You an I… We are either going to form an unstoppable super team or… You ate going to end up as my nemesis.

I can fall asleep, near instantly, at will.

I call it my time machine function.

I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

So you think it should be a binary decision? Either see only things you’ve actively curated or put up with anime tits.

No one is suggesting it is anyone’s fault for posting stuff, just that if there was a tag system people could choose.

You seem defensive, is everything ok?

Unpopular opinion, but in the west particularly, folk have mistaken writing on the internet for action.

Tweeting resistance rather than performing it.

A lapse into inaction framed as radical rest and self care.

Online they are fierce warriors of justice, offline they go to work in Starbucks, use their apple devices to talk to their families and enjoy the treadmill of streaming services.

And this isn’t to blame them. This is the point of consumerist capitalism. To trap you in a gilded cage.

BUIDERS

Ian M Banks entire culture series.

I did. Quite a few. Even taught a couple.

Here’s the thing. You aren’t entirely wrong.

Language can be studied and taught in two distinct ways.

There’s prescriptive language, which teaches, “this is how language should be used”.

And there’s descriptive language, which teaches, “this is how language is actually used”.

You are clearly leaning into the latter there, and that is fine. However, it does miss the point that for effective and articulate communication, rules are pretty useful.

Think of it like a programming language where you have to be very specific around syntax to get the exact thing you want.

Obviously, spoken and written English is far more forgiving. In fact we can say something really specific without saying it at all due to cultural and situational inference.

But prescriptive English forms a baseline for effective communication across what should be the broadest scope of a population.

Anyway, “on accident” is an Americanism. Thought to exist because of a conflation of “on purpose”. If anything this conflation is an attempt to enforce a rule, to make language more prescriptive than allowing for the differences in “by” and “on”.

Now, let’s deal with that jibe in your comment that I never took English class.

Class.

You talk about the working class. Then you talk about prescriptive language and being all cool with that. Then you seek to belittle me by undermining my education. You say that the correct way of speaking is for posh people yet you criticise my understanding of language.

That would make you a hypocrite, wouldn’t it?

Nope.

How did they make sure you got a speeding ticket? Seems like an over-reach even for a multi national corporation.

So… It didn’t burn?

If only I had read more books I wouldn’t have fallen for such an obvious trap.

Although you’d think a book factory would have a ton of blank paper that is equally flammable. Must have been a busy day for them.

Ah yeah, there are dodgy books, but immolation is emotional and reactionary.

Besides, recycling is cooler.

Can’t think of a single instance of book burning being a good look.

I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.

I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.

The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.

That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.

It replaces workers with robots so it would probably save money too.

And now the workers cannot afford bread.

Next move?

That makes a lot of sense.

As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.

I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.

I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.

And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.

Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.

As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.

They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.

When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.

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