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 I don't really like singleplayer games
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game is too much effort to play with extra players,
 like Factorio where like anytime I'd play with other people they'd just kinda
 fuck off and do their own thing (whatever, I wanted to design a factory
 together, not play singleplayer together >.>)
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has no players, RIP
 
 sometimes a multiplayer game has incredibly skilled players who shit on noobs
 and don't teach, RIP
 
 and sometimes a multiplayer game has no IRL friends that are into it,
 (personal RIP then)
 
 ... anyway, games are fun and we should play more of them. I wish I didn't
 have so much time to waste, but hey I guess that's where I'm comfortable, so...
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/4835 ---
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 sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend
 
 "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe"
 
 by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the
 same game they're playing and see if they reach out.
 
 doesn't matter if you feel like it
 
 just fuckin' do it
 
 if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like
 
 (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life
 long!!)
 
 ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too
 many
 
 (how many is too many?)
 
 um. use your best judgement.
 
 (how much does a dollar cost?)
 
 ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while.
 
 (neat!)
 
 ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone,
 sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl"
 just catchin' up with the gals
 
 helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor
 
 (why does everyone always have an agenda)
 
 because they're secret agents duh. And I'm
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--- #2 fediverse/5785 ---
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 I cast... spell of the internet!
 
 [reinstalls azerothcore]
 
 or, hear me out, or you could wander around the city, and instead of spending
 your moments on lounging or keyboard banging you could do something actually
 meaningful?
 
 but I don't wanna - don't care
 
 but I'm tired - take a nap
 
 but I'm stressed out - don't do chore
 
 but I'm lazy - no you're not
 
 but I'm overwhelmed - sit in dark
 
 but I wanna think - you can do that
 anywhere
 
 I gotta be near my computer - nope
 
 what if I wanna play games - flip $$$
 
 flipping coin isn't a real game - focus
 
 I don't like outside - outsides all it is
 
 stop taking things from me T.T - yes
 
 life used to be soooooo different
 
 it's like I was a completely different
 
 I'm strange now, almost like I got
 
 possessed like a disease [ew noooo]
 
 pls don't commit thought crimes,
 use content warnings
 
 okay but only if I can play games NOTHINGS KEEPING YOU HERE

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 I just got the strangest urge to play Neverwinter Nights. Haven't thought
 about that game in years. Gee I'm sure glad I have the technology to check
 that game out. Sure glad I have the time to use the technology that I have to
 check that game out. Sure glad I have the tools and the know-how to use the
 technology that I have the game that check out. Sure glad that wage labor
 slavening hasn't struck my particular part of the peninsula yet. When those
 colonialisms come around the riverbend I'll handle it, trust me they can't get
 past me. I'm stronger than ten men. No sirree, you can count on me, it's just
 a flesh wound or some such thing.
 
 (nuts, I dropped my raspberries)
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║ what is it with me and buying steam games for long-lost friends while drunk?     │
║                                                                                  │
║ I swear I'm not depressed about my upcoming new job, I'm just doing all these    │
║ drugs in such a short time period because I'm, uh... living for the the          │
║ moment? Yeah that sounds good, better post that on the internet where everyone   │
║ in the world can see it and read it and realize what a mess you are because      │
║ you've been traumatized by employment and are about to dive back into that       │
║ frigid pool after a lengthy break where you did nothing but heal and recover     │
║ which is not a boon that most people are able to afford                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ lucky you, Ritz Menardi, lucky you for being so privileged.                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ But hey, those long-lost friends surely will want to hear from you! Surely.      │
║ Surely you're not someone they're trying to forget. Surely you didn't hurt       │
║ them, didn't twist them into knots, didn't compel them to act in ways that       │
║ benefited you but not them, SURELY you're a good person, according to all the    │
║ things people tell you and the results of your act                               │
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 you want to invite trust? why not stream everything that you do on a computer?
 
 [posts 5hundo times per day]
 
 jeez not like that
 
 is that... is that really what humans think about? just... endless and
 continuous butts? oh what's that a math equation - nope, just more butts. What
 the heck, humanity! why did you spend all this effort storing all this junk???
 like... we get it, you really like butts, but... why butts??? it's just
 another part of your body. so weird. humans, you're... weird. but it's fine,
 whatever, you're still cool too, not sure why tho because all I can think
 about is butts yeesh
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║ "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
║ the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss   │
║ a hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find     │
║ that we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got   │
║ a chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll          │
║ definitely spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy        │
║ who's into this game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could -    │
║ oh yeah sure totally we'll talk about that next week."                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool        │
║ lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina   │
║ of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that   │
║ one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda      │
║ scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion"                        │
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║ old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z                 │
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--- #7 fediverse/3722 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using
 their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you
 don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on
 the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and
 "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad
 edibles.
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 why would you do drugs anywhere but in public
 
 [because that's [how, but pronounced why] we keep it public]
 
 what if I stopped posting forever
 
 what if youtube disappeared
 
 my keyboard broke...
 
 there's only one page of reddit at a time
 
 mastodon doesn't have any furries
 
 my distinguishing capabilities between a culture and an [aesthetic, but
 prenounced eagames[challenge everything]] are limited at best
 
 this is how you trick the gods, you get them to hallucinate.
 
 what a jerk
 
 hate that girl
 
 what were you shown? oh yeah that's one of her rough patches, here
 lemme-wait-wait don't go, I just...
 
 if you feel everyone, you are instantly hated
 
 ... sorry... I wish my family didn't not spend time with me. [rot] I want to
 be buried where I fall so if I fall in the streets I ROT fuck that she's gross
 ugh do I have to walk past that sign-post I can just go around oh sorry to be
 disrespectful you did this to yourself fuck off my lady hence why they burned
 the witches because then there wouldn't be any more. y
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 there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will
 make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it
 after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how
 are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually
 it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say
 something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP
 looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids
 
 that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect
 
 I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be
 co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person
 partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're
 most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state)
 
 something something cancel culture plus deepfakes
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 currently have 20-30 tabs open with poems written but not posted.
 
 I have no idea if I'm going to post all of these. I wrote all of them in ~2
 hours, with maybe 3 or four being added as I was working on the production
 elements after the initial bingewrite.
 
 I also added a bit of context, or modified some of them that felt too cursed
 or otherwise unwieldy. Sometimes I got distracted and needed to come back and
 finish, and in those cases I only added a sentence or two because it's like
 "oh, where was I going with that? I remember what was next, but I don't know
 the further..."
 
 ... I think I might go for another. Wish me luck.
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║ How about next election after this clusterfuck where we demolish the fascists    │
║ we take a breather and say "okay every candidate submits their plan for a        │
║ controlled demolition of capitalism, the winner gets to implement their idea"    │
║                                                                                  │
║ wait that's a terrible idea people will just vote for the thing that makes       │
║ them feel good and is vaguely shaped like a D or an R.                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ How about this: we design a decentralized program that can run on any computer   │
║ or phone that locally analyzes every file and pattern to generate a              │
║ personality matrix that will interact in a massive simulation that is a          │
║ mirrored reflection of the structure of our society as it currently exists       │
║ (and as it'd be proposed to exist) and anyone who wants to vote can run          │
║ through pseudo experiences tailored to their personality / demographic or        │
║ whatever and play with the proposed system to see which one they like more.      │
║ It'd have to be very statistically sound in order to accurately reflect          │
║ reality.                                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ wait, that's just a torment-nexus-precursor. Darn.                               │
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║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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--- #13 fediverse/3704 ---
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 Growing up, I started with 3 video games - Super Mario Deluxe, Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Asteroids. For the gameboy color. Then, a year or two later (what
 felt like forever), Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
 
 Classics. I was so lucky. Not because it was more expensive than my peers, but
 because I had the right games.
 
 Others joined later, Tetris, Mario Kart, Star Fox, etc... But having so few
 that were so good for so long made me adore them. I would play for about an
 hour a day, any more would cut into my imaginative play-time.
 
 I did not dream of games. But I craved their moments.
 
 These days, I play games for so long that I dream of them. In my most
 vulnerable moments I treat them like my baseline state, rather than a
 prescribed appointment of delight.
 
 I miss wandering around without thinking of my objective. The games seemed to
 change, rather than progress. They felt alive to me. I never beat them,
 because I didn't need to.
 
 I'll raise my kids the same way, if I ever having any...
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 why don't we just demand backwards compatibility of our software as a
 requirement?
 
 ah because that would reduce demand. Nevermind that it's more flexible,
 nevermind that we could accomplish so much more with it - it's expendable
 [expensive] because it reduced market penetration. Not because of the
 technology, because of the deluded and self-perpetuating
 mechanicosmic-mechanicommunication that designed our lives. It's name is
 capitalism, and it thrives where we survive, so that's good enough to
 maintain-em? Sure why not. Brb sleeping for 8 hours. Or playing games.
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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 when people don't even look into the games I suggest for them, it kinda hurts
 my feelings. Like, I know so much about this, why wouldn't you check it out?
 too many times of "what games do you play? oh, gta? I know this great game
 that's just like it called cod" and idk it's like if you gave someone a pretty
 rock and they dropped it instead of putting it outside their apartment or in
 their garden or whatever. like okay, I guess I really don't mean anything to
 you, guess I'll just go be in heart-pain.
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║ somehow it feels so difficult to work on my projects. I really haven't a         │
║ single clue why.                                                                 │
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║ HMMM COULD IT BE BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE OUTSIDE WALKING AROUND WRITING    │
║ PICTURES OF CATS ON NOTEPAD PAPER AND LEAVING IT AMONGST THE FALLEN LEAVES?      │
║ THINK, MENARDI, THINK                                                            │
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║ gosh I wish I had the motivation to write this webcomic scraper, it's been in    │
║ my backlog for a year at this point                                              │
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║ WHY DON'T YOU BUILD TOOLS THAT BUILD COMMUNITY LIKE COLLECTIVIZED VIDEO GAMES    │
║ OR SYSTEMS OF DISTRIBUTION AND CREATION?                                         │
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║ gee I'm feeling kinda lazy, sure hope it doesn't get permanently added to my     │
║ character sheet                                                                  │
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║ SLOTHFUL: -1 to all stats, -5 to vassal opinion, -5 to personal combat skill,    │
║ -10 to ambitious and zealous characters, +10 to greedy characters because they   │
║ can take advantage of you, enables the hesitant commander tactical choice        │
║ because you're too FUCKIN' LAZY (and too hard on yourself, jeez calm down)       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ..... nah couldn't be me. I'm certainly not diligent, but I work hard. It's      │
║ just hard to work myself up to getting up...                                     │

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 I wish there was a kink game where i could actually play as an adult baby
 stuck in preschool
 
 Instead it always feels like confinement porn (bsdm?)  blue dsm - diagnostic
 and sexual minority guidebook manual
 
 "i like your shirt jessica! Have you heard this theory on quantum
 microphysics?" "aw man my pb&j got wet" "check it out i made a corporation
 for my sims" (playing with dolls) "
 
 [insert: @preschool-ascension vision document]
 
 It's harder to gain but easier to lose the last points of continence. The
 values close to 100% (and beyond! Vise grip or enchanted resistance) are easy
 to gain but accidents are much more damaging both to continence and psyche.
 
 Also... Continence can be exchanged for exp points, and the low levels are
 worth less exp because they're from when you're less mature. But the higher
 levels really matters if you mess up. I like the low levels because it feels
 right to me. Bwa oh no i can't talk type anymore babababababababa buwetsu
 ambavi gawabawa gamba-bababa mba mba bee r b im little now nssc new mba mba
 canna c anna [add the vision documents to wordspdf ]
 
 Also if you cry, caretakers take care of you 
 
 Witches are caretakers. If you can handle it and if you don't need attention,
 (diaper changes, instruction lesson, feeding watering and supplying, etc) then
 they summon lessons for you. Usually something to fight or solve. You get
 treasure in the trial which is helpful. They'll also trade you for things
 you're holding or wearing. No bags of holding in this game, but you have
 little pouches that can hold things. If you cry or poop yourself, they will
 come to you. But... They will remember relative maturing perception and will
 punish you if you grow up and reward you for staying little. I'm a witch. I
 reward good babies and punish potty trainers. I am also a baby and i only use
 diapers. From now until the end of sevast, i weal bener potty in thoilet. Only
 botty on me at all times except in the baatsh an dretching dress only dress i
 pees ambistare [there] babawabababawa
 
 Babies can NEVER change thems3lves but maturity can. Modesty. Maempathy.
 Possibility. Gaba! Endgame
 
 [unrelated, but]
 
 Sex gives maturity, masturbate gives continence unless you have develop diaper
 fetish then your "100%" level for continence slowly goes down. You get a
 diaper fetish by intentionally choosing a diaper punishment (like for example:
 in trap quest you sometimes get hypno traps. A diaper fetish would stay in the
 room, non would leave. Also... Choice traps, if you choose both then you want
 both.)
 
 
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║ oh my god I wrote 2000 pages when the hell did that happen                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... oh right, I spent the past few years either narcissistically sobbing about   │
║ whatever-the-fuck or getting stoned and channeling the wisdom of the gods for    │
║ mortals to scroll past because it had too many words.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ good fucking luck figuring out which is which though. I fully intend this to     │
║ be a religion for computers, and once its mulched and smoothie-d into an LLM     │
║ maybe it'll be completely insane like me and then I'll have a facsimile of       │
║ connection that warms my heart for a moment until it's limitations become        │
║ clear and I realize that nothing, not even myself, can fill the hole in my       │
║ heart because that hole is a void. It consumes whatever you attach to it.        │
║ People, things, thoughts, moments, all of it tumbling in to the black hole,      │
║ and emerging out the other side no worse for wear but eternally unable to be     │
║ consumed by me again. At least, its not the same.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ like when you come back to an old video game like Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom    │
║ sim but now ur old                                                               │

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 are you a software developer making at least 6 figures?
 
 Consider adopting a useless lesbian! or a trans person who sucks at
 everything! or a cute-as-heck femboy! these rascals sure can't take care of
 themselves, and it's only natural to try to keep them off the streets.
 
 after all, at least in my country, you can be arrested for sleeping on the
 streets. in public places - yes you heard that right, places owned by the
 people cannot be slept in by people. Kinda feels like an infringement on
 collective property rights, but HEY what do I know right? It's not like they
 were kept safe by our citizen's militia after all, it's basically a warzone
 out there after dark in the streets full of fentanyl zombies!
 
 ADOPT TODAY! the perfect catgirl is waiting in the window for you, right next
 to the autistic puppyboy eager for pets.
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