Is there anything so specific the Internet wont provide?

Try to make the world a better place for my having existed. I’m not doing too well, but I’m trying.

Me and my mates would get on the train together on online, put max bounties on each other and try to take on the entire lobby.

They’d be as well carrying on. Its in a pretty unique position as being a game that people are talking about before its even finished, which is pretty uncommon for most titles, and can be “the game they tried to ban” which did wonders for Manhunt, GTA and Postal.

This is probably it. In my door I have to close it with some force unless a window is open then its big boom time.

My point was more “if we cant even prove that each other are sentient, how can we possibly prove that a computer cant be?”.

In that case its not being thrown out simply because its not usb c, its being thrown out because they lost/damaged/donthaveforwhateverreason the actual power supply.

Ive got a whole range of useless electric stuff that I don’t have the power supply for but cant bring myself to throw away

Can you prove it to anyone?

Also even if it does experience and feel and has awareness and all that jazz, why do I want that? The I that is me is still going to face The Reaper, which is the only real reason to want immortality.

I dont think we can currently prove that anyone other than ourselves are even conscious. As far as I know I’m the only one. The people around me look and act and appear conscious, but I’ll never know.

I dont want to be that guy, but the magic wand in photoshop has also lowered the skill. Its skills fade all the way to the top, yet we keep getting better results.

Also why the hell is this a thing? Those ads are showing gameplay, it would be so much easier to make that game and then take a video of it for the advert than to just make an animation of it. So in my mind the game exists. Why is it just Mafia Wars reskinned every fucking time?

I used to, back in the days of cheat codes, because they were fun.

The only real way to cheat now is to hack the game. This will mean doing shit loads of homework to learn how to do it myself, or pay for some dodgy software that may or may not contain a virus to download all my nudes and blackmail me for bitcoin while my account gets terminated for cheating so I could win a couple games on COD.

I do not any more.

Late to the party, had no solutions myself anyway, just wanted to say thank you OP for including the solution in the post.

I’m in the same boat as you OP, in that I try to prefer privacy when its convenient and available but ultimately not enough. Do you have any way of confirming that your privacy-based choices are actually legit? I just go off what people seem to agree on, but these might not even be people and instead just bad actors astroturfing some dangerous services and I’d have no way of knowing.

I’d like to go all in on shit like that, but basing an entire digital defence on vibes seems kinda shaky to me

Life is a series of closing doors.

This is me just learning avatars are a thing.

And people say philosophy degrees are a waste of time

No real weight for the system I think. Theres a lot less people though, so if I see the same guy like 5 times in a row with -8 comments, I’m more inclined to think that person is a prick because thats how humans are built.

Its not going to stop them posting or push them to the bottom by default or anything though.

I recently visited Blackpool Tower, which has a glass bottom bit near the top where you walk on glass and can see a massive, definitely lethal, drop underneath you. I was petrified to get on it, and could only walk on the glass by looking upwards.

Until that moment I thought I was still brave. Im scared of heights but fear never really stopped me from doing much before. Ive avoided certainties out of pragmatic fear, but I’d never known myself to be scared of fear itself until that moment.

Going to the glass and finding myself unable to walk onto it was very surprising. I even told my wife “huh, this is new…”