And the last panel just tells you to use cocaine, unrelated.

To point 3, I heard some author point out, and I think it makes a lot of sense, that reading bad writing can maybe tell you what not to do, but there’s so much good writing out there, more than you could read in a lifetime, that it just doesn’t make sense not to read all the best books. If you read in a world of excellent writing your standards are that high and you can still take lessons from the worst of the best.

Yeah the take plays against their point and into the hands of fascists. A common retort from “capitalists” goes “well why doesn’t your economic system compete on the free market? If it’s so good it will rise to the top.” You believing your ideology will defacto rise from a blank slate after society collapses lends credence to that argument. (Which is flawed in so many ways)

I was going to say. If I lived there there wouldn’t be nearly as much trash on the lawn and it’s honestly pretty cozy

Yeah but then when I see a backwards L I don’t know what the fuck’s going on

Buddy you have got to rephrase this.

“WhAt Is GoInG oN???¿‽”

Followed by that article. Horrific journalism.

I think, like valium, you have to keep yourself awake. Either artificially or somehow through willpower

First one gets a lot of praise and passes because it’s the introduction to the world. Everyone knows the origin story is the best part so it’s fine if it’s rough around the edges. Also if you’ve only seen one Harry Potter movie, it’s going to be that one for obvious reasons.

If you don’t like or don’t want to explore music, that’s your prerogative. It’s a hobby and a skill you can build like anything else.

You could have the one pop, country, or metal song/artist you enjoy and not branch out, it’s perfectly valid, but if you like the sound of a particular song or genre there are many songs in other genres that will have the same vibe. It’s just up to you to explore.

I think part of the problem here is that a “genre” is a vague, idiosyncratic definition that overlaps with every other so-called genre.

Right. You don’t contradict me. You emigrate from somewhere if that’s your subject. And you immigrate to somewhere.

To put it more simply. You can emigrate from America. Or you can immigrate to America.

Right, so you’re emigrating from America and you’re immigrating to, say, Zimbabwe.

Not at all, if you have taste in music, you find great music in all genres. Great music is great, no matter what broad categories it is defined by. “Jazz” covers an astoundingly vast spread of sounds and feelings. If you enjoy music for the sensation of music, Jazz is just one of the many, many places that you will find that joy.

Anyone with a taste in music.

It definitely depends. It’s also hard to tell. My most straight-laced friends from college did acid at least once if not more, and there is a friend or two of mine that I would swear on my life experimented with drugs if I didn’t know better.

That’s something people don’t really acknowledge about drugs. The actual rate of hard abuse or like injuries/death is relatively low. It’s like driving a car, it’s one of the most common causes of death but the actual chance is so low that you don’t really think about that every time you hop in one. Similarly, a lot more people have done drugs (at least once) than you would expect. It’s just if you only take acid once there’s an overwhelming chance that it won’t have any long-term effects (except for the epiphany that there’s a wider world out there than just our every day perception lol)

Then again, it varies wildly by region so there’s a fine chance that it really isn’t as popular around you.

Life is for having fun, it doesn’t mean it awards you fun for lying in bed for 16 hours straight. You have the opportunity to go and make your own fun.

No there’s a literal cult that believes if you don’t pour all your money and effort into creating an AI overlord then once it’s created it will torture everyone that didn’t help create it. This is the explicit reason why many silicon valley douches like Peter Thiel are spending all their effort on making AI. It’s as batshit stupid as it sounds.

God the college I went to had you change your password once a semester, so twice a year. But the password couldn’t be the same as any of your last six passwords. What the fuck are you expecting from me?

The reason I’m not crazy worried about steam, and I don’t even think it’s a monopoly per-se (although I’m not referring to any definition, just a vibe) is that steam has a lot of the “market share” of video game purchases, sure, but if steam shut down tomorrow, or did something heinous enough to warrant a boycott, I am able to move. The epic games store and GoG both exist at the very least.

It would be a pain for me because I have a lot of money poured into steam, but not for anyone just getting into gaming who doesn’t have cache with steam. I didn’t pour it into steam because it was the only place for me to go, it was the best place for me to go. Idk, a big difference in Steam’s “monopoly” is that they don’t own a scarce physical commodity like oil or land, and they don’t have anything exclusive except maybe Valve games. Also unlike a monopoly there are many similarly functional competitors easily accessible on the Internet that offer an almost identical service.

Steam “locks you in” to their ecosystem. But only for each individual game you choose to buy on their platform. If you didn’t want to hitch all your games to Steam for fear that they shut down or break bad Steam does not mind if you install GoG and buy physical copies of games to diversify your portfolio so to speak.

I really hope this doesn’t make us nostalgic for the TSA they were already a brand new organization designed to make us scared to be in the airport.