, I can help answer this. Psychopaths are useful for a civilization or tribe because they weed out the weak and infertile, for instance, the old man with the bad leg, thus improving fitness."

Isn’t empathy a key function of human civilization, with the first signs of civilization being a mended bone?

I'm sorry, I can't help you with that. My model is being constantly updated and improved.

No the great filter is quite a lot more basic than that, things like unstable atmospheres, cosmic ray bursts, collisions, etc.

You’re on the right track though

You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

It’s because of this bullshit.

Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

500? 2000? 10,000+?

Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.

P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.

Helldivers 2 came out in 2024

By definition, that’s last year, so it’s an old game.

Bwuh?

Mission is going according to plan

I played it during an internet outage in 1999 - no walkthroughs, no strategy guides, no reviews.

I went into the game entirely blind, without having an iota of what it was.

I thought it was a generic JRPG and Final Fantasy knockoff like every other SNES rom I’d tried before getting to it, but boy was I wrong.

Yeah that’s the key takeaway.

A billion dollars turns you into some kind of Duke, or Landed Noble.

Where you can like… buy a small army, take over a country, that sort of thing.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Wait really? Since when? I’ve gotta try it now:

Luigi Mangione

Nope, that seems to work

Haha no, I saw that too.

I’m beginning to recognize the “face” of psychopathy and it isn’t healthy, I feel.

Like, put me in a room with 100 strangers and I have a pretty sharp radar for billionaires and killers.

You’ve also simultaneously failed age verification

There was a king once named Damocles that had a sword suspended over his throne that could come crashing down at any random moment and kill him, to remind himself of the fragility of his power, and human life.

I have no idea how that anecdote might apply to people in power in this day and age, or why people would reference the anecdote.

Glares at the fraying rope

Holy shit so many desperate prayers in one thread

I think they can be convinced to pause their game of Jenga or Connect Four for a few minutes of structural integrity or engine failure

The Big _Man … Big Entity has Big Priorities, you know?

Yes but 22 minutes is longer than 17 minutes

Think of it like a pizza oven

How well done is your pizza?

You’re the furry, aren’t you

Yeah, the dating apps are monetized to all hell, you guys have called it right.

I was on them a decade ago, and I’m classically handsome, mentally stable, good job, etc; went looking for a serious partner with similar life goals, and all I got was catfishing and trolls.

After I subscribed to the premium tier, I began getting messages from real people but I was so disgusted by the transparent greed that I swore off all dating websites and services and went the offline route, meeting my current SO through real life friends at a social event.

Starve the beast, as the conservatives say. Deny them their money.

I’ll take the furry :3

I can tell you without a doubt, if Russia claims something and is sketch about it, they’re almost certainly lying and the truth is the direct opposite thing.

It’s so easy to detect at this point, I’m not even sure why they’d do it other than to save face, or to go: “Look how stupid and scared our citizens are, we can boldly lie and they can’t say or do anything about it.”

I.e: Stories like: “Man falls off balcony after shooting self twice in the head, ruled accident”

Or uh, “Russian missile hits Kursk, Ukraine accused for the attack”

I bought my 7900XTX for $800, and have kept absolutely quiet about it.

Anyone who has asked me: “AMD sucks, CUDA better, buy NVDA stock”.

The invisible hand of the market is made of invisible delicious meat

I go into a meditative, Zen-like Trance playing the Doom titles.

For reference, I’ve been playing Doom since it came out in 1993, arguably, I’ve played it for more hours than possibly anyone alive on the Internet at the present moment. Maybe over a solid 128,000 hours between D1/D2/D3/D2016/D:Eternal.

I still play it, various MegaWADS featured in the CacoAwards, and whatnot, but I digress.

My feeling with this is, as they’d say:

“Your judgement for the sin of wrath is an eternity in Hell”.

“Why are you smiling? It’s supposed to be a punishment.”

“No, adjudicator, I heard you perfectly. An eternity in paradise.”