the "hopelessly lost" aspect of the matrix bears here. You are disinclined to doubt the reality of a game that you are successful in. Without that doubt you won't escape it. So success becomes failure because it directly increases your lostness.
Video games lack that "hopelessly lost" aspect. I mean, nobody mistakes them for reality and never comes back. (Right?). So I'm excluding them.
That's a big if. And "real world" is shakey too. Yr running with a stretchy hypothetical here.
Except for poetry. When you wake up from your dreamcoffin you'll still have your poetry skills and a few memorized poems.
First : the algorithm predicts thar our behavior today will be like our behavior yesterday. Which makes sense.
Second : what you eat determines how you poop. And they do control what we eat. So that makes sense too.
So both work together.
What's a "commercial break"? Arrrrrrr!
Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches
Kid : but you can't do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.
Teacher : you're wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what's your problem?
True story.
Srsly. I can't believe they went with "the alien looks like dad" bs and skipped the math thing
The carl sagan : contact
The movie is good but the book is better
Downloading both immediately
Thank you very much
Fiend Without a Face 1958
Vintage claymation
It might be voice to text. It sometimes gets carried away.
Ah. Nobody can afford un-enshittified products anymore.
It's progressive invisible poverty.