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Feb 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The fact that it would take bravery reminds me of a thing I observed the other day: the same people who swear that Christianity is on the brink of being outlawed also believe that President Obama is a Muslim and/or atheist who had to pretend to be Christian to get elected.
Literally the same people saying "OF COURSE the Satanic Democrats all pretend to be Christian, they'd never get elected in a Christian country otherwise." are the ones saying "Christianity is oppressed in this country, it will be illegal to be Christian soon."
And I mean, it's not a novel observation that fascism simultaneously poses as the underdog and the ubermensch, both victor and victim, beset by enemies who are likewise simultaneously powerless insignificant minorities and globe-straddling superpowers.
And Christianity's history, outside of Christofascism, involves going from being a religion of martyrs and outsiders to a religion of empire and conquerors, and modern Christian traditions incorporate that whole history with very little dissonance.

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Feb 2
The really sad thing about Michael Tracey is no one is paying him to be a propagandist for the worst people, the worst causes, and the worst ills of the world. He is just what happens when stubborn contrarianism meets wounded egotism. He champions lies because the truth hurts.
Take a guy whose impulse is to go, "What? No, that can't be." when someone he doesn't respect says something he hasn't heard before.

*Coincidentally*, the guy respects people more the more they are exactly like himself. A white guy of his approximate background? Knows his stuff.
Lots of people have this kind of kneejerk reaction, but for most of them it's passing... five minutes later they might have incorporated it into their worldview. Their dismissal was based on nothing, so it is easily dismissed.
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Feb 1
I love the way that Vampire Survivors gameplay evolves over a 30 minute run. Like the Axe, which moves in an obvious homage to Castlevania's classic axe, but on a top down screen. It does a TON of damage early on if you come at the enemies from the right direction...
...which is useful in the early game when combat still feels like individual engagements, but its fully evolved form loses that element by becoming omnidirectional, as the late game is more about keeping an encroaching horde from reaching you.
Oh, I may be talking about this game a lot. Before someone pops in with, "So you recommend this game?" I do not. My usual recommendation of "You might like this thing, if it's the sort of thing you like." applies times infinity here.
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Feb 1
Friendship ended with Wordle, now Vampire Survivors is my best friend
I will probably keep playing Wordle. It just wasn't something I thought of today the way I did the other days since I started playing.
Vampire Survivors is not anything like Wordle but I feel like they both exist within a similar space of games that have figured out ways to sort of gently caress the addiction buttons.
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Jan 31
On this note, if I say something like "Mute _____ if you don't want to see this thread." or talk about how I am threading about D&D or Muppets to shake loose the new followers who don't want that content and you reply "Joke's on you, that's why I'm here," I 100% despise you.
A tweet isn't about you if it isn't about you. I cannot stand people who take a tweet that is not in any way speaking to or about them and reply in a way that simultaneously acknowledges that a statement has targeting parameters that exclude them, while making it about themselves
"Mute if you don't want to read it."

"But what if I DO want to read it?"

Then you read it, Blichael. You read the thread if you want to read it. You and twenty-three of your most asinine friends really had to jump in and seek clarification on that point?
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Jan 30
So that "own a color on the blockchain" thing is less of a pipe dream and more of a pipe nightmare. It's a system you have to opt in to. This dude has created a pseudo-financial ecosystem where joining it means you have to agree you'll pay money every time you create art.
The thing is, there isn't a "smart contract" that's smart enough to know every single time you use a color. Even if you've opted in, you could use whatever colors you want and mint them through an unconnected protocol. It requires voluntary cooperation every step of the way.
Which, I mean, it's good. It's good that this joker can't actually use arbitrary code to lock you out of using a digital color combination freely whenever you want.

But it demonstrates how every promise made by NFTs and crypto is a lie. "Smart contracts" require participation.
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Jan 30
Clarifying reminder:

Spotify "losing $4 billion of value" doesn't mean they lost $4 billion or that $4 billion worth of business was taken away from them by cancelations.

It's referring to the market valuation of the company. It's not nothing, but it's also not quite money.
Like so many tech companies presenting as media companies, presenting themselves as a solid choice for investors is a big part of their strategy. "Line go up" = success. But the line going down is temporary until it's not.
If you've been wondering why Spotify isn't panicking or why "spending $100 million to lose $4 billion" doesn't immediately trigger a reversal, it's because they don't yet have any reason to fear their share price won't recover.
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