I was a kid when we got the internet, and I mostly perceived it as a means of acquiring game demos and looking at NASA images and space stuff with my dad.

I gotta stop clicking on anything politically related. it's getting absurd.

shut up and take my money

it would be a very different movie tonally, to the point that it would hardly resemble what we got. I think I grok your point.

it pains me that people can be so incompetent at their job, yet no doubt paid staggeringly well.

I don't understand why they didn't just directly adapt the source material well, though… aside from any changes needed to better fit the medium, the heavy lifting was already done!

these personal insights into myself are nowhere near as enlightening as I once envisioned they would be :/

by definition you can't consent to being murdered though…?

I vaguely recall someone telling me about a crusty old school biker acquaintance that carried a handbag or something.

I mean, the everything happens for a reason crowd is grating for a multitude of reasons. it's way too reductive and dismissive, but there's that nugget of Zen adjacent truth regarding acceptance while simultaneously remaining open to possibilities.

yeah, but I already do enough projection and transference. gotta hedge my bets somehow :)

I don't see how people fail to understand how genderfuckery with roles or whatever can be fun.

I like to think I hold my own

the whole ease of use and convenience thing is kinda shitty in that regard

the lack of pockets makes me stabby out of principle! at least it helped me understand the existence and ubiquity of various handbags.

solidarity. though some would argue I merely feel old… which is about the same as being fucking old.

possibly the best piece of advice I've witnessed him give?

I ended up learning from my second girlfriend (practically a lifetime ago) that you can grow to love someone, and that attraction is something that can be cultivated. I wasn't initially attracted to her, but that definitely blossomed over time.

I can't totally write off online dating, but sometimes I think the last thing I need is to spend more time behind a computer screen. caveat being that my living situation and opportunities to go out and mingle feel fairly limited, so I don't want to entirely discount it…

I had a false start of an almost budding relationship with someone near the start of the year who wouldn't stop talking about "sub space" and had a predilection for defining too many things in terms of power dynamics.