Yes. Microsoft is shit. They’re too big and the people making decisions there are too removed from shared reality. Fuck them. Split it up. Give it to the workers. Bury the owners in lead containers with warnings.

Linux is fine.

Peer pressure is one of the only things that can change minds. Facts don’t do it so much as your friends and people you look up to pushing back on you.

I manually start it when I want to play something.

I shut down the computer when I’m done for a while. Like before bed, or if I’m leaving the house.

But if I play a game and then spend some time on the computer doing something else, I don’t explicitly close steam.

I think most people are so disorganized in their thinking, they can’t “prompt” well. There’s a lot of unclarified assumptions and leaps in how many people communicate

Agree with the other poster - too open is a net negative. There’s like 3 games I don’t want to play for 1 game I do.

There’s an RPG meetup I go to sometimes. They list some games on their blurbs so people know it’s not just a DND hangout.

Personally I would want to know what kind of games. There’s a wide range. Monopoly? Catan? A six hour indie extravaganza? Same with cards and video games. Like I would go to a sekiro tournament but avoid a CoD thing.

I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.

These people are horrible and I would celebrate their fall.

Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.

Oh god concerts are so stupid right now. Can’t see anything because there’s always some idiot holding a phone up in front of your face.

I get annoyed when people hold the phone up high during the show. If you hold it in front of your face, no one behind you can see it. Don’t block people’s view.

I don’t do any banking via an app. It’s only from my desktop, never my phone. If they required an app, I’d change banks.

If you’re ever wondering why something in the US is bad, it’s almost always racism. Sometimes it’s corporate profits.

I’ve had several girlfriends who were like “you play video games? Like… <worried expression> call of duty?”

They were all relieved when I was like no.

Less relieved when I got them to play cuphead co-op.

At the lowest level, it is possible to pull people in your peer-group out of shitty world views. It’s slow and difficult. But like I got an old coworker to be way less homophobic through our chats at work.

At the larger level, nah, fuck em.

Also your local public library has a lot of stuff

I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story “the lathe of heaven”. Someone privately messaged me after to say “great book. BTW, it’s pronounced…”

That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just… it can’t all be highlights. Some things need to build!

I’ve encountered a surprising amount of seemingly intelligent, successful, people recently who of their own admission don’t read books. They just watch short videos, maybe a movie, and read social media.

I’m not a researcher but I expect that their vocabulary is stunted as a result.

But they’re so weirdly proud about it. Like a defiant 12 year old who doesn’t want to do his homework.

I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.

I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.

I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.

Surely this guy has an address