/hob/ - Hobbies

>>52693
This hobby sounds pretty cool. The fact you're able to get people to test and break your game at all is also pretty cool. Glad you've been able to somewhat move on to a more rewarding hobby, though.

I honestly think that the people with the most power in the world are those with an amoral philosophy.

As in, the complete rejection of ethics and morals in favor of a more authentic and useful paradigm of personal benefit.

The leaders are obviously high scoring on the dark tetrad, but with unusual traits for dark individuals, like high intelligence, strong executive functioning, and high empathy.

The purpose of life itself is the evolution of the ultimate lifeform which can acheive the greatest reproductive success for copies of genes identical to the ones they were made from within the largest amount of environments.

The purpose of any particular life Is to acheive the greatest reproductive success for copies of genes identical to the ones they were made from within the largest amount of environments.

The purpose of life is to reproduce, but it is also to assist the reproduction of those who share kinship (genetic similarity) in the hierarchy of importance with recessive phenotypes at the top priority, with dominant and unexpressed genes being least importance.

For a notable example, we like lighter and more colorful features (like those favored by the nazis - blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin, etc.) because they are harder to inherit and even harder to express, this produces distinctiveness and that favors sexual selection, the most important kind of natural selection that exists.

Read Darwin, Dawkins, Hamilton, and Fisher.

>>69293
Purpose implies agency, not biology. A robot is given purpose by its creator. In a vacuum it just executes a function. Replicators will replicate, its a a chemical reaction on par with a mathematical equation. Nature is not so kind as to act with intent, it doesn't give two shits if the sun rises tomorrow, and people are just gunna have to cope with that.

You could argue, from a philosophical perspective, that the purpose of life is survival or the perpetuation of the species, but this would also entail things like biological development and nutrition, and this doesn't really address the value of these things to the individual. Also, to begin with, a belief isn't really philosophy, philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge. You can't just go with a gut feeling you "think" is correct.

Its also wrong to assume the people in power have anything that constitutes a philosophy whatsoever, let alone similar ones. It could, and likely is, just greedy machiavellian asshats desperately maintaining the status quo. Its not like humanity is any closer to unification than it was 50 years ago.

>>69295
Amorality is not a philosophy?

It absolutely is.

Protagoras: morality is a matter of personal preference

Desade: maximizing personal pleasure and minimizing personal pain is the ultimate good which all other goods are mere proxies for, it is also what shapes everything else about us, our perceptions, our fantasies, our beliefs, our values, our loyalties, etc.

Stirner: the only thing that us resl is the physical, which the ideal is the product of and subservient to, ownership is only a matter of possession, the ability to posses something and retain that possession, if I can take it from you, it is mine for as long as I can keep it.

Hobbes: civilization is the product of leaders using the threat of pain and misery via violence to enforce conformity

Neitzsche: morality is a tool of control that allows leaders to control others even when they cannot threaten them with violence

Machiavelli: people can be reliably controlled through the manipulation of pleasure and pain, joy and misery, desire and aversion, love and fear, etc.

Rand: even the most selfless possible act, such as someone giving their lives to improve the life of a stranger who would never know their sacrifice, is at its core a selfish act as it is motivated by the pleasure the one making the sacrifice experiences from helping their benefactor. These pleasurable feelings are in fact our motivation to do anything.

Philosophy is the observation and elucidation of the obvious.
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>>69309
>Amorality is not a philosophy
No one said that. Rewrite the post and try again.

A T H E I S M
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R E A L I S M are the only things that matter. It's over.
Life is nothing but a slog, only purpose of life is to reproduce and give your kin the best conditions, whether that be by improving your country, earning money, and forging alliances when necessary but ultimately driven by what is good for the propagation of your genetics and you will to live. That' what it all is about. This is all the philosophy you need. Life is pointless if we don't account for reproduction, you just live, and hope that you have fun. And we all should as wizards have fun with our lives.

>>68295
I am currently reading the man without qualities by Robert Musil.
Since i have been pretty busy for the last months, i am only halfway through the first volume of the edition in picrel (on a sidenote, this is by far the best choice for a cover i have ever seen. It encapsulates the tone of the book and the main character perfectly. The portraits by Egon Schiele used in the later editions are still pretty fitting, but the fact they stopped using the original illustration bothers me nontheless).
As for the novel itself, it is probably the best book i ever tried to approach. The author takes all the best aspects of european modernity and realaborates them in a work that manages to be a psychological novel, a series of philosophical essays and considerations and a satire of european politics and culture during the belle epoque.
The story is set in early 20th cenury Vienna, and the protagonist is a man named Ulrich. He is a decently wealthy man who possesses all the qualities a man of his time can have: he's physically fit, beautiful, sensitive, decisive and an intellectual, but despite all of this, he doesnt feel like he belongs to any place the world can offer him, and as such all of his qualities stop becoming "his", since none of them is really part of said place in the world. Because of this, Ulrich is very often alienated and unfeeling from the reality he is living in, even as he is being beaten senseless by a gang of muggers or as his lover is crying due to his attitude towards her.
After a 60 page introduction in which Ulrich's life and outlook on the world he lives in, his sister Agathe recieves an invite to a group of intellectuals and activists formed to celebrate the 70th year of emperor Franz Joseph's reign (1918). Since the same year is also the 30th year of kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, this becomes an occasion for the association to show the spiritual superiority of Austria over Germany, despite the obvious disparity in their political influence.
All other characters in the book are examples of the models of life that are arising in the 20th century, and each one of them is trying, in their own way, to reject the spirit of the time they live in.
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>>68991
I really really want to get through Infinite Jest but its like trying to eat popeyes biscuits and no water with your brain; there is just too much substance to every sentence. I thought Dan Brown was bad with his overly descriptive writing but this is a whole new level.

Tress of the emerald sea by brando sando. great read. fun short book that doesn't take itself seriously.

Do you people sometimes have difficult comprehend some paragraph in books you read? I'm finding myself sometimes not fully getting certain paragraphs.

>>69307
what are you reading? if you are reading philosphy or a technical subject like math, then yeah, it would be the shock to be able to understand everything rightaway.

>>69298
When trying to cook something, I find it best to look at how it was cooked hundreds of years ago. Seeing so really helps to grasp just how simple it truly is. If people could do it back then with fire and wood, then why can't I with induction and computers and anime?

>>69298
Crust on the first image looks perfect, but on the second image looks pale, either underbaked, or had too much yeast, and from little separation - probably wasn't allowed to rise enough just before baking. Since moving the dough would compress it, it has to make it's final rise in the baking form.

>>69302
>probably wasn't allowed to rise enough just before baking
I let it rise 2 1/2 times, for the final rise after I folded it into a ball I had more than a bit of difficulty getting it out of the bowl, which was too small to begin with, so on the next try I'll likely get a bigger bowl and coat it with flour a bit more aggressively so I can transfer it into the dutch with minimal resistance. I always have a difficult time getting an accurate picture of food on my phone, its always either super saturated thumbnail clickbait or washed out vomit, the reality is something in between.

As for the the rest, I used one envelope of yeast for 4 cups of flour so I think its good as far as that goes, although my kitchen does still smell like a brewery, and I let it cook at 450F for 45 min. I could maybe add 5 more minutes and see what difference that makes, but I think gently getting it all into the dutch will probably make the biggest difference.

>>69304
Assuming one envelope is 7g and 4 cups are 4*120g, it should be close enough to the target 1% of flour mass. But you really should let it rise for the final time without any disturbances afterwards, i.e. no handling at all, as it guarantees compression. It's more important than having it rise several times.

For a final rise I prefer just putting dough on a foil and cover it with wrapper in a 150C oven with open door, so it stays at ~30-40C inside for ~30 minutes, then simply take the wrapper, close the door and bump it all the way to 200C.

>>69305
My goal is more or less to create an artisan meme boule like you would get at a bakery, which necessitates a preheated dutch as this sort of steams the bread I guess which gives it maximum rise and a crispier exterior. This guy >>69301 does something similar.

>>69214
>I'm putting three photos together so it's as accurate as it can be
You shouldn't be drawing from photos period. What is even the point?

>>68913
somehow this person got worse.

>>69210
I think is a good attempt of drawing that character. Dint know the artist until I saw this For a moment I thouhg it was that lusty skunk from that old webcomic.

Why every skunk has to be a slut? This one, the other from that webcomic, le pew, and that ntr fucker from the archie sonic

drew this here pitcher of a josie and the pussycats cosplayer

kind of cleaned up the drawing but man do i not know how to color or shade

janny wheels, j

>>69276
now in 3d

>>69296
janitor's delight

>>69296
Nice texture work.

Some one download it on a VM or some throw away laptop and report back on it. I ain't clicking or running that too lazy.

Not bad.

The walk cycle was actually well done and everything mechanically works fine.
Only minor improvement I have to offer at the moment is that it would probably be a good idea to have the controls/inputs within the game.

Like, being real with you, I didn't read your full post so just figured it out using prior game knowledge and found the arrow keys worked fine.


As far as the difficulty. It was fine. It's more about exploration to find the solution then extreme precision which I appreciate personally, and the visual design language was clear enough to hint at what to do where. Like I didn't need to be told that I could wall jump. The level design hinted that I could wall jump so I tried it and it worked.

The "pain" level however is exactly the kind of thing I get bored of. It's linear and just about trial and error and extreme precision which I personally don't find fun.
Some people are into that, I am not, so once I got the gimmick I just stopped playing there.

>>69284
see
>>69283
That version runs in browser.

>>69280
>It's mostly code spaghettied together from tutorials and reading the engine's documentation
That's 99.9999999999999999$ of all games. It's not bad for a game about jumping for eyes. Personally I'd rather jump for big princess boobs, like in Jump King.

This is how far I got before I realized practicing my instrument would be more rewarding. I'm learning the guitar. I want to be a rock star who uses his influence to spread hate towards people who I don't like. Thanks for reading.

>>69285
You're right about the controls. Thanks for playing! Yup, sorry about the pain level, it was a debugging room to test the precision of the controls but since this is only a prototype and a learning experience, I decided to leave it. It's doable but ridiculously fucking hard. I only managed to beat it twice and I designed the thing. Next game will be better.

>>69289
Thanks for playing! Good luck with the guitar, I hope you become the rock star super villain you want to be!

>>69185
My life is very empty and baccy filled it up with joy
But now it is just became too expensive and I only get autismbux
>>69187
Thank you my man

stop fucking up your health

>>69230
>stop fucking
Never even started

>>69230
planning to live forever, are you?

Why is so hard to make an emotional cartoon that feels real. Some of these writers think with a little ghibli tears, and some so called childhood trauma they can make characters that fell real.

Just look at this scene the last unicorn, most of us will be happy of watching an unicorn, but not molly. She knows watching an symbol of purity like an unicorn just reflects who much she is no longer pure and inocent.

Why most of the adults shows are just copies of the simpsons, rick and morty or worse, family guy, with a lol so randumb aproach of humor?

Why nobody tries to do more dark comedy whit a serious approach like moral Orel, and why every evil character has to be redeemed? Or far worse, his evil being relative. Just look at Clay, the show shows how he has a actual chilhood trauma, not something stupid like most of the modern writing, but the writers dont try to make the watcher to empathise with him, or fell pity for him. Just an evil characters who hides himself in the disguise of the mayor of a fundamentalist town

>>69223
>Why nobody tries to do more dark comedy whit a serious approach like moral Orel
You do recall what happened to that show right?
It was seen as "too dark" by the adult swim executives. With network tv there are limits and that show pushed most of those limits and was punished for it.

>>69232
>It was seen as "too dark" by the adult swim executives. With network tv there are limits and that show pushed most of those limits and was punished for it.

So, this is too realistic for the network. They have an actual evil parent to write about him in the most humanly patethic ways. In ways only know by torn souls… But no, say the network.
Wubba lubba dub dub, says the network, have bunch of gory childish adult cartoons instead.

>>69035
>so called childhood trauma
kek