The feeling of “ahh nothing makes sense but I’m glad there is at least one person like me in the world, even if they’re a bot. In any case, I assume sentience and hope they liked it”?

Random silly imprints on humanity are my grass that I’m holding on to.

For a moment, there were two strands. Who knows what the future holds.

This is a hard ask… especially since there are so many snake oil folks.

I know it’s basic advice but… It may be worth looking on YouTube for “Life as a X” or some of those “Experiences working as an Y” or “How I would start in Z now” videos. All the Career advisors have migrated into the over sharing economy, which is nice. You can get a feel of the people and advice and then potentially message them for specifics.

Happy Hunting!

It was a such a guilty pleasure for me. A wet dream of project management where he got all the resources he was looking for and made effective decisions with new knowledge. With colleagues who actually took some initiative and collaborated effectively.

Wouldn’t that be nice…

I think I remember someone directly asking him the question and he simply replied. Think you’re right though. Damn humans and their need for answers!

It’s definitely time for a rewatch as my impressions have become hazy. Thanks mate.

Steins;Gate is one of those few shows I’d recommend which come with the annoying disclaimer “You need to watch until episode X and then you’re in for a ride”

And what a ride. Tuturuuu.

I love that man, his brain and how he probes any subject matter which comes across his party.

The way my head absorbed what you said was: Phillips is the Apple of the LEDs. If you want something longer lasting, stick with the “ol reliable” brand such had to innovate to sell cheaper. I wonder if people have done experiments…

Great watch!

My only gripe was the fact that he actually declared himself as [the one they accused him of being]. I wonder what would have happened if he kept it subtle or even passed it off as “It’s a joke guys” in a convincing manner. Would have been left to audience interpretations and may have increased tension. One may never know.

Boy do I have a video for you. It’s regarding the cartel and light bulb engineering if you’d be interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

Monopolies are scary though, especially if they can make such collective actions without telling anyone.

Try leave everyone and everything better than you find it.

It’s so comprehensive, it’s scary. Just shows how many layers of complexity you need and the factors involved in simulation.

People be smart.

Thanks for sharing.

What a nice and beautiful response, asshole!

(Sorry… Couldn’t help myself. I’m sure you’re a lovely person)

As someone below commented, empathy matters. Knowing the audience is key, whether you’re giving the middle finger or giving a thank you speech.

You reminded me of this moment: https://youtu.be/up0d6cZQhIU

Sometimes there are moments where some people have different life experiences which lead to different stimuli of insight. These people may potentially take criticism roughly and may need some easing and gentleness. Such people may have the tendency to withdraw or lose confidence upon hearing relatively short messages with no emotional context and then perceive them having negative intent or feeling that they are not worth you time. They may want to talk to sit and form connections instead of pure efficiency of communication. (/s?)

I enjoy shaping bushes. Great memories.

I resonate with your “won’t know if I’m real” feeling.

Something happens to you and it’s actually useful lesson. If a tree falls… How can you not share?

That’s a great encounter… Would be fun to give chaotic good nudges to strangers.

Thank you for your insight.

I realize I was being ambiguous with that paragraph. I (mostly!) agree with you. The wording should have been “One critique *that I hear from others…”.

To add to your last point, I loved the line from the narrator: “[Now that Barbies have reclaimed power…] Maybe over time, the Kens will achieve the same power in Barbieland that women have achieved in the real world”. Brilliant.

Sharing an interesting review I came across (which isn’t clouded by misogyny): https://youtu.be/RToUZJ0l7Pk

On recollection, the movie couldn’t have been more feminist as that would have actually affected Mattel’s bottom line… But I’m still glad it’s adequately provocative.

Played Alpha and vividly remembered the first night when the monsters come out. Terrified.

Then I discovered mods. Entire game changer when I discovered the Portal Gun.

Good times.

Your hormones make you weak! Let go of your mortal shell and live in the sweet embrace of 1s and 0s. None of those pesky shades of gray. Everything in it’s own happy 'float’ing bucket.

We’ll even throw in a RNG if you ever want to get the thrill of hormones.

Join us.

Sincerely, Totally not a bot

So I loved this movie.

It’s not often we get “wake up Neo” genre movies with so much tongue and so much cheek that it made me question a shit ton.

I’m I reading too much into it? And/Or the sheer creativity of opinions and agendas (bar the main one) just created this beautiful pink mess but in a relatively right script. They got away with so much simply because all the plot threads were resolved in Barbie land.

One example: A lot of people are annoyed at how power was portrayed and think this movie is a tantrum. But that was well addressed in the film. E.g. that the Barbies took back control from the Kens reverting power back in the feminist hands. If you have an issue with that, you need to look at history and go wait a minute, that’s what happened to women! Almost as if power corrupts and no one is immune. But as a counter point, they had the message of “don’t let your ego or hurt drive you to make ‘powerful’ decisions”. Then to add to that, everything went back to the status quo which was “perfect” and no one else really questioned things.

It was so powerfully self aware that either it was brilliant or I’m severely deluded and reading too much into it. Anything you are mad at, can be resolved by simply holding a mirror and asking “if I flipped the roles, does it not make sense?”.

Some people find it interesting that so much time was spent on Ken’s development. It was so cleverly done. He went from " I exist only in relation to X. My sense of worth is derived from X and no matter how hard I try, I can’t get enough attention from X"… to a nice “You don’t need X to be powerful, you can simply exist and create your own meaning”. I wonder why that’s a topic they spent so much “feminism movie” time on.

It feels the only way you can critique it is where the mirror doesn’t apply. Like how the mother daughter relationship could have been a little more developed. Like how Barbie so quickly developed her sense of self. I can excuse those because they had to make choices and it wasn’t their story.

One critique was: this wasn’t even a successful feminist movie as they didn’t change anything in the “Real world”. It was just a feel good celebration of women and solidarity which didn’t actually do anything of consequence. That was the point? Like the monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey, the invention of Barbie to represent women back in the day. It simply was… and it made you question everything. Here is a movie with a core message (it was, fight me) of “awaken and look around”, “please allow yourself to feel” and finally “you have power, don’t be mean”. That was the core message… there really isn’t much else. Hero with a hundred faces but this one wore pink. The hero was Ken. The hero was Ugly Betty. The hero was her daughter. The hero was Alan? (Alan was perfect, fight me).

Little moments of shared awakening and they changed “their” world with what “little” power they had. Not a bad message to handle the “real world”.

Maybe op has only used shower gloves and has now seen the light…

Someone added in “or laziness or busyness” and it stuck with me.

My attempt: When in doubt, try find what is the thing and what’s not the thing.