Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 18 hours ago:
Couldn’t you just use uBlock and/or NextDNS/PiHole to avoid porn ads rather than use a VPN?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Man, I tried so hard to understand what the joke was before I realized it was just transphobia/queerphobia
I can’t find the funny, where funny? :(
- Comment on Catch of the day 3 days ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about catching pubic lice (genital crabs) either due to sleeping around, or the Myrtle Beach area being kind of shady.
I went there with my family when I was a kid, and yeah… Our hotel was fine but the place was giving old, and I’ll never forget this mom who let her kids play in a nasty ass abandoned jacuzzi pool that was off-colored and had cigarette butts in it…
- Comment on Here we go again... 3 days ago:
Forgive me for being born after the 90s y’all, but sometimes it’s nice to have a reboot. Well. I could care less about movie/TV show reboots since so many places show the originals
or you could pirate, but when it comes to games, I appreciate being able to enjoy the same games my mom did but with slightly better graphics and on a console we own/PC. And yes, I could pirate the originals, but sometimes it’s nice to play it as it was intended, especially for hand held games.Yes reboots can be lazy and uninspired, and simply for money purposes, but other times it’s nice to see something come back to life and get a second chance. There’s so much stuff I wouldn’t have known about or enjoyed if it wasn’t for reboots.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 1 week ago:
Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist.
Wait, are we talking Tesla named the AI therapist Aura and added it to the car? Or that he personalized his Grok to be called Aura? I’m leaning towards the latter, and I’m laughing at how pathetic it is.
MAGA chuds can’t respect a living, breathing queer person, even if it was their own flesh and blood, but will name change their fucking clown car AI, inform people on its pronouns, and praise the damn thing for regurgitating Reddit threads. A car. Can socially transition. Meanwhile Muskrat shits on his trans kid every day.
- Comment on Just in time 1 week ago:
Nah, the past was filled with peasants dying of infections and dysentery. The future will just be the Pony Express crew from Mouthwashing. Honestly, I don’t even know what member I’d choose to be since they all went out horrifically.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 week ago:
Then maybe the comprise is preaching to both crowds, until the desired platform becomes bigger. Yes, FOSS devs and projects should promote on FOSS services to make them more lively, but they should also acknowledge that many of those who they need to bring over probably are unaware on the main service.
Either that or just try your best to convince people in real life, although many of us don’t have enough charisma for that…
- Comment on wish 2 weeks ago:
Watched a video before of kids from Whales doing an exchange with Korean students, and they were miserable. Like you said, they were getting back home late from clubs and cram tutoring at like 10pm, and would then get up for school around 6am or so.
This is just an unfortunately common thing in Asian countries, getting into the best schools is treated like a life-or-death thing for many.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
Appleius (+ donut and orange, but the apple was the final thing) from last night… as a pseudo dinner
If I actually would eat today it would’ve been Empanadius, but I’m still in bed…
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
Well, people like to say “check their hard drives” when referring to pedos, so the word itself isn’t lost yet. But there might be some other Gen Z’s who don’t actually know what that is considering we were raised with Chromebooks…
- Comment on The horrors of aging 4 weeks ago:
I know I can’t judge very much with my post history, but… OP, are you good? You’ve got a lot of horny posting (the asklemmy NSFW posts) and boomer-esque “women ☕” posts going on.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 weeks ago:
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don’t mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there’s few dishes that can make me like it. I also don’t love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I’m a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though… Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia…
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 4 weeks ago:
I’m American, so we’re probably doing worse shit, but this shit is exactly why I hate how hard my professors push for us to be on LinkedIn. Besides it being Facebook but for hustle bros and shitty managers, the company itself doesn’t give a shit about it’s users and their privacy.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 month ago:
Okay, not nearly the same, but I swear to god KH changes the fucking axis, target, and menu buttons each game, and my ass was fucking tired of it. So if a game changed inputs every save/startup I’d probably cry.
- Comment on Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus 1 month ago:
I laughed in actual horror before I realized it was The Onion. Like I would’ve fully believed it for a sec. Media literacy is important kiddos, read more than a headline!
- Comment on Don't gas people 1 month ago:
God any video of a person trying to escape something with the Springtrap audio playing in the background is guaranteed to kill me with laughter 😂
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yep, another comment in this post has the screenshot of the Tumblr thread
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I was like, “is this joking about the Tumblr color theory post?” and saw this and went yup.
- Comment on Hang on... 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but I’ll bite.
I don’t love calling people, honestly, I might prefer talking to them in person rather than calling (same for texting, I really don’t bother with texting) and I have literally cried after making an awkward call. But I still would prefer a million times over to call an actual person to take my pizza order, and for other purchases in general.
Like yeah, online shopping and self-checkout at grocery stores are great and make sense for what you’re trying to achieve. But the robot making your pizza order is gonna fuck up and add crazy unwanted toppings, or forget to mention the spice level, or etc. A real human can clarify your questions and give you extra info like, “Oh yeah it has a slightly sweet taste to the spice,” or, “This drink is really popular for people who like fruity drinks and aren’t too big on strong alcohol.” Like you would have to do way too much effort to train a bot for all that.
I don’t wanna needlessly put people out of a simple job just because of the occasional awkward call. And talking in person is almost always a joy rather than calling. Sometimes I have a decent convo with a staff member. I have a lot of introvert tendencies, but this is one that I just tell myself “get over it”, especially when another friend is too nervous to talk, then I’ll do it for them.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 month ago:
Hosting your own media library is awesome, just don’t try and bullshit people by pretending that you’re better than Spotify because they pay their artists poorly when you’re stealing from the artists yourself.
This in general when people talk about piracy. It’s great, and sometimes almost needed in cases where companies are making it impossible for people to access the media they want. But stop making it sound like you’re doing the creator a favor by pirating.
“Oh I pirated this musicians music, BUT I’m giving them exposure!1!1! Spotify and YT only pay them .0000001 cents per view!1!1”
Sure, they get almost no money via streaming, but at least they get SOME money over time. People who listen, like, and comment on their songs on social media gives them more exposure then you ripping the song for fucking free and MAYBE (not guaranteed for some of you) telling a friend or two about it. Priating contributes nothing to the (albeit evil) algorithm. Like it’s the dumbest moral argument/excuse people seem to bring up to defend themselves. Artists do deserve to be paid or recognized in some sort of way. Either stream or buy on bandcamp to support artists. Exposure means nothing when the bills aren’t paid.
I hate Google, but I know I don’t have the means to buy every single album from the many artists I listen to, so I’ll stick with them for now until I start making a plan on how I wanna go about buying their music and streaming it at home.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 month ago:
We don’t want your kind around here. Out there fraternizing and praising those dirty, electric sucking clankers! Git now, git!
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 1 month ago:
It’s bullshit but I’m too tired to fight it sometimes. Especially for college, I don’t want teachers bitching at me for a test glitching or a textbook link not working, so I just use ungoogled Chromium as a replacement. I use Librewolf for personal browsing which is more likely to break shit + uBlock, so I’d have to make a whole nother profile for school that has reduced security and disable most of uBlock to do my work. But to go through all those hoops is tiring.
Schools are just forcing people to give up their privacy, especially since you know non-techy students aren’t gonna do stuff like have a separate profile for their school and private browsing, so now Google knows all their shit. Plus Firefox has become the “green bubble shaming” of browsers I guess, cause I’ve had several friends and randos tease me and make it seem like FF is obsolete or something and, “why not use Edge or Chrome?” 🙄
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 1 month ago:
Glad to know I’m not the only one 😭
- Comment on I just learned this existed 1 month ago:
Let it be AI for my sake. Please.
- Comment on I'm ready for spooky 1 month ago:
Not all of us live in a place that actually gets snow when it gets cold. So you stay indoors cause you have fuck else to do, and the lack of sunshine just makes the seasonal depression that much spicier. Yeah you can bundle up, but like, if there’s nothing to do then why bother going out?
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Yeah I love watching them and really wanna get into them (P4AU, Guilty Gear, Street Fighter, etc.), plus their soundtracks are banger. But I fucking suck at fighting games and the only one I ever tolerated was the soloplayer Pokken Tournament campaign. I honestly got bored of both 3DS and Wii U smash as a child very quickly, and to this day I feel bad for the money wasted.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
Alice is only a princess in Kingdom Hearts lore.
Meanwhile Ariel just chills in her world in KH1. Really wonder why they made that choice.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Lol I know what a Thwomp is, I was more so noting the fact that the pic is missing a fourth player, so I just was thinking about fighting game crossovers in general.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Almost thought the pic was a shitpost before I remembered Smash exists (forgive me I hate fighting games). Lovely that we live in a timeline where Shirtless sephiroth, Kirby’s Pokemon cousin, and a gorilla named after another animal, and another fighting game character can all fight each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
First image that came to mind when I saw this
I’m missing the Sonic collab rn…
