flicker
@flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Mentally ill woman in my late 30s.
I’m here to help!
(Formerly of lemmy.world and of kbin.social before that.)
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 2 weeks ago:
“I’m scared,” says Ralph.
But I am an author, and take control of this story. Ralph does not understand fear. His existence was short, his history nonexistent, his understanding of the world and his place within it unreal, characterized by the agony of going from non-being, to screaming awareness all in an instant.
The author has returned Ralph to the imaginary realm from which he sprang, freeing him, and any unwitting victims who witnessed his short, confusing reality.
Truly, the only monster here was the first narrator, a casual god who created Ralph only to serve as an instrument of suffering.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 2 weeks ago:
God, thank you. I have a long history of trauma such that ‘jokes’ about an unfun, unhealthy life aren’t fucking funny when they could be a cry for help in ‘joke’ form. I’d much rather offer someone who’s ‘joking’ the support they might be too afraid to ask for than to ‘laugh’ at a ‘joke’ about a bad time.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 2 weeks ago:
This is entirely alien to me, and I can’t understand it, but… As long as you’re happy? I hope you are. For the most part, at least. If someone insisted on talking at me for long periods I’d lose my dang mind.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 2 weeks ago:
I hope you’re joking when you say your marriage is hell. If you’re not, maybe consider not being married? You deserve to not live in hell.
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 weeks ago:
I am entirely over ‘blank won’t fuck you’ as a response to shit. It’s cliched and trite and kills a conversation.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
Naw, just ADHD and my eyes jumped to the shortest bullet first.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
You needed five points to get to saying you don’t know what I’m talking about?
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
I encourage them to continue trying. For science.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t believe literally anything you read that references procreation genetics. It turns out, humans are complicated, wars happen, some people value people for their feet more than their faces… there’s literally no data that’s concrete enough to be valuable enough, and anyone telling you otherwise is doing so either because they’re lying to themselves, to you, or selling something.
Source: having read quite a lot of it over my many years on this earth, and watching it be destroyed time and again. Hell, I could write a paper arguing that people typically choose mates based on their appearance, their intelligence, their height, their income, their geography, their history of family trauma, their interests, their smell… And find documentation of various dubiousness to support each argument.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 weeks ago:
These words are in English, but the sentiment is so foreign to me I can’t seem to comprehend it.
…might be fried from work and classwork, tho.
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
Lol I’m ridiculous
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad this was your takeaway as well because it felt to me like the second person was belittling the first, and… they really should shut the fuck up.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 4 weeks ago:
The boyfriend (also ADHD) and I both have it for people making eating sounds, like eating with their mouths open. Your mentioning smacking made me think of that. Agh!
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 4 weeks ago:
I get real mad when people use ADHD as an excuse to be an inconsiderate bag of dicks.
I prefer to be interacting with several forms of media, yes. But I don’t need the sound up on all of them, and if I did, I’d put on my BT headphones and mix the sound levels individually. What an asshole.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 4 weeks ago:
I’m ADD as hell and I couldn’t have got with someone who played their things loud like that. I can tolerate one audible thing, but multiple?
- Comment on Yep 4 weeks ago:
When the state wants you dead, self care is an act of protest.
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 4 weeks ago:
Identifying nazis should never be niche.
- Comment on Pope Joan 5 weeks ago:
You know that was why they stopped with calling them weird.
Because it was working.
- Comment on The new AMERICAN pope doesn't even speak AMERICAN 5 weeks ago:
He also made a statement about building bridges.
For those among you who don’t speak Catholic, this was a direct call-out to Trump. Francis was known for saying you should build bridges, not walls.
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 5 weeks ago:
Worse than that, it’s something incels tell each other about why women aren’t having babies. Because they have cats that satisfy the maternal urge.
For the record, babies crying- doesn’t matter if I’ve given birth to it or not- is not a “cute” sound. It is an enraging sound. It makes us move quickly because we hate it.
If we thought baby cries were cute things we wanted to listen to, we wouldn’t hurry to help the child, and thar completely defeats the purpose of it.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Oooh, thank you for reminding me that game exists. I still haven’t played it, and so many people have told me it’s good!
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
There are over 1,000 pokemon. I think it’s a Tolkien situation- where famously, you can’t write fantasy without using ingredients that Tolkien created, because if you do, obviously it’s from Tolkien, and if you didn’t, the reader is asking why not? That kinda deal.
If you set out to create a game involving collecting, or even looking at and cataloguing, a bunch of different fantasy creatures, you’re going to have some that are at least a little similar to pokemon. The electibuzz/grizzbolt example you gave is a fantastic one. You’re claiming it’s stolen, but that there is a cat creature with a single lightning bolt in it’s belly. Versus a… monkeything? Covered in them. My point here being, even if they didn’t steal (which, I’m sure they did, there are other, better examples) at a certain point you have to accept that with 1,000 pokemon, there’s going to be overlap, so you either need to just be up front about the stealing, or you need to spend 5x the amount of development time making sure none of your creatures have overlap.
Personally, Pokemon has been around for more than 25 years. Even if they released a million games a year, they shouldn’t get to gatekeep ‘all creature-collection simulators that you use balls for and that you can ride like a dragon.’ Fuck that. They got infinite money back on their initial investment, and they shouldn’t be allowed to just own the ideas. This is the kind of bullshit that makes me (a lifelong pokemon fan) want to never, ever, ever give them money again.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 5 weeks ago:
You could also demand to see the kerrygold’s papers, and then leave with it.
- Comment on After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game 1 month ago:
Love that energy! That’s kind of how I feel about the Elder Scrolls. I can’t get into it but I’m so glad there are people who do.
- Comment on After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game 1 month ago:
I screamed!
What great news!
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 month ago:
Hit me with them thousand needles.
…I’m not that other person’s mom.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 month ago:
They took away our pogs.
- Comment on Relatable 1 month ago:
It may already be too late for you.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
- It’s probably made of that super light material, and if I use too big of a fork, I’ll drop rice all over myself. Or get too big of a mouthful.
I’m glad someone on the internet finally figured out that we all have rules about forks.
- Comment on I'm telling ya Jimbo.... 1 month ago:
Look. No one blames you.
