VinesNFluff
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social
Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3
Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.
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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.
- Comment on What is your favourite game console? 2 weeks ago:
Likely the PS2. Simply for the breadth of stuff it can play.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 weeks ago:
Volunteer at a school/daycare for poor kids. My (retired, formerly college professor) mother already does. I’m sure I could teach them some stuff. Maths or history or how to work computers.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks ago:
Dark Souls has more in common with Castlevania than with anything “RPG”.
As for Diablo type games, I personally call them “looter RPGs” as a retroactive term. Because the “looter shooter” genre that popped up about a decade after diablo is literally just Diablo but FPS.
Genre names are wack anyway. The “<other game>-like” moniker will always be more descriptive and clear, plus being a reminder that every new thing in video games is a refreshed take on some pre existing thing.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
I see someone watches tasting history
My favourite is when the book told him to put on a “good amount” of something
- Comment on When will the floss stop hurting 1 month ago:
In my experience you should consider yourself successful if there is no bleeding. It never ceases being painful.
- Comment on When will the floss stop hurting 1 month ago:
Could also be computer programs…
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Family home server gang represent
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
Definitely on that first one. Normies are all inside the GoogleMetaAmazonMicrosoft panopticon. If they are old they might still have a Yahoo Mail, but that’s as spicy as it gets.
As for the second bit – All evidence I have is purely anecdotal. My ProtonMail account works fine and no one ever complained about not getting mail from me, but I have heard stories of people who use mail accounts not from GMail/Outlook getting flagged as spammers and having trouble chatting with the normies ™.
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
I will concede on the “we are all weirdos” bit. Fair point.
because Fediverse users are so paranoid of even vaguely coexisting in an interconnected vicinity
(this is a good thing, megacorps corrupt all that they touch)
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
They don’t need to kill “every” lemmy/masto instance to kill the ecosystem. You just need to absorb enough of it that the only people left outside of your perversion of the ecosystem are certified weirdos.
E-Mail was (and still is) an open standard anyone could use. But after decades of getting EEE’d, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone using an E-Mail Not provided by the corporate giants, even like, other enterprises have rolled their e-mails into the Google/Microsoft ecosystems, and ALSO if you have an e-mail address that is outside those domains, normies who are inside the corporate ecosystem will have trouble communicating with you as your address will get autoflagged as spam more often than not.
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Uhm ackshully the “late stage” in capitalism is in late stage in the same way a Cancer is late-stage. So it doesn’t mean Capitalism dying, it means Capitalism killing its host (humanity) - Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 2 months ago:
The AU I wish I lived in.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 2 months ago:
Why were you downvoted lmao
- Comment on The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater 2 months ago:
Now I am ALSO a Final Fantasy 8 hater (and a Roman Numerals hater. I refuse.)
– But this is pretty fricking clever. I will never not appreciate this kind of spite.
- Comment on People are, as a rule, small and obedient creatures. They like to be told what to do. Shortsighted and small-minded. And, in packs, vicious yapping beasts. How do you resolve this? 2 months ago:
Go and actually interact with other human beings.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 6 months ago:
Stinky Gringo