a_wild_mimic_appears
@a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 28 minutes ago:
I loved it and played against my little brother on one keyboard constantly, that was fun!
Too bad that the follow-up game went through developer hell, took ages and looked and played like shit :-(
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 39 minutes ago:
I fully agree, this is a pragmatic gift if you kept your discourse about sexual topics open with your child from the beginning. I would’ve gone for a gift card so they can choose themselves in privacy, but it’s fine either way.
For prudish families who learnt of this gift this would be gossip material for the next year tho. So many puritans in the US, the neighbors might be the biggest issue, so i would’ve kept it on the down low.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 5 days ago:
which still requires someone to swipe your phone and the owner not recognizing it long enough to do a remote wipe. I am not someone who hangs on the smartphone 8 hours per day, and even i would realize my phone is gone within 15 - 30 minutes, giving an attacker a pretty small time window to act.
- Comment on Off topic 5 days ago:
I swear, every time i see Angry Autist, he has either anger issues or is nitpicking whatever rubbed him the wrong way. Even if he sometimes has a good point, he seems like an insufferable person. Should block him, but like i said, sometimes he has a point.
- Comment on Resources 6 days ago:
I didn’t say how optimistic i am, just that we are not special in our interaction with the biosphere - not at all. The tragedy is that we are the first that have enough intellect to reflect about those facts, so we are the first that even have the possibility to escape the cycle. if not, we probably will be reduced to scavengers, just like the bacteria in the juice bottle.
- Comment on Resources 6 days ago:
our species isn’t more or less terrible like any other species on this planet that was able to utilize ressources better. for example trees: when they came along the absolutely strangled the planet, until their waste product (oxygen) became so concentrated that todays humans would die of it. even their corpses littered the floor in meter thick layers! (that’s what todays coal is). I’m pretty sure that during this change biodiversity took a hard crash until life was able to adapt.
this continued until finally a bacterium developed the ability to degrade cellulose. i’m pretty sure the trees weren’t too happy about that one, it must have been a massacre.
the same story happens in every bottle of juice: bacteria grow inside, exhausting all available ressources, culminating in a mass dieoff with a few scavengers left over. It’s just a question if our intelligence allows us to take a different path or not.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 1 week ago:
if you are in that position and still cant fucking stop, it’s time to see a psychiatrist
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
it doesn’t even stop there - it will be used to punish people who do not exactly like it’s expected, with the mere accusation of playing/reading/watching/thinking something “unchristian” as reason.
- Comment on Mayo project uses kites to generate power 1 week ago:
I can see this being useful for everything where you normally would use portable diesel generators - remote locations, temporary installations and similar stuff.
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 2 weeks ago:
I saw that yesterday specifically on Reddit posts in my search for a software issue, and not on sites like stackoverflow, so my money is on reddit
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 2 weeks ago:
and don’t forget to tell the movers to keep it upright while transporting it to prevent damage lol
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 weeks ago:
wait for a rainy day, no watering needed!
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
I’m gonna wine and dine them next time :-)
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
funnily, my mother-in-law drove us to the vet one time, and my cats puke when getting driven around. using no transport box is no option, since 2 of our cats were feral when we got them, so they know how to survive in the wild and have no issues running off into the next group of bushes.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
I often let the carriers stand outside, and they even sleep in them. i must be giving off other vibes when i take them out for the doc visit.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
we have no car and use public transport. its a short ride, about 10 minutes bus and 10 minutes walk time, or about 40 minutes walking only (while carrying a cat in a box).
I didn’t have a car in my entire life, because public transport in my city (Vienna) has great interval times, are nearly always clean and cheap to ride; long distance i prefer trains.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
Mine know that it’s vet time the second i get the transport boxes out of storage. I have to be pretty silent while they sleep so they don’t notice that, or else i have to use persistance predation too.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
I would say that the general mood here that generative AI for creative use or technical tasks is fine, enabling people is a good thing. We are primarily an anarchist community, and generally not happy with the massive corporate control over something that should belong to everyone (bc the models are the cultural output of everyone) and the amount of VC money that is used to push AI where it doesn’t belong in search of the next big thing.
Quite a few people run models on their own hardware (like me, to support me when learning stuff, or when my wife wants new seasonal pics representing our cats in cute styles) or are using AI Horde
There are users on our instance that are not cool with GenAI in general, but they are the minority.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 3 weeks ago:
I was in the scene at the same time and me and my friends were always making fun of neofolk bands and their fans, because its such boring music and simply copying clothing styles of the 1940s, fitting to the boring mind of a nazi
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 weeks ago:
would start with 6.28
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 weeks ago:
midnight CET: 753k! thats +30k in the last 6 hours. it’s speeding up, i didn’t expect that tbh. 50k people in 12 hours, wow
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
i have it too, and i used it a lot, but most people i knew at that time went for Sony
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 weeks ago:
you need an digital ID to sign, so bots wouldn’t help.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 4 weeks ago:
no more transformations or trans molecules, transmission is extra banned with Brainworm believing into miasma instead of germ theory
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 4 weeks ago:
Don’t have many bluesky followers, but i made an awareness post - everyone i know and who cares has already signed :-)
- Comment on Dots! 4 weeks ago:
I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!
- Comment on Ask the crickets 5 weeks ago:
Nope, 0 / 3 = 0 -> 0 + 4 = 4°C Division/Multiplication always goes before Addition/Subtraction.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 1 month ago:
GenX here, my father was a racist and ran with a similar racist crowd, and i was disgusted pretty soon after i started to comprehend the shit they spew.
That crap they said sometimes still comes into my mind when seeing non-whites (i heard that stuff a lot, as my father descended into his alcoholism over 2 decades), and then i firmly disagree with those thoughts and feel icky. Racism (and i believe it’s the same for sexism) is an active choice, even when growing up in a racist environment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Please get an appointment with an psychiatrist and start looking out for an therapist before the ruminations (that’s what that is called) turn darker. A partner will not help with this more than in the short term, I speak from long years of experience.
There are multiple probable causes for ruminations: depression, trauma and personality disorders are the most common ones. only a psychiatrist can get you an correct diagnosis, which will help pinpoint where the ruminations come from, but the way out is always therapy.
But you can be sure that you are not bad or gross or something like that - your mind is just fixated on bad thoughts and experiences. Others will have a completely different picture of you. Knowing how my mind works when caught in my “loop”, you don’t believe one word of that, but it still needed to be said :-)
- Comment on Only $50? 1 month ago:
in the “supporting information” is a video of all 5 study participants btw