Only half true, not every western society was made entirely of arranged marriages; those were the norm in aristocratic circles, but for people closer to the bottom of the pyramid it wouldn’t matter as much.

Women always had less rights in general in the west, especially after Christianity took over, but it wasn’t a case of “every woman has always been at a real peril of being killed if they’re seen openly flirting with a man” - similar to how not every Christian country has made prostitution illegal, not even back in colonial times, or how even when it was, it wasn’t equally enforced everywhere.

Probably my first account on newgrounds, must’ve made it back in 2003.

I lost the password to the email I registered with and with that any chances for password recovery of said account and a bunch of other stuff of my teenage years.

Solution: search with Yandex. Russkies don’t give a fuck about western complaints of copyright, so every pirate site can show up there. Ahoy! 🦜 🏴‍☠️⛵

the Night in the Woods incident

I’m so out of the loop (it’s great for my own mental health) that I never heard of that one, and I quite enjoyed playing NitW

The girl in the OP isn’t happy with being ignored tho

From that girl’s perspective, it seems that she feels rejected, just not explicitly

Wasn’t there a similar shit patent headline about sony doing that?

Oh yeah, there was, “ghost assistance”, aka “no need to look up on youtube”; something which I’m pretty sure exists as “previous art” in some game or another - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-patents-ai-generated-ghost-support-system-to-assist-stuck-players

Also, bots that automate play have existed since the old MUD days, this patent must be like the many that are “something that already exists, but on a computer with AI”

Why are women even taught/expected to behave like sneaky spies when it comes to romance? “Ok, time to do my personal hair signal that I’m interested and want him to approach”

Broken clock miracles or something, go figure :)

For some reason, you made me think of 4chan and how it’s always been a cesspool, no capitalism needed. Little did we know how most corporate social media would devolve into “4chan, but with ad-friendly moderation”

Took me a while to realize that for most people, it’s less about religion and more about maintaining rituals and, more importantly, belonging to a community. To my knowledge, atheists don’t have the latter outside the internet.

That a dictatorship led by a “good, strong leader” would be enough to fix any country. Held that belief from ages 16-22. With time, I understood that it would devolve into a bad strong leader anyway, especially because any one single person cannot realistically do everything at such a large scale, nor can they ensure that everyone down the chain of command is “good”. Paranoia would seep in, more and more resources would be spent hunting “the bad ones”, innocents would be wrongfully accused either by honest mistake or by malicious enemies.

Nowadays, I really enjoy the idea of “Do not take for yourself any power that you would loathe your worst enemy to have” and I wish it could be applied to all levels of politics.

The only autocorrect I liked because I have no clue how to manually insert an em-dash otherwise

I feel the same about Eternal. In 2016, once I got the upgrade that gave me infinite ammo while at full health and armor, I had some of the best fun in the game, using the railgun like a maniac

I didn’t finish Eternal, I think I stopped before the cathedral where you’d kill the 2nd evil archbishop or whatever. Combat was annoying and the parkour more so

The UI and every interaction is unnecessarily slow and that really builds up stress, not to mention the many times your aim is pretty fucking clearly centered on a vegetable or box or whatever, but the interact will target a nearby NPC because fuck you.

Learning alien words is one of the worst chores of NMS

Vtubers are people pretending to be anime girls

Entertainment is a “social lubricant”, so it’s not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.

The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.

Celebrities, French language

He’s really good at scamming people

Emacs is a table saw, vim is a chainsaw, nano is a scissor. Every problem those 3 solve is a differently sized single sheet of paper.