I'm thinking all this time playing and developing video games is wasted. Video games are catering to the same zombie-TV experience and dopamine addiction roller-coaster of movie industry. Video game skills are shit and people get way unhealthier with them. Like when you game, you don't mind eating shit food and pretend you live in the game. But you can't live in the game or escape from life like that. Escapism is bullshit: the "We reject your reality" cliche is not about freedom, just denial. Videogames are most degenerative brain functionality i've seen, people warp their minds around the game and plan their life towards better playtime, as if the game was really important. All these speedrunners, progamers, elite players are not gaining anything valuable, they just adapt their brains into reflexive "game reality" instead of real life.
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Anonymous2017-11-10 6:36
>>117 Actually, I find that it's much easier to stream on hooktube if you simply copy the video location. I'm not sure exactly how hooktube works, but the YouTube videos it embeds actually subverts the kind of DRM and stuff that made videos previously un-streamable/downloadable via youtube-dl/mpv streamable. As I said, you just have to copy the video location. A slight inconvenience but a worthwhile compromise.
Also, the those userscripts that swap out YouTube urls with Hooktube addresses are really convenient. Personally, I think the argument that Hooktube hurts YouTube about as ridiculous as the argument that piracy hurts media creators, for much the same reason. I mean, even if you're watching videos on Hooktube, it's still YouTube that's the platform; even if you share videos via Hooktube, you're contributing to the popularity of a content creator that's primarily dependant on YouTube. Similarly, those Aussies who pirated Game of Thrones would have been more than eager to have purchased the video series had it been available. Despite what the propaganda says, the role of piracy is actually much simpler: it's a symptom of a failure to properly distribute media. And Netflix has proven to us (unfortunately) that piracy isn't actually antagonistic towards traditional means of consumption. That essay the EU funded that lobbyists are trying to suppress literally proves that piracy has no affect on the market.
If you really want to combat the YouTube problem, you need another consumption paradigm, not an alternative.
Although, I'm not saying that we should dismiss the lesser evil simply because it's still evil. When I share a video with my friends, I always share the Hooktube link with them (partly because the userscripts redirect me to Hooktube by default, making this super easy to pull off) because I respect them that much. But it's important to remember that Hooktube *is* the lesser *evil*. That is to say, it's inherently unethical and unsustainable. It's not antagonistic towards YouTube, despite what others say, because Hooktube could never exist outside of the YouTube paradigm, just like (conventional) piracy can't exist out of the data-is-commodity-trap paradigm. Hooktube doesn't mean we should stop looking for a *real* solution.
If you really want to combat the YouTube problem, you need another consumption paradigm, not an alternative.
I agree, however, the "paradigm" currently calls for censorship of views it dislikes and the only "alternative" to that is an alternative site that doesn't cave in to the pressure of this paradigm and censor.
Hooktube doesn't mean we should stop looking for a *real* solution.
Indeed. HookTube is largely just an intermediary until a more permanent solution can be found, or in the unlikely event that Alphabet/Google reverse their policies on YouTube.
>>124 In some cultures arranged marriage is the only way that culture is passed on. Obviously this is a no-go in most Western countries, since arranged marriage entails consummation, which is in many cases non-consensual. You could say, in a way, arranged marriages (at least through the Western lens) is a systematic form of rape. So Western liberals are at an impasse: how can you preserve a culture if a fundamental component of this culture is unethical? The answer is you can't. An "alternative paradigm" is much more than simply another YouTube. Ironically YouTube actually handles the role they assume quite well. Another YouTube alternative in the conventional sense would only be worse and less responsible than YouTube. It may simply be that a centralized media repository like YouTube is literally infeasible in an ethical World. A true, blue alternative paradigm would be another solution to the same problem, which means thinking outside of the box.
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Anonymous2017-11-13 7:25
Btw you don't need to buy/pirate/download/setup videogames. You can just watch other people playing/speedrunning the game on youtube. Its saves lots of effort, nerves and finger cartilage long-term.
Oh, okay, I guess I just won't exercise anymore since clearly watching it satisfies all my needs. Because all forms of recreation exist entirely for pure, hedonistic self-pleasure.
>>134 Somehow I feel like that isn't sufficient. Fascinating, though. The power of placebo is amazing.
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Anonymous2017-11-14 14:50
>>135 I think we'll get this effect in VR or while lucid dreaming. Lift some heavy-looking object in VR and brain thinks "We need moar muscle, disable myostatin asap".
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Anonymous2017-11-14 15:07
/fit/ is for brainlets. I'm going to marathon some fitness videos + active imagination.
Imaginary tourism : Google Street View Imaginary girlfriends : Tulpamancy Imaginary sex : porn/hentai Imaginary eating that also 100% healthy Imaginary trauma-free exercise Imaginary custom movies : lucid dreaming Imaginary video games :free and healthy
The brain is an amazing thing. Although I'd rather spend my time appreciating the natural world than wallowing in the metaphorical vomit-ridden pigsty of my own unassisted imagination.
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Anonymous2017-11-16 20:34
>>139 A medium similar to a hybrid movie/video game is possible with just imagination, its sort of daydreaming but plain daydreaming is beginner-tier: You can focus into daydream at the twilight edge before falling asleep and it become sort of lucid dreaming but you're not asleep and can feel reality too.
Video games are boring and repetitive and have zog messages hidden inside, kids are better off using meditation and chanting to achieve a feeling of accomplishment.
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Anonymous2019-07-24 18:08
>>143 (ignoring the sarcasm at meditation being boring(its only boring for NPCs failing at introspection and meta-cognitive thoughts, thus making meditation an exercise not to fall asleep))
Videogames become routine "work" when player stumbles on optimal techniques, glitch abuse and cheese tactics. c.f. speedrunning. Speedrunning is zero fun, all work. All pro-gamers train to "improve skills" not have fun or be entertained(only the viewers are entertained by skill). All competitive gaming evolves towards pro-gaming and eliminating fun, by min-maxing strategies and optimizing tactics to create a soulless "E-sport" as repetitive and boring as watching "MMA fighters" trying to dodge each other for half a hour.
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Anonymous2019-07-24 22:43
I just never could get into video games, despite trying to many times. It feels too much like work. I have enough work to do. I have literally never finished a single video game.
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Anonymous2019-07-24 22:47
I did enjoy Fallout New Vegas and GTAs mainly because of their aesthetic. I think if I could put on a VR headset and larp as a cowboy or a medieval peasant or some shit, that would be fun without having any missions. People want missions in games because they want to simulate the suffering of real life. I'd just rather walk around the environment.
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Anonymous2019-08-02 7:20
video game make you docile
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Anonymous2019-08-02 7:34
vibeogame bad computer bad book good
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Anonymous2019-08-02 7:48
Not just any book is good, it has to be a book published prior to Jews gaining control of society.
If books had been invented at the same time as the moving pictures, nobody would be saying books are better than movies because they would be just as pozzed and jewified much like contemporary books are.
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Anonymous2019-08-03 19:07
>>150 I've a big surprise for you: Jews wrote Bible (both old and new testament). And Bible is the most influential fantasy book in human history. No other book produced such amount of fanart, fanfiction and badly done cosplay.
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Anonymous2019-08-04 3:57
>>151 Interestingly, the Koran was written by a white man1.
>>152 Muhammad comes out of Jewish merchant family. He had a lot of money, but little power, so he invented Islam as a mean of getting political power for himself.
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Anonymous2019-08-04 11:08
>>153 Jews were white at the time, the 12 tribes of israel being the original 12 European ethnic groups. In fact, even modern day demonic Jews originated from white stock. However,, they, at some point, bred with the devil producing severe neurosis and long noses.
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Anonymous2019-08-04 11:52
>>154 Middle eastern were never white. Even Italians and Greeks are no that white, compared to Germans. White are the tribes of the north, living in extreme cold temperatures, therefore the white skin and autistic psyche.
>>155 Not really. They pull white mummies out of Chinese pyramids, and all the greatest pharaohs of Egypt had the same white DNA. South Americans, such as Inca, spoke of the whites that tamed and civilized the land before them.
>>159 Viking and other Northerners aren't pyramid/cathedral builders, the entire reason they migrated north is to flee the lifestyle of being enslaved to build worthless monuments for specious reasons. One can see the desire to build worthless monuments as an infection that spread from the China/Siberia area (where the most ancient surviving monumental structures are found) through India, to middle east, to southern Europe, and now even the most northern areas of Europe are littered with crappy cathedrals and temples. The entire world has been turned inside out and we have built shitty monuments of its entrails, despite even the best monument being average and unimpressive when compared to even the most noxious of weeds.