What if the goggles do nothing?

This may reveal me to be some kind of weirdo, but I’ve never managed to finish any Zelda other than the very first one on NES. I’ve gone back and tried other Zelda games over the years, they all seem interesting to start with but I just end up putting them down at some point and losing interest entirely.

I love a lot of single-player action RPGs and always have, but for some reason the most popular series of them ever consistently fails to vibe with me.

Joke’s on them, I’m no good for money even when it’s legit. 💸

These are good points, and a lot of people may find that sort of separation useful.

Personally I’m also an activist involved with hacker culture, independent journalism, and weird art and comedy stuff, but I’ve come to a point where I don’t really feel much need to separate that from the rest of my life; the mundane me is hacker me, activist me, etc. I’m also pretty confident that if I said or did something stupid enough to involve backlash from anyone whose opinion matters to me, not only would I probably have earned the criticism but my wife would be first in line to tell me I’m being an ass.

If everyone in my real life already knows what I’m like online and vice versa, what’s to exploit?

I ain’t never met nobody I didn’t not dislike.

Unlike Gallowboob, Flying Squid posts interesting things I genuinely enjoy instead of generic gruel obviously calculated to farm upvotes from the mainstream. Flying Squid is also an interesting and fun participant in the comments and seems like a pretty cool person, while I seen to remember Gallowboob coming off like he’d be an insufferable jackass in real life.

This is an interesting way of thinking about things. I would have probably agreed entirely with this when I was a kid on the early Internet, experimenting, making mistakes, and figuring out who I was and what sort of person I wanted to strive to be.

Now, as a middle-aged old fart who has used the same screenname everywhere online for decades, I generally prefer to fully consider everything I say, whether online or in real life, and contribute things I truly mean to put out there as myself. I also prefer to have a real life, job, family and friends, etc. compatible with the weirdass person I genuinely am everywhere, which includes my online work, activities, opinions, shitposts, etc.

For example, I got so active in subcultural projects and stuff from my online life over the years that things from it built up into legitimate features of my real-life portfolios and resumes and get talked about in job interviews, so I simply don’t pursue work at places which would have a problem with finding that stuff out about me. Similarly, my universal screenname and weird online stuff were in my profile on the dating app where I met the person to whom I’m now happily married, and that person enjoys and even helps me do my weird online bullshit while being the greatest real-life partner I could ever ask for.

It’s all come together in a rather comfy way for me, and I ultimately find it a much more freeing way to live than trying to do the secret-identity thing.

I’m thinking of quitting the Taco Bell deep-marketing department.

In some towns that makes you the mayor.

Maybe you do, though. It night be worth getting tested if you have access and haven’t already.

The same way you can wear warm clothes in freezing weather and still feel the cold, but at a level which won’t physically damage you.

I do know that, it’s prominently featured in the extensive dossier my superiors issued me about you. But perhaps I’ve said too much…

Nope. Nearly all US citizens assigned male at birth age 18-25 must register, with very few exceptions.

Just because the politicians want to grab you out of your life and use you as cannon fodder doesn’t mean they want to actually be as accountable to you as they’re supposed to.

A lot of domain registrars nowadays have a privacy-protection feature which will fill the public WHOIS entry with the registrar’s own geographical address and a randomly-generated email address which forwards to you. It’s easy enough to set up a filter sending any email you get via that forwarder straight to spam, as in all probability you’ll never get any email of value from someone who looked up your WHOIS to contact you.

Unless that’s something you do want, depending on your use case.

Sadly this means you’ll never see “The Edge of Destruction” a.k.a. “Inside the Spaceship,” as the whole thing takes place in the TARDIS it’s outside time entirely and therefore impossible to put into any objective chronological order with the others. Other stories like “The Celestial Toymaker” or “The Mind Robber” take place in freaky realities which are similarly difficult to contextualize in the timeline.

Source: I wasted far too much of my precious human life debating this shit on fandom wiki talk pages.

The revival-era show soft-reboots every time there’s a new Doctor, to intentionally make it a good spot for new viewers to jump on; the basics are all subtly reintroduced as the story progresses. If you find yourself intrigued by one Doctor or another, you can just start with that Doctor’s first episode. (Not the one in which the regeneration happens and the new Doctor is introduced at the end, but the one following that in which they’re the Doctor as it starts.)

And the classic Beatles track “I Quanta Hold Your Hand.”