Adult is essentially like age-based gender. Different cultures say adulthood starts at different ages, physical markers, or after some ritual transition, and assign adults a certain role in society. Some people identify as adult or not adult regardless of what their culture assigns to them. It’s all part of the arbitrary, usually unspoken rules each culture defines for itself.
Could you give me a minute to think it over? Oh, wait, shit…
Lots of fun stupid ideas here…
In a certain way, almost anything. Movie companies seem loathe to make anything original, with no IP history on which to build nostalgia-based marketing.
Morgan is incapable of shame but do at least the others involved feel some kind of horror at being grouped as a peer of ‘professor’ Jiang?
Preaching to the choir, there. Nostalgia started out as a mental illness and needs to go back to that status.
Then they don’t get my respect either. Buying clothes doesn’t make you special.
Again, that all goes out the window in the case of an actual emergency. The person needs help. In NO case should corporate liability dodging be the reason someone doesn’t get help, regardless of the precise wording of the policy. A policy that can be readily misinterpreted as ‘authorized responders only’ is a bad policy. A policy that places further limitations on the already minimal number of people who could/would volunteer to help is a bad policy. A policy that makes people unsure of what to do is a bad policy. It’s really that simple. Safety and survival trump company liability dodging every single time.
There seems to be an interesting rhythm to perceptions. Things are what they are in the now, then the good gets realised as bad and vice versa with the benefit of hindsight. Then the past gets far enough away that hindsight dims and people switch to their nostalgia goggles.
What you’re talking about is the movement toward live service games, loot box sales, and ‘friendslop’ in just the last several years, but you forgot about the cynically made sequals created purely to milk nostalgia for established IP. This is the result of the investor class trying to colonize the games space. Start taxing the fuck out of the unproductive rent seekers and I expect things would improve.
If someone needs CPR, all that goes out the window. If someone has watched a tiktok vid that gives them the basic knowledge to say ‘this guy’s not breathing. I’m going to try to help him,’ any policy that says ‘no’ is idiotic. CPR is so ineffective already, worrying about how recently trained people are is a gross distortion of priorities. If they need CPR, it’d be nigh impossible to make their day worse. Same goes for worrying about the trauma of performing CPR where it doesn’t actually save the person, which is the vast majority of cases. It’s going to be traumatic no matter what if your coworker is dying, but the idea that you’re going to prioritize the possible emotional trauma of the basically healthy individual over the literal life and death situation of their coworker is a wild way to triage that scene.
It’s all just liability dodging. If only the managers/safety people are supposed to do it, the company can’t be sued for ‘letting’ untrained personnel help. If the policy says ‘don’t help’ the company can’t be held liable for the workplace mental injury of the trauma of helping. Telling people who aren’t helping to keep the area clear is sensible, though.
Introducing House Bill 33-29-5 a.k.a. the ‘save our children from pedophiles with cameras’ bill
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Those few get some credit, but I doubt that’s the norm.
At least a fursuit is something someone put real time, energy, and talent into bringing to existence. I have no respect for someone who just runs a piece of software someone else made to change how they look. It’s Instagram filters but dumber.
This is the inevitable result of corporate cowardice. Idiots in middle to upper management positions try to make it against company policy to make any decision at a lower level than their own because they don’t want the company to be liable for anything done by someone who hasn’t passed through the magical jump hoops of college, business school, and local corporate indoctrination, but while it helps prevent a lawsuit in 1 in 1,000,000 situations, it makes everything worse for the other 999,999.
Sort of, but dumber. At least a tulpa is a display of a quirk of the human mind that it can create an imaginary friend that feels like a different person, and isn’t done for the titillation of strangers. Vtubers are just the laziest automation of a ventriloquist act.
They don’t learn the subtle art of throwing their voice and looking like they’re paying attention, practicing a skill like a magician. They don’t even engage sincerely with an esoteric religious tradition like tulpamancers. They just run a software to control the digital dummy and do the exact same thing every other streamer does. Give it a few more years and they won’t be anime girls, it’ll all be AI Pokimane bodies with AI modulated voice changers played by the 50 dudes who sold their souls, their cars, and their neighborhood children to get ahold of the only 100 consumer graphics cards to leak out of the Nvidia pipeline.
A job that seems perfect for weaponized incompetence. Wave in anybody that doesn’t have a ZZ Top beard and collect paycheck.
Usually I don’t like chocolate in cheesecake either but that one particular formulation somehow works.
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This is kind of a dark reflection of the veil of ignorance.
As for which one I’d want… Maybe Brave New World? It’s not wildly different in some ways from our own world but basically everyone except for the ones on the ‘reservations’ seems to have their physical and emotional needs met, just in a ‘monkey’s paw wish’ way. Probably one of the least horrible dystopias for the actual residents.