Easy, i ask people

but how do they know?

and i plan ahead

turtles all the way down

For work i got a GPS obviously

otherwise id be wasting too much time

but when im off to go to a restaurant or something or a vaction?

I just ask people directions, you would be surprised how easy it is

and often u get to talk a bit with local ppl

I don't like relying on GPS too much, because it's like relying on waypoints in videogames

You play Morrowind Cata?

kind of ruins the game

i got a photographic memory thing

i can visit a place once and remember how to get there for years after

I have, but wasn't able to get into it. Don't know why, because it's just the type of game I normally like. I wish I had played it closer to release.

I don't really think it's the internet or phones or whatever that or bad; it's just that the business model currently incentivizes maximal engagement (for ad revenue), regardless of whether it's good or bad

Hence, clickbait headlines

Try it again maybe? I'd suggest improved beast animations and halberds that are better at chopping and slashing.

@velvitonator You're talking about Tim, right?

I think its in two parts velvi

Some of that it changing with e.g. Patreon and other, less centralized funding models

the business model is catering heavily towards validation (likes, comments, etc etc)

so it automatically drives attention

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Didn't The Orville have an episode about that?

but i dont think its healthy to have constant access to it in your pocket.
Ultimately its the responsability of the person itself ofc, its your own choice

I just made mine by not having it

I'd say that it's *required*, but you should also be able to seperate yourself from it when the time comes.

Would it be so unhealthy if it genuinely brought people more together, rather than further apart, via that validation economy?

some ppl find that stupid others find that interesting, i just find it more valuable to be "in" the place im visiting at the time rather then constantly pulling up my phone to check stuff

I think if it was less...hostile? to normal interaction, people would regulate it more naturally

even if that sometimes would be handy

maybe it would i dont know

I also think its something people still need to coop with

we have only had it for such a short time really

having access to internet is by far more positive tho

And yet we have major advances monthly.

but i got the luxury to not have it at all times

whilst people in africa do not

and they would benefit greatly from having it

True, but I dunno; I don't recall dumb phones being this much of an issue, and that was a leap in connectivity