Psythik
@Psythik@lemmy.world
- Comment on No Chance 🎤 12 hours ago:
Don’t know what you’re referencing but sure. Yeah I need that.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 12 hours ago:
As a 38-year-old who has lived in the US for most of my life, that hasn’t been true for over 15 years now. Strangers don’t talk to each other in public anymore like we all did in the 90s and 2000s; everybody’s staring at their screens in their own little social media world, minding their own business. No one even makes eye contact with strangers anymore, let alone speak to them.
It’s really depressing and makes it next to impossible to form friendships in adulthood…
- Comment on No Chance 🎤 3 days ago:
And that’s one of the reasons why I’ve never found a therapist I vibe with. How can you ever get to know and understand me if we can’t ever meet up in a a casual, less structured environment?
(The other reason is that they’re too quiet and reserved for me, when I need someone loud and obnoxious who tells it like it is.)
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 days ago:
The very first thing I’d do after stepping in a foreign country is try the fast food there. It’s fun to see different countries’ takes on American junk food. There will be plenty of time to try the local cuisine, but first, I want to see what it’s like to eat a McSpaghetti, or a Whopper with five patties and a bun made out of mozzarella sticks!
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
Because the kind of girl your average person wants to date doesn’t go to bars. Gen Z on average is rather against the entire concept of drinking altogether.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 3 days ago:
That’s not really how it works in the US. People talk so much in the steam room/sauna, that you’re pretty much expected to have a conversation when you step inside of either one. As an introvert it’s very anxiety-inducing.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 1 week ago:
Semi-related: I turned off spellcheck and autocorrect for a month to see what happens. Turns out I’m more dependant on it than I realized.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, the draft coming in makes you freezing cold the entire time, forcing you to huddle under the water for most of your shower, thus wasting it and washing away the soap you’re trying to lather in.
A hotel I stayed at had this exact same shower and I can confirm that water did in fact get everywhere.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
You must described the very reason why I don’t like BotW/TotK. They don’t feel like Zelda. They feel like a Bethesda/Obsidian game where you just wander around bumping into things, except Nintendo doesn’t do it nearly as well. I say either go all in on the open world concept, and have proper RPG mechanics, or don’t do it at all. The modern Zelda games are big, empty worlds, with shrines instead of proper dungeons, and nothing fun to do in between except wander forever and pick up flimsy weapons that break after a dozen hits. The games barely even have a plot. That’s not Zelda to me. I want more games like Wind Waker, Majora’s Mask, and Minish Cap, not more boring open world BS.
Same reason why I don’t like Ubisoft titles. Big open world with nothing to do.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 weeks ago:
When The Pirate Bay launched in 2003, I went full piracy then and never looked back.
From an outsider’s perspective, it’s like watching a wild roller-coaster ride from the sidelines. Never understood all the Netflix hype when they first launched their streaming service. Tried it once in the early 2010s and was beyond disappointed; the vast majority of of content I wanted to watch was not on there (and still isn’t).
These days I use Stremio paired with Torrentio and a Debrid service. Instant streams to anything I could ever want to watch, and it’s all there in one place. IDK why people would pay for multiple streaming services when you can just have one.
- Comment on Some heroes 2 weeks ago:
My bad
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
I mean as someone who has worked 20 years in the service industry, I get that, but I can handle a Karen in person because I can be big, loud, and intimidating enough until they go away. Unfortunately you can’t punch someone through the phone, and that’s where my anxiety over phone calls comes from. People are so much worse to you when there’s no chance they could get punched in the mouth.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
Similar situation happened with my girlfriend. Her parents did nothing for her, while mine did everything for me. She’s younger than me but I still rely on her to take care of certain adult tasks, like scheduling appointments and making phone calls. I have too much anxiety to do it on my own. One time I got a job at a call center to get over my fear of phone calls, and the only thing that did was make it worse. People are so much more rude when they can’t see your face!
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
Yeah seriously, if soda is so expensive as the post topic implies, how about you stop drinking it, then? Just drink water instead.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, a good old fashioned upper-decker.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 weeks ago:
I have a similar problem when I try to search for “Codi Vore” on porn sites. I’m often greeted with an error message, " why are you searching for vore, you sick fuck"?
She doesn’t even do vore, that’s just her porn name.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m so glad I didn’t recognize a single one of them by appearance alone.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
That’s a lock pick, not a key.
Also, Walmart doesn’t use physical locks anymore. It’s some sort of wireless thing like NFC.
- Comment on Anon is 23 1 month ago:
Prison guards make $55/hr, and I still wouldn’t give up my $21/hr job to work in a Vitamin D-deprived hellhole full of people who hate you for merely existing.
Triple the pay, and maybe I’d consider it. Prison sucks.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
The woman I am going to marry is the kind of person that would never use a dating app. Literally the same week I gave up on online dating, she asked me out at work.
Never had success trying to meet girls on the internet. Sometimes you just have to get lucky and hopefully there’s someone attractive who is interested in you wherever you work/study/hang out.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
Don’t worry I’m just being cheeky. I inserted that bit to keep the comment lighthearted.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
Well like I said to the other person, it’s not a “I think the US is superior” thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that’s not relevant here.)
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
I can’t help that I was born here. FWIW I’m not a blind patriot, I just have autism.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.
It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Drives me crazy seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?
- Comment on I may be wrong here. Isn't AI only as smart as the user putting in the information or commands? What's the big deal? 1 month ago:
That’s the problem.
Stupid people will just take the answer it spits out at face value, rather than calling it out on its lies. And even that can be a problem in of itself, because if you pressure it enough, it will eventually tell you want what you want to hear, no matter how wrong you are.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.
- Comment on Carenheit 1 month ago:
You do realize that we’re not ignorant to the metric system, right? Anyone with even the slightest interest in science and/or computing knows what celsius is.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 month ago:
Well that’s exactly why I don’t watch a lot of movies. If it isn’t the most interesting thing I’ve ever seen, then I’m not going to be able to pay attention to it no matter how hard I try.
Unfortunately that applies to EVERYTHING in an ADHD person’s life. Chores are boring, which is why we’re messy. Our brains treat boring tasks as a sentence worse than prison time. Really makes it difficult to hold down a job, and can lead to ADHD people using various drugs to artificially give themselves the dopamine they need to be functional adults. Neurotypical brains have plenty of it, which is why they’re able to get shit down without any sort of chemical influence. Dopamine is the motivator, and the ADHD brain is constantly starved of it.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 month ago:
Here’s the neat thing: I don’t. I have to watch movies with the girlfriend next to me to explain things. And I often re-watch things too to catch the things I missed the first or second time around.
On the bright side, if I’m rewatching something I haven’t seen in a long time, it’s completely new to me again.