whalebiologist

I'm am/was a fan of the cyberpunk genre 15 years ago, but reality is faster moving and more subversive now. I have to watch ads to pump my gas man. I think what you are looking for exists under a different name. The fiction that is a reaction to our current environment is stuff like solar-punk.

I wouldn't bother with DCC it seems like a weird rec to me. Litrpg is a new kind of genre fiction slop that's emergent because video game literacy is at an all-time high but it just amounts to scenes with characters reading menus, achievement toasts, and their stats.

sounds like you made some big progress in life

Not her fault for losing interest in you. I think it wasn't a big deal until you got more serious with her and she had to start thinking about what having a family with you would be like and is probably internally realizing you would struggle with fatherhood. I'm not against you though. if you found a way to not have to run the society treadmill the rest of us do then I'm happy for you.

I was an addict in my 20s and I was such a bad partner it cost me my engagement. Playing MMOs was my highest priority, friends and lovers were an annoyance. I couldn't grow up until years later when having personal realization about how I was projecting my desire to learn and achieve things in real life onto a game where achievement and progress is spoon-fed to you and requires no risk or effort from the player. Anyway, I think if a person is demonstrating with their actions that video games are more important to them than you are; you should listen. As painful as that may be in the short term.

LLM will not be able to raise alarm bells

this is like the "benefit" of what LLM-therapy would provide if it worked. The reality is that, it doesn't but it serves as a proof of concept that there is a need for anonymous therapy. Therapy in the USA is only for people with socially acceptable illnesses. People rightfully live in fear of getting labeled as untreatable, a danger to self and others, and then at best dropped from therapy and at worst institutionalized.

Qwant was what let me switch off goog. I still use gmaps unfort my experiments with open source maps were failures.

So funny to be in therapy telling your friend-for-hire that you are anxious and uncertain about what to do, because the idea of living modestly and giving to the needy is not even worthy of consideration to them.

I'm embarrassed that people can't give up on this insipid meme. Unfunny. Over-done. If you want to have an internet secret handshake there's better ways. the game.

I thought it was an instruction manual on how to eat captain crunch.

one of my top 3 books. This doesn't add to your comment but I find it interesting: An important part of the story is that the Primer was originally intended to train a billionaire's granddaughter to become a powerful CEO. One equity-lord's attempt to hoard knowledge that backfires is what catalyzes the story.