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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and you start AND end the game riding with other goats through the farm on a replica of the Skyrim prisoner cart from the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is a really good looking and really thoughtfully made game. If you have been a gamer for decades there are tons of references and jokes you will appreciate. I appreciate the Sweden references too. I’m an American but I’ve gotten to visit the real-world equivalent of Goatenburg.

  It is really good to play with a group that includes non-gamers or kids, because you can’t really die but you can use overpowered abilities and items on each other and NPCs. It is damn funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it’s a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When I think about it, between emulators and various icon collections I have enough games to last me for the rest of my life. And that’s a feeling of being free, not trapped.

  I also have to do a shout-out for analog enjoyments. Interacting with the natural world and exercising all of your senses are just straight-up good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lelz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In my anecdotal experience, the more Trumpy conservative somebody is, the more they are already miserable and complaining about everything all the time. If things get objectively worse for them then they might not act any differently day-to-day. The only question is how far things have to go before they will blame the correct people, if that is even possible for many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

  …if I didn’t already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a cool rock⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two optimism-filled counterpoints to this.

  1. Happy childhood memories are often much nicer than actually existing as a child. Much more concentrated. You already have the good stuff.

  2. The only person stopping you from walking through the woods and finding cool rocks is you!

  (insert caveats here about how adult life sucks for so many people right now and they don’t have free time to wander in the woods. I know. It sucks. I can only encourage you to consider it a metaphor and find something realistic and rewarding that fits your life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs welcome⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We love dogs too in my household. I have four dogs, in addition to numerous other terrestrial and aquatic pets.

  But unfortunately, much like other people can be the worst, other people’s dogs can be the worst!

  And for that matter I am the rare Lemmy user that also loves kids. I am the fun dad and uncle. other people’s kids can also be the worst, lol.

  People just need to pay attention to the world around them and how they affect others. That would be nice. (good luck, amirite?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What color are they now, what color are they now?

  A fine pink mist, oh a fine pink mist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still alive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  normal people realizing he was never killed

  Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

  (I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the third panel really captures the essence “I am angry about everything and you’ve shown me something I don’t like, which I guess can exist as long as it hides in the shadows away from my righteous gaze, therefore you are SHOVING it down my THROAT and I am morally justified in attacking those people until they go away”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.

  I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.

  I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out “DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT…” with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.

  I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.

  I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You must tell me, please!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are saying the facility is by the river. You know the one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahkshually, cultures all over the world have eaten crustaceans for millennia!

  (I made up that fact for the sake of the punch line, no idea if accurate)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new bag⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where else am I going to keep all my Linux installer USB sticks, the bundle of cables that comes in handy every year or two, or the stuff I printed at work for my family that I need to take home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun, fun, we skip along together!

  Swirling towards the center…

  Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.

  …

  Eat at Arby’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨always watching⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll proudly wear my Space Nerd badge all day long!

  It does look like an artist’s rendition of the Milky Way galaxy like it’s an alien meme pointing at us. But, wouldn’t you know it, it’s not pointing to the right place. :D

  It looks like we are half way out between the core and the outer rim. (very sci-fi sounding sentence, but I like it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Mug⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is a wave if you dig deep enough.

  At least, as far as we know right now. But the standard model and quantum field theory have been really solid with really precise predictions for many decades at this point. (not any kind of expert here, just find it interesting)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨always watching⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That couldn’t be a picture of Andromeda though, since that is not the perspective you get from our galaxy. Andromeda is facing us more with the edge than being broadside like in this image.

  I’m not complaining though. Thanks for including the alt-text!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s another fun aspect of our culture. Jobs that many people actually want due to what they are passionate about lead to abuse.

  It’s the reason I never seriously considered getting into game development or becoming a teacher.

  I am the rare father involved in the PTO (parent-teacher organization) along with my wife at our kid’s elementary school. We were handing out basic cheap supplies to the teachers last month as a Christmas thing. We’d interrupt the class to give the teacher a SINGLE roll of paper towels and then a small box of tissues or some glue sticks or whatever, and they were excited and grateful every time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember it well…

  The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the juxtaposition between your username and this comment wanting to beat one of the universe’s most useless life forms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wilhoit’s law:

  “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

  In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch, that line sure as hell would work on me!

  But I’m not just an American who watched his show. I’m local to his area and I’ve been to the actual studios at WQED multiple times, on top of all the show artifacts I just saw the other day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU

  Cries in red white and blue American tears

  The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.

  I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and “progress” are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like “being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I found myself among some Mister Rogers quotes and artifacts yesterday, of all possible things.

  So just for today I’m gonna push back on this one a little bit. I think the goodness is out there, but unfortunately much of our society is kinda designed to separate us from our humanity and mental peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how the republican party work in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Democrats really suck. Our FPTP 2-party system is really some bullshit. However, it is really difficult for me to buy into the validity of the slippery slope you are describing when the people around me keep voting for the option that is #1 worst by a whole fucking lot.

  And the further that #1 worst keeps surging and lapping #2 on the evil-dex, the further their psycho supporters seem to like it! We’ll see if the pedo shit can finally reverse that.

  This would be a different conversation if we’d elected democrats over and over to avoid republicans and somehow still got dragged to the right. At the end of the Obama administration, for instance, there was the concern of the bait and switch.

  But no. He gets impeached a couple times for betraying the US in different ways after being openly terrible for years, and dozens of millions of people still turn out to vote for him. He tries some light coup and all the daily otherwise career ending craziness, and they turn out to vote for him AGAIN in HIGHER numbers.

  The fact that the democrats are the good cop capitalists to the republicans’ bad cop capitalists is definitely a problem, yes. Any of us who get to vote in the US should be keenly aware of that. And there are multiple things we can try to fix in parallel. But sometimes you have to fix things sequentially too.