I’ve been led to believe kids in China are too busy working in sweatshops to be overusing screens.

Edit: Apparently I needed to add a /s.

“If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, then give me the electric chair for all my future crimes.”

-Prince 1989

Was just about to post this. I read it in the 90s, expecting something more along the lines of a scifi Xanth style story. Got a traumatising, f’d up sexual fever dream. To this day some of the shit from that story pops in my head sometimes.

Needs more pickle.

Persevere.

I’ve had 6. I’m speaking to you from the grave. Congratulations, you’re a medium.

Just let your GP know. I recently got a blood test done to figure out what I’ve been immunised against. Highly recommend.

With peace of mind that my family will be ok.

Pokemon. And I will sing the whole thing shamelessly.

I’m really looking forward to the possibility of having friendly banter with an AI similar to the interactions in “Her”. I think it’d be cool to be able to go about mundane tasks while chatting away to an AI with a sense of humour.

This sounds like Space Quest. Have a look at this excerpt from a walkthrough and see if it sounds familiar:

"After escaping the Arcada before its destruction you crash land on the planet Kerona. Before you do anything “take off seatbelt”. Look at the pod and “take kit”. This is your survival kit. Look kit and you will find an Xenon army knife and dehydrated water.

“Get out” and walk to the front of the pod. “Take glass”. This is reflective glass that we’ll need later on.

Walk to the right three screens and then take the path that leads up. Follow the path all the way around over a bridge that will crack as you walk on it. A spider droid will drop to the ground at some stage. Just ignore it for now. There are two pillars at the end of the path. Stand between them and you’ll be lowered into the earth by a secret elevator."

Check out some screenshots along w/ the rest of the walkthrough here: http://gamerwalkthroughs.com/space-quest-1-walkthrough-the-sarien-encounter/

Tidal Wave (2009) is a Korean disaster flick that has some of the most realistic tsunami scenes I’ve ever seen (some fun over-the-top ones too). Takes a while to get to the action, it makes sure you care about the characters before all hell breaks loose. Definitely worth checking out.

I love disaster films and I thought “Knowing” was great. I do think the ending could’ve been better, but everything up to that point was very entertaining.

I befriended a lawyer in a online game years ago. When he found out I took the bible literally, we had debates about it, and he’d break down some of the passages in Revelations and try to get me to justify stuff like dragons. It opened my eyes to how ridiculous some things were, and how there was a reason one of the first things we were taught (Baptist) was not to question anything.

How it seems every religion believes they’re the “One True” religion, and the whole rest of the world is wrong. How throughout history, it’s fueled wars, and been used as a method to control people more than a way to help people.

How some priests garb themselves in expensive robes and surround themselves with gold or drive luxury cars, or preach on TV from practically a stadium while passing around the donations plate through a crowd of poor people while promising a afterlife gated by pearls.

I’ll stop here but yeah. It was actually a pretty devastating realisation for me, as religion was a huge part of my life up to that point.

I’d be sticking to a leather couch, which would not be pleasant.

I love these types of games, and I’ve tried to get into it multiple times… But everything feels like it’s on such a strict timer. I just want to chill and farm/explore/talk to people without worrying if I spent too much time enjoying myself doing any one particular thing. If it had some kind of sandbox mode or if you could slow down the time, I’d give it another go.

Dragon Warrior on NES is what really got me hooked. I’d played games on Atari but Dragon Warrior was my first introduction to rpgs. I’m glad the franchise is still going strong. Have slime magnets on my fridge.