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If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I'm playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it's time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something

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What has you experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?

Omg this has a name?! It's one of my favorite things to happen lol

Okay so uh...back when I had a really tough assignment and I didn't wanna study for it and I had just one day left. I was talking to a girl on Facebook about not doing my assignment and she sent me something that she uses to write her homework, well I looked it up and it worked brilliantly, I was able to submit my assignment in time with zero effort.

Next week everyone was using chatgpt for assignments

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Fire Watch with me - Firewatch (2016) Review

Okay guy status report: I finished the game yesterday, wrote this review and kept thinking about what to play next and also worrying about finding a job; fell asleep early because of all the brainload.

Woke up this morning and I think I get it, Henry went to Shoshone to get away from real life and find an adventure and the fact that the game lies to you internally and externally just hit me today. Internally, Henry never gets his life changing experience and even though he meets Delilah it's pretty much confirmed by the ending dialogue that he will go back, live his life and eventually forget about this one person he met on a two month job. Externally, the game feels like it's an escape from mundanity and is an adventure but then it turns out to mostly be an on-rails walking simulator where you as a don't even get to chop a tree yourself because all the animations are automated and the game doesn't even let you fish!

It's an exercise in deliberate expectation subversion and makes me feel sad about the whole experience. I think much of my criticism about the gameplay still stands but I get the storytelling a bit more now and would like to bump up the rating to a 7/10

TL;DR: I just realized I'm like Henry trying to escape life.

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What has this guy not written about? - Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (1999) Review

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"There is a Tower, he thought. It holds everything together. There are Beams that protect it somehow. There is a Crimson King, and Breakers working to destroy the Beams… not because the Breakers want to but because it wants them to. The Crimson King." - Hearts in Atlantis, Low Men in Yellow Coats, Chapter 10

I think the beam is referenced a lot in IT but had no idea what it meant since I haven't been to the Tower yet.

"Before removing the mote in thy neighbor's eye, attend the beam in thine own" - IT (drawing on it from memory so might be a little different)

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If there's one thing you want people to learn, what would it be and why?

That they need to understand others in order for people to understand them. That the "tragic prince" is just a fallacy and I would really really want other people around me to appreciate art-forms more. Most of the time they find a movie good and just list the content as the reason for it's goodness, not paying attention to any of the craft and it baffles me that more people are not attached to or interested in how art-forms do the things they do.

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Imaginative and fun to read - The Time Machine (1895) Review

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A.D. 802,701 is such a unique futuristic world: abandoned tall buildings, green landscapes, huge wells dotting the area and of course the Sphinx. It looks so idyllic yet is the ground for much of the same surviving violence that is just natural true. Like the protagonist says, it may be that there was a divide between the Eloi and Morloks of assests and social positions but now they have forgotten that and both have settled into a new natural order: Eloi the peaceful cattle and Morlocks that hunt them down