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I'm interested in the 'live like it's early 2020' bit; what do you mean there?

Forgot the 'exercise' part.

Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important...and telling.

I don't intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or....just get looked away from, in the end. It's a pattern I've seen again and again with this man.

Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader's inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.

But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.

Thanks!

May not quite be alone but Becky Chambers' To Be Taught, If Fortunate has some very strong themes of isolation.

Again? I thought this happened already? What's different about this one?

Even just the name Penny Arcade had me in flashbacks!

What changed? I've always seen them as a cesspit but even from a distance I can tell they've gotten lots worse lately; been using since 2009 or so.

I don't know if this counts but I recently got roped into Flight Rising, a pet sim, and the forums there really capture the old-forum vibe.

The comic itself isn't, but it's going to be merchandised to hell at first opportunity, is what I meant.

original MMO

[types out an emote describing how my MUD character is laughing]

I'm not, but I'd love to visit after reading a book called Weapons of the Weak.