The impact brain chemistry has on all sorts of things is very poorly understood.

It’s not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents… they’re all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There’s no such thing as a soul.

Yeah. Sadly it’s a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn’t necessarily imply Causation.

Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?

I’m honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly “couldn’t put down” enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin’s Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.

I’d almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.

You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn’t a good idea!?

Dazed and Confused

Great. That means it’s only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan…

Battletoads

Since we already know, thanks to Pulaski’s ageing incident, and the Picard, Ro, Guinan Kid incident, that cures are as easy as stamping a previous pattern onto them during transport, technically any one of them would be better than an actual doctor.

Throw them into the pattern buffer, upload the last stored healthy pattern from their most recent beam-out. voila…all fixed.

Early on in TNG he even says he can detect if humans are lying from the minute physical changes (although the writers clearly drop that later

We can’t have TOO many reasons to get rid of Troi…

People are brainwashed into not knowing the difference between big “S” socialism and " Capitalism with a strong social safety net".

There isn’t a single developed western nation that is the first. They’re all the second. We’re not “socialist” and less free than the good ol’ Murica. We just know that your capitalism runs better if your population isn’t struggling…

Oh no no. That’s not what I mean. Its not about that old chestnut of “It’ll make kids violent!” (It won’t)

its just realistic, modern war games against realistic depictions of contemporary humans is just something that I find distasteful to be used as “goofy fun with friends”

Its like playing paintball in a church.

They weren’t even “fully ready” for Ukraine…

Star Trek the Next Generation

Night Court

X-files

Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc… It’s not that I’m a prude per se, I’ll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I’m killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc…

But (and this is MY OPINION only…I don’t judge anyone who feels differently) there’s something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.

Because it all boils down to Trump’s ego.

Saying it made him look like an utter fool. So his enablers will do whatever they have to do to prove that he was “correct”.

It’s honestly frightening.

Every single one of us, as kids, learned the concept of “garbage in, garbage out”; most likely in terms of diet and food intake.

And yet every AI cultist makes the shocked pikachu face when they figure out that trying to improve your LLM by feeding it on data generated by literally the inferior LLM you’re trying to improve, is an exercise in diminishing returns and generational degradation in quality.

Why has the world gotten both “more intelligent” and yet fundamentally more stupid at the same time? Serious question.

I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more

“I think” is the operative statement there. What you think is pointless. Facts are what matter. And without evidence that it IS the majority doing it, automatically lumping them all into that group makes us no better than them in terms of their rhetoric and divisiveness.

Every damn side needs to stop painting the other with broad strokes and then complaining when they do it back. It’s not helpful. Questions that are worded like this are not helpful.

I’m a guy and I’m in a very customer facing line of work and I don’t have that issue at all.

As others have said, maybe it’s an age thing (I’m middle aged) or maybe it’s a tone thing. If I’m complimenting them, it’s usually on something specific; “Oh hey, those are really cool glasses” or “I love what you’ve done with your hair.”, etc…

It’s never “You’ve got pretty hair, lady.” or “Gosh yer’ beautiful.”

The line between platonic comment and creepy sex weirdo (in my mind) is if you’re complimenting them on something they actively did that you think is cool (hairstyle, choice of glasses, etc…) it’s fine. Complimenting them on features that they have no control over, like saying “Hey, I just wanted to, completely randomly tell you how attractive you are” is creepy.

Tell my wife, “hello”…