That’s so disappointing. I loved their games. 🥺

Do you have enough time to prepare?

I appreciate your efforts and good on you for doing this but I don’t have time to do that with hundreds of people.

It’s just not ready for production yet.

I actually just went and checked to see if I had any messages and element x was complaining that I didn’t have a separate app that I needed to use to get push notifications which one would think element x would do on its own but it does not.

Once I installed it apparently there’s some extra shit that I’ve got to do to make that work too and it’s just stuff like that that’s just user hostile and not good.

I do like element and I love the idea of it but it’s just not compatible with most humans, apparently even myself, though I’d thought I had it all ironed out.

Yeah, it really is. I feel like if I have trouble getting it to work, my friends have no hope.

… I mean, I did get it to work but the struggle was real.

I mean, no new information, but it’s definitely interesting to see the premeditation.

Thanks, I’ve shared this around.

No shame there to be sure.

I suspect I’ve just internetted too much.

For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.

This is an interesting and disheartening insight into how wealth consolidation is impacting journalism, and you personally.

I had a strange thought come to mind. With so many layoffs in so many industries, would it be possible for all these unemployed people to get together continue in their respective industries? Like, to start competing businesses? Probably not, given the competition, but I think this will sit in the back of my head for some time. What if we all just created another economy?

I agree with the other reply I saw. Papers are probably insufficient.

If you can park somewhere else, do.

Stay safe, friend💛.

Well, the polls are certainly encouraging. I’m not fully convinced that this is indeed Trump’s true base abandoning him. Also, while I know the article wasn’t arguing this, from what I understand, historically, tyrants that are elected are particularly difficult to remove. I will not celebrate just yet.

This is definitely progress though, and a good article. I’m sharing this one. It is… a source of light in dark times.

Internet trope of nerd/pedant correcting someone by starting off “well actually”.

I’ve been exposed to excessive internetting.

I’m not sure those are mutually exclusive.

The “well akshully” aside. I agree.

Total economic collapse may actually be what it takes to save us as a species.

… because if they can’t be victims, it’s harder to justify the concentration camps.

Probably not.

These shitheels are too dumb to figure any of this out for themselves, they definitely used a llm. I don’t think that I could view any evidence that supporting that as a coincidence.

The best part is if the third happens it doesn’t necessarily happen immediately. It might just happen while you’re sleeping.

Wheeeeeeee!

Thank you for your service. This is a fantastic video and more need to see it.

I believe it, most especially in your specific case.

It’s wonderful(ly disturbing) how the doublespeak and doublethink abound right before our (lying) eyes.