StarryPhoenix97

@StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Troof⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That mom always gets a little too handsy with one of the boys too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing how little we actually did, I often wonder if he regrets coming forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How not to advertise 101!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  and if your audio isn’t properly equalized to whatever I was watching then I will actively go out of my way to rate your product negatively. It’s not much, but I am that kind of petty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even a horny thing, but the one on the left is just too distracting. I’d be staring at it the whole time just trying to figure out why Supergirl made that choice.

  Her thighs would be cold the whole time. Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show. It looks like she literally cut her shorts into that shape.

  Like… I like attractive women too, but come on, guys. There’s no way in hell she’d wear her costume like that. I wouldn’t even be able to enjoy it in the toxic male-gaze way. I’d just be annoyed by it the whole time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If i cant log in with an independent email then im not ltailgate.

  I had the same problem yesterday as I was investigating tailscale. And while I get it for that service there’s no reason for it for some of the other services that ask me to link my other accounts to them as a means of logging in.

  No. I will not consolidate my log-in profiles under companies that dont see me as a person.

  Anonymous or nothing. Period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the same ocean to me. Its just a different time of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you.

  The day you realize that you’re more than your mask can be earth-shattering. I still remember mine, and it took me another decade to start learning what who I was behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think I’m pretty vanilla myself. Maybe a little cookie dough in there for variety, idk. But there are some people in the kink community who are truly amazing. There are some shitty people in there too, but the good ones? Sterling. I’m proud to keep them in my circle of friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t limited to sexual preferences, though. That’s just peacocking. People who like something for clout are often excessive in their bragging about it. The people who actually like a thing, sexual or otherwise, tend to integrate it and just enjoy that thing for themselves.

  Unless you’re autistic, then everyone gets to know about it. But that’s noticeable too.

  The difference is between saying, “I’m a freak in bed,” and “Let me tell you about this one super-niche part of the rope-play community and how it’s actually more of an art form than anything sexual.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This gave me a bit of a giggle because I used to know a real one that will show off their work. Not as a trophy or anything, more like, “This is how bruised I’m willing to make someone.”

  All pictures were taken from the neck down and with consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure. All of my friends in the community HATE 50 Shades of Grey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kink is a spectrum, and I haven’t been exploring it for a few years, but from what I remember, the various communities of kink are always mismatched.

  There are always more sub men than there are dom women. This compounds when you realize that usually those sub men are looking for certain types of play that the doms aren’t into. Dommy mommies and what have you.

  Like, I think of the feminization community. It’s hard to find people who like feminization but don’t also like cuck play, or race-cuck play, which to me is gross but is a major aspect of that community.

  Matching freaks is hard, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1996 experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  damn. I thought I was going to go uncalled out on this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you don’t rub some dirt in it first it won’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like admitting they live in a completely different world. That’s what blows my mind. By implication, he’s admitting the wealthy exist in a completely separate reality. That the shadow economy is real, and that the average person is effectively a second-class citizen. It’s an acknowledgment that it is, and maybe always has been, us versus them. I’ve always said they exist in a completely different world, one that operates on different rules than the rest of us. More than just the obvious. Everything you posted, culture, norms, ancestry, history. They will never change to help you. They will always operate from a place of exploitation. It’s their culture. They made it so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It hurts, man. Especially knowing that the road I took has crumbled behind me, like in those old Looney Tunes cartoons where someone redraws the road lines to lead people off a cliff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some people who have just been filled with so much wrong information over the course of their life that it’s impossible to reach them. Anything you say to them will have a keyword that puts their guard up, any fact you share would be fake news. It’s like their brains have been encrypted with the propaganda and hate. It’s pavlovian. I try to recognize it in myself and maintain an open mind but it’s hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no war but classwar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”

  Only very technically. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. still made the shareholder a priority over the product or the customer. It’s a misconception that actual profit is the legal requirement. I suppose I’m guilty of furthering it, but it’s easier to keep the oversimplification than to explain the nuances when the outcome is the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s this.

  and it’s always worth distinguishing between executives and investors.

  Executives are going to push the problem, but the core issue with most things related to bad products is often due to shareholders. In the US, where most of these companies are based, a publicly traded company is expected to make money for its shareholders. Shareholders have subplanted customers in the companies ethical obligagions. The law has been used to make this national policy. Controlling shareholders can (and do) vote to remove company leadership that won’t act how they want. It is not just that they have to generate revenue, they have to generate as much revenue as possible as determined by shareholders.

  If a company goes public, It’s only a matter of time until it’s product goes to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tell me about it.

  I’ve written three different papers on social media’s effects on the brain and I still can’t pull away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm thinking of gifting this to my dad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply put, it’s a hygiene joke. The shirt is saying, “Don’t talk shit about me when you need a bath,” more or less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systems theory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess who will be classified as an extremist by Palantir in 2030 for expressing criticism of pedophilia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping to be out of the country or dead by then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon owns nothing and is unhappy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my mind, the current timeline always starts with 2013 and the death of Aaron Swartz. You could argue it was his prosecution that started it, but his death was the moment it began to become clear. Maybe he saw where we were heading. He was being over-prosecuted. Almost everyone who wasn’t part of the establishment came to that conclusion.

  He represented everything that the new digital age could be: self-educated, a lover of learning, a humanist, an activist. A common man fighting for the common people. Everything he did was to spread information and protect our ability to learn, grow, and fight against injustice.

  Maybe he had a Howard Beale moment with someone when his plea deal was rejected. Maybe he saw where we were heading and knew that he would never be able to fight it again. They had done everything to make an example of him…to make it impossible for him to enact change. All he really did was find ways to use the system to share information and help people.

  I know, this was about PC gaming, but everything in this current dystopia ties back to this loss for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish we got a Captain Seven show or mini series. I had been saying “Captain Annika Hansen” to my friends since Picard commissioned her. Then it happened! One of the best moments in Star Trek. Seven of Nine becoming Captain of the Enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For Wheel of Time I can think of only two narrative choices that pissed me off as a book fan. In general I just accepted that it was a new turning of the wheel. Things would play out a little differently. No big deal.

  I put it aside for a bit and then it was canceled. That hurt more. Star Trek at least had told it’s stories. It can end gracefully. It deserves that much.

  People don’t like endings. I’m one of them.

  But, if you force something to continue past it’s time then you start making the property as a whole…less than the some of it’s party.

  • The last two seasons of supernatural were rough for that.

  • Much of the Hulu Futurama is cringe-y

  • Stargate (while admittedly problematic in premise) got bad with the Ori.

  Each of those shows had multiple ending seasons that were almost perfect, if they had been allowed to end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek is great. It’s always been great. The problems with it are, in part, manufactured for engagement.

  It has bad episodes, and some series are worse than others, but it’s something we need.

  It dreams of a better future and each series touches on the problems of our modern age in a way that is inclusive.

  As some people age, they out pace the societal equalitoes that star trek advocates for and they get angry at it. We haven’t solved the problems of TOS or TNG, but we’ve muted them somewhat.

  If I have one legitimate complaint for Star Trek it isn’t that it’s ‘woke.’

  My complaint is that it is more often starting to suffocate under the weight of its own history and lore. Most new content will somehow reference the old content at least once.

  Discovery did great stuff with the Trill and non-binary stuff that just…made sense. In general Discovery was really good in it’s last few seasons. I like Starfleet Academy too. I think it exists in the franchise and in the present world well. It’s a meta narrative about figuring out what Starfleet will be going forward. I haven’t watched a Star Trek show that i didn’t find something of value in.

  Searching on YouTube you would think it’s the worst show ever. (It’s not, but I don’t think it will get the standard three seasons to figure out it’s formula)

  All of this is just context for my answer to the question.

  As a Star Trek fan and an Ally I do think it’s time to let it rest. Maybe not forever but for now.

  We need it’s hope but we also need something that isn’t clinging to the past (again why I really like Starfleet Academy because in some episodes it discusses this in meta narrative)

  When you constantly have writers catering to the shows history, producers sabatoging production, and agitators stirring the pot for any number of reasons then it’s time to let it rest.

  I want a future star trek that isn’t called star trek. I want a show that is loud in it’s statements of social justice but chooses it’s moments to scream them so it can actually touch the hearts and minds of the people watching it. Star Trek is for everyone. That can’t change.

  We do still get that, but with it is always the weight of the franchise’s history.

  I hate The Burn(more accurately i hate the cause of the burn), just like in doctor who I hate The Timeless Child.

  I also understand that these writing decisions are often made as a way to try to keep the franchise fresh. A new series wouldn’t have the baggage of having to navigate history and could tell the same kinds of stories.

  We have to accept that Star Trek is almost like scifi’s version of the Simpsons. It’s done everything. If it continues then it may continue like The Simspons. That is to say stale. Relevant only by way of the fact that it is making references to current cultural issues and it’s own history.

  I don’t want that for Star Trek.

  P.s. Burnham was a good captain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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