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“[with online text-based communication] you are always in a superposition of being alone and in infinite company“
goddamn
without going into too much detail my life for the past year has been alternating between having no physical company usually and having semi-permanent physical company, alongside the usual text-based communication superposition, so this hits rather hard. maybe text is bad huh
i personally kind of embrace text chat because it seems like the closest thing i can get to morphological freedom without… constraints that are often literally worse than “existing in the real world”, but it's also… not without its problems…
they need to invent a voice and spatial chat app that's actually good
@hikari huh interesting, we find text *much preferable* to voice, but *only if it has the correct vibe* (which we still have yet to reverse engineer s.t. it can be explained in words)
@r i am very fond of text but i have been talking to someone who expressed these frustrations with text at me and i start to see what she means because i'm actually suffering in similar ways without really realising it
@hikari hmm, is it more about *voice* specifically, or is it about (virtual) spatial proximity which you would've gotten in MMOs?
@r yes, a key thing they indicated is that you do not know when you have company and when you do not
@hikari oh yes, that makes a lot of sense then!
this has definitely been a factor making text chat work suboptimally with <girl>, and MMOs wouldn't really have this problem