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    The realities of war

    War is very brutal even when various conventions are followed. Here we see females on one side and dead males on the other side
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    Free will

    For simplisticy we are just going to define free will as internal indeterminism for some entity. An entity has free will then it's actions are not fully determined by outside inputs. Quantum mechanics seems to work in such an indeterminate manner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem...
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    Age and mental abilities

    When i tried looking up studies regarding this i found it very difficult to find any decent studies where they actually measured the real-world performance of teens vs adults. Often studies are brain-scans (unclear what if anything that tells us) or it doesn't actually measure how smart the...
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    Symmetric 8x8 chess

    Pawns can move in 2 direction (laterally) and capture in 3 directions (diagonally) pawns has to move in at least one direction towards one of your opponents sides. https://www.omnichess.club/variant/7f73f19e-b13d-4854-8df9-d7d0e272091b Yellow: where white pawns can capture dark green: where...
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    Scambaiting

    Wasting the time of scammers is altruistic since it means less time for these scammers to target others. If the scammer contacts you first retaliating has the added benefit of deterring others from trying to scam you. Most scams are fairly obvious and are easy to see through. For example we...
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    New nvidia GPUs coming soon?

    Name GPU SM count Cuda cores Memory Mem Speed Bus Bandwidth Cache TGP MSRP RTX 4050 AD107 16 2560 6 GiB G6 16Gbps 96bit 256GiB/s 32MiB RTX 4060 AD107 24 3072 8 GiB G6 16Gbps 128bit 256GiB/s 32MiB...
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    Debunking cuckservatism

    When you think about it cuckservatives really doesn't offer anything of value to the population. Instead cuckservatives focused on opposing new policies pushed by the left and liberals while gradually accepting policies already implemented. Do they advocate for territorial expansionism? Will...
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    9x10 chess with archbishops

    Each side has 3 ranks where they can promote pawns, if you just move the pawn forward instead of promoting you gain one additional movement ability once you finally promote it. The 2 new pieces adjecient to the king are arch bishops, there can move like bishop + knight
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    10x9 chess with centaurs

    Instead of having a fixed starting position the players take turns deciding the position of a piece type (with black placing the first and last piece). The following will be placed behind the pawns of each player 1 king 2 dark-square bishops 2 light-square bishops 2 centaurs 3 queens 4 hourses...
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    Is nes tetris flawed?

    Nes tetris has a system where your level will determine your score and the speed of the game Level Frames per Gridcell 00 48 01 43 02 38 03 33 04 28 05 23 06 18 07 13 08 8 09 6 10–12 5 13–15 4 16–18 3 19–28 2 29+ 1 The scoring...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs axed ideas

    Testing the game The game was first played against the AI on this site, the AI was easy to defeat (does not seem to be programmed well). https://www.omnichess.club/variant/f16f22ff-5652-42d4-9a32-bb566e8f19f2 I decided to instead play against myself via inkscape using the undo feature in the...
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    9x10 chess with centaurs

    I was thinking about how you could create a symmetric version of chess with more pieces and this is the best i have been able to come up with so far
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    Game consoles are becoming pointless

    Let's take a look at advantages console gaming has offered and see if any of these are going to remain 0. Better hardware/$ 1. Convenience. 2. Optimized for gaming in the living room. 3. Physical media still widely available. 4. Harder to cheat in competitive gaming 5. Being able to optimize...
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    Portable gaming

    In the past portable gaming were largely about people playing on their phone or people using their nintendo switch. Both of these options are pretty bad. Lately PC portables have improved very significantly with the steam deck being a being a good option relative to the price (compared to the...
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    Version 31 of the vintologi bible has been published

    pdf https://app.box.com/s/60n6onf7t5ja7w5p3wwt46ke7xv339vc odt https://app.box.com/s/geeelgk6vmt1lt9udqf6ol5u4ifhcque pdf & odt (links don't work unless you click on the pdf file) https://archive.org/details/vintologi31 odt https://docdro.id/K5TsekE
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    Overrated nintendo games

    Nintendo is arguably the most overrated gaming company. Sure they occasionally publish some decent game but that's very rare these days. Generally their games are easy (made for small children and people who are new to videogames) and they tend to recycle the same type of game over and over...
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    Payton S. Gendron manifesto

    He published this manifesto before committing a shooting spree largely against black people. This act alone illustrate that his ability for critical thinking was rather limited, it's very much not worth it to end up in jail only to kill some black people who never harmed you in the first place...
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    The evolutionary heirarchy

    There are multiple evolutionary processes at play. Let's rank them with the most powerful first When there are 2 or more competing societies and 1 isn't dominant. 0. Societal survival of the fittest 1. Genetic survival of the fittest 2. Commercial survival of the fittest 3. Cultural/political...
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    Which conscious experiences do we want?

    There are multiple factors to consider when it comes to which experiences that actually provide people with great lives. Generally you want variation in terms of what you do and what you experience. Rather than doing the same thing every way you want to experience diversity in terms of...
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    Debunking the left

    The best definition of left vs right is that the further left you go the more you are in favor of egalitarianism while the rightwing politics is in favour of a hierarchical society. This fits with how people untuitively classify things as right vs left unlike some alternative definitions. The...
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