I can’t imagine my experience wold have been better online. The third year was almost all lab work and practical.

But aside from that, one of the best things about my offline experience was getting to spend time with people from other disciplines and honestly, some 20-odd years later, that has been almost as valuable as my degree in my career as well as my understanding of the world.

The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.

I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.

I don’t think this is a gaming problem.

It is a discourse problem.

People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.

And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.

And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.

You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.

People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.

And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.

Audience error.

But let’s not forget the time the US dragged the world into a horrible war on terror just so it could maintain oil prices too.

Yes, that was what I joking about.

By allies, this article is referring to Republicans.

As opposed to Zelenskyy’s allies who are pretty much every nation state other than Russia, USA and, the runt Hungary.

I bet the idiots have shares in the dental industry though.

You just know that Trump is going to have to say and do some batshit wild stuff to distract us from this.

What next?

My money is on claiming Antarctica as US land because of …uh… Ice prices or something.

Nah, you got Hungary too. All the fash.

Real Art of The Deal shit.

Absolute fucking masterclass in statesman-like diplomacy.

Genuinely a moment for all Americans to be proud of. Truly, exceptional.

I hope Zelensky travelled all the way there to tell him to go and fuck himself to his face.

So you think it should be a binary decision? Either see only things you’ve actively curated or put up with anime tits.

No one is suggesting it is anyone’s fault for posting stuff, just that if there was a tag system people could choose.

You seem defensive, is everything ok?

Unpopular opinion, but in the west particularly, folk have mistaken writing on the internet for action.

Tweeting resistance rather than performing it.

A lapse into inaction framed as radical rest and self care.

Online they are fierce warriors of justice, offline they go to work in Starbucks, use their apple devices to talk to their families and enjoy the treadmill of streaming services.

And this isn’t to blame them. This is the point of consumerist capitalism. To trap you in a gilded cage.

It’s just like here but there’s an awful, hollow, gnawing feeling like you’ve already seen this post before just last week.

As others have said, a really easy improvement is to straighten that horizon up so all the water doesn’t tip out.

How many angry teens retreat to their room and hit it up on the stereo after their mum has told them to bring her their dirty laundry?

Actually that’s not that obscure.

Really obscure knowledge would be something like the sign for Ashton Road once had a plastic soldier taped to it for six months by this kid called Richard who once shat himself in primary school and rather than clean himself up spent most of the break trying to get other people to shit themselves like he was starting a new trend. He was unsuccessful.

The word “dinosaur” was coined by a resident of my town.

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Only if you think it is mud. I’m kinda proud of the guy for being so succinct and bang on whilst enjoying the powder.