This is my first time reading about this alternate “ETA” initialism. Interesting…

Not to burst your bubble, but upvotes may come from people just applauding your attempt to increase community here but who may not even play or like the game 😬🫣 I hope you do get some action, though! I am unavailable, personally.

Any examples?

Fine, *could literally be.

Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.

Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.

Ironically, I couldn’t get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.

Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.

I got bored by FAR’s puzzles and didn’t finish it but I guess I should persist, huh?

Fun fact: Portal was originally a university student project called Narbacular Drop that got hired by Steam. In a sense from its limited narration and story, it felt a bit more like a proof-of-concept than almost a full-fleshed game to me at times, which, for me, was hands-down Portal 2.

They’re great fun to stream and watch, too.

ChatGPT 2 was literally an Excel spreadsheet.

I guesstimate that it’s effectively a supermassive autocomplete algo that uses some TOTP-like factor to help it produce “unique” output every time.

And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.

Get your popcorn out! 🍿

And then all of this gave birth to the terrorists known as the Naturalists™…

Use PeaZip (which is better than 7-ZIP because it’s cross-platform) to split large files into as many smaller chunks as you’d like.

And Android!!

You have to decide for yourself whether your efforts are worth it despite no visible effect. You don’t know whether your content may have affected one reader (or many more) who simply didn’t say anything.

I’ll personally never stop notifying people of tracker-free URLs, for example. The way I look at it is: I don’t care if they actually change or not. What I care about is that I ensure they are without excuse if they don’t change, because I served as the messenger and they heard the word, even if they reject it.

So at least I will have done my part, so no one can put it back on me and say I didn’t try. Putting the ball in their court is what matters; why would you change your behavior because of what others do/don’t do? That’d be one flimsy philosophy, right?

Oh. Well, if the mods are this active, then that could probably be changed, too! I’m not trying to insult you or something; I just think the titles could be made much more meaningful with just a bit more focus (which also means they could potentially attract more redditors or other lurking, fence-sitting denizens of the Internet through quality stuff in both title and body).

Could you please rename such a long and misleading title to something more succinct and accurate?

Day 333 of game commentary: Minecraft

I strongly believe it would genuinely boost the quality of your submissions.

That’s even more reason to not get upset at parents; who are you to say their kids wouldn’t enjoy life or have hope of better enjoyment in the future?

Either way, you’re a bad person for bringing another person here.

you’re *“such a person is” - not me, since I already stated that I’m childfree.

Still, I don’t understand; you’re experiencing life right now and likely enjoying it enough to chat with strangers online since that’s what you’re doing, right? If life is as horrible as you make it out to be, wouldn’t you instantly KYS without even hesitating? The fact that you don’t suggests that life is worth living or at least trying to tolerate for a better future, right? Are you part of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?

I may be childfree but that’s just because I personally can’t stand being tethered to raising a kid and I know that I’d be a bad parent, but we do need a certain minimum number of people for society to not go Children of Men-apocalyptic. There are certain extraordinary people (albeit few, sure) who are able to make life decently good for their kids, and it’s unfair to say they suck just because we had bad parents/circumstances. And if you’re talking about the ecological hellscape that awaits us, there are just as many reports of 12-to-19-year-olds who are making staggering scientific advances, like even solar panels that can get up to 75% efficiency, etc. I just read an article of a 10-year-old who graduated from college. Brilliant minds are being honed, so I’d suggest that you take steps to curb your pessimism and not let it bleed onto others in a blanket, stereotyping way.

inflicting this reality upon another person

Now, I have no childrearing plans for myself, but this phrase stuck out to me even so: you’re assuming what their experience will be.

Those ironically are precisely the descriptions that are very often used on the child-free.