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typhoonjim's avatar

If you "liked" Stimulation Clicker, I would "recommend" eCheese Zone, especially if you run it on a projector at a party and work together to solve it.

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Spruce's avatar

HTaS in Syria opened by playing a massive COOPERATE once they'd taken over: promising not to attack other countries or allow their territory to be used to prepare attacks on other countries. Maybe we could return the favor, we can always put them back on the naughty list if that changes.

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Matrice Jacobine's avatar

The "other countries" here is doing a lot of work, there is an important minority in Syria, a significant portion of which would consider themselves "another country", and which HTS is so far allowing their territory to be used to prepare attacks upon.

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Spruce's avatar

I agree. Assuming it's the people I'm thinking of, they're kind of screwed between all neighboring countries not wanting them to have their own. Mostly thanks to the British empire, I think. And we can't afford to annoy Turkey too much.

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Samuel Roland's avatar

Slight pushback on the Endangered Species Act point. I don’t disagree that the structure of the law protecting every “subspecies” leads to absurd results and should be changed, but the line between “population” and “subspecies” is blurry at the best of times, and there were genuinely good reasons to believe that particular snail darter was a distinct subspecies before genetic testing. Adam Unikowsky has a great piece with the details: https://adamunikowsky.substack.com/p/trust-the-ichthyologists. The overall point is true, but at least on face it appears to have been a good-faith effort at distinguishment in this case.

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Isaac King's avatar

> The year of the Apollo 13 incident

Took me a while to realize this line in the Netflix article was not talking about 1970.

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SkinShallow's avatar

1) I think I might be just too old for zoomer ironic online projects, but I COMPLETELY fail to understand the point of the clicker game (or why it would simulate anything even minimally addictive).

It might be something to do with the fact that I'm nearly (not fully, but not far off) incapable of doing things that are not at least minimally intrinsically rewarding at all times, unless it's a borderline life/death thing or a strong social obligation. Possibly related: I like spoilers and I am incapable of enjoying sexual edging.

But maybe I'm just not getting this in more profound ways. Anyone could take mercy on me and explain?

2) I think EA (including GW) have a Rich Donor problem in the sense that they feel actively uninterested in small amounts from poor people (corollary: I never reinstated my regular donation that stopped when I was in the red couple of times at the time of set transfer). It's very possible they are spot on and courting one RD (not a billionaire, just wealthy) is worth way way more than zillions of poor ones. General public donations (presumably not all small) comprise very variable proportion of charity income even for wildly popular ones (legacies are a big one too) but I'm finding it hard to determine how it's spread. Either way, 10th percentile is not looking all that great.

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Ozy Brennan's avatar

Stimulation Clicker is extremely unpleasant and horrible in every way, and that's fun! For about forty minutes.

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mathematics's avatar

>1) I think I might be just too old for zoomer ironic online projects, but I COMPLETELY fail to understand the point of the clicker game (or why it would simulate anything even minimally addictive).

Have you ever played Skyrim, or Civilization, or Catan, or other games that let you get stronger over time? There's something my brain finds satisfying about the feeling of leveling up. Clicker games simulate this feeling without any of the other aspects of the game.

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Matrice Jacobine's avatar

Will any of the EAs in my TL realizing with the reactions to the USAID and PEPFAR cuts that the "anti-woke classical liberals" are in fact for the most part reprehensible bigots (something normal people not basing their politics on vibes realized in 2014 at the latest) press their orgs to cut ties with the Thielsphere and stop having "make sure Trump end up as God-Emperor of the Lightcone" as their #1 priority? ... nah who I am kidding.

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tcheasdfjkl's avatar

I like "Reality Has A Surprising Amount Of Detail" as a section header.

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