If I’m not playing something fun in a few minutes, I’m probably going to bounce off. I’m not here to watch a movie.

I don’t want to watch a long intro. I don’t want a lot of cut scenes and exposition up front.

The dark souls games have a little cut scene that you can skip, and then you’re off to playing. Perfect.

I would be surprised if there were a lot of indie games that didn’t run via proton or wine on Linux.

Evangelicals aren’t known for being smart, critical thinkers well versed in theology (theirs or otherwise).

Reminded of that quote

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

People need to admit they don’t know shit and stop believing crap from YouTube.

People make money on it. People don’t care enough to organize around stopping it.

This is the only penny arcade comic I remember, but I liked it.

I tried to use it as a clue and prop in a tabletop RPG once, and one of the players unironically said “I’m not reading all of that”. She was not a great player.

I don’t understand how some of my friends don’t use adblock. One of them always just seems overwhelmed, and I don’t think the ads are helping. But they also have no brain energy to change anything.

I’ve seen a lot of Nirvana tshirts lately. Did they do a sale at … Wherever teenagers get clothing now?

Bandcamp new and notable

Bands I like touring with other bands

Record labels I like put out new stuff

Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don’t read them as much as I used to.

Where are the consequences? Ruin their fucking life.

I think I read that some WW2 Nazi wanted to be killed by firing squad after Nuremberg, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he would hang.

I hope this is foreshadowing for the trump regime being executed as war criminals.

I kind of miss the full profiles thing, but match group largely killed them.

Dinners and movies are pretty bad for early dates. You go to a bar or coffee or something where you talk and can bail on short notice. If you like them, you can do more.

There’s no structure there, so how do you get that serendipity?

I don’t think I follow what you mean. Structure?

You see a profile that looks passably interesting. You send a message. If they’re feeling it, they reply. You go out. Once you meet up you’re in normal-dating-land, and the online stuff doesn’t matter as much.

“The man hating is over the top for me,” another user responded

Lol. Big lol.

I say this as a man who doesn’t date men. Get over yourself. It’s not about you. Or if it is, then it’s working.

A. Fuck this guy. He shouldn’t have a license, not be entrusted with policing

B. That car is too big for NYC.

So, to clarify, veganism was a separate example of things that cause a strong emotional reaction.

Second of all, I don’t really believe you but I don’t especially care.

This is the best answer.

The receptionist really doesn’t care. You’re one of dozens of people they see every day. They’re not going to remember or care if you ask for help.

Many people have as an immutable axiom “I am a good person”

When you suggest they are doing something bad, like contributing to climate change, this clashes with that axiom.

That clash causes discomfort. Most people are, frankly, lazy cowards. They could accept that they are not being a good person all the time, and update their axiom. But that’s scary and feels bad. They could also try to do something about climate change (or whatever the topic is. see also: veganism), but that’s also hard. It’s far easier to just lash out at the source of discomfort.

The oatmeal did a comic on basically this topic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe