Absurdity

Mostly putting these here to clear them from messages I sent to myself, may have even posted here before, so in no coherent order:

I feel there should be regulations in place to keep children off social media. Yes there is parental responsibility, but also there is societal responsibility, and society has a responsibility to put in place a structure that prevents harm to those who have not fully matured yet or who may not always have people to directly take care of them.

Same reason we have regulations preventing children from accessing tobacco, alcohol, or a range of other products. They are determined to be harmful to them. I remember in school kids still smoked, but to me that doesn't mean we should just say kids can smoke now, it means we need to find ways to prevent or reduce that. People will always be able to get around laws, doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws.

So quick to judge men for being sick too, for taking care of themselves and stating their needs. I get it's maybe they only communicate well when they are sick, or women don't communicate enough when they are sick, but the fact is men saying how they feel when they are sick and asking for care shouldn't be a bad thing, it should just be the standard, if you feel horrible you should be able to trust your partner to support you and not ridicule you. The same should go for women, they should feel supported by their partner when they are feeling terrible, and I think a lot of them don't communicate that. It's kind of how men are told to "tough it out" but this is a moment you can show weakness, at least to your partner, then they all ridicule it online, re-enforcing that "man up" mentality", where women kind of take it on themselves to "tough it out" when they are sick and keep pushing because they feel they need to or nothing gets done, where it really should be them communicating their needs when they are sick. Being told to "man up" when you have a cold is just more toxic masculinity IMO, and instead of being something shamed at, it should be shown as good communication and instead we should encourage women to demand their needs are met when they are sick.

Love Runescape is on mobile now, gives me something to do during the day. Doing plague city now on my breaks lol. I do miss not logging into my main account that's on RS3, it's fun starting over, but felt connected to that account. But RS3 is just too different and tried to get into it a few times and just feels uneasy, too familiar but too different at same time. Maybe if it was a new game I would have played.

Old shows had theme songs, so much easier to get excited with the intro, sing along, enjoy the lyrics. New show intros seem to be instrumental or very quick, but kids shows in the old days really did a good intro.

Filler episodes can be so fun if done well! We've lost that because some shows did some bad filler, new shows make it feel like everything needs to matter instead of showcasing us some every day life.

You'd have those 26 or 52 episode seasons and it'd be fun, there's filler, slow character development, get to know everyone really well. So when villain turns good lot more emotional depth then having it coming with heavy foreshadowing over 8 episodes. Calling back to 2 episodes ago isn't as a shock as call back to 20 episodes ago, the trials, ups and downs.

I've noticed that in this group, many do not try to work on or fix things, just "leave them" as advice, no communication or finding middle ground or improving things, yet I feel lot of them have multiple relationship issues, or constantly saying they are single and unhappy (not that you can't be single and happy). Do you take advice from the farmer with skinny pigs or a full corn field kind of thing. I feel a lot of the older members in 15/20+ year relationships will give more advice I'd listen to, than the ones who's relationships don't last more than 1-2 years.

I do see though how starting off calling people cry babies will illicit a certain reaction in return. I think usually state your point clearly kindly and people will act as such in return. I enjoyed space as well, think it lasted a bit too long but it was enjoyable, and I do feel some people would be happy just playing the exact same levels with the same birds every single day, drink the same drink, eat the same food, but others love change and dynamics and having to think out a puzzle instead of memorizing the answers. 2 different approaches. Those who watch videos and those who don't. And I don't think either is wrong, just different ways we enjoy the game (and if you truly do not enjoy any aspect of the game anymore then take a break or stop playing). But they could have made the space events a bit more separate, an event challenge you can go into for rewards, that other players could ignore if they didn't like it. Bring it around for battles, but not every battle or bootcamp. I know they were excited, they made something new and different, but too much chocolate can be deadly too and overstay the welcome.

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Honestly I don't see an issue with Disney using generative videos for their productions. It's just an improved method to help people share their stories, like I have a lot of ideas I'd like to see, but I don't have talent so I don't make anything. In the old days before CGI animation took longer so less ideas made it to the screen. This just seems like an improved way to get animation out quicker with less work, 1 more tool. The big deal with AI from my understanding is that it doesn't pay artists for their work, but if it's all Disney IP they have paid their artists for the work creating these characters already. So people will proudly steal or pirate the shows, so companies have less money to pay artists, but have issues with not paying artists. It's like auto tune, people used to hate it, but it's just opened up singing for so many more people. I really don't have an issue with "AI" generated videos, it's a natural progression of human knowledge. Every generation should be better than the last because we build on what they built on, make it easier, better tools, more efficient. I don't like AI being forced on us though in searches where it is becoming more and more inaccurate.

In regards to emojis/proper punctuation Makes sense, as the medium changes and evolves so does the language and tone. Punctuation now is rarely used, so is seen as extra. Using it implies intent, adding something extra intentionally will have meaning behind it, and is seen as more formal, so when someone is acting more formal to you than expected it can be seen as passive aggressive.