Duck

Yes, it does. Fresh mountain spring water is very cool and refreshing. Some of it even runs down from glaciers and is nearly ice cold.

Moral panic is unrelated to games having addictive elements.

A better comparison would be how retro games would be designed for you to die/lose over and over because they were based on arcade dynamics, where the customer has to keep putting in quarters to continue playing.

So, stuff you made up.

Orangutans

Don’t Starve Together. Fatal flaw: it’s too hard for most people to want to play, and you have to play it repeatedly to get any good at it.

I would say that most retro games can be enjoyed by a 5-year-old (having once upon a time been a 5-year-old playing some of them myself), but the first one that comes to mind is Donkey Kong Country.

There’s also a legs-only version of something similar coming out eventually. Very exciting stuff! I put in my deposit as soon as I read about them.

https://www.skipwithjoy.com/learn

Jole?

No. If you have hurt someone you love, try to make things right. Don’t keep pushing if they don’t accept your apology. Maybe try again some years later.

These days, I mostly drink water. Growing up, however, I hated it. The area I lived in had very mineral-heavy water and it just tasted bad. Took years after moving away for me to even try drinking plain water again.

This is how I felt driving through North Dakota, aside from Roosevelt National Park.

Hello, Buddhism.

Yes. I have spent time living in the south and I have family from there.

Your rant has nothing to do with my comment. I was talking about superficial friendliness versus rudeness.

I think it was a joke.

I don’t disagree, but the question was whether or not it’s rude. So that’s what I stuck to.

I grew up in notoriously rude New Jersey. You might be surprised to learn that we also had a similar code, we’re just less tactful about it. People in that region are assholes but genuinely kind, helpful people. Kind of like the opposite of the south.

I think you are deeply mistaken in believing that people can be on their phones and not be bored at the same time.

As some others have said, no, it’s not rude to decline. Whether or not it’s rude is in how you word it. You were rude in this particular instance.

The ones that you call neutral, I would say are still rude.