i love the "never kill yourself" genre bc it captures the slippery truth that the distance between a life worth living and wanting to die really is, like, one minor amusement a day
that's why it's imperative to go outside and look at things and try to like them
Landlords like to act as if they’re simply receiving compensation for a service when the reality is that they’re hoarding a basic need and profiting off of functional extortion - giving you an option between paying them or living on the street and pretending they’re benevolent.
I love that we've taken computers - a machine designed exclusively to do math - and taken away the ability to solve gradeschool math problems and all it cost us was the amazon rainforest
I know these are polarizing times, but if you take the time to talk to American conservatives and center-right types and really listen to what they believe is right and just and good, they sure do sound like the worst people on the planet .
cowardly move: you simulated capitalism too closely, and the results got in the way of the intended experience of building a functioning capitalist utopia, so you revert back to faking it in order to dissimulate the contradictions inherent in the system and rescue the fantasy
the Xbox showcase was cool but having these execs talk at my about how much they value their studios, developers, and partners felt super weird and gross