I'm only counting single-player experiences created by humans; which are possible to beat.

In 2017, speedrunner and live-streamer The Mexican Runner set out to beat all 714 official NES titles in his "NES Mania" challenge. The NES was one of the most limited home consoles, sourcing from a time when home gaming was just starting to become a thing, and it took this man almost three years to finish the series. Now consider the SNES' library with over 1000 more games. The N64. All the PlayStation consoles; the XBox games; and of course the ever-thriving PC indie game scene. The NES 40KB size constraint is a relic of the past. Some video games have 100 hours of content. Some games have stupidly long grinds that take hours.

The biggest obstacle would not even be the really challenging games; or those with really long grinds. It would be the shear volume of content. Most would spend far longer on short games that you can complete in a few attempts, than on anything that would be a severe challenge to the average "gamer".

https://www.ynharari.com/book/nexus/ is a great book btw.

They'd also be more famous and considered anti-heros, like the punisher, instead of cold blooded child murderers no better than the Epstein class.

Inheriting their worldview from consensus or comfort, never having to earn it through actual thought.

Not that people having already heard them has ever stopped me from re-telling them anyway.

I’ve always considered that texting “hehe” is a light chuckle, a “heh heh” sound; “hehehe” is more of a giggle, whether coy or creepy; and any more “he”s than that delves into witchy cackling territory.

In contrast “haha”, “hahaha”, and “hahahaha”, all sound the same in my head, and the meaning only varies in intensity but is more context dependent.

(Sung of course to the tune of the Winehouse classic Amy, Amy, Amy)

Chloe, Chloe, Chloe

We saved you from being interred

Now you're out eating a turd

I yell but you are undeterred

Came up with that in the shower on Monday. We recently adopted an eight year old golden retriever with severe anxiety issues who was scheduled to be put down.

Her old dad died a couple of years ago and she never got over it. My wife Amy (double bonus song reference, although she doesn't appreciate me renaming her song) thought giving her a hard reset in a new home might work.

And it has, she is fantastic, and even my cats like her.

We were all prepared for an anxious dog and got standard Labrador problems instead!

Pic below with a bonus Abed Nadir:

'Oh, you didn't want me to put my tongue in your ear and grab you by the p***y? But it is CLEARLY stated in page 964 of our agreement that I'd do so!!'

'Just tap "OK" for our 533 trusted partners to legally stalk you for over a year'

Just some random thoughts on lemmymaxxing 😆

Obviously this is a crazy idea and noone should do it, but if a prediction market let you bet on what day someone would die, someone could insider trade the market by placing a big bet on the day they go and assassinate them. People could place bets on random days for people they don't like to push up the value of the winning bets.

If we can't stop them now, maybe just be a pain in the ass.

Example:

"So, are you gonna join us for the party tonight?"

flashback sequence to getting bullied a lot in school

"Um... no thanks!"

Or it could be for more serious thing like war and the backstory of dictators.

~~Because they chose words and sounds purely based on whether they sounded pretty.~~

Ignore me. This thought was based on false information that I neglected to fact check 😔 learned my lesson there! Apologies for any hard feelings!

Source of correction: a literal linguist 🤦‍♂️