The problem with that one was that they overhyped it so much. It was supposed to be an everything simulator, and it just wasn’t (although I never actually played it).

If you have a big enough purchase, it gets pretty impossible to rearrange on the fly.

Lol, do you have a link? Off the top of my head I’m not sure how you’d do that, mod-wise, since dwarves only do fairly undirected violence when unhappy right now. (Insurgencies will be in a future version, eventually, just like everything else)

I guess a helping hand is good either way, tee-hee.

And, because every drink of alcohol was assumed to be one cup worth in some throwaway bit of code, and cats are small, they got massive alcohol poisoning and almost instantly puked themselves to death.

So, bug. The observed behavior was cat corpses and cat vomit accumulating in bars. The expected behavior was… not. Eventually Tarn managed to figure it out, and it was fixed by better modeling of the volume of just a layer of liquid on a body part. You also can’t suck stuff off yourself to quench thirst in adventure mode anymore.

There’s probably no non-spooky chemical that will make a significant dent. People are recommending, like, chocolate, but I’m certain the main effect is eating your feelings, with substances causing a rounding error.

However, I can predict pretty well what therapist homework would be, or at least what it always was for me. Basically just clean living stuff, and not giving in to the urge to avoid doing things. There’s CBT too, and resources to do it on your own, although it can get confusing without a helping hand. So, yeah, I suggest self-administering therapy. IANAT.

It really does seem to very considerably. I know a guy that’s addicted to running and will just do it all weekend, because he starts and doesn’t want to stop. I’ve never gotten a buzz from physical activity of any kind.

Dwarf Fortress. It’s always broken, and historically has an interface style that most people don’t get. It’s also the masterpiece of a reclusive genius, and is a simulation so deep it has to be explained in parables, like the drunken cats one.

That’s amazing.

That makes a huge difference. You’re going to get mostly West-specific answers that will be useless over there.

I feel like there should be a “do it” step after the second “yes”. People miss that way, way too often. It’s why we evolved fear in the first place.

I think very few people realise how unnatural our present lives are. For example, before industrialistation, lateness for a meeting was measured in days, with just one often being deemed acceptable. At least one of the ancient Greek philosophers wrote against schedules as a concept. Now we schedule to the minute, or even second if you’re a silicon valley jerkoff.

Medical care, lots of food, and the opportunity to do things like fly or understand the universe seems worth it, though.

I mean, you could go all Schopenhauer and prepare for suicide.

Public service announcement that the OG nihilists like Nietzsche were actually pretty hyped about the meaninglessness of the universe. The idea was that it gave you more freedom to live life and find your own meaning, like you said.

Yeah, but we have a functioning democracy. That’s pretty cool, if you want to fling mud.

Matlab

That might be the barrier. I seem to remember NEC2 was the only game in town for amateur use, which is why I have it installed. It’s the only thing I’ve used that still expects punch cards.

Do you still use nec2, or do you have some sort of proprietary thing?

I own a sextant. I have other cool stuff, but that’s the one that probably has the most universal appeal.

This has been a very cool thread.

Uhh, without looking anything up, Nome, Alaska? In the lower 48, maybe Butte, Montana. Oh wait, how big is Roswell?

I know a fair bit. I could probably label most of the states on a map. Canada is very, very close culturally and obviously geographically, and we pay attention to you the way a flea pays attention to dogs.

I’m not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight.

That’s because they thought history was over in the 90’s, and effectively changed the scale. The CMC was so much worse. People thought of nukes as normal weapons and if an extra officer hadn’t been on a particular Soviet sub it 100% would have gone hot.

I have no idea what our chances are, long term. Unavoidable success and unavoidable failure are both possible scenarios. Short term, the Middle East could blow up and millions there could die, but I can’t see it spiraling into a nuclear world war on it’s own. MAD is strong and the rest can survive without them. Medium term it all depends on American politics, as well as AI if that actually happens.