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I dunno, man. Some people find ways to turn their hobbies into jobs, and some of them even avoid losing the joy while doing that...

Yeah, that's why I never entirely answered.

I was just having a similar conversation about this kind of thing with my Mom 2 days ago. We’ve both created or designed a lot of...

Depends on what translates into "creating a conflict over it." If someone talks about things in fashion that indicates they're talking...

You've probably expressed why its a movie I respect but don't consider a favorite better than I can. I wonder if it'd even be a classic...

The digression is ridiculous, though, because it's explicitly shown in the movie that the Axiom is not "Edenic" in any way. The system...

Meaningful work absolutely adds to psychological fulfillment for many, if not most, people. Even less-meaningful work does for a lot of...

Fair enough. Eric’s undead grandma is pretty sensitive about such matters.

On a very different scale, we're seeing a lot of that happen right now with the internet. There's often this assumption that we'll...

I was Rome some years ago, and watched someone have a nigh existential crisis over an obelisk. The obelisk was over 1800 years old...

Gatekeeping would be arguing the point in the other thread. I am making an observation off in an empty lot, rather than telling the...

Sure. And that's the intent of the thread. It just seemed evident to me that there's a common and recurring situation Whizbang was most...

People not knowing what they're talking about BECAUSE they've only played one or two games and are ignorant of huge swathes of design is...

But going into specifics violates the thread rules, eh? There's only one catch, and that's catch-22.

I feel like you're reading too much in here, Umbran. I don't know what he's choosing not to respond to. And he's explicitly not...