Mine was cinderella phenomenon. I have no recollection of how I stumbled across it. I was obsessed with Ouran high school host club as a teen so it probably looked intriguing to me as second time I'd seen a "reverse harem" on a cover. I played the entire thing within a single weekend. Then... I didn't play another otome game...
I always hate this saying. Even before smartphones where a thing people used to socialize and seek entertainment more than they were studying. People would read entertaining fiction books over text books. People would go to plays, music shows, over going to lectures. People would talk about gossip, weather, or other topics more often than exchanging knowledge.
I would even argue we seek knowledge way more often than we used to because it's available to us. But you can't retain that much knowledge and since it's available to us whenever we need it, there is no need to study it before we actually need it.
And a lot of social media use still is exchange of information. So many places that talk about hobbies is full of information or ideas.
But unless your job involves a lot of research there is no need for constantly looking up knowledge.
A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans have a harder time discerning fake headlines, compared with older generations
But I wouldn’t believe or reject any of them based on the headline alone, the true answer for most of them is “I don’t know / can’t know”. They all sound equally plausible to someone with no knowledge of the topic.
What was your first Otome game? (kbin.social)
Mine was cinderella phenomenon. I have no recollection of how I stumbled across it. I was obsessed with Ouran high school host club as a teen so it probably looked intriguing to me as second time I'd seen a "reverse harem" on a cover. I played the entire thing within a single weekend. Then... I didn't play another otome game...
The real miracle of modern technology is that we can carry around a device that contains more information than the Library of Alexandria, yet we mainly use it to scroll through Social Media (kbin.social)
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How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There’s a Test You Can Take (www.scientificamerican.com)
A new misinformation quiz shows that, despite the stereotype, younger Americans have a harder time discerning fake headlines, compared with older generations
What drives you as a person? (slrpnk.net)
What makes you get up every morning and motivates you to push forward? For me at the moment it’s my pet rats. They’d die without me and I feel needed.