I just want to float through existence as a pure essence, interacting with other pure essences.

That's basically what Human Instrumentality was, and the point about why that was bad was that you may not actually like who you "really are", or who other people are, and they still may not actually like you.

This, basically.

No, but it would look fundamentally different than what it does right now. One of the core premises is that culture & politics are inextricably formed out of property relations & the distribution of economic surpluses.

but ultimately i feel like if we want a place isolated from outsiders (an ideal which hexbear has never actually been) then we should build that secondary to federation through community-level and user-level controls.

I don't even understand why people want that, it sounds like shit; tbh.

TBH, BoTW is probably the first Zelda game I didn't finish just because I got bored of it, more than because of getting stuck on something & not wanting to look up a guide.

I appreciate the desire to want to replicate the experience of exploring your local town/countryside as a kid in a videogame, but maybe that's something kids should just be allowed to do IRL, and you should instead make interesting videogames as videogames.

No, fuck you, you're gonna use your feet like a normal person.

I mean, for me, it doesn't make any sense to have food from a sit-down restaurant, or from a place with a drive-thru delivered. Like, you go to a sit-down restaurant both for the food & because it's a place to go that's not your house or work. With drive-thru, yeah you're not investing a significant amount of time getting the food, nor do you have to co-ordinate ordering it, and then remembering to go pick it up (an issue for me, cause of ADHD/ASD). But with pizza it's so ubiquitous, and you usually do have to order it before picking it up, it kind of just makes more sense to have it delivered I guess? I mean I know people who don't have it delivered, but they always buy from like Little Ceasars or something, which is fair because they have pre-made pizzas, so it's like drive-thru, but if you weren't going for that, idk delivery doesn't seem that much more expensive? IDK.

I should say that I very rarely actually eat anything that I didn't cook myself anyways, so

Huh. Fair enough then.

I went to special education classes in grade school, and the teachers there would pin me to the ground with my arms behind my back & kneel on top of me, put me in a padded blue box with no light for hours at a time, and also on occasion made me sit cross-legged in the corner with my arms behind my back while they sat on top of me.

It was not a particularly fun time, and it was very difficult to pay attention to work when other kids were going through the same thing.

There's other stuff from home-life & interactions with other people, but that's probably the most notable & persistent situation that I can remember.

What about pizza, though?

I aspire to be that old dude, but I am probably just going to fall off the face of the earth at some point.