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chargetheintruder · 1 year

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This, in a nutshell, is the problem.

Read the article. It might be a bit tabloidy but read it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-man-kills-neighbor-because-204600966.html

It isn’t just Nancy Pelosi or her husband. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF PEOPLE BELIEVE LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS AREN’T HUMAN BEINGS. This is a piece of what’s called “stochastic terror.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/stochastic-terrorism-appears-rise-globally-215511411.html

In plain English, “stochastic” is a statistics term referring to loading dice, or using a tool to tweak the odds in your favor. Stochastic terror acts happen when lone-wolf types have the use of a Force Multiplier, like the Mass Media, or the Internet, to both get bolder in their tactics, and to get better organized and equipped than usual. The guy who went after Nancy Pelosi and got her husband instead? Was led down a pristine, untouched and unanswered path of dehumanizing Democratic people, by his choice of Mass Media, then empowered by Social Media on the internet, most likely, in terms of resources (getting zip-ties, making plans, getting transportation and locating people).

Some on Tumblr would call this “radicalization” but it goes deeper: who bought the zip-ties? Who doxxed the Pelosi household, revealing a street address?

THIS is the face of the enemy that we face: he’s a punk-bitch hellbent on life-hacking his way into attacking us at all cost and any price. Sure, there’s more we could have done with the 2022 midterm elections, to try to keep the alt-right the hell OFF OF the Ballot Boxes, for example, but making those too hard to find also makes them too hard for VOTERS TO USE. Trying too hard to get things off of GPS and to make them non-doxxed also means the resources can’t be used by those legitimately wanting to use them to vote.

And in truth, this shouldn’t even be happening. This whole Abuser Party/Victim Party dynamic has no business happening. Trump/Traitor Party abuses “them libs” and Democrats, and we just go limp and take it. Why is that? Why don’t we retaliate, ever? It’s not like soft targets don’t exist among the alt-right: QAnon are a bunch of soft little nerds and wannabe Karens, by and large. Actual Guy Fawkes wearing Anonymous are so scared of being exposed that they don’t dare do anything violent. WE have access to the same force multipliers they do.

Well, it’s simple. For starters, too damned many people adhere to an ineffective and outdated Kennedy/Gandhi mentality when it comes to politics. Meaning they swear by the “non-violence is the ONLY answer” dogma, when historically speaking? Uh, no, non-violence is non-action against fascists, racists, misogynists, anti-labor union shits, and cultists. If you are not violent against the abusive or threatening? You either get ignored (because you’re out of reach at the moment) or you become the next victims. Non-violence only works against rational people who know you’re human. Not against sociopathic sorts who insist you’re an animal to be put down. You know, like that Fucker Carlson on Fox News, or indeed ANY QAnon freak ever?

And for enders? This has been a bad habit of mine as well, as an abuse survivor, so I know what I’m talking about here when I say this, fuck some loser and their self-authored Wiki page. A LOT of us, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on down, suffer from post-traumatic stress reactions, from having survived real-life abuse and bullying and domestic violence. What this means is that a lot of us have over-extended stress reactions. Our fight-or-flight reactions go too far and no, your average cognitive behavioral therapist REFUSES to touch this--their de facto cult refuses to admit that anger, or the fight response, even exists.

And this becomes a critical issue that resembles Stockholm Syndrome when you consider the fight-or-flight response actually goes FOUR ways, not two: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn (a.k.a. Pander, Suck up, or Suck it down). Too many of us abuse survivors have an over-extended Freeze response (we go quiet, freeze up, shut down and “wait it out” when actually we’re a clenched knot of nerves) and more of us have an over-extended Fawning reaction (we keep trying to reason with or pander to our abusers well past the point of little to no returns, we keep talking and smiling and praying inside that they won’t HIT again).

Does ANY of this ring a bell? Is anything I’m saying making sense here? Bullies can smell fear in their victims--human sweat changes during a fight-or-flight response. When we HAVE a fight-or-flight reaction, everybody who is out to fuck us over can SMELL the shift to ecchrine sweat (distress/arousal sweat) from down the hall in a large building. Stress sweats are just that--from stress, and temperature, and humidity, have nothing to do with them. No really.

No really, you haven’t lived until you have been in a psych ward, for a crisis, and been accused of being an alcoholic by Staff when you’re having a stress sweat because a) the bastards keep waking you and everyone else around you UP every fifteen minutes, and b) the last THREE new clients admitted after you showed up, ended up being grown-ass men having violent breakdowns. Fun times. My mother died from alcoholic diabetes and emphysema, and I DON’T drink, fuck y’all very much.

Sorry to sidetrack, but the point is, they know. And in their eyes, our rightful distress marks us as prey and less than human. And we neither can nor should have to ditch the trauma just to pander to fucknut Trumpist Nazis. Which means we have to INVEST in self-defense at minimum, if not openly consider organizing ourselves for retaliation purposes.

Stochastic terrorists need their asses kicked by stochastic patriots, is what I’m saying. We need to do better for future generations, and that starts with doing right BY OURSELVES.

#2022 midterm elections #TW violence mention #TW abuse mention #TW bullying mention #TW domestic mention #TW psych ward mention #analysis #Gandhi is wrong #non-violence is non-action #against fascists and racists and worse #fight-or-flight reactions #trauma #PTSD #actually PTSD #actually abuse survivor #ecchrine sweat #self-defense #stochastic terror #Abuser and Victim Party mentality

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calmlystressingout · 3 years

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happy anniversary end roll

#Every Time i go there for a reference #to dogmas wiki page #Something Has Changed #if it changes agian. i guess ill update thsi #dogma balls...#end roll #end roll (game)#dogma toscarina #cody toscarina #segawa #my art

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vancilart · 4 years

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hey, goodfisher

#obvi thane is gene's soulmate but quina is his wife now #(kinda stinks that you HAVE to romance in this game but oh well)#quina best girl #thane-gene will wash back up on the beach and then they can finally live in peace and have blue-eyed babies if they wanna #dragon's dogma #arisen #arisen gene #quina #there's actually a surprising amount of backstory to her on her wiki page #she's a really gentle and kind person and because of that she was heavily bullied by all the other kids... except the arisen #and quina learned magic to heal the wounds the arisen got from being beaten up for defending her #and later in life when they grew up she would still heal the wounds they got from their adventures #the arisen has always been her hero and she would not see them hurt or leave #like c'mon. even as a friendship that is amazing #the arisen is an orphan so they could work as adopted siblings #AND they work as childhood friends to lovers #i mean if the other kids bullied them both why tf would they like the other kids #just love each other

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ghirahims-trophyhusband · 2 years

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For someone who struggles greatly with understanding what the HELL FFXIV is saying half the time as the characters talk in a semi-archaic manner and sound more like they’re trying desperately to reach a text limit of some kind (as imo they take so long to get to the point I’m constantly struggling to understand what the previous comment was two text boxes ago), I think it goes to show why I adore Dragon’s Dogma so much more in terms of readability.

Sure, the game (DD) has full voice acting (which is the only time I actually understand what the FFXIV characters are saying, which is annoying bc the voice acting is used incredibly sparingly) but I don’t think that is why I understand DD more. DD is to the point. It’s short, it’s snappy, it makes sense. And the text is rarely more than one line onscreen.

I will sing my praises of Grigori til the cows come home, but now I’m going to start doing that tenfold because comparing Squeenix’s take on archaic language

vs Capcom’s archaic language is like night and day.

The fact I have to rely on wiki pages, friends, and video summaries to understand FFXIV is so dumb and is arguably the reason I’m playing FFXIV for Heavensward only bc of how badly I struggle to stay in tune with the story.

Also in before before people start complaining i’m insulting their beloved vidjo jame: I have dyslexia lmao

#I can understand the single text boxes ffxiv has but not whrn they're multiple #goldie speaks #it's perhaps a minor complaint but i play games FOR the story so #and idk last time i checked text is KINDA important #anyway grigori is a giga chad and midgardsormr needs to catch up #i do like getting the mounts and minions tho #pets little midgardsormr on his head #ff #ffxiv #dd

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sinesalvatorem · 4 years

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I tend to read over interesting Wikipedia articles in non-English languages using the Google Translate Chrome-extension in any case where I think there’s likely to be interesting perspectives from other cultures. Most often in translated Japanese or Russian, since their Wikipedias have a lot of content, are usually linked from the English versions of pages, and Google Translate has actually gotten fairly good at conveying them in English.

(GT is also very good at Spanish and French (for machine translation); pretty bad at Korean and Georgian; passable at Turkish when combined with some knowledge of Turkish.)

This is great for music and history because Japanese music and history fans write about a lot of things Englishers skip or gloss over. Same with Russian history nerds, except their articles either lack a lot of things you might trivially expect or are referring to them with metaphors I can’t get from translation. For example, as far as I can tell, the Ru Wiki page on Jewish Refugees (a starred article) mentions nothing about Soviet Jewry, despite everything from the refuseniks to the mass protests in the West to the million strong exodus to Israel once emigration was legalised.

Which is, like, a huge fucking oversight on a goddamn starred/featured article. All post-State-of-Israel discussions of Jewish refugees refer to persecution in Muslim countries, Ethiopia, and (post-Soviet) Georgia. (Doesn’t appear in the Georgian version, but the Georgian version stops in the 19th century, so)

What’s, erm, stranger, is when I went to the Armenian version and then followed their link to the general article on Antisemitism. Whose translated form begins:

Anti-Semitism or anti-Semitism , national and religious intolerance towards Jews . It began in the Old World when the elite of Jewish communities scattered elsewhere in Babylon , Egypt , and Assyria, following the racist dogma of God's "chosen people," made the Jews self-sufficient, creating barriers between them and the peoples of the world. As a result, social and domestic prejudices against the Jews arose from century to century.

...Which might be a mistranslation? (Probably at least a bit, going by how GT deals with Kurdish, a similarly distant Indo-European language without millions of books to machine learn. On that I give it 3.5 stars. Example Ku Wiki article on Iran, because it’s long text, and contains sweet lines like “The official language of Iran is Shiite”. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but)

However, it certainly looks like Armenian Wikipedia is blaming the persecution and ‘bloodshed’ against Jews on ... their elites making them self-sufficient and erecting barriers between themselves and their neighbours. Which, um. Do recall that this is Armenia. (I wish I could find a good link or meme to sum it up, but Armenians have been the Jews of Turkey, got basically Holocausted by Turkey, and now have cold war with 2 out of 4 neighbours, while the other two are either under international embargo or are being slowly eaten by Russia. And they are landlocked.)

But that’s not actually what’s fucked up. It’s biased, sure. It’s pot-kettling; absolutely. But doesn’t compare to this:

The growing struggle of anti-Semitism with the advanced European intelligentsia (for example, in the case of the "Dreyfus case" in France) was hampered by the rise of Zionism (as the backward ideology and political organization of the great Jewish bourgeoisie). [parody?]

The Bolsheviks exposed the reactionary nature of anti-Semitism and the struggle against it, viewing it as an integral part of the general liberation struggle and the democratic solution of the national question. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin stressed the "undoubted connection of anti-Semitism with the interests of the bourgeois and not the working classes of the population."After the great Soviet revolution in October , with the resolution of the national question in the USSR , the Jews gained full equality in all spheres of life. [outright propaganda?]

In the countries of socialism , regardless of ethnic origin or nationality, in the conditions of equality of people, anti-Semitism has lost all its bases. [is this a transcription of something very old and very naive?]

All of which make me feel powerfully moved to learn Armenian and fix at least some of this mess. At the very least, the open lies about antisemitism universally evaporating under the liberating light of Socialism.

Then I look at their alphabet, remember that I gave up on Hebrew years ago and still sound out Russian at the rate of a dyslexic snail, and I pass up this amazing opportunity to fix something Wrong On The Internet.

So instead I just complain about it. In English. With machine translations. Like an asshole.

#history #antisemitism #judaism #wiki #armenia #all translation must be taken with a grain of salt #even when it sure smells like propaganda #and honestly the wikis of most languages of post soviet states #play fast and loose with historical accuracy on anything ussr related #not saying the english one is never wrong but the wrongs sure as hell look different

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aloluptitude-blog · 5 years

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Oil and Water: An Obito Uchiha Character Analysis

The following are my scattered thoughts on the layout and progression of Obito Uchiha's character. I’ve previously posted this a while back on a forum like a year ago but found that I wanted to share with a wider audience, if I should be so fortunate. With that out of the way, here we go. And warning, it’s quite long.

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The first lesson Team 7 had to learn as shinobi was teamwork. They initially all fought for their own self-interests, which prompted Kakashi to tell them about the memorial stone.

Later, once Sasuke and Sakura sacrifice their food for Naruto, Kakashi unexpectedly passes them and reveals to them his philosophy in life.

His mystery is further compounded with the reveal of his Sharingan, as well. Kakashi is built up as a man of mystery throughout Part I, and after the Third Hokage's death he is shown mourning at the grave of someone called Obito in a very somber scene.

(Note that the chapter in which Obito's name is first mentioned is the chapter in which Akatsuki first shows up. Likely coincidence, but interesting nonetheless) So, tons of shit happens, and the darkness in Sasuke grows. He eventually abandons Konoha to join Orochimaru. The cast is left crestfallen after his betrayal, with Naruto promising to bring him back no matter what. The chapter in which this resolution occurs, releasing shortly before Kakashi Gaiden, starts off with this:

The remaining pages revolve around Naruto's conviction to keep his promise to Sakura, and about comrades who have fallen into darkness. I hindsight, this was effective and subtle foreshadowing for Obito’s role to come. Next, immediately sandwiched between Parts I and II, we have the Kakashi Gaiden, revealing the character of Obito for the first time and showing his role in shaping Kakashi's life. Obito's character, from beginning to end, centered around the themes of injustice and cherishing one's comrades.

He not only vowed to "crush" the shinobi that diverged from his dogma, but he was able to gather the resolve to kill someone in order to protect Kakashi (this was likely his first kill). At this point, it is of course important to touch on Obito's love for Rin Nohara. Obito was a kindhearted Uchiha with big ambitions to be Hokage and end the war. But among the prestigious Uchiha clan, he was a washout. A disappointment. For a long time his only real support was Rin, and so he became attached to her.

Obito's insistence on rescuing Rin in the Gaiden was not, however, just because of his feelings for her. They played a role, but she was also a comrade of his, much like Kakashi. They did, however, play a larger role in his request to Kakashi. Obito ended up being smashed by boulders in the process of saving Kakashi. The two had formed a bond by then, so he entrusted his eye to Kakashi, telling him they would "see the future together". Even though he had been very mature throughout this experience, however, Obito was still a child at heart and told Kakashi to protect Rin at any cost.

Now, it’s very important to note Obito's last thoughts before being supposedly killed.

His most desperate wish is to survive so he can spend more times with the people he cherishes, which will become his main drive when rehabilitating in Madara's cave. Afterwards, a battle ensues and Kakashi moves to protect Rin. He later wakes up with Minato sitting beside him, and wonders if he survived.

However, he was not the only one to survive. Obito found himself in a very similar, but less fortunate situation:

He awakes in an underground cave with Madara Uchiha. He is relieved to be alive, but is constantly driven by the desire to return to his comrades and protect them with his newfound power. Madara reacts to this by telling him his hopes are futile and reality is cruel.

But Obito, of course, would not pay heed to this until much later.

The only thing giving Obito hope and strength during this drawn on underground recovery, with half a body and surrounded by strangers and pessimism, is the thought of returning to his comrades. That thought is what keeps him going during his time spent down under.

Obito's most prominent trait for a while now has been hope. He's put all his being into reuniting with his comrades and escaping from this creepy geezer. But the reality ended up being far harsher.

Obito's entire world was shattered in this instant. The power he had entrusted to his newfound friend Kakashi to protect Rin was robbing her of her life (Obito’s Sharingan perfected Kakashi’s Chidori). Not only did Obito lose the one he loved, but his view of the world was shattered. All his hopes were crushed in that instant. But what happens here is one of the key differences between Obito and Madara. Obito does not lose hope in the world; he denies that he has it. He refuses to accept the reality before him.

Obito was in an unfamiliar place in unfamiliar circumstances, and his life just fell apart before his eyes. His immediate response is to reject what he sees. In contrast, Madara slowly but surely lost hope in the world over time. He accepted what the world was (or rather his perception of it). Obito couldn't. He never developed, or had time to develop, the mental state for it.

The person he loved most was killed by his best friend, and all his efforts had proven useless. Unlike Naruto, Obito was alone, and the people he did have, well it's self explanatory what happened there. Obito from this point on started operating in the shadows towards the completion of Madara's plan. Obito's general persona from this point on slowly becomes more detached and warped. He gains a sarcastic/sadistic bend to his personality and becomes increasingly divorced from reality, as he has abandoned (or rather surpressed) his hope for the world.

He still is fixated on and values camaraderie, but it's not in the same way he did before. It's more self-serving now.

He values loyalty, so long as it's loyalty to him. However, when double-crossed he will be merciless. The seeds for this were planted earlier though, albeit in a more innocent form.

This is an important divergence from Madara, who didn't really care about the loyalty of his comrades so much as their usefulness to him. As seen by him giving no shits when learning of Nagato's betrayal and not caring about Obito having his own plans either.

Obito's also become quite deluded by this point, choosing to consider the real world and its inhabitants "fakes" and the Mugen Tsukuyomi world to be "truth".

Basically, he considers bonds and interpersonal relationships to be a farce, because he believes the world will sever those ties, without fail, and cause people to sink into despair. Thus, uniting together would eliminate that and create harmony.

The way Obito sees it, this shinobi world that doesn’t align with how he thinks things should be is “false”, and the Moon’s Eye Plan / Tsuki no Me Keikaku is the remedy. The thing is, while Obito did initially defect due to the shock, trauma, and despair induced by everything to do with Rin’s death, he still did not have the hardened outlook on the world he would display in his adult years. As he made moves towards the completion of his plan, Obito observed the shinobi world's workings and it only served to deepen his conviction.

Obito, though not as far gone as Madara, steeped himself in the darkest areas of the Shinobi world. What he saw just reinforced his belief, or rather he made it so. He surrounded himself with fallacy (his identities of Madara and Tobi) and negativity. Even when seeing the brighter aspects of the world, Obito would brush it off. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias This shared outlook on the world may be why Obito considered Kisame "the person closest to him".

So, we’ve established what Obito is like by the time the main story unfolds. However, something starts to happen in Obito after Nagato’s betrayal at the end of the Pain Invasion arc.

Obito is bothered that Nagato, who was quite similar to him, was convinced to switch sides. This sort of reignites the doubt in Obito's heart, and so he goes to ask Naruto about it. Naruto, the boy who was so much like Obito and inherited the younger Obito’s ideals by way of Kakashi.

Of course Naruto cuts him off, and so Obito gets no immediate answer. His anxiety and anger towards Nagato and fixation on Naruto escalates when he fights Konan.

This, of course, would come to a head in the Fourth Shinobi World War, where the two shinobi finally clashed head on and pit their ideologies against each other. Interestingly, Obito also sees himself in Sasuke. Both were motivated by the death of someone they cared about, but chose to nullify their sacrifice for the sake of their personal ideals. Compare the following pages

to this exchange

Obito was asking Sasuke if he had the resolve to shit on the sacrifice of someone he loved for the sake of his own motives. Basically asking if he was like him. And well

Obito’s corruption of Sasuke is even a direct mirror of when Obito awoke in a cave with Madara, who had sinister plans of his own for Obito.

So yes early as the Gokage Summit arc, the conflict in Obito was making itself apparent. The fight Obito attempted to orchestrate between Naruto and Sasuke was a microcosm for Obito’s own inner conflict that would come to a head in the War Arc, specifically when Kakashi and Guy arrived on the battlefield to help Naruto.

He struggles harder than he'd anticipated in his battle with Naruto, who begins to gain traction in their clash and amasses chakra from almost all the other biju as well as finally synching with Kurama.

These past few panels are from Chapter 573, which contains Naruto’s comrades running to his aid and ends with this panel

You’ll see later why this and a later panel perfectly bookend the meat of Obito’s journey to find himself again. Now, Obito still manages to somewhat retain his composure in this chapter, but by the time the story next cuts to the battle his detachment has lessened. His lunatic rantings increase in intensity, and he becomes more invested in Naruto and Kakashi. He was probably having those Rin flashbacks people love to criticize too but they couldn't be shown then for obvious reasons.

Once his mask is finally broken, Obito can no longer really run from his insecurities and grief. After all, now that he's unmasked he won't be able to escape more personal questions from Kakashi. He has to address things in more detail than he’d like to, at least to some extent. Although, he initially maintains some remnants of the detachment he'd held til then.

However, he soon fights Kakashi one-on-one and his rage boils to the surface.

Now I only posted enough of this to get the point across. But this man really beat the living shit out of Kakashi. He’s angry, despite his prior claims to have cut himself off from personal ties. At any rate, towards the conclusion of their scuffle, Naruto joins in and starts touting his resolve to protect his comrades and defeat Obito and Madara.

Now, it's around this point that Obito really attempts to crush Naruto's ideology, as it's basically his own (formerly of course). But Obito desiring to twist Naruto and in turn solidify his own conviction was first hinted during his fight with Konan, where he swore to "fade him into darkness".

He believes Naruto, and basically every shinobi, is destined to turn out like him (scum, basically. At least, I doubt he meant everyone would become a psychotic masked murderer).

Itachi earlier foreshadowed this same thing to Naruto, warning him of what would happen if he forgot the people that got him where he was.

Obito recognizes that Naruto's ideology was basically the mirror image of his own, among their other similarities. By this point his resolve has wavered a good deal, so he resorts to trying to break Naruto's spirit in order to convince himself his path isn't mistaken.

This is a good time to bring up something I don’t think I can fit anywhere else. While trying to convince Naruto to abandon reality, Obito brings up the deaths of Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, and of course Neji. All things caused, directly or indirectly, by Obito himself. This is why the act that Madara orchestrated Rin’s death is irrelevant.

It’s beside the point of Obito’s despair and I dare say if he learned of this while still “evil” he wouldn’t have changed. He didn’t even like or trust Madara to begin with. It was the fact that such things occurred at all that raked at Obito’s mind. After all, it’s not like Obito has never manipulated people for his own ends.

So this moment is more meant for Madara’s development, because it demonstrates his extreme arrogance which is shattered when he is betrayed by Black Zetsu and learns he was the biggest pawn of all.

Anyway, soon enough the Ten Tails starts to go out of control. This prompts Obito to commence with his plan of making Kakashi stab through Madara's puppet seal, which would enable him to become the Jinchuriki.

I'm pretty sure I've covered all the relevant characterization focused on in his battle with Kakashi in previous parts of this, so I'll just speed ahead to after that. Obito comes out of the Kamui dimension and is immediately assaulted by Madara, who wants Obito to Rinne Tensei him.

This point marks an interesting shift in the way Obito is portrayed. He is seen struggling against Madara's rods and relying on the memories and thoughts of his former comrades to propel him forward and resist the takeover.

It’s moments like this that almost makes him feel like the protagonist. But even with that, Obito still retains a villainous aura, as seen when he confidently declares that the war hasn't reached its end.

Yet even after succeeding in becoming the Jinchuriki, his ego was still under siege by the Ten Tails. And once more he draws on his memories of his comrades to resist and regain control. This frequent blending of heroic and villainous portrayals makes his eventual change feel even more organic in my opinion.

Obito's newly acquired power makes him the focus of the war, although Naruto, Sasuke and others start to gain on him and even the playing field. Obito becomes more agitated at Naruto and his constant interfering with his aims.

His frustration and fixation with Naruto has grown to an insane point. And it started with something so small and seemingly trivial:

So anyway, Obito continues to question and nudge Naruto in order to reach a conclusion about his own choices.

Now, the "my ninja way" thing may come off as bullshit and might not seem like a good answer. But the thing is, Obito isn't asking Naruto how to fix the shinobi world's problems. He's simply trying to see if he has the will to persevere no matter what the world throws at him. And by this point, Obito is almost convinced. Obito was never about grand visions concerning villages and government. That was Madara. Obito was always more intertwined with the personal aspect of suffering, which is why Naruto’s refusal to break infuriates him. Before:

After:

By this point Obito's resolve has wavered considerable, resulting in his defeat.

So this is the part where the main "TnJ" or "Talk no Jutsu" stuff comes in. Through the contact between their chakra, Naruto and Obito enter a sort of shared mental space. There, having connected to his memories, Naruto confronts Obito, frustrated that someone so like him turned out how he did. A lot of the shit discussed has already been covered though, so this'll be brief. I'll just post some interesting tidbits I may not have covered well enough earlier. First is this:

Obito viewed himself as the second coming of the Sage. Looking solely at the first image, you might think he was referring to Madara. But as shown in the second from his talk with Naruto, he really was referring to himself. He also refers to Nagato as the “Third Sage of the Six Paths” after his fight with Konan, presumably as someone who also carried his will.

Why did he not include Madara as a Sage? Well for whatever reason, Obito never seemed to trust Madara. He never wanted him revived, and has stated he never saw him as an ally

Might have something to do with that puppet seal Madara planted in him to prevent him from becoming the Jinchuriki himself. Another interesting point in Obito’s talk with Naruto is this parallel with the Kakashi Gaiden. Chapter 241:

Chapter 653:

Slick. So at the end of this talk, Obito is more conflicted than ever, and with the combined power of both Kurama and the Allied Forces, The Biju are released from Obito. It works well thematically as an end to Obito's threat, because Naruto both utilized the power of all his comrades on the battlefield (in the ultimate triumph of Obito’s original philosophy over his new one), and Kurama's power, which was originally placed in Naruto for the purpose of defeating Obito in the first place.

Having been definitively beaten, Kakashi has a final talk with Obito about the path he chose.

And guess what the chapter ends on?

Our friend, the panel from Chapter 573. Fucking slick and thematically poignant. At this point, Obito finally accepts that his path was wrong, and the whole Nagato thing that jumpstarted his indecision is given a conclusion as well.

He resolves to give his life to Rinne Tensei his victims in the war, but Black Zetsu intervenes and forces Madara's resurrection. Obito is put out of commission for a while, but eventually regains his senses, and uses Madara as a means to steel his resolve. Sure, he had switched sides, but he was mellow, depressed, and wrought with guilt. He didn’t even believe himself worthy of redemption.

But by talking with Madara, Obito contrasts Madara's ideals with that of Naruto (and also his own original ideals), and finally reclaims his identity as Obito Uchiha, resolving to do his best and end the war.

This layout with Obito caught between Naruto's (in actuality his own) and Madara's ideologies is a small scale representation of a major theme of his character. Same with his fascination with Naruto and Sasuke, seeing a part of himself in both of thmm. Obito is the man on which the core of the Naruto series hinges. Even how his literal physical body was half Uchiha and half Senju DNA. He has always been a man of duality, represented by his association with the concept of Yin and Yang:

Yin and Yang, or as Obito himself is fond of saying, Oil and Water.

Obito proved to be an extremely valuable ally in the fight against both Madara and Kaguya, and gave his life one more time to protect Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke. He fought on with everything he had to redeem himself for even a fraction of the damage he’d done. He died not as the Masked Man or the harbinger of calamity, but as Obito Uchiha. Obito, in my opinion, is the best written character in Naruto. There’s way too much unjustified hate and too many misconceptions about the character. I put this together out of my recognition of that and desire to share my passion for this boi. Thanks for reading all the way through (if you did) or even reading just a bit.

#obito #madara #tobi #naruto #uchiha #character #analysis #meta #anime #manga

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Let's examine this hidden detail in Australia's family violence response training | HBR Talk 212

This week, HBR Talk is joined by domestic violence researcher Deborah Powney to examine the entry on Responding to men who claim to be victims of family violence, along with some other entries, in the Judicial College of Victoria’s Family Violence Bench Book, presented online in the form of a wiki publication. According to the book’s page on purpose and principles, the publication describes “purposes and principles” laid out in Australia’s Family Violence Protection Act of 2008, developed to “meet perceived inadequacies in the justice system’s response to family violence because the particular dynamics and effects of family violence are poorly understood.” Will it validate or discredit feminists’ dismissal of our concerns that these policy statements and the associated training are gender-biased as a result of reliance on feminist dogma?

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Check out the latest Honeybadgers episode.

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breakingtheglasses · 2 years

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Let's examine this hidden detail in Australia's family violence response training | HBR Talk 212

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miladymiss · 2 years

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A bit of an art dump for the end of the year. I've slowly been getting better at this whole drawing thing and it makes me so happy. Younger!Me had always dreamed of being able to translate images from my head to the page and I'm slowly reaching the point where oh my gosh. They're actually starting to look pretty ok.

TINY BLURBS FOR EACH BELOW THE CUT BC WHY NOT

1) Another Vanya in my portfolio. She takes up most of my character brainspace and thus most of my drawing efforts. I might make a post later showing my progression entirely in drawings of her because that's legit where you can see 90% of the evolution this year came from. This one is the latest I made and also isn't finished, but it is the best so far so. //Ta-Da Motion//

This is my first experiment with half-body in a While. I've always been semi-terrified of drawing the human figure because I'm Really Bad At It. But I figured, if I never start then how will I get anywhere?

2) This snazzy man is an NPC by our dear DM @intensesargasm. He goes by the name of Velmier. I (and by extension Vanya) am notorious for forgetting names and so it's partly a miracle and partly thanks to the fact that I have a soft spot for suave, pretty elf bois that I remembered his. Another half body and a very very sincere attempt at drawing clothes with Folds and Creases and all the other things that make clothes a pain to draw. I'm still stupidly happy with how his hand turned out.

3) This is Sorrel, Vanya's missing bff. Are they more that just friends? Who knows; Vanya certainly doesn't! I gave the girl a smidge too much denseness. He's a sun elf paladin who serves Vandria Gilmadrith and if I told you the first half of this sentence was made up on the spot in-game I would not be lying but also I doubt you'd believe me because:

1) Sun elves are apparently one of the few elven races who lean toward taking up the mantle of paladin; the others are more prone to chaotic alignments and thus are not drawn to the lifestyle/dogma of most paladins.

2) Vandria Gilmadrith is one of the few elven gods who isn't in fact of chaotic alignment. She's known as an elven goddess with few elven followers because of their freespirited natures. I chose her because she was the first elven war god I saw on the wiki.

And 3) Vandria is described as a goddess with white wings and white hair that she often wears as a braid doES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?? (She's also part(?) drow so they aren't exactly alike but considering all this was coincidental is crazy.)

ANYWAY BACK TO THE DRAWING. Drawing just the head again after agonizing over half for forever was absolutely delightful, and it took me way less time than I expected. I'm pretty sure I went from rough sketch to whatever state this is in less than four hours, which is short for me. I played with a new technique here where I just blotched colors over the lineart and adjusted accordingly instead of painstakingly following my lineart to the letter and correcting when something went wrong. It gave a lot of freedom for editing.

Yea that's prettymuch all I got haha. Sorry for the long ramble, but I like talking and I figured as long as everything was below the cut people wouldn't get too mad. Have a good day, folks!

I'M SORRY I SAID TINY BLURBS AND THESE AREN'T TINY 😭

#dungeons & newbies #Vanya Morrowstar #I'll tag Sorrel when I give him a last name ok #AhrtByMi

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My dude, if you could Help a Brother i would be in your debt. I'm using the 4e Forgotten Realm gods for my new campaign and I'm trying to find an easy place for how each of hte religions generally work, does such a resource exist? also if you know of anyone that's converted the 4e domains to 5th that would also be super awesome. Love your Page. Love is Squeeze. Pass it on.

Hi Kamizite!

I skipped 4e completely so everything I could find is probably useless to you or things you have already found.

Here is a list of Forgotten Realms Deities with links to pages that go into detail about the dogma, worshippers, practices, rituals of note and more where applicable. It is a Wikia page but unlike D&D wiki it’s not overpowered homebrew hell, it seems pretty much accurate lore wise.

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Here is a list of the old Domains of the FR Gods with links explaining the spells that were made available if you played a cleric of that domain.

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A YouTube channel called Jorphdan (the ph is silent) does a series where he goes over information about the gods, it’s more focused on who they are. It does usually touch on what happened to them before 5e. Here’s a link to the Pantheons playlist, he has one on history too.

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Now finding homebrew versions of the Domains may be a bit more difficult, Reddit has a Homebrew community which may be of some use.

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Otherwise your best bet may be to find the 5e domain that fits best and refluff it as required or Frankensteining one from bits of others.

Sorry I have not been much help, I will post this on my blog instead of privately, hopefully someone who sees it will add a better resource. Good luck!

#Kamizite

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太阳辐射也是引起气候变化的重要因素之一 (NASA/Flickr,CC BY-NC 2.0)

【希望之声2020年6月28日】（编辑：张鑫）在上篇文章我们中，我们回顾了历史上曾出现过的温暖期。而造成这些气温波动的原因，对于现代科学家们来说，至今还是尚未破解的谜团。

着名科学家、美国科学院和英国皇家学会院士弗里曼·戴森（Freeman Dyson）博士很坦然的表示：“在地球上最大的气候变化是冰河期，当时在北美和欧洲曾经有一半的地面覆盖着一公里厚的冰。冰河期在过去重复出现多次，我们正在向下一个冰河期迈进。有很多关于冰河期的理论，但是没有一个能真正理解这个问题。只要我们对冰河期还没有了解，我们就不算了解气候。”[1]

气候系统是一个非常庞杂的系统，涉及到了宇宙中的众多因素，其中包括大气圈、海洋圈、生物圈、岩石圈等众多相互作用的子系统，也涉及到了众多的学科，例如，天文学、气象学、生态学、海洋学等等。[2]

气候系统是一个非常庞杂的系统 (Femkemilene via Wiki，CC BY-SA 4.0)

但在2018年，IPCC仁川会议却发出“最后的警报，宣告全球变暖将引爆气候和生态环境灾难，留给人类化解这个危机的时间不多了。”[3]

2019年，联合国环境规划署（UNEP) 发布一份报告，“如果全球温室气体的排放量在2020年至2030年之间不能以每年7.6％的水平下降，世界将失去实现气候变化《巴黎协定》规定的1.5℃温控目标的机会。”[4]

既然科学界都没有完全了解气候，那IPCC和UNEP的气候灾难和控制数值的关键论证是从哪里来的呢？

气候模式

IPCC结论的关键证据来自气候学研究中的计算机气候模式。[5] 因为气候问题的庞杂和复杂性，使得科学家无法在实验室的可控制条件下进行实验和验证。因此，气象研究者们会采用一种气候模式来进行一些项目的研究。

IPCC称，“气候模式是气候系统的数学表达式，用计算机代码表示，并在功能强大的计算机上运行，它提供有关未来气候变化，特别是大陆及其以上尺度的气候变化的可靠量化估算。”[5]

气候模式（NOAA via Wiki, Public Domain）

而预测21世纪末气温将增高多少，也是来自气候模式的计算。IPCC表示， “在几十年的发展中，模式始终提供一幅因温室气体增加而引起气候显着变暖的稳固而明确的图像。”[5]

气候模式的不确定性与科学家的保留态度

虽然， IPCC声明了该气候模式的三点可信度来源[5]，但对于该气候模式的准确度，很多科学家都持保留态度，因为自然界中太多的不确定因素影响着气候的变化，这些是计算机模式所不能涵盖的。

着名科学家、美国科学院和英国皇家学会院士弗里曼·戴森（Freeman Dyson）博士认为，从模式中可以学到东西，但不能用它来预测：“你可以调节参数，但当你在不同的气候下使用它，当你有两倍二氧化碳，你就不能保证模式还是正确的，没有办法验证它。” [6]

在20世纪90年代，前普林斯顿大学副校长哈帕（William Happer）博士就是当时��气候模式的创建者。他自己认为，已有的气候模式高估了气候系统的敏感度，模式预测的增温效果远比观测到的要大。 [7]

在过去10年中，工业化迅猛突进，大气中二氧化碳的浓度快速增高，但气温却实际没有像气候模式中预测的那样快速上升。

大气中 CO2浓度趋势 (Global Monitoring Laboratory)

“根据大多数的气候模型，过去10年我们应该看到气温上升0.25摄氏度左右（0.45华氏度）。这种情况并没有发生。事实上，过去15年的增长是仅0.06摄氏度（0.11华氏度）。”这是德国气候科学家、汉堡大学教授斯托奇（Hans von Storch）在2013年的论文中得出的结论。[8]

因此，哈佛大学科学家威利·宋（Willie Soon）也认为气候模式不适合对未来气候变化作出推测。[9]

其它影响气候变化的可能因素

IPCC也明确了云的形成过程、以及云对气候变化的影响给模式带来了不确定性。[5] 而水汽也是一种温室气体，其增加会对气候变暖产生显着的影响。[10] 除此之外，太阳辐射是影响气候变化的一个不可忽视的重要因素。

加利福尼亚理工学院大熊湖太阳天文台所长哈罗德·齐林（Harold Zirin）提出，从没有受大气影响的卫星中最精确地测量出，地球接受的太阳辐射能量大约为1,366瓦/平方米（W/m²）。[11]

而大气中温室气体（二氧化碳、甲烷和一氧化二氮等）给地球造成的直接能量增加约为2.5W/m²，其中仅1.6 W/m²来自二氧化碳。[12]

除了云、水汽、太阳等因素会造成气候模式的不确定性外，还有气溶胶、地表活动都在影响着气候变化。

人类对大自然的探知还是极其有限的，也许大自然中还有各类庞杂因素，都有着超凡的自我调控能力，而这些却不是现代科学所能探知到的。

既然是还有很多科学家都对气候模式持有保留态度，那为什么IPCC还会得出“人类影响极有可能是20世纪中叶以来观测到的变暖现象的主要原因”的结论呢？ [13]

美国工程院院士、杰出的前NASA大气科学家乔安‧辛普森（Joanne Simpson），已撰写了190多项研究报告，被称为“过去100年来最杰出的科学家之一”。她在退休后，说了的一段话很耐人寻味。

她在2008年2月27日发表的公开信中说：“由于我不再隶属于任何组织，也没有接受任何资金，我现在可以非常坦率地说话…温室气体是变暖的原因，几乎完全基于气候模型。”，她说：“作为科学家我仍然持怀疑态度。”[14]

辛普森博士为什么要这么说呢？IPCC 这个非研究性机构组织与气候灾难的论点及政策有什么关系呢？我们将继续和大家一同探讨。

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“人类影响了气候变暖的科学共识”，这也许是个谎言，你相信吗？（1）

参考资料

[1] Freeman Dyson, “Misunderstandings, Questionable Beliefs Mar Paris Climate Talks,” The Boston Globe, December 3, 2015

[2] 魔鬼在统治着我们的世界

[3] 最后警报：气候变化12年后可能失控. BBC

[4] 联合国环境署报告

[5] IPCC,用来预估未来气候变化的模式可靠性如何？

[6] Michael Lemonick, “Freeman Dyson Takes on the Climate Establishment,” Yale Environment 360, June 4, 2009,

[7] William Happer, “Data or Dogma? A Senate Hearing on the Human Impact on Climate Change,” Hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, December 8, 2015,

[8] Olaf Stampf and Gerald Traufetter, “Climate Expert von Storch: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?” Der Spiegel, June 20, 2013

[9] Willie Soon, et al., “Modeling Climatic Effects of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Unknowns and Uncertainties,” Climate Research 18 (2001): 259–275.

[10] Bates, B.C et al, Climate Change and Water

[11] “Solar Constant,” Britannica Online

[12] “Climate Change,” American Physics Society Web Page

[13] IPCC, Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis – Summary for Policymakers (AR5 WG1) (PDF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: 17. It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.

[14] “U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims Scientists Continue to Debunk ‘Consensus’ in 2008,” U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority Staff Report (Inhofe), Dec 11, 2008

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Hello again - thanks for the info on the Gransys/Lestainian alphabets - yes it *really helps*. I've got every character in the Black Cat text now except one that looks like an 'E; which by elimination should be either Q or J.. (maybe) Well it isn't in english, though it starts out "Capcom Dragon's Dogma" - and looks very likely to be romanization of japanese .. The lack of spaces doesn't help. You can see my current best guess at - dragonsdogma wikia com wiki The_Black_Cat#The_Black_Cat_Sign

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HERE WE GO

Images and some deciphered text from: http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/The_Black_Cat

CAPCOM

dragonsdogmatohajibunnoaiboutomonifantajisekaiwoboukensurusoudainasukeruwomottaentateimentodearu

demokyarakutanokaogariarusugitetyottokowaibubunnmoaru

sositeryousyusamanorukkusugaitibannkiaihaitteirutoittemokagondehanaisonaohanasi

And in Japanese:

CAPCOM

Dragon’s Dogmaとは自分の相棒と共にファンタジ世界を冒険する壮大なスケールを持ったエンタテイメントである

でもキャラクタの顔がリアルすぎてちょっと怖い部分もある

そして領主様のルックスが一番ん気合入っていると言っても過言ではない

そんなお話

Which roughly in English is something like this:

CAPCOM

Dragon’s Dogma lets you adventure together with a partner in a fantasy world, an entertainment of a grand scale

But the characters’ faces are too realistic it is a little scary

And the Duke’s looks (expressions) are the most spiritedIt’s not an exaggeration to say so

Such is the tale

(lol, Edmund)

Anyway OKAY ENOUGH SQUINTING FOR TODAY I AM GOING TO SLEEP

(P.S. I’m assuming that you’re the one editing the Gransys alphabet article on the wiki - you may want to make a note that not only Lestania, but Phindym also uses the same alphabet. The page(s) I had linked to earlier only mentions Lestania, but at that time the Phindym continent expansion was not yet released in DDON.)

edit: it seems that the same text also shows up on DDON - here’s a letter in the Mergoda Ruins inn building:

Last few paragraphs match the above text:

(bigger version here)

#dragon's dogma #dragons dogma #dark arisen #xiiophen #ddon #dragon's dogma online

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‘Zero to One’

Bedah buku Zero To One karya Peter Thiel oleh Denny Yusuf, alumni Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Indonesia.

“Every moment in business happens only once.”

“The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.”

“It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.”

Buku ini bikin saya ngebuka mata banget tentang dunia yang makin berkembang dengan teknologi dan globalisasi. Penekanannya ada di startup dan teknologi. Alhasil, buku ini cukup signifikan memperkuat memutuskan masuk ke industri teknologi dari niat saya yang tadinya jadi dosen dan ternyata kurang cocok. Yang saya suka juga dari buku ini, kalau kita baca buku ini, rasanya entah kenapa berasa melek banget tentang teknologi—meski nggak bertahan lama setelah baca buku-buku lain, haha.

Inti besarnya adalah, menajdi game changer berarti berangkat dari 0 ke 1 (from zero to one) untuk menciptakan inovasi, dan para game changer tersebut melakukannya dengan menciptakan monopoli (oke ini kapitalis abis); karena seluruh bisnis lebih baik lepas dari kompetisi sempurna dan menciptakan monopoli. Untuk menciptakan monopoli, dibutuhkan diferensiasi yang game-changing. Buku ini membahas gimana cara bikin bisnis yang inovatif sekaligus memonopoli pasar, yang juga diambil dari perjalanan Thiel membangun PayPal, yang udah dibeli seharga 1.5 miliar dollar oleh e-Bay pada 2002.

Tentang Peter Thiel Peter Thiel adalah seorang pengusaha di bidang teknologi dan venture capitalist dari US. Thiel juga adalah salah satu co-founder PayPal pada 1998. Yang unik, sekarang para founders dari PayPal ini masing-masing bikin startup teknologi dan berhasil sukses: - Elon Musk: SpaceX dan Tesla Motors - Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn - Steve Chen, Ched Hurley, dan Jawed Karim: YouTube - Jeremy Stoppelman dan Russel Simmons: Yelp - David Sacks: Yammer - Peter Thiel: Palantir

Mereka terkenal juga dengan sebutan “PayPal Mafia”. Palantir yang dirintis Thiel adalah sebuah perusahaan teknologi di Silicon Valley yang berperan mengolah real-time data dalam melacak Osama bin Laden.

Tantangan masa depan “Apa salah satu kebenaran yang penting bagi Anda tapi jarang disepakati orang lain?” Pertanyaan ini biasanya sulit dijawab langsung. Mungkin lebih mudah jika diawali dengan pertanyaan “Apa yang disepakati oleh semua orang?”. Jawaban Thiel atas pertanyaan ini adalah: kebanyakan orang berpikir bahwa masa depan dunia ini lebih ditentukan oleh globalisasi, namun sebenarnya teknologi berperan lebih penting. Menggunakan cara-cara lama di dunia ini untuk menjadi kaya akan membawa kita kepada kehancuran, bukan harta, seperti polusi udara Cina. Globalisasi tanpa teknologi tidak sustain.

Lalu, startup-lah yang membantu mengenalkan inovasi untuk membuat dunia ini menjadi lebih baik.

Dogma Lean Startup Setelah dot-com bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble, 4 hal ini menjadi kepercayaan banyak orang dalam membangun startup: 1. Buat kemajuan bertahap 2. Tetap ramping dan fleksibel 3. Tingkatkan persaingan 4. Fokus pada produk bukan penjualan

Menurut Thiel, ini lebih tepat: 1. Lebih baik mengambil risiko dengan berani daripada terjebak melakukan hal tidak penting 2. Rencana yang buruk lebih baik daripada tak ada rencana 3. Pasar yang kompetitif menjauhkan kita dari laba 4. Penjualan sama pentingnya dengan produk

Bisnis vs Startup Saat Twitter go public pada 2013, valuasinya mencapai 24 miliar dolar, 12 kali lipat lebih tinggi dibanding market cap Times, tapi Twitter merugi di saat Times mendapatkan 133 miliar dolar. Mengapa startup memiliki valuasi yang besar? Karena cashflow. Startup diprediksi untuk mendapatkan untung di masa depan.

Membuat monopoli Menurut Thiel, ada 4 karakteristik dari perusahaan yang menciptakan monopoli 1. Proprietary technology Teknologi hak milik, yang dilindungi hak paten. Ini keunggulan mendasar perusahaan agar bisnis tidak mudah ditiru. Contoh dari sini adalah algoritma search engine yang dimiliki Google yang sekarang menguasai pasar dengan perolehan 63.8% worldwide. Teknologi hak milik ini juga minimal harus 10x lebih baik dibanding teknologi yang ada di pasaran untuk menciptakan monopoli. 2. Network effects 3. Economies of scale (simple scalability) Contoh seperti bisnis sanggar yoga vs Twitter. Twitter memiliki scalability yang jauh lebih tinggi dibanding bisnis sanggar yoga. 4. Branding

Sales Biasanya, para nerds di Silicon Valley (red: engineer) meremehkan peran sales/marketing. Mereka sudah sibuk dengan kerja mereka berat, padahal kalimat “if the product is good enough, it will sell itself” hampir pasti tidak benar.

7 pertanyaan yang harus dijawab setiap startup 1. Engineering. Bisakah kita membuat terobosan teknologi dibandingkan kemajuan secara bertahap? 20% kemajuan belumah cukup. 2. Timing. Apakah saat ini adalah waktu memulai bisnis yang tepat? 3. Monopoli. Apakah kita akan memulai dengan market yang besar atau kecil? 4. People. Apakah kita bersama orang yang tepat? 5. Distribution. Apakah kita memiliki cara-- tidak hanya membuat, tapi dalam men-deliver produk kita. 6. Durability. Apakah 20 tahun ke depan posisi kita di pasar masih bertahan? 7. Secret. Apakah kita memiliki unique opportunity yang tidak dilihat orang lain?

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