Like, imagine if we decided that books older than five or ten years were suddenly not worth reading

I can’t even get anyone I know to try reading Hail Mary before watching the inevitably less satisfying movie, and these are educated people who like science fiction, and the book was written exactly for today’s readers with shorter chapters.

Rates are falling, the book may go the way of the radio. Not gone, just not shaping society like it used to.

https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump

Welcome to getting old in the new millenium, where the things you loved are still kept fresh and can be still seen all over the internet, yet they are still… inextricably, old. I do not know what the next generation’s idea will be of intellectual development, but if it follows the patterns of history, likely we will hate it. With a deep, burning fire in our aching bones.

Office Space came out in 1999. There are people already planning their mid life crisis right now who haven’t seen it.

No but they will have an entirely squirrel themed Magic deck.

Compare this percentage with how many are MAGA and you start to see a distinct pattern.

Too late, already been lured away by the seductive embrace of Inland Empire and Electro Chemistry together.

If you pack and unpack something enough, the wrinkles kind of distribute more evenly instead of those sharp “square” patterns. Looking at the other hints in the picture like the fence in the background and the concrete slab, it seems this was set up hastily in some lot or alley.

Look at that “yard.” Weird old cheap red-stained lumber behind a “rustic” fence that doesn’t even reach the bare, dirt ground, a bare concrete slab, folding chairs just unwrapped with factory wrinkles, cables laying on the ground like a stagehand set it up, and absolutely no personal touches other than the smoker and barbecue.

This was obviously staged in some lot or ally behind the Meta Factory or wherever the fuck Zuck incubates and “smokes meat.”

People are far more scared of inconvenience than death.

Most people would rather put their pet down than have to care for them in some new way that requires money and attention, and this is what people who don’t understand autism think it is, like they will have to strap their dogs into a special chair and spoon-feed them.

Same with people. Most ignorant anti-vaxxers are far more terrified of being locked into caring for a disabled child than having a child die from a “natural” disease. And while they don’t consciously think this way, some layer of their brain has indeed weighed this out and formed their opinions.

No, and I’ve been giving it a lot of thought.

I had a brief, fanciful idea a few years back that if everyone starts using AI that it would help increase personal education and knowledge throughout the world.

That worked out as good as the feeling I had back in the mid 90’s where I said “Wow, if everyone has access to all this information, the future generations of this world are going to be fantastically intelligent, we will have starships by the time I’m old!”

We might need to accept and start compensating for the hard fact that we are just complex apes and have fundamental limitations as populations. It might not get better. We might make more new things and we might create new ways of living, but we’re always going to be spiraling around our own limited cognition and our survival instincts that make us forget to think.

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Let’s eat grandma

Let’s eat, grandma.

There is a real need for punctuation.

The year is 2064. The world outside is fire and riots.

A new life is brought into the world, the hospital lights flicker. The doctor, dirty and worn out, pushes the new parents a form on a battered clipboard.

“Congratulations to you both, now please sign this release to bring your baby home, but not before you designate which formats of Skyrim your child will inherit, please understand this is not optional, and we no longer take Bitcoin to pay the mandatory $60 Skyrim Fee, so please use cash, credit or ration cards to pay.”

Go buy Vein on Steam.

Yah it’s nothing like CoD Zombies, but it IS a zombie game, and it’s made by just two people trying to make a quality survival game and it’s obviously a work of passion worth supporting.

I haven’t bought a big company release in years at this point. There are so, so many good indie games being made right now, this will be a nostalgia point for kids someday, back when there were was a flood of games and half were huge, bloated AAA wastes of money that nobody liked, and the other half were amazing, weird, experimental concept ideas produced in low fidelity and released for $5 - $20.

no, that’s the joke.

You miss your life from when the app was popular. Like all nostalgia, we don’t miss the product or game or app itself, we miss who we were and how things seemed simpler.

It is absolutely not possible in every company.

This was about when we started fixing the ozone hole too, the Sega Genesis just came and the Cold War was ending, so it was a great time to be alive.

Other than all the things that were terrible of course.

yet they aren’t out there blowing on dicks or trying to force air up urethras… Hopefully…

I see you don’t regularly read the sex forums and questions on reddit.

This is complete bullshit.

It’s actually “Clavicle Chop”

I’m not deluded, I just don’t have a choice, not every field or industry has the option of rallying together the glorious people’s union when it’s just an assortment of diverse teams working on specific areas of the company. I’ve never felt any kinship or closeness to the CEO’s and CFO’s, my relationship with my work is just work.