But that’s not a hill? What were you, rich?

I think that small talk is an ever constant reminder of the pervasive nature that is ‘wanting to be happy’.

Don’t get me wrong, there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with wanting to be happy. There is something wrong about being willing to sacrifice anything for what you perceive is the thing (or person, or hobby, or whatever) that will bring you happiness.

I think that the reason small talk is so fucking meaningless is because we all are just seeking some measure of peace and happiness in our lives. We simply can’t tell everyone who asks that our day is going terribly, for one thing it will make us feel worse — for another it will also make everyone that has to tolerate us feel worse. So we say “Fine” or “Good” or “Tired” or “The weather has me down” or whatever other instantly acceptable and obvious answer is easiest and ends the interaction quickly.

I think if we allowed people to be more honest with themselves that things like small talk wouldn’t really exist beyond trying to fill a silent void. But sure, friendly human noises go brrr.

My Conservative coworker after being questioned about what Israel is doing: “I love Israel, and I love what they’re doing!”.

We’ve allowed some genuine fucking demons to gestate in Israel (and the U.S. apparently) and it makes me sick thinking of how unaware I was about them just 3 years ago.

Pretty sure he’s the bad guy, I think if you’re going for a broader interpretation then it’s more accurate to say that God is also the bad guy.

So Satan is pretty famous for saying what he thinks, you a big fan of Satan?

Dude, Trump quite literally described metal letters on the wall as “Entirely Bronze, carved, and entirely Brass” in the same fucking sentence.

No this is not just his weird way of talking, he’s an addled old man that should have died 10 years ago.

Sigh Normally I read ‘.ml’ and instantly downvote but… I’m contractually obligated to upvote.

Even if you can’t play the game, watching a 100% playthrough with no commentary is worth it. The story is easily the best part of the game.

At least, in my opinion.

If that’s how the timeline goes I don’t think we’ll be making it 400 more years

I don’t think anyone just uses one device anymore, pretty sure there are workarounds.

I wasn’t arguing that AI doesn’t harm people’s brains, I was arguing that there are so many other things to be morally opposed to AI about that attention spans might as well not even be a consideration.

I don’t have a single thing to add to this. You’ve earned a tag, I don’t know what yet but it’s gonna be positive.

Makes me think God was a woman, and this is her pulling up the ladder.

I’m not being serious, of course, but it’s a fun concept — to me.

Listen, can we reclaim the word r * tarded ? Because I really struggle to use words that define just how fucking challenged some MAGAts are.

Especially considering all the other empirically proven ways that attention spans have been shortening for decades prior to this.

10 bucks this woman has used Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, (insert social media here) a hell of a lot more than this guy has used ChatGPT.

That being said, yes — you probably shouldn’t trust someone that puts blind faith in ChatGPT. But definitely not for that stupid reason.

Edit: I mean, shit, wasn’t there an odd correlation between Spongebob’s release and attention spans shortening? I think the study was proven inaccurate in the sense that it negatively affected attention spans of children below the target demographic, but still — none of this is a new phenomena associated with the advent of AI.

The written language is developed by the spoken language. I.e. colloquialisms are king.

I raged against people using literally when they mean figuratively for years. I lost.

I would start buying plots of land in food deserts, demolish the buildings there and start up communal gardening hubs. Actually, there are a ton of things that could be done to areas like this to make them walkable and liveable — but gardening hubs first sounds good.

Cry more you fucking baby

Holy fuck you’re dense.

I have already addressed that you can have complete experiences from both single difficulty games and variable difficulty games.

The only thing that is unique about Atomfalls difficulty settings outside of the difficulty sliders is that there’s a very very easy mode instead of a very hard mode.

Again, research design philosophy for video games. Because as other users have mentioned — you are objectively incorrect. In the exact same way as someone who believes that games should only have one difficulty are incorrect.

Edit: actually, fuck you — I’ve read the rest of these comments. You’ve earned the tag “Terrible at video games”.

Edit 2: no no, I’ve got an even better tag — “IGN Game Journalist”.

What was that? I couldn’t hear you over the ad hominem, you can cry in this cup I’m holding.

Difficulty sliders have existed for decades, just because you’re an idiot that’s never noticed that the games they’re attached to are typically bad isn’t my problem. Maybe go research game balance and why different designs exist for different games, it isn’t my responsibility to drag you to the finish line.