Ah, ~40% of Americans are complete fucking morons, that sounds about right.
~40% of Americans also read and write at an elementary school level or worse, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
... I think we've found the mythical 'independent, median voter'.
(or i guess i wish your life is so dull and uneventful such that you never need therapy again /j)
I would entirely seriously prefer this.
You're talking to a high functioning autist who got two bachelors degrees simultaneously and then went off to work for various Fortune 500 companies...
... who came from a dysfunctional white trash family of abusive narcissists who all gaslight each other by default, all have various drug/alcohol addiction problems... as well as criminal records, fairly extreme religious views, fairly 90s white nationalist militia types.
Last time I talked with my dad, he was explaining to me how Tom Hank's son killed raped and ate babies for their adrenochrome (Q Anon insane shit), and then proceeded to take me to his garage where he showed me how he assembles untraceable ghost guns by ordering parts without serial numbers separately snd then doing some light machine tooling to construct them.
... I am very much enjoying my having ghosted all of these fucking nutters, but quite seriously, when I tell therapists things like this, they often suspect I am delusional, exaggerating, lying, etc, to the point of trying to diagnose me with some kind of disorder involving persistent hallucinations.
either way the only reason I responded was to say sorry i disturbed you. not really sure i mean that any more, that was kind of a dick reply but whatever
you're in 'therapist' mode, thats why you sense hostility from me.
you presume you have a better ... at least potential, understanding of myself, of any topic you feel you are well versed in, than I do or potentially may, and you speak and ask rhetorical questions with arrogance and authority, presuming you will be able to prove yourself as correct.
then on a dime you will flip to acting offended or outraged, as if you have not been being rude the entire time, by not actually reading or understanding what I say, and by throwing in your own assumptions first, then coming to conclusions, then getting emotional over those conclusions... when you could have just asked for clarification in good faith.
I have already expressed to you mutliple times that I require a therapist who understands how to communicate with and to a high functioning autist... and you continue to exemplify why this is the case; you have no idea how to connect with an autist, as evidenced by the fact that you do not understand why I do not appreciate the things you have been saying to me, the way in which you have been saying them.
In less words: you could stand to be more humble, less conceited.
I feel like there should be engagement/social/education tiers that grant more access to more features. Like literally give points if you can pass tests on consent, relationships, kink, whatever. Get social points from good engagement and behavior. These don't show your profile more or less, but like if the medium has NSFW features, forums, criteria/location filtering it gives access to them based on community trust and such. Maybe offer a paid shortcut, but have that declared on their profile somehow.
I like this line of thinking.
I more or less used to use OkCupid in this way... it has so many questions you can answer that basicsally, if you have your own set of hard red flags... just look through their answers to questions.
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You could theorerically do a paid shortcut for some things, but not others.
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With my gamer brain, the first thing that comes to mind is pay to win games:
You can design a game such that... you can reasonably progress through the game, get good items, level up reasonably quickly... without having to spend any more real world money.
Warframe is arguably a good example of this.
You can just play a fleshed out and enjoyable game and progress at a reasonable rate without spending any real world money, everything in the game is obtainable without more money if you're good at the game... but if you just have cash to burn, you csn just outright buy some high level gear, basically, to say, join up with some friends who've been playing for a long time, without playing for 50 or 100 hours to be on their level.
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But you can also make it just an absolutely hellish slog to progress through the game, such that you finally get tired of grinding and have that 'fuck it!' moment, and just pay to progress... and then you at first find those payments are rather cheap actually... but if you keep playing, the actual money costs ramp up faster and faster, alongside your time devoted to the game, so now you've got sunk cost and your brain sunk cost fallacy's you into just still playing and spending.
This is pretty much how WarThunder is designed.
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But uh yeah, ramble ramble... I like your basic framework here, but again the problem with monetization is thag is has to be reasonable and apparent to everyone, your idea of badges that show everyone this is I think good.
I am just very worried that if this whole app is privately owned... it will inevitably enshittify and subvert itseld to being an evil money draining skinner box as it attracts more investors or gets new owners or goes public or whatever.
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EDIT:
oh right
Wow, that's an incredibly insightful answer.
Thank you! =D
Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.
Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...
Run with your idea! I like this!
Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!
Damn, deleted, I'll never know what this said lol.
I mean, I explained why I don't really need a basic therapist beyond just going over the basics of CBT, which I've already done now... but sure, ok, thanks?
For what its worth, I'm not the single downvote your comment here has.
Congratulations ~~consumer~~ citizen!
You get one America point!
... in the form of $0.000832 TRUMPCOIN!
(So apparently the new head of the FHFA just pushed through that cryptocurrency holdings sre now valid mortgage collateral for a home or apartment or condo purchase, without first having to be cashed out and capital gains taxed.)
(Which would mean the top 0.1% of crypto currency holders are going to own every building in America in 2 years)
(and also the housing market is going to be as volatile as crypto, and the USD will collapse into silly peasant money, crypto will be a highly corrupt and nepotistic owner class money)
Fair point.
But we're on .world here, ie Reddit 2.0, ie, almost everyone is much closer to a normie who is way more uninformed than they think they are and way more confident than they should be.
But also, again... fair point.
I would like to see a river of geckos some time in my lifr, that sounds fascinating haha!
As to whether or not its serious... I dunno, sure yeah, could be fake, could be real, no real way of knowing, but interacting with an asshat of a landlord has been a pretty common occurence in my life, seems at least plausible to me.
A Link Through Time?
Do you mean A Link To The Past?
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The Zelda games I've played that feature time travel basically just have a 'past world' and 'future world'.
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Using my original analogy.... So your 2D game is your screen.
The 3rd dimension would be into the screen, or toward your face.
A past/future flip is just two layers.
I'm trying to think of something thats more like... 10s, 100s, 1000s of 'layers', very fundamentally implemented as a basic game mechanic.
Like, you'd need to be weaving through time just as much as a normal game has you weaving through space, you'd have some puzzles or fights where you'd need to be moving through time and space simultaneously...
Apparently Braid is like this?
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Majora's Mask is arguably the closest to this of any Zelda game, in that you csn functionally jump to many, many more than just two layers, tons and tons if events and npc like... world paths put them in different places at different exact times, you can Double Time song half a day into the future, unless you're doing some crazy speedrun you're probably gonna need to rewind the clock many times in a normal playthrough.
I'll have to check out Portal 2 w/ time travel though, haven't played that.
As an old friend of mine once had a habit of saying in a sing song voice:
Read a book, read a book, read a motherfucking book!