Soren

Elliot Page is rumored to play Achilles in THE ODYSSEY

A massive brown bear was spotted navigating the high-altitude peaks of Alaska.

Billie Eilish addresses criticism over her statement that “eating meat is inherently wrong”: “go watch a documentary or two and some footage of what is done to the animals u claim to love and what it does to the planet u pretend to love as well. if that footage was hard for u to watch i encourage u to pls take a look at urself. like i am so tired of standing up for/having empathy for living beings being controversial. pls continue to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance and denial and try to convince urself that ur not living a lie. mwah”

its actually insane how dysfunctional the average person is. Like it really is a miracle we have civilization at all.

>one chance at life >amab

Life imitates art

Autumn is right. Even women who love video games don't become obsessed with them the way men do. I know why, and I think it reveals a tremendously important difference between male-typical and female-typical psychology. Men. Want. Power. Men want to be able to *do* things. To shape the world. To impose their will on reality. To win. Video games are a fast, reliable superstimulus for that urge. With only a handful of exceptions, the good ones are designed to both excite the desire for agency and power, and to satisfy it. If yov doubt me, ask yourself why many men fixate harder on video games than they do on pornography. It's very telling that this is even *possible*. Women don't work that way. I could go off on a long tear about why, but the evolutionary-biology reasons are so obvious that I don't think I need to. If it's not obvious, ask an LLM "why do men seek power and agency the way women seek love and social validation". You'll get an earful. Of course this also explains the well-known phenomenon of women getting the ick when men play video games. It's not just that men doing this are chasing a goal women don't really understand or identify with. To them, a game-obsessed man is dropping out of the real-world contest, wasting the traits and energy that would otherwise make him attractive on a pursuit that is both literally and figuratively sterile. I don't have a fix for the problems this mismatch creates, nor am I judging either men or women about this - instincts are what instincts are and I don't waste any time arguing with the law of gravity either. But understanding what's going on increases the chances that we can make choices that aren't doomed to fail.

Anthony Bourdain: "Listening to you people makes me want to go join the communist party. You're living off the labor of a repressed underclass."