rodneylives
I’m JHarris on Metafilter, and rodneylives on mefi.social. I help run the gaming blog Set Side B, I do Q&As for the website Game Developer, I wrote sometimes about roguelikes, and I used to write the column @Play long ago on the (now sadly deceased) website GameSetWatch.
Finish that last thought. “I don’t know what else you need… to never talk to your parents again, ever.” People can change, and the grave is cold and final. (Although I just realized, I only read the TL;DR version. There might be stuff here I’m not getting. Did the initial post change after I wrote my first comment? Anyway, I may be wrong here depending on the full story.)
Yeah, I know. And I knew this would be the reaction here. And for many people what you suggest is the right answer. I am only saying, it might not be for everyone. There is a lot of nuance that tends to be left out of these descriptions, and a world of information we’re not getting.
This may go against the general tenor here, but parents are people too and make mistakes, sometimes big ones. Your life is finite, and so is theirs. When they are gone, you’ll never have the chance to see them again. I would let them back in, maybe at least hear what they have to say. Could be just me though.
An interesting idea!
Spam has long been the corrosion eating away at internet services. It killed Usenet, and nearly did email.
I am sure that part of it is how discoverability has diminished over time. It seems there are fewer ways to find interesting independent things on the web. But, I’m also sure that some of it is there’s fewer cool things to find.
With that said, please enjoy endless.horse, which is one of those cool things the likes of which I wish finding were easier.
Pull up a chair and let me tell you about a little game called Nethack.
I am at the point where I think, Reddit may well bounce back in general, for there are lots of people whose only experience of the web is using huge corpo-sites, but I still won’t be there except for the cases where I have to use it for some crazy reason. The Fediverse feels a lot more hopeful and open, like the web was in the early days, and I much prefer that to the monolithic corporate site system. So wherever possible, I will pass on that.
The Fediverse is far from flawless, but maybe it’ll fix its issues over time. Let’s find out.