Krudler
@Krudler@lemmy.world
- Comment on what is north? 1 day ago:
You better believe I’m here for this squabbling
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 2 days ago:
Being able to function on the deck does not make it a good game, just saying
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 2 days ago:
Torchlight is so highly spoken of… Am I the only person that thought it was pretty pedestrian?
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 2 days ago:
The last feature Epic added that was meaningful was the ability to look at my own game library.
They still have a storefront without reviews… They have ratings “captured from the ecosystem”.
They remain a joke.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 2 days ago:
I’ve read a lot of comments.
My personal experience is very different than what people are saying, maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t.
I have the same thing over my life with different types of pain. I would be given different pain relievers from surgeons, dentists, doctors, etc. For the most part it did fuck all.
Now that I am decades older and I’ve gone through all this bullshit, I basically learned that I’m immune to most painkillers. I metabolize caffeine very quickly and codeine and morphine are in the same family - so they’re useless on me!
Freezing at the dentist always took double or triple. And very often the dentist would have to stop mid procedure and reapply freezing.
These are just a few, but certainly not all of my experiences, being completely baffled at the ineffectiveness of painkillers.
My friends could never understand why I was so blasé when I was prescribed heavy duty medications. And I could never understand why they were doing flying cartwheels to get them off me. It makes a lot more sense now that I figured shit out.
And like you, I turned to alcohol, actually at the advice of one of my oral surgeons who finally just said “look go home drink a 6 pack you won’t feel any pain”.
Let’s leave all the completely unethical recommendations out of the discussion for now, and accept the fact that we now have more knowledge about painkillers than we did back in the day.
All of this to say, you may be just simply immune to painkillers. There’s a variety of reasons for that, and it’s no sense trying to explore those in the comments with laypeople like myself.
But on to any advice that I might give you? Perhaps not advice per se… but to tell you that what I did which helped me and perhaps it will help you.
I finally got over all my chronic pain by stretching and strengthening. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, certain parts of it were hell. I went to an athletic therapist who made me cry, but made me stand up straight. And I devoted myself to doing all the exercises and stretches… yes… 45 minutes every 2nd day for like 10 weeks. But damn did it pay off. That initial investment (not trying to half-ass it or go through the motions) got me to a certain plateau where I barely have to stretch anymore, my body is pretty happy.
I sincerely hope any of this applies to you and can be used but if not oh well maybe it will help someone else!
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 3 days ago:
It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was a bad design decision.
And they weren’t even the first.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 days ago:
As somebody that created and moderated communities for almost 20 years you nailed it.
Nobody should actively want to be a moderator, it’s a hell job.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 days ago:
End the friendship now.
She doesn’t want you plus the suicidal ideations complicate matters.
Don’t make it a thing, just stop being in her life slowly. It doesn’t need to be an event, just stop being around her.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 days ago:
The whole world is better off without you and your shithead remarks
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 3 days ago:
No I think it’s bang on.
The show is what you said, some clever witty writing, peppered with way too much “omg let’s all squirm at how inappropriate this is and how close we get up to the line teehee”
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 3 days ago:
Bastion is an absolute stinker of a game.
It’s completely pedestrian, and there are so many bad design decisions it’s hard to even take it seriously.
It’s a game where marketing really did its job because the game could never carry itself based on its presentation or mechanics.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 4 days ago:
Oh hell you just teleported me back to Reddit like 20 years ago with that term! Yes, cringe, that was it! And that was not for me!
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 4 days ago:
I’m honestly not familiar enough with it all to really know if I’m criticizing the right thing.
But over the years people have insisted that this show called the office is one of the wittiest, most clever shows ever
I watched a little bit to try to see what the hype was, and my feeling inside was that it wasn’t far removed from the type of humor that edgy teenagers think is grand. Lots of being provocative and inappropriate which is I guess… Funny? Hehehe gay. Hehehe race. Am I really that far off?
I can’t completely tar and feather it, there was some clearly humorous situations, but overall I just thought it was wayyyyy overblown.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 4 days ago:
I agree with that.
I feel like I could already sense the “holy fuck, this thing’s popular, let’s stretch this fucker out as long as we can” vibes in the writing and overall direction in early S2
Honestly by the end of it I was just so thrilled it was over, it was sort of a show that my wife and I watched together but I was fully disinvested by S3
- Comment on [Announcement] The community and its future 5 days ago:
Please, no more “I’m posting screenshots every day because I need attention”
Take your fucking screenshots and go to hell already.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 6 days ago:
This is really truly the best advice.
I am a straight male. But by definition I’m gender fluid. I have endured through my life no end of abuse for this, and it’s nothing close to what my trans partners in the past have experienced.
But in the end, it comes down to having a spine and being able to assert yourself.
Especially in trades, there is no end of ball-breaking and risque dialogue. If you are not able to defend yourself or say okay dude the joking has gone far enough, you are not going to have a happy life and you need to find something else to do to make money.
If we live in the online reality where “ideal” behavior is constantly advocated and expected, we are never going to connect to the truth of life which is that bullshit is everywhere and we have to learn to stand up to it and flow with it.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Squarez Deluxe
Originally a paid DOS game and the developer is a cool dude who changed it to freeware. You can download it on myabandonware or archive. Then grab a free copy of DOSBox.
In my view, it is the best shape packing game ever made, and it never really got its due, possibly in part to somewhat extra complexity, and partly from the time it came out.
You learn the ropes in the early modes, but you really need to play on EXTREME Mode. There are many different special pieces, and you decide how to move them in the playfield and rotate them.
There are mud traps and acid pits and missiles and bombs and traps. And you have to not only play the shape packing aspect, but you have to continually think about how to deploy these hazards, to your best advantage, or least disadvantage!
Over the years, I continually come back to this game, and I have probably sunk over a thousand hours since I was young.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
It’s low-grade trolling, chill bro. They’re not serious.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
“Oh no, now there’s a video of my face somewhere”
I’m not trying to be hurtful towards you, but I guess I’m pushing back in a general sense and you’re the comment I’m replying to.
At this point, it’s 2025… Every single thing about you including 3D models of your face is in a computer somewhere.
Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.
I’m kind of saying guys… like yeah on paper not a good idea to upload your video… But when you critically examine it, what has harmed you? Nothing, your face is everywhere. If you have walked outside one time, your face is on 100 video cameras. And it’s never being deleted from their server.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
I respect the security concern but none of what you are describing is how Facebook market works.
If you got a text message, it’s because you gave them your number that’s your fault. Nobody has the ability to contact you outside of the marketplace ecosystem or messenger unless you specifically allow it.
If you’re getting promotional messages, it’s because you opened a business chat with that organization.
I’m basically saying learn.
None of that has anything to do with not wanting to upload personal information to meta.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
I read so many of the comments and concerns, and I don’t even disagree with them!
Just want to add my two cents.
Lots of people are talking about how they resent that Marketplace has become the place to sell. I get that.
However, this is more of the same in an ongoing evolution of online ads & classifieds.
Originally eBay was King. Craigslist was kind of under the radar and not enough of a threat that they did anything about it.
Then all kinds of little online competitors to eBay started to pop up and they were becoming reasonably successful.
eBay then acquired PayPal so they could squash up startups. It worked. They no longer own PayPal but things change.
Kijiji popped up and was eating eBay’s lunch on a local level. Instead of competing, eBay spun off local classifieds to another company which acquired Kijiji.
I don’t even know all the back and forth wranglings, but it’s all a giant multi-corporate game that’s been played for 30 years.
Then all kinds of different “out of the box” storefronts started to appear.
Now Meta got in the game and they are keeping eBay and Kijiji “honest”. They’ve gone ahead and integrated it with Messenger and other apps so you never have to leave their ecosystem.
It literally took 30 years, but I am finally content as both a buyer and a heavy seller, with all of the online options available. I no longer feel like they are trying to wrangle every penny out of me as of seller, and they let me voluntarily pay to promote my sales in MY terms.
That said, I’m not sure how I feel about needing so much information about people just to make an account.
On one hand (I’m very biased towards the seller’s perspective) I can actually see the need to apply as much verification as possible for new accounts. It’s been a severe deficiency in their product for years and years and years. And as a seller, I am exhausted with bots and fake accounts and people who want to hide in the shadows, there’s no reason to do that when you’re buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.
On the other hand, I made my account years ago so I’m not subject to this requirement. But if I put myself in the shoes of somebody making a new account today. Holy fuck would I not be impressed with this.
I really don’t know what the answer is. I would never upload ID or a video of my face to them. I don’t know what’s needed here.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 1 week ago:
Talking to that ill-mannered, petulant child
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
What species of grass do you think will produce the most acceptable results should I touch it? Do you think Kentucky bluegrass is the best?
I hear what you’re saying, my point is invalid because I haven’t touched grass, so I need you to answer this question.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
There’s communities designed for that. For example Casual Conversation.
I’m not backing down.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
Right! “No stupid questions” isn’t just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they “should” already know the answer to.
It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.
It’s time for this community to change, I’m not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I’m going to leave if something doesn’t happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
They are wrong.
They are lazy.
If they don’t want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it’s just a pointless chat room.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
I have many pins here, so try again.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
It already is. That was the whole point of this post.
Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.
So I’m basically trolling. I’m leaving this community if the mods don’t step up.
It’s gotten totally out of hand.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
Please answer my question.