I fucking hate discord.
No wait.
I fucking hate the people who use discord.
I fucking hate discord.
No wait.
I fucking hate the people who use discord.
the "hopelessly lost" aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to doubt the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won't escape it. So success becomes failure because it directly increases your lostness.
Video games lack that "hopelessly lost" aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back. (Right?). So I'm excluding them.
That's a big if. And "real world" is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.
Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you'll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.
First : the algorithm predicts thar our behavior today will be like our behavior yesterday. Which makes sense.
Second : what you eat determines how you poop. And they do control what we eat. So that makes sense too.
So both work together.
What's a "commercial break"? Arrrrrrr!
Yeah I hate those. This medium is difficult enough without such antics. Best to speak plainly and succinctly.
Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches
Kid : but you can't do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.
Teacher : you're wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what's your problem?
True story.
You have met your sq quota
Because it would remove the offending information from being viewed by his sensitive eyes.
Thank you captain obvious.
Ah. Nobody can afford un-enshittified products anymore.
It's progressive invisible poverty.