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I'd say it's more like one fish jumped in your arms and you start descriping it when it was the thought coming into your focus and and not your focus choosing the thought.

You can of course reiterate and sort your knowledge by thinking about it if there is a reason.

If you just think around when you are not trying to solve a problem you are just playing with your mind without any or much of a result.

Makes sense. Our brain is an interconnected mess that self activates different path of neurons. So if you try to remember where you put your keys, saying the word, looking at an image of keys or hearing junbling keys might lead to the memory of where you put your keys.

I didn't always thought like that. I only recognized this after I had a "dark night of the soul" / ego death.

Since then I've managed to not see my my thoughts as beeing all I am, losing most of my anxiety (which was on a normal level) and generally being more happy and motivated to work on myself.

This does not contradict what I said. If you use conscious thought as a tool, like deliberately using third person, this can change your perception of your self.

I am talking about the usual thoughts you have that are unprompted.

I feel like the article is not disagreeing with me on that necessarily.

There are also experiments that support that idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjCt-L0Ph5o

It makes me unreasonably mad that he includes a screenshot of the beautiful looking game undertale with the implication that his games look is even remotely in the same ballpark.

In my opinion, the conscious thoughts you have are just echoes of your mind. When you "talk to yourself" you already know what you are going to say, you might as well just stop as soon as you notice doing that.

I have aphantasia and this seems quite obvious to me. Although I wouldn't say it shapes ourself but just emphasizes what is on your mind, where you would like to see yourself, preparing yourself. You can think about how you might act in a specific situation or reaffirm some beliefs.

Negative daydreams also shows you parts of yourself and your environment that do not align with your worldview or experiences that you haven't let go off emotionaly yet.

But the underlying feeling and thoughts are there anyway, no matter if you daydream or not.

Write your response but wait 5 minutes before actually sending it. If you are like me you'll ask yourself "what's the point I am trying to make here", delete everything you wrote and carry on with your day.

I guess it's nice to know that these super rich guys think about exactly the same stuff as I do when I'm taking a stroll.

Aaaah, that's pretty cool!

Man, I love party games. I'll try it out next opportunity.

The screenshots don't help me figure out what you're doing but it sure is pretty!

This sounds really cool, please start a mailing list :)

I don't really get your game. Is the block floating away and you need to keep it in the screen by shooting the hook? If yes, what decides when your hook gets loose?

I am developing my first ever game! I think the mobile gaming market is missing actual games that try something new and that are not built around milking money and putting some standard game mechanics around it.

My game is called Neon Sling: This video shows a much older built than I have right now but shows the core gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhmjATLaSk

You can also play a more recent build from the play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.OlafEsSaad...

I think it is a lot of fun, although there is not much progression at the moment.

This is what I am gonna add till release: A "tutorial", I want to unlock new mechanics with every level and explain them first. Right now you start with every mechanic available and it is confusing for new player who don't even know what to do at all.

Second I want to add different ball/background skins that change the gameplay up. For example, the time power up would add one more second or each combo gives 5 points more. You can buy these unlocks with the points that act as your score. The idea was that you can experiment with different combinations to find the one which gets you the highest score. Also leaderboards are missing.

I would love if anyone wants to try it out, give feedback and/or ideas!

Yes, actually. 98% agree on man-made climate change. 2% (not many) don't.

The higher the expertise of the climatologist the more likely they are to agree as well. Or, only the incompetent ones disagree.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151106083011/http://tigger.uic...

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse...

I thought the population is stagnating as people get more educated and have less children?

Not using WhatsApp isn't really an option if your social circle is not compromised by 80% of tech people.

Everything else is possible, although not using youtube can be pretty detrimental, depending on how you use it.

Basic introductions of a topic are trivial for people that are studying that topic? Shocking!

Yeah, this has nothing to do with what he is doing but with how much and how long. There is a reason we fight for the 8/8/8 standard and why we arestarting to demand more free time instead of more work.

As you said, 10 hours would be ideal, 2 is sick.

It's discoverable by me and you, not by the average joe. When I was in school I created an IRC channel for us, I had to make a youtube video explaining how to install a client, connect to the server, reserve a username. I still got questions how to connect.

Anyway, as someone else let me now, kik intruduced exactly this feature with the exact same limit on users in one chat already.

wow, haha I really am, the exact same number of people even. Just redownloaded it, last time I checked it out this didn't exist.

I'll try it out.

That makes sense I guess. IRC channels are spread over thousands of servers though and not really discoverable or, in general, mainstream user friendly

And obviously it doesn't have to be a # character.

Yeah, that is a big problem. The only thing I can think of is to allow vote-kicks/bans. Account creation can only happen with mobile numbers to discourage spam and other violations and people just creating another account with a new mail.

You could also use this as an opportunity for another monetization system which allows people to pay for a reserved channel and moderation rights. The owners would be incentivized to behave in a reasonable manner because people could just move to an umoderated channel if they don't like the administration.

I see the chats in a semi persistent state between reddit/discord and kik/jodel etc.

Not persistent over weeks or months but also not as short lived as a one day discussion that gets lost in new posts.

Oh I agree.

But I see this as an opportunity where you would split of the main chats by creating a more obscure named chat. Like you have a nice conversation with a few people and you can send them a private message "hey, lets continue this in #got-indepth" and then you invite others that you like.

You can have general conversations with a lot of people and break up into like minded groups naturally.

Moderation is a problem I don't know how to approach. Being able to ban people on a majority vote could be alienating.

Yes, but it's mostly about asking questions or making jokes. I think this fills a different niche.

I honestly don't know what you are trying to say?

I didn't mean using IRC (although you might of course).

That's why I'm getting started on game development with mobiles games. It might seem to be an overrun market but the amount of actual games is small and the amount of actual good games is even smaller. I don't know who all these people are that play "pay to upgrade building to level 4" games but there are a lot of people looking for just fun games instead of horrible p2w games.

There are also some good games which use virtual d-pads etc. which i find horrible. There are enough gameplay mechanics yet to be discovered for touch screens.

I had that thought for months. I'll give you my business Idea for free for the next big social network, since I'd rather work on my game development:

Chats based on hashtags. Are you watching the newest Game of Thrones ? Just search for #gameofthrones and enter the chat to talk with others. Chats go bad once too many people participate, so you split chats into channels of ~50. You can upvote messages and once they reach a threshold they will be broadcasted to all channels. Broadcasted messages can be saved in an archive and reread later by everyone.

Monitization can be done by allowing people to pay for broadcasts.

Everyone can start their own chatroom of course but names are unique.

Please, someone do it, I want this. Discord is to cumbersome because you need to find an interesting server first and you have to commit to much.

We (germans) also seperate everything personally. If I understood the article right there is just one blue bin where you put everything recycable in?

Here we have: Blue bin for paper Yellow bin for packages (plastic...and aluminium? I think) Extra Container for glass, white and green/brown) Green bin for organics. Black bin for anything else.

Beer bottles, plastic bottles and cans don't get thrown out at all, you pay a fee during purchase and get it back when you return the empty ones to a store.

What goes into the yellow bin and what doesn't is a highly controversial point of discussion in any home.

Just build a non deterministic AI. Free will and true AI are not (necessarily) mutually exclusive.

"Free will" is a vague concept anyway. What does it really mean to make a decision? It already is heavily weighted by your knowledge and experience, everything else would be "random".

A smart (smarter than us) machine shouldn't have "free will" anyway, as all choices should be exhaustively evaluated for their pros and cons.