I want a proper sequel, Cyberpunk 2420.

Same! Sometimes I type the email in Notepad/Wordpad first.

Maybe their family members committed acts they didn’t want to be associated with.

Are you drinking your kin’s blood and tears?

When you put it like that, being an adult is so fun!

When I think of superhuman origins, I think of a 5’7 elderly Indian man.

Truly the beacon of freedom in the Middle East.

There’s no way an 80 year old woman has the life experience to compare to a 300-1,000 year old elf. There’s an inherent power discrepancy.

Also immortal. And hypersexual.

Oh man, a Total War: Lord of the Rings could be pretty badass.

It’s always a relief when someone asks to schedule something a month in advance, because that means I won’t have to do it. There’s no way I’m remembering our engagement a MONTH FROM NOW!? That’s like five years away.

Also, hair stylists really should be more specific. You said you style hair, suddenly there’s a difference!?

The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.

Because that’s what people are worried about: THE LOST DATA.

They heard the class taught equality.

Yes, those are all major contributors, though some of them overlap.

That sounds cool. Are you using any particular tools to organize your ideas/systems? That was one of the reasons I was curious–turning ideas into something real seems daunting.

Can you give us the gist or is it under wraps?

Nice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of “visualization” to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal, external, or purely imagined.

Funny, but just to get it out of the way:

Akshually! LSD doesn’t do that!

I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.

But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.