Can we bring back casual conversation?
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    Me too. It used to feel like people actually listened. These days when I think I have something valuable to contribute, it takes me like three tries just to post it because it gets removed by the automods for some arbitrary reason. Most of the time I just say fuck it and move on. Anyway, glad you're here and welcome to the community!

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  • Can we bring back casual conversation?
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    Barbershop, nice! Which voice are you? Do you play shows?

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  • Can we bring back casual conversation?
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    Yeah, I'm doing my best to respond to these comments but this site is stickier than fly paper right now. I hope Lemmy can survive the hug o' death. I'm gonna put on my tinfoil hat and say that if I were the CEO I would be all hands on deck trying to overload these small servers with bots to stifle the migration. I almost gave up on making my account because of the servers, and that was like a week ago. I can only imagine how clogged up things are now.

    That sounds like a good weekend to me, I haven't played TOTK but I've heard so many good things about it. How does it compare to Breath of the Wild?

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  • Can we bring back casual conversation?
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    Good! I had a comfortably lazy weekend- nothing special but hey that's the beauty of it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about what "wasting time" actually means. If I spend an entire day reading a good book or binging a show I really like, is that waste of time? I would say no. But if I spend a whole day browsing memes, I feel like shit for not doing anything constructive with my time. So what's the real difference? The Reddit exodus has lead me to try and spend my time more productively, but the older I get, the fuzzier the line gets between recreation and productivity. If I spend an hour watching a documentary about lions, I feel like I'm expanding my horizons. But you could say that since lions have no place in my day-to-day life, learning about them is a waste of my time. Knowing a bunch of stuff about lions is effectively just as useless as knowing a bunch of one-liners from action movies. I don't really have a point to this, its just been on my mind lately.

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  • I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less "casual" posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that's when I dipped out. So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?

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    If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with?
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    If you managed to eat several hundred bills I wouldn't dream of snitching on you out of respect and sheer awe. I'd probably give you a few extra just for the show

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  • If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with?
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    You think this is my first rodeo? You gotta put down a credit card as collateral. Don't worry, the bills are clean. I'm in the money laundering business.

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  • If I had a stack of $100 bills, and I told you that for every bill you eat I will give you one to keep, how much money do you think you'd walk away with?
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    They are 25% linen and 75% cotton. Neither are very good for digestion but probably harmless unless those crumpled corners cut your custard dispenser on the way out

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    I speak with authority on this, and I think you should get shoes that light up when you walk.

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  • All in one sitting. You get one condiment of choice, and a large glass of water. Bills can be torn up before consumption but nothing is stopping you from housing full Benjamins and digging for gold in the bathroom later. I think I could probably eat at least 10, and I would pick BBQ sauce.

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