It depends on the region and culture you were born into, but I’m gonna have to lean toward no since I can’t personally find any evidence that any other person has ever had this name. It’d make it hard to find shirts and stuff that already have your name printed on them

Usually for the same reasons you’d get entangled in a movie or book? Games are allowed to be emotionally complex just the same as any other form of media, and the interactive aspect gives them some extra leverage for it that others lack.

I’ve cried really hard to the track “Confronting Myself” from Celeste, which counts as “because of a video game” even though I wasn’t playing it at the time.

I’m crying again now thanks

I’m contacting you from an alternate timeline to tell you that I’m still angry

No, and for my one-minute abridged defense:

• Gen 1-2 definitely didn’t happen and were written by two different groups with different religious views using two different creator-god names
• Noah’s Ark definitely didn’t happen, and the story repeats itself all the time because it crushes together the Yahwist’s and Elohist’s writing in a manner especially suggestive of natural human authorship
• New Testament claims that the human lineage is as young as is reported in Gen 2 (Luk 3:38) and has Jesus - presumably the same entity as God - suggest multiple times in two gospels that the great flood was a real event

That’s about enough to deconvert already, and it keeps getting worse the deeper you take things

I wonder what it sounds like to physically speak something in parentheses

Congratulations, you’ve invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

pros: exceedingly small chance that the one decision-maker and everyone who succeeds them are correct about everything all the time and we reach utopia

cons: likely genocide

In case you didn’t know, you can turn off promotional emails in Settings -> Dashboard -> Email Subscriptions or by adding a mail filter to push them all into an advertisement folder, and the other ads can be mitigated by hitting “don’t show this offer again” on each one

sarcasm was not clear, I bought a kilo of heroin after reading your first comment and now I don’t know what to do with it. I’m using it as a mousepad now

check op’s profile, pretty sure these posts are just meant to be confounding

you don’t have one of those DM_ME_(thing) usernames

Nitpick: the proper term is “virtual desktop” or “workspace”, as “desktop environment” is already a common term for the software composing the entire user interface.

I enjoy using this feature on any operating system since it lets me quickly scan through and declutter open windows, and place categories of windows in their own workspaces. I might have only productivity windows on one, and leisure and socials on another. It’s especially effective if you learn the keyboard shortcuts for navigating inside and between workspaces. All this improves my productivity and keeps distractions away.

The Mandela Effect does not exist in the manner you’re describing, and by priming your audience to expect a specific false memory you’re tainting the data from any responses you get.

People wouldn’t have the Berenstain/Bernstein thing mixed up in their heads so much if the conversation about it was always phrased as “Who are the authors of that old children’s picture book series with the bears?” instead of adding doubt with “Do you remember the authors as Berenstain or Bernstein?”

I actually went to a real-life sex shop for the first time in my life.

I was nervous out of my mind and I was doing this weird fidgeting thing where I rub the inside edge of my eyelids with my hands over my nose and mouth, and the woman who runs the place asked if I was having an allergic reaction to the air freshener. That’s the humorous bit I think about to stop dwelling on how intense it was for me. It broke nearly every rule and norm I’ve ever lived by. I’ve had about ten distinct “I can’t believe I’m doing this” moments just in the last month.

The owner of the store was very polite, and spoke plainly about sexuality and masturbation so far as it was relevant to my business there. It was as if none of it were ever taboo to begin with, and that kind of approach was just what I needed to not have a heart attack right there. I got a mid-size metal plug and a small thing of lube and I’ve been casually exploring with it since then.

In other news, I learned that I’ve made enough progress restoring my foreskin that artificial lube doesn’t do much for me, and a lot of the time my glans looks like I’m uncut. Nature is healing

at 17yo I thought my circumcision scar was a birthmark and I didn’t know you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy

parents, please tell your kids where babies come from and what all their parts are supposed to do, and don’t circumcise them either