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- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 5 days ago:
It lets you view modern life from outside.
Which of the things we do every day are truly necessary? When you remove something or add another, what happens to the greater shape of society? What do our relationships to each other look like without cars, without jobs, without money? What might take their place?
What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What’s the shape of the gap between those two things?
I find it philosophically entertaining.
- Comment on I'm burnt out, already changed jobs, what else can I do to go back to my normal self? 4 weeks ago:
Rest for the mind. Anything that lets me not think and just kind of exist.
Long baths with nice-smelling bath bombs, meditation, even just deciding with intention “okay, this evening I’m just going to lay in bed and watch this set of YouTube documentaries that looks interesting, and if I fall asleep for a bit, I’ll just rewind when I wake up.” Put on an album and listen to it start to finish, and either let it wash over you or let yourself get lost in the little details.
I tend to “relax” by starting new projects, so finding ways to actually relax has been hard. If you’re a little bored and understimulated, you’re on the right track.
Good luck. Medical work is really, really hard, and I hope your new job is a hell of a lot better!
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 5 weeks ago:
Yeahhh… Every once in a while, there’s a solid episode! But pretty often, it feels to me like their big dramatic moment doesn’t actually follow from the rest of the events.
I still enjoy SNW, but I can’t see myself going back to rewatch it, like I’m rewatching DS9 right now.
I’ve never seen The Orville, but I hear a lot of good things about it around here! I just finished Babylon 5 for the first time, and after that, SNW really does feel all the more poorly written.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was… a hell of a choice. I was specifically thinking about the “epigenetics of elemental good and evil” plot point from that very episode as I wrote it.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Needs to Imagine More for Its Female Characters 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Honestly, it’s kinda funny—their sci-fi has a shaky grasp of science, their drama is tedious and annoying, the basic storytelling fundamentals are purely vibes-based and miss actually connecting setups to payoffs half the time… but every romantic episode has been at least okay, imo.
Unfortunately, that’s turned every character into this. Sigh…
Maybe this creative team would be better for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 months ago:
This happened to a close friend of mine. He was already on the edge, with some weird opinions and beliefs… but he was talking with real people who could push back.
When he switched to spending basically every waking moment with an AI that could reinforce and iterate on his bizarre beliefs 24/7, he went completely off the deep end, fast and hard. We even had him briefly hospitalized and they shrugged, basically saying “nothing chemically wrong here, dude’s just weird.”
He and his chatbot are building a whole parallel universe, and we can’t get reality inside it.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 months ago:
…you probably don’t do anything that complicated in your life where this would give you genuine value.
God that’s arrogant.
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Cool! That top-right one has a great sense of movement in it.
- Comment on Caption this. 11 months ago:
Wii Fit Trainer’s dash attack.