I’ll always remember Night City. Over the years I’ve basically learned to navigate it without a map.

Well yeah, if you explain magic it stops being magic, that’s how magic is. If you explained the magic of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings using advanced quantum physics or something you’d turn it into an explainable, mundane world, like what we have done with the real world. But the magic remains under different terms.

I dunno about that. The sentinelese don’t even have a written language or engage in agriculture, if you show them a glassy black rectangle covered in strange glyphs, that squawks and speaks without a mouth, and glows like a fire while remaining cold to the touch, how can they assume it’s anything but an enchanted object? I can’t imagine they have the slightest clue of the simplest procedures for constructing something like that, they don’t know what a diode or a battery is or how doping works. They don’t even understand electricity.

You can also look at the cargo cults of Melanesia. They saw WW2 operations in the area and interpreted them as rituals to summon goods (cargo) from their deities. How does a member of a non-industrial society interpret an airdrop if they have little to no concept of airplanes, parachutes, or even advanced metallurgy?

Show a sentinelese person a smartphone, they’re gonna say it’s magic.

Because of creeps, freaks, and prudes

Well then you’ll be disappointed, because you’re buying creamed corn, not cream corn

The cream is part of the creamed corn. You’re supposed to cook with it. It’s not a brine or something like that. It’s like how orange juice has pulp, but you don’t buy orange juice to strain out the pulp.

What doesn’t make sense?

Oh, will you all just start fighting already?

Being adult is when you can eat a whole cake for dinner but knowing exactly why you shouldn’t

Well it doesn’t really pretend to be meat, it is meat. It just grows differently.

Meat is meat, and growing it in a lab means cattle won’t have to suffer the conditions of the average meat farm. Also means less greenhouse gasses from cattle.

Animals don’t have to suffer to make a steak taste good.

I’m gonna do the same in october. Though I’m really dreading it, even though I know it will be fine and already use Mint on two other computers.

Or you turn into cancerman from that X-files episode

English, Spanish, German, French, and eventually Japanese.

Welcome to America, where slavery is one of the largest businesses under a brand new name.

Isn’t that a little short for a stormtrooper?

If Breaking Bad was set in Germany or France it would be a single 20-minute episode.

Laughs in European

Why? Somebody learning a new language would make mistakes, an AI would make no mistakes.