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Cake day: June 19th, 2025

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  • Pretty sure it would depend on the crime. Speeding slightly over the limit or jaywalking would be basically a no reaction crime because everyone does it.

    Theft? Depends on what I stole and from who. A few coins go missing fromy brothers room and my parents probably aren’t gonna care as much if I tell them later ( which I never tell them ), so long as it’s not a significant amount of money. My dad would also have no leg to stand on since there have been plenty of times he’s taken stuff from our rooms without asking ( like the time he took some snacks I had stashed in my tech junk drawer in my dresser maybe a year or two ago, which I’m still salty about ).

    Stealing from a store? They’d be shocked and I would definitely be punished. As to what the punishment, no clue, besides definitely returning whatever I stole to start.

    Murdering someone? More than likely gonna be reported to the cops and locked away.

    Piracy? Don’t get caught. They have received emails about me doing it a long time ago and just don’t want us to lose our service.

    Tax or other kind of financial fraud? My dad wouldn’t approve at all and might report me if he ever figured out I was in on some type of financial fraud because he doesn’t want to get screwed over by association of being my father. No clue how my mom would react, but I don’t imagine she’d be thrilled about it either.

    Illegal things like CSAM, beastiality, etcetera? Ain’t no way I wouldn’t be put in some sort of psych ward or something of the sort for such sick and dastardly material. If not straight up sent to prison because the feds get to me in this hypothetical before they find out. There’s definitely a chance I wouldn’t be part of the family if this ever happened, which I hope it never does and that if I have a midlife crisis that it’s just me buying stupid things instead. Especially since I know someone who got caught during his midlife crisis flirting online with a “minor” ( some form of either fed or law enforcement honeypot account ).





  • I don’t remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn’t really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.

    I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn’t like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I’d play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.





  • For older titles, depends on if I can find them at a good price. At one point I got a bundle of old Popcap titles for a lot cheaper on Steam than if I bought each individual game on physical disk.

    Though, if it’s not being sold on any digital stores, I’ll see what the price might be like on eBay and if I deem it too expensive ( varies depending on how I feel about the franchise and a few other factors ), I’ll just not both getting a physical copy, if you catch my drift.

    I don’t mind physical copies of games at all, for a good price. Especially for older titles. It’s why I bought Morrowind and Oblivion GOTY edition at a thrift shop. Prices were low and they’re games that are high enough quality for me to consider playing.

    No comment on newer titles because this is the patient gamer community.


  • Maybe a +3 or 3.5 max. After having a little bit of experience with artificial “intelligence”, I have been doing everything in my power to block it out of my life.

    People can call me a Luddite for this, but my response to those people is that I can at least think and form an opinion without needing an AI telling me how to think or what to feel.

    The only exception to the AI rule for me are the people who either use their voice or get consent from a friend, to work together, to use their voice for something like creating a Diffsinger or ENUNU voicebank as that requires a lot more work than just typing a prompt on a keyboard and, when done in an ethical way, doesn’t involve theft in general. Similar reasons I support UTAU voicebanks and older vocaloid voicebanks that are basically confirmed not to have used AI.

    As for other forms of technology, I will absolutely agree with OP on fearing the people over the technology, even if I don’t fully understand it all. Except for VR. I’m 100% worried, with the way my brain currently works, that someday we’ll have realistic enough VR that I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference and that scares me a lot.




    1. Used to play viola back in school. Lost it around fall 2019, early winter 2020 during a forced move.
    2. I currently have an acoustic guitar I got recently. Really need to actually play it now that I have time instead of letting it sit in the case. Learn it instead of procrastinating.
    3. I should follow music communities to find more music, but I don’t because IDK.
    4. I don’t post because I feel like whenever I do post on a site like this that I need to respond to everyone who replies, which adds mental gymnastics I don’t wanna play with .