I wouldn't say I lost interest, but rather that Endgame was a great ending for the MCU. Why would I want to watch past the end?
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There's no accounting for taste, as the saying goes, but where have you been that is quiet but not car-reliant? The lower population density that is made possible by driving reduces noise much more than cars increase it.
Yes, but even Skynet would probably like me better than the average woman does. Skynet > human woman > AM.
(I never know if explicitly saying that I'm not being serious is necessary on the internet or just ruins the joke, but here I'm going to ruin the joke.)
I know a couple of people my age (about 40) who really prefer not to drive, but it's such a strange preference IRL that I suspect most people online who claim that it's what they prefer have just never experienced how much better it is to have a car and live somewhere where driving is convenient.
I know that sounds patronizing but I was a bikes/mass transit supporter myself when I was younger and it was 100% because I hadn't learned how to drive and I didn't know what I was missing.
I've lost you? But we were meant to be together!
Meeting humans is intolerable, but my hope is that with AI technology advancing as rapidly as it is, soon I will be able to assemble the right robot for me...
Why is the media not blaring the alarms?!
It's front-page news in the New York Times right now. The Washington Post too.
the hardcore autistic stuff
But that's the stuff that's fun! A good game is a game I have a spreadsheet for.
When I was a pre-teen, I used to play Diablo with a married couple that played together. (I never met them IRL, just in-game.) That created some unrealistic expectations for me about romantic partners and computer games - I wanted to date a woman who shared my interest in games, but I never met even a single one and so I gave up on that long ago. A couple of women I dated did want to try playing games with me because they were interested in sharing my hobbies, but they were so bad at the games I liked and the games they wanted to play were so casual (and they were bad at those too). I knew I was being an asshole but I still refused to keep playing with them. It was just too frustrating.
I should clarify that I didn't expect someone who had never played games before to become a pro instantly. What bothered me was that they didn't even seem to want to win. Nowadays I just accept that I'm way more intense about games than most people (not just women) are and so I deliberately avoid showing that part of myself IRL. It wouldn't look good.
The fact that the salute is so offensive, they did it so blatantly, and their denial was so disingenuous is the point. It's a demonstration of power. They can do a Nazi salute and their opponents can't punish them. They can deny that they did a Nazi salute and their opponents can't control the narrative. If they did something more subtle, then people might think that they weren't facing any consequences because their opponents were giving them the benefit of the doubt. With the Nazi salute there is no doubt. The only explanation for why they aren't facing any consequences is that their opponents are powerless.
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When my high-school girlfriend broke up with me in college (she was the first person I had ever dated) something broke in my brain. I mean that literally. It's when my depression started and that depression hasn't gone away for over 20 years. It probably never will. My feelings for her caused me a lot of suffering and ruined my subsequent relationships for about a decade, but gradually they became a dull ache rather than a sharp pain and by now they're simply bittersweet nostalgia.
I really hope for your sake that your situation will work out better than mine has, but perhaps you can feel more optimistic about your future if you know that even I eventually got to the point where I was ready for something new. I don't think about my ex even when I'm depressed and I even find it darkly funny that in retrospect she was less compatible with me than the women I broke up with because I couldn't stop thinking about her were.