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this new one about "third places" seems timely (frasier losing at chess is twitter)

(I don't have deep thoughts about this but it feels appropriate that cohost is fourth website)

One thing I think the video misses is that even if third places exist in your neighborhood, they might as well not exist for many of us still trying to avoid COVID. I haven't been to a restaurant in nearly 3 years, so a local pub wouldn't change anything about my social life or experience of the world. Changes to urban planning won't fix this for all people.

(And if we go by the original definition of a "third place," very few places would fit those criteria in a world where masks apparently no longer exist. Something can't be a democratizing space where anyone can interact if disabled and chronically ill people avoid it for their own safety. Is a pub even a third place anymore? Will it ever be again?)

So I like the idea of an online third place. I've been wondering if something like VRChat could be a place to socialize in this way, but it's definitely not accessible, albeit for different reasons. (Case in point, I have yet to start saving up for a headset.) Maybe Cohost, Discord, and the indie web could be some form of third place - for me, anyway.

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As Cassian and Melshi put distance between themselves and Narkina 5, the rest of the galaxy spins just thus, aligning such that many of our principal players will wind up together on Ferrix. And those that won't, well, they're busy uh... talking about Trad Chandrillan customs, so, you know, equally as exciting.

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Most of my experience of video games as a kid was when we visited my cousins in England. I have a distinct memory of watching my older cousin play a skateboarding game. I think it must've been the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Sometimes I got to play, but I think mostly I watched.

A game I did play was one of the early Grand Theft Autos with the top down view. I didn't do many missions, if any. Instead I stole cars and drove around, often crashing.

At one point I realized that when you stole a particular vehicle, you started seeing them more often. So I stole an oil tanker. I parked it in an open area and stole another tanker. And another, and another, lining up each next to the previous one. Then I got out a flame thrower and set one on fire.

I definitely died in the giant firey explosion, but it was worth it.

Image description: A chart of capybara images, scoring them on eye shape and increasing "peaceful eyelids." The image for 0, "Calm at baseline," is a capybara with dark open eyes that look like slightly tapered ovals. The image for 1, "Moderate comfortable," is a capybara with more narrowed eyes. The image for 2, "Obvious comfortable," is a capybara standing in a small square pool, its eyes closed completely.