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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Vending Machine! (OP missed 10 year anniversary and should feel bad)

« on: April 14, 2025, 05:39:38 AM »

you get a ball of mud and one large ant weighing the same as all the ants combined

i insert a bucket of paint

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Off Topic / Re: Forum activity & the impact of AI/bots

« on: April 14, 2025, 05:37:14 AM »

wonder if the content from this forum ever got broadly flagged as toxic for the purposes of training ai what is and isnt toxic

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Autism Vaccine

« on: April 10, 2025, 03:19:14 PM »

are vegetables vegan when we rely on human labor and (depending on origin, possibly) fossil fuels in the machines used to harvest them/electricity used to power said machines

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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread

« on: March 30, 2025, 07:55:16 AM »

i was gonna say those feet look a bit large but then i checked myself and its pretty accurate relative to the hands. apologies for doubting you.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Autism Vaccine

« on: March 30, 2025, 07:13:48 AM »

if your child was brain damaged due some injury from an unfortunate accident, would it be wrong to want to fix it with some miracle cure? i dont think theres a functional difference between being born with issues and experiencing injuries that cause similar ones. plenty of babies undergo surgical intervention early in life to resolve issues that arent literally life ending, but would create health or even just social issues later in life, eg cleft lip. you dont see cleft lip in the states not cause it doesnt happen but because its a surgery relatively easily available to people here (health insurance aside)

its hard to judge parental intent behind a choice but i dont think theres an issue when theres clear benefits to both the child and parent for the parent choosing to make life easier for themselves here. if it was something like giving the kid up for adoption or worse, thats a different question entirely, as it doesnt benefit the child in a clear way.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Autism Vaccine

« on: March 26, 2025, 11:19:00 AM »

i think yes, guardians should be able to decide for specifically low functioning autism, because said caretakers cant take care of them forever and life for the "adult kid" would be more tragic if they couldnt take care of themselves if circumstances ever force them to have to. the only counterargument i can think of for that is society could in theory bear the cost of caring for low functioning autists, but i think thats an unsafe assumption to depend on if you truly care about your child's well being. and regardless parents are for better or worse given authority over their kid when it comes to medical decisions until the kid reaches adulthood - and in the case of low functioning autism, one could see that as the kid being unable to mature into an adult.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Vampire Age Gap (Vote on Strawpoll)

« on: March 18, 2025, 01:09:58 PM »

this is my rule. if you're over 25 the age gap no longer applies.

the intentionally wrong interpretation part of my brain wants to make a joke here but for legal reasons i will not

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Clan Discussion / Re: Asre aseult regrant extrem stabbers

« on: March 16, 2025, 02:14:13 PM »

imagine my surprise to see i have unread posts here and its loving ares

glad yall are alive and kickin

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Vampire Age Gap (Vote on Strawpoll)

« on: March 14, 2025, 03:20:59 PM »

i get it being an actual ethics question, but also this is the blf you're asking on - nuance does not exist here and the worst is often assumed (often rightfully so)

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Vampire Age Gap (Vote on Strawpoll)

« on: March 13, 2025, 09:44:48 PM »

i genuinely didn't think you could have picked a worse topic

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General Discussion / Re: Scenery's TOURNAMENTS - SEASON THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

« on: March 11, 2025, 11:56:31 PM »

btw if theres any issues with the server dm me since im the server host
also this is just an attempt to have last post again in case we need another bump

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: Sibling Incest

« on: March 11, 2025, 11:47:39 PM »

i really hate this topic can we get a new one

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Off Topic / Re: The White House Hunger Games

« on: March 10, 2025, 12:40:36 PM »

when talking about x prices being high, its usually via national average. theres often massive variations depending on the state due to supply/demand and logistics, but overall the average is a good way to track if it's more expensive compared to before.

california for example consistently has some of the highest gas prices in the nation, and i remember personally seen it peak at $7/gal, with an average of $5 over the past decade. meanwhile in fl gas is $3/gal or so.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: The Trolley

« on: March 09, 2025, 03:04:02 PM »

from the definition i get from google on what act utilitarianism is, the problem lies in it just shunting off the ambiguity of the perception of good or bad into the definition of happiness. the definition of it uses the word "best" when best is still relative to personal values.

and for the broader word "utilitarianism", it doesn't address the fact that happiness even for an individual isnt something thats possible to define well. in its most extreme form, nothing besides figuring out how to drug or brainwash our brains without negative side effects is the only thing truly worth pursuing.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Ethics Questions: The Trolley

« on: March 08, 2025, 04:49:01 AM »

If at any point those rules lead to worse outcomes, then they're in fact NOT "for the greater good", so working by the greater good principle, none of that would happen.

thing is its hard to be certain what is the "real greater good" choice without hindsight, and even then its subjective relative to the values of the individuals observing said choice. consider the topic of eugenics for example.