Leo Gura

How is it overpriced? Audible is so cheap. $10/book. I don't see how books can be any cheaper and still allow for authors to live. Books are so cheap it hardly makes sense to write one.

That's a corrupt lesson.

A film like Star Wars can teach the lesson much more potently than a 100-hour lecture from me. Moral stories are classic. I'm just pointing out a few tweaks to make it better. Lucas did an 85% good job of it.

Because the point is to teach the audience what Good is and what corruption is. It's supposed to be a genuine spiritual lesson, not just Hollywood action slop. You want a story that has spiritual realism. People at large don't know the value of truth. The Jedi are supposed to embody that value or fail to do so and show the consequences. You wanna teach your children that scamming others is good as long as its for a princess??

That makes him no better than common folk. It lowers his skill and integrity. Scamming Watto was totally uncalled for. A Jedi should look for another way, rather than taking the easy path. Boring? Not at all. This makes life much harder for Jedi and more interesting to watch them deal with harder survival options. There are so many better ways to solve the problem than scamming a poor junk dealer. The scam didn't even work on Watto. Why mind-trick stormtroppers when you could just fight them? Or perhaps some kind of Force power like a smoke cloud. The Jedi are supposed to be the examplars of Goodness. Not utilitarians mercenaries. Jedi don't have to be perfectly good, but they should at least understand what is good and what is corruption. Jedi should be depicted doing everything in their power to avoid the corrupt option. He should have tried to avoid scamming Watto. Instead he had zero qualms about it. And if Jedi do corrupt things the film should depict a cost in terms of loss of connection with the Force. Jedi can act badly but then lose Force powers for it. That is far more interesting from a story perspective. For example, Qui-Gon Jin scams Watto and then gets his hand cut off in his next saber battle because he losses connection to the Force. That would be so much cooler.

We have been using CloudFlare from day one. Since 2014. It isn't enough.

Valve makes so many billions from Steam that they can't motivate themselves to make video games any more. That's why HL3 never happened.

If you are questioning why it's called God then you haven't yet realized God.

@LambdaDelta Don't give Todd Howard ideas or he will release Skyrim for the NES.

Pickup was always very niche. Even in its heyday. Mystery days of pickup was like the Dark Ages. With RSD it became bigger but still super niche in the grand scheme of things.

Math is available to everyone, but chimpanzees are worse at it than humans.

Okay, everything is running lightning-fast now. Migration success! Thanks for your patience.

He abuses women. Yes, if you turn women into sex slaves for yourself, then you don't need to worry about sexual frustration. That's why sexual slavery and abuse exists. And yes, if you are a world-famous celebrity, women will swarm around you and you are free to abuse them. Also, you should consider how sexually frustrated Andrew Tate was in prison. Abusing women isn't free. It has a cost.

We were still doing the migration during that time so that error should be ignored.

Okay, the migration is now complete. The main site should all be working properly and the forum as well. Let me know if you run into problems.

Yes, the old service slowly became terrible. We were boiled alive like a frog. Unfortunately hosting companies become corrupt and degrade over time. And they raised prices on me by 35% this year. They try to get away with it because they know migrating is a costly pain in the butt.

Corsets for sure were a conformist fad. Also Chinese foot-binding. Many make-up trends, like the all-white makeup in Japan and China.

I am literally available on here to answer questions, and people hardly ask me serious questions.

She's not going to be available at your beck and call because she has her own life to lead. She's not your personal sex object. So she will only give you sex when she is logistically available and in the mood. Which is not going to be on your schedule and needs. And the quality of the sex can vary a lot, depends on her and depends on what you're into and what you need to be satisfied. Generally speaking, the longer your relationship goes on, the more pragmatic realities of life will override passion. You will start to do things for convenience and pragmatics more than for the passion, and so will she. That's why marriages often become sexless. The passion wanes and pragmatics takes over. There will be plenty of times where you want sex but she doesn't or she's busy, which is going to frustrate you.

No data on the main site will be lost, only the most recent forum data. The only data that gets lost is the new data created during the migration.

Heads up, we might still have some more data loss on this forum over the next day, since we need to reinstall a new operating system to get the rest of the site working. So don't post important stuff to the forum for the next day or two.

Yes. All finite things are infinite. They are sub-infinities. Every part of Infinity is infinite. Every finite thing is a sub-infinity of Infinity. Infinity is made of infinite sub-infinities. Analogous to how there are infinite numbers, but if you take the numbers between 1 and 2, there are infinite of them too. Infinity is infinitely sub-divisible. Yes, relationships are like money. When you don't have it, it seems like the solution to all your problems, but after you have a bunch of it, you realize most of your problems still remain. In that sense it is very illusory.

None of the main site pages are loading yet. We're working on that. Only report problems with the forum.

Yes, the change happened in the last 2 hours. Yes, that data will be lost. Every migration has a bit of data loss because it takes time for the migration to happen. That's why I try to avoid migrations as much as possible. But this migration will be worth it so we can fix the slowness once and for all.

The migration has been done. We are now operating on the new server. The forum seems to be working fine, but the main website is currently not loading. We still have to fix that. If you notice any parts of the forum not working properly, please let me know. The forum seems to be loading much faster than before. Let me know if that's true for you.