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I’m going off topic because your long text evoked something else in me:

In my childhood “grand art” was rare (relatively, I mean 4 things per week is not rare but relative to now?). On mondays, you could talk to any child and you would be sure they watched one of the 4 “new” movies which were airing at the same time on TV on Sunday.

Games were even worse: Were were getting like 1 good game per 3 months so you bet if someone calls themself a gamer, they know the same things and you can discuss with them!

Zeitgeist existed back then. Finding common topics was easy if your hobbies matched.

Now there is so much good-enough stuff (we moved past excellent, it’s the era of good-enough to sell) coming out that even if you are both avid gamers, there is a high chance that you won’t have anything to talk about since you inhabit different adevertisement streams so you hear about different projects.

Consuming media is becoming lonely unless you accept the fact that you need different people for different brands now. (Contrast: You needed different people for different category of tasks in the past, now we further divide!)

I’m grateful for discord etc that the new generation can somehow feel how I felt when I was young and was playing but it’s really not the same unless you excessively enjoy meeting new people.

Rant over.

Hmm wonder what we can call it? Maybe a thesis? Practical course in XXX?

We can call the place where they hold this a university (universitas from Latin) maybe?

I know you want the business owners to work harder but I have a question for you:

How much do you wanna work for an interview? I applied to 50 places, I would quit society and become a hermit if I had to take an exam (evaluation whatever you wanna call it) for each one.

What if we had a place we can attend where we prove skills and they give us a paper which makes us skip this “skill evaluation” you are talking about?

I’m sorry I don’t have a list to add to the conversation but one of your points made me curious:

What do you mean by “Made for adults: deep gameplay, challenge, real progression (any genre welcome — strategy, roguelike, RPG, racing, puzzle…)”?

As far as I’m concerned, real adult “games” don’t have progression: Basketball, football, baseball (do you count muscle growth?), chess (ELO is progression? one value?), backgammon (ELO I guess?).

What do you see as “real (adult) progression”?

edited (to make my misunderstanding bold)

It’s a great game for coop! Base game NPCs are well written (even though they are cliches by now, they were original at inception though!) so non-gamers have something to hook onto if they fail the mechanical demands (mostly the fishing minigame tbh, battle is knockback based = easy)

But, if you are going to play with a non-gamer you have to download some mods (time stops if both players are in a state which would stop time in singleplayer, and time stops in the house) because without the mods, it was one of the most stressful games we played together.

Days are short if time is passing when you are in a fishing minigame who knew?

People who write this dictionary should listen to the public more maybe. Lame doesn’t mean what you wrote for at least 25 years.

I capitalized LEGAL in my comment because if it’s legal, it’s legal (I’m not condoning it since slavery was legal once).

Culture wants profits. You are a sucker if you don’t it. You are evil if you do it. I have a problem with this spreading culture and its laws about work. I’m from a developing country (not residing there though) and all the “free help, sharing is caring etc” stuff is gone now. It’s all money.

Are we living in the same reality where we (society) teach 18 years old students how to distill people into numbers so you can apply data science to it (i.e. business school)? It’s paid by public tax, completely seen as prestigious? Culture demands returns!

I feel like the law is the problem if a system allows for the exploitation of the desperation of migrants and remove any of their worker protections to make this possible.

People are trying to maximize currency because this is how we measure success nowadays (the same metric which says Pablo Escober nr1, good job.) What’s should a small business owner do? Not hire the cheapest LEGAL avaible worker?

Or are we blaming the “bosses” who has enough money to lobby only? Or are we blaming the system (too abstract to act on)?

so initially it was just couchsurfing/hospitality but worse (no culture sharing aspect + it costs money)?

Damn, after reading your comment I thought airBnB came after the enshittification of couch surfing but no, they co-existed and society chose the one with money instead of culture sharing + local volunteer vetting + free accomodation.

We suck :p

I feel like you are cutting society too much slack.

Yes, capitalists set the tone, but people in our immediate surroundings (neighbors, parents, schools) are the ones who enforce the rules.

20 years ago: You got an email? Well… you’ll see it when you open your personal/work computer.

Now: You got an email? Don’t you have a mobile phone? Every second you miss is an insult, especially if they saw you with your phone in your hand once while talking to them (you look at your phone AAAALLL THE TIME no???)

What I understood: Whenever we get a new tech, it makes our life easier (fact) but then the society expects more from us because “hey! now your life is easier, you have the time no?”.

edit: I had more to say I apparently.

in the scope of washbasin:
Women used to do back breaking job for 2 hours while talking to their neighbors and friends by a river/well.

Now they don’t have to do back breaking job, instead they have to do comfortable but soul crushing jobs with co-workers they cannot naturally (professionalism) mingle with.

How often can I probe it? If I can establish you are over 15 but under 17… I know you are 16 (squeeze theorem or something)

I get “angry” (I don’t know, some emotion forces me to take action) when there is a hair in my field of view.

I’m guessing if vision is so important for modeling the world that they’d die without it, they’d do something about it (bind / cut / burn)?

That’s literally true though? If it’s hard to see, take it to the extreme: If you were the only person in a place, you’d be the most important one by default?

They wouldn’t do a good job, but they’d have the job since, you know, there is less competition.

I did work and travel in USA, and they were paying us peanuts due to some law shenanigans (they had to pay overtime for Americans, not us.) Wouldn’t they have to hire a native instead of me if I wasn’t allowed to work there?

Then the joke is good (in a different way) no?

It makes you think that maybe we don’t need “passionate” sex scenes in movies if implied sex would do it (naked people fade to black) if that’s your stance.

It makes you think “wow some actors/actresses must be very good at their craft” if they don’t let you notice the disgust they are feeling even though if you think about it not everyone is attracted to everyone else, if that’s your stance.

Good one, idk?

I only played Elden Ring but in that game, if you use spears you can see enough of the enemies that you can read their intent = you don’t need to memorize stuff.

Also if you watch the very proficient (not me) in those games, they don’t roll much. They sprint and revolve around the enemies until they are in recovery poses and then go in.

Any time you say no to some donation request, know that saying no is the normal (statistical) thing to do. Otherwise, the donation request wouldn’t exist: People democratically said no to this (either directly or representatives) at the tax level so we need external money gathering tools.