But on earth that won't work because Apple and Facebook don't allow tentacle hentai on their VR headsets.

Civilizations just develop highly sophisticated digital worlds that they can just live in in complete bliss forever or until their system degrades

If I want to be blissed out until my body falls apart, I can do that now by turning my retirement account into a stockpile of fentanyl. I don't think its presumed that intelligent civilizations all just do this, for the same reason I don't believe modern human civilization will collapse on itself simply because we've discovered opium.

We could be surrounded light years in every direction by perverts having infinite fun with tentacle hentai porn in their perfect digital world and they will never know or want to know that we even exist.

We struggle to confirm the existence of a ninth planet while. We're living in a solar system at the rural edge of the galaxy and we just found out black holes exist. Would we know what an advanced civilization would even look like?

We haven't even fully ruled out life on Mars, ffs. There could be a layer under the cloud system of Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune that's absolutely teaming with life. The Great Space Whale Migration of Proxima Centauri could be happening right now and we'd never have a clue.

Do not sell the galaxy spanning race of sentient porn-loving starfish short just yet.

VR porn + haptic suits = great filter

A system that lasts a million years? Man, we can't even build a system that lasts a month without constant maintenance.

Like the sleepers in Eve online

The other one is that if we were to disasemble all our planets (we can leave earth alone for sentimental reasons) and rebuild them in shells around our sun we could create as much habitable living area as the surface of every natural planet (habitable or not) in our entire galaxy. Plus the whole thing would fit inside the orbit of mercury which means very low light lag. Why build a galaxy spanning empire when you can just build a galaxy at home and have much better ping?

I bet you could get really energy efficientefficient with it too. Like convert people into highly specialized pleasure nodes in a vast network spanning the circumference of the sun's orbit

Pretending like addictions don't hurt anyone else is selfish and naive.

good point. mastur isn't in the English dictionary, its from the Latin masturbatus. and fap used to mean 'drunk' in the 16th century.

It's a brand name!

No no, he's an expert at bating. Clearly he's just edging.

Real page turner that one. Crunchy and fanfic-y in a good way. The pedo stuff way way too detailed for my comfort, but if that's not a trigger for the reader, then it's a real head trip.

Oh wow! Great to see a reference out in the wild!

Nah, it is just the same "Harry getting railed by the hippogriff" on a loop

Yeah, whatever dogatoniaist.