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  • You don't have to type the word "Title"; you can just leave it blank.

    Anyway, I feel obliged to contribute: I haven't changed my name, but if I did, I would change it to a name that I simply happen to like better and feel like I would be more empowered by. There's nothing wrong with my current name though.

  • How or to whom is it disrespectful if people say your current name in a mocking way and you just wanna avoid that?

  • six months after

    Maybe they just didn't know the paper was published. I sure didn't until seeing this for the first time right now.

  • I would say A Dark Room is way too interactive to count as an idler, though it has idle-like elements, sure.

  • Interesting that it doesn't support HTTPS, given how it has an account website.

  • Then in that case, I'd suggest FTL: Faster Than Light. You can literally quit the entire game mid-battle and continue right from that moment; every single moment is saveable.

  • Again, it's based on how disruptive it is. If it's causing you emotional pain, like the recollection of a loved one in pain or something... that's probably unwanted!

  • True, persistent as an unwanted thought! But yeah... maybe they should be renamed as "unwanted thoughts."

  • Awesome. Now crash already!

  • I think it's more about a combination of the rarity + emotional disruption of the thought.

  • They tend to in more conservative circles, yeah.

  • I am not a bot.

    So why couldn't you type just the few sentences of your post body yourself? It's hilarious that you warn against pro-privacy browsers while using AI, the most privacy-invasive tool of all, to do it... And by the way, Waterfox ain't bad, either.

  • You'd still need ridiculous amounts of energy to simulate even a small fraction of our world, on the level of thousands of galaxies' energy per second. Dr. Blitz is a literal astrophysicist who addresses this matter: https://www.youtube.com/@blitzphd

  • We cannot be living in a simulation because the amount of energy to simulate and calculate all the possible atoms, quarks, and other particles and all their simultaneous interactions every fraction of a millisecond would far exceed an exponent of zillions upon zillions of all the possible energy that could ever exist. We wouldn't even begin to be able to comprehend anything.

    "Well... the forerunners' physics operate differently, duh!"

    Uh... if you were to believe that delusion, then I wouldn't know what to tell you; then you could just rig whatever answer you want to anything. And even if that were true, then the "real" world must be so vastly different from anything we could possibly connect with or perceive that it wouldn't be relatable anyway and would therefore be worthless or just academic to think about. I guess you don't want to hear it but this is unfortunately our actual life and that guy was just weird. Ask him if you can buy any potions from him next time or something.

  • Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads.

    The average person has less self-control than you, sadly.

  • Yes, they're terrible because you can't navigate through their settings without a mouse. Tab only goes so far in KDE. I couldn't stand it.