I mean you can think what you want, or even write a dissertation about it and have it published. But what I’m saying is established fact among people who dedicate their lives to this.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379404191_The_Semiotics_of_Newspeak_Language_Power_and_Thought_Control_in_Orwell’s_1984

https://journal.ijarms.org/index.php/ijarms/article/view/757

https://www.academia.edu/721095/Orwell_and_the_Power_of_Language

And here’s Orwell himself defending his use of language as a means of control in the novel:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

This last one is actually really interesting, I recommend reading the entire thing.

When was the last time it read the book? The entire point of Newspeak was to shape how people thought, and it worked like gangbusters.

To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to prevent people from being able to think critically. The Newspeak language thus limits the person’s ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will,[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

You can’t grasp the concept of personal identity, let alone internalize it and actually have one, if the concept for it doesn’t exist in the language.

Orwell could not be more clear about this stuff. To the point where my teenage (before witnessing it first hand in the US) self found those parts to be boring and far fetched. Boy was I wrong.

From the book:

the lexicologist character Syme discusses his editorial work on the latest edition of the Newspeak Dictionary:

By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.[1]

I was criticizing the argument that I replied to.

No. It’s not the same as “literal/figurative”. At least not yet. And it’s important that we don’t allow that to happen to these words as well.

Language directly informs our thoughts. Like literally, we think in our respective language, and controlling/molding that is an extremely powerful tool of control and oppression. Perhaps the most powerful. Read 1984 if you want someone to explain it much better than I ever could.

We cannot allow words like “objective” and “subjective” to colloquially mean the same thing. It will just continue making it more and more difficult for people to grasp what’s real and what is not.

People will also tell you that it’s bad to enslave people. You gonna be a contrarian and go against that one as well? Or are you going to be a thoughtful person and evaluate each argument on its own merits?

I think they were trying to tell you to go fuck yourself. Which I would say that they achieved.

Once it clicks, it’s like riding a bike. Started a second playthrough a year after beating it, and I beat Genichiro first try.

Peak game design.

Best From Software game in terms of movement and exploration. Best From game in terms of plot and presentation of that plot (it’s not completely opaque). Equal to Bloodborne in terms of best setting and visual style by From.

Not only the best combat in any From game, but the best combat in any third person game, period imo. It’s perfect… When you get into a flow state, it’s like a rhythm game. And the feeling you get when you finally get the timing right and beat a boss, is second to none.

Because you know that it was all you. No cheese builds, no OP weapons. You get better because you get better. You have to, it’s the only way to progress in to game. And it makes every single win feel like a legitimate accomplishment.

I’d love to see a sequel

This happened to me. It was Sekiro that was the one that finally sank it’s teeth into me. Still my favorite video game of all time.

Based on what you’ve described that you liked about Nine Sols, you should check out Sekiro.

Best game I have ever played in my life. My only complaint is that it has made other games less enjoyable by comparison.

Is that what they were doing? I was only there a few minutes, but all I saw was 4chan level “discourse” and unintelligible internet patois

I just sent it to you via telekinesis. If you didn’t get it, I dunno what to tell you. Sounds like a skill issue.

Yeah here let me just completely dox myself for the approval of some rando on the internet…

Lol

Yeah I’ve had Xenonauts on my wishlist for a while but haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

I had the original on PlayStation 1 and I was pretty young so I’m sure a lot of it is nostalgia. But at the time, I’d never played anything with even close to that amount of depth.

Real roundabout way of saying that you’re a piece of shit.

Good to know though I guess.

Hahahahaha dehumanization is funny!!

Monero uses stealth addresses that cannot be linked back to a wallet. They are generated new with each transaction.

Here, read the answer here for a better explanation: https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/13285/using-multiple-wallets-for-anonimity

I suggest you do some research before saying things with such certainty

Edit: here you know what I’ll just paste it here:

Unlike Bitcoin Monero is by default very anonymous and paranoid so you are basically wasting your time doing that. If someone could see amounts and recipients from all transactions Monero would be no more. The whole idea of it is to be anonymous, safe and decentrialized.

(Do I need 6 different accounts to have 6 different wallets?)

a) No you dont’t. By default senders create stealth addresses for your public address so that nobody can see on ledger who sent monero to whom. New stealth address is created for every transaction. Also transactions are signed with ring signatures so it is very unlikely to anyone see who made the transaction. Signatures are collected randomly from the blockchain.

*And yes you can have multiple different accounts on single wallet. They all have their own public addresses but they share the same private keys.

(Say I have $5,000 worth of XMR. Do I need to split that up in my transactions to increase anonymity?)

b) You don’t have to do that either. Amounts being transferred are heavily encrypted and cannot be decrypted easily. If you look the blockchain you cannot possibly tell anything else than blockreward amounts and amount of transactions (tx) in the block in question.

The “cannot be decrypted easily” is this person hedging as it’s literally never been done.

Yeah it gets a little confusing.

But looking at screenshots of the Vita title, it’s the remake not the original original. That is, not the one that came out in 1994.

This is the actual original game I’m referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown

This is the 2012 remake which is the basis for the Vita version (still a good game, but I prefer the original. Could be nostalgia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown

Oh, I was referring to hexbear. After viewing the link and briefly seeing the cancer, it made me glad that my instance defederated

We all need help on this glorious day

Do you have 100+ alts like the person above?