same

I’m am/was a fan of the cyberpunk genre 15 years ago, but reality is faster moving and more subversive now. I have to watch ads to pump my gas man. I think what you are looking for exists under a different name. The fiction that is a reaction to our current environment is stuff like solar-punk.

I wouldn’t bother with DCC it seems like a weird rec to me. Litrpg is a new kind of genre fiction slop that’s emergent because video game literacy is at an all-time high but it just amounts to scenes with characters reading menus, achievement toasts, and their stats.

Not her fault for losing interest in you. I think it wasn’t a big deal until you got more serious with her and she had to start thinking about what having a family with you would be like and is probably internally realizing you would struggle with fatherhood. I’m not against you though. if you found a way to not have to run the society treadmill the rest of us do then I’m happy for you.

I was an addict in my 20s and I was such a bad partner it cost me my engagement. Playing MMOs was my highest priority, friends and lovers were an annoyance. I couldn’t grow up until years later when having personal realization about how I was projecting my desire to learn and achieve things in real life onto a game where achievement and progress is spoon-fed to you and requires no risk or effort from the player. Anyway, I think if a person is demonstrating with their actions that video games are more important to them than you are; you should listen. As painful as that may be in the short term.

nobody cares bro

bro get the fuck over yourself.

chatgpt isn’t a source, stop making the internet worse.

have some respect and delete this shit.

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I know it probably feels comforting to claim the moral high ground and say “I told you so” but you’re just letting your own weakness infect the people on your side. Everyone has moral turning points in all of their lives and it’s a futile and stupid gesture to say your entry point is better than someone elses. Let’s focus our hatred on the people who deserve it: billionaires.

Thanks for posting about this I never learned all of the details that came out after the incident happened. I will remember my enemies have no mercy for even the gentlest souls and try to become harder.