Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 2 days ago:
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 1 week ago:
Or psych students feel about CBT…
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Nah.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
I think the crux of the issue then might be what I am / you are calling disinformation. I see very little true disinformation on .world, and what I do see I either counter, or someone else beats me to it. It seems likely that our own idea of what constitutes disinformation is quite different.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
So you’d prefer the admins allow you to pretend they don’t exist? I know that’s not what you’re trying to say, but its not an unreasonable extrapolation of your position from the comments you’re making. You feel the need to fight for what you believe in because it’s right to stand up for what you believe in, but you would rather you didn’t have to. I think that’s probably the most universally agreeable statement I’ve ever heard, sincerely. I would, too, like for this to be the case. We just disagree on how to achieve that happy state of affairs, though it’s nice that neither of us prefers a solution like “round up all the .ml/.world users in a big camp” unlike, you know, real world opinions…
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
also, implying people are cowards for wanting to flee your hate instance is despicable and privileged ass-take. fuck you.
That was pretty clearly self deprecating. Who in the hell calls someone else a ‘base coward’, anyways? For that matter, who would even take seriously being called a base coward? I think you might genuinely be treating everyone else as hostile as a means of self defense, which while understandable is in itself incredibly toxic to interact with.
I have real comments here, along the lines of what you mean by promoting disinformation and the moderation standards you would prefer to see here. But come on, what’s the point in trying to have a discussion when you treat everything like an attack on you & yours?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Ah good, we agree then. There’s a certain necessity to engage with opinions counter to our own instead of pretending they don’t exist, even if it’s personally uncomfortable to do that.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Ah, a blanket denial of everything I said. How glad I am that I’m above petty things like pointing out the stereotypical behavior of users from other instances. It’s nice up here, on the Mountain of Sarcastic Moral Superiority.
As an actual counterpoint, the primary way that new users get onto lemmy is always going to have the highest concentration of toxic users. Society is, if you haven’t noticed, incredibly toxic. Commonly espoused ideas, like trans people being human or civil rights being important, aren’t commonly supported by society at large (source: the entire world right now). The easiest way for people who support those things to find their way to instances where those ideas are popularly held is to join the most popular instance and see both the need for other instances with heavier moderation, and what those instances are. How many people hear about blahaj or sh.itjust.works before signing up to lemmy, vs. sign up there as their second account?Personally, I’m pretty grateful that the most toxic opinions are largely self-segregated into a place where people aren’t required to interact with them. It’s less pleasant, sure, but it’s also the best place in the fediverse to get an accurate idea of what the real societal opinions are. And if it gets to be too much, I can always just flee like a base coward and spend time under one of my alt accounts on a more heavily moderated instance like .ml.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
… Then why are you here, participating in that?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that kind of… the point? That it’s an inherently broken situation?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
no one would target me specifically for being a man
I think you’ve misunderstood. The commenter is not saying won’t jump you for no reason regardless of gender, that’s obviously true. But they won’t target you specifically because you are male, which is an additional source of violence that women have to deal with. I’d argue it’s even more common than women being targeted randomly - or even that random muggings/assaults are actually random. I mean, who’s jumping people that they think are a threat?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it’s very difficult to pull apart big data sets accurately
The actual fuck? It’s significantly easier to pull apart large data sets, especially to answer demographic questions like this. This is literally Stats 101, you’re just making shit up!
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
This from a user on an instance that’s known for their open villification of any opinion that goes against the moscow and beijing dictated groupthi–
Wait, wait hold on. Could it possibly be that we both have deeply subjective views of the other large instances, because humans fall to tribalism faster than a kitten on a sock full of catnip? Maybe there’s a vested interest on every side to keep the early adopters of a decentralized social media platform infighting over meaningless stereotypes based on the letters that come after their username, making value judgements based entirely on dictated preconceptions instead of experiential conclusions and honest interaction?
… nah, it’s way more fun to just sling mud. Screw u, u commie scuzbucket.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oof.
- Comment on Turning myself in 3 weeks ago:
It seems like a real waste to put all those vowels in words just to ignore them.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 month ago:
They have been performing horribly lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf, Wizards of the Coast, even their Marvel line has reslly dropped wuality to the barest minimum. It’s stunning, reallt.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
Sigh… No, I actually meant to write 99th percentile. Which is also wrong, and is entirely symptomatic of me being ‘an idiot’.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
I know many many artists, and none of them would resist an offer to do what they’re passionate about in exchange for lots of money.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
That one impotent downvote…
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
Step three: Be incredibly lucky…
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
My partner was in the top 99% of performers on onlyfans for several years (according to onlyfans’ metrics, which actually are surprisingly accurate since it involves reporting financial information). At the peak she was making about $100/month. The number of people who actually make any substantial amount of money on that platform is shockingly low.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 month ago:
The only reason we americans need to know this stuff is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 1 month ago:
alabama’s rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins there than there are people who know where alabama even is.
- Comment on Day 168 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I gotta say, going into the new years, I quite respect your dedication to this.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Well that’s a take.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Fallout 3 is honestly a pretty shit game. Play Fallout New Vegas, it’s built on Fallout 3’s engine but instead of being designed and written by indentured interns at Bethesda it was made by people who are, you know, game designers. (I would kill for a NV-esque sequel to F04)
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 2 months ago:
I would watch the absolute fuck outta this hollywood fund this pls.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 2 months ago:
Is it really that excellent? Big “how do you do fellow kids” energy with this one. These animals all look like they could be the star of a gritty animated film noir feature about anthropomorphic animals in 1940s brooklyn. “The primal inside me”, get that triple entendre going for it.
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 2 months ago:
Kerzap! Pow! Gersplat!
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 2 months ago:
Nuclear submarines move over, it’s the dawning of the age of
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