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@grainloom So when you have a good time at a show, while that might potentially be explicable in terms of suvival probabilities and evolutionary development, that's not the explanatory level that's necessary actually useful or interesting right then in the moment?

@grainloom it's not that thinking about the process in purely on physical, reductive terms is *incorrect* in that case, but it doesn't actually provide an explanation in any sense we actually care about.

@grainloom meaning can exist on multiple levels of abstraction.

Me (hypothetically) pushing someone off a cliff can be accurately described as "oxidizing sugars converted into kinetic energy to move a 80-kilogram mass at half a meter pet second", but that's not generally the causal layer we as people actually find relevant, right? What we would probably care about is a causal process on the level of human thoughts and agency, not physics and chemistry, yeah?

@grainloom Maybe I phrased that last question wrong. When you decide to go to a show, when you're having a good time at the show, is the good time you're having the result of a deliberate rational value calculation, or a because right at that moment music *feels good* emotionally?

Oh and I have a trans flag button pinned to my hat.

getting misgended at the pharmacy when I literally just updated my name with them and I know that my nipples are visible through my shirt. This refill is also taking fucking forever. Argh.

@StarshipAmelia@witches.town :D I didn't know there was a 🛰️ emoji :D

@grainloom Where is the "real world gain" in a good rock show, though?

@TipsyTentacle@witches.town imo it's the best "romance" option in all of gameing.

@literorrery @mawr I really do recommend playing We Know the Devil (and getting all four endings) if you haven't.

@kyzh Thanks for checking in. I'll leave whether you stay or not up to you, for the moment.

@masklayer One (1) Entire Gay Ass

The Dresden Files RPG is based on FATE, and social and physical stress are just two different damage tracks. Mechanically, they're treated almost identically.

@sev@witches.town (oh hey, same author as Stick Shift, I've heard about that and was kinda interested too)

@sev@witches.town Just found it and am bookmarking to check out later. I think it's bedtime now for me though :)

@sev@witches.town I haven't, but am intrigued.

@sev@witches.town That game sounds a *lot* more fun than the one I played.