Stunlocker (95% TRENDING)

We have met the —the friend who doesn't listen, but waits for a pause in your sentence to deliver a prepared monologue. They have "locked" the conversation.

When you stunlock someone, you are not playing with them; you are playing at them. You are reducing a complex, emergent system (the multiplayer game) into a Skinner box. You are trading the joy of mastery for the hollow efficiency of automation. stunlocker

And the Stunlocker, sitting alone in the void of their own silence, will eventually run out of targets. When everyone else has left the server, all that will be left is the lock. We have met the —the friend who doesn't