Jivebaby

Right?

If you haven’t heard it from an outsider yet, we’re all freaked out. USAmerica is scary right now. I’ve heard current times there “jokingly-seriously” referred to as a “fascism phase”.

I'm also feeling nuts here because people keep saying things like "what feeds the desire to buy it is the social animal wanting to join in on a thing that others are doing" and I while I do understand ingroup signalling I do not understand why buying things signals that you are part of the ingroup (or, I get why it signals that you are part of the ingroup but I don't understand why that would translate to *feeling* like you are part of the ingroup when your participation with the ingroup has been literally purely transactional).

It very much does NOT feel self explanatory to me and never has, not with Stanley cups not with Uggs not with Juicy Couture velour sets.

I feel like an alien here. It feels like intergalactic anthropologists are standing in a corner of my brain making notes but no connections.

I feel like if I were to buy a labubu it would give me the same sensation as realizing I don't know if I'm doing normal things with my hands in the middle of a conversation (which is the same general vibe I've gotten from previous popular brand explosions: "if I wear Uggs it will necessarily make me into the kind of person who wears Uggs but I suspect that the kind of people who wear Uggs will not see me as someone who belongs in their group").

And I think this is true in general but now I'm talking about it in the context of AI.

If you don't enjoy making art and only care about the end piece and how it'll look and how much traction it"lol get online then making art is not something for you, find something you enjoy from start to finish.

Same goes for writing: if you do not enjoy writing and rewriting and then some more and instead want AI to write for you, being a writer is not something you should pursue.

Sure, not every part of creative process is going to be equally enjoyable but you should get satisfaction from solving the problems along the way and you should get a sense of accomplishment on your way of "making the piece yours" and you should have a sense of ownership once you are done.

Compare it to Far Harbor one of the best DLC’s of the franchise. And then all you get to choose is side with the raiders or kill them all and if you kill them all that’s it. DLC over.

So if you want to be a good person the DLC is basically pointless.

On the other hand far Harbor has 3 separate sides you can pick. And could honestly be a game on its own.

Basically every other DLC outside of fallout 3 lets you do more than kill everyone and that’s the good ending.