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lucullus, to asklemmy in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

Sounds like a Black Mirror episode: The mind of a 20 year old in the body of a newborn. Incapable of doing all the things, that a 20 year old would think of. Many years until you are allowed again to do things, that you are actually mature enough to do.

lucullus, to asklemmy in What’s your favorite fantasy universe and why?

I really love the continent Zammonien from the books by Walter Moers, like “The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear”. Just to give you an idea: In one life bluebear goes to nightschool - a school in a mountain lead and taught by an Professor Dr Nachtigaller, who has 7 brains - together with a moutain demon (kind of) and a prince from the 2364. dimension (where everything is made of carpet and people make music on instruments made out of milk) named Qwert Yuiop. Later bluebear gets to the sweet desert, which isn’t filled with sand but with sugar. For the nomadic people of the sweet desert he catches the half-stable fatamorgana City “Anagrom Ataf” in a big pool of molten sugar. You get it. Bluebear being the kings of lairs at one point in the book really fits.

Moers wrote multiple books about that continent. I really love them. I just organized a big station based game about that for my local scouts troop. About 60 kids from 7 to 16 years following my story to rescue Zammonien. Easily dumped 150h of work in that game, but it was really great

lucullus, to asklemmy in Was stalking your EX boyfriend normalized during the last decade?

What the hell are you talking about?

lucullus, to linux in what caused you to get into Linux?

It was a friend who helped me install ubuntu 8 on my PC in dualboot when I was like 14/15 years old. Was already a computer nerd, though my friend was way more into everything Linux related. I got hooked there, though at that time it was a real pain in the ass to use wifi in ubuntu. I wouldn’t call me obsessed, but I really don’t like using Windows. I have to for work and I despise it.

lucullus, to asklemmy in What are some green flags in a partner in your opinion?

A dog will behave the same to interactions, that it doesn’t like, as cats: Leaving, telling (with their respective sounds), scratching, biting. Change cats in your sentence to any animal that is able to interact with humans (fish is difficult for example) and I would agree.

lucullus, to asklemmy in What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

Occam’s razor, because it seem it is often used wrong by using it for just shutting down possible explanations. Typically noone mentions, that this is about guessing probabilities without prior knowledge and not a way to completely ignore an explanation.

lucullus, to asklemmy in What popular quote are you tired of hearing?

In fictional media I’ve mostly seen this the other way round. Like "I don’t want to believe this expanation, so it should not be considered "

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