I hate to say it, but this feels like an unfortunate personal experience being overgeneralized. Friend groups can be incredible. They can also be what OP describes, and rightfully calls out given how toxic those situations are, but decrying the concept of the friend group attributes the problem far too broadly.

It’s just lazy rage bait engagement farming

From the River to the Sea. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

What is the point of engagement farming when there’s no algorithm or monetization?

Instead of “it is what it is” try saying “The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.”

Speaking of Halloween those shorts are giving Rocky (from the Rocky Horror Picture Show)

It’s interesting hearing the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up playing the games! I’m jealous on some level, if I was in your shoes and ever felt compelled to play more I’d go Heart Gold, Emerald & Platinum with the Snap games in between as palate cleansers. Then Legends Arceus. Then maybe Winds & Waves!

This was a triumph…

they get the zoomies whenever mercury is in retrograde

What is with this community getting bombarded by the doofus brigade? Y’all just keep getting downvoted anyways…

I hear ya and obviously I see the value of coordinating online (we wouldn’t be talking otherwise obviously) but many revolutions in history happened without the internet and they can (and likely will) happen again.

I get the concern, especially since people who aren’t tech savvy are pretty clueless when it comes to digital privacy, but I don’t know if we’re at the point where the ship has sailed on OS level age verification. At least in the US it seems like this is a fight that’s still worth fighting especially since the majority of the political energy right now is directed towards the concurrent AI and affordability crises (and, on the right wing, toward stoking anti-immigrant and to a much lesser extent anti-trans sentiment). To be fair, I’m pessimistic too and realistically, yes, any sincere effort to upend the power structure will eventually need to take place offline.

Yeah I’m not totally buying this one… Porn can be part of a healthy sex life. I don’t think it’s different than any other activity that provides dopamine: amazing in moderation, harmful in excess.

omg I remember this one… i don’t think i got the double entendre at the time tho lol

half baked

Meanwhile an overwhelming majority of bathroom goers are like, “whatever, I’ve got nothing to hide”

I love Kirby and it looks like it could be quite good but I’m maintaining my Switch 2 boycott slash I can’t afford one anyways so like with Pokopia it’s emulation or bust.

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