Minecraft For My Mental Health

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

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This is so wholesome. The billboards don’t try to sell you anything. They don’t preach religion or show a vaguely threatening attorney. They just have nice little sayings on them.

@fishtree7

Two indy horror movies are now outperforming a Star Wars flick at the summer box office; truly the Old Gods are dead.

I feel like we're all just starved for novelty

Squatters' rights apply to grandmas. If someone's not visiting and looking after their grandma, but you will, after a set amount of time once you've settled in, that's your grandma now.

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

I don't know this sport.

I do find it interesting when my British friends tell me that everyone thought that America was really cool and glamourous when they were growing up, but I can assure you that this was not how America was perceived by the kids in Canada, at least not where I lived.

I guess it's because the glamour doesn't work when you're too culturally proximate to it? Or it's the equivalent of a girl telling a kid "Oh my God, your older brother is so cool." Like, what? No he's not.

I went there most frequently as a kid/young teen, mostly before 2001 and before I was particularly politically aware, so to me the US always felt like a sort of Mirrorverse. It's like here, except all the stores have different names, they call it Soda, they use gallons, their money is weird, and if you are quiet and unassuming sometimes it takes them awhile to realize you aren't one of them...

@commodityproduction