What are you, a radar dome?

I wish I had this power 😭😭😭

It’s a nod to something the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote in his essay The Precession of the Simulacra.

His entire work revolves around Simulacra, copies of real things that end up replacing reality until eventually the copy is the reality, with no original that it is derived from.

One of his inspirations in the aforementioned essay is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges about a king who orders his mapmakers to draw him the most accurate map ever, which ends up being in 1:1 scale. An obviously nonsensical exercise, much like Mr. Rashed’s endeavor to replace his actual background with an identical copy just to prove a point.

Well hello there Mr. Baudrillard. Are we drawing 1:1 scale maps again?

The sheet is not the only thing that has been muddied in this questionable example. The cow is NOT where he thinks it is and therefore he does NOT have knowledge of it being there. It’s near where he thinks it is but that distinction makes all the difference in the world.

Also there’s a whole slew of problems arising from the way our cognition interprets sensory information. For instance, our eyes enable us to see light in various colors and intensities but they arguably don’t see objects (or subjects). In that sense we cannot hold JTB about cows, anyway, because even as a farmer we cannot be sure we’ve ever seen one.

(Never mind the next problem, which is that even our sensory facilities might be corrupted by color blindness, myopia, etc…)

If Mary was smart she would have used the Free AI Text Humanizer.

You know what, that’s a fair point. It does take some humility to be able to admit that one might be wrong. And it seems like that kind of humility is somewhat hard to come by these days.

And despite all this, Remmy P. can still form babby.

(And vote. And drive a car, keep and bear a firearm, etc.)

Scary.

It’s a spiral that probably won’t end until I’m alone

Or until you learn to differentiate between those behaviors, thought patterns, and underlying beliefs that make your life better in the present moment and those that pull you down.

There’s always a good reason why we’ve adopted these behaviors-- maybe they were crucial to our survival at one point. But that was then and this is now.

Working through all that is not an easy task. In fact, it can be hard work. But it’s so, so valuable. And when you commit to it you will see real progress.

All the best to you and everyone else who feels they are in this situation.

Okay, here’s a radical thought that has actually helped me overcome this attitude:

Who the fuck do you think you are to discard everyone else’s opinions like that?

Maybe give the people who love and support you a little more credit?

Do you want Gazorpazorp? Cause that’s how you get Gazorpazorp.

Oof, alot and smocking in one post. Still, it is a great find.

No. My point was that an economic argument, as posited in the meme that started this thread, misses the core issue. From an economic perspective, Nintendo is doing the right thing, as evidenced by the fact that they have been doing this forever and still haven’t gone broke. So that approach is simply inutil when critiquing corporate greed.

Side note: Nintendo is not the only games company guilty of that, only that others, without exclusive hardware as a platform, have been suffering the consumers’ wrath (e.g. EA or Ubisoft).

Keep on working on that reading comprehension and learn to deal with nuance. I didn’t say I agree with selling unfinished games at a high price.

Looks like someone doesn’t understand how profit margins work. If I’m going to make the same $90 anyway and have to decide between spending more money on the product by delaying release or less money by rushing…all things being equal, that sounds like an easy choice. So a purely financial argument is obviously going to fall flat.

The sticking point is that money is not the only value in this world. All of our decisions need not be driven by profit maximizing strategies. So maybe instead of producing shoddy games at peak profit it would be better to produce excellent games at a good profit.

Yeah, this is missing “who are you, Ken?”

Sad but true.

“Give you a what?”

“A bleu jeurb, mam. Will you give me a bleu jeurb?”

And that’s why I usually cook while doing the dishes.

I call it “wirbling” and imagine myself as the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons when I blitz through the house doing all the chores. Once the momentum has been built it’s much easier to keep going, even on stuff I’ve been putting off.

How shallow and pedantic that would be.

(you’ve got a point there)