Extreme Z7

Okay then, spent a few days really thinking over what I personally love the most about life. It's Creative Imagination for me. Partly as the fuel art and fiction. But also as how it's the main driver to go beyond average "normie" ways of living and thinking. I love it when creativity is used to undermine status quos and rigid ways of thinking in various fields. But really, what I love is when high amounts of creativity is used to create experiences that are really "out there" and really stand out as unique ingeniously-crafted experiences. (That also falls within the realm of my personal biases, of course)

Long story short: Earning money through playing video games directly through NFTs. So I've known about these for a little while but I decided to start talking about it now since David Pakman unexpectedly uploaded a sponsor video for one of these so-called "P2E Games". It's a rather uninteresting video so I decided to look for a more informative video which I've posted at the very bottom of this post. So about 3 weeks ago, a close relative of mine messaged me on Facebook just to talk about NFTs. I thought this was an odd topic of discussion but eventually they mentioned that they were earning by playing P2E games. So eventually I decided to look into it and from what I could gather, you could potentially earn a decent living playing these NFT games granted you live in a poorer third-world country like I do. So people I know could potentially get sucked into one of these games perhaps thinking they can make good money doing it. But they end up not providing any value to the world. And they're certainly not gaining any valuable skills outside of the game. Not to mention, the price of the NFT items you earn can fluctuate a lot so you may not even be able to earn money consistently. (And it just turns into stock-trading) Right now, this market is pretty young but I'm curious to see how much this will grow within the next year or so. Maybe it will grow big enough that we will start to have larger discussions over it. Or maybe this will all blow over and we can just forget about this as if nothing ever happened. Either way, I'm certainly not getting involved in it. It just seems like the sort of thing that's deliberately trying to attract fools. Earn 100$/Day playing games! You could make a living just sitting on your ass playing video games! Don't deeply think about your life choices! You can make money the easy way!

@Leo Gura Yeah, but I made the point to underline the word "directly" because P2E games have their own internal economy. You don't get your money from ad revenue or audience donations. From what I understand, you get your money from other players. And it's a lot more profitable for players from the poorer countries to get money from players from richer countries because of the exchange rate. So maybe in some games, you'll have "poor players" grinding to get a bunch of in-game items for free and then sell them to "rich players". Or in others there could just be outright competition to get the best items. I'm not yet completely sure how this whole thing works, to be honest, but something about it just doesn't feel right to me. At least on Twitch and Youtube, you're giving entertainment to people at the very least. You're still contributing to the larger economy even if it's in a shallow way.

I absolutely love this guy's smug attitude while looking at the most idiotic (and ironic) memes of our time.

Qanon, Anti-Vaxxers, and Trumpists are basically the Nazis of our time, relatively speaking. It's just that society has advanced to the point where the worst most deluded people of civilized first-world society don't seem so bad when you compare them to actual WWII-era Nazis. It's all a matter of perspective. That's easy to say almost 100 years after WWII ended. Yeah I can show them compassion too, but not when they're trying to invade my country. Likewise with the point I'm trying to make with anti-vaxxers, maybe when this is all over I'll look back and show compassion over them. But for now, they're being reckless and dangerous. It's all perspective. You could call Trump a "victim" of misinformation and bad up-bringing if you want. WhY sO VeNomoUS TowArdS TrUmP? ! ! hE'S JuSt A vICtIm! ShOw sOMe ComPaSsiON! Give me a break.

Ehhhh. . . It's a little tricky. Considering the possibility that the virus could mutate among the un-vaccinated to a point where it is able to infect the currently vaccinated bringing us back to square one, causing more deaths and suffering for everyone. And besides, we all just want lockdown to end. Anti-vax skepticism is just prolonging that. I've personally felt very frustrated at how long this has all lasted (more than a year!) and now that we have a free and easy-to-get technology that can easily end the pandemic, I'd rather be forgiven for feeling amusement at the death of someone making things harder for everyone around them. Is there a lack of compassion? Yes. Is it justified? I dunno. The Nazis were technically just misinformed people. Is it really a good idea to tell people they should also feel compassion for the Nazis who died in battle, while WWII was still happening? P.S. And just as an additional point, I wouldn't feel compassion for the libertarian-types who get themselves arrested for violating vaccine mandates at this point. Some of them are genuinely insane and believe that not getting a vaccine is an inherent human right.

Woop woop. Part 3

@Preety_India Give it a few days. There's still editing and potentially long upload and processing times.

Your score from primary psychopathy has been calculated as 2.6. Your score from secondary psychopathy has been calculated as 2.2. You score for primary psychopathy was higher than % of people who have taken this test. You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 34.17% of people who have taken this test. (I don't know what happened with that first percentage but it literally didn't show up.)

Half the stuff on it is made-up. Also the article is mostly just petulant ranting and the rest are literally just comments on random forum posts. I sorta know what it's like to make that kind of content because I went through a phase of my life where I was sorta at that mentality. Beyond just having a rationalist worldview, there's sort of an addictive high that you get when you feel like you can just outsmart everybody because you think you're such an highly-intellectual individual. I put individual on bold because a big part of it is feeling unique from everyone else and definitely superior in some way. It actually feels empowering to think that way and intellectually "owning" someone becomes a source of fulfillment in life. Being a rationalist/materialist ideologue is one thing, but the sense of smugness I get from the article leads me to believe they could still be in that state of mind. The biggest delusion is when you're in that state and you think you've got reality mostly figured out. A deep admission that you actually don't know what reality/Truth is would swiftly end that.

He should have saved the random seed of his life. Minecraft joke. I'm sorry.

@Nos7algiK Also, certain "comments and opinions" that he expressed on social media did not help.

I wish there was a vaccine for stupidity.

Here's David Pakman video with the same two people:

Late Show with Stephen Colbert made fun of him lol. You know you're doing something really dumb if even they make fun of you. Not that I don't like their show, they just tend to appeal to more mainstream audiences.

It's cringe because of the emphasis on "Best Day" in US history instead of just being a significant statistical event. Although, I do get a wiff of irony from that tweet so it's probably not best to also take it seriously. Probably just joking around.

RationalWiki ROFL

Trump was a god-awful leader overall and an even worse human-being. That kind of excuse can be said of literally any terrible politician you want to defend. P.S. Leo's not kidding, by the way. You could get banned for chronically defending Trump.

How 'bout the "I have no stance" response?

@Leo Gura I'm still in my early 20s and I do have one small story from my (really) early 20s. The first time I tried to live on my own and pay for my own rent, I could only afford a very small room barely the size of an average home bathroom. The rent was cheap and I was told the other extra fees (water, electricity, and garbage disposal) would be just be a fraction of the rent. This ended up being true for the rent, water, and garbage, but I feel I was charged way more than I expected for electricity. Something was up. At first, I thought it might be normal. The landlady even pointed out how expensive my electricity bill was at first and suggested it might be because of my laptop. Yes, I used my laptop everyday but something still felt off as I needed to go to work every weekday and I usually liked to spend part of my weekends outside so I wasn't using my laptop that much. But I just went with it. The electricity bill slowly got more expensive over the next few months and I still thought it was may have been normal, albeit weird. I was being given what looked like actual electricity bills with the weirdly high numbers 4x larger than I was originally told. . . and still rising. How would I even challenge that? It's an actual paper bill telling me how much I needed to pay. My suspicions really started to arise when one time bills were due, I didn't receive an electricity bill. The landlady insisted she slid it under my door but there really was nothing there. She then just proceeded to tell me what she claimed was my number for the month and it was predictably higher than what my bill was the previous month. I still didn't say anything at the time and I just paid it. Something was definitely wrong. The laptop was the only high-end electronic I had and I wasn't exactly using it more and more each month. Unfortunately (and also very fortunately), I got fired from my job that month so I didn't have to stay at that crappy place anymore and that was the last time I paid for that bill. I didn't have the mind to bring up my suspicions to her as I was thinking about having to move back to my parent's house at the time. And even if that wasn't the case, I didn't even know if there was a way to prove it and get my money back at all. It was only when I looked back to my time there that the possibility that I've been financially scammed seriously dawned on me. I didn't feel that upset about it, I mostly saw it as a learning experience. I was taken advantage of because of my lack of life experience. Looking back, I would have contacted my uncle immediately when I got that first bill and asked him for advice but that thought didn't even crop up in my mind. I was too arrogant at the time to look for help from people who may have had more experience than me and I just decided I could "figure it out on my own". I have not told this story to anyone because frankly, I just want to move on from it. I didn't want to cause a fuss from my parents or relatives that would force me to have to confront my ex-landlady, I thought it would be a waste of time. Better just to be proactive and earn more money by focusing on my LP. However, the next time I feel something like this is happening again, I will be ready.

The worst city. . . . probably.

And yet somehow they'd still win through voter suppression tactics. Oh America.

Leo made a blog post about this but frankly, I wanted to post this before that but the site wouldn't work for a long while. I think it's good to read the original article because it gives a good general chronological story as to how Tim Pool essentially failed his way to success. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-coward-and-phony-tim-pool-became-one-of-the-biggest-political-youtubers-on-the-planet Really revealing stuff here. I learned that Tim Pool's primary motivation was always personal success and fame but it's also something else when you're embarrassingly incompetent at your work and are in denial of it. Almost no different to Ben Shapiro or Steven Crowder: tried to pursue a positive life purpose, failing miserably at it, eventually found a toxic but lucrative career on easy street.

How Boring. Such a sheer lack of charisma from Sargon of Akkad as he tries to "debunk" the Daily Beast article. All he can do is posture "hit piece" while he barely reads what's on the article.

Also allegedly asking a black man what side of the race war he's on. And there's also having the gaul to say “Women are too emotional to be good journalists; their feelings get in the way” even though he was too scared to leave his hotel room to film Turkey's civil unrest. Again "allegedly", but if true then Pool's even dumber than I thought.