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@sunrisevoid Is it really that easy, or are you that good at it?

getting some mileage out of tomodachi life

@C_U271D >be you

When writing in 2nd person it is technically necessary to specify that this is a story written from the perspective of the author themselves and not just some unnamed fictional character (since both are identical in 2nd person), but on the other hand who *else* would you be?

The only genres of literature primarily written in the second person that I am aware of are choose-your-own-adventure books, visual novels, and 4chan greentexts.

@sunrisevoid In my experience, when it's online, people don't respect your time. Even people who are prompt to in-person games will often show up to an online game egregiously late, or not at all. Consequently, I refuse to run games online.

set a ttrpg weekly group, i had five people commit for a oneshot, for the past two months only one person would show up at a time, we talk, decide not to play, and nothing happens. sometimes no one shows up and i just sit in the call by myself, waiting

@0xJESSIE_ @owenbroadcast a door that isn't meant to be opened is called a wall

@owenbroadcast some doors aren't meant to be opened

when i was travelling a lot i got into lucid dreaming. eventually wondered what would happen if i went to sleep in a dream, so i did. in a dream, i found a bed, laid down, went to sleep - and woke up in my real bed. just decided not to critically analyze that one.

@uncle_deluge TF2 is a villain shooter

I think it's safe to say that hero shooters are all downstream from TF2 but TF2 is not a hero shooter

what did he know

@C_U271D I find it far easier. The passing interactions of being, for example, a mutual, is not very different at all from sporadically paced messages once the DM-barrier is permeated. From then, it's just a matter of scale between "internet acquaintance" and "friend"

I don't really understand how people make friends on the Internet, let alone real life. I was the kid who only made friends with the people who lived near me, were in my class, or their parents knew my parents. All those people are long gone now.

I don't like how the only way I know to deal with stress is to cut off all forms of communication I have and ghost everyone I know. I should stop doing that.

I felt extremely depressed this morning but I made a conscious decision to make myself feel better and for the first time in my entire life it actually worked. It's an actual Christmas miracle.

@TylerAlterman Last time I decided to try and intentionally listen to the messages, the messages immediately started telling me to stop listening to the messages. I now consider that door to be closed

I'm confused by what to do about "synchronicities" Like this morning I googled whether the final Name of the Wind book has a release date (no) Then I saw a woman reading the Name of the Wind on the subway and we struck up a geeky conversation Then, in a bookstore, Lin-Manuel Miranda was reading something behind me. Lin-Manuel Miranda was tapped to produce and compose for the Name of the Wind movie trilogy and TV show My woo friends & Jung fans would interpret this sort of thing as very meaningful, perhaps a message from the universe. I interpret this sort of thing as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, a cognitive bias where you notice something and then it seems to appear everywhere But let's say I treat these things as messages from the universe. Would that make my life any better? I feel like I'd just get whipped around by random patterns Maybe I'll spend a week living the "synchronicities are real and important" lifestyle and see what happens

@Howlingmutant0 Of course. Confidently improvising ridiculous lies is an integral element of being a father.

Did anyone else’s parents tell them weird shit like this? My dad had me convinced he had magic powers until I was like twelve, that he could read people’s minds and see the future and move objects with his mind. I thought it was kind of quirky but it seems insane now

I don't think the world is going to end in our lifetime, and the global system and civilisation won't collapse and everyone will have to keep going to work

@C_U271D Those are called "opera"

Are there any musicals about like niche 19th century geopolitics?

I think I unironically love musicals but it's hard to find any with a plot or subject matter I would actually care about

@vaaalenmoge more like this

@impetus998 they just look at you like this

people sure like to ask "are you okay", considering they don't seem to know how to respond when you say no

@C_U271D The thought being that power inevitably corrupts, so entirely preventing corruption isn't possible while anyone has any power, so perhaps the best defense possible would be requiring a 51% attack

@C_U271D My understanding is that it is a nominally enormously inefficient system whose primary strength is that it minimizes the opportunity for government corruption to become an autocratic force via extreme decentralization of power

Rare unambiguously political post from me, but it truly bewilders me that people who clearly don't formally or even informally study economics treat economic policy as an entrenched ideological position that they hold a deeply clannish loyalty towards.

@C_U271D me when I definitively prove that it's logically impossible for me to lose

I'm less knowledgeable on Analytic Philosophy than I am on like Greek or Postmodern (which is to say I basically know nothing) but I was imagining something revolving around establishing axioms and logical proofs and shit mid-battle.

I need to learn more about Analytical Philosophy but only enough to design a character whose fighting style and special techniques are inspired by it.

@bradtid @fleshsimulator Would it actually be funnier if he did, or didnt?

People who say this about autism have exclusively dealt with the high functioning autist, who perhaps has a revulsion to wearing socks. When I was first teaching in public school I had a 4th grade autistic student who regularly wet himself, could not speak beyond moans, often hit and bit out of frustration, could not read or write. If you don’t think parents and children deserve a cure for this, you are either a very evil or very deluded person.

@ZyMazza This is half the point of the character. He's such a raging narcissist that even when operating alongside someone just as smart and capable as he is, he's staight-up unable to respect them without playing silly mind-games with himself about it

Seems many willfully conflate illusions with reality. Eg “There’s a 50/50 chance I’ll wake up on the clone table” No. You were never on the clone table. You have a 0% chance of waking up there. That there’s a clone who’s really gonna think he’s you for a sec doesn’t change that

@Pregumin_ @TankZZ5 I've never found a video or audio file it couldn't play, which is more than I can say for any other player I've tried to use.

@TankZZ5 VLC is trash. I genuinely have no idea why it’s so popular.

A decade ago if you'd boasted about using VLC you'd have been pelted with rocks.