What if the goggles do nothing?

This may reveal me to be some kind of weirdo, but I’ve never managed to finish any Zelda other than the very first one on NES. I’ve gone back and tried other Zelda games over the years, they all seem interesting to start with but I just end up putting them down at some point and losing interest entirely.

I love a lot of single-player action RPGs and always have, but for some reason the most popular series of them ever consistently fails to vibe with me.

This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

They did get to the end of that story, right?

Please share the link to that post.

Joke’s on them, I’m no good for money even when it’s legit. 💸

Dude… you’re getting “or else.”

These are good points, and a lot of people may find that sort of separation useful.

Personally I’m also an activist involved with hacker culture, independent journalism, and weird art and comedy stuff, but I’ve come to a point where I don’t really feel much need to separate that from the rest of my life; the mundane me is hacker me, activist me, etc. I’m also pretty confident that if I said or did something stupid enough to involve backlash from anyone whose opinion matters to me, not only would I probably have earned the criticism but my wife would be first in line to tell me I’m being an ass.

If everyone in my real life already knows what I’m like online and vice versa, what’s to exploit?

You better not fork on the table.

I ain’t never met nobody I didn’t not dislike.

Unlike Gallowboob, Flying Squid posts interesting things I genuinely enjoy instead of generic gruel obviously calculated to farm upvotes from the mainstream. Flying Squid is also an interesting and fun participant in the comments and seems like a pretty cool person, while I seen to remember Gallowboob coming off like he’d be an insufferable jackass in real life.

This is an interesting way of thinking about things. I would have probably agreed entirely with this when I was a kid on the early Internet, experimenting, making mistakes, and figuring out who I was and what sort of person I wanted to strive to be.

Now, as a middle-aged old fart who has used the same screenname everywhere online for decades, I generally prefer to fully consider everything I say, whether online or in real life, and contribute things I truly mean to put out there as myself. I also prefer to have a real life, job, family and friends, etc. compatible with the weirdass person I genuinely am everywhere, which includes my online work, activities, opinions, shitposts, etc.

For example, I got so active in subcultural projects and stuff from my online life over the years that things from it built up into legitimate features of my real-life portfolios and resumes and get talked about in job interviews, so I simply don’t pursue work at places which would have a problem with finding that stuff out about me. Similarly, my universal screenname and weird online stuff were in my profile on the dating app where I met the person to whom I’m now happily married, and that person enjoys and even helps me do my weird online bullshit while being the greatest real-life partner I could ever ask for.

It’s all come together in a rather comfy way for me, and I ultimately find it a much more freeing way to live than trying to do the secret-identity thing.

No, pretty sure it was “Incest Cousins and Their Hate Crime Car.”

I’m thinking of quitting the Taco Bell deep-marketing department.

This is looking kinda dumb…

…nah, I’ve got nothing else to complete the song. Just that it’s looking kinda dumb. That’s it.

Hell won’t cut it, you have to cast it into the fires of Mount Doom.

You wouldn’t even need to really put a Wikipedia edit through, you could write what you like on the edit screen and just hit “preview” to get the screenshot.

Something something one set of footprints.

In some towns that makes you the mayor.