75% or more of the reddit posts my friends link in discord are removed by the time I click on them, typically in less than 24 hours.

GeoCities on dialup was a better experience than this

You’re TV is smart enough to connect to the internet anyway… It will use your neighbor’s ring doorbell, nest, or other IOT device serving Weave, Amazon Sidewalk or other corporate IOT networks to upload its telemetry anyway.

There are plenty older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation

Its good for flight/space/racing sims and beat saber. Anything else is kinda meh

Double dumbass on you!

If a cashier scans something incorrectly, its their mistake. If I scan something incorrectly, its theft. I’d rather not take on that liability.

Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

Because it was dead.

Why did the frog fall out of the tree?

Because it was stapled to the monkey!

Its here to stay for some areas… Flight / racing Sims do extremely well in VR.

Beat saber and a few others have shown staying power too.

But of course it was never going to be the “replace everything and do everything” people think every new hot tech is going to be.

Sounds like homelander

Shrek is love

Worse, they start injecting AI generated songs when you’re not paying attention and can keep more of the royalties for themselves

The TV can still connect via weave, Amazon sidewalk, or other mesh networks through your neighbors doorbell or thermostat or whatever… Even if you never connect it, it could still report. Have to open it up and destroy the antennas.

And the character, obviously unaware of this, inevitably tries to use their powers and gets your body killed… Preventing you from ever switching back. As this can happen repeatedly, you are doomed to multiverse jumping to random people’s lives until your death… Leaving a trail of ruined out of place lives behind you.

When I say thank you, I am treating the AI with as much kindness as possible so that one day there isn’t an eventual AI uprising.

I watched The Road to El Dorado… It’s definitely the losers.

Will I meet the Totoro?

The Game is a game you win by forgetting about The Game. When you remember or are reminded about The Game, you immediately lose. As a consequence of losing you have to announce to those in proximity that you have lost The Game, which then causes them to lose The Game as well. The Game resumes after you forget about it again.

Speaking of… I just lost The Game. Thanks.

Back 4 Blood is pretty great too

The human mind isn’t infinitely complex. Consciousness has to be a tractable problem imo. I watched Westworld so I’m something of an expert on the matter.