Sometimes if you soak your sound waves in water overnight they’ll get more malleable.

Just be careful they don’t fully turn into water waves, turning collective transversal motion back into collective longitudinal motion is such a pain.

You take your current vocal frequency and cut in half.

Then you cut it in half again.

Alternatively, you can stretch out your sounds waves to four times the length to get the same effect.

Okay. But can you see that others who might be more sensitive about their male pattern baldness could feel unwelcome in this community?

I understand the point that a cruel man does not necessarily deserve protection from cruelty, but what’s the point of mocking him for his looks other than cruelty?

Surely we’re above making fun of male pattern baldness

Sorry to hear you’re suffering from illness. Wishing you best of health!

I agree thinking is almost surely a biological process involving brains. But the exercise here is to try and make the simplest true statement we can about existence based on as few assumptions as possible.

You know your senses can be deceived. You know your memories can be unreliable. You have no proof that anything or anyone exists which does not rely on your senses or memories.

Except one thing. Your thoughts exist. That observation does not rely on any unreliable sources of information. It does not assume that your senses or memories are reasonable sources of facts.

This is the statement by Descartes. It is not a particularly sensible worldview, or a better one than yours, but it’s an interesting philosophical exercise.

Isn’t it, oh architect of all physics?

Yes.

I have. Let’s check. Can something that does not exist think?

No

Can something that thinks not exist?

No

Does thought therefore imply existence?

Yes

Does non-thought imply non-existence?

No

Makes sense. But if something does not exist in one moment, and that something then thinks in the next moment, has it gone from non-existence to existence?

Yes

So either it might be possible to think yourself into existence, or anything that thinks has always existed. Or the third option, you go from non-existence to existence through some other process than thinking, a process that enables you to think. But we cannot prove the existence of such a process.

Re: your first point

If we define “I” as the thinker, then the thought implies the existence of the thinker.

Whether the thinker’s perception of what “I” is is true or false does not matter. If the thinker believes they’re an individual french man in fancy clothes, but they’re actually a divine being imbuing all thinkers with thoughts collectively, the thinker still exists and can refer to themselves as “I”.

Why not?

How are Nazis and aristocrats considered progressive? Not sure I understand the political compass part…

The handholding is too much, I agree, but I had honestly forgotten it since I turn off that and the minimap at the start of each game. It doesn’t seem to skip any dialogue, I’ve at least not seen any dialogue online that wasn’t in my game, but I guess I wouldn’t know.

Overall the games are indeed not that challenging if you know a little about what you’re doing, but I appreciate that you can set your own challenge, and be rewarded in-game for e.g. silent assassin or suit only runs.

Interesting - how are the old games better? To me, the World of Assassination trilogy is peak hitman, a condensation of all they’ve learned from the past many games, and an all-round improvement on Blood Money.

The newest games are genuinely the best in the genre. The live service parts are very interesting ways to build on the fanmade blood money contracts, and experiment with the genre, but ultimately not worth the always online requirements.

That being said, the games are hardly predatory. Genuinely the best Hitman has ever been.

Sure, nothing wrong with the abstract concept, but this meme is explicitly directed at the “mommy” version.

Which does have some much wilder implications than nurse/maid stuff, you must admit. Such as the implication of someone wanting to fuck their mom.

But… Why does it have to be a mom-thing? Can’t the woman you’re presumably having sex with inhabit a non-mom pampering role?