It feels a little generic, but video games. I’ve been playing them since my dad got a Gamecube around launch, and I’ve been reading about them since ~2011 when I discovered Steam and graphics cards. I learned within a year of watching the store that sales on Steam generally update Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I’ve checked what goes on sale for at least 90% of the Tuesdays and Thursdays since then.

I used to read a lot of IGN, then Kotaku, then r/games to keep up on everything. Now I mostly listen to a couple gaming podcasts (Minnmaxx and Triple Click) and that covers enough big and small games for me.

I like to say that I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of gaming from about 2007 onward, meaning for a given game I can give you a general idea of the genre, reception, notable influence on or from the industry, and I can usually recall at least 5 seconds of gameplay. The most exciting thing for me in conversation is when someone brings up a game I haven’t heard of or know nothing about.

This might be a stretch but my mind dredged up memories of the first two American Tail movies recently. Are/were you a fan? It sounds up your alley based on your comment here.

Chidi is a main character from the show The Good Place. If you have any interest in ethical philosophy, it’s a great and accessible show. And if you’re not interested in ethical philosophy, it’s still a great show!

Not specific enough, what if the next $500 million dollar equivalent payout is in another country and you miss it? Maybe specify the next US Powerball over $500 million?

Why not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!

why or why not do all non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have the form 0.5+xi?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+11%3A16-18&version=NIV

Does this mean Jared Kushner is going to get offed so Trump can marry off Ivanka to Netanyahu?

Yeah, I think they’re mostly on christiansmingle.com, not Hinge.

Presumably because they aren’t “one of the best ways to get rid of a rodent invasion.”

Maybe, but that doesn’t sound like corporatism, and I made this post and another because it bugs me when the two words are used interchangeably.

Are you quoting someone?

This is a messy but interesting question to sort my thoughts on. First, I did date a non-binary person for a couple years and ended things on good terms. I’m AMAB, they’re AFAB on testosterone. I’ll admit I felt a little weird as their transition took effect over time with thicker leg hair and a peach fuzz mustache.

Second, I’ve considered myself a sex-positive asexual person since I learned the term, so I’m not certain I should be answering this. I’ve always been confused when someone is called hot, but I like the mental/emotional intimacy and physical touch of sex. I’ve come to realize recently that I’d probably be okay being intimate with a woman or feminine partner with a dick, but since I would like to have kids some day it wouldn’t really work for a romantic relationship.

Third, that partner has half-jokingly said that you have to be a little gay to date them, so I don’t know that any person that would date a non-binary person can call themself 100% straight, which means technically nobody should be answering this question at all :P

I’m a big fan of Smooth Video Project (SVP) for video interpolation: https://www.svp-team.com/

Say what you will about high frame rate video/animation, I paid like $10 for it in 2014 and it’s still getting updates!

Corporatism has been employed in nefarious ways many times, but it’s also the basis for the Nordic model used by Sweden, where labor unions and business owners meet to form policy that benefits both groups.

I think this idea of corporate groups informs how I view power in the US, where businesses hold significantly more clout than labor unions. But that used to not be the case. A while back I was trying to understand what changed in the late 60’s or early 70’s that led to the stagnation of wages we have seen since, and found an article from the time that talked about the largest union potentially striking over Nixon’s move away from the Bretton-Woods system: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/21/archives/nixon-and-the-unions-president-pins-hopes-on-rankandfile-as-the.html

The thing that struck me was that it may be the first time I’ve read about the leaders of a union being invited to meet at the White House, the way an Elon Musk or other CEO would today. It leads me to believe that the most realistic peaceful path toward fixing the many issues facing the people of the US today is to empower unions such that they have the clout to challenge that of corporations again.

All this to say that corporatism as a concept can enable good or bad, but I would like to see it considered more. And I’d like to see it confused with corporatocracy less.

I could do with more depth to my knowledge though. Do you have any recommendations on books or articles to do more reading?

Kind of a tangent, but the tailend of college I shared a house with four other guys, which meant street parking in a college neighborhood where the streets were often mostly full. Our next door neighbor had a car and a half length of curb between him and the next house, and once asked me to park a little further back to leave space for his trash can so he could use his driveway without being blocked by his trash can. It just so happened trash day was Monday and I delivered Amazon packages through the post office Sundays, so I often got off work at a time other folk were away from home and the space in front of his house was open. I always felt pretty good pulling in to maximize space for his bin, effectively reserving the space for him.

That also sucks. I hope you find some work to do.

Wow, my brain had a tough time processing that image. Turn it about 20 degrees counter clockwise and it looked like a hallway with several red carts with netting blocking the way. I literally thought the morgue was at the other end.

That sucks. What’s something that to you would feel valuable to do?

Thanks for reminding me, that’s a good point.

I generally agree with the exception of sandbox games intended to be played through multiple times, like grand strategy games. In those cases they can be a fun way to find absurd goals to try out, like in Victoria 3 when I made the US a monarchy or made Paraguay really big!