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09/11/2022

Watching Nothing

Reading Blindsight! i’m still at the beginning but so far i like it. I was ambivalent about the vampire thing, and I still don’t know what’s up with that, but i have hope that it will be good.

This bit is funny:

I shrugged. No point making a big thing out of it. "Well, according to game theory, you should never tell anyone when your birthday is."

"I don't follow."

"It's a lose-lose proposition. There's no winning strategy."

"What do you mean, strategy? It's a birthday."

Chelsea had said exactly the same thing when I'd tried to explain it to her. Look, I'd said, say you tell everyone when it is and nothing happens. It's kind of a slap in the face.

Or suppose they throw you a party, Chelsea had replied.

Then you don't know whether they're doing it sincerely, or if your earlier interaction just guilted them into observing an occasion they'd rather have ignored. But if you don't tell anyone, and nobody commemorates the event, there's no reason to feel badly because after all, nobody knew. And if someone does buy you a drink then you know it's sincere because nobody would go to all the trouble of finding out when your birthday is— and then celebrating it—if they didn't honestly like you.

Of course, the Gang was more up to speed on such things. I didn't have to explain it verbally: I could just grab a piece of ConSensus and plot out the payoff matrix, Tell/Don't Tell along the columns, Celebrated/Not Celebrated along the rows, the unassailable black-and-white logic of cost and benefit in the squares themselves. The math was irrefutable: the one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

Sascha looked at me. "You ever show this to anyone else?"

"Sure. My girlfriend."

Her eyebrows lifted. "You had a girlfriend? A real one?"

I nodded. "Once."

"I mean after you showed this to her."

"Well, yes."

"Uh huh." Her eyes wandered back to the payoff matrix. "Just curious, Siri. How did she react?"

"She didn't, really. Not at first. Then—well, she laughed."

"Better woman than me." Sascha shook her head. "I'd have dumped you on the spot."

I’m reading it in spanish because even though my english is very good and i’ve probably read way more in english than in spanish at this point, i think that it’s still hard for me to get the point of things when reading in english. As in, i understand the words and the sentences well enough, but it’s easy to fall into a state where i’m technically reading but not really understanding what i’m reading. The problem with this is that translations suck sometimes. Here are some examples from a single scene that are just incorrect

antilibs -> antiliberales

"Hey, I'm a spaz no matter how long I've been dead." -> Hey, yo siempre estoy como una rosa, da igual cuanto tiempo haya pasado muerto.

while I'm giving them their physicals -> mientras yo le pego un repaso a su física

this is very annoying

Listening nothing

Exercising I need to get back to yoga

Playing Disco elysium. I did a run with thinker harry and i finished pretty quickly, because i was worried i wouldn’t solve the case, and therefore i missed a lot of stuff. this unfortunately made much of the ending make no sense. who is this woman and why is she in my dream?

I’ve started a new run with sensitive harry and i’ve barely made it out of the whirling-in-rags but so far everything has been very different so win for replay value at least

Making nothing

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