Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on vampires and werewolves 32 minutes ago:
Less of a complaint and more of an experience of vicarious embarrassment.
- Comment on vampires and werewolves 18 hours ago:
Or both?
- Comment on vampires and werewolves 1 day ago:
Looks like someone is pulling reeeeeal hard to try to stretch an already well-established and explained metaphor so they can say ‘No, guys, don’t you see? This huge piece of pop culture I likr is reall ally about meeeeeeeeeeeee.’
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 2 days ago:
Classic. It’s only sexist if you are sexist. If you assume dresses are ‘womens’ clothes,’ and that women are inferior, it’s possibly sexist because you are elevating yourself by declaring yourself to not be one of those lowly dress-wearers. If you don’t have that internalized misogyny, it’s just a statement of boring fact.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 2 days ago:
It’s a balance of probabilities, like everything in security. Which is more likely? A. People are careful, using good, strong passwords, and maintain vigilance, but are targetted by an advanced attacker who will hack the protonpass system to get their database and the necessary keys to open it? Or B. People get lazy, use the same password for everything because remembering stuff is hard, and everything they own ends up protected by the modern equivalent of combo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?
If you are truly capable of generating and memorizing enough good passwords to handle all of your accounts, that is technically more secure, because a password manager can create a single point of failure for all accounts. However, most people aren’t able to do that and will resort to crap passwords or using the same single crap password for every site.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 2 days ago:
It’d function the way it does on PC, which is to say, as a product, not a subscription locked service.
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 3 weeks ago:
Farming Simulator 25 - realistic modern farming
Coral island - chill life sim
Graveyard keeper - story with lots of farming and crafting sim elements
some Minecraft modpacks are farming focused
Ranch Sim - farming/hunting/homesteading mix
Farming Dynasty - euro farming sim
Garden Life - chill, grow flowers, decorate your garden, etc.
Hard to say where the line is for ‘looking like anime’ but for things that are a bit stylized but not anime styled exactly, there’s also Staxel, the My Time At __ series, and some others.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 3 weeks ago:
Making intentions known is necessary. Flirting is just one of the preocesses by which intention is established. In that way, it is not strictly necessary, in the same way that cake is not necessary, but food is.
Flirting is a process which intentionally leaves ambiguity because it lets people avoid embarrassment. Being rejected, in many cultures, is embarrassing. By attempting flirting, a person can show interest indirectly, and the other person can show interest in return or show disinterest with quiet cues that let the instigator pull back without having to do something as vulnerable as explicitly stating intentions or experience embarrassment at being directly rejected.
Flirting, like anything else, can also be used as a display of quality, the verbal/intellectual equivalent of peacock feather displays.
How necessary these elements are is entirely contextual. Some partners despise the pretense of it. Others view it as incredibly fun. Some are deeply embarassed by the prospect of rejection. Some are not bothered by it at all.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 weeks ago:
It all has meaning. I used high density language because I didn’t want to spend a long time on the response, which I admit does require a certain level of experience with the concepts to be readable. Was there something you’d like me to expand into simpler language to make it clearer for you?
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 4 weeks ago:
Possibly the same way Fallout Boy and System of a down can be grouped. There is a phenomenon in music ‘similarity’ systems (remember Pandora?) that, because the process of actually analyzing music and classifying it is work, tries to offload the work to elsewhere, and often what really happens is things get grouped not by qualitative similarities like mood, rhythmic complexity, tone etc. but by the quantitative and easy ‘these two were liked by the same group of people, aged X~Y, so they must be similar.’
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 weeks ago:
Young men are not some new phenomenon. Their desire, in a word, is agency.
As the world has grown more interconnected, the world has become more visible. This has created a crippling awareness of their place in the grand scheme. Nietzsche’s void has opened beneath them and, in the ignorance expected of youth, they grasp at what is presented to them. Selling hope to the desperate, even false hope, is lucrative, so there is no shortage of hucksters and charlatans offering it to them.
The ultimate problem is that there is no pleasant truth. When faced with the existential horror of being, the truth doesn’t help. You cannot focus on learning to be a better version of yourself when facing raw terror. A comforting lie will get you to tomorrow. Truth will send you to the long, dark night.
So, when offered a pretense of agency, in almost any form, they take it. Some pretend that the problem is simply women. Some say it’s other ‘races.’ Some say it’s this or that ideology, whether economic, social, sexual, psychological, or anything else. They all just want to feel like they can make a difference, just like everyone else.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 4 weeks ago:
For some reason I read Tactical Breach Wizards and thought of Sexy Battle Wizards, and I just thought, that’s a cool recommendation but why here?
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 5 weeks ago:
Death is like chicken pox, right? Deal with it once and you never have to worry about it again?
- Comment on Is it normal that I have this inner conflict of not knowing where I belong? 1 month ago:
That’s fairly common. Everyone wants to feel like they ‘belong.’ The trick is, it’s not a place. It’s people. There is an underlying culture in any place you find that is highly localized, even down to the neighborhood, but there are also always exceptions. You can find the sweet Berliners if you look, and the reserved, non-materialistic Americans, and the sober, minimalist Parisians. First, figure out your values. Then, find the others in your area who share those values. Unless you are living in the middle of nowhere, they’re out there.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 month ago:
Allow us to introduce you to… malicious incompetence.
- Comment on optimizing 1 month ago:
I have heard that the big Republican conventions are business suits all day and orgies all night. A bout of pubic lice could probably swarm the whole party if it got in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
‘Nah, you’re right. Looking, sounding, and acting like a bitch is bad enough. You don’t want to completely remove all doubt.’
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They kind of are, just based on the need for housing rather than a romantic connection… which actually describes a number of ‘battered wives’ scenarios, now that I think of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to be a dick about it but I love that you used apples and onions as an example of things with minimal variety when one of those is the most varied product class I’m the produce department. For onions there are red, green, white, yellow, and shallots. Most of those are different enough that you’d see and taste a swap out immediately. Then, with apples, there are so many varieties at this point, even without including the more niche varieties, a well supplied produce department can have an entire section just for types of apples. They could probably be knocked down into half a dozen categories but many people will be able to differenciate them enough to complain. Most other things are relatively unvaried, maybe a binary split, some a literal monoculture, but those two…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
‘What, you don’t think you’re manly enough to pull it off?’
- Comment on My favorite, classic greentext 1 month ago:
Poor snake. He walked into its home and woke it up only to slaughter it.
- Comment on This really is what me and my friends do 1 month ago:
Call? People still do that?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 1 month ago:
…fake and gay
Hey now. Let’s not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 month ago:
That’s the difference shareholders make.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Less racist in the modern sense, more profoundly stupid and racist in the archaic sense.
Civilized coutry is a redundant phrase if taken literally. A country is a territory and the associated state. You can’t have a state (political structure) without being ‘civilized.’ (participating in some kind of civic process) They are using civilized in a manner akin to how people used ‘white’ many years ago, referring to acceptability rather than color. e.g. The oft noted ‘Irish and jews weren’t white.’ In that context it seems more of a sign of lack of critical thinking than colorism or essentialism.
- Comment on The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here 1 month ago:
They’re replacing coders with AI at MS? Everybody ready for windows to gain a whole new set of vulnerabilities?
- Comment on Amazon Debuts Contextual Pause Ads And Shoppable Inventory For Brands On Prime Video 2 months ago:
I stopped watching amazon when they introduced ads just for their other shows. No chance I go back with this.
- Comment on New poster for James Gunn's "Superman" 2 months ago:
Every time I see James Gunn mentioned, I can only think of Charles.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 2 months ago:
When you ask for something without ‘grind’ I have to ask if you know what you are asking. Grind is entirely subjective. It’s not a mechanism of a game but rather what happens when you personally don’t find a game mechanism fun/rewarding.
Take classic examples, like mining in… most games, really. It’s smacking a rock. It doesn’t have much variety. For some people, they love their own little game of ‘hit the rocks in the most efficient way,’ or they like to relax with music and bust rocks, or they feel like every rock is a loot box. Other people hate it for being too complex to automate and too simple to feel engaged.The difference between ‘grind’ and an ‘endlessly replayable part of the game’ is how the player looks at it. You are asking for ‘the drug to which you will never build a tolerance.’
