Peruvian_Skies
@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 1 week ago:
A curse is a condition that bestows a disadvantage. Being black is not a curse in and of itself, but being black + being in any one of many places around the world today is definitely a curse-esque combination due to racism.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually a really good game, though of course it has some problems. The real issue is the fact that most people weren’t even aware that it existed.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Nipple Batman made balconies useless?
- Comment on Explain why the US bail system is not insane 1 month ago:
No, crimes exist for whoever isn’t in power. There are several crimes that can only be committed by rich people, such as those related to banking and the stock market, formation of cartels* and monopolistic/anti-competitive practices, etc. But conveniently the criminals are only prosecuted when they are the political or commercial opponents of whoever happens to be in charge at the time.
*Not the drug kind, the “a small group of companies with a combined market majority conspires to fix prices while pretending to compete with each other” kind
- Comment on New Playstation firmware is going to make it harder to play games offline. 1 month ago:
I could be wrong but it seems like before, licenses for games you owned but hadn’t downloaded were already loaded o to your account when you logged in. So in your example, if user 2 bought a game and didn’t download it on that console, then user 1 bought and downloaded it and took the PS5 offline, user 2 could still play it because his license was already there. Now, user 2 has to go online to grab the license first.
Seems like it will have a minimal impact.
- Comment on Anon is straight 1 month ago:
You may not object but that’s not how the word is commonly used. Anyone can call themselves anything, but for words to have any meaning we need to have a gentleman’s agreement about when and how to use them, which is basically what a language is.
Anyway, I’m just explaiming the word’s conventional meaning. I have no interest in arguing with you as if I were some kind of linguistic prescriptivist.
- Comment on Anon is straight 1 month ago:
You misunderstand. Femboys are people who were born with penises.
- Comment on Anon is straight 1 month ago:
No, a femboy is a feminine boy. They usually crossdress or at least dress androginously. They don’t necessarily want to transition or take HRT (although this one does).
- Comment on Anon is straight 1 month ago:
I’ve heard it called being “homelessexual”
- Comment on Anon is a tour guide at a museum 1 month ago:
That’s very different. Wikipedia doesn’t allow people to edit their own pages. They don’t have rules against linking to interviews with persons involved in an event, for example.
- Comment on Anon is a tour guide at a museum 1 month ago:
But if you read a primary source, that’s one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it’s based on is legit, there’s some other guy who wasn’t there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.
It’s not that you can’t go wrong with primary sources. It’s that you can go a lot wronger without them.
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 2 months ago:
Nah, my writing is sigma.
Seriously Indisputably Gross Mistyped and Absurd
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
Yikes. At least he’s dating someone with similar interests?
You’re right about the lesson learned. A silver lining.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
Damn, I’ve never thought of myself as a whale before but I guess for a while there I was. I wonder how many of the people we see in these games with all the premium characters and skins are like me, struggling. I always thought of them as having more money than sense but maybe they (we) lack both.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
Ifnit helps me to avoid something even worse later on, maybe it was even worth the 500 bucks! Hopefully I’ll never have to find out.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
Better to play it safe.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
Fuck, my condolences.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
I very much have that predisposition. I’ve noticed that I have addictive behavior towards sugar and caffeine as well (I’m fine as long as I don’t have any, but if I have some I’ll continue to crave more at shorter and shorter intervals until I go to sleep and it resets), and recently celebrated my third month nicotine free after about four years total smoking and then vaping.
Addictive proclivities are a personal defect normally. But when you exist in a context where there are people whose job it is to get you hooked on things, they become a handicap.
- Comment on Anon scentmaxxes 2 months ago:
I was thinking more along the lines of “everybody uses more soap than they, specifically, need to”. We’re taught to completely remove the outer layers, wven exfoliating the skin in some cases. That’s too much regardless of where your starting level was.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
I was a young idiot making minimum wage and I spent 500 dollars in a gacha game over a three month period. It’s been years and I still wake up at night, remember this and feel the strongest remorse.
- Comment on Anon scentmaxxes 2 months ago:
Using too much soap dries your skin. So then you moisturize to make up for it, increasing consumption and pollution when just using less soap would accomplish the same thing without the drawbacks.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
This is just one of the many reasons why our current IP laws are comolete and utter garbage.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
If you’ve never watched the move 12 Angry Men, do yourself a favor and watch it. You are going to love it and it has everything to do with your comment.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
I think this is an example of where the left-right axis isn’t the most adequate way of viewing things. The Fediverse in general is anti-authoritarian. You can be all the way from a far-left anarchist to a far-right anarcho-capitalist and still be anti-authoritarian, just like both tankies and nazis are authoritarian.
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 4 months ago:
I think you severely misinterpreted my comment.
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 4 months ago:
Imagine you’re already a slave and then someone curses your mother.