Usually a disposable MMO or idle game. I like the feeling of progression.

What’s the point of that? Does it improve your experience using the website at all? If anything, I’d prefer the opposite: a sizable number of people that are available for me to follow and post things relevant to my interests.

My remote call-center job. It takes it out of me like no other job has. Every single second is measured and tracked and “optimized”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful to have the job. It pays better than anything else I’d be qualified for (probably) at 18.50 an hour, and I’m immunocompromised, so I need remote work. More than that, I’m genuinely good at it. But I can’t help but feel that it’s not for me forever, and I don’t know how to transition out of it.

(It’s iOS and macOS tech support)

Night in the Woods. It’s hits you in places you never knew were sensitive until you’re acutely aware of each and every exposed nerve.

Some excellent games mentioned so far, so I’m gonna go with “Night in the Woods”. It’s this crystal-clear reflection on what it’s like to grow up now, what it’s like to live in America–good and bad. It’s gut-wrenching and funny and beautiful.

Twitter and Reddit got so awful I needed to leave. Lemmy is fantastic and underpopulated, but Mastodon isn’t what I would want. I can search for hastags, but there’s no other way to search beyond the instance I’m in. That’s not what I want. I want a space that I can curate AND I want a local community. I got the latter, but the former…not so much.

So in a sense, I’m still a skeptic. But what else is there?