This community has gotten bonkers over the years

How so?

Horseman>Archer>Swordsman>Pikeman>Horseman

Rogue Idea,

Rogue 'Appears for 1 second every 10 seconds

Rogues do not all blink same time, this is to make an army of rogues harder.

Rogues are for scouting and destroying siege?

Rogue when not moving blinks 1 second every 30 seconds?

Attacking causes Rogue to fully appear? Can only blink after exiting combat 30 seconds later?

Hm, have units auto attack Rogue or use dogs to allow units to attack Rogues?

Eh, give AI bigger range of intentionally attack unit, with %2 attack when seeing rogue,

But continue to give units attack rogue automatically when too close. This will encourage picket lines of units.

Units will attack rogues even if player does not see the rogue?

Or does this force rogue into combat?

It would be nice if in Users comment history, one could see who the User @ towards.

Makes it easier to Control+F and look for interactions between people.

Conversations are a bit like fishing and crabpots.

Sometimes it's interesting to set a conversation lure out there, and wait throughout the day for any bites.

Sometimes it's interesting to set a conversation lure out there, then go to sleep, wake in the morning and see if anyone responded.

I have heard that Mencius disagreed with Xunzi as Rousseau disagreed with Hobbes.

Human nature being inherently good or evil I mean.

But AI are intentionally created agents, their Nature, factory set.

I would figure with AI, we now have opportunity to create agents of perfect morality.

Perfect in the sense that they adhere to the system they are set towards I mean.

Which 'could be evil or good morality,

But the point is they'd 'stick to it.

. . . Humans often have moral ideals, but often they don't pursue them. Other urges get in the way.

I wonder how many people in the world are Forum/Discord snails, never in the present, because they feel a need to read every previous post.

Just saw the movie Companion (2025)

I've heard that some philosopher, might have been Confucius, disliked the use of burial figures.

I forget why, but for sake of idea, I'm going to assume it was a dislike of their use as portraying human sacrifice.

Burial figures/puppets instead of humans, (May not actually be what Confucius thought)

But if so, the reason for dislike I imagine, is it allows the possibility of return to old evil rituals, practices.

Similar reason some people dislike fictional evil, portrayals of evil, belief that thought 'can be crime in a sense.

And there is some truth in that, action is born of thought.

Do not covet your neighbors stuff, though such is just thought, it's often not healthy thought. Can lead to action or resentment and less cooperation in life.

Serial killers sometimes practice on animals before humans I have heard.

. . . Hm, but books and video games are arguably drastically different, and I have never heard of and connection between serial killers and books or video games.

. . . . . . AI, Chatbots, Androids. . . Purpose is often 'more realism, immersion.

"The trick is not minding that it hurts" is a famous philosophical quote from the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.

Of course one would not usually 'want to feel the pain of a candle, especially noncontextually.

Even the trick of putting out a candle still hurts, it is merely 'suffered for the gain of amusement in the ability to do so, or in others reactions.

. . . Running can hurt, but be a good sort of hurt, but this is because it is accompanied by happy chemicals, runners high, and accomplishment, and wind in hair.

A person I talked to once, took great offense at the description of their experience not being real. Understandable.

But one also arrives at pain by perspective. Fear of flying for instance, if one is more rational, focuses on the unlikeliness of crashing, pain is reduced.

Marcus Aurelius often talked of perspective reframing situations, that they did not so pain.

. . . But this determines whether pain arrives, not how the pain itself is received.

. . . Even after the pain arrives, reframing is often a removing of the pain's cause.

Purpose then, even when suffering a physical pain, a person can look for meaning, purpose. And by such thoughts, the pain is more endurable.

No intelligence though, that seems to me in a sense not being around 'for any pain.

Which of course justified to many people their experiments or abuse of animals, lesser intelligence thought to mean lesser feeling, brutes.

Even of other humans, such thinking used against.

Though it is no longer as common a perspective in modern world I think.

Glancing online, some people argue a difference between suffering and pain.

Maybe we could bring back dueling by tying it to money.

Two boxes, each participent places all of their money in their box,

Each participant wears a vest that sends a signal to the box to burn the money if the vest is hit by a paintball.

I should not be up at this hour

If you are, then should is irrelevant.

I wonder how it might effect a person, to live in the third person view.

Wear a VR headset I mean, while around oneself there is always a camera at a bit of a distance.

Well, the smartphone affords many the excitement of virtual reality and one is never very far from a surveillance camera.

AI...' Surveilling the situation means actively monitoring a person, place, or environment to gather intelligence, assess threats, or maintain awareness of ongoing events. This process ranges from physical observation to utilizing technology like security systems and data tracking '...

Eyes on the scene

Paying attention

Alert levels 1 - 10

Circumstance alter cases

Thinking on that young man who got killed when he tried to contact a primitive island tribe.

What he 'ought to have done was create some type of armor and brought along a human repellent and a weapon.

What he 'ought to have done was create some type of armor and brought along a human repellent and a weapon.

New 3D thermal cloak hides objects from heat in any direction

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-3d-thermal-cloak.html

Have no fear the Kliongons are here! This community of boilogics/souls is and has been going boinkers, --not bonkers-- since their inception, some 4.5 billion years ago. At least on Earth.

The Drone Wars, sounds a cool name for a series of wars.

The Drone Wars, sounds a cool name for a series of wars.

War is hell!

AI....' Union General William Tecumseh Sherman is widely credited with the famous comment "War is hell". He first articulated this concept in letters and official correspondence during the Civil War and most famously in an address to graduates of the Michigan Military Academy in 1879 '...<

In those days, there was no penicillin antibiotic. On news this AM Russia using a false ruse of job oppurtunities, to get Columbians and Cubans to get jobs, and the job turns out to be fighting in war against Ukrainians.

.>..' However, North Korea has not, as yet, sent additional troops to Ukraine or Russian-occupied territory, contrary to CNN reports. The only evidence on the ground in Ukraine at present is North Korean artillery shells and weapons. As Ukraine continues occupying a small portion of Kursk, North Korea will likely maintain focus on that region. Meanwhile, Western media will continue to paint North Korea as a risk-acceptant actor. '..

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/are-there-actually-north-korean-troops-inside-ukraine

Thinking about aquatic civilizations, metal armor would probably be difficult. . . Hm, suppose you put bubbles in the metal?

Or on the armor.

Dolphins don't bother with armour.

They prefer to go fishing.

But yep, if humans lived underwater, they would soon fuck the place up.

Well, actually they've already made a pretty good job of fucking the place up.

It's what humans are good at...Progress demands and all that.

Twas the day the music died

Twas the day the music died

Humanity is still here for now. There is no guarantees it will exist going forward.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T ..... Aretha Franklin

ebuc wrote:

Twas the day the music died

Humanity is still here for now. There is no guarantees it will exist going forward.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T ..... Aretha Franklin

My mind was on DART going offline when I referenced that lyric. Although tbh, one could argue this community’s music died the second Juggle stopped communicating. Or when Mike did.

I'm glad I Waybacked a bunch of my stuff, but I still need to save it to word documents or something.

Heh, Egocentric.

You should write a book and spread your gospel.

Earth Centric

Create more than you consume.

Avoid Nihilism.

Pieces of advice I have ascertained recently

Nihilism is perhaps total dementia.

Survival and existence forgotten.

And to create is to consume.

Creating is like exporting and consuming is like importing.

Random thought: Dang, @SergeantLynch is coming in hot with the replies tonight! The man is everywhere on the site 🙌

Well, I'm British Skip and most of my replies occur at breakfast time.

Here is another.