Would a dipping sauce change your mind at all? They stop being the worst part of pizza and start being luxury breadsticks.

In my defence I said “certain kind”. You must have met some. You tell them to press the green box that says [OK] and they just look at the screen confounded. You tell them to use their finger and they try and give it you back saying they don’t know how to work it.

I tried showing one VR, and they just stood there motionless saying it’s not working. I tell him “you need to actually move your arms, like you’re there, press that button in front of you with your actual hands” “what hands” “your real hands holding the controllers you need to actually do it like it’s real”. Stands there motionless for another 10 seconds. “No. It’s not working. It’s not doing anything.” Forget it. Come off the thing.

If there’s one of these people in the room Jackbox will quickly become a tedious chore.

Boring TV shows tend to make money. Daytime TV for pensioners. It’s boring as hell but you’re at work, or streaming content, or on the tiktoks doing virals for dings.

Broadcast TV, where most shows still come from, are not for you. You ever notice just how many procedural cop shows there are?

blood is not magnetic

I thought it had iron in it? I mean you’re right about the MRI, I never thought about it until this thread.

Quick warning about Jackbox, older people may struggle. It’s incredibly simple, nearly foolproof, but there’s just a certain kind of old person who becomes completely toddler-esque useless around technology.

I still give the recommendation a +1 though. It’s cracking fun.

I don’t think it’s rational today, but I don’t have anything more than gut feeling to back it up. I do think it will be realistic quite soon though. It’s not hard to imagine a world even more digital than today.

Honestly are you OK?

As is p*sting and h**f and aj.

I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human’d all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I’d love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.

If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don’t want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.

Yeah, there are good reasons to want to know where someone’s from, but pushing the issue for no reason with a near stranger is kind of weird.

Mine is slightly similar. I’m back in school at playtime and in the sky you can see the planets lining up, each one slightly overlapping the next to make like a chain of them. The largest one like 3x wider than the moon, the smallest about moon size. I’m running around freaking out telling everyone and nobody gives a shit. The only person I can convince to even look up just tells me “yeah so what they always do that”. Then it gets nighttime dark really quick and I wake up panicking.

The amount of people who suddenly became experts during the pandemic and lecturing me with a bunch of contradictory stuff. Everyone saying something different, but everyone sure that they’re right and everyone else is idiots.

Calling me a sheep for believing the vaccine will work when I don’t understand it. I tell them I don’t understand how any of my other medicines work but they’re saving my life regular. I don’t understand how audio digitalisation works but I’m happy enough talking on the phone.

Can’t have anything nice

Twilight. My wife made me watch the first one and it’s actually got a really interesting world and hints at a lot of decent lore and possible content.

Then they fill the film with close-ups of their eyes meeting across the room for minutes on end.

That man fucks me right off. “Here’s how you can feed your family for a fiver”

Proceeds to use an entire fucking spice rack that’ll cost about 80 quid to get set up properly.

and they don’t try to steal the idea

I heard that everyone basically built nukes really fast because they suddenly discovered it was possible. The theory was pretty common among scientists but only when the first one was built they all got to work.

Does it count if I was high? If so this nonsense right here

Did you see that episode of Black Mirror “Common People”?

I agree it’s bleak, but it’s just different. They have youtubers to rally behind. They’ll be fine.

Subtitles on dubbed stuff is weird. The English voice over and the English subtitles are very different from eachother, and I assume what they’re translating from is a 3rd different thing altogether.