If someone asks you a question about how to get a game to run faster and the first words of your response are "make sure you have a beefy PC", you need to actually check your privilege in a literal and non-meme sense.
Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the small press could not consider a fanzine, especially one as simplistic as PURE, "extreme". In the end, despite whatever purpose it might have, it is just a bunch of photocopies stapled together. PURE could satiate and encourage lust only if the reader or editor trusts what they read more than what they experience; that is, if they considered how the words on the page related to their own lusts/aversions more real than what the describe. What is described happened, but the descriptions of those events does not. PURE exists, then for those who confuse the map with the territory. Spectacular society is in no way threatened by people who are hypnotised by the media (mass or alternative), so again PURE fails to be extreme. In fact, spectacular society encourages people to believe that consumption of the latest extreme is in some way an act of asserting oneself rather than accepting the socially-approved role of deviant, a role like any other role. The socially-approved rebellion of one generation is always sold at a profit to the next one. PURE breeds more annoying, self-destructive housepets.
If someone asks you a question about how to get a game to run faster and the first words of your response are "make sure you have a beefy PC", you need to actually check your privilege in a literal and non-meme sense.
Sotos describes women as dogs, garbage, dirt, shit... yet must somehow delight in Myra Hindley's role in the Moors murders. He accomplishes this by ignoring the fact that she is a woman. Women to Sotos are victims or they do not exist. PURE ignores the many women who were Nazi death camp guards, multiple murderers of extraordinary savagery, and other women who would fit in quite nicely with the men he glorifies, simply because they are women. It's laughable to call him sexist: stupid seems more appropriate, unable to escape from his narrow view of the world as composed entirely by strong white men. Hardly a view that could be called extreme. He is a villain in the sense of being all too common.
Relating the murder of Frieda Powell by Henry Lucas, Sotos quotes Lucas as explaining why he dismembered Powell's body: "..it was the only thing I could think of... I hope you find all of her, I didn't do it because I didn't love her. It was because of an argument and the difficulty I have had in my life." Sotos then offers the following: "It should be mentioned that Lucas entered a plea of insanity in this case and so he is probably trying to play up a confused, psychopathic personality. His odd sounding sentences should in no way deter from the incredible sexual pleasure inherent in his descriptions..." Here Sotos shows what he is truly made of. Faced with the possibility one of his heroes might be just another fuck up like himself rather than a strong white man as he imagines himself to be, he apologises for Lucas appearing to show regret for his actions and offers an explanation as to why Lucas would say such a thing. Ted Bundy offered regrets before his execution as well. Apologists are usually the best source for understanding the weak points of any philosophy, because they know the failures of their thinking so well they choose not to think about them.
I've already established how Sotos considers women to be something other than human. It follows that what IS human are men. With this understanding Sotos very definitely pleads others to think like him when he says things like "Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, Sutcliffe, Kurten, -- all of them did exactly what all men would like to do, it's just that too many men are scared, they would rather be coddled." According to Sotos, this is the dark side of (hu)man nature, the true state of the (hu)man condition. This is how Sotos makes himself feel safe in world where not all humans are murderers (or even murder groupies).
Sotos would consider new "converts" (another telling clue of the unacknowledged philosophy of PURE) useful in monetary concerns but doesn't quite have it together enough to produce a zine that would make him a cent if it didn't rely on the fear and attraction people feel towards violence. PURE is less well produced than the average church bulletin and in the space of three years he couldn't quite manage to put out what I for one write, print and distribute about every two weeks. I don't know if Sotos is still producing PURE (last I heard he'd left/fled the country) but if he is I'm sure he's not getting rich off it. He appears clever because he writes about murderers who momentarily appear strong because they make others appear week. A triple reflection from reality with enough distortion to be convincing for a while but not able to withstand a good stare.
I think part of my initial attraction to PURE was the convincing nature of what I consider his "might makes right" philosophy. He believes strong white men rule the world, and they do. What is more, he shows examples of strong white men who achieve their goals in spite of incredible social and moral opposition, sometimes without getting caught. I don't want to rule the world not do I think anyone is fit to. I also have goals very different from those men; but I feel social and moral opposition as well, and when I compared what I've achieved and what they had, they seemed to have achieved much more. Perhaps there was something to the philosophy of PURE. But an analysis of PURE gave me the same result as my gut feeling when I first read it. Sotos exists in a world remade in his own image, and for it to be real you have to believe in it. I've nothing against fantasy lands, but I've also seen better. Even in the most PURE of possible worlds, it is still entirely possible Sotos will someday meet someone entirely willing to use her might to impose her right on him. On that day the emptiness of his values and his work will be exposed.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My phone awakened me by blaring its emergency alert tone to notify me of an Amber Alert
That's, uh, not of particular use to me, considering I don't plan to leave the house -_-
If someone asks you a question about how to get a game to run faster and the first words of your response are "make sure you have a beefy PC", you need to actually check your privilege in a literal and non-meme sense.
unfortunately there is often no better option
Yeah, it's generally either that or "turn the settings down". If the settings are already as low as possible, you're kinda stuck.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The newer versions of MATLAB have a Microsoft Office-style "ribbon" interface
You know, just in case you wanted its GUI to be as clunky as the language itself
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Funny things: babies who can't crawl yet but REALLY want to
Mia's on the floor and she's trying her damnedest to crawl but it's not working and she's getting frustrated
If someone asks you a question about how to get a game to run faster and the first words of your response are "make sure you have a beefy PC", you need to actually check your privilege in a literal and non-meme sense.
unfortunately there is often no better option
Yeah, it's generally either that or "turn the settings down". If the settings are already as low as possible, you're kinda stuck.
there are less condescending ways to structure the sentence.
Like, "make sure your computer can run it", for instance.
See also, PC gamers calling people without high-end rigs "peasants", etc.
Yeah, I've never been happy about upgrade treadmills myself. In a world where Intel HD can do 90% of what people want, why strive so hard for the remaining 10% when the only point is keeping up with the Joneses?
Of course, then there's Apple making people get a new machine every 5 years or do, or the newest OS won't run...
Yeah, I've never been happy about upgrade treadmills myself. In a world where Intel HD can do 90% of what people want, why strive so hard for the remaining 10% when the only point is keeping up with the Joneses?
Of course, then there's Apple making people get a new machine every 5 years or do, or the newest OS won't run...
This.
I want stuff to be compatible with my perfectly good and serviceable stuff, rather than annoy the heck out of me until I spend money to buy a new toy.
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building is closed do not stop
have you ever been sad
hungry
alone
He's at my sister's house, as I'm going to Scotland for a week tomorrow. Apparently he is just eating his body weight in grass. Sounds about right.
*fat ball of fluff isn't his name. It's Gerard.
That's, uh, not of particular use to me, considering I don't plan to leave the house -_-
so here is a final moo
moo
LOOKIT THE KITTY
LOOKIT
AND A GREEN KITTY EYE
IT IS A FANFIC KITTY
(*sigh*)
I like that Linux matlab uses emacs controls though
revolutionary
Like, "make sure your computer can run it", for instance.
See also, PC gamers calling people without high-end rigs "peasants", etc.
my best friend sips that Kool-Aid and I've told him that but he still does it (probably for partially ironic reasons)
Of course, then there's Apple making people get a new machine every 5 years or do, or the newest OS won't run...
I want stuff to be compatible with my perfectly good and serviceable stuff, rather than annoy the heck out of me until I spend money to buy a new toy.