Interesting read. These people don’t live forever and while they’re living, they will never have any real friends. They basically don’t fit in with humanity. Most common people can live like this in video games and then come back to real living.
E: less gritty details on the super rich than I wanted but I agree with his take and I always interpreted that final scene of TWBB in the exact same way
Deep_Joke3141 | 14 hours ago
Interesting read. These people don’t live forever and while they’re living, they will never have any real friends. They basically don’t fit in with humanity. Most common people can live like this in video games and then come back to real living.
sudosussudio | 17 hours ago
Reading this after watching Alien: Earth, now I can tell what inspired a lot of it…
kamace11 | 14 hours ago
Archive?
E: less gritty details on the super rich than I wanted but I agree with his take and I always interpreted that final scene of TWBB in the exact same way
[OP] horseradishstalker | 14 hours ago
Gift article.
kamace11 | 14 hours ago
Oh sorry, thx
[OP] horseradishstalker | 13 hours ago
Asking for an archive link if it’s the Atlantic is perfectly rational. I was just worried that you hadn’t been able to get through.
kamace11 | 13 hours ago
No I just automatically assumed that bc it was the Atlantic it would be paywalled.
etherealsmog | 13 hours ago
Oh dear it’s not working for me, but giving me some kind of “oops we’re working on that” page.