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16:38:26
Colleen
<shinmera> Okey, I've re-implemented what was shown in the diagram. Haven't tested it yet though, so absolutely no idea if it's gonna sound any good lol.
19:41:57
Colleen
<shinmera> But if you want your own server anyway, the instructions are in the server's repo.
20:39:38
Colleen
<shinmera> I feel like even if I did make London money I'd still be more stingy about it than you, so thank you very much indeed!
20:43:43
Gnuxie
I'm kinda stingy too, I don't know what to say really haven't thought about having to answer for it but you I feel like you deserve more
20:44:34
Colleen
<shinmera> I feel like paying employees has helped a lot to get me to be less stingy, at least when it comes to spending the money on other people, rather than on stuff for myself.
20:46:46
Colleen
<shinmera> I think spending it on other people is definitely the best way to spend money at all.
20:47:08
Colleen
<shinmera> Since, you know, everyone could use more money, so it's kinda like a hand-made socialism kinda deal :v
20:51:22
Colleen
<shinmera> Gnuxie: distributed/anarchistic socialism, yeah. Centralised is too prone to corruption and all the same follies as capitalism.
20:51:42
Colleen
<selwyn> i am getting towards the final stages, but for now i am living off my savings at home
20:54:44
Colleen
<selwyn> turning trial-vr into a startup is something i could do but it is moving further down the list of options
20:55:12
Colleen
<selwyn> this paper we are working on is upsetting me a lot, but we are close to getting it done
20:56:29
Colleen
<shinmera> selwyn: As much as I think trial-vr is cool, I heavily recommend against trying a startup with it.
20:57:02
Colleen
<shinmera> Because I project that it is infinitely unlikely you'll end up anywhere except at bankruptcy.
20:57:42
Colleen
<selwyn> but it is generally considered very good to have written, say, three papers by the time you finish
20:57:58
Colleen
<selwyn> shinmera: well, that is reassuring to hear, because i have made similar calculations :)
20:58:32
Colleen
<selwyn> i suspect that under the right conditions money is quite easy to get, though
20:58:38
Colleen
<shinmera> Unless someone else can bankroll my employees for me I will end up bankrupt. And I'm "just" making a game, rather than trying the even harder thing of doing a niche vr tool.
20:59:29
Colleen
<shinmera> Money havers are dumb idiot assholes that don't understand their own economics.
21:04:27
Colleen
<shinmera> And while listening to it I had a really strange experience I don't recall ever having before
21:04:53
Colleen
<shinmera> namely that just listening to what they were saying about it made me want to throw up, physically
21:05:16
Colleen
<shinmera> The entire social sphere and mannerisms around venture capital, startups, and all of that literally makes me sick.
21:10:26
Colleen
<selwyn> i am disappointed that vc/rich people´s money gets spent on such dumb things
21:12:22
Colleen
<selwyn> quantum computing is getting money thrown at it by everyone, which means that there are actual job opportunities in companies now
21:13:17
Colleen
<shinmera> Idk if they were stupid to begin with or if the money made them stupid, or both
21:15:35
Gnuxie
when they go to the one place that has yet to be corrupted by capitalism and ruin it
21:18:44
Colleen
<shinmera> Gnuxie: https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1402021061152157702 and https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1417476233529593870
21:21:33
Colleen
<shinmera> What *I* don't understand is that there's hundreds of thousands of people ready to throw themselves under the bus to defend these pricks
21:23:37
Colleen
<shinmera> Though I guess people are literally indoctrinated to believe that having money equals success, so maybe defending these assholes is a defense mechanism to avoid cognitive dissonance
21:28:43
Colleen
<selwyn> i think in the case of elon, he is attractive because he has the vibe of someone trying to do cool 20th century shit
21:30:33
Colleen
<shinmera> Nah, he has the vibe of "he's 'one of us' doing all the things *I* wish I could do!!"
21:31:17
Colleen
<shinmera> Or at least that's what I figure from the defences I've seen. As in that he's "aloof" and "approachable" and he "doesn't take it serious"
21:32:50
Colleen
<shinmera> Gnuxie: I saw some very interesting videos recently that explain the hard work phenomenon. Let me see if I can find them again real quick
21:35:46
Colleen
<shinmera> I watched this recently and enjoyed every second of it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY
21:43:01
Colleen
<selwyn> i have noticed an irritating trend ´sigma male grindset´ which is i assume the same kind of thing
21:51:21
Colleen
<shinmera> Imagine being such a shell of a being that you define yourself through work
22:01:39
Colleen
<shinmera> I went to school by bike most of the time. Downhill in winter at -15C sometimes :shepface: