Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv...
by ziml77 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:52AM
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At peace? The fact that he wrote this long post shows that he is not at peace. And it's not like it was just a vent piece that he didn't expect to get attention, he posted a link to it on /r/minecraft.
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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv...
by mistermann on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:06AM
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> The fact that he wrote this long post shows that he is not at peace.
Nitpick: technically/scientifically, facts do not have volition.
Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv...
by squirtlebonflow on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:54AM
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Are you saying because "facts" are not sentient beings, they cannot be the subject for the verb "to show"?
Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv...
by mistermann on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:56AM
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They have an involvement in the process/phenomenon, but it is the mind that is doing the majority of the work (the actual implementation of "shows"). And, as science has well demonstrated, the mind is a highly unreliable instrument, and is a particularly important one in that it renders "reality" itself.
I'm a big fan of this essay, mainly for this one line:
>> There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”