It would have been around the time of the EverQuest release I got cable Internet, before that it was dial up shared with a frequently used house phone (11 people in the house). Mostly used dial up for web sites like geocities and forums and instant messenger chats (Yahoo, MSN, icq, etc).

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Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it

I’m a lumberjack in Antarctica, the pay is mostly commission based

j’accuse and pamplemousse are pretty good and fun to say

It’s just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine

The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself into a separate tutorial

Yeah having the emotional content from the dream can change short term emotional and intuition reactions even if you recognize there’s no logical, rational reason for it. Best you can do is just be aware of the unfair biases our brains sometimes construct and try not to let it change your behavior.

Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?

A bunch of scenes in Kentucky route zero, the secret of monkey Island you could do this in game by just wandering around the lava area endlessly, or maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle starting screen is a TV in the distance playing fake late night commercials

And for fake commercials the radio in vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines between the late night DJ Deb of night and the mud slinging political ads.

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Who doesn’t enjoy some good theremin

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Less often with movies/TV/books than music for me, but I’ll still tear up to a movie or show sometimes if I don’t feel like I’m being beat over the head by the music pushing a feeling than engaged with the story and characters.

I think I’d need to be born before 1755 to have a significant change to my religious or some political beliefs.

What does it taste like?

When I see my friends, coworkers, neighbors, community, etc just being awesome to each other. Just little stuff like letting someone else have the last slice of cake, giving someone the rest of the jug of wiper fluid after filling up, returning their carts, apologizing for interrupting or bumping into someone, preventing someone from getting scammed, etc.

First I used was an apple II at the public library mostly just for games like Oregon trail, first I programmed on was in a school library using an IBM PS/2 using Pascal, and first I owned was a Packard bell Pentium 2 family shared computer.

There is a lot of garbage out there, but also some really good stuff. I like to stay logged out and clear history occasionally to try to keep from getting too algorithm bubbled. It’s not just automatically filtering content by subject matter, it also filters by length if you watch mostly long form videos you’ll get more long recommendations, and same for short videos. Try using more generic search terms for hobbies, interests, topics, etc you’ll get a little more variety in search results and won’t rely as much on the algorithm to filter recommendations.

It’s not a back door, it’s just a rear entryway

I think it’s weird almost nobody picks their own name and people carry their parents or spouse’s name, you’d think something so personal and self identifying you’d want it to be something you prefer or you find fitting based on some preference or personality trait.