“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”

- Bruce Lee

What she endured is hard for me to comprehend. Humans like Phyllis are treasures of the human capacity.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Life is hard, even without war, war being something I've been fortunate to have not experienced. I know the capacity is there as Phyllis proves, and I'm no absolutist when it comes to strife, but, just wow.

Your last few sentences really hit. This is what occurred to World of Warcraft. I've been playing the re-release of Classic WoW, Season of Mastery, and I find the experience much more compelling than any common day mass multi-player online experience.

Yes WoW is exactly the primary example of "arcadeization" as I call it and why companies should not listen to their vocal playerbase sometimes.

WoW went from a game where player interaction was the norm (both negative and positive), going to a dungeon was a massive adventure just for getting there, you would have meaningful interactions with other players, coordinating to get to a place, giving directions, traversing what felt a living world with living players. Also the opposite was true, you would dislike some people for how they acted or played or ganked, but all of that had human interaction at heart.

But then going to dungeons became a chore for acquiring tokens, and this all stopped being fun, and we got automatic queues and people barely speak to each other anymore, and if they do, it's for insulting a player for a bad pull or for not waiting the healer.

It's sad but I believe that modern online gaming exchanged meaningful and durable human interactions for ease of use and quick consumption.

I remember talking to thousands of people and knowing pretty much everyone in a hundred of Counter Strike clans in Italy 20 years ago.

This image [1] will be 20 years old in few months, this is the SMAU Italian Lan Party 2002. 1200 PC gamers brought their own computers, setup up a giant lan, to meet and interact and fight each other and form friendships in the same place! 1200! 20 years ago!

Today it's a miracle if you can get few dozens people to play in the same place, there's barely any human interaction from gamers, neither in person nor online.

It's sad, maybe I'm just old and it's nostalgia, but I liked it more as it was before.

[1] https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRm_T4I...

And yet at the time, we thought those systems were dumb. 'why do I have to run around looking for a group? Cant you just match me with one?'

I think more generally, what we want at the time and what we remember years later are often different and sometimes even opposed.

+1 Worked for me. Beautiful

Thank you for this response. I logged in for the first time in a long time just to thank you!

thanks

The MBP with the new keyboard has been a bad experience for as well as a few of my co-workers. I switched back to a 2015 version we had laying around.

When I am forced to move to a new machine I am strongly considering grabbing a Dell or Lenovo and throwing Ubuntu on it. Experience has been that bad.

> We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.

I signed in (been years) to comment. Bravo! I could not agree more. People can change.

What also surprised me is that from 1858 to 1907 there were 5 wrecks in that area. I wonder what the reasoning is?

The Farallons are a pretty intense little outcropping just off the coast. Doesn't make it any more appealing that it's a mecca for Great Whites.

I don't understand his hesitancy in releasing his crawler code. I imagine there are plenty for people to access and alter for malicious use if they desired, so why does releasing his such a big deal?