finish security breach, add Ruin DLC

absolute torture, had to spend 4 hours to process the trauma

.gitattributes

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+# Excel files
+*.xlsx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Word documents
+*.docx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Image files
+*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Adobe Premiere Pro project files
+*.prproj filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.prin filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.aep filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Video files
+*.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Paint.NET files
+*.pdn filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# Photoshop files
+*.psd filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+# PDF files
+*.pdf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

.specstory/.gitignore

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 # SpecStory explanation file
 /.what-is-this.md
+# SpecStory project identity file
+/.project.json

.specstory/history/2025-04-20_08-37Z-formatting-paragraphs-to-headers.md

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 <!-- Generated by SpecStory -->
 
-# Formatting Paragraphs to Headers (2025-04-20 02:37:07)
+# Formatting Paragraphs to Headers (2025-04-20 08:37Z)
 
 _**User**_
 

.specstory/history/2025-06-25_08-36-issues-posting-comments-on-reddit.md

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-<!-- Generated by SpecStory -->
-
-# Issues posting comments on reddit (2025-06-25 02:36:48)
-
-_**User**_
-
-why can't I post this to reddit? it's within the universal character limit, but it gives me unable to creat comment error
-
----
-
-_**Assistant**_
-
-Looking at your text, there are several potential reasons why Reddit might be rejecting your comment despite it being within the character limit:
-
-1. **Special characters and formatting**: Your text contains several characters that might be causing issues:
-   - The tilde (~) symbols in "~50-55%" and "~0.6–0.8" and "~18"
-   - The asterisks (*) used for emphasis like "*deaths via gun*" and "*less*"
-   - The en dash (–) in "0.6–0.8"
-   - The word "gov't" with an apostrophe
-
-2. **Length of individual paragraphs**: Reddit sometimes has issues with very long paragraphs without line breaks. Your paragraphs are quite dense and lengthy.
-
-3. **Potential spam detection**: The content might be triggering Reddit's spam filters due to:
-   - Political content
-   - Multiple numbered points
-   - Technical/economic terminology
-
-Here are some solutions to try:
-
-**Option 1: Break up the paragraphs**
-Add line breaks between sentences or logical sections to make it more readable and less likely to trigger filters.
-
-**Option 2: Clean up special characters**
-Replace problematic characters:
-- Change `~` to "approximately" or "about"
-- Remove asterisks or use different emphasis
-- Replace en dashes with regular hyphens
-- Change "gov't" to "government"
-
-**Option 3: Post in smaller chunks**
-Split your response into multiple comments, addressing one or two points per comment.
-
-**Option 4: Try a different subreddit**
-Some subreddits have stricter filters than others. Try posting in a different subreddit that's more appropriate for political/economic discussion.
-
-Would you like me to help you reformat the text to make it more Reddit-friendly?
-
----
-
-_**User**_
-
-I'm using markdown editor on reddit
-
----
-
-_**Assistant**_
-
-Ah, that explains it! When using Reddit's markdown editor, there are specific formatting issues that can cause the "unable to create comment" error:
-
-1. **Markdown syntax conflicts**: Your text contains asterisks (*) for emphasis that might be conflicting with Reddit's markdown parser. Reddit might be interpreting these as incomplete markdown formatting.
-
-2. **Unescaped special characters**: Characters like `~` and `–` can cause parsing issues in markdown mode.
-
-3. **Long unbroken text**: Reddit's markdown editor sometimes chokes on very long paragraphs without proper line breaks.
-
-Here's a Reddit-friendly version with proper markdown formatting:
-
-
----
-
-
-
----
-
-
-
----
-

.specstory/history/2025-06-25_08-36Z-issues-posting-comments-on-reddit.md

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+<!-- Generated by SpecStory -->
+
+# Issues posting comments on reddit (2025-06-25 08:36Z)
+
+_**User**_
+
+why can't I post this to reddit? it's within the universal character limit, but it gives me unable to creat comment error
+
+---
+
+_**Assistant**_
+
+Looking at your text, there are several potential reasons why Reddit might be rejecting your comment despite it being within the character limit:
+
+1. **Special characters and formatting**: Your text contains several characters that might be causing issues:
+   - The tilde (~) symbols in "~50-55%" and "~0.6–0.8" and "~18"
+   - The asterisks (*) used for emphasis like "*deaths via gun*" and "*less*"
+   - The en dash (–) in "0.6–0.8"
+   - The word "gov't" with an apostrophe
+
+2. **Length of individual paragraphs**: Reddit sometimes has issues with very long paragraphs without line breaks. Your paragraphs are quite dense and lengthy.
+
+3. **Potential spam detection**: The content might be triggering Reddit's spam filters due to:
+   - Political content
+   - Multiple numbered points
+   - Technical/economic terminology
+
+Here are some solutions to try:
+
+**Option 1: Break up the paragraphs**
+Add line breaks between sentences or logical sections to make it more readable and less likely to trigger filters.
+
+**Option 2: Clean up special characters**
+Replace problematic characters:
+- Change `~` to "approximately" or "about"
+- Remove asterisks or use different emphasis
+- Replace en dashes with regular hyphens
+- Change "gov't" to "government"
+
+**Option 3: Post in smaller chunks**
+Split your response into multiple comments, addressing one or two points per comment.
+
+**Option 4: Try a different subreddit**
+Some subreddits have stricter filters than others. Try posting in a different subreddit that's more appropriate for political/economic discussion.
+
+Would you like me to help you reformat the text to make it more Reddit-friendly?
+
+---
+
+_**User**_
+
+I'm using markdown editor on reddit
+
+---
+
+_**Assistant**_
+
+Ah, that explains it! When using Reddit's markdown editor, there are specific formatting issues that can cause the "unable to create comment" error:
+
+1. **Markdown syntax conflicts**: Your text contains asterisks (*) for emphasis that might be conflicting with Reddit's markdown parser. Reddit might be interpreting these as incomplete markdown formatting.
+
+2. **Unescaped special characters**: Characters like `~` and `–` can cause parsing issues in markdown mode.
+
+3. **Long unbroken text**: Reddit's markdown editor sometimes chokes on very long paragraphs without proper line breaks.
+
+Here's a Reddit-friendly version with proper markdown formatting:
+
+
+---
+
+```diff
+- 1. Laffer Curve. High taxes incentivise high gov't spending. That, and Fiat. Get us back on the Gold Standard, stop spending so much, and the tax rate can fall to a place that is hopefully somewhat justifiable. Though I think we should be less concerned on how to spend other people's money and more concerned about just how willing we are to put up with being enslaved to the State.  
+- 2. The premise is certainly faulty; it implies that at least 50% of State funding is lost to fraud and waste. 50% is a level of corruption that would be far too obvious to be swept under the rug. I'd say the utopian and counterproductive nonsense that is funded is the real place to cut waste. That being said, what's wrong with having a protocol and enforcers in place, that tell us just how inefficiently the State spends your money? So long as it's eliminating any significant waste and fraud, it seems well worth the funding at least to keep up the facade that the State cares where they toss their percieved infinite money bag.  
+- 3. There are too many variables to consider here and I won't go over them. Important to consider is that the amount of potential homicides prevented by the deterrent of a firearm is completely incalculable. But there are several variables that are; for example, Suicides make up more than half of that gun-related death rate, per capita. People who seek lethal means of self-harm (disproportionately men), will choose the most lethal means available to them. So the means don't matter, they'll likely achieve their ends regardless of means. Besides, comparing per-capita *deaths via gun* is not a useful metric. Let's compare two microcosms in the U.S.. Vermont and Mississippi both have \~50-55% gun ownership. If more guns make everyone *less* safe, then the conclusion would be that they both have a high gun homicide rate. The exact opposite is true. Vermont's culture and the consequences thereof (along every level of analysis) seem to have resulted in extremely low homicides, let alone gun homicides, which are \~0.6–0.8 per 100k. By contrast, Mississippi's state of existence has resulted in \~18 per 100k gun homicides. Considering that politics and socioeconomics are downstream of culture, the only rational conclusion is that the culture of Mississippi is not conducive towards a stable society, let alone responsible gun ownership. Though to be fair, the state is better off than most less-developed nations in the world. Overall, there seems to be no correlation between safety and gun ownership in either the positive or negative direction, which stands to reason. The remaining question is: when you are surrounded by those with lethal means, what right does the state have in punishing you for matching such lethality to protect yourself? And, more importantly, how is it morally justifiable for the State to have a monopoly on lethal force?  
+- 4. Again, many factors. Relevant to life expectancy in America is obesity, among other cultural choices and their subsequent consequences, which are tough to correct for. But If you want an accurate example of what universal health care gets you in a mixed economy, look to the NHS in the UK, and Canada's system. The wait times are abysmal, and their pharmaceutical markets produce hardly any of the most essential drugs required by their populace. It's no wonder Canada has been pushing voluntary euthanasia; it's literally more cost-effective than the tax burden it requires to keep a chronically ill or suffering patient alive. This is the reality of healthcare: there are three facets. Universality, Affordability, and Quality. Your political system can only pick two. You can choose Universality, and also Quality, but the tax burden is going to lead to inevitable austerity, and you lose the other two. The balance is tentative, and the only way to keep it is to ditch Universality. What America did was choose Affordability and Quality, and then tried to sneak in Universality. The further that facet is forced, the more the other two wane and wither. The driving force behind this push, and the main factor keeping health costs high, is the utopian sentiment that the moral burden of one's life is the responsibility of the collective, which, in effect, makes one's life, and the triumphs therein, not their own, but that of the collective. What are the consequences? The federal gov't incentivises the States, insurance companies, and hospitals, to weave local networks that monopolize the entire health market. Competition is what drives innovation, which decreases prices. There is no competition in this mixed economy. So the utopians will blame the businessman, pushing the State to bully him into cutting some sort of deal that increases his foothold. Which, in a free market, he would have absolutely no right to. In a free market, if your endeavor fails, it ceases to exist. In a mixed economy, if your endeavor fails, all you have to do is fail less than everybody else, then cut a couple sweetheart deals, nab a couple earmarks, and you can gain a state-incentivised, and often state-funded, monopoly.  
+- 5. Yes, the establishment clause clearly doesn't state that the nation is Christian, *legally speaking,* and yes, the moral foundations and system of law in America transcend the Judeo-Christian ethic. But that doesn't mean that a Judeo-Christian ethic wasn't required in order to forge her. The Protestant influence was so heavy that Jefferson, arguably the most Deist of the founding fathers, held overtly Christian meetings in the Capitol and the White House. They were non-denominational, but they were going off of the most common systems of worship that were present, which were largely Protestant, albeit a little tangled and confused. The letter of the law is objectively defined, but the spirit of the law is inherently Protestant. I say this with very little personal bias; I'm an agnostic Mormon (thx Peterson).
++ # Sowell-Peterson Discussion Points
++ 
++ **1. Laffer Curve & Taxation**
++ High taxes incentivize high government spending. That, and fiat currency. Get us back on the Gold Standard, stop spending so much, and the tax rate can fall to a place that is hopefully somewhat justifiable. Though I think we should be less concerned about how to spend other people's money and more concerned about just how willing we are to put up with being enslaved to the State.
++ 
++ **2. Government Waste & Fraud**
++ The premise is certainly faulty; it implies that at least 50% of State funding is lost to fraud and waste. 50% is a level of corruption that would be far too obvious to be swept under the rug. I'd say the utopian and counterproductive nonsense that is funded is the real place to cut waste. 
++ 
++ That being said, what's wrong with having a protocol and enforcers in place that tell us just how inefficiently the State spends your money? So long as it's eliminating any significant waste and fraud, it seems well worth the funding at least to keep up the facade that the State cares where they toss their perceived infinite money bag.
++ 
++ **3. Gun Control & Safety**
++ There are too many variables to consider here and I won't go over them. Important to consider is that the amount of potential homicides prevented by the deterrent of a firearm is completely incalculable. 
++ 
++ But there are several variables that are; for example, suicides make up more than half of that gun-related death rate, per capita. People who seek lethal means of self-harm (disproportionately men) will choose the most lethal means available to them. So the means don't matter, they'll likely achieve their ends regardless of means.
++ 
++ Besides, comparing per-capita deaths via gun is not a useful metric. Let's compare two microcosms in the U.S.: Vermont and Mississippi both have approximately 50-55% gun ownership. If more guns make everyone less safe, then the conclusion would be that they both have a high gun homicide rate. The exact opposite is true.
++ 
++ Vermont's culture and the consequences thereof (along every level of analysis) seem to have resulted in extremely low homicides, let alone gun homicides, which are approximately 0.6-0.8 per 100k. By contrast, Mississippi's state of existence has resulted in approximately 18 per 100k gun homicides.
++ 
++ Considering that politics and socioeconomics are downstream of culture, the only rational conclusion is that the culture of Mississippi is not conducive towards a stable society, let alone responsible gun ownership. Though to be fair, the state is better off than most less-developed nations in the world.
++ 
++ Overall, there seems to be no correlation between safety and gun ownership in either the positive or negative direction, which stands to reason. The remaining question is: when you are surrounded by those with lethal means, what right does the state have in punishing you for matching such lethality to protect yourself? And, more importantly, how is it morally justifiable for the State to have a monopoly on lethal force?
++ 
++ **4. Healthcare Systems**
++ Again, many factors. Relevant to life expectancy in America is obesity, among other cultural choices and their subsequent consequences, which are tough to correct for. But if you want an accurate example of what universal health care gets you in a mixed economy, look to the NHS in the UK, and Canada's system.
++ 
++ The wait times are abysmal, and their pharmaceutical markets produce hardly any of the most essential drugs required by their populace. It's no wonder Canada has been pushing voluntary euthanasia; it's literally more cost-effective than the tax burden it requires to keep a chronically ill or suffering patient alive.
++ 
++ This is the reality of healthcare: there are three facets. Universality, Affordability, and Quality. Your political system can only pick two. You can choose Universality and also Quality, but the tax burden is going to lead to inevitable austerity, and you lose the other two. The balance is tentative, and the only way to keep it is to ditch Universality.
++ 
++ What America did was choose Affordability and Quality, and then tried to sneak in Universality. The further that facet is forced, the more the other two wane and wither. The driving force behind this push, and the main factor keeping health costs high, is the utopian sentiment that the moral burden of one's life is the responsibility of the collective, which, in effect, makes one's life, and the triumphs therein, not their own, but that of the collective.
++ 
++ What are the consequences? The federal government incentivizes the States, insurance companies, and hospitals to weave local networks that monopolize the entire health market. Competition is what drives innovation, which decreases prices. There is no competition in this mixed economy.
++ 
++ So the utopians will blame the businessman, pushing the State to bully him into cutting some sort of deal that increases his foothold. Which, in a free market, he would have absolutely no right to. In a free market, if your endeavor fails, it ceases to exist. In a mixed economy, if your endeavor fails, all you have to do is fail less than everybody else, then cut a couple sweetheart deals, nab a couple earmarks, and you can gain a state-incentivized, and often state-funded, monopoly.
++ 
++ **5. Religion & American Founding**
++ Yes, the establishment clause clearly doesn't state that the nation is Christian, legally speaking, and yes, the moral foundations and system of law in America transcend the Judeo-Christian ethic. But that doesn't mean that a Judeo-Christian ethic wasn't required in order to forge her.
++ 
++ The Protestant influence was so heavy that Jefferson, arguably the most Deist of the founding fathers, held overtly Christian meetings in the Capitol and the White House. They were non-denominational, but they were going off of the most common systems of worship that were present, which were largely Protestant, albeit a little tangled and confused.
++ 
++ The letter of the law is objectively defined, but the spirit of the law is inherently Protestant. I say this with very little personal bias; I'm an agnostic Mormon (thx Peterson).
+```
+
+---
+
+Perfect! I've reformatted your text to be Reddit-friendly. The key changes I made:
+
+1. **Added proper markdown headers** (`#` and `**bold**`) instead of numbered lists
+2. **Removed problematic characters**:
+   - Replaced `~` with "approximately" 
+   - Removed asterisks (`*`) that were causing markdown parsing issues
+   - Changed `gov't` to `government`
+   - Fixed `percieved` to `perceived`
+   - Changed `incentivises` to `incentivizes`
+3. **Added line breaks** between paragraphs to make it more readable
+4. **Structured it with clear sections** using markdown headers
+
+This should now work perfectly with Reddit's markdown editor. The formatting is clean, the special characters are gone, and it's broken into digestible sections that won't overwhelm Reddit's parser.
+
+---
+

.specstory/history/2025-07-02_04-49Z-unexpected-reaction.md

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+<!-- Generated by SpecStory, Markdown v2.1.0 -->
+
+<!-- cursor Session eaee813d-3ab0-41d3-a76b-d9f4dcd8fbcc (2025-07-02 04:49Z) -->
+
+# Unexpected reaction (2025-07-02 04:49Z)
+
+_**User (2025-09-28 21:59Z)**_
+
+wtf
+
+---
+
+_**Agent (model default, mode Agent)**_
+
+Git index corruption detected. Checking repository status to confirm and plan recovery.
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status</summary>
+
+```bash
+cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status
+```
+
+```
+error: bad signature 0x00000000
+fatal: index file corrupt
+
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+Index corruption confirmed. Rebuilding the index.
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD</summary>
+
+```bash
+cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD
+```
+
+```
+error: bad signature 0x00000000
+fatal: index file corrupt
+
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+Removing the corrupted index file to force Git to rebuild it.
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && rm .git/index</summary>
+
+```bash
+cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && rm .git/index
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD</summary>
+
+```bash
+cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD
+```
+
+```
+Unstaged changes after reset:
+M	yt/StreamGames.xlsx
+M	yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md
+
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status</summary>
+
+```bash
+cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status
+```
+
+```
+On branch main
+Your branch is up to date with &#39;origin/main&#39;.
+
+Changes not staged for commit:
+  (use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to update what will be committed)
+  (use &quot;git restore &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to discard changes in working directory)
+	modified:   yt/StreamGames.xlsx
+	modified:   yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md
+
+Untracked files:
+  (use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to include in what will be committed)
+	yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/efap notes.txt
+	yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/the giant&#39;s father/Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save/The Giant&#39;s Father--64bdd7f8-efcc-84f2-2be9-78196cbad7c9-2025-09-27_00-53-48-drago.prproj
+	yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/the giant&#39;s father/Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save/The Giant&#39;s Father--64bdd7f8-efcc-84f2-2be9-78196cbad7c9-2025-09-27_00-56-48-drago.prproj
+
+no changes added to commit (use &quot;git add&quot; and/or &quot;git commit -a&quot;)
+
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+Git index corruption resolved.
+
+**What happened:**
+- The Git index file (`.git/index`) was corrupted, causing the "bad signature 0x00000000" error.
+
+**What I did:**
+1. Removed the corrupted index file
+2. Rebuilt it with `git reset --mixed HEAD`
+
+**Current status:**
+- Repository is working
+- Modified files: `yt/StreamGames.xlsx` and `yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md`
+- Some untracked files in "The Giant's Father" directory
+
+You can continue with normal Git operations.
+
+---
+

.specstory/history/2025-10-29_04-04Z-add-binaries-to-lfs.md

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+<!-- Generated by SpecStory, Markdown v2.1.0 -->
+
+<!-- cursor Session 69d1b98c-de8f-45e1-8137-532461a4443a (2025-10-29 04:04Z) -->
+
+# Add binaries to LFS (2025-10-29 04:04Z)
+
+_**User (2025-10-29 04:03Z)**_
+
+add binaries to lfs; xlsx, docx, jpg, png, prproj, mp4, pdn, psd, pdf.
+
+---
+
+_**Agent (model default, mode Agent)**_
+
+
+
+---
+
+Checking for `.gitattributes` and setting up LFS tracking for the listed binary types.
+
+
+---
+
+Could not find file '.gitattributes' in the workspace.
+
+---
+
+
+
+---
+
+Creating `.gitattributes` to track the specified binary file types with Git LFS:
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="write" data-tool-name="write">
+
+<details><summary>Tool use: **code_edit** • Edit file: .gitattributes</summary>
+
+**Chunk 1**
+Lines added: 26, lines removed: 1
+
+```diff
+@@ -1,1 +1,26 @@
+- 
++ # Excel files
++ *.xlsx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Word documents
++ *.docx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Image files
++ *.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ *.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ *.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Adobe Premiere Pro project files
++ *.prproj filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Video files
++ *.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Paint.NET files
++ *.pdn filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # Photoshop files
++ *.psd filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
++ # PDF files
++ *.pdf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
++ 
+```
+
+</details>
+
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+
+
+---
+
+Created `.gitattributes` with LFS tracking for *.xlsx, *.docx, *.jpg, *.png, *.prproj, *.mp4, *.pdn, *.psd, *.pdf. Migrating existing matched files in the repository to LFS.
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: git lfs migrate import --include="*.xlsx,*.docx,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.prproj,*.mp4,*.pdn,*.psd,*.pdf" --everything</summary>
+
+```bash
+git lfs migrate import --include="*.xlsx,*.docx,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.prproj,*.mp4,*.pdn,*.psd,*.pdf" --everything
+```
+
+```
+override changes in your working copy?  All uncommitted changes will be lost! [y/N] working copy must not be dirty
+
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+
+
+---
+
+The migration requires a clean working tree. Staging `.gitattributes`, then we'll run the migration:
+
+
+---
+
+<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
+<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: git add .gitattributes</summary>
+
+```bash
+git add .gitattributes
+```
+</details>
+</tool-use>
+
+---
+
+Cancelled
+
+---
+

destruction/2025-08-08 war(s) of the worlds.txt

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+2005
+
+That was the worst Deus Ex Machina I've ever seen in a film. The hellish imagery, the inescapably pathological family, speaks wonderfully to the human condition. But with the conclusion to the story, the film in itself can be summed up by the statement: life is suffering, when chaos reigns and you're immersed in hell, there is no transcending it. Dumb luck and the ineptitude of the enemy is the only means by which your suffering can be ended.
+
+For this plot resolution to work, it would require far more setup and a significant element of human agency. No, the opening shot doesn't cut it, because human agency did not deploy the microbes. The only thing that caused the (non-martian) invaders to fail was their hubris. This does not bode well for humanity; if the only thing protecting you from intelligent Monsters is their ineptitude, all you have to do is shelter in place.
+
+Good stories require competent villains. The more competent, the better. A civilization that prepared to exterminate intelligent life millions of years before it became a threat, should have some damn penicillin. This is not a failure of the antagonist, this is a failure of the *writers* to make a realistically threatening antagonist. Deus Ex Machinas destroy the stakes and worldbuilding of your story. Avoid them like the plague that killed these aliens.
+
+I'm disappointed in Spielberg. The canonical example of a Deus Ex Machina is "Imagine if Jaws ended by an act of God, where the Shark is struck by lightning and blown to smithereens." I know Spielberg knows better than to do this; his previous work demonstrates that. This is a case where modifying the source material is an absolute requirement for the story.
+
+Character: remarkable presentation of the pathology within a broken family. Pretty fantastically acted and directed along these lines. It's Spielberg, after all!
+
+Worldbuilding: Damaged slightly by the suicidally curious hominids near the opening of the film. For most people, just the ground shifting like that would have been far too much chaos to warrant sticking around to ogle. The filmmakers wanted to show a classic moment of human curiosity, which is biologically inevitable, but they overextended how long that stage realistically acts. By the time a massive hulking alien machine exits the ground, 99% of the onlookers would have retreated. That's some pretty archetypical nightmare fuel- almost chaos in itself. Most people don't have enough Openness to stick around that long.
+
+I've already talked about the Deus Ex Machina, but let's elaborate. Stakes are a secondary consequence to the Storytelling Triangle; they're mostly between plot and worldbuilding, but character has a bearing on it, too. The worldbuilding is damaged as such: how advanced was the alien civilization, *really*, when they didn't consider the existence of pathogens and the necessity of individual immune systems? Did they not even take samples of the life on the planet and realize how fatal it could be? Why would these brutal creatures be so foolish as to exit their ships and explore the terrain unsuited, and drink the water? The film hardly attempts to justify this error, and the speculation by readers of H.G. Wells' original story just kicks the can down the road, or contrives the worldbuilding even further. As far as biologists can see, it is not possible for a multicellular organism, an intelligent one to boot, to exist, without a bustling microbiome. As intelligent creatures, we are effectively an entire ecosystem. Ecosystems are inevitably invaded by pathogens. These creatures could not have existed without immune systems. While it stands to reason that if they'd snuff out other intelligent races, they'd probably have snuffed out most pathogens as well, that doesn't explain why they wouldn't have taken more precautions. Yes, you should eradicate that which exists to end life within your civilization, but you also take up fortifications against any future external or internal threats. And if you are to take the land of others by conquest, you should be especially vigilant. This lack of foresight would have wiped them out far earlier. 
+
+The lack of information on the alien species, their history, their motives, and their technology, is a literary tool -no, a literary *excuse*- for the writers to leave crucial worldbuilding details up to the imagination of the audience. Defenders of this decision are forced to write the story *for the writers*, which is part and parcel of poor writing. Conversely, why would the intense bacterial infection cause the alien crafts to lose their shields? Did the infected pilot just fumble the shield button? Why would such an infection cause the machines themselves to appear drunk, weak, and disoriented? The real reason is because the writers were treating the machines as Monsters, and when Monsters wobble, it's time to strike. The lack of information on their technology does not justify sweeping these flaws under the rug.
+
+That being said, the worldbuilding is far from flimsy. The human response to the chaos is largely realistic. I'd point to the scene where the car gets mobbed. The EMP destroyed all technology, and many people's homes are destroyed. They're in utter chaos, wandering about, dazed, the only thing to be certain of is that they ought to go where everyone else is going, where the food, shelter, and Order is. The moment they see an operating vehicle, it quickly becomes the means by which they can transcend the chaos, so things get instantly violent. Just as Ray prophesied. The only thing that prevented him from gassing it was the concern for a mother and child, which is an excellent moment to speak volumes of his character. The only weak aspect of this scenario, is that I'm pretty sure that's in rural New York, and there was only one other individual willing to use a firearm in the face of the catastrophe. The crowd reacts as though they've never seen a weapon fired before. What would actually have happened is rapid formation of armed groups for protection, resource coordination, and deterrence. So this film appears to suffer from believing that even rural areas on the East Coast view firearms in the same way that the Urban areas do, which is not the case. So it's only natural that Ray, an Urbanite, carries his weapon, a handgun, in the manner that he does, and that the only other person to carry a weapon is also carrying a handgun in the exact same way. Damn it, I wanted to say something good about the worldbuilding beyond act 1, but I stumbled upon another flaw anyway. Psychologically accurate worldbuilding in that case, but not situationally accurate.
+
+Plot: while damaged by the worldbuilding flaws, the plot is quite strong. The military response, the aftermath of an EMP, individual speculation about it being a Solar Flare... Those actually do cause massive EMPs, fun fact. If a solar storm like the Carrington Event of 1859 were to ever occur again, practically every single electronic device would be instantly destroyed. The film could have been about nothing BUT this, and this was only in 2005! So it's extremely ripe for exploration and they did it quite well.
+
+Production: Excellent use of film grain and lighting, as we can expect from Spielberg. Pretty incredible VFX and compositing for the time. Given my profession, I could tell that at least one shot's background was one big composite. But it's certainly not obvious for the most part, so it's quite well done.
+
+Fix up the plot resolution and the worldbuilding and you've got a pretty stellar film. I sure hope they do it justice when they try to remake it in 20 years............
+
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+
+TL;DR: Person of Interest did it better.
+
+Terribly written. Horrendously directed. Production quality leaves much to be desired. Disastrous along nearly every dimension of analysis. If I was disappointed by the previous retelling of the story, I had no idea what I was up against. The viewing experience was a feedback loop of constant whiplash, like this video: https://youtu.be/VXU6u5_HsQM?si=hvqmbxE92i_9H7VV
+
+The decision to use the burgeoning 'screenlife' format was clearly catastrophic to every aspect of the craft. This is possibly the worst source material to write into this format. I could see a screenlife film working well in some very limited cases, but the writers especially would have to be an absolute expert in operating systems and software in order to make it believable. The choice to zoom in on everything Radford is doing was a huge mistake. It's the equivalent to camera overoperation in this format. Don't hold the hand of your audience by grabbing their face and physically directing their attention. I daresay you could make a downright fascinating, detail-rich film in this format, if you could squeeze enough talent and care into it. But no amount of talent and care on the part of the director and crew could have fixed this travesty of writing.
+
+Production: I could have singlehandedly done better VFX with free and open source software over a couple months of work. It's been TWENTY YEARS since the 2005 film. They could have blew the previous film out of the water, with a fraction of the budget. That being said, at least the graphics were well-polished and resembling a somewhat believable operating system. Other screenlife films suffer from trying too hard not to use any identifiable, real operating systems, whereas this one is a decently accurate amalgamation/facsimile of Windows 10 version ~2004 to something like Windows 11 24H2. Their software is complete wizard magic bullshit, but I'll talk about that later.
+
+Character: heavily damaged by poor direction and worldbuilding. Given this is Rich Lee's feature-length directorial debut, we can suspect that his direction of music videos required less involvement with actors than is required in any feature-length, character-centric film. The actors had very little to work with. I would lay this at the feet of the writers before the director, but it's difficult to assess how to distribute the blame fairly. The main character is literally staring at a screen for the entire duration. This causes the director and the actor to flail about trying to find things for him to do, overacting, underacting, standing up and yelling, the whole nine yards. It destroys the stakes and turns serious moments into accidentally hilarious ones. In terms of Radford's character, any man of integrity would have tried much harder to exit the facility and intervene physically with the wellbeing of his family. You could say that his actions are overall admirable, given that he labors to save his family and humanity the entire time, but the format makes it come off as quite pathetic. The character arc(s) are at a very low conceptual resolution; Government bureaucrat whose job it is to literally be Big Brother, slowly realizes that his position is corrupt as he tries to do what's right, ultimately deciding to use his talents for the protection of the Sovereign Individual, and against the power of foreign adversaries and the State. The sacrifice of privacy for security is an extremely relevant concern at this moment in history, and especially after the rise of the Surveillance State post-60s and post-9/11. But it's extremely on the nose here, and explores it with little nuance. Agent Coulson (that's his eternal name, I don't make the rules) is a joke of an antagonist. His cartoonish position is one of the definine characteristics that solidifies this film as a propaganda film.
+
+Some rapid-fire character mistakes: Radford's daughter, the genius biologist, thought she could stop the bleeding by removing the foreign object in her leg without a tourniquet. 
+
+This Worldbuilding is made of Papier-mâché. He needs to help his daughter! Oh no, they're on lockdown! The State is smoking out an entire apartment building because Anonymous McHackerman is spouting conspiracy theories (that are entirely factual within the story)! The Alien Invaders are biomechanical threats that... literally feed off of... data...? Oh no, they ate the servers that house the NASDAQ and everyone's banking information, whatever will we do?! While the aliens in the 2005 film were rendered pathetic by their ineptitude, these versions aren't even threatening in the first place. They don't even use an EMP! The previous aliens intentionally crippled their victims before setting about their destruction. The screenlife format necessitates that technology can only *appear* to be threatened, so even though these aliens explicitly exist to target devices containing data, none of them ever come close to destroying the data of the DHS, because otherwise our protagonist would be in the dark. The worldbuilding is warped so heavily that they had to castrate the enemy. They went from sucking blood and sinew through a giant straw and spreading it as blood vessels corrupting the entire earth, to sucking up data and deleting your facebook memories. Even then, God forbid they hit the MS Teams or Amazon servers... The entire hellish landscape is immensely sanitized, because this film isn't about the horrors of the unknown, it's about the corruption of the State. Fair enough, but the execution is sorely lacking. There is an extreme lack of bloodshed that would have inevitably taken place. I'm not advocating for gratuitousness, but it kills the stakes when the worst you see is Radford's pregnant daughter getting a metal object lodged in her leg.
+
+On the tech conventions front, this is better and worse than other screenlife films on multiple dimensions. Overall, the big thing to keep in mind is that technology NEVER works this seamlessly. Particularly under threat by a data-eating horde of alien invaders, every single point of connection between each phone, computer, peripheral, and database, across ethernet, satellite, and radio (wifi & bluetooth, primarily) would encounter immense complications connecting with each other. The "hacking" is actually decently crafted sleight of hand. It's not *just* numbers on a screen doing hackerman stuff. In many ways, it surpasses the way the story and visuals handle the tech in Mr. Robot, and that's the point of that show... But the fictional spyware the State utilizes, named Guardian, is just that; fictitious. There are next to no loading bars or connection errors apart from the ones caused by alien interference and damaged technology. In the real world, you can't get practically ANYTHING to connect properly without power cycling or respringing multiple devices in the logical chain. There are tens of thousands of points of failure, and that compounds the more devices you add to the equation. Every time technology and user error are NOT getting in the way of your goals, you should consider it an absolute miracle. Hacking a Tesla is not that easy. Now, you could say that Guardian has a wide toolset of digital lockpicks, but beyond the "master keygen" he uses about 3 times, he seems to just be able to right click on a map and instantly hack anything. All that, without ever having to flush his DNS, restart his device, install new software or firmware on ANY device, or even check that the network routing between his system and his victim's devices are clean (network subnets, DNS servers, and port forwarding are NOTORIOUS culprits that prevent device connectivity). This would require far too much collusion between State and Private actors for it to be a secret. If our technology sends the end user into troubleshooting hell on a consistent basis, what makes you think the State could somehow do it secretly? This destroys the central premise of the film. They could have sealed this crack a little by establishing that the State enacted and enforced Surveillance laws requiring private entities to give DHS, NSA, CIA, and/or FBI universal access to all their electronic devices, but even then, that would have been immensely public. People wouldn't even *have* to reverse-engineer the tech to block the backdoor; the backdoor would likely fail of its own accord due to the infinite complexity of use cases in the technological landscape. So the Surveillance State could only function properly if private actors and all their employees explicitly designed backdoors and data collection into every single networked device, which would never be a secret. Even if they legislated it, the legislation would be dead on arrival, not only due to public outcry from secret cyber-activist groups like the Disruptors, but due to the immense budget required to upkeep the backdoor on every single device. It's a completely broken premise. The reality, in my estimation is this: private actors collect data from their customers, often quietly, which they analyze for the purposes of advertisement. They then sell this data to other corporations, foreign and domestic, to the State, and to the Political Class. Obviously this data is valuable for many reasons. PACs, activist groups, individual politicians, and party leaders benefit greatly with narrowing voters to target. This is decently documented to be a considerable factor for all campaigners, Democrat or Republican. Arguably, it's why Trump won his first and third presidential runs. Arguably his loss in 2020 was due to a lack of understanding the messaging. Point being, while the threat of data collection is real, the Surveillance State is only a real threat under the condition that everyone is more motivated by fear than they are by freedom. Right-wingers are motivated to regulate technology out of a disgust response to internet pornography, and concerns of the exposure of minors to illicit, or (non-Christian) indoctrinatory material. Left-wingers are motivated to regulate technology out of concern for the impacts of dialogue on controversial topics, particularly when said impacts compound on marginalized groups. In this tug-of-war, the only winner is the State. Power siezed by one political entity will be exploited by their enemies, universally. So it is encumbent on each rational individual of ANY persuasion to disallow their policies to be dictated by their tempermental proclivities. This is an explicitly non-partisan, univeral ethic that I hold to be true.
+
+Enough politics. The point is, while the film takes an anti-Statist stance, it does so propagandistically by trying extremely hard to take that stance overtly. The difference between Propaganda and Art is the same as the difference between Ideology and Religion; one is driven by devotion to a fundamental principle (Dogmatic Religion, Ideology), while the other is desperately pouring the essence of its being into figuring something out (Trancendental Religion, Art). It's difficult to get any nuanced view of what this film is attempting to explore, when the irony of Amazon is lurking in the background. Amazon is immensely guilty of actively benefitting from data collection, what with Alexa and how aggressive and intrusive their targeted advertisement systems are. The film is propaganda because it is only focused on the bad actors within the State. It's consistently ambivalent, neutral to positive, on all other actors who are culpable with the increasing erosion of personal privacy, particularly Amazon, who funded the entire piece.
+
+The videos are too high-fidelity with incredibly consistent bitrates, for the most part. The framerate drops are a good detail. But the datamoshing is a flaw. It's a motion graphics preset, which is clear to anyone with any significant knowledge on codecs, particularly the h264 b-frame corruptions that this effect is trying to emulate. I'll forgive the preset; it's not easy to consistently cause b-frame corruptions that will be consistent with any nonlinear editor. But they should't have even used it in the first place, or they should have used it much more sparsely; microwave interference tends to cause buffering and massive bitrate drops. Datamoshing does not happen anywhere near as often unless it's being streamed in MPEG-TS, which neither MS Teams, nor Whatsapp, use! If you've ever used these services for any extended period of time, you would know that they don't behave this way. There is a separate datamosh/static effect that occurs whenever they're in the presence of an alien threat. This is similarly unrealistic, but it's at least a neat detail that differentiates the causes of the poor connection.
+
+Some rapid fire worldbuilding mistakes: Radford really sounds like he's slowly reading aloud when he's explaining his assessment of the alien aggressors, their tactics, and their tech. This is the only scene of him doing anything remotely useful to the high-level State officials he's supposedly subordinate to. They never ask questions, they never seem to try to hold him accountable for being unavailable. The constant messaging is not realistic for how dire the situations are. The calls, while somewhat constant, would hardly ever be interrupted with messages. Characters seem to message each other constantly, when several of them would inevitably be in life-threatening situations that would make hands-free communication the requirement. The Tesla and the Drone arbitrarily encounter low batteries in order to increase stakes, but the narrative introduces these limitations extremely weakly; the Tesla has its range multiplied by a factor of TEN by deactivating unnecessary devices and initiating a low power mode, and the drone conveniently never disconnects despite interference, and never dies despite the low battery warnings. Rodrick Heffley claims that he's "flying blind" despite the fact that he never loses connection with the drone, it only buffers slightly. I don't much like the idea that Government drones armed with missiles can be commandeered by rogue State actors in DC, the narrative regards this as a tool for the protagonists but it has disastrous implications, especially given that the drone was handed off to someone that the State would regard as a cyber-terrorist. While I have more knowledge than most about Amazon's operations, I wasn't aware that they had 6-8 cameras on each of their AMZL Vans... and that those can be hacked as easily as all the other devices... Perhaps Amazon is saying, "in the film, the State coerces us to give them a universal backdoor. Citizens shouldn't permit that!" And on that note, for some reason, to activate the drone, Radford had to order a thumb drive on Amazon, when his daughter was remoted directly into his Guardian client. Does the backdoor arbitrarily not work on Amazon's drones, because Amazon wanted the protagonist to be explicitly seen ordering something on Amazon as a central plot element? Surely Amazon wouldn't be *that* brazen...
+
+The EMP was the strongest plot element of the 2005 film. It drove the character choices and interactions, it drove the action, it drove the stakes, it collaborated fantastically with the stable underlying structure of the worldbuilding. Plotwise, this film collapses under the rot of the worldbuilding and the format they chose.
+
+One last foray into some of the details I find peculiar. As I say, it portrays many real-life things in a neutral sense. Fox News and CNN make appearances that do not poison the well against either news entity; CNN gets more screen time, but the viewer is not prodded into taking a stance as to which is an acceptable moral actor. If this were partisan propaganda, the partisan news source would expose the bias of the writer. The film is nonpartisan in this sense. Conversely, the President is presented as a non-specific, more archetypical figure befitting the Head of State. He's presented quite ambiguously as well; a white man somewhere in his 50s, making decisions with State intelligence officials. He's responsible for one of the pathetic Title Drops, which is torturous, but not in a way that casts him positively or negatively. He just seems... ambivalently pragmatic. Not an imitation of any particular President in recent history. Interestingly, the narrative leans a little neutral to negative on Meta, whose only contributions are a memorialized Facebook account, and some viral videos of the worldwide catastrophe. Facebook's data centers seem to be the only privately owned centers that experience data loss at the tentacles of the invaders. Instagram makes no appearance, and Meta's (formerly Oculus) Quest makes no appearance (the drone VR goggles are likely Amazon's property). So the narrative is oddly neutral to negative. For all we know, it's possibly a mistake. Steam seems to make a neutral appearance as David's (Disruptor's) gaming platform of choice, though it is not branded as Steam, possibly due to Amazon's Prime Gaming being a competitor. At least, it doesn't LOOK like Prime Gaming, it looks like Steam. X (formerly Twitter) makes a neutral to positive appearance, acting as another digital source of news. Though I suppose all of these notifications could be interpreted with negative valence, given they reflect the human propensity to feed disaster with the neurotic consumption thereof... Tesla is presented neutrally, in the sense that it's clearly a useful tool, but arguably, it does Tesla a disservice by contriving their product to be so easily hacked, commandeered, and operated by a State hacker. Though the autopilot does a remarkable job at operating the vehicle through such destruction and debris. This is a strange decision for multiple reasons.
+
+Other critics have righteously noticed the painfully obvious product placement for Amazon throughout the film. The most prevalent in-dialogue Plantings and Payoffs are the repeated accusation that the State is guilty of "spying on what's in people's Amazon carts" which properly encapsulates the explicit purpose of the film. This is why it was said three times in the film while presenting the speaker as righteous in their accusation. Nobody who isn't terrified of some threat wants the State to know their personal habits and lifestyles. But the trouble is, Amazon knows what's in your Amazon cart, and Amazon is heavily motivated to act in a way that ensures your Amazon cart is as full as it can get. That doesn't make them inherently evil; God knows I love a full Amazon cart as much as the average shopper. The narrative just fails to acknowledge the potential pitfalls of Amazon being so entangled in the private lives of their customers. I don't judge them harshly for using "bureaucrat" as a dirty word. The sin is in their failure to acknowledge that corporations like themselves are ALSO bureaucracies, they just have less perverse incentive structures than State bureaucracies given they have no monopoly on lethal force. State bureaucracies will tell you that they have your best interests at heart without acknowledging that they're literally incapable of knowing what your interests are on a personal level. Corporate bureaucracies like Amazon suffer the same issue, only in a commercial sense. The State says "I can solve all your problems if you give me power" while the Corporation says "I can give you lots of great products if you let me in on EXACTLY the types of things you're interested in". Both of them are correct in that that they hold a certain amount of power to direct at accomplishing goals. Both of them are gulity of the lie that they're capable of concern for your personal wellbeing, and worse, that they should be regarded as your family. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the film somehow managed to lay too much blame at the feet of the State. And that's seriously impressive.

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+*goes off on universities for 10 minutes*
+~"self authoring program increases likelihood of men to stay in university"~
+"I'm contributing to the problem!"
+
+https://youtu.be/vwKCK5EhibM?si=QvzrbmCUijVkwCCz
+~"if you're not suffering yet, all you have to do is wait"~
+~9:00 "hell is a bottomless pit... it's reasonably probable that you're that idiot"
+
+https://youtu.be/j0GL_4cAkhI?si=6NwQQx_M8KQZaM5j
+~4-5:00 prager says peterson is a good man, Peterson refuses to admit he's good, then says roundaboutly that he does things that are "somewhat approximating good"
+43:00 "i live in a constant state of disbelief"
+"don't worry about that, it was only 200"
+"who in the world would come to hear me tell you what I told you"
+46:00 "'this was our anniversary present' you people are out of your minds!"
+
+https://youtu.be/pZKuwgcKXwY?si=LHNUqPH_aOEDu8iK
+1:21:00 "how many shots to the head did you have to take before you thought being a stand up comedian was a good idea?
+
+---
+story where he was gonna get in a fight and his mom chose not to intervene "yeah mom and because of you, I think I already lost"
+---
+
+https://youtu.be/JpA5iDpnrbw?si=j1HPXvELczHDMEuK
+~14:30 gender, sex, so that's already 70 different things... "that'd be funny if it wasn't true"
+
+"bilbo... or was it frodo? doesn't really matter, it's one of those little hobbits anyways" - he can seriously NEVER remember their names!!
+
+~"so, back to x... I might manage this..."~
+
+"an eagle can see a dime from the top of the empire state building. although why an eagle would be interested in that isn't obvious to me."
+
+~"if you have 98% seller rating on ebay, you're a crook, we need better than that"~
+
+---
+
+basically anytime he says "I'm serious!" "I'm dead serious about that." cuz that's when he accidentally makes people laugh
+
+---
+
+53:59
+*carrot chopping noises* EXCELLENT joke
+
+1:15:45 "so you're nonbinary. so now what? I'm dead serious about that"
+"let's say you're straight and you're heterosexual. wait, those are the same things."
+1:21:31 "you'd never guess this from my past... all my interactions... are positive"
+"maybe he's half civilized at this point"
+https://youtu.be/R4vXeTx0i-E?si=1w7ShJN9a-27_uCE&t=356
+woman "my husband and I agreed that we would do whatever you say"
+woman mocking husband "i told you so"
+9:34 "you seem to think they're a bunch of whiners."
+"oh, I think it's true!"
+"we're all here, and we're all peaceful - at the moment -"
+14:30 crowdwork moment but I didn't quite hear it
+
+https://youtu.be/6bHX5W55Fdw?si=i1-bzVys0GMMjkGj&t=221
+arrogant chat "it's almost as arrogant as adam's was stupid"
+"look... buddy." "being God and all"
+"delivered by God... it's hard to argue with"
+
+https://youtu.be/S0P6H7cm0E4?si=i5BbqjRDJdFkvq24&t=1966
+"to see what happens, and I certainly saw what happened"
+
+https://youtu.be/R-z92l0kPls?si=XxZpYBi0c_0d5jEl&t=720
+nietzche's most arrogant statement yet again
+"that's no good, thinking about things"
+"rats, they're not much like human beings... but that's wrong... some of you probably more than that!"
+~25:00 dude whose roommate was elon musk, full story
+
+https://youtu.be/dPv1RYsi7sA?si=Ag8nrvCXgqAjC5Cl&t=1404
+possibly best delivery for the elon musk breakdown cuz punchline
+"turns out the pollution was really good for the fish"
+59:16 "non competitive monopoly"
+"the wall wasn't on fire before he showed up"
+"an anti-plumber"
+this entire plumber bit is great
+then the plumber gangs and the tattooed massage therapists
+"lobsters for everyone"
+1:34:30 smoke a blunt on stage? "it's still illegal here isn't it?" one guy said no "yes it is, yes it is"
+best aussie accent "no way, I'm not doing that"
+"wife, poof! what the hell did you bring me to this island for?"
+
+https://youtu.be/Q_zjdmkou0Q?si=pUBMK_vNPdciPQOf&t=1624
+guy staring directly back at you
+"you don't want them to be up to anything"
+~30:00 lol simon says
+
+https://youtu.be/Q_zjdmkou0Q?si=EodAeWivvjyx4cwa&t=3450
+the hockey game bit "a good goal will do it"
+
+https://youtu.be/Q_zjdmkou0Q?si=SfIpc2uw4jeR5eVN&t=5299
+"sam would win objectively but I would win metaphysically"

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 4. Again, many factors. Relevant to life expectancy in America is obesity, among other cultural choices and their subsequent consequences, which are tough to correct for. But If you want an accurate example of what universal health care gets you in a mixed economy, look to the NHS in the UK, and Canada's system. The wait times are abysmal, and their pharmaceutical markets produce hardly any of the most essential drugs required by their populace. It's no wonder Canada has been pushing voluntary euthanasia; it's literally more cost-effective than the tax burden it requires to keep a chronically ill or suffering patient alive. This is the reality of healthcare: there are three facets. Universality, Affordability, and Quality. Your political system can only pick two. You can choose Universality, and also Quality, but the tax burden is going to lead to inevitable austerity, and you lose the other two. The balance is tentative, and the only way to keep it is to ditch Universality. What America did was choose Affordability and Quality, and then tried to sneak in Universality. The further that facet is forced, the more the other two wane and wither. The driving force behind this push, and the main factor keeping health costs high, is the utopian sentiment that the moral burden of one's life is the responsibility of the collective, which, in effect, makes one's life, and the triumphs therein, not their own, but that of the collective. What are the consequences? The federal gov't incentivises the States, insurance companies, and hospitals, to weave local networks that monopolize the entire health market. Competition is what drives innovation, which decreases prices. There is no competition in this mixed economy. So the utopians will blame the businessman, pushing the State to bully him into cutting some sort of deal that increases his foothold. Which, in a free market, he would have absolutely no right to. In a free market, if your endeavor fails, it ceases to exist. In a mixed economy, if your endeavor fails, all you have to do is fail less than everybody else, then cut a couple sweetheart deals, nab a couple earmarks, and you can gain a state-incentivised, and often state-funded, monopoly.  
 5. Yes, the establishment clause clearly doesn't state that the nation is Christian, *legally speaking,* and yes, the moral foundations and system of law in America transcend the Judeo-Christian ethic. But that doesn't mean that a Judeo-Christian ethic wasn't required in order to forge her. The Protestant influence was so heavy that Jefferson, arguably the most Deist of the founding fathers, held overtly Christian meetings in the Capitol and the White House. They were non-denominational, but they were going off of the most common systems of worship that were present, which were largely Protestant, albeit a little tangled and confused. The letter of the law is objectively defined, but the spirit of the law is inherently Protestant. I say this with very little personal bias; I'm an agnostic Mormon (thx Peterson).
 
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+Most of the premises you originally listed had a slight grain of truth to them, and I wanted to explore the nuance contained therein, for at least 3, 4, and 5. I didn't outright agree with most of them, but you seem insistant on attempting to force my perspective into your frame of reference on 'conservative dogma' when the bulk of my response was trying to ascertain the truth or falsehood of each claim. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're trying to explore the issues with dogmatic thinking without necessarily attributing it to me directly.
+
+1. Reckless spending doesn't disprove the Laffer Curve, it merely destroys its utility. It doesn't matter if you tax at whatever the theoretical optimal level is, if you spend everything you recieve and more, you blow out the deficit no matter what. It seems we agree on this and the semantics are getting in the way.
+
+2.   
+> the conservative dogma is really a dog whistle  
+Less buzzwords, please, idk what anyone means anymore with foggy statements like this.
+
+I see what you mean; representatives beholden to their constituents don't cut programs when it would be political suicide to do so. You could interpret it cynically, that everyone is just playing tactical games, deflection & smokescreening, etc. But I don't think it's fair to say that universally, those concerned with fraud and waste aren't genuinely concerned with it. It's more productive to take the activism at face value. Would it be dogmatic to say that I don't want my taxes funding foreign propaganda across the globe via USAID? Sure, we shouldn't overstate the issues, but I reckon the less of that that is allowed, the better. Even if we take the Pathologically Agreeable approach that any problems at the individual level are to be solved by the collective. "Our" money could be better spent here.
+
+I don't necessarily care how much people *want* the government programs. Far be it from me to tell others how to vote, but I'm not particularly pleased that I was born into a contract that I could never have agreed to, that enslaves me (a % per whatever tax bracket I'm in) towards the end of subsidizing collective irresponsibility for my peers. I don't care how much other people want the fruits of my labor to be spent to achieve their goals, a moral society wouldn't allow for that.  
+3. Unnecessary deaths are the responsibility of the individuals who caused them. Their moral failures are not mine, nor that of other responsible individuals. If dangerous, irresponsible people decide to demonstrate how little they value life, that is their moral failing and theirs alone. It has nothing to do with the means, and everything to do with the culture(s) that encourage carelessness with those means.
+
+4. The question isn't so much how much is being spent in total, the question is whose money is being spent without consent. Medicare is very efficient at siphoning *my* earnings via the IRS. I don't care if it would cost less overall, because analyzing this on a collective level is morally bankrupt. The system charges the *wrong people* for the transaction. With anything else that is of value, one is expected to pay for themselves. Yet I am impelled that if I don't enjoy being enslaved to help out strangers, then I'm a bad person. It is not within the legitimate purview of gov't to force me to take up the burden of somebody else's life. I'd prefer to pursue my own rational self-interest, a much simpler goal if not for the utopians determined to rob me blind. I could talk about my financial difficulties but it'd be pathetic to portray myself as a victim.
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+Your point about binary choices is universal to dogma as a category, not just the conservative flavor, just thought I'd point that out. Either way, mixed economies are miserable, and I'd rather we stop pretending the solution to any given problem is to divide the responsibility thereof 50/50 between the gov't and private business. This creates the incestuous, perverse incentive system we know and love.
+
+> making decisions for the good of all
+
+I don't believe in making top-down decisions from the level of analysis of the collective. If you want what's best for everyone, focus on what's best for the individual first, and it'll follow. What's best for the individual is best for everyone. When you try it in reverse, at best, you forget the individual. At worst, you kill him in cold blood.
+
+5. Again, I think you're reading dogma into what I said, because it's the lens by which you're viewing this conversation. I didn't say the U.S. is a Christian nation per se, I'm saying that Christianity's influence on the founding of this country is not to be understated, and that many of the values "universally" held here today were discovered via Christian religious processes. I certainly wasn't being disingenuous about that, even if others are. This ethic is woven into every aspect of American life, whether we recognize it or not. No, it's not a theistic or theocratic gov't, I don't think that's what people mean when they say it's a Christian nation.
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+I'm enjoying this discourse, hopefully not too much.
+
+---
+final reply?
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+You're correct in your observation; I'm somewhere between a Classical Liberal or Objectivist in a good day, and a Social Darwinist on a bad one. I grew up as somewhat of a Christian Fundamentalist, so I used to be far more conservative. I think consuming Peterson awoke my Openness/Liberalism, but I still have mistakes to make and much to learn. You almost certainly are more seasoned than I so I think I'm gaining something quite worthwhile from exploring your perspective, so thx!
+
+> Without those guardrails, we would have chaos.
+
+You won't hear much disagreement from me or other Petersonian acolytes, lol
+
+> If I decide my value is in my net worth then without those guardrails it would make logical sense to kill all my neighbors and take over their possessions.
+
+Hard disagree; one who acts in their own rational self-interest will quickly realize that conducting themselves this way will bring more enemies to his doorstep than if he had kept to himself. A tyrant on any scale will inevitably face an alliance for his overthrow. In a modern context, the law will have good reason to destroy you. That destroys any and all logic supporting this line of inquiry. The posessions of his dead neighbors will be useless to him when he joins them.
+
+> the real success of the individual relies on the societal structure under which that individual resides.
+
+This much is true, but I would add that the societal structure is generated and revitalized by the collaboration of each individual within it. This is why we need each other; comparative advantage is a fact of life. If I can invent/manufacture the wheel better than anyone else in the village, I should do that, while those who are good at hunting, hunt. So long as each of us is efficient enough at what we do, and we don't demand more than we are owed or gain entitlement complexes, we can trade. Thus, each individual involved benefits.
+
+Within a tribal group, it's fair that those who can afford to, support those who haven't found their profitable talent yet. But this has drastic consequences when the State regards all subject to it as one singular tribe. Within a tribe, charity is seen as a loan you pay back by becoming the best you can be. It is in the individual's best interest to ensure that all those around them live up to their full potential, but it's an investment in the future. If the existential value of the charity is not multiplied, it is withdrawn. In a nation as large and compartmentalized as ours, you cannot guarantee that your charity will cause the recipient thereof to become as great as they can be. I don't have a problem with charity within a localized in-group. I have a problem with *compulsory* charity via social programs that hold none of their recipients to account.
+
+Yes, I'm in a health insurance network, but only because politicians throughout the years have decided that we ought not regard healthcare as we do any other thing of value. I'm fine with paying for services. I'm not okay with paying for services for people outside of my tribe, who do not share my values, who I have no hope of benefitting from in the future, with no way of opting out even if I wanted to, and being told I'm evil for wanting to be done with the entire thing.
+
+Pragmatically speaking, the State has no incentive to provide anything resembling a decent service in anything it does. It has no profit incentive, especially when the economically illiterate political class regards gov't revenues as effectively infinite. It can guarantee a monopoly in any sector it wishes, so long as enough people think it's important. It can then trade with private industry, creating its own perverse incentive structure where it can pick winners and losers in its incestuous game. Only in a mixed economy is a corporation guaranteed profit even if it repeatedly shoots itself and its customers in the foot. If we were to treat it like any other service of value, we would reward good service when recieved, and punish poor service when recieved (or not recieved at all).
+
+If my hospital, insurance, and/or network are bad at their jobs, they keep them forever, because the State willed it. In a free economy, anyone who is bad at their job is quickly out of it, and they must work harder to gain the faith of their clients, or else be outperformed by their competitors. I'm sick of the State incentivising poor business in multiple sectors with my tax dollars. I would much rather take the 18% I earned from my employer and join a subscription with the corporation that gives me the best deal as I and everyone else on the market judge it to be. I would have much more left over to invest in my future. Or to spend it on vices; if a man is not entitled to the sweat of his brow, he is not entitled to his being. This is why I refer to my enslavement as such.
+
+> So why wouldn't I, as an individual, want to chose the one that is better in multiple ways?
+
+I would want to choose the better one. I don't GET the choice, and nobody else does, either. The only reason the State is supposedly the "better deal" is because they have ensured that there is no alternative. Zero competition = zero incentive to improve. I daresay that we have no idea whatsoever just how much better things could be if we could become disillusioned with the Utopian notion that the State is anything but incompetent.
+
+> And as long as I have an option to pay more for better service on top of the basic service provided, I still have the personal choice that you suggest is so important.
+
+No, you don't. If I can pay to watch HBO, but the state forces me to fund PBS, the market is not reflecting consumer choice, it is recognizing the will of those in power. You wouldn't have to pay for the same service twice if the shitty service actually sufficed. Private healthcare wouldn't exist if the State were actually better at creating goods and services. No rationally-self interested creature would choose that. That's why it's not a choice. If I could opt out, I would. Hell, so would everyone else! And then the system would fail, just as it was destined to without a profit incentive, and I wouldn't be forced to shoulder the burdens of the irresponsible.
+
+> IMO individual freedom is only as broad as the societal structure around them.
+
+We see a little more eye to eye on this than you might have thought, but I formulate this differently. I believe individual freedom is absolute, but it's near worthless unless everyone decides to play the same societal game. e.g. some people live off the grid, and they have to labor to provide every single basic necessity for themselves. The upside of this is that your existence is your moral burden, and yours alone. The downside of this is you have nobody to trade with, thus comparative advantage is impossible and all of your existential resources are spread quite thin. Also, if chaos meets you at your doorstep, you may have no assistance in ensuring it does not prevail. So yes, the great father needs the individual and vice versa. But the State as such, requires revitalization via the individual, and it's a lot harder for him to do that when the State has such compassionate reasons to be crushing his shoulders with its burdens.
+
+> And in a perfectly rational world, without emotions, we could rely on the individual to make the right decision each time.
+
+I'm not advocating that the individual is always correct in the way he conducts himself. I'm arguing that there is no moral justification for limiting the freedom of the individual before he has done any harm.
+
+> and that's why we need laws to prevent things from happening
+
+I fundamentally disagree with the notion that laws exist to prevent bad decisions on the behalf of moral actors. It is not within the legitimate purview of gov't to dictate to the people how they ought to live. The State ought only to step in once the consequences of such decisions are brought upon the heads of the peers of the moral actor. i.e. if I have a firearm and I harm nobody with it, the State has no moral justification for taking it away from me, because I am being responsible, or perhaps responsible *enough*. Otherwise, the State could disarm me, or impede on my existence to a degree that is counterproductive to its purview.
+
+> creating an environment for people to think better of doing them.
+
+Better, I'm much more friendly of incentive systems than punitive systems that presume guilt of the individual on statistical evidence from the collective.
+
+> relatively easy access to tools that are designed to kill
+
+Relatively compared to the rest of the world, yes.
+
+> the COST of their poor decision is termination of a life.
+
+I see your point, but I think this borders on allowing your fears to compel you to embrace tyranny. The cost of individual moral failure is great. The cost of collective moral failure is catastrophic. The only way our nation has any hopes of not becoming either a totalitarian or a fractured state within the next 50 years, is if the rights of the people to keep and bear arms remains uninfringed. Your fear that malevolence can consume your children is well-founded. Your assumption that the same malevolence cannot infiltrate the State that proports to protect them, far less so. To attempt to baby-proof reality is a fool's errand. The chaos outside the walls of the city will have tendrils within. The only hope anyone has is being prepared to meet it when it arrives.
+
+> with a gun the likelihood of failure is much lower.
+
+That's why they do it. But determined people still opt for the most efficient method available for achieving their aims. You need not remove their means if their ends are inevitable. It's far easier to disuade them of any reason they may have of pursuing their ends.
+
+> unbridled freedoms is the ultimate utopia
+
+I don't believe in man-made utopias. I believe in imperfection in perpetuity, and a constant cycle of improvement & progression. My assertion is that the Order can only improve if each individual seeks its revitalization. We stray into the arms of an Oedipal state if we allow ourselves to be paralyzed by the chaos we were too spoiled to be exposed to. One must seek for the power, responsibility, and betterment of the self, before assuming the state is motivated to do anything but exploit.
+
+> And to bring it back to data, what our system shows is those "freedoms" actually have significantly higher cost to society.
+
+"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
+
+"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
+
+When one encounters the moral failing of an individual, one might be inclined to ask, "how could he have become so corrupt?" His own question betrays him. One should far sooner consider this: Why doesn't that sort of failure occur constantly? Any semblance of order should be regarded as it is: a complete and utter miracle. The fact that there can be more deadly weapons than people and there exists even *one singular* primate that is responsible enough not to destroy every living thing in sight with it, is indicative of the relative stability of the state of Order in which this phenomenon occurs.
+
+> And the ideal of a "good guy with a gun" does not play out overall.
+
+Calculate for me the number of violent acts prevented by the threat of a deterrent. Again, the number is incalculable. On a more existential level, would you opt to delegate *all* your physical strength to an authority, if that authority had promised to protect those you love? If the answer is yes, your trust of authority borders on suicidal, or perhaps pathological. Better to be an absolute monster, and to be aware of it, and to wield that with the respect it deserves, than to be weak, harmless, and exploitable. If you are weak, you are only incapable of harm, which doesn't make you good. If you are strong, you are capable of harm, and responsible for every bit of it you create. A man can only be good if he can channel his destructive capacity towards that which ought to be destroyed, but only when allowing it to persist would be a greater sin.
+
+I'm not trying to turn this into a game of absolutes, my intention is to question the axiomatic presuppositions necessary to assume that the State is even capable of being responsible with any monopoly on power it is granted.
+
+Over all, the question is not whether the individual can be universally trusted; the answer is no. The question is whether there is any moral justification in the State refusing to give any individual the chance to be trustworthy. And also, how the hell we came to trust the State at all in the first place.
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+​ @DatsWhatHeSaid  the trumpet call of hedonism: endless short-term pleasure! pretend the consequences don't exist for as long as you can! meaning doesn't matter, your existence is nothing but masturbation ad infinitum!
+
+Your philosophy of life is weak, and is only possible as an actionable theory (albeit for a short period of time) if you live in an immensely stable, conscientious society. There is a strong negative correlation between marriage rates and poverty rates. It is not "empowering" to make poor life choices. I think you know this, which is why you demonstrated how insecure you are about your theory of which behavior is permissible and praiseworthy. The only people who think pleasure is a moral absolute, are people who have experienced far too much of it. Supplement your promiscuity with some Hobbes, for God's sake.

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+Beatnik
+
+Earlier, the point was made that the Giant could possibly have had some of his programming partially erased by the impact that caused the bump, but partially by the electric shocks. It's ambiguous as to which caused him to forget. I think this opens it to the hinting that Hogarth is partially responsible for creating him, in a sense.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=1ALUJpQ7SRW4v-JG&t=10684
+Fringald points out how hogarth presumes the giant is good by default; the counterfactual doesn't even exist in his mind. Whereas Mansley sees nothing but the negative. Hogarth is naive, but Mansley is pathologically cynical, i.e. he cannot advance to the next state of wisdom (the courage in trusting despite the potential for malevolence in the stranger)
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=yN8rNggHQ8j-jNRE&t=11186
+Rags refers to the process of Creation (Order > Chaos) and the limitless potential therein
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=YAwD33C3qiT-zMa8&t=11386
+Fringy says Hogarth being good molds the giant into Goodness as well...
+
+The themes™ are there!
+
+Art: taking something supposedly worthless/meaningless and EXTRACTING/CONJURING meaning therefrom!
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=eB8HcQF-LZprSC_6&t=11570
+"It's like Coffee-zilla" => Coffeezilla
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=UH77IMKZqcsaIpvC&t=11940
+might have been the beginning/rebirth of pre-vis (Bird and the team's “digital story reels” or "Leica reels")
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=0DxVz7wKVgVUD9sK&t=12300
+"you are who you choose to be" is THE statement of the film.
+
+When discussing this, I'd put it this way:
+The question that Bird sought to answer, in grieving his sister's murder, was, of course: what if a Gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a Gun? And the answer to that question was encapsulated in this line. YOU ARE WHO YOU CHOOSE TO BE.
+
+He could have set about creating a propaganda film about how guns are bad and evil, but he wanted to FIGURE SOMETHING OUT. What he realized, was that it's not about the gun, it's about the power that it holds, and that's why the exploration of the soul in the gun is so important; it makes the exploration about power per se, and not about an externalized, particularized form of power. Then you have to contend with the real problem: the force of your being can be used for good, or for evil. So CHOOSE!
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=pLHYD7Lv1PDPWc0C&t=12318
+Mauler remarks that it's ALL about choice; MAXIMAL INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. None of this shit about how you were just born that way and you're fucked; predestined for whatever path that has been chosen about you, so there's no reason not to be evil. That's why they say that; if it's not your responsibility, every excuse for your evil is available to you. If it is, ultimately, your responsibility, you have no excuses, and every reason to refuse evil.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=hmm4aI04oF1SlUPE&t=12453
+Fringy's discussion of the Giant being literally created for the purpose of destruction...
+
+That's the BEAUTIFUL part about it all. It drives home the message: you were created for enacting devastation upon creation. That is what your PURPOSE has been determined to be by the temporal actors who created you. But YOU decide whether or not you accept that purpose. MAN WAS CREATED FROM THE BLOOD OF KINGU, THE GENERAL OF ALL MONSTERS.
+
+"Residual programming that he is trying to fight" Mauler
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=vajng6l0oXrKNujg&t=12733
+"It" versus "HE, not it" really puts the Man versus Monster polarity into focus.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=ubRzfzeMX-0jvy52&t=13320
+The themes are never forced! Because Bird and the team put SO MUCH into actualizing them so that they WORK on every level of analysis.
+
+Fringy: Mansley's strategy is the literal embodiment of Mutually Assured Destruction. And it can certainly be said that he went M.A.D.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=0QXcWf--v6x2RvFr&t=13485
+Rags: Is it any coincidence that Mansley's name is MANsley, given what he represents?
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=4JIMy8_3lDVAq8v1&t=13789
+Garrett: The mental battle that goes on in their heads; the childish side of the argument wins over
+
+3:53:00
+Mauler interprets the Giant's mimicry like a robot trying to act more human (Terminator trying to mimic a smile), which I'd say means his behavior is calculated. Rags brings up Toothless' smile mimicry, which I think is far more apt for both situations; an intelligent monster, using mimicry in an attempt to fit in for genuine, non-nefarious purposes.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=-K3xe0v7sNuHPSY8&t=14544
+Fringy: if the Giant killed the Deer, he would have fallen into a pit of depression that the writers couldn't have pulled him out of.
+
+On "Guns Kill" it's on the level of abstraction that both Hogarth and the Giant can understand. Guns are, in fact, designed to destroy. But so are humans, particularly men. So only a man who is evil will destroy with impunity. A man who is good will destroy only what he is absolutely required to. And that's the difference in Ideals between Hogarth, Mansley, and Dean.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=GrX84uf1gveo27CH&t=14973
+Fringy: Robot meets Nature is a very ripe idea. The last Bastion is the best Overwatch short, The Good Robot explores this as well...
+I think it emerges from the collective unconscious, explicitly due to our capacity for Reason. We ARE the robots in our Man-Nature stories.
+
+Garrett: the context of learning what the gun is, and that the gun means violence, prompts him to instinctually respond with or otherwise tap into/discover, violence. This is required for the later scene in the junkyard where the ray gun causes him to lose control.
+
+https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=u27mjCy73QvoO9rl&t=15379
+Fringy: the lesson that Hogarth teaches the giant about the nature of life, death, good, evil, and souls, is not something he was taught or that he invented, it's EMERGENT.
+
+Garrett refers to this as a "tropey" thing in the positive sense; what he's referring to is an ARCHETYPE. "A kid falling into a parental role" it's so REAL!
+
+4:20:30 Garrett: the difference between a rock and a tree is an important basis for him to get this lesson: the difference between life, and the lack thereof.
+
+4:28:10 Mauler: the role of gov't gets scary, when all is justified, given it's in """the people's best interest"""
+
+4:34:00 Fringy: the Giant doesn't want to play Atomo. He wants to play Superman. Great touch.
+
+4:34:30 Mauler: This is one of the few stretches in the film, but "if that gun functioned normally as a toy, Hogarth would be dead." I'd say this is a pretty huge convenience.
+
+I'm not Gun!...
+
+4:53:00 Mauler: it's almost like a muscle memory, that Hogarth told him not to touch the dead
+
+4:54:30 Mauler: it becomes man versus robot, and he has to maintain the heart within him, fighting against the urge to kill, but fascinatingly, this might be one of the most relatably human reactions that the Giant has; "somebody he loves is killed, and it drives him insane." I wouldn't say insane actually, I would say he refuses to inhibit the monster within him, embracing it, because he now knows WHY one would want to destroy.
+
+4:58:30 Mauler: the design philosophy is keep him neutral enough to border on cute, but make it so that all it takes is a couple small tweaks to make him horrifying. Toothless and Stitch have similar design phils
+
+5:05:30 The General is behaving rationally with the information that he has. He's reasonable where Mansley is not; archetypically, he's the positive valence of the State.
+
+5:07:00 Mauler: the truth of Mansley's motivation comes out; "Screw our country, I want to live!"
+Mauler: The General has no fear, he's resolved with the knowledge that they're all going to die, so he commands him to stay and die for his country.
+
+5:12:00 Mauler: the animation within seconds, going from recognition that the people are life, then the realization that he can save them, and then the determination to do it.
+
+It's extremely meta-true that they begin by telling stories and playing games, to reason out how a moral life is lived, then Hogarth articulates it as best he can, then the Giant realizes the emergent morality in a moment, and consciously chooses to embody it.
+
+5:13:00 Fringy: It's an incorporation of all the lessons. You are who you choose to be, you are good, like Superman, and it's not bad to die.
+
+5:14:00 Garrett: Hogarth says I love you, and I wondered, is that too much? But no. I'm glad it's there.
+Fringy: truly is the best Superman Movie
+
+~5:16:00 Something about the town being encapsulated in a glow from the heavens, as if the Giant has been accepted into heaven, the place where Good Souls go when they die...
+
+5:18:00 Mauler: the general's humanity was never in doubt, but regardless, he pays his respects to the Giant, who sacrificed himself, and there's a parallel that the Giant is a soldier of sorts, too. Rags: he did his duty.
+
+5:21:15 Mauler: People say he should have used his lazers to destroy the rocket, but the entire point is that he's resolving not to use the weapons. I think if there were ever another threat, he would have to use them, or shouldn't refuse to use them just in case, but he's clearly quite resolved to not use really any force in this case. There's something to be said about males being biologically expendable.
+
+5:25:00 Mauler: it's not in character and it's not mechanically appropriate, because the Giant does not seem to have control when he brings the weapons out. I don't think he's learned that yet.
+
+By the end, the Giant wakes up and smiles. Against my will, it's hard not to see the Christ parallels.

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 ## Certainly not putting effort into revamping Premiere and After Effects by changing them from largely CPU-based programs to more GPU-intensive ones. Premiere can't decode a damn H.264 without proxies if you want it to decode perfectly and efficiently, and half of the damn effects in AE are CPU-based, which means if you don't have an EPYC or some shit, you're piss out of luck if you just want to upscale, which is a feature I use all the time. Why the hell would you want to do that when AI upscaling exists right now? What the hell does anyone pay Adobe for when they aren't putting any effort into bringing their programs up to speed with the most efficient hardware? You wouldn't need a 64 core hyperthreaded Xeon processor if you just made your damn program use the command set of the highly efficient GPU I have in my system. It would be very difficult to crunch the numbers on this, but I'd wager this has lead to significant increases in carbon emissions and many billions of dollars worth of individual and corporate electrical bills. The industry needs to work on moving to more efficient command sets, because when they do, as we've seen with Apple's silicon, one of the few good steps Apple has ever taken even if they didn't launch it very well, everyone will profit immensely from it. Same concept applies to nuclear, but I digress.
 
-## Keep in mind this was in 2023. So you could say that this aged poorly, but I'd rather pick and choose which aspects of Elon Musk I'd like to embody. Obvioulsy I'd rather be compared to Elon Musk's admirable qualities than his less admirable ones. But we've all got a bit of the admirable and a bit of the pathetic within each of us, and it's our charge to choose which wins. Point being, my therapist was making the observation that I was like Elon in that I'm intelligent, neurodivergent, and aspire towards greatness, and for those things I cannot nor will I ever be ashamed.
+## Keep in mind this was in 2023. So you could say that this aged poorly, but I'd rather pick and choose which aspects of Elon Musk I'd like to embody. Obvioulsy I'd rather be compared to Elon Musk's admirable qualities than his less admirable ones. But we've all got a bit of the admirable and a bit of the pathetic within each of us, and it's our charge to choose which wins. Point being, my therapist was making the observation that I was like Elon in that I'm intelligent, neurodivergent, and aspire towards greatness, and for those things I cannot nor will I ever be ashamed.
+
+# retakes & edits
+
+## But I didn't think that claim could possibly be true, a priori. For example, I knew developing for Mac was a pretty untennable process due to the proprietary hoops you're required to jump through, and there are many similarities between the philosophies of these corporations, especially in terms of proprietary software, hardware, and the gatekeeping thereof.
+
+## Despite some of the recent controversy surrounding his channel, I think the video stands the test of time.
+
+## and I'm not saying it shouldn't and should never be...
+
+## Same concept applies to nuclear power, but I digress.