when I dress for myself it’s usually in funky, slightly silly clothing

when I dress for others it’s as low-effort business casual for a zoom meeting square as possible

the vast majority of actors probably earn less than four figures a year.

I sometimes write the (temporary) line number to get back to a suspect section quicker

Alex Kidd in Miracle World was the built in game.

He thinks protestors and activists should be shot and killed by the police if they cause even minor disturbance.

A cold comfort, but in expressing his distaste for the current government he would be hoist by his own petard.

in America I can pay someone a handful of grain and gain access to every piece of data about them.

you fool, as n approaches infinity the mass of the toothbrushes collapses into a black hole

I mean down that road you end up at “what is anything? does anything exist? does free will exist?”

I know why they do it but I always thought it weird that you see what happens after you die.

In real life it doesn’t even go black.

I mean some people say his depictions of beautiful men were inspired by real men he physically admired

While I’m not saying they don’t both exist, there are plenty of people writing the original definition for tech products, too.

And I’d argue that purely scientific papers are often written to promote products and viewpoints, too.

some counter examples:

• https://cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf

• https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf

• https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf

developers want to read documentation

they won’t look at any white papers

?!?!?!?!!

even more so when you open the bag

yeah it’s a little bare bones, it’s not worth more than a single playthrough really. Because the events of 1 are expanded on in 2 and some of the story beats land a little better if you knew the characters from 1 it’s worth playing once for novelty - but it being a 16 year old game it shows its age.

1 was fresh and new

2 was fantastic

prequel was OK

3 tried too hard and was generally average to poor

well that’s your first mistake. Only communists question stuff.

Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.

you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning

we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.

Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn’t a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.

So you mean “will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources”

Also, we don’t have “total control” over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.

You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don’t- you can just go live in the forest.

Then you pivot to saying “I’m being sarcastic - it wouldn’t be a utopia because we wouldn’t have AI”

AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.

I would also contend that society isn’t drastically different post-internet. It’s the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.