No Man’s Sky - One of the most beautiful games out there imo, and has vastly improved since its disasterous launch. Warning this one does require an internet connection (actually for a good reason) but you dont have to interact with anyone, and it’s difficult to even encounter another player in the wild outside of the Anomaly hub and campaigns due to its sheer size.

Project Zomboid - Even if you have zero interest in zombie stuff it’s still worth a shot. Has a massive detailed world based off Midwestern towns in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. It’s still in development so there’s some noticeably unfinished aspects, and they’ve only just begun to add non-zombie NPCs.

Foreshadowing

Is there anything with Japanese? It’s the language I’ve been learning (I took a class and have been wanting to study it further), but not all language learning apps have it.

I think it’s just everywhere now. I see it on Tumblr too.

Unfortunately, even our most advanced ones are more limited than a lot of people think and have a high rejection rate of around 44% that’s never talked about. Some do genuinely like them, but many say they still prefer the relatively simple body powered prosthetics, or none at all.

This could change as advancements are made, but as of now they’re a bit of a scam.

-Discovering extraterrestrial life

-Phasing out of disposable plastics and gasoline vehicles

-Transferring to clean energy and clean industrial processes whenever applicable

-More widespread ethical and sustainable farming practices

-Lab grown organs and/or more efficient artificial body parts

-Improved healthcare system/healthcare research

-Better treatments and potentially cures for chronic and/or rare diseases

-Much longer lifespans I just think we don’t live long enough even with the current best case scenerios lol

Though some of this would be viable now, if it weren’t for capitalism/politics holding it back so might not entirely count

People say they want memes like we used to have back, only to flip out when a late 2000s/early 2010s style gmod thing blows up.

Howl’s Moving Castle. Not that I didn’t enjoy the book, I just preferred the movie more.

Granted the author was quite young when he started the series (15) to when the first book got published (18, first self published then republished by an established publisher a couple years later). He’s came out with a new series recently, but I don’t know how much better it is.

And while I’m not saying the books are anything great, they’re still a far cry from the movie imo.

What if they need it for medical reasons? But I guess I shouldnt expect these people to know the other ways they’re used since I doubt they paid attention in sex ed (assuming they even properly got it).

I’ve heard it actually doesnt taste bad. I’d be unsettled by where it came from though.

What if it’s a candiru?

I didnt start really using social media until I was 15 (2015) (not including when I briefly used FB when I was 13 and having an account on the official Warrior Cats message boards when I was ~12), but even then it seems like people were a lot more chatty? I feel like I got more positive comments on my shitty art from that time than I sometimes do nowadays.

And also the fact that so many people nowadays share their full name how they look irl. I’d much rather keep that shit private unless it’s someone I trust and seems especially dangerous nowadays, and now there’s a worrying amount of minors doing it.

I would never play it myself so I’m not sure how much this counts, but there’s something about Garten of Banban that keeps drawing me back to it whenever a new episode drops. I’m well aware it’s just some shitty bottom of the barrel reaction streamer/theory crafting bait and it’s mostly me wanting to see where the train wreck goes, but I think I’m enjoying it on an ironic level too.

I mean, it wasn’t like I was expecting the guy who refused to take down a popular softcore CP sub until it got mainstream media attention to be morally upstanding.

Ironically I wouldn’t have heard of it if it werent for this, so Streisand effect in action.

There is actually a promising cancer treatment that uses a genetically modified poliovirus strain, but it’s still in its trial phase.

Not a job, but I was happy to stop using Blackboard when I left community college lmao.

I’m a female queer SA survivor if they ever try that bullshit on me lmao.

Male abuse/SA victims. It’s already not taken seriously enough when it happens to women, but when it happens to a guy they get put down even more and told to “man up”, sometimes even by people who’d support them if the sexes were swapped.