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huh. yeah, in hindsight, i can see that some would actually do that ^_^

my flavour of it though, is the 'fades into the hedge to avoid speaking with strangers' ^_^

gotta love the spectrum.

Imagine for me. You are a farmer in a small town, going about your day when someone you don't know walks by. What context has to happen for you to utter the phrase "Right now, I am simply enjoying the quiet of the day and conversing with you."?

an overwhelming authority presence that re{wards, quires} positive portrayals of common folk daily life to strangers passing by.

yeah.

If you want to look for attention economy explanations maybe consider the general vanishing of leisure time and the obliteration of people's ability to do things outside of work, which favors mind-numbing slop content like scrolling tiktok over more engaging entertainment like books or games.

is that literally an Aetheryte from final fantasy 14 in the background too

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

thank you.

music added ✅

yeah, same feeling i got from the xbox situation.

LMAO y'all should have loved Cohost more because it's about to suck even harder here.

yeah. had never heard of it, and now is in the list `meh, don't wanna to know`

/bows

thank you for your service. may the cognitohazard fade without consequence.

caves of qud

mulder: [throwing a folder on the desk] scully have u heard of the sexy werewolf who fucks good

scully: haha well

my personal stance on ths
is: drop a book back and it's ok. drop two books back and it's forgiven ☺️

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Speaking of, oh wow it's on Steam

Oh wow it actually has a trailer, unlike functionally every other retro game on here, and

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... wait... shogo is on steam? huh. that's like, my favorite "shooter", thanks a bunch ☺️☺️

lost my disk of it in one of my moves 😭😭

in Brasil, for a few decades, there *was* a need for it, while our power grid was being expanded. that one hour shuffle in summer helped spread the load. for a few decades. then the power grid got gud, and that was it. took them a couple more decades to drop it, but now it's no more.

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I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

it made my night a lot... don't want to say better, but, it certainly distracted me ^_^ thanks. a lot. really.

someone out there? please?

Now that we have

Voyager: Oregon Trail

I look forward to

DS9: Carmen Sandiego

huh. i did not expect to understand that.

Marathon is demon's souls for people who want apex legends to feel like destiny.

real gamers(TM) don't need the reticle. they *always* know where it's aimed at.

huh. i guess he must have had *horrible* toilet seats in his life. i mean, i came across some that made me just *nope* and high-tail home, but, to find seat-less better :thinking:

ok, i'm giving it a try ^_^

yep. hard agree.

discord is a mysterious piece of software whose primary output is notification noises. No one is especially sure what purpose the noises serve, or what triggers them, but they tolerate it in order to use discord's ancillary functions as a chat service