Earflap
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- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
The OG SW:KOTOR RPG. One of my friends raves about it but I couldn’t get used to the controls.
I did like The Witcher 2, for reference.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
Did Skyrim age well? I sort of want to play it but don’t really enjoy clunky older games. I think I would have liked it if I played it when it came out, but I did not.
Its really hard to tell how much of the hype is just childhood nostalgia.
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 1 week ago:
This is what I think happens. You don’t experience death, you just reemerge on the other side, no matter how long it takes.
The chances of your brain going were infinitely small (and who knows how many universes) before you were born, but it still only took 14 billion years for it to happen.
- Comment on How can you bypass a Reddit site ban? 1 week ago:
You were a horrible little troll and got your comeuppance. Enjoy your ban.
- Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™ 1 week ago:
Sorry, you’re going to have to be more specific. Musk? Is that a smell or something? Is there context I’m missing here?
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 2 weeks ago:
No idea but it was promised for Java
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
Butcher pubes
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 2 weeks ago:
Api when
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 weeks ago:
NO! You can see things because light hits it, not becuz it reflects it STOOPIT ^\s
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on you I’m into that shit
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You think that’s funny! I’ll fucking kill you! You have no idea how nice I am! Why won’t you be with me ILL MURDER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP I’M SO NICE YOU HAVE NO IDEA
Yeah maybe don’t do this.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
I went to five therapy sessions and it was like a speed run of college theory on CBT. Dude never stopped talking and we never talked about me or my problems.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Swinging fits neatly into what I’ve described. You get new sexual partners, spread your genes around to more people/babies. With more babies with new people, the stagnation doesn’t set in and so the desire to leave doesn’t manifest in the same way. Now you’ve got me curious about the divorce rate for swingers.
my name is going first on the research paper.
Fair
- Comment on New social experiment 2 weeks ago:
local
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Haha that’s cute! That’s where deep frying starts here. We even deep fry butter.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
My dude this is a shitposting community I didn’t put any thought at all into my comment. I’m just musing on some general ideas I think about. This isn’t like, a well researched position or anything. But I’d guess the timer starts when you become exclusive and resets in major life events. If you just date then you get ten years before you want something else. If you get married before that, then that is the big exciting change and resets the clock. Then kids come along and resets it again but then you’re all out of resets.
Bickering like an old married couple isn’t just a meme.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
Serial monogamy (as I understand it) is jumping from short term relationship to short term relationship because of an inability to feel secure with your partner.
I’m talking about forming a meaningful bond with someone for a decade (or a bit longer) and when that relationship gets stale you move on.
Some animals are truly monogamous for life. It is effortless for them to stay together because that is how their brains are wired.
Humans are not like this or divorce and cheating would be practically unheard of. I just think that if we were really monogamous creatures it would be a lot easier to stay in a long term relationship. Instead, half of marriages fall apart after about a decade.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
The dink lifestyle is indeed pretty great but has its own problems. At least with kids when you ask “what is the point of it all” you can look at your kids and think your life has meaning. Dink’s don’t get that though, and after a while routine sets in and things get boring and couples start looking elsewhere for meaning and purpose.
11 years isn’t really that long, though is longer than average. There are exceptions to every rule and if you’re someone who enjoys lifelong monogomy and your partner is on board then I hope you have a happy life together! But speaking in broad generalizations for humans as a whole, I think 10ish years is where we normally start looking for someone new, but we’ve been pigeonholed into this idea that you’re a failure if your marriage dissolves for any reason, and a LOT of people are GREATLY unhappy for it. That’s my ultimate point I guess.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
I think you think you are joking but that is a real beverage option for said burger. They even add a stick of butter for extra fat content.
- Comment on The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! 2 weeks ago:
Personally I’m a fan of the holographic principal. The universe is encoded on the event horizon of a black hole and our black holes create other universes. Then “why” just becomes a matter of waiting for the right conditions to come along, because with infinite universes it has to happen eventually.
PBS Space Time has done a LOT of videos on the topic. There’s no experimental support for holography, but there is a ton of circumstantial and mathematical evidence to suggest that it is worth taking seriously.
- Comment on Anon visits America 2 weeks ago:
Wait until op discovers a hamburger with a glazed donut for a bun and the entire thing is deepfried.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
10 years is plenty of time when you’re living in a tribe/extended family, which is how we lived for hundreds of thousands of years before today. Forcing kids to stay home until 18 is really counter to how we have been living since the very beginning.
This idea of isolated individual isolated family units with parents who are married forever just isn’t how humans are wired. Not every society lives this way. Indians generally live with their entire extended family and I think are better off for it. Communal living is a bug part of this.
psychologytoday.com/…/why-so-many-marriages-end-a…
Yeah, most marriages die around the 7 year mark.
I’m no researcher, but I know plenty of couples who have been married for 30+ years and not a single one of them is happy in their relationship. They’re just going through the motions and the spark of romance died decades ago.
If humans were truly wired for lifelong partnerships, then divorce would be an extremely rare thing. Instead half of marriages fail (around the 7 year mark) and the rest pretend everything is a-ok when it probably isn’t. Flip a coin when you get married. If its heads you stay married till you die, tails you’re divorced in under a decade.
Which wouldn’t make sense at all from an evolutionary standpoint, finding another man to step in as a father is not easy
The “point” of evolution (if a thoughtless natural process could be said to have a point) is to produce as many children as you can so hopefully some of them live to reproduce and keep the cycle going. Not to build a long term family. Find someone, get a baby out of them, raise it until it can feed itself and find someone new and spread the genes around for genetic diversity.
And who said anything about finding another man to step in? They live in the village with everyone else and everyone supervises them. Have you ever gone on a family vacation or something where a few different families all lived in the same space for a while? Everything is WAAAAAY easier when you have 10-20 people working on daily tasks and chores and planning, etc. People fall into whatever role they are helpful in and the kids go off and play on their own.
I also have two 18 year olds living at home who say they desperately want independence but also don’t want to get a job or do dishes
Your two 18 year olds have spent their entire lives in a society that has told them they can’t be independent until now. You’ve been suppressing their desires to leave for… what, 5 years? And you’re surprised they don’t want to do something as mundane and boring as the dishes? Please lol. Jobs are a fucking scam too.
and have the sexual maturity of a potato.
I’m going to assume you have sons. Hate to break it to you but your sons spend most of their day sexually frustrated and are probably nearly constantly jerking off. I bet you’ve washed like… gallons of their cum down the washing machine. Girls are just as horny too but it isn’t acceptable for them to show that. You can pretend that this is a normal thing but your kids “should have” been making babies for a long time now.
I don’t think we are “meant to” have any particular relationship type or length, humans are far too diverse for that.
I’m speaking in a passive sense. There is no god or point to anything but we’ve been molded by evolution for millions of years a certain way and the way we are living now is not compatible with how our brains are actually wired to live.
Remember, “old age” used to be like 30 until basically yesterday on evolutionary timescales. You had your kid at 15, you were a grandparent at 30, and you died shortly after. That was life, for nearly all of our history.
- Comment on Duh 2 weeks ago:
You know the older I get the more convinced I become that humans are really only supposed to mate for like 10 years or so. Just long enough for your kids to be able to fend for themselves before you move on and start a new family.
The average duration for marriage is 7 years before divorce, teens desperately want independence and are sexually mature; I mean evolutionarily it doesn’t really make sense for a marriage to last forever.
I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, just that the society that we built doesn’t really conform to how people actually behave and desire. Probably yet another thing Abrahamic religion ruined for us.
- Comment on Hurry 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 4 weeks ago:
TW3 is third person
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 4 weeks ago:
If you liked the story driven elements of TW3 you might like Cyberpunk 2077. Its very similar story and eigime wise since they’re both made by CDPR, but obviously very different thematically. God of War is another story driven narrative driven game I enjoyed.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will be that fast but yes I think there will be no other outcome.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but sometimes the only producers are QAMEQHEJAK and you can’t even find what real brand sells your thing. Or sometimes they don’t do direct sales.
- Comment on Great tee shirt with words of wisdom that I bet you never realized 4 weeks ago:
Thank god
- Comment on Evil 4 weeks ago:
That’s kind of my point though. For being made specifically for the purpose of being machine readable, its kind of a pain in the ass to work with.
I want a command line utility where I can just
xmlquery --query 'some/query' --file foo.xml --output foo-out.xml
or in python
import xml with open("foo.xml", "r") as file: data = xml.load(file.read())
That’s the amount of effort I want to put into parsing a data storage format.
