rumschlumpel

@rumschlumpel@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vitamins are good but idk....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Smell it … if you dare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you Australian or just that freaky?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You sleep with short or no sleeves in winter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most land animals are crustaceans, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

  Some examples:

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)

  • Divinity: Original Sin 1+2

  • Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)

  • Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

  For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. The dialogues are pretty fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  said one user on X.

  The irony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you actually avoid vitamin d production if you stay long enough in the sun that you need sunscreen to avoid sunburns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s gross :C

  (summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though, so I never get sunburns anyway)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Behold, a human child!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about ‘fucking nuts, dude’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek detected⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But salamanders have frog skin, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. There are a lot of bands that usually have a completely different sound from their popular songs (which can be pretty disappointing when you like listening to albums).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘pop rock’ seems appropriate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article says right there that only 1 in 3 people are doing that (in europe).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What strawman? I’m talking about my old phones in my drawer, though I doubt that’s rare.

  The thing with that is that nobody can get (much) use out of my old phones, because I already use them until they’re broken or unreasonably old - when even aftermarket ROMs like LineageOS don’t get security updates anymore, it’s time to retire that phone, and I regularly use my phones beyond that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's best friend is a repper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that sounds like the 4chan I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My last phone broke after about 1.5 years of me using it (and it was already a refurbished device), and my current relatively new-to-me phone only has 2 years of security updates left (also refurbished). I’m probably going to use it for longer than that if it doesn’t break, but that would definitely be a good time to get a new phone if money was no object and I didn’t give a shit about the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, recycling is clearly better for the environment than having 3 unused old phones in your drawer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who isn’t? If the phone doesn’t break, it becomes unusably slow with any operating system that still receives security updates (if there are any, which is not a given). Also, I have my doubts on whether it’s actually possible to reliably delete all data from your old phone as a consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  /s, right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you do that, though? For obvious reasons, the rich and powerful aren’t going to suddenly start pouring their resources into progressive messaging, and there’s only so much you can do when you’re diametrically opposed to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's best friend is a repper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty amazed that you can apparently still find something like this on 4chan. Though I’m not sure I want to read the replies …

  Also, damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that would probably help a lot is more progressive rolemodels who actually go out proselyzetizing, i.e. a more direct progressive equivalent to the likes of Andrew Tate. Though IDK how to actually make that kind of thing big, the fascist tech bros who rule silicon valley will surely suppress it even if it was gaining some momentum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can countries recognise both...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because China is a lot more powerful than either Korea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, even rightwingers often hold many beliefs that are more traditionally leftwing, especially if they’re poor/working class. They’re just easily duped into blaming immigrants, LGBT etc. instead of the white billionaires who are actually responsible, and sometimes they even blame billionaires and still vote rightwing - rightwing propaganda is often very misleading about their actual economic policies.

  Therefore, the ideal country (if we’re asking about policy items and not ‘like country x, y etc.’) might very well resemble one of the Nordic countries the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might not be a problem in itself, but it’s certainly a symptom.