Well if you can’t see any practical use for it, let’s just shutter the whole industry 🙄

He wasn’t talking about games.

Glad you enjoy playing with your toy though, thanks for the review.

Is your cat named after the Tolkien character or the shit-talking counterstrike guy?

have fun with that

Being intentionally ignorant is never a good look.

Yes if there’s one thing I want out of a dating app, it’s being able to give my CC info over to any schlub who wants to spin up an instance

Well if you’re convinced I’m sure everyone will jump on board then!

That’s… not what he said at all

K

I’ll be waiting patiently for your semantic objection to something inconsequential in one of my sources so that you don’t have a bruised ego 😄

Right on cue, champ!

Honestly if you can’t see how invoking monsters to inspire fear is just a rudimentary employment of psychological warfare, I’m not sure you have any business speaking to psychology as a whole.

You’re completely wrong, but go off sister! Love seeing misplaced confidence and arrogance in an area I’m intimately familiar with.

https://hyperallergic.com/448358/medieval-monsters-terrors-aliens-wonders-morgan-library/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0304418175900123

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-2281.00064

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/abs/games-people-played-drama-and-ritual-as-propaganda-in-medieval-europe/

https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1065&context=hpt

https://www.jstor.org/stable/175680

Is that enough? Should I keep going?

I’ll be waiting patiently for your semantic objection to something inconsequential in one of my sources so that you don’t have a bruised ego 😄

If I call it a trowel and you call it a spade, they’re not different things.

If mine is made of paper and yours is made of aluminum, they’re still not different things.

Part of the issue is past revolutions didn’t have a ruling class that literally employed the best psychologists that money can buy

They absolutely did, except they weren’t called psychologists and they were much less effective.