Adult is essentially like age-based gender. Different cultures say adulthood starts at different ages, physical markers, or after some ritual transition, and assign adults a certain role in society. Some people identify as adult or not adult regardless of what their culture assigns to them. It’s all part of the arbitrary, usually unspoken rules each culture defines for itself.
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There’s someone out there for everyone, even if they want two someones.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I’ll tell you what I’d do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
[Peter laughs and then notices Lawrence’s dead serious expression]
Peter Gibbons: That’s it? If you had a million dollars, you’d do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that’d double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point
Could you give me a minute to think it over? Oh, wait, shit…
Ah, yeah. Pretty doable that way.
Star Trek: Corner Gas
Lots of fun stupid ideas here…
In a certain way, almost anything. Movie companies seem loathe to make anything original, with no IP history on which to build nostalgia-based marketing.
Morgan is incapable of shame but do at least the others involved feel some kind of horror at being grouped as a peer of ‘professor’ Jiang?
Almost like making games focused on milking people’s nostalgia for a successful IP isn’t actually a recipe for quality.
Fears as in ‘Little Fears’ the TTRPG or as in ‘you now do what you are afraid of?’
Preaching to the choir, there. Nostalgia started out as a mental illness and needs to go back to that status.
Then they don’t get my respect either. Buying clothes doesn’t make you special.
Again, that all goes out the window in the case of an actual emergency. The person needs help. In NO case should corporate liability dodging be the reason someone doesn’t get help, regardless of the precise wording of the policy. A policy that can be readily misinterpreted as ‘authorized responders only’ is a bad policy. A policy that places further limitations on the already minimal number of people who could/would volunteer to help is a bad policy. A policy that makes people unsure of what to do is a bad policy. It’s really that simple. Safety and survival trump company liability dodging every single time.
There seems to be an interesting rhythm to perceptions. Things are what they are in the now, then the good gets realised as bad and vice versa with the benefit of hindsight. Then the past gets far enough away that hindsight dims and people switch to their nostalgia goggles.
What you’re talking about is the movement toward live service games, loot box sales, and ‘friendslop’ in just the last several years, but you forgot about the cynically made sequals created purely to milk nostalgia for established IP. This is the result of the investor class trying to colonize the games space. Start taxing the fuck out of the unproductive rent seekers and I expect things would improve.
I think that’s the point. Passes the glance but if you’re paying attention…
This is kind of a dark reflection of the veil of ignorance.
As for which one I’d want… Maybe Brave New World? It’s not wildly different in some ways from our own world but basically everyone except for the ones on the ‘reservations’ seems to have their physical and emotional needs met, just in a ‘monkey’s paw wish’ way. Probably one of the least horrible dystopias for the actual residents.