Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can't go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can't even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.

I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I'm sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.

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I can count on one hand the number of games I've finished in the last 4-5 years. Off the top of my head

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Spider-Man (PS4)
• Red Dead Redemption II
• L.A. Noire
• Middle Earth: Shadow of War

Games I stopped playing:

• Horizon: Zero Dawn (PC)
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Disco Elysium (I know. right.)
• DEATHLOOP
• Spider-Man: Remastered (PC)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
• Divinity: Original Sin II
• Dying Light 2
• Half Life - Alyx
• Boneworks
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (I think I did complete this game once when I was 14 or so)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Fallout 4 (I did complete the story to this a long time ago but I wanted to give it another go a couple years back)

Oh man, how could I have forgotten to mention archive.org??

My favorite thing on there is the Old Time Radio Researcher's Group who maintain a huge archive of radio shows produced between 1920 and the 1960s (and some from later years as well such as CBS Radio Mystery Theater).

I've been listening through the most well-known shows for about the last 10 years and I still haven't even listened to them all and there are dozens of other more obscure shows!

My old person trait is that I listen to old radio shows and watch a ton of classic movies and shows.

I'm 28 and don't even know when I discovered this exactly but on archive.org there's a group of people called the Old Time Radio Researchers Group who catalogue and archive all of the old radio shows. Some of the episodes sound like they could have been recorded yesterday just because they're in such high quality.

Same here! I have a monthly donation going, and the $2 is well worth the hundreds of hours I've spent on it.

I prefer it. The concept of federation has been hard to wrap my mind around, but I think the issue with current-day reddit is that many communities became so large that interactions between users and even interactions with posts that are more than an hour old almost completely dried up (or at least that was my experience) which made the website a lot less interesting as a social platform and more of just a time-wasting doomscrolling link aggregation platform.

Yes, same here. I have the last mission (I think, "Meet Hannako at Embers") in Cyberpunk still to do and I pick it up and do a handful of side quests every few months. Maybe I'll finish it, eventually.

Regardless of the perceived merit of your post I think we would all just appreciate a little more participation here.

Yeah that's definitely how I am. I can tell what's coming and so I maybe just lose the "need" to complete the game.

I did that with Morrowind finally last year and just had an amazing time playing through it all the way.

Sounds awful. I am pretty sick of just not being able to spend a single moment without being advertised to.

I believe so and same, but I still thought it would be nice to resolve the conflict if possible.

(though on startup I just turn auto-open off and clear the console before loading a save, as is tradition)

Sorry about that, updated my post.

Would it be smart or even useful to try to reach out to her former manager to get info or try to trap them in a lie? E.g. "Hello Mr.X, I had a call to determine my eligibility for unemployment today and was told that you stated that you gave me verbal warnings prior to my termination..." And so on

They stated that "her behavior did not necessitate a written warning but verbal warnings were given" which sounds completely asinine to me given that they fired her without giving her a written warning.

Understandable, I appreciate your input all the same.

lol, well that much I already knew

These look great!!

RDR2 is actually one of the few games I have finished in the last few years.

Yeah same here. I have found myself playing almost entirely sandbox games these last few years. Where there isn't really and end goal (or at least one I'm not required to complete) and I just get to build something or manage resources, etc.

Will do, appreciated!

Hell yeah! My favorite will always be Richard Diamond. Private Investigator but I love Suspense and The Shadow as well.

Oh and Gunsmoke of course; I like the show as well but James Arness' voice just doesn't match William Conrad.