Tag: philosophy 101 rambling bullshit
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Winning versus Achieving Victory
Slay the Spire is one of my favourite games of all time. It’s a top 5 game, alongside the likes of Deus Ex, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Elden Ring. Where it sits in that mix, I don’t know, but being in the Top 5 at all is…
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Feedback Loop
Last month I released a book, Till The Heavens Burst. I’m very proud of that book, I think it’s great, and I wrote it the only way I know how—I wrote something I want to read. I wrote it in a manner that I would like to read it. It’s not filled with prose, it’s…
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Helsinki Syndrome
So by now I think we all know that Stockholm Syndrome is bunk science, right? Invented by a doctor who was covering his own arse to explain why the hostages in a bank robbery hated him, it has never been fully accepted as a real disease. At best it’s correlation not equalling causation when some…
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The Twin Paradox
I am a twin. I have a twin brother, he’s my identical twin. We look the same, except, depending on diet and exercise, at first glance one of us will look like the fat version of the other. That’s just how it goes being a twin. One of you always looks like the before picture,…
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The Chinese Room, Plagiarism and Me
Youtube essayist Hbomberguy put out a ludicrously long video essay earlier this month titled Plagiarism and You(Tube). It was entertaining and informative and it has sparked a bit of a firestorm online as people debate what is and isn’t plagiarism. Watch it below. It got me thinking about the nature of creativity. I have a…
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