What makes 'true fun' and how to spot 'fake fun'

Originally published at: What makes 'true fun' and how to spot 'fake fun' | Boing Boing

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BTW I have a lot of back pain, my stomach can’t even handle caffeine and I have musical anhedonia.

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I tried to have fun once. It was awful.

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It is difficult when you have a brain the size of a planet.

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Btw, TED talks is mostly fake smart.

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There is no such thing as True Fun or Fake Fun. My friend The Computer is quite clear there is only Hot Fun and Cold Fun.

Paranoia-clippy

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Corporate HR departments have helped develop a whole industry around fake fun and also made participation mandatory.

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Where does “BoingBoing BBS comments” fall in the fake/real fun taxonomy?

Well I genuinely enjoy many of the interesting and enlightening conversations I get to have here with a great group of folks, so that’s real fun. :woman_shrugging:

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What if I binge watch the show for four hours and then feel perfectly fine with that? Some days are for resting after all.

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Yes, as I refer to as the Morale Suppression Initiative, very popular in some workspaces

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I call that “mandatory fun”.

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Fake in the sense of Ersatz or in the sense of I thought it was funny when I read it first but later I realised it wasn’t?

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