Out of curiosity (And no problem at all if you don’t feel like sharing), what type of personality is your wife? I feel like most long-term relationships I have been in have failed, mostly, or at least partly because I’m not interested in spending as much time together as the other half.
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I do think that possibly, you are a an honest person who is unwilling to tell social lies?
I did say “relative social isolation”. The last Gallop pole (~2001) I saw indicated that the average American has around 8-9 close friends. I have had zero (close or otherwise) for the last 15 years or so (unless you count my wife) so I don’t know if it would be fair to say I was being hyperbolic.
My main motivation…
Exactly! I don’t know if I could possibly empathize more with everything you just wrote.
I take your point that the term “jerk” can be defined rather broadly. I don’t go out of my way to be abrasive or rude but an unwillingness to support people through extensive social interaction can often be perceived as such. If I don’t go to that wedding or that party then I’m not supporting other people the way I…
I take your point... but I think it’s also valid to say that not all jerks are actually aware that they are jerks. It’s also a term that is nebulous enough that we could be defining it quite differently.
You, also, can’t be entirely unaware that very many people perceive an unwillingness to engage in extensive social…
What is the real reason why you are living in social isolation though. Introversion maybe?
I mostly agree... I also think, however, that there is some conflating in your position between the informal and the clinical definitions for the term “psychopath”. They are using the clinical term entirely appropriately so far as I can tell... which is not to say we should ignore how the general population will react…
I embraced “being a jerk” roughly 10 years ago because it functions as an easy to understand excuse for living in relative social isolation. I do feel and understand emotions. I really do care about the well being of others. I used to be extremely warm and open with people because that would make them feel good (I…
If the articles description of the game is accurate then it sounds as though they delivered on exactly what people have been asking for. A more compelling single player experience with a multiplayer experience that doesn’t stray too far from what these games have apparently been doing absolutely right for over a…
...happily if not gleefully...
The phenomenon seems to be magnified online because you don’t have the same type of constant social pressures being applied to keep the social outliers (toxic people) in line.
As narratively compelling as it is to have this whole thing take place in meatspace with physical androids, wouldn’t this all be much more sustainable in some sort of VR?
That is an amazing play... that first noscope is pretty good (his gun is practically clipped in to the players chest) but... that second one. Holy crap!
There is a third possibility here besides the police lying or these cars actually overheating... an off-the-cuff recommendation from a mechanic that was taken way too far (in response to concerns surrounding expensive future repairs, etc). This sort of thing happens naturally directly proportional to the level of…
Gawker takes a “never delete anything” approach to their work... even in the face of court orders, law suits and common decency.
I did. I didn’t find an answer right away (and I didn’t have much free time at the moment) so I came back here to ask in a thread with people apparently interested in entomology. You don’t have to participate if you don’t want to. Freedom is cool. I’m free to ask questions and your free to... do... whatever you are…
They are bolstering their internal social connections through otherwise unacceptable social behavior.
I wonder if it shares entomology with the use of “pussy” for “cat”... and maybe it’s loosely related to the colloquial term “scaredy cat”.