[a character is tied to a wall above flames, with weird twirly smoke tentacles in the background] Being trapped in the Torment Nexus is NOT fun
[a character gives a press conference at a lectern] We've listened to user feedback, Torment Nexus 2 will have microtransactions and will be a monthly subscription
https://thebad.website/comic/we_are_deeply_committed_to_listening_to_our_customers_feedback
thats why they make sure that living outside the torment nexus is even worse.
For instance, thanks to the fact that I don't have a Facebook, I have very little access to being able to sell bits and bobs that I want to get rid of, or to communicate with distant friends, or update people on the comings and goings of my life, unless I give them a call and talk to them.
Not supporting Facebook has cost me a significant slice of my actual social life. It has hampered my ability to be in the loop and to communicate with my own family.
And it's not because I suddenly started doing something that anyone disapproved of.
It's simply that I'm not at the place, I'm not at the social hearth that everyone else is huddling around.
It's like leaving your phone at home every day. You only get to talk to and interact with the people you meet face to face.
On the plus side, when you do meet someone face to face, you actually have something to talk about (because you haven't seen it all already)
That doesn't help. I was a know it all before we had ubiquitous internet.
I was bored in school, so I read encyclopedias to fill the time.
i mean you haven't seen all the details of their life on a fucking facebook, so you can actually ask "what have you been up to recently?" and go from there. i suspect encyclopedias do not cover that.