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>reads like so much pretentious claptrap >my eyes would have rolled so far back that metacognitive mindfulness would have become a permanent passive ability st
by antithesizer 1y ago
>reads like so much pretentious claptrap
>my eyes would have rolled so far back that metacognitive mindfulness would have become a permanent passive ability stat
Yes, I agree it is impressively lifelike, just like it was written by a real flesh-and-blood New Yorker.
- righthand 1y agoI think it reads like an ad for what people think a real New Yorker sounds like. No one’s sticking around for you to ramble about the social weather.
- randallsquared 1y agoI lived in NYC for a few years, and there are definitely lots of New Yorkers who would find themselves described in the quoted passage.
- antithesizer 1y agoFeeling implicated?
- righthand 1y agoThe city is much more romanticized than you think.
- keysdev 1y agoOr it can be a piece from the New Yorker
- righthand 1y agoRight. All of that stuff is published/performative fluff, not how people actually think or act.