dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.
You can do it!
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
I don’t understand this line of thought. As in you are childless by choice BECAUSE of what is going on in the US?
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 1 day ago:
No, it was rather easy. I was only eleven years old though. The consciousness of it and the method to squelch it at first, without saying it out loud, helped a lot. The therapist really only highlighted it once for me. But it didn’t help that to get to this point I got traumatized by a whole class of vicious fifth graders laughing at me while I was reciting something in front of the class. 🙄
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 1 day ago:
All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.
I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.
I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.
Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
How do you get past the great firewall to post here?
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
Your number of “i mean”-s per post is ridiculous.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
For the outer layer, do not go with synthetic stuff, despite what people will tell you. An oversized Icelandic wool sweater or similar will catch snow and wind much more effectively (and dry in no time when indoors.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 week ago:
PCX 😒
- Comment on my idiot friend printed parts of my 3d printed gun experiment with pla instead of abs 1 week ago:
Fuck the haters, OP.
They will thank you for your experiment & sacrifice when they have to resort to printing these. When the only weapon left against the fascists, that confiscated all weapons, is this.
- Comment on I spent 6000+ hours of my life building this character 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 2 weeks ago:
Weird that it’d be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 2 weeks ago:
How do I take the survey?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 3 weeks ago:
How do you make it?
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the difference being that one is a war and the other is just plain old genocide.
- Comment on I'm back with another great recipe 3 weeks ago:
Heresy. Only sweet paprika is real paprika.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Linux.
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 1 month ago:
When I did this quitting thing from MMOs and FOMO inducing gachas that you describe, I suddenly
- got a non-dead-end job
- got a girlfriend
- got a promotion
- travelled around Europe
- girlfriend died
- travelled around Europe some more
- got another girlfriend
- ended up in Canada
- got married
- got kids
- stuck in dead-end job again without promotion for the past five years
I still think it was worth it to quit though. My mind just gets stimuli from the seemingly simplest things, like looking at a beautiful tree on the roadside, brutalist architecture, interesting conversations that I focus on instead of my mind wandering onto the next mount or raid boss I will have to tackle.
And when it comes to gaming, if I want to satisfy my itch for twitch and a bit of adrenaline, roguelites scratch it the best, without the long term commitment to playing them for days or even hours.
But what works best to keep sanity is exercise, and with riding a road bike at least twice a day I can combine elevated heart rate with zoning out and Zen for stress relief really well. It’s simply meditative.
I think of the twelve years I’ve spent playing MMOs fondly, lots of memories were made. But I would never do it again. And it has nothing to do with self-control, and willpower to not start it again, although quitting cold turkey definitely required both. But it had everything to do with the realization that it’s a trap that’s a poor substitute for real life, even if real life has dealt you shitty cards.
I can spot the hazy, reality-disconnected look of addicts from a mile away. The self-deluding statements when the topic somehow gets brought up. And I can do nothing but feel a bit sad for them, and hope that somewhere, someone manages to gently nudge them on a path that helps them escape from this trap.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
It’s okay, Drag. Some people just need to learn to let go.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Those blasted canadians.
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 1 month ago:
The Pro variant?
- Comment on Anon has a problem with inaccurate game titles 1 month ago:
Then it’d have been called Team Fortress.
- Comment on If I was a secret immortal how long could I keep the same US ID for before I get taken away for study. I'm thinking 150 years. 1 month ago:
There’s a movie about this:
The Man From Earth
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 1 month ago:
Wayne!
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 1 month ago:
I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it
- Comment on Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world? 1 month ago:
“Éjjel-nappal, a hét minden napján!”
No, I guess 24/7 is not ubiquitous.
- Comment on Anon races against the jock in P.E. 1 month ago:
Chadbro.
- Comment on Anon races against the jock in P.E. 1 month ago:
Probably wintraded.
- Comment on Low Tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse 1 month ago:
Same in Hungary. Tourists are charged out the wazoo for it, especially the two or three most well known and picturesque ones, but locals can get a prescription for discounted entry from their doctors by just saying “oh, my rheuma is acting up”.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
You don’t need a lawyer in small claims. Can also go with a paralegal or just represent yourself.
But that’s not why the small claims is backlogged anyway. I have actually no idea why it’s backlogged. I’ve been a defendant in a small claims court case since 2001 and nothing has progressed except for an arbitration hearing in 2002.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
I’ve read a creepy pasta somewhere from this guy’s pov, that somehow discovered a computer at one of the businesses they took over as a contracted IT, think car wash or something, and they’ve ended up discovering a computer in a closet that was networked with other computers in the area to share CSAM and other smut. I forgot how the story ended as it was fairly long, but they were describing the technical non-sophistication of the whole network in great detail. The PCs were basically just networked windows xp workstations or something, without any sort of password protection on them or their shared folders.
