Why don't you just like, decide to stop acting retarded and be a normal human? 

I ended up watching Love, Death & Robots. The Aquila Rift episode was a straight 10/10 for me. It really nails home the idea that almost all of us, when confronted with identity-shattering stakes, will choose comfortable lies over harsh truth. Reminds me of how in evolutionary theory, the mind isn’t built for truth but for survival, and therefore sometimes we’re wired to believe things that are good survivability but not necessarily true. Not to spoil it for potential watchers, but that episode really paints an allegory for how true this actually is. Dark and haunting watch.

Matthew Perryman Jones - Living in the Shadows | Love, Death & Robots OST Truly a banger OST for the episode too. 

Zima Blue was philosophically cool as fuck and really makes you think about what we should even live for. Whether or not you agree with Zima’s conclusion, it’s still solid food for thought :)

Outside of that, I also watched Pantheon, which is an animated TV series, literally one of the best TV shows I’ve ever watched. Don’t let the synopsis make you think it’s boring. If anyone here loves unpredictable plot twists and absolute mind-benders, it’s a must-watch if you find animation tolerable. An amazing thriller/psychological, 10/10, love love love. Reminds me a lot of Interstellar and Arrival too, and I’ll probably think about this show occasionally five years from now levels good. Hope more people give it a try, one of the best endings to a show ive ever seen. 

Story A was better written, with a stronger sense of flow and consistency between sentences and scenes. It also possessed a clearer sense of direction, with more build-up. Story B felt more jarring because of the twist at the end; since we had no prior knowledge of the history leading up to the event, the reveal came across as a bit sudden. I imagine this was meant as a plot twist, but some earlier hints would have made it surprising without potentially feeling disjointed.

Final vote: Story A.

Story B 

Very well! It keeps popping up in my recommendations. If I remember, maybe I’ll come back here and share my thoughts, if I have any that feel worth posting lol

I recently decided to go ahead and buy a Netflix subscription. Do y’all have any shows or movies you've seen lately that left a strong impression and you'd recommend?

Much love Fab. I'm at least happy that you seem to be keeping yourself occupied with healthy and productive mechanisms :)

I used to emotionally wall off my friends growing up, but recently I've been going out with them a bit more and even joined a football team with some of them. I was a bit nervous at first since I hadn't seen some of them since high school. Not building those in-person connections properly back then or staying in touch more is probably the only thing I've wholeheartedly regretted so far in life. So I can relate to that warning more as I get older. It’s nice to remind people.

Nice to meet you : )  I hope this place becomes a real creative home for you.

A bit late to this, but i must bite. It's hard to predict the future. One thing I am very confident about, though, is that AI is likely to radically transform the labour force within the next seven years. The old wave of AI only affected blue-collar jobs (think some manual jobs like warehouse work). Now we're building AI systems that can take intellectual jobs, will soon be fully agentic and autonomous, and will be capable of self-recursive development loops. When this happens, expect mass layoffs in white-collar jobs too. Expect upto hundreds of millions of jobs to disappear over the next ten years. What once took ten people will now take one person with AI. The population will keep rising, but the total number of jobs will shrink. The government will try to hide the statistics on unemployment at first and will count people working two hours a week doing Deliveroo as "employed" to pad the stats.

Moores law and just looking at history will show technological development is speeding up massively, not slowing down. It took us thousands of years to go from the stone age to the iron age. Yet it took us only 66 years to go from the first powered flight to landing on the Moon. Don't underestimate how fast this shift will happen. Big tech and governments are pouring hundreds of billions into this now, it isn't stopping. Follow the money. 

It's nice to get some heat for once. Tends to lift peoples dreary moods here. I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to but based on how End described it, at the very least it functions as a great allegoric, hyperbolic, social commentary. If you head down to any city centre you'll definitely see some shared semblance.