it's not all like that at all, and i guess i don't understand the mindset of being annoyed by other people posting about things they like...

oh there's lots of videos about the rise of jello in American cuisine. i haven't seen any recently, and don't feel like going through the effort of vetting a good one right now, but yeah, just look up something along those lines. it was considered a modern miracle of food science and quite trendy for a bit there. it was also heavily featured in one or more prominent government cookbooks in like the 50s being used in this kind of way. i don't remember many of the details, but i think it was basically from a time when people were excited by new chemicals in their food and trusted scientists in s lab more than farmers in the field to make safe consistently available food. this was a similar time to wonder bread coming to popularity because flour contamination was becoming quiet prominent. we were entering a time when our population has reached modern scales, but our sanitation practices and knowledge hadn't caught up.

I think many people would consider erased, magi, and made in abyss to count for this meme.

i mean there's also the erection scene and the sexual tension between the very young main characters over it.

man, the cool part is the the older generation just gets all of it. it's not like they stopped taking substances in when lead gas was everywhere. gramps has a flourishing ecosystem of non living toxins in his body.

oh it's working exactly as intended. they're just trying more and more overtly to push you to the content they're paid to. cause you're right, it's Google, the ad company. this is what they do.

eh, I'm a photographer/videographer. sadly I more or less need to use it if I want anyone to find me...

worse than that is professors being required by the school's contract with the textbook company to tell you to buy a book that they have no intent on using because it's awful. that was way way more common for me.

to me the biggest difference is that in divinity it still felt like i could do literally everything, and like I was just checking off steps in a task list until i made it to the end.

bg3 is the first game where i actually feel more like I'm playing an actual ttrpg that organically breaths and moves with my actions and let's me do it all in literally any way i can imagine. it's the first time I don't think i could ever play through to every eventuality.

I mean, he did. 6 months ago.

there's a whitelist!