I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on it is me, I am the autistic child 19 hours ago:
Yes. You’re right. It is usually the case that the people who are acting shitty and dismissing the experiences of a large swath of the population due to their ignorance AREN’T actually the ones who feel bad about it! Good job piecing that together, kiddo!
- Comment on That's the feeling. 3 days ago:
Got a friend who is way better at tech than I am, he made the switch to Linux about a month ago. Seems like it’s a constant battle between him and his OS. Settings will randomly change with no explanation. Programs will refuse to run. The other day we were playing a game and suddenly his mouse sensitivity shot down to like the lowest setting possible. He didn’t manage to get it fixed until the next day.
Shit like that is what keeps me from moving to Linux. I already get headaches when I have to troubleshoot an obscure issue I have on Windows; combing through dozens of message boards and YouTube videos from years ago with outdated advice or solutions that don’t work. I can just imagine having to do that almost every single day, but having even less resources because there are fewer people using my exact set up and having my exact problem.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 4 days ago:
Backing into a spot is safer. Not just because you are less likely to hit something on your way out, but because in case of emergency, you are able to get out quickly.
- Comment on rules 4 days ago:
A funny ha ha.
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 1 week ago:
Very clean bathrooms.
- Comment on An identification key 1 week ago:
Yea, but those are like the only differences.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 week ago:
By the destruction of the Death Star alone, Luke has a higher body count than Anakin did at 22, saved the Rebellion, and became a decorated war hero. And Luke did that within, like a week?
Meanwhile Anakin had been building up to that point for years, and was only a General because all Jedi were Generals. Other than becoming a Jedi, it’s not like he did anything specifically to earn that position.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
19th century rural life consisted of you and your family living on barely more than subsistence farming and not seeing or interacting with anyone outside your family or immediate neighbors for months at a time.
- Comment on It was always my favorite spot to play golf and then I see this new sign that they put up 1 week ago:
You might think he was joking, and maybe OP was, but I’m certainly not. Graveyards are a massive waste of space. Respect for the dead is a really fucking weird and pointless thing our society does.
They are dead. Dead. They deserve as much respect as the ground beef you have in your freezer. There is no point in preserving their remains, or laying them in a multi-thousand dollar casket, or having a spot in the ground that will become unusable for other purposes. They. Are. Fucking. Dead. That’s not them anymore. It’s dead meat. It’s fucking asinine to waste so many acres of land on dead meat.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
The fun thing is your statement applies to both the US and Iran.
- Comment on Uncolored kobold :) 2 weeks ago:
Aww, I love this. I have a soft spot for Kobolds.
I made a series of one-shots that I DM for my group between main sessions that focus on an all Kobold party and their neverending quest to become real dragons, with each of them having a different plan on how to actually make that happen. They all have different dragon ancestry traits (tiny wings, breath attack, thicker hide, etc.) and they constantly bicker about which one is the “most dragon”.
All the sessions are more silly than serious and typically revolve around their own ignorance of the world at large. Like plotting to attack a “dragon” that was really just a large puppet used in a festival. Or planning an elaborate heist to steal a treasure hoard, but it’s just a bunch of coins from a fountain. Once they successfully hijacked and took over a fancy ship (because it had a dragon on the sails) only for them to quickly give up when they realized none of them knew how to swim, much less sail.
My players all really get into it and play them as horrible little monsters. I love them so much.
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
Then you open the bottle and find it’s filled with different types of pills of various sizes, colors, and markings.
“Umm… So which one of these do I take?”
And then you get 20 different answers.
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, are you under the impression that animal husbandry doesn’t occur in non-capitalist societies?
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 3 weeks ago:
For people who think they’re winning by fucking with scammers, unless you are tying up hours of their time, you are doing the opposite by engaging with them. And even if you tie up hours, they aren’t really losing.
Obviously, falling for the scam is their ideal outcome, but ANY engagement beyond silence, a generic VM, or a disconnected/fax line marks your number as ‘active’ which can then be sold to other scammers.
So they still get a profit, and your number winds up on more scamming lists.
We are also getting close to the point where it won’t even be an actual human you’re talking to, it’ll just be some AI, making engagement even more useless.
If you get a call from an unknown number and you don’t have call screening, answer and SAY NOTHING! Not hello, not “may I ask whose calling”, mute your phone so they don’t even get background noise. The only numbers they can’t get anything out of are the ones that are brick walls.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 3 weeks ago:
Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it’s been out so long and it’s players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.
- Comment on Am I a joke to you? 3 weeks ago:
Yea! What gives? People will eat a wonderfully cooked and prepared steak but turn their nose up at an unseasoned chunk of raw beef. They also prefer soft bread over raw flour. Gosh, it sure is a mystery why people have these preferences!
- Comment on Name it 4 weeks ago:
Chiming in to say Sea of Stars. Absolutely gorgeous pixel graphics and music, and a true love letter to old school JRPGs. It gave me nostalgia for something I didn’t even know I lost.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
A goal to work toward. A hope that if we keep fighting, there will eventually be a future where people don’t have to fight. That there is a path toward humanity reaching it’s peak, rather than an endless sisyphian struggle until our extinction.
It’s not “things could be fine without struggle or setbacks”, Star Trek makes it VERY clear that it was not a smooth and easy path toward fully automated gay space communism. It’s history of humanity is riddled with wars and uprisings and cultural slides backwards. But there is the idea that there could be a better future someday. Where greed and inequality are almost foreign concepts in society. Where science and reason finally win out against superstition and ignorance.
It may be a fantasy, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold onto a belief that things will not always just continue to be shitty forever. Never forget the words that can make a happy man’s joy turn to ash, or a sad man’s misery into hope:
This too shall pass.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 weeks ago:
It just feels wrong. It’s like having superman act like homelander. Even if the message is “things shouldn’t be this way”, you are tarnishing a symbol of hope and optimism. People like Star Trek, especially these days, because it gives them hope of a better future, beyond the struggles and corruption of modern society; where justice isn’t just an abstract concept that has to be fought for every day. Where competence and intelligence is rewarded, and corruption and prejudice is not tolerated.
To take that and twist it by going “actually the future is shitty and still full of fascism and it will always be an uphill battle” is just soul crushing.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There is a type of ant that smells like rotten coconut when squished. Is that what they’re talking about?
- Comment on Important Announcement 4 weeks ago:
I mean, except for you, the creator and poster of this misleading image that will only add fuel to the baseless accusations from Mossad. Even if you created this as an edgy joke, it won’t be used that way.
Let me ask you something: Why make shit up at all? Even as a joke? There are plenty of respectable people who have made anti-ICE statements. Hell, even Ms. Rachel as made actual statements. Why put words into someone’s mouth that they didn’t say? What good comes of that?
- Comment on Florida GOP votes up bill to allow “opportunity” to earn subminimum wage 4 weeks ago:
One of the Epstein files is an email from a CEO where he says they no longer have to worry about revolt because the people are too obsessed with buying consumer products. Lots of people posted it and criticized him, but very few people were honest enough to admit the truth: he was right.
Bread and circus. That’s all the people want. You give them just enough bread and an overwhelming amount of circus and the people won’t rise up for anything. Beyond the traditional definition, consumer products these days also include social media, streaming services, and video games.
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 5 weeks ago:
The trip doesn’t fully end until you go to sleep.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Dude… Just no. They have not thrown the kitchen sink at us. Tear gas, unconstitutional arrests, even shooting people in isolated incidents is not even fucking close to how bad it could get. Short of sending an M1 Abrams? How about just unloading full auto rifles into a crowd? How about taking out targets with predator drones? FFS, they only just started deploying LRAD.
Things can, and very well may, get so, so, SO much worse even before tanks start rolling in the streets.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 5 weeks ago:
Any civilization capable of sending missiles across the galaxy should be more than capable of simply sending a tight beam of gamma radiation to sterilize the planet. No need for earth shattering explosions. Just a flood of radiation engulfing the planet for a minute or two and everything not buried a mile underground will be dead.
And that’s if they don’t bother to just blow up the sun.
- Comment on That'll be $300. 1 month ago:
If you rotate your tires, don’t forget to get your wheels rebalanced at the same time! So many places, usually quick oil change places, will offer a tire rotation service but WONT rebalance them and then you’ll drive off and wonder why your car is so shaky.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 1 month ago:
All of them are. You want a sex scene? Go watch porn. Has no business being in any other media except as a distraction. It’s practically never used to move the plot, it’s all just pandering to gooners who can’t seem to function or pay attention to anything without their hands on their dicks.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sure; if you’re too simple minded to do anything except follow the animalistic urge to fuck and shit out another unwilling life into this already overpopulated world. Logically, there is no reason to have kids right now. Those who believe it’s the only thing that matters in life are basically biological puppets, unable or unwilling to recognize they are being driven by base level instincts. Basically one step removed from monkeys fucking in trees and throwing poop at each other.
