Has this woman never played Project Zomboid? Smh my head.

Speaking of analog: Light Guns don’t work on modern televisions due to the high latency relative to CRT screens (which had essentially zero latency).

It baffles me that they sell Chrome as private and/or secure, and baffles me even more that people believe them.

take up subsistence farming

Where?

Can’t say we as a species have a great history of granting rights to others.

In case anyone is curious - as I was - here’s the commercial: https://youtu.be/uTVlnehpRHQ

(Not the Toys R Us channel, in case you don’t want to give them direct views.)

Yep. Alberta is currently breaking up Alberta Health Services in a clear “Divide & Conquer” attempt.

Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

God I’m getting sick of that word.

Give it to someone that needs it.

Phew okay. In that case, I do agree that a hyper-aggressive species could be the Filter, though it’s worth noting that our radio signals have actually reached further than our furthest probe, so I would go off that when doing round-trip destruction calculations. I love Mass Effect’s take on this idea (though I haven’t played 3).

As for why I asked women: Mostly because I thought the non-sequitur was funny.

No offense intended, but do you identify as male? I can’t even be having this conversation if you do.

Yes. I’m a guy, and I would love to get a girl’s take on this.

Do you think Fermi’s “Great Filter” is not necessarily that a civilization destroys itself, but that it discovers a way to destroy the Universe?

Like, maybe the fabric of our reality is more fragile than we realize, and the reason we don’t see “aliens” is that the universe doesn’t get old enough for intelligent life to meet.

Of course, this assumes we are in a statistically “average” Universe, since presumably there could be a Universe in which intelligent life co-evolves within the same solar system.

When I quit at McDonalds to start a career in welding, the owner of the store happened to be visiting. He took me aside and told me “You know, those guys at… (Sorry, what was that place called again? Right…) You know, I’ve heard the people there aren’t as nice as we are here. Are you sure you want to leave?”

I’ve never wanted to punch an old man so much in my life. In that moment, he was the personification of class warfare to me, trying to “trick” me into throwing away my future just so he could have more cheap labour. And the fact it was so blatantly obvious added insult to, well… insult.

Anyway, it’s not the same, but the “wallpapers” thing definitely gives me the same vibes, lol.