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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Now about that "Appearance" tab...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

When do I get to customize penis size?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

you know how people in Minecraft build all kinds of wonderful and amazing things such as machinery and art and games and all kinds of shit?
that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to work to survive in Minecraft, too. Which is to say, all those wonderful things are the product of human labor.

But in Minecraft, you get to enjoy the surplus of that labor. You don't have a handful of Whale players draining your reserves with extortionary rents.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More importantly, in Minecraft crops grow in like 3 days, you never get sick and never age, and the global population is post-apocalyptic.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be interesting if you could make a minecraft server with tens of thousands of people in one survival word. See how fast resources become scarce.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

They will dupe the shit out of server

that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive

Which mustn't be an issue. Most advanced nations produce a surplus of food for example. So much, that an insane amount of it is wasted and never consumed.

So in principle, sure. Some work is necessary to allow a certain quality of life for all and ensure survival. But if you think about our fucked up wealth distribution, it does not need to be so hard.

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's hardcore you just need to get killed to go to the main menu

[–] ToyDork@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm going to go find a train tunnel to stand inside of.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 297 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Missed opportunity to have one guy yelling ":!q"

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you want :q!, otherwise you’re just trying to execute the q command in the shell. No wonder you’re stuck.

[–] zbb@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stuck in the DNS server.

The program q is not installed. Install it by executing:
apt install q-dns-client
[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Did you miss me, Picard? I missed you.

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

This comic gets the collective despair across so well.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (5 children)

We will never forget the secret ending of Sword Art Online where Kirito finally exits the game, only to find there’s another options menu in the real world.

/s (but somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually did that)

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[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

So I guess 2b2t isn't the oldest anarchy server after all

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 172 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you checked your midsection?

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just tried, only pissed myself.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I dunno, seems uplifting to me, if it means we can switch.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Tactical comment: reply here if you discover how to switch

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

༄༅༅། །རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། སད་དྷརྨ་པུཎ་ཌ་རཱི་ཀ་ནཱ་མ་མ་ཧཱ་ཡཱ་ན་སཱུ་ཏྲ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། བམ་པོ་ དང་པོ། །སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །འདི་སྐད་བདག་གིས་ཐོས་པ་དུས་གཅིག་ན། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ན། བྱ་རྒོད་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོའི་ རི་ལ་བཞུགས་ཏེ། དགེ་སློང་ཁྲི་ཉིས་སྟོང་གི་དགེ་སློང་གི་དགེ་འདུན་ཆེན་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། ཟག་པ་ཟད་པ། ཉོན་མོངས་པ་མེད་པ། དབང་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་པ། སེམས་ཤིན་ ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། ཤེས་རབ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། ཅང་ཤེས་པ། གླང་པོ་ཆེན་པོ། །བྱ་བ་བྱས་པ། བྱེད་པ་བྱས་པ། ཁུར་བོར་བ། བདག་གི་དོན་རྗེས་སུ་ཐོབ་པ། སྲིད་པར་ཀུན་ཏུ་ སྦྱོར་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་ཟད་པ། ཡང་དག་པའི་ཤེས་པས་སེམས་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ། སེམས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་དམ་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་སོན་པ། མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པས་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པའི་

ཉན་ཐོས་ཆེན་པོ་ཤ་སྟག་ལ་འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀུན་ཤེས་ཀཽཎྜི་ནྱ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རྟ་ཐུལ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རླངས་པ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མིང་ཆེན་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བཟང་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ ལྡན་པ་ལྟང་རྒྱས་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཆུ་ཀླུང་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ག་ཡ་འོད་སྲུང་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མཽད་གལ་གྱི་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀཱ་ཏྱཱའི་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་མ་འགགས་པ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ ན་མ་གྲུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀ་པི་ན་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བ་ལང་བདག་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་པི་ལིན་ངའི་བུ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བཀྐུ་ལ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་གསུས་པོ་ཆེ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་བྷ་ར་དྭ་ཛ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་དགའ་བོ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉེ་དགའ་དང་།

[–] dubious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

yes. you can read my previous comments on how to switch. all i'm trying to do is make people understand how to switch.

spoiler: it isn't pretty

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

"The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n."

Milton, Paradise Lost

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.

The Curse of Greyface included the division of life into order/disorder as the essential positive/negative polarity, instead of building a game foundation with creative/destructive as the essential positive/negative. He has thereby caused man to endure the destructive aspects of order and has prevented man from effectively participating in the creative uses of disorder. Civilization reflects this unfortunate division.

THE CURSE OF GREYFACE AND THE INTRODUCTION OF NEGATIVISM - Principia Discordia

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can think of two different ways:

  • going insane and dissociating from reality
  • getting ultra rich, or being born in ultra rich family
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[–] haerrii@feddit.org 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh boy, how great would that be

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Eh, with my luck it would be the glitchy alpha version of utopia where it crashed and I had to start back at the beginning the second I walked into the door of the Federal Cupcake Bakery and Fuckatorium.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 59 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The scariest part is that real world is, in fact, a hardcore free-for-all PvP realm.

I'm not talking competition or something. A random person can absolutely come to you at any time, stab or shoot you and you'll be dead. Forever. No respawns.

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that led them to make and enforce rules on what violence is legitimate that curbed the violence. But even still, anytime, anywhere, by anyone, you can absolutely be killed. And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we're super screwed.

[–] dharmacurious 57 points 1 day ago (13 children)

It's not the police that keep us from killing each other, or even laws that do so. Check out law and authority sometime if you're able. It's very short and worth a read. We don't kill each other because we don't enjoy being killed or killing. We're social creatures, and don't want to be shunned. Crimes of passion don't really change based on laws, but the way we organize society may actually be increasing the number of murders, because some people are desperate enough to kill for food or shelter

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I read half of it. It seems to overidealize the pre-law era to a large degree. Before law we had mass slavery, constant raiding of nearby tribes and nothing to prevent anybody from taking everything from a person. There is definitely a case where laws can become draconian and force people to break them but I'd argue that in most countries law prevent more unwanted behavior than cause it.

This especially doesn't apply in modern times since you just need one person to create a private mercenary group to essentially create a mini kingdom within a loosely organised society. That person will very quickly be able to form a successful dictatorship by raiding, enslaving and demanding tribute from nearby settlements.

Even a laissez faire government with everything legal except violence will essentially make it legal to dump toxic waste on your front lawn everywhere without policing and laws. Toxic waste is currently being dumped with laws just under woefully loose law and I'd argue that we need more laws and regulation to prevent people from doing so.

I feel like anarchist theory quickly forgets that we had anarchy before law and people quickly formed kingdoms around settlements to defend themselves and aggressive kingdoms where more successful than passive ones.

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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that...

No it's also, and more importantly, because people don't like murdering

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

🎶 wouldn't it be nice 🎶

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