I've been thinking lately about the Cultural Conversations that we have about things. One of the reasons I wanted to play Elden Ring at release was, yes, I did want to play the game, but I also wanted to be able to take part in the Conversation around the game. With the way social media is anymore it almost feels like you have to pick and choose which Conversations you want to be part of and which you are okay missing out on. Like for a while I was watching MCU movies after I stopped caring because I wanted to be part of that Conversation, though eventually I was okay missing out on it. With a lot of these sorts of things because my interests rarely align with What's Big I find I often have to get my information secondhand if I want to be informed at all in what people are talking about and that's Fine, that's , there's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you want to be there and actually talk about the thing.