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The great part of this option is that it’s super easy to do. Literally a “do nothing and win” move.

Dude, I fucking love your head space. Choosing your next fun time thing to do based on a linguistics debate you started with your self.

That’s my kind of neurotic.

Hope you have a blast either way!

There’s a scene from the original Gundam that I think about a lot in this context.

The MC, having just gotten inside his giant death mech for the first time, is ordered to shoot some enemies (who had been trying to kill him just a moment prior) fleeing the battle. He couldn’t do it.

The next fight that breaks out, those same enemies are back, in their own giant death machines, and the MC stops to think to himself “this is much easier, they don’t look like humans now”. Then he starts firing his laser.

It really is this. Every Republican I know wears it like a personality, as if they see it as “their subculture”.

It’s not by the strength of their arguments, but their ability to present an “appealing worldview” to their demographic.

And this ability is built off the back of unfathomable sums of money pumped into a 24/7 propaganda machine meant to make you feel good about being in the group, to make you believe these are just “obvious common sense opinions” that most people believe, and to spin all issues in their favor.

Think I would cap out at David Sedaris levels of fame. Anything more would be too much bother.

tide comes in, edit goes out.

You can’t explain that.

Much like everything else in my life, I didn’t need AI for that.

I fully agree with the sentiment behind your point. But I think you may have missed their intent.

I would refer you to just one paragraph earlier, where they state:

I also fucking enjoy writing. I enjoy editing my writing…

By their own admission, they are doing this for fun.

To add to that, the quote you used goes on to jokingly say:

…(so) I guess I’ll provide some logical arguments or something, whatever.

Seems to me like they weren’t trying to defend themselves. Rather they were trying to emphasize how strongly they disdain letting AI take the fun out of coding by way of sarcasm.

And here I thought it would hold down…

Go figure.

I’d reckon a nearby small rock might be better?

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.

This is a fun question! Before I start ranting my opinions, I’d love to turn it back on you, where do you fall on the topic?

As for me, I think it’s important to start by saying narrative motivations are not necessary for me to enjoy a game. I can, have, and will play games devoid of them purely for the gameplay, story, art, fantasy, challenge, etc.

That said, I’ve absolutely played games where a strong narrative motivation enhanced my experience. I think this works best, at least for me, when the character and I share a motivation.

Some examples: not going Hollow in Dark Souls, killing Benny and taking over the Strip in New Vegas, gaining strength to kick Vile’s ass in Mega Man X, saving Ellie in The Last of Us, and feeding my Tamagotchi in… Tamagotchi.

On the flip side, when I can’t empathize with a character’s motivations, or worse, when they constantly complain about doing the things I want to do, it really kills my desire to play. That’s why I’m more of a Bartz fan than, say, Squall or Lightning.

So I guess my point, or TL;DR, is this: narrative motivations work best as a driving force when they help immerse me in my character’s role by giving us a shared goal. They’re not essential, but they can absolutely elevate the experience.

I mean, I can think of a half a dozen other unimaginable horrors unrelated to the US happening right now, and I don’t even try to look these things up.

There are no ethical large computer manufacturers. Framework, like its competitors, financially supports unethical people, and projects, and there’s no such thing as an end-to-end ethical supply chain right now.

People want Framework to be ethical because they champion repairability, and on a relative scale, you could do a lot worse. But that’s also the problem. Most people buying a new MacBook or ThinkPad never think about ethics. Framework puts ethics front and center, then drops the ball the moment you dig deeper than repairability.

If you want to buy “ethically,” your best option is used. The device was still made unethically, by a company that funded abhorrent causes, and the seller will likely reinvest your money into the very ecosystem you’re trying to avoid. But at least you kept something out of a landfill a little longer, and put one more degree of Kevin Bacon between yourself and the worst of it.

To keep things in perspective, Framework is probably less unethical than most manufacturers, and they’re doing more for repairability than most. And even Doug Forcett wasn’t good enough for the Good Place, so you know… you have to draw your own lines.

He isn’t the Hero we wanted…

But he is the Villain they deserve.

Eh, not worried about it. It is what it is.

Yeah, if we were into each other. How they present and their AGAB matching my own preferences would be a factor.

But at the end of the day, my “straightness” is just a convenient label. If someone gets voted in by the Tribunal (Heart, Mind, and Cock), all labels are ultimately superfluous.

Aww fuck, thanks for this post. I was in a doom spiral after too much scrolling and this gave it all a nice break.

I Fuckin hope so Louie.

But we still don’t have the answer to 6 minus 7…