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Yeah, he was listening, he listened and listened well. And what he learned is that there are sick people wasting resources he can take away.

For me that would be the transparent plastic cards used in gloom so that piling them over each other can add values or abilities or modify them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151124082000im_/http://www.atlas-games.com/images/gloomclearsamples.jpg

I have been jungle in the past, mostly with Vi and sometimes Morgana. But I feel like as much as I try I can never be in the right place in the right time. Maybe this season I will try a bit with something different. Viktor mid has been fun and I would want to try a bit with Vi top, making her a bit more tanky (I just really like playing Vi).

There's two points of consideration here, let's see if I can make my point without a wall of text, I'm prone to those...

1. Anonimity: the fact that where you connect cannot know who exactly you are. This should be straightforward, anonimity should not be taken away, it is a core part of the internet in my opinion. It's extremely important that we can express ourselves freely without fear of being persecuted. Despite the negative sides that it has, as those with ill intent will be harder to find (but not impossible). In this the common quote attributed to Franklin applies well in my opinion: Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.

2. Proof of personhood: basically the difficult task of making sure that the other end of an internet connection has a real person, and together with that, proof that it is different than others, the ability to know you are you and not someone else.

This is incredibly interesting as a technical problem to be solved, and I do agree with you that the internet as we know it is at risk if we don't solve it properly. It is specially hard to solve if you try to guarantee anonimity (like I believe it should be).

The wikipedia has an article about it that I think gives a good idea about the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_personhood

Personally I have been quite carefully interested into the whole World ID solution, using a device called orb with open specifications that captures some data from your iris that should be unique per person, storing only an encrypted piece of information in a blockchain and on your device locally so that you can use it to identify yourself as a real unique person and only once, but wherever you use it, cannot know anything about you except that. There's a lot of possible criticism to such a system, but insofar as I have checked and can understand, it seems like a legit solution. But I leave here the link for anyone interested enough to check it themselves: https://world.org/world-id

The fact that you put those examples together with this Lagrange browser made me curious enough to check it, I had never heard of Gemini protocol before. So, simply put, thank you for sharing about this, I'm going to be installing Lagrange and start checking out geminispace.

Yeah, and actually I would say with confidence we are actually better off. It's true that unrealistic expectations is a big issue (well, might be more like, I think most realize that porn is not real after experiencing it so it's not a big problem really for most), but at least we do have a good understanding of the possibilities and what is safe and what is not... At the very least we have a more openminded and informed point of view on sex and relationships. Which doesn't mean either "let's show porn to the kids" of course, but it's such an overblown topic in society.

Let parents be the responsible ones of what kids watch, not the webpages...

I'm near my 40s, and have been working as software dev since finishing my masters. Few years back I started to go in the direction of more management less dev in a previous company. Saw it wasn't for me and went to work somewhere else working as a simpler dev role. A few years after and I'm starting to feel the need to change further even. I do love coding but the whole layer of tech debt and management and meetings is wearing me out and has made me lose my love for tech. I am just lost as to what I'd do instead. Cannot work on retail with my autistic ass and since WFH was allowed and accepted I am not planning to go back to an office anyway. Maybe woodworker or something would be enjoyable for me, but there's other constraints that won't allow me to change right now, lots of bills to pay and my wife is an entrepreneur so we can't really risk losing my stable position right now, with two small kids. Once they grow and get out of the house we'd likely move more country side, get some chicken to care for (we love animals) or something like that and maybe I can get space to do some wood work or whatever come to mind then.

So overall, no, you are not losing it, or maybe we are all losing it together. Same with depression, it's such a tough shit to leave behind. I'm still fighting with it but doing better lately, the job doesn't help at all...

Wtf.. I heard of the wedding thing with the digital character but I had no clue he also had a life sized doll... I dont know why it somehow makes it even worse.

I'm not a therapist nor an expert, just a dude with an opinion, so I may be entirely wrong. I largely agree with you and I think that's a great way to see it but wanted to expand on it.

If someone's use of porn (or anything to that effect, videogames, tv, social networks...) affect those ADLs or IADLs I would say that it would fall under the category of addiction, which is worse than the loose and nebulous (that was a great way to describe it) "too much" from the question.

I would rather say that "too much" porn can be way before the addiction point. I would consider that teenagers might easily watch too much porn due to the ease of access and the amount of content available while they are not really addicted. It's just a reaction to the whole hormones changes and the increase need of sexual gratification. If someone cannot go even a day without watching porn, I would think that that's too much. If their sexual relations are measured or thought of as porn scenes, that is an indication of too much porn too.

I dont mean that watching porn daily means you watch too much porn, but if you can't go a day without it, if you stop doing things you would rather do because you didn't yet watch it, then it is too much. If someone's idea of sex is lead by porn, then they probably watch too much (but in that topic there's also the idea of how much real experience they have). In other words, "too much" depends on many personal factors that aren't so easy to define, but could happen before we get to the point of addiction.

Oh thanks! I'll need to check that one out!

And for those who enjoy chess but love chaos and seeing the world burn, you have Really Bad Chess

Which in my personal opinion, can be as fun as it can be irritating x)

OK, I'll recommend you a few that are all open source, simple, free, with no ads, and should be handled by just any phone. You can find the games in f-droid between other places.

For those that are into crosswords: Forkyz

A slightly different take on sudoku style game: Gauguin

A game to place pieces removing full lines both vertically and horizontally, kinda like Tetris but pieces are not falling and you just put them wherever you want: 1010! Klooni

A tower defense game using hand drawn graphics: Anuto TD

And one I have from the play store, not open source, that is a clone of minesweeper, called... Well you can guess it: Minesweeper for android

All of those I have used on my own device and have worked great, definitely good time killers if you are into any of those kind of games.