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@coriander but like in a socialist way not a glorify elon musk way

@coriander goblins are like humans but extreme in this sense

and humans being humans decided they would rather live a life with really sick guitar riffs in it

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nature was like you can all be healthy, happy, and productive, OR some of you can learn some really sick guitar riffs

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what makes humans different from every other species on the planet is that some of them grow up to be welbalanced individuals, but the species is actually designed for a significant portion to instead grow up to be absolute sickos

being good at writing also means being able to appreciate to a greater extent the beauty in various turns of phrase so it's not all bad

but you don't get good without hijacking your brain’s pattern-matching to constantly notice flaws in text and identify discrepancies between stated and intended meaning

noticing these things doesn’t make you a bad person but it does inevitably lead you down the path of being kind of an asshole

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every time anyone says anything you are reminded that the world is a flawed, imperfect place and that things could be better

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there are a ton of takes like “why are great writers all assholes?” as though there were something about being an asshole which makes you a great writer, but i think it’s actually the opposite and being good at writing is what makes you into an asshole

@clayote i think that's the thing though, the number of memorable things a brain can actually retain in a given time period is limited

if your game is just one memorable thing after another then retention on that will actually be pretty low, compared to one memorable thing and then an hour with nothing to do but think about it as you work towards the next memorable thing

everyone complains about how quickly people play contemporary games, move on, and forget about them in an endless churn; if only there was a game mechanic which required people to take their time with things and spread it out across multiple sittings

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my current controversial games take is that grinding is good actually

« It should be noted that Pokémon Legends: Arceus was developed to be played by the general population and not specifically for academic specialists. »

i've never read a fanfiction able to capture the raw teenage horniness that stephenie meyer did with isabella swan

let me put it this way: i was born in 1994 and it wasn't “The Sign”

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man, the song which was billboard #1 on the day i was born was really shit

From what I can tell,
the guidelines and policies
create a burden

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