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That is refreshing to hear and a great perspective shift for me, haha

I mean idk when you read it, but like the author said I've seen this language be absorbed so I can't take it in as fresh innovative stuff. I was born after the novel came out so obviously was decades old when I read it.

Necromancer was cool. Never managed to get through the other cyberpunk classic Snowcrash though. Did I get the right book? Pizza delivery?

When's the last time you were bored? It's been ages for me. Too much going on all the time. Most people have an endless scroll one phone tap away.

I was bored all the time in the 90s and early 2000s.

I actively am trying to cut off the overstimulation though. I never used those types of phone apps but youtube and the net have endless content.

I think if you searched you'd find other articles mentioning the lack of boredom, I don't think I'm an isolated incident.

You can't even drive in most Yakuza games! They made a bad comparison.

Tolkien having s tier names helps, they're just cool

Thats an interesting concept. Considering it, the big first party titles certainly had stellar presentation art-wise. Doesn't seem like they were limited in achieving their vision in say, sonic the hedgehog. Even the later games with pseudo-3d the art direction makes it feel complete and like it fits the aesthetic.

And even the new ones that have gone back to that style have the same 'look'(obviously because they're trying to be like those old games) but the graphical fidelity doesn't seem to change much beyond more pixels.

I don't think that number is up to you and as evidenced by being mass flagged you should follow your own advice. You speak opinion as fact. Car mechanics notoriously take advantage of customers. It happens in every industry. Certainly not every car mechanic has nefarious intent.

Two of my therapists got into it to improve themselves then pass it on to others. The therapists those 99% of other people see, as it seems you feel, are not all grifters. Not even close.

I seriously cannot keep up. I fell a bit behind and now I feel I need a primer to know who owns/acquired/developed all these additional things surrounding the ai space

Yes I acknowledge this. But I also retain control to the very last moment. I don't have to bank on the driver of my vehicle not being suicidal. If I feel another driver is dangerous, I can just stop. This obviously doesnt prevent all accidents but I've never been in a serious one.

That being said ive flown plenty of times. My fear comes from lacking any control and just finding out mid-flight were going down through no fault of my own. I wouldn't want to know, but then again air France 447 is terrifying too.

Also green dot aviation has some great videos. Excellent animations. A calmer style. Both are great.

My therapist explicitly brings me back to the here and now at the end of sessions with the intention of relaxing me.

There's probably some truth that some psychologists are running a racket but thats true in all professions.

If your friends are hashing out stressful things leaving that way can be normal, but progress figuring out their life was made.

If it's constantly exhausting them, there's certainly others that would cater to their needs of a more relaxed environment. I changed my last therapist for this one for that reason - no hard feelings.

You seem to have quite a few opinions others want left internal, but you dont seem to consider that here. Some of the things you imply are quite monstrous. I go to therapy because I dealt with years of physical abuse and starvation. The monster lurked in others with bad impulses, not me.

I dig the optimistic view. I wish I felt I could really fight things more often rather than just check out when things turn to shit.(although hopefully I'll be able to leave in one click)

Couldn't even sign the stop killing games thing since that's EU!

It probably doesn't stop any tracking - that's true. It does reset my video feed though.

We just had our own parties for our social group. Not as many pretty girls and alcohol stolen from parents but still a good time.

Then when the popular kids were bored occasionally they'd end up at our shindigs

Are any types of those wipes actually flushable?

I'm struggling to follow that too. Maybe because they're all getting paid?

I'm stuck wherever I get all my content for free so it might be dirty but it's tough to beat

I must be missing a reference or something

I believe the kids would call this "based"

I know I'm a pig-headed stick in the mud, but if more people refused to watch it on principle because of this, we would see some changes in business models. It should be easy to pay and remove all ads. But I can't expect everyone to feel the same as me. It is a dream though.

Since I can't remove ads by paying, I don't pay for a single subscription content service. The pirate sites have stuff the day it premiers, and there's no nonsense about shows split between services. Also the broken promise of being able to change language easily is actually available on those sites. I had to buy then return shin godzilla from prime video - 2 separate versions. Haven't bought or rented on there since. Also had more than one service saying my stuff is not hdcp compliant when it is. Buggy, laggy messes.

I know im a minority but there is money on the table I would gladly pay for a decent service.

I've had my youtube watch history off for years. It still knows what I like.

Hence why I open a new private browser for each session.

I wonder if the feeling is excitement or horror when you encounter one of these weird problems that seems like it has to be the user.

Not computer related really, but I'm reminded of when my Mom was helping set up macs in the lab at my middle school. I, a 4th grader, tagged along and hung out in the other lab across the hall. I got very incredulous looks when i claimed that there was a lizard in there. It was the Midwest over summer break! I was obviously a kid seeing things. There's no lizards here.

Then I produced it, caught under a bin. It was a brown anole that had come back in a plant sent from Florida. I wasn't crazy that day.

There are numerous, I just read an article recently(than I can't locate now) where a guy watched and reviewed about 6 fan edits. There's gotta be one out there for ya.

They do have some awful slang.

I agree though I think they're picking it up from online censorship in this case, not being fragile.

It's still seen in the countries that used it that way and is seen as benign.

It can be easily summoned with the Japanese keyboard. It's seen on Buddhist temples all over Asia.

Yeah I realized after I wrote it he's overconfident and I realized there's more nuance

But we also talk shit about the guy who exudes confidence and messes everything up. He actively makes stuff worse due to his attitude.

I'd rather own my mistakes than be a walking contradiction.

To be fair he's probably overconfident. But picking up any sense of false confidence(not a shy buddy attemping to 'fake it til you make it', more serious matters) is a massive red flag to me that I can't trust their judgement of their own knowledge or capabilities. Someone who says straight up it will be difficult gets a lot more trust from me.

If I were genuinely being receptive I would flip it around. "Looking for new interests, what's got you attention lately?"

This is enlightening as someone with severe... well anxiety and dread, I suppose. Thank you sincerely.