if it quacks like a duck…

Ella is a stupid name for a salmon anyway.

Enormous potential inside all of us.

Too bad.

Capitalism.

Two things, firstly the one thing that needs to be avoided at all costs is raising taxes. Since this robs working and succesful people from their personal ability to take care of themselves and their families. Secondly that there needs to be a class distinction between the people who take advantage of the system and those who don’t. That is to say that in their mind society is functioning in such a way that anybody can ‘make it’ through some effort. And that those who supposedly don’t put in the effort aren’t supposed to be cuddled and given handouts, as an incentive to put in the effort as well.

There is perfectly fine education, care and protection through private parties. Just hire those. You can’t? Well I guess you aren’t trying hard enough. We can concentrate police presence in criminal neighbourhoods. We can concentrate care and education in the neighbourhoods that do function correctly.

This is their ideology I’m describing, not my own, just to be clear. Im being sarcastic.

Reality is ofcourse more nuanced than what im saying, after all the neocon ideology needs to exist in the real world and adapt to it. Which mostly seems to lead to populism.

There are several dials that can be tweaked to balance the budget. A (neo)liberal is for low taxes, small government, and selfcare. So their cuts, when the governments expenses are higher then the incomes, are in public services. And they won’t put it back, because that’s against their ideology.

Yes, but only if you got it from a civet that is roadkill.

It does matters who did/does the art. That’s only possible if you can separate the two. Art can be copied and has been since forever. People value the same art from different artists differently. It’s not the art itself that carries the value. If the painting of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre turned out to be a facsimile for display, it’s identical in every way, would the people enjoy it less? Say that it isn’t ‘real’ even though it is right there in front of their eyes? Would that facsimile be worth the same? Clearly people aren’t just interested in what the art is, but who made it. We believe that the artist puts meaning and intent in the art, but these aren’t in the art itself. For most of the art we experience that is completely unavailable to us. There is clearly a distinction between our experience of art and our experience of art from the ‘original’ artist. So while knowing who made what and why adds value to art, it isn’t necessary to experience and enjoy this art.

It is completely conceivable that someone feels attracted to the aesthetics of art whilst fully ignorant about the artist. The artist can’t control someones emotions, thoughts and feelings. It’s not the artist who decided what aesthetics evolved adter millions of years of human evolution, conditioning, culture. An artist can only hope to align themselves to it and hope people agree on it. And so good art can elicit all the right feelings even when nothing is known about the. artist.

Yeah we share things all the time. Give eachother tips or advice on how to do things differently, or how to handle certain situations. We see eachother grow and improve, and become better humans. That’s definitely a goal we both share, and talking about what happened is kinda a prerequisite.

Some sounds just become the thing they are supposed to represent. They aren’t used because there are no more sounds to be made. Two reasons.

First. Directors won’t use a schnauzer as a guard dog in a movie, because they don’t portrait the intention of a guard dog on screen. For exactly the same reason you can’t use a gong as a laser sound, it doesn’t portrait a laser.

Second. People have collected sounds and made them available. There are stock sounds, just like there are stock pictures.

And so, certain sounds have become used for certain things. And the more they are used the more iconic they become. The Wilhelm scream, red tailed hawk, and many more.

Either have the bitter shit and suffer for a little or don’t and suffer longer.

I have denied my personal reality and substituted it with yours.

axe murderer: I like long gurgles in your screech

Supermen

these are not quality enough to be able to play white noise without crackle

The processes in manufacturing largely remained the same. Doing things faster makes things easier not more difficult.

Look at the Eiffel tower for example, immensely complicated, wild design and largely pointless (compared to modern standards).

Or compare old wooden windmills to one of the most modern structures, large open water windmills. hundreds of meters tall, simple tubular construction.

The ability that CAD and computer power in general gave us was the ability to simplify and not use more than necessary. The ability to model strength, rigidity and whatever forces necessary, that’s where the real power lies.

and i think that we can’t really speak about more or less difficult. The structures and designs of the past clearly have a very high level of complexity, while most modern constructions deliberately eliminate complexity. But we can’t do that without computers.

I have around twentythousand hours in the counterstrike franchise. I played source semi competively, and was moderator on massive 64player severs. nowadays i play occasionally because CS2 just doesn’t do it for me anymore.

Faster Than Light

The Witcher two and three

Morrowind and Skyrim

Back in the day i played Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat where I was a top10 player. Also a ton of Unreal tournament.

Heartstone also comes to mind.

Cant forget minecraft

oh Guild Wars…damn put some hours in as well.

Right now I quite enjoy Mechabellum, and im starting to get too sucked in again.

I got mine after having a stable relationship and a partner without a child wish.

i knew from a very young age i didnt want kids, and have always picked partners that shared my view. I also knew that I would make a great dad if it ever came to it. So i never got the snip until i was 39.

I don’t think I would have mind if I did it earlier, but it’s also not as necessary as you think. If you pick your partners carefully and be open about your wishes. This shouldn’t be a real issue. If you are having fantasies about fucking around a lot, you should wear protection anyway. And as a matter of fact, not being snipped will help to wear that shit.

I want to mention lastly, please don’t get into a deep lasting relationship with a person who has a child wish. It will end badly. And keep in mind that people can change their mind, also on this.

omg you need to get off now!

Finally i can get my jacuzzi!

Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.