Sure, but they can't get people to use it without utilizing the power of their competitor. You know, it's like when a racing company steals a competitor's car and then uses it to race against them. Totally legal. Definitely wouldn't be banned.

Shredded beef

Back during Covid I was temporarily laid off for several months because I work a restaurant that was closing until the end of the pandemic. It was the first time that I truly had nothing to do for as long as I could remember, so I did what I thought I should do, and turned off my alarm clock. I've always been a wild dreamer, and I dream vividly every night all the way through until I wake. Sometimes they are vignettes, sometimes its a whole-ass life in my dreams, but they are always there, every night.

At first I would pop up at 9am like I did for work, but eventually I got used to it, and I stopped waking up early. Soon it was 10:30, noon, 1pm. All the while I was dreaming more and more. With no hard cut off from my alarm clock, my dreams would come to their natural conclusions, which was steadily becoming my death in my dreams. Sometimes violently, sometimes of old age, but it got to where every time I went to sleep, I knew I would die that night, somehow. This isn't some creepy-pasta or anything, it's a true story, and I genuinely started getting panic attacks before bed because I didn't want to dream my own death, again.

Of course, eventually I did the smart thing and turned my alarm back on, but for a while I was locked in my version of Groundhog Day. My already natural nihilism played into all of this, and sometimes I slip into a dark thought about death, and I have a nihilistic version of my inner monologue telling me, "You've done it before, and when it happens, just let it happen." It's kinda fucked up, and it's been years now and I still have some issues about it.

Only if I can hand the same card back to the cops.

If I die before I wake...

You won't be able to play it on antique tables.

A sanity system? I hope it fucks with me like Eternal Darkness.

The only nostalgia I have for anything Christian was for a Legend of Zelda clone that I played as a kid called Spiritual Warfare. I kinda want to go back and play it, but I have so many other, better things to do.

Yeah! Bite down and give it a good shake!

Back when I was forced to go to church, there used to be drives where we would take a second offering to buy up tickets for Christian movies in the theaters and "give them to people who needed to see the movie." I went to one once. I was the only one there. Where did that money go, huh?

I'm not jealous. I'm pissed at the parents for a) bringing their child to the restaurant under the guise of "socializing in the early years" while psychically neutering them with mind numbing bullshit, and b) leaving the fucking volume up. I work in a restaurant, I see this shit all the time, and I have to be the one to walk over and say, "can you please lower the volume on the tablet, we have other diners around you trying to enjoy their dinner."

That is a bold move, and I wish them the best of luck.