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- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 6 days ago:
When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says “‘Woke’ is ruining gaming,” he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.
I don’t think it even goes that far tbh. Especially for less political, more gamer-type “conservatives” it just means “the other side”, forcing so many girls (1) into their game. Maybe it’s just to deflect having to admit to being a misogynist.
And when an American politician calls himself “anti-woke”, he’s saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he’d prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.
Yes, exactly. No sane person would call themselves “anti-woke”. Unless they’re successful in subverting its meaning to be “those we’ll put in concentration camps”
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 6 days ago:
It’s not about claiming the moral high ground, it’s just that you can’t have a word that can be used to mean its opposite, even if “sarcastically”. The word woke is just the past tense of wake, nothing else. It can be used to represent someone “waking up” from the hide-your-head-in-the-sand routine, or becomes able to see things from a new perspective. For the right, it doesn’t really mean anything, but they are pretty much using it as the new “sheeple”. Which doesn’t make any sense.
But the important thing is this: if someone is ridiculing people for wanting to be informed, involved in society, or generally just themselves, the only thing they’re actually insulting is their own intelligence and heart. If we let them have their use of woke as a generic mean insult, we lose sight of that.
More than swastikas, I think this case is closer to saying “you can use literally to mean figuratively because it’s common use” to which I also say no, fuck that.
But yes, swastikas forever symbolise Nazism. That doesn’t negate their original, positive meaning previously found in history, religion and culture. This is not an “achtually it’s ok to draw swastikas because they are actually good”. I’m just saying that context, and intent, matters. Should those cultures stop using it because it’s now “forever bad”?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Don’t let the alt-right dictate what “woke” means
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
In the US. That’s the point. If I get asked that, the other person generally has some degree of interest in my genuine answer
- Comment on Stop it jeff 1 week ago:
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t want to get those inside it’s plastic bag
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 weeks ago:
If someone sees you and thinks “wow look at this weirdo” it’s on them, not you. And in truth they’re probably just jealous of someone that’s having a good time :)
- Comment on Smoke Bomb 2 weeks ago:
Brought to you by the papal R&D
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 3 weeks ago:
Check, check, probably not, check, check, check, check, maybe?, check, check, check and check.
- Comment on It's not time for your point release yet. 5 weeks ago:
Nvidia is breaking their graphics driver. Rolling release distros just get fucked by it
- Comment on Covergent Evolution 1 month ago:
We needed to bring the ocean into our eyes to see
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
I think that it’s mostly just Lemmy being less dominated by native English speakers. Many of those mistakes that seem baffling “make sense” in some other languages
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Parallax in the fourth dimension
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
I am actually glad I started my photography experience in film. Really taught me to think about framing and timing before hitting the shutter
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 1 month ago:
You mean a full time wage?
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 1 month ago:
Why would you need an FBI background check outside of the US?
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 2 months ago:
Corvid supremacy! They’ll be the first to operate ancient human technology no doubt
- Comment on NEW TAPEWORM JSUT DROPPED 2 months ago:
Is it trying to speedrun turning into a crab by skipping wayy too many steps?
- Comment on I named my bat §kPetBat§r 2 months ago:
Nonsense has been a staple of the internet since forever
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 2 months ago:
I live in a place where many shops are closed on Sundays and have reduced hours on Saturdays. The place where I was born is everything open all the time. It’s a cultural thing, also very dependent on how consumerist the country is
- Comment on Poooweeeer!!! 2 months ago:
Hahah negentropy goes brrrr
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 2 months ago:
Outside of hospitality? Is it that bad in the service industries too?
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 2 months ago:
UTC but 12 hour time? That doesn’t make any sense
- Comment on Gottem. :) 3 months ago:
I wonder how long before you would feel it becoming colder
- Comment on Good morning I choose creativity and recycling. 3 months ago:
And microplastics
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 3 months ago:
“circumstances may require”
No, you just want to do that.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 months ago:
Efficient propaganda is not democracy
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 4 months ago:
The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time
- Comment on Free Spot! 4 months ago:
This version is unsettingly high quality
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 4 months ago:
Lots of good answers already in this thread, so just pitching a couple of “not what you asked for but maybe interesting” thoughts: Have you tried CFL lightbulbs? Those don’t flicker and should be available in a wide range of temperatures. Regarding the headaches, imho it’s more likely to do with blue light/color temperature than flickering, unless it’s severe enough you can notice it even if just barely. In that case, maybe look into glasses with blue light filers, helped me a lot with screens and indoor lighting
