Asking around gave me this shortlist of suggestions:
Very funny to me that “libertarian” New Hampshire does the same.
It’s just a scam to cash out at sky-high valuations before the bubble pops. Trying to stick the fucking scam on the taxpayers. The OpenAI is being billed as a “gift” but no way Anthropic and X.ai are doing anything but selling.
It’s mostly used to be mean and snarky but sometimes, in fact, touching grass is actually food for the spirit. I’ve gone through the same mood swing with content like this, hope your walk helped! ☀️🚶🌳
Clutter is a slur invented by big minimalism to sell more less.
I totally forgot about that! Yeah, I guess there were multiple CD game, damn. And we had lost, what was it, disk 3? So my family never beat Riven specifically. What a memory from the archive that is thanks for bringing it up.
I remember playing games on multiple floppies way back when! Then there was a good stretch when a single CD could hold everything, and now we’re back to multiple discs. It’s all cyclical.
I think it’s largely dependant on location. I live in the northeast US and never heard of this before my cousin moved to California and has his registration sticker stolen the day after he got Cali plates.
Mmm, bummer. Good to know.
I haven’t had issues anywhere with the @duck.com (duckduckgo) masking service.
Is this because in the US a big chunk of Disney IP is on Hulu?
Do you think they halted “adjudications” because they’re having a harder time than expected rigging the AI model and it kept pointing out that people like Sackler were fucking rich shitbags?
“This statement is inaccurate.”
I would say I generally have an excellent memory with better recall for what is read vs what is said. Not that helps you, but I’m a merely anecdotal case.
Maybe more than recall ask them when they read fiction if they pictures the characters orbjust kind of glaze over during prolong descriptive sections. Do they complain about movie casting? I never picture characters so even if I think a performance is bad, I’m never mad that the actor doesn’t look like how I imagined them.
Yeah, with that one in particular I thhough everybody was just beating a dead horse with the same joke on “counting sleep.”
Not OP but also have aphantasia.
I discovered it when I was…23? My whole life I figured people were saying “picture this…” figuratively and it didn’t even occur to me that it could be otherwise because it was self-evidently impossible to me to “see” something until I learned the word “aphantasia” and that the inability to visualize is not considered the norm/not universal.
There is a fantastic little French novel called Lobster about exactly this.
A lobster survives, after seeing his father be eaten, only to fall in love with the woman who ate his father. The novel is the story of his pursuit and erotic encounter with his father’s devourer.
From goodreads (fuck Amazon):
Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the iceberg and the pot is thrown to the floor. Lobster survives, with some changes: he finds himself sexually attracted not only to a human, but to the very human who ate his father. He gives her one life-changing orgasm before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats.
Here is a working Libgen link.