Don’t know about debunking, it seems to be more about entertaining people than educating them. Anyway, only made it to the 20 minute mark, back to work.
Should a good essay not have an introduction that goes over some of the actual information in the video and establishes the tone/method of delivering that information?
If you’re trying to say that the introduction is not representative of the quality of the rest of the video, you should argue that instead of the rather lame argument that not watching something in it’s entirety prevents any commentary on that thing. It goes hand in hand with someone saying they watched the whole thing and didn’t like it, then asking why they watched the whole thing if they didn’t like it?
There’s a finite amount of time in this life, and every moment spent doing one thing means not doing another. Giving anything stumbled across on the internet 20 minutes of your time to determine if another 3 hours is worthwhile is a decent commitment. When I’ve done that I’ve not made a comment about it because I’d rather let the people who did like the video enjoy it than throw out some negativity, but it’s a completely valid approach to curating one’s time.
It’s fine to quit 10% of the way in if you’re not into it but it doesn’t mean your opinion of what you watched is informed enough to leave a review. That’s the point I was making with the silly trailer analogy. Why comment if you didn’t watch it?
I watched about an hour and a half of it last night and it’s entertainment, yeah, but she’s just explaining the manosphere in an entertaining way. Thats how long form video essays work, it’s not an academic paper.
This video has good points but also deviates from The scientific consensus on the generic heritability of mental health conditions.
I also felt that parts of it were disability-positivist, which for me personally I interpret as ableist. Saying that schizophrenia isn’t something people suffer from, it’s just schizophrenia in the context of current society really rubbed me the wrong way.
Normally like münecat’s videos but between this and the defending-domestic-abuse/Caroline-Flack part of one of her previous videos some of her beliefs are really harmful.
People are often weird about the intersection of genetics and psychology generally. When I was in HS a kid tried to tell me that intelligence wasn’t heritable because genetics didn’t play a role. When I pointed out that people with genetically-linked intellectual disabilities exist, they said that it was different. Apparently they didn’t understand that disabilities are a result of (among other things) genetic variations and not the other way around.
$6,000 plus for two day down to the minute itinerary app based experince? Hell no. Sounds expensive and exhausting.
$400 bucks for a dinner for two with drinks, a floor show and a ton of cool photo ops? Well that’s something I would consider for a fun date night if I lived in the area.
I’ve been trying to capture this idea for years! I’ve been trying to explain to my friends and family that we’re all susceptible to this “magical delusional thinking” that somehow we believe we are immune too when in fact we are not.
Thank you Abigail for finally giving me the word that captures the idea to provide me mastery over it!
The way I’ve been putting it since about 2017 (for some reason) is - reality is a team sport, to some people. They’re not privileging some claims and discounting others. They do not evaluate claims. That is not what claims are for, in a worldview built on tribal loyalty.
We are all susceptible to this, but for some folks there is nothing else. This generalized form is closely associated with ring-wing nutjobs because fascism is just tribalism cranked to eleven. It is a worldview spread exclusively through emotional manipulation. It fits how human beings naturally like to think. Self-reflection and rational argument are learned behaviors… and they suuuck. You’re always wrong and it feels bad and you just want a respected member of your ingroup to tell you who’s to blame. Surely they’ll never blame you, next.
I think conservatism is this behavior.
Right-wing politics are overwhelmingly an expression of that core conservatism, and the exceptions are always run off as turncoats and plants. Mitt fucking Romney gets called a RINO because his dumb ass bought some Reagan-era set of convenient excuses, and he stuck with them even as the party lurched toward new scapegoats. He wouldn’t kiss The Idiot’s ass over an honest-to-god failed coup, so he’s not a true Scotsman anymore.
And since this conservatism isn’t the same as right-wing… there are also left-wing conservatives. There are people who spout the ideals of socialist or anarchist movements, but only because someone in their ingroup hierarchy said so. The irony is completely lost on them. They do not evaluate claims. This category is rare compared to right-wing conservatives, because leftism fucking loves nitpicking self-criticism, and kneejerk chest-thumping ‘[blank] did nothing wrong’ defenses stick out like a sore thumb.
What the “phantasm” framing misses in that process is how it shifts to maintain interpersonal loyalty rather than specific ideas. This is what the tribe is doing now - conform or be excised. Russia good, doctors bad, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
This is so endemic to the right that they will act visibly confused when we don’t do it. People in this mindset genuinely believe it is how everything works. If you’ve ever been treated like a fool for criticizing one of ‘your guys,’ or hit a brick wall trying to get the tiniest factual acknowledgement of hypocrisy from one of ‘their guys,’ that was this loyalty at work. Their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications of whatever needs to be true, next. They do not evaluate claims. On some level, they think putting their own meteorologists on the teevee would change the weather.
Yeah, ‘we have a huge homelessness problem’ is a perfectly reasonable answer to ‘is this a clean city?’ because it’s plainly not saying ‘yes.’ Grinding poverty does not tend to coexist with spotless sidewalks… or all the city’s drug addicts keeping that shit at home. The sidewalk is their home.
That is both a systemic problem as a cause and an illustrative example of a symptom. It’s a concise and direct response to the plain meaning of the question.
is it possible to reverse engineer that code just from playing the game?
Spoiler: no
I don’t even see why this was a question, or why Atari cared even if you could. You know where you can get the code for the game? In the cartridge! If you have the game, you can just dump the code from the cartridge. The cartridge is just a ROM whose sole purpose is to give you the code when asked, byte by byte!
I enjoyed watching this guy go full-nerd on this, but the premise is just silly.
As someone who has held this channel in formerly high regard, it’s especially depressing to watch them engage in a form of serf trutherism where they portray medieval serfdom as some place of idyll when that goes against all of our historical consensus.
Historians have covered extensively the misconception that any non-work time was time for leisure. The video correctly points out that medieval peasants didn’t have much of a use for money… because they had to produce almost everything required for their survival themselves in a non-market economy. The reason for fast days and slow days is because peasants needed enough time to tend to their own crops or they would literally starve and there was a maximum that an extractive feudal economy could extract from them without widespread depopulation. The 40 or 50 or 60% of the time peasants spent “working” was to earn them the “right” to rent enough land that they could grow non-market crops to barely feed themselves a high carb, low nutrient diet and hang on (and not even then most of the time as the numerous famines indicate).
In addition, until relatively recently, women’s work has been a blind spot in much of the accounting of how work was performed. Just clothing alone was estimated to take a family 3000 hours a year of labor to produce a bare minimum quantity which is over 8 hours of work each day, every day for a single person.
Not in any way arguing that our current system is humane or justified but arguments against the status quo shouldn’t be founded on fallacious history that the rich in the past were some wise and benign influence and only under capitalism have they been evil. The wealthy throughout time have been bastards running extractive economies to primarily benefit themselves at the hands of the oppressed and that is important to recognize.
While I didn't take this video as glorifying serfdom (I realize it was a trash system and focused more on the rhythm part) I can totally see how it could be received as that so thanks for additional context! It's always good to have more voices on a topic.
TL;DW: A book review YouTuber publishes a video on his experience learning to play a Real-Time Strategy game, his experiences onboarding his friends to play with him, and a tutorial for complete beginners who are interested in trying an RTS game.
I’ll try one more time… My last few posts in this sub had a (significant proportion of) downvotes. Feel free to downvote, but I would really appreciate if you tell me why. Thanks!
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