Given the glacial pace I'm moving at with reading this one, the translation will probably be done before I'm finished

It's now been a full day since Steam took down the store page for Arcadia Fallen II. Here's this month's devlog where we update you on the situation. #ArcadiaFallen #IndieDev #dkgames #vndev www.tumblr.com/galdra-studi...

I'm very pleased to share that my paper has been accepted for the conference coming up in Rotterdam on the reception of Ancient Philosophy among the Early Moderns. The idea of this paper is to challenge some of the parallels that people draw between Spinoza and the Ancients.

The new Netflix Avatar series is getting a lot of flak for the various ways it deviates fromt he original series I think changing from the source material is a non-issue, NATLA commits the far worse crime of being bad on it's own terms

If you read 50+ books in a year, then you are in the 100% of readers who do that

It's so strange to see people talking about LITRPGs, even getting into the mainstream

I was on my way to the store, but I got very distracted by a cat deciding to use my foot as a bed for a couple minutes. Can't really complain

This was my reaction after reading a couple of Matheron's essays translated into English For fiction this happened when I was 12 and read Ranger's Apprentice, and was very hooked for a few years. I think I have a signed copy of the third or fourth book somewhere

I am a Cartesian in the sense that I also prefer to sleep in

The Scion RPG system lists Epic Strength as a domain for the Norse God Loki, and I have been trying to fathom this for several days. I assume it's a reference to some particular niche myth, but none come to mind and I used to be quite invested in these myths

Sure, why not, can't be worse than what the US is currently doing Doom for cabinet Doom for president

Getting very pedantic about it, it's not possible for two individuals to be "entirely of the same nature" because if there is no difference between the two, then it wouldn't be two people it would just be the one person. This poses a problem core to his politics, and I am unsure how to resolve it

I just finished my first sub-two hour half-marathon. Surprisingly, running in a hilly terrain made me cut 20 minutes of my previous time

My mother has apparently switched over to primarily using ChatGPT to do all sorts of things. Like instead of using Google/another search engine to get information, or looking at the news Every day that passes I grow to hate this technology more

Getting gifts for your friends is a great excuse to also get a couple books for yourself

I got a Kakuro book at a used books store. This is pretty much just a basic version version of the rational joy involved in deducing your way through Spinoza/Descartes Fast food rationalism

Matheron knew stuff.

I was just yesterday talking to someone about why Spinoza's example with 1, 2, 3, and 6, isn't good at showing the different kinds of knowledge, but I guess Matheron disagrees. Very well, enlighten me

Happy Pride month Or rational self-esteem month, if you prefer

I'm at page 128 of this book, around halfway The first chapter deal with what exposure to Machiavelli, directly or indirectly, that Spinoza had. The second deals with how the Florentine affected the political philosophy of Spinoza. The historical stuff is interesting and the analysis seems plausible

I played mission 00 and 01 of the new James Bond game. It's pretty fun, the bluff mechanic is such a good idea that I'm surprised I haven't seen it in a stealth game before. I don't know much about James Bond, I've only seen a few of the Craig films, everything else I know through cultural osmosis

On a similar note, I only recently learned that "prisoner scratching tally marks on the wall to count the days" as a common cartoon gag is a reference to the Count of Monte Cristo

I do not like this Casaubon fellow

Despite how much I disagree with Hobbes, I really like reading his work. There's just something about the way he writes which puts a smile on my face

I just watched Kill Bill: the Whole Bloody Affair, in the theater. I feel like I'm going insane. Why was there a 10 minute Fortnite advertisement? Who wanted that? It's so bad I'm getting distracted from thinking about the preceeding 4 hours of movie

I should get into glossematics

bad news losers: I have learned about metatheology. I am going to become annoying about why Spinoza is right in heretofore unimaginable ways. this is all your fault and you deserve everything that happens to you

The year is 1726 and Spinoza is getting falsely accused of atheism The year is 1826 and Spinoza is getting falsely accused of atheism The year is 1926 and Spinoza is getting falsely accused of atheism The year is 2026 and Spinoza is getting falsely accused of atheism

Newscomb's "paradox" isn't even paradoxical, it's just sort of unintuitive at first Granted, most "paradoxes" aren't paradoxes, and real paradox is incoherent anyway

can't believe some of you persist in thinking that God has free will. it's like you don't even believe in divine perfection bro

I wrote up my response. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...

Watching Witch Hat Atelier makes me want to get a fountain pen. That might also motivate me to fix my very poor handwriting

Random stuff you find while cleaning

Happy birthday to Rene Descartes, eternal may he shine

I'm not as passionate about being anti-AI art as a lot of other people on the left, but I've been seeing a lot of AI covers on children's books at work, and I do think that is a bit concerning

Lars Løkke er kongemager igen. Det kunne vel være værre

At 0836 I got a message from my municipality that today is election day and I should go vote I had left the voting booth around 0830

Alright Matheron, I'll play your magic diagram games

"Philosophy is developed as a pure geometry, which owes all its certainty to the internal linkage of its reasons, without any reference to external reality." 1/2

all I ever wanted to do was speculative metaphysics and cook meals for my friends but I have been forced to spend so much time learning about political economy and fascism because we live in the bad timeline

A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk... Have at you!

Unstructured train of thought thread prompted by reading Individu et Communauté chez Spinoza: Matheron says "The more actions M can perform, the more changes M can undergo: the power to act and the power to suffer go together." Now this does initially sound sort of counterintuitive, surely being 1/?

I've now worked through the second chapter of Individu et Communauté chez Spinoza, in which Matheron is rebuilding Spinozist metaphysics and we now have a universe of simplest bodies in constant war with eachother In my notes I call this the "Ork World"

All my articles on Spinoza's use of optics and the influences lens grinding & instrument-making had on his philosophy. This is an incredibly understudied (and aside from a few caricatures almost completely theoretically overlooked) aspect of his Life & thought. kvond.wordpress.com/spinozas-foc...

The collection grows, and I satisfy both the philosopher and the inner child in my soul

The library I work at sometimes hosts the meetings of book clubs. Every single time I've seen a meeting all the members have been older ladies, I'm not entirely sure how many times it's been, but it has at least been 3 different clubs

I see that the Americans aren't even bothering to lie badly anymore

Merry Christmas