Jimajesty

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by Jimajesty 4y ago
It occurred to me that I have opinions on Metaverse and I don't actually have much concrete information about it. The handful of screenshots I've seen look curiously similar to Second Life, so I decided to do a look around Youtube
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
I really like the author's sentiment, but for an article published in 2022 it seems to not really consider the last twenty years or so. Their references to a better, less exploitative internet seem to exist in a 2000-bubble. Today, vid
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
But what would happen if you combined both? Best skin in the game.
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
He did write a sequel of sorts to Generation X called Generation A in 2009. I haven't read it so I can't comment on it, though I suspect it is already 'of it's time' in the way that, say, Microserfs is. It's
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
I've been reading Douglas Copeland's 1994 novel "Microserfs" recently and there's a bit where the main character starts reading up on actual highway construction in response to the information superhighway.
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
When a movie has a love story that doesn't involve a love-triangle or infidelity I breath a palpable sigh of relief. Realistic or not, does all romance have to involve competition or deception?
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
Same. Could it be that maybe seeing 'impossible' shapes colliding and passing through each other is common these days, so the brain won't automatically register as "bouncing back an forth"?
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
I felt pretty smart getting that first question, then proceeded to fall down the stairs.
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
Look at this guy, not commenting about the name.
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
I feel like clicking the link and getting hit immediately with four tiers of subscription option from the Financial Times was a strong enough case in point that I scarcely needed to read the article itself.
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by Jimajesty 4y ago
Replacement could imply more than habitual use of substances. I've found the hardest part of not drinking to be the loss of the sociable activities I engage with while drinking. I've certainly used marijuana as an "intermedia