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>reads like so much pretentious claptrap

>my eyes would have rolled so far back that metacognitive mindfulness would have become a permanent passive ability stat

Yes, I agree it is impressively lifelike, just like it was written by a real flesh-and-blood New Yorker.



I think it reads like an ad for what people think a real New Yorker sounds like. No one’s sticking around for you to ramble about the social weather.


I lived in NYC for a few years, and there are definitely lots of New Yorkers who would find themselves described in the quoted passage.


Or it can be a piece from the New Yorker


Right. All of that stuff is published/performative fluff, not how people actually think or act.


Feeling implicated?


The city is much more romanticized than you think.




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