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@SpudsRudeEye Fight anxiety with nihilism by remembering that no one cares about anything and if they do they shouldn't.

@design_RG @igel Wow it just keeps going.

@mono I don't understand how it is so popular and has such shit documentation. You virtually never know exactly how a library function behaves and yet the language is so popular its impossible to avoid using it.

@Elfie @ArdanianRight @coolboymew That's where I heard of the ign review. Sseth's great.

@coolboymew God Hand got done so raw. That ign review is the saltiest shit I have ever read.

@dielan F

I've been listening to some Beethoven recently. There's been an incredible amount of cynicism and bitterness flowing around recently but to succumb to that sort of attitude and constantly assume the worst of all those who disagree with you is a degenerate state of mind. By that I mean it leads to decay and not progress. Beethoven tends to attenuate negativity in me because although his music is full of darkness and turmoil it is always optimistic in the end.

Today I discovered Richter's performance of the sonata pathetique, Beethoven's 8th sonata (out of 32). Especially in Richter's the first movement is dark and anxious. Richter add's and accelerando to the grave in the introduction and plays with a violent percision. But all of this gives away to one of the most beautiful and nostalgic melodies ever put to paper in the second movement transitioning a third down from C minor to A flat major. In the third movement returns to C minor but lacks the darkness of the first, feeling more like an excited dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUW_NstKWY

@design_RG I think you can acknowledge the worlds problems and be optimistic about the future at the same time. Especially since, although I'm not sure what all those events are about, it sounds like they are meetings where people who know they have problems work together to try to overcome them.

@cereal
> Dixon
> Dicks on

@freemo This relates to what makes a good proof. Any a proof shows that the theorem is true, that's what makes it a proof. A good proof leaves you with the feeling that you know why the theorem is true.

@freemo Lol, requiring more paper work is as effective as requiring the officer to exhaust all other means before shooting. For once, bureaucracy is the solution.

@design_RG @sda Do you believe that the left wing media is a reliable source of information?