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New comment by S_Bear in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

S_Bear — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:52:00 +0000

"I've never met anyone who was sorry they had children" I've met my parents for 18 years before I moved away.

New comment by S_Bear in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

S_Bear — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:38:08 +0000

I've been waiting for a successor to Aerobiz: Supersonic. I've played about every airline management sim since then, and nothing scratches the itch.

New comment by S_Bear in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

S_Bear — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:57:31 +0000

I read something a while ago that said a lot of 'introverts' are just extroverts with social anxiety.

New comment by S_Bear in "Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz"

S_Bear — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:51:18 +0000

This is a lot of fun. My 'biggest' gripe is that in the shapes quiz Tuvalu and the Seychelles are so tiny that no image displayed for me that I could see.

New comment by S_Bear in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"

S_Bear — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:28 +0000

My wife's friends from her Minecraft server joined us on vacation the past few years. We have multiple people from all over the US and Canada meet us where we're going and we go do touristy stuff together.

New comment by S_Bear in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

S_Bear — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:48:53 +0000

One of my all-time favorites. Still reads like a 'modern' book.

New comment by S_Bear in "The (real) dead economy theory"

S_Bear — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:23:56 +0000

The best part of the Singularity is that, once everyone who wants to uploads their consciousness to a computer does so, we mortal humans can simply unplug it and go on about our lives.

New comment by S_Bear in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

S_Bear — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:47:41 +0000

I was helping an 80+ year old with a phone problem this week. Dealing with the AI CSA was so frustrating. I don't think this lady was ready to burn down data centers that morning, but I think she was looking for a pitchfork by the afternoon.

New comment by S_Bear in ""This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand"

S_Bear — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:32:48 +0000

Including their ridiculous naming system. Referring to a playstation generation is easy, referring to an xbox generation past the 360 is incredibly difficult.

New comment by S_Bear in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

S_Bear — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:50:23 +0000

I used to work in a bookstore, and I've been working in libraries almost my entire career. Most books have no value. I've probably thrown out a million books in my life; most of them have been diet books, cook books, and political biographies.

My current library is around 2000 square feet and I acquire around 1000 books a year, so I have to toss around 1000 books a year, because they're made of matter and take up space.

New comment by S_Bear in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

S_Bear — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:05:06 +0000

I've been replaying some of the games of my youth, and they are either super easy or don't take very much time (I remember the original Final Fantasy being this vast epic tale; it took me 9-ish hours to beat as an adult. My Punch-Out reflexes didn't die, and I made it to re-skinned Mike Tyson on my first go.) A third of a game of Civ V takes longer than any of the NES and Genesis games I played as a kid.

New comment by S_Bear in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

S_Bear — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:42:07 +0000

Club Happily Bald here. My wife prefers me without hair, and razor blades are significantly cheaper than haircuts. I can't imagine trying to preserve my hair.

New comment by S_Bear in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

S_Bear — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:39:56 +0000

III was my favorite. Lyle was so cool to 13 year old me, the multi-generation cyborgs were awesome (in fact, the multiple ending were all kind of neat), I loved the biomes connected by tunnels, and the art direction was kind of gross and funky compared to how clean the PSII enemies were.

New comment by S_Bear in "Cahokia"

S_Bear — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:17:49 +0000

Cahokia was one of the coolest places to take people when I lived in St Louis. It's kind of a hidden gem and it altered the way I had been taught that native people had lived.

New comment by S_Bear in "I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility"

S_Bear — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:14:23 +0000

I read this every couple years or so and enjoy it every time.

New comment by S_Bear in "Guilty Displeasures"

S_Bear — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:53:10 +0000

I work as a librarian (and have been one for 25+ years), but I kind of hate the things that librarians should care about. I got into this business because I like helping elderly people in my community with their smartphones and tablets, and getting children to read. I don't care about cosplaying as a social worker or lawyer, fighting injustice and challenging assumptions; I just want to help Mildred w her iPad so she can zoom with her grandkids.

New comment by S_Bear in "Guilty Displeasures"

S_Bear — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:35:32 +0000

Other people's dogs are my favorite dogs.

New comment by S_Bear in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

S_Bear — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:49:53 +0000

And wife and I are both old and wrinkly and happily child free. Childfree people aren't just hedonists.

New comment by S_Bear in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

S_Bear — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:40:00 +0000

I cut my parents out of my life as soon as I was able. Depending on the 'vibrancy of family life' when you're old is often a bad gamble.

New comment by S_Bear in "Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy"

S_Bear — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:18:57 +0000

I used to have a 'Rugged Indoorsman' shirt. Loved that one.