That doesn’t mean we need to discuss it everywhere, all the time. For starters, not everyone is American and wants to see American centric discussions everywhere, and also, not all discussions everywhere need to start revolving around modern politics. Creating apolitical spaces doesn’t mean being an apolitical individual. Just wanting to look for more peaceful alternatives.

I’m perfectly fine with being called worthless if you can’t see the logic behind that, I legitimately don’t give a shit as long as I can get a break from the insane and miserable shit throwing that is online political discourse.

If you like feeling miserable and angry every time you go online, great for you, but I’d much rather have an option not to do that.

Exactly. Just discuss anything else. Whatever. I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to know. I have absolutely no control over whatever happens in most countries, and I only have control over my own votes (if anything). Online discussion and politics always gets insanely toxic and dogmatic.

I’m not even American and I usually don’t care either way, but it’s so annoying. Why can’t we just have apolitical or at least more focused communities online anymore? I would literally join any community that outright banned all political speech for a change nowadays.

No, I don’t think you understand what instantaneous actually means. It literally means instantaneous. Faster than the speed of light (which is actually why teleportation is physically impossible but that’s irrelevant).

Wouldn’t that mostly depend on how long teleportation takes? But if it’s instantaneous, you wouldn’t need to account for inertia to end up literally a couple of feet away from where you are, right?

Then again, music streaming services pretty much removed music piracy from mainstream usage altogether. Obviously people in this sub still pirate music, but it’s so uncommon nowadays, I’m sure many people wouldn’t even know where or how to find it.

It’s probably both if we’re being honest. A lot of services definitely don’t want bots. But they also want to take as much of your personal info as possible.

I don’t think you’re supposed to have your opinion swayed by what teens think but it is important to know what they think because they reflect future trends and ideals.

I’m in my early 20’s and I just changed my iPhone for a Pixel, actually. Got fed up with a lot of the Apple crap, and the Pixel looked sick. Then again, I’m not American and I don’t use SMS anymore, so no one I talk to would ever know what OS I’m using.

The fact that Americans still use SMS is fucking bizarre. It’s like the Japanese still using fax in this day and age for some reason

My PayPal account. Though I believe my undergrad thesis project may be another option from another perspective.

The movie is awesome, but it gets me down thinking about how many shitty toy “but with grown-up humour” movies we’re going to get after this, just because now every studio in the world is going to join the bandwagon.

I kind of agree that remote working every single day gets very socially deprived very quickly. Although the office isn’t a place for socialising, not having anyone to talk to day in day out at work drives me a bit mad.

But I also think 90% of the time, working from home is better. Maybe a hybrid model where you only go to the office once or maximum twice a week or something could work for most people. The introverts and the extroverts reaching a compromise.

Yeah my office rents a WeWork space downtown and we only go there a couple days every few weeks. I like it, it’s a change of pace.

What? That’s absolutely incorrect. Cities are the number one most sought after and thriving alternative, especially among young people.

Maybe cities in the US, but that’s because they’re mostly poorly designed parking lots for suburbanites.

Cities are certainly not dying anywhere else on Earth wtf.

A lot of people get paid by hours worked so not showing up means a lower monthly income. And hourly contracts don’t have sick leave in many cases. At least in several countries around the world.

I used to do it a lot, but now that I share my shower with my roommate, I think it’s kind of gross, so I stopped. But it was nice, I really enjoyed it, especially with some good music.

I also did it while I was in Japan, since the bathroom layouts over there allow for showering while sitting and then simmering in the bath tub.

I mean… if you use DC digitally (I.e turning it on and off making it binary code), it really is a cleaner information transmission than AC. But I doubt that’s what Edison had in mind.

I mean, I think it is far removed from what it used to be, and that’s good.

Like… people spending more hours playing Animal Crossing or Zelda than those playing Overwatch and Dark Souls aren’t really called “gamers” despite sometimes being very hardcore about some video games.

So I think “gamer” has just more and more become synonymous with that competitive gamer stereotype that flocks to games like League of Legends, Valorant, Overwatch, and so on. But like… I know people who only play Fallout, or Garry’s Mod (yes in 2023) or Nintendo games, and probably have games as their main hobby, but they still aren’t really gamers as in the stereotype associated with that word.

Absolutely. I just don’t think we need a new gimmick. I don’t think I want or need a new gimmick. The Switch hit the right spot for me as a console. It’s by far the console I’ve used the most in my life, and it’s just too convenient.

Tbh, I buy Nintendo because I like their games, and I don’t play any other AAA games either, with most of my time spent on stuff like Cities:Skylines or indie steam titles.

So… I don’t really care about the specs in the slightest, and I think a lot of Nintendo’s playerbase is like that as well. The Steamdeck and PlayStation getting super powerful isn’t going to get me to buy them over a Nintendo console because I like Nintendo’s games and not… the next big Last of Us, Elder Scrolls or Dark Souls clone, to be honest.

Competition is good I guess, but with every passing day, it feels like Nintendo and PlayStation are getting further away from being direct competitors and more them catering to completely different niches and subcultures.

I think this is good. The world where “gaming” was this monolithic and culturally unified activity monopolised by mostly male teens was kind of boring and extremely toxic a lot of the time. With a more diverse playerbase in terms of age, gender and socioeconomic background, the “gamer” label seems to be getting kind of obsolete, and now it feels like people follow genres, developers or trends rather than gaming as an industry. It became truly mainstream I guess.