Basically, this was me towards the end:

youtu.be/qi1Zuni57Rc?...

One third to halfway in I turned to my partner and was like "this is unrelentingly grim, I'm not sure I can keep going"

Anyway, I feel like once it crossed a certain misery threshold I was so painfully invested that I...enjoyed it feels wrong. Appreciated the suffering?

Learning in real time why I feel so "seen" by sci-fi as a genre

"Please don't put in the newspaper that I'm unfunny"

At one point I'll admit I had a hazy (unjustified) anxiety about the whole "Roko's Basilisk" thing.

Now?

Fuck you, I'll punch your stupid basilisk in the face or die trying.

Appropriately enough, it's under the "cancel subscription" option. If you go to cancel you'll get the usual mewling pleading "not to leave us". Under there, you can switch back to the "Personal Classic" option.
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For those of us who actually like to write rather than have an algorithm clumsily shit out half intelligible garbage (or, worse, cringe) you may want to know how to reject this. It's not obvious how to immediately.

Me, on a pub crawl:
"Wow, all my friends are in this pub too!"

I'm constantly getting followed by obvious engagement farmers and it just makes my "followed by" list useless.

I don't care, I'm not a big account at all and I don't want to talk online about that sort of topic anyway. But god they're annoying whenever I click on one to have a nosey

The spin off where the protagonist went to be a cop in a big city got really weird too

I must not Doomscroll
Doomscrolling is the mind killer
Doomscrolling is the little-death that brings total obliteration