I was following you on Twitter and then I jumped ship when Trump was allowed back on and moved over to Mastodon.social. I'm still trying to figure out what to do there as "my people" have not moved over there and I've been finding it hard to find like-minded people. My main approach has been looking at the global feed and trying to see if there is anything of interest. It's a SLOW process. Occasionally (once a month or so) there is a single post of interest and someone I can follow.

I've also tried searching hashtags, but most of my interests come up empty, so I haven't gotten much out of that either. The other approach has been to look at who my follows follow. I keep hoping that the Fediverse takes off and some of the bigger names come over. (Thankfully George Takei is someone who did) Still, I have to say, having Twitter off my rotation has been instructive in how it feels to remove the pressure to post from a social media platform. Which brings me to the last point... So far, the things I've posted on my on Mastodon.social have not garnered any responses. I think I just don't have any visibility. I'm a whimper in the sea of toots, so people who would find my toots interesting don't see me.

Anyway... I get you and understand your reasoning. I wish you the best and will continue to look for your toots as time allows. I miss the old days. But every social media platform I've been on since 1988 has always gone the same route: fun --> noisy --> commercial --> spammy --> leadership change to less competent leaders --> implosion --> gone. Maybe the Fediverse will move to the fun stage in the next few years.

Oh my! First time I have ever heard that one. Most hilarious indeed.

I have come to the conclusion that paraphrasing is too much effort.

I thought they usually went into real estate, like Joe Rudi did locally here. :)

Oh come on now. You will be stone cold any minute now...

Get over yourself dude. Neither you nor anyone else are anywhere near significant enough for our actions to have any effect whatsoever on you. If it does, then you are a pretty weak and pathetic individual; if you can't handle the fact that some people enjoy things that you don't.

Not sure what else you expect. Besides, you completely ignored the rest of my post. If you had read further, you would have comprehended that passive entertainment of any type is just a very small fraction of my interests and activities. Most of my time is out here in the real world doing actual real world things, but you somehow missed that?

Why the hell do you even care?

I'm living and enjoying my life is what I am doing. I have achieved comfortably ever after and am now enjoying the little things in life I ever got to really appreciate during the grind.

Entertainment (movies, gaming, etc) is just a small part of that. I have actually become rather fond of the more traditional activities lately, like fishing, hiking (well, that is on the list for next year), camping, toobing, biking, etc. House fixing up and gardening took up my non online entertainment time this past Summer.

Your attempt to be a pompous ass fails, by the way.

It's not like angels, demons, and ghosts are real either.

We enjoy them because we fucking enjoy them.

I started it quite some time ago, and dozed through the movie like last year or the year before. The general gist seemed to be a mandatory consumer culture, probably more a mix of government and corporate control (perhaps not specifically stated but noticeable). I was really just going by vague memories.

Well, just be ready for it somehow when or if it does happen.

At least they are not handling it like they did on the copy that made the rounds on its third run (1979, I guess it would be). In that print, Han didn't shoot at all. Just went from "Yes, I'll bet you have" to the next scene that started with an outside shot of the Death Star.