Interesting that you liked Quicksilver, that’s usually the one that Stephenson fans find hard to read (I personally love it).

The Exorcist did him dirty, he was out there saving babies.

That’s a great tip, thanks for the info.

That’s great info, thanks. I’m open to changing the distro I use to get the best results so I’ll do some experimenting.

It’s not.

It comes from Vampire: TM, describing the kind of player that plays a Malkavian’s “insanity” as dumb shit like slapping people with a fish (a la Monty Python).

Complete clickbait title, absolutely nothing worth reading in the article.

Taurus from Interstate '76.

For a couple of years now I’ve been formulating a cosmology and religious practice with the intent of reconciling my strong urges towards the spiritual with my reflexive scientific skepticism.

The idea is to embody natural principles and behaviours into deities as an aid to process events and thoughts in constructive and/or ritualised ways. I’m using existing deities, mostly from ancient Canaanite and Sumerian mythology.

The idea was heavily influenced by the essay Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

He’s a psychiatrist by profession so his opinions in that field I would hope were reasonable. His opinions on society and politics are another matter. I think his earlier writing is in general more reasonable than where he’s ended up.

You have my respect, sir! (non-gendered “sir”)

It had a profound impact on me when I read it years ago. It was a key influence on me constructing a personal religious cosmology and practice, with the purpose of reconciling my strong urges towards the spiritual with my reflexive scientific skepticism.

The essay Meditations on Moloch is powerful reading on this topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

For the record, I don’t endorse Scott Alexander’s opinions in general.

I think this is overly literal and simplistic. Sure a person can understand on paper what causes a cyclone or flood. But being in one is an experience completely outside of usual human norms. I would describe the power of a big cyclone or tsunami as “incomprehensible” in precisely the way that a cosmic entity wiping out a city would be; you can read about how many miles per hour the winds are in a cyclone but you don’t really understand what the reality of that kind of force is and just how insignificant you are in the face of it.

Touching face meme.

There’s early access that lets you in on Thursday instead of Saturday. To get the early access you need to sign up to some EA bullshit or do what this article is saying.

Microsoft are charging a yearly fee to continue getting security updates for Win10 after EOL.

I love this. Do you have stuff for sale?

That 250k lines of code has definitely been thoroughly code reviewed.

An AI wrote that post.