Well it was pretty much just openly saying it.

Her YT channel was a mix of fairly long, sort of livestream clips of development progress and notes... and then just clips of her livestreams where she wasn't really developing and was just responding to chats, going off about political topics, 'white genocide' this, 'every democrat is a f@g communist' that, a whole bunch of other dogwhistles or overt references to memes and slogans of various extremist right wing militia type groups...

Also, for clarity, I am not talking about OP's link, I'm talking about some very obscure other person I found months ago. Much , much lower view/su count, not even monetized. Also unlike OP's link, this person actually wrote code instead of just having opinions about things.

There is a difference between being on the conservative side of a culture war and being balls deep into extremist right wing ideology.

Yeah, just, I'm not talking about OP's link, I'm talking about someone else.

At one point I was looking for some help with implementing something akin to UE's Metahumans but in Godot.

Somehow I stumbled across this one, single person on youtube who had a half decent implementation of what I was looking for...

... and after watching some other videos on her channel... yep, she's an open NeoNazi.

That was enough internet for me, that day.

I recently got an email reminder to pay for a toll via an e sticker thingamabob on my car.

Problem: My car got stolen over a year ago.

The even more insane one is the 4chan dating app... Duolicious or duos or something.

I mean, I had Fallout New Vegas, Deus Ex, Squad, Humankind, some others.

I think in all my years on and off using Kippo I saw a single woman who listed FNV.

Never saw any for Deus Ex, for any shooter game that isn't a hero shooter, never any for a 4X...

I never once came close to finding someone with a similar taste for games as myself.

Basically it would either be:

Twitch Girl who plays all the popular on Twitch games. Also does OnlyFans. Also is not looking for dates, just simps.

Awkward Shut In Girl who plays Stardew Valley and Pokemon and Animal Crossing. Only has pics of themselves in a hoody seemingly right after waking up, a bunch of their poorly drawn OCs, and a bunch of their pets. ....Waaay too many pets.

Random person who has only played like 3 games that are over 15 years old and hasn't updated their profile in seemingly 10 years, is never online. Has a decent selfie, a pic of either a bong or a 40, and another pic of some random place they were at a decade ago, seemingly taken either by accident or while drunk/high.

At one point it, like years ago, it was only kind of shitty...

Then 2 things happened around the same time:

Kippo decided to just abandon improving the actual profile/matching system, and decided to turn the app into basically habbo hotel. It does not work well, and they started monetizing more heavily to pay for developing this, stopped improving the dating profiles and matching completely.

AND

Tons and tons of girls (18 or barely older) began becoming EGirls/TwitchThots, realizing being pretty and playing some popular game was a great way to get simps. Many, many of the profiles on Kippo now are just obviously this, with links to their Twitch or OnlyFans, only playing games that have huge audiences on Twitch.

It used to have a lot more genuine people on it.

Around 6 months ago I made a profile on Kippo, the 'gamer dating app'.

Because of the gaming centric focus, you either can't or have to pay money to filter by things that might actually make sense for a dating app (religion, political beliefs, do or do not want or have children etc)...

... But what everyone lists is their favorite games.

So I made some basic rules: Hard No for anyone who lists League or other games that are notorious for the extreme community toxicity.

... And LoL being a Nope filters out about 80% of people.

I no longer have a profile on Kippo.

So... one approach you could take would be to say anyone working a full time job should be able to afford a one bedroom apartment. You know, New Deal kind of ethos for the modern era.

https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/united-states/?bedrooms=1

Ok, avg one bed rent ~= $1600 a month.

$1600 * 3 = $4800 (1/3 rent to income ratio)

$4800 / (40 hrs x 4 weeks) = $30 dollars an hour.

So yeah its actually worse than 'We've been arguing about $15 for so long its more like $25'.

Nope. Its $30 an hour. $62,400 a year.

Sure would be cool if we did literally anything to _actually_make housing more affordable.

(BTW 60% of working individual Americans make less than this)

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

AKA, I have a pre-existing worldview that provides me with some sense of identity, and that is more important than reality or truth.

This is 'cognitive bias' leading to 'cognitive dissonance' when you unconsciously or unintentionally believe in things that sound right but are later revealed to you to be false...

... And its called 'motivated reasoning' when you just actually consciously know that you're rejecting things that clash against your worldview.

Anyway all of this has been known by psychologists for what, 50+ years?

They just rarely explicitly state that this applies to political beliefs, even though there is no real scope limitation on what topic one can pick and choose acceptance or rejection on.

I suppose the only interesting part here is that people are now just en masse admitting they are fact-shunning hypocrites?

Kin.

It's not precise, but it is accurate

Not... directly.

About a decade ago, I lived in a very small area, maybe half a mile in radius, with a pirate radio station, always playing amazing stuff I'd never heard anywhere before, ranging from soul to jazz to classical to electronica.

I had my suspicion that a nearby bodega owner was operating it. We'd talk about the station and its songs, and he seemed to know much more about it than anyone else in the neighborhood, but would always divert the conversation back to anonymous, general praise for what it played whenever I would indicate personal praise for whoever was running it.

Making this situation even more ridiculous was that this station's broadcast circumference overlapped with a fairly large airport.

Pretty sure if whoever was running it ever got caught they'd be looking at massive fines and/or prison time.

Robin Williams.

In addition to there being buzzillions of them, wouldn't this be even further complicated by bees having a 'language' of basically dance moves?

They consistently make promises for things that will exist in the future, which then takes them years beyond their expected timeframe to achieve, or just never do them because some other past promise or promise they will make later makes an original promise either totally unworkable or wildly different.

So, so many missed deadlines, which uh, actually were just aspirational.

And... this is a game that sells you ships, gear, for hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of real world dollars.

Some crazy promise will be made and oh, turns out that means we have to rework something like half the game's systems to support that, but also they're adding new content constantly that is always in some limbo state between following the old system's paradigms and attempting to follow the new system's paradigm.

What you end up with is a constant state of everything being a bit broken, and a lot of stuff being completely broken.

Its less like a released game getting DLCs and more like an alpha test that just never ends.

Which, again, costs hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Jesus fucking christ, that was their fundamental approach?!

... Did they ever come anywhere close to a dynamic server model, with dynamically sized in game zones being handled by dynamically changing server clusters, dependant on player count in an area?

I remember making some comments in a thread in the main SC forums about it almost a decade ago that were basically to the effect of: that's almost certainly impossible to pull off with enough fidelity / low lag to actually work in a real time, absurdly open world shooter game,, but if they could pull it off it would basically be the greatest achievement in game networking history.

Probably pointless fact check for the non word salad part:

Elon has never landed anything on the moon.

Further context:

Elon has received roughly $3 billion of taxpayer money before 2022 (and another $1.7 billion in 2022) to create a system capable (Starship + Heavy Booster) of delivering and returning humans to and from the moon by Q1 2025.

It was supposed to have conducted an orbital flight test in early 2022, and so far has only accomplished a few semi-successful suborbital flights, which have prompted Elon to downgrade the supposed mass to orbit capacity in half, from 100 to 50 tons, (proven cargo capacity so far is 0, even for suborbital), and state that there will now be a Starship/Heavy Booster 2 and 3, entirely new and untested rockets which appear nowhere in any of the government funding agreements.

In orbit refueling has not been demonstrated, Starship has not returned from orbit or suborbit or the moon or anywhere other than small test hops without exploding on impact or melting in reentry...

...when it should have completed an uncrewed Moon landing and return about 8 or 9 months ago, and by now should be human rated.

... And this is the person Trump wants to be in charge of finding and eliminating wasteful government spending.

Unironically same, I've had convos with multiple meth and fentanyl addicts that make more sense.

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So, a bit of discussion about a hypothetical me has spawned from this and I'll say some things here:

I am from the US, have mostly rented in the PNW.

I am aware that smoking is bad and can affect other people, and that idiots running grills can be very dangerous, but I'm old enough to remember when these used to be a major use case for residential balconies.

AFAIK, generally, you can still do these things if you own (or even rent) a house in a lower density area with a balcony or patio.

Hell, I've lived in places and with roommates who are entirely capable of nearly burning down an apartment complex by not knowing how to cook on the oven/range in their apartment, or by just smoking inside and woops that cigarette butt or spliff or joint missed the tray.

I'm not saying it should be the case that we ignore safety concerns in more dense housing, I'm more just pointing out that things which many people are used to be able to do on some kind of residential balcony are not actually doable as more and more people live in rentals.

As for clothes lines, decorations, hell in some places even public drinking of alcohol on a balcony all being technically legal to some extent but still being against a rental contract:

Surely you are aware that the landlord and property managers hold basically all the power in these situations unless you have the time and depth of pockets to legally challenge their usually illegal frivolous stipulations.

They can just fine you and threaten eviction or withhold your security deposit, and it will almost always be 5x to 10x less expensive to just accept this than to attempt to challenge it.

Hell, I have literally never received my security deposit back, anywhere I have ever rented, despite doing no actual 'damage' to the unit. They will always just invent some reason to withhold it.

... Anyway, my main drive here isn't that you should just be allowed to do whatever you want on an apartment balcony, its that these balconies are functionally useless to the renter due to them being designed as an afterthought to drive up rental costs, as well as having all kinds of functionally real restrictions unless you want to get into a legal fight with your landlord.

Basically, at a glance, the balconies are just scams, false advertising that looks like a neat bonus at first, but then you realize you can't actually do anything on them besides maybe sit on a chair on them, if one will even fit.