Dr. Bob

I am a professor. I’m fine with choosing to consume shorter media - I read very few novels any more either. I think the point that the students appear unable to read long form. It actually matches up with my own experience where incoming students have never had to write long form either.

I’m curious what the downvote was for.

I drive a 2010 Acura MDX. When I bought it, it was one the largest SUVs in the market. When I bought it people thought it was ridiculous. Jump to today. It’s midsize. I can’t even find it parking lots as it’s dwarfed by every truck and SUV around. Including what used to be economy and entry level vehicles. I have crossbars on it for my kayak to boot.

Desert wasn’t really a cyberpunk setting until BR 2049. Post-apocolyptic sure, MadMax had that stitched up in 1979, but not cyberpunk.

Pick lots of ballise fruit in White Orchard. It is tougher to find later on.

Well it does …but the side effects are killer.

Eyes aspirin suspiciously…pain reduction, anti-inflammatory, blood thinner, fever reduction. All-in-one package?

All the way back in the early 2000s my bank offered a service where you could generate onetime card numbers with a specific dollar value tied to them. It disappeared around 2008. I wonder why?

By number 3 there were extended scenes. No penis or vulva.

Tell me you’ve never played a Witcher game using a whole paragraph.

I want the continuing adventures of Lambert and Keira Metz. I think the two of them would make a hilarious follow up.

Please please please let it be Lambert and Keira Metz squabbling all over the continent as they track something stupid.

Yes, but not very well. I am mildly irritated that one of the founding studies of experimental psychology is so little known. It takes cats quite a bit of time to figure out how to simply pull on a loop or step on a treadle in order to escape confinement and get fed.

Thorndike’s work with cats predates Skinner’s work with rats by decades. https://youtube.com/watch?v=hhNxeYYyCSQ

Sort of. The second world war had a profound impact on demographics in Europe and North America. During the war birthrates were lower than average but during the postwar period there was a surge of births - the baby boom. Once everybody had a houseful if kids birthrates dropped off again - Generation X (that’s me).

You’re right in that every “generation” since then has gotten fuzzier - for exactly the reasons you mention - and is defined more by cultural events than demographics. But it’s also true that the baby boom and bust has had a profound impact on our society, including the invention of “teenager” as a distinct phase of life.

Correct. His latex wings melted and he plunged into the taint.

I will never not upvote Everett True.

That ain’t Boomer Humor. The oldest of them would be…4 years old then. It’s Greatest Generation humor. The ones whose work the Boomers killed.

It would have to - that was the length of a film reel. I think Birth of a Nation was the first non-serial multi reel film to be shown in 1915.