Posts by murdoc@autistics.life
(DIR) Post #AnKyh1gTalA0cm7p4q by murdoc@autistics.life
2024-10-24T16:49:56Z
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@ChrisWere Well that was a nice thing to wake up to. Deus Ex :blob_cat_heart: and on Peertube as well. Nice!
(DIR) Post #AoSmmuYEE0fAhVlJq4 by murdoc@autistics.life
2024-11-27T08:58:56Z
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Whoa, just had a thought: There are many reasons why Harry Potter is popular, but I just thought of one that may resonate with neurodivergent people in particular. Child grows up in a world that doesn't understand him and generally treats him very poorly. Then he is told by other people that the reason for this is because he is different, he is special. Now I get that pretty much everyone wants to feel special, but for us NDs, maybe it's something different. We watch this child go to a place where everyone, despite their many differences, are just like him in a very important way. They understand him, and share and indulge his interests. But most importantly, he receives support from a huge community of people based on this difference from the "normals". He feels at home, and he thrives. Idk, I just woke up so maybe I'm missing something and this is just the universal appeal after all, nothing special for NDs. I guess we'll see. Let me know what you think.#neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #ActuallyADHD @actuallyautistic
(DIR) Post #Arp7bTdJSKrL5hpfXc by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-03-07T21:19:32Z
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@ErikUden Now I have this image of many robots, locked alone in a room, all just standing there saying "Input error!" to each other until they run out of power. Poor things. I should report this to the SPCR (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots). 🤖 😢
(DIR) Post #ArtURX54rDd4SyszCK by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-03-05T02:51:50Z
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@Sheril Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.And yes I'm serious. :BlobCatSmiley:
(DIR) Post #AruWO5C2TsReAiaJv6 by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-03-10T01:35:47Z
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@clacke @Sheril I didn't know about that. Interesting. I did however see a reading that someone did with visuals done on youtube. It didn't cover the whole work though. It's amazing the amount of fan work that surrounds this book (art, other fanfics, etc.).
(DIR) Post #AurwdPKydNlsrC6Pdw by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-06-06T23:25:44Z
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So in the latest update for No Man's Sky, can anyone else upgrade the buildings in their autophage settlement? I can upgrade the buildings in my Korvax settlement fine, but the button to do so doesn’t appear on any building in my autophage settlement. I tried waiting for a bugfix update because they usually do it daily after an update, but none so far. 😟#NoMansSky
(DIR) Post #AvzBbMidp5NyKlnDI8 by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-07-10T09:19:51Z
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@paradroyd Ah, Hollywood sci-fi computer speed it appears. 😛 I did all my BBSing on my Atari XE, but my first modem was 1200. I can still hear it in my mind though.
(DIR) Post #AwiXAusS7lM5UtIRwe by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-08-01T06:22:22Z
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@hosford42 @mutualaid 🥳
(DIR) Post #AwqmRuxs6b8bGh4khE by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-08-05T05:52:25Z
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@lextenebris By the time I was old enough to buy my own rpgs, I was already hooked on Traveller thanks to listening to my older brother's tales of the game with his friends. When I did buy it, it was the Starter Edition that was available, so I never got the unbiased experience with the first edition like you describe. I never even heard of the Beowolf until years later. I do remember that the artwork in the SE drew me in quite a bit though.
(DIR) Post #Awqqgsz09hapHYzs1I by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-08-05T06:39:58Z
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@lextenebris I can relate to all that. I don't have a weblog, but I am on a Mastodon instance with a 10,000 character limit that I take advantage of. :BlobCatSmiley: And Traveller is still one of my favorite rpgs (even if I can't get people to play it :blob_cat_cry: ), so I'm happy for content whenever it comes out. :blob_cat_sip:
(DIR) Post #AwqxiBuDz9ABwJKe5Q by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-08-05T07:58:38Z
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@lextenebris Thanks. I'm sure it will be interesting. I also look forward to seeing all these other resources you mention. :BlobCatSmiley: I actually didn't play Classic all that much, because before I could find other players, I ended up getting MegaTraveller, and that's been my favorite edition ever since. There's a whole story about how I got into playtesting for T5, and how that led to me designing my own game from scratch, but I'll leave that unless you want to hear it.
(DIR) Post #AwtpgO8zIT6Z9nkLlA by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-08-06T17:12:31Z
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@hosford42 @mutualaid 🥳 🫂
(DIR) Post #AyW7KEBlo65qXT6WES by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-09-24T00:20:21Z
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@drahardja I'm all for UBI, but it's not so much of a cure for our problems as it is a way to relieve some of the symptoms for a while.
(DIR) Post #AyngdQpxnyC9Ls7EfI by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-10-02T13:47:18Z
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@futurebird "But, I've never seen so much top-down pushing to try to make this happen."It's creepy. I feel like I'm in a remake of Terminator: Genisys or something; some creepy entity working behind the scenes on its secret agenda. But that's just how it feels. I know it's just powerful companies trying to make more money. They're the creepy ones.
(DIR) Post #B1IXTpmJba0pbnJVaq by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-12-16T04:45:11Z
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@Jackgiantkiller Interesting piece. I have always considered enchantment evil ever since I read the intro adventure in the D&D Basic Set. So easy agree there.Until you mentioned the World of Darkness. Granted that a good portion of the game deals in grey morality. But it leaves me thinking about how some of my characters have used the Dominate power. Say for instance that someone is attacking you. So you Dominate them to stop and leave. Yes, it clearly violates their will, but what are the alternatives? Fight them and cause physical harm? I'm pretty sure that that violates more than just their free will. Perhaps if you could physically restrain them or knock them out, that is generally considered pretty humane, but how is that any different? Basically it'd be the same as your Hideous Laughter exception.One could certainly argue that even that level of violence is still wrong on some level, but I don't think less so than Dominating them to stop fighting. So if we're going to consider this level of harm to be immoral, then we're going to have to examine a whole lot of other things in a similar light.And to be honest I do do that level of examination in real life, but I would find it tedious in role playing. But that's just my taste. In the end I think that powers like Dominate can be used in a sufficiently moral way (the best of available options) if not in a "pure" way. Perhaps if my character had a Humanity score of 9 or 10, but that's not what I'm playing Vampire for. But looking at your examples at the end of the article, they cover a lot of ground there, and would need to be looked at pretty separately. Controlling somebody's body while they remain cognizant of that is bad sure, but so is restraining them, or "legally" arresting them, and that is often seen as "good enough", depending on circumstances and what you are making them do. Changing someone's decisions either directly or through say memory alteration I see as no less immoral than when someone does so verbally (say with a con artist), or through some other trick. It's just faster. And if you accept that premise, then you just have to examine the morality of dishonesty, and it becomes less about enchantment specifically. One can then think of things like cops going undercover in order to bring down criminals. Heck, if you really want, there's a whole TV series called Leverage about a group that uses elaborate con jobs to bring down powerful bad guys. So in the end, unless you want to take the pure angle of never doing any sort of harm whatsoever ever, that really enchantment is just another form of power that can be used morally or not. I'll grant that because of how much easier it makes controlling people, that the temptation to abuse it is even greater than with non-magical means, but I don't see that as any argument against its use any more than how technology makes doing immoral things easier, or any other form of magic for that matter. Interesting; reading your article and then replying to it caused me to re-examine my whole position on the matter, and I went from completely agreeing with your thesis to not. That makes it a very useful piece in my opinion. Good job. (Not trying to shut down the discussion by that BTW.)
(DIR) Post #B2cyW2IVKOLFzryn4q by murdoc@autistics.life
2025-12-13T19:10:15Z
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@alshra My mom left her favorite stuffy in Las Vegas and managed to get it back. 🤞