The deleted scene with the scared gonk droid is classic cheesiness

Ben Grimm from Earth-616 imo

No environmental collapse and global extinction

These are the first three I found:

parents argue about divorce while I play tennis on the wii and cry-ASMR

Your parents are arguing downstairs while you distract yourself by playing wii sports bowling ASMR

It’s 2010 and Your playing wii sports while your parents fight in the hallway about money recession

My alma mater had a café named Foo Bar in a computer science building

The bottom image? No, that’s some unknown artist’s photoshop that has been floating around the internet for a few years.

Thanks for the shoutout. For gluttony, Khan says in Space Seed that the planet will present “A struggle at first even to stay alive, to find food” and in Wrath of Khan he says the crew had “only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us”; maybe something more fitting could be made out of those?

I knew that guy looked sketchy

I mean I guess that’s sort of the point I’m stuck on. The situations I’m describing, such as in the post we’re on, are that which I cannot see as creative or active. They seem passive and overwhelming and able to genuinely convince someone of that which is clearly not there. They are of the imagination, yes, but they seem to rely on some form of unprompted and willful cognitive dissonance.

??? That is wildly off the mark. I’m a full on supporter of intrinsic motivation to create. I’ve defended art for the sake of expression repeatedly on this account, and I abhor when people play to the gallery. My confusion is with passive conviction of anthropomorphism rather than anthropomorphism arising only out of driven intent.

SAG-AFTRA said it celebrated the rights of artists - such as James Earl Jones’ estate - to use digital replicas, but said Epic Games did so “without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.”

I had chosen that source just for the best headline for the meme, but turns out it also had a succinct answer to your question. Jones’ estate consented but SAG claims the way Epic went about implementing it violates contracts between Epic and SAG.

The Wrath Lust of Khan

Passivity vs. activeness in consciousness is the distinction I was making.

I understand the connections well enough and I could make them on my own if I saw a purpose to it, such as narrative storytelling or choosing them as representative props. Someone seeing a banal object, devoid of story and history and just merely existing, and then succumbing to emotions over loose connections to human characteristics is what I don’t relate to. A cigar without narrative purpose is just a cigar. I can see others have totems and fetishes (in the sociological sense) of their own but the extent to which I deal with these is recognizing the message when they are used or abused.

I understand the purpose of anthropomorphizing for the sake of narrative storytelling. But I don’t relate to people unwillingly imagining an inanimate object to be sentient and emotive to such an intense degree that the imaginer is affected by it. I’ve pondered with purpose over writing metaphors or fantasy worldbuilding, but it has been with intent rather than passively.

(And yes, my most recent emotional reaction to that lamp was disappointment with a couple of areas of the design of its new Lego set)

That’s correct. I brought up the beaker scenario since the characterization of the inanimate object was adjacent to anthropomorphizing and it was an example in which I was the anomaly of the crowd.

Not trying to be rude or stupid, but is projecting emotions onto inanimate objects and being emotionally affected by imaginarily anthropomorphised circumstances a neurotypical thing? I remember in high school chemistry class when my classmates were awing and giddy over how “cute” a ~1” tall and 1/2” diameter beaker was and I just couldn’t understand.

Commercial exploitation?

Palpatine’s plan included predetermining every hand of cards Lando and Han each got in Sabacc /s

I remember the first time I was an authorized personnel only

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