i hate what we’ve done to nerdiness. the average nerd isn’t even smart now they just like slop. they watch long youtube videos where someone explains obscure star wars expanded universe lore and half the time the guy in the video didn’t even read it he’s just reading wookiepedia.
White boy at Irish pub orders Guinness in fluent Gaelic, asked to speak English because said Irish pub is located in Fullerton and the staff is mostly Mexican
re: 'postcolonial games studies', I wonder how much farming simulations in Stardew Valley, Minecraft, etc. have influenced the way right wingers, tech guys, et al. on here sincerely believe they could perform sustainably farm all their food in their backyard
i am quite close to going back to an autocomplete-only AI coding style. dead serious. i'm not sure the ostensible speed of agent-first coding is worth the brainrot, the laziness and the loss of code and architecture comprehension