Post AzZzdqguu8ooFlsBf6 by LaylaAlexandrovna@spinster.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AzZwiDYjWYBQTOR8zI by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-10-25T20:33:42.612935Z
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/prince-andrew-from-playboy-to-playstation/Oh God, not that. That’s all we need, I thought, reading in a long account of Prince Andrew’s current travails that ‘according to visitors to Royal Lodge’, he now ‘spends much of his time playing video games’. […]In that case, we can say that this situation is decipherable – that if you were watching the only life you have known crashing around your ears, you might like to escape into another world. A defining quality of good video games – which makes them as addictive as other things that share this property – is that they are deeply absorbing. They take you out of yourself and into another place. That is not in and of itself a bad thing. Humankind cannot, as a wise man said, bear very much reality. […]All those titles and honours he collected, cherish them as he did, arrived by accident of birth. They were imaginary honours – no more substantial than pixels on a screen. Yet there’s something to be learned from that. Even if the wider world now disdains him and the titles he hoarded are gone, he can acquire some new ones in the virtual world. Better ones, in fact.https://archive.ph/xtKKy
(DIR) Post #AzZzdqguu8ooFlsBf6 by LaylaAlexandrovna@spinster.xyz
2025-10-25T20:56:08.110498Z
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@Flick "Playing video games"=widely used euphemism indicating porn addiction.
(DIR) Post #AzZzdsMQhHcRQoIr0S by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-10-25T21:06:31.836789Z
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@LaylaAlexandrovna Eh, I play a lot of vidya and don’t do porn.
(DIR) Post #Aza7NuvECpVwNJTtFQ by amerika@annihilation.social
2025-10-25T22:33:17.389295Z
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@Flick @LaylaAlexandrovna While crocheting and quilting no doubt