AbnormalHumanBeing
@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
Some weird, German communist, hello. He/him pronouns and all that. Obsessed with philosophy and history, secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program.
- Submitted 17 hours ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 3 days ago:
Oh, woah, that link got mangled somehow - should be fixed now
- Comment on Feels like something this community would like to know 3 days ago:
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 5 days ago:
Also, one can lead to the other. If you catch the right fish with a scam, they may just unwittingly give you a way in to an institution. Only the latter would make the news, though.
- Comment on An ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod's first build is up and running, and its devs are teasing demo news soon 5 days ago:
I had been wondering when the first big campaign-style mod for the game would hit, stoked to hear more! As a side note: I get why, but I’m still kind of sad that projects like this seem to use Discord as their main space.
- Comment on An ambitious Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod's first build is up and running, and its devs are teasing demo news soon 5 days ago:
Oh, just a casual stroll of the “show only adult” section on Nexus Mods for BG3 can show you what people will come up with, if “normal nudity” is already in the game.
- Comment on Hottie without a body 1 week ago:
I was today years old when I learned they aren’t jellyfish… Well, guess I am one of the lucky 10k
To anyone else that only now learned that: they are actually quite interesting, and colonial organisms of a group called Siphonophorae.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 1 week ago:
Also Boomers: Not actually doing anything for veterans suffering from PTSD, mental illness more broadly, poverty and homelessness.
- Proton 10.0-2 gets a Release Candidate for gaming on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deckwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 2 weeks ago:
Fiber is great, but in general, going from low to high fiber too quickly can do all kinds of gastrointestinal trouble, your microbiome has to adjust - and fiber supplements especially, if taken not as instructed, can indeed cause more severe complications like blockage.
If you don’t poop for several days even though you are eating, that needs to be looked at. Anon got lucky it resolved on its own with a nice story to tell.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 2 weeks ago:
I might be misremembering, but AFAIK, dopamine can’t cross the blood-brain-barrier, so even where you want to regulate dopamine (and not, e.g. serotonin like more commonly for depression) in the brain, you have to do so via different medication (e.g. amphetamine derivatives for ADHD or dopamine agonists for Parkinson’s).
- Comment on If only my parents knew 2 weeks ago:
Oooh, thanks, now I finally understand what this is about. Maybe it is a language/cultural difference or something, but the whole “sperm = child” thing never clicked for me. Isn’t, if anything, the egg more properly a stand-in for a future child? And even then, only if fertilised, of course.
I dead-ass looked at this for almost a minute wondering if it’s maybe a pop culture reference to a TV show or movie I don’t know, where the pictured character actually eats children.
- Comment on Not sure exactly what they are selling 3 weeks ago:
!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org would like this, too, I’m sure
- Comment on Winging it 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Those weird paintings of Jesus as an “adult baby” are actually intentional. This was an attempt at representing that in the interpretation of the time, Jesus entered this world already fully perfected/divine, without having to have gone through an “imperfect” phase.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 4 weeks ago:
As literally an abnormie, I am appalled by that thought!
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 5 weeks ago:
Good that they provided both the Emperor penguin and human penguin for scale.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 5 weeks ago:
Probably, but I know that at least in the past, their philosophy was to uphold Windows as the one gold standard at all costs, and I doubt that has changed.
It might be one of those non-authentic quotes, but I heard that Steve Ballmer supposedly once said, that they’d rather have people pirate Windows instead of using another OS. No matter if that is an authentic statement - there is a real synergetic effect: If everyone is used to how Windows works at home (even if pirated there), then any potential employer will want to have Windows licenses for their IT and office stuff, which is where the main money lies. That’s one of the reasons Microsoft has been so furiously anti-competition, because their main advantage is being the de-facto standard, and being the only proper gaming system became a part of that strategy, with attempts to further lock-in any gamers into their ecosystem if at all possible (some of which thankfully failed).
So I think making an app for Game Pass for Linux won’t be in their interest any time soon, unfortunately.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 5 weeks ago:
Like many things, it’s an irrational decision to start at some point, and then addiction keeps you doing it. I have tried out a few drugs in my teenage/young adult years, including some “hard” ones, which ended up genuinely being one-off curiosity things for me. But the one that I simply wasn’t able to kick until last year was nicotine. It really is scarily addictive for something so widespread and legal. (Alcohol was also hard, but easier for me).
That, and the part about “no high” is just not really true, even after you develop a dependency/addiction (with rapidly diminishing returns, of course). But especially when first starting to vape/smoke, there are very much effects beyond placebo. It hooks into a lot of your neurochemistry, and like most things that do, you feel that. To the point that, e.g., many people that consume weed with tobacco, will think the initial wooziness they feel is already due to the weed, when really, it is a tobacco hit. The weed effects generally come afterwards.
Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 5 weeks ago:
It’s a shame this clip doesn’t have subtitles, but it starts out with the scene you mention.
Well, if this wasn’t a good use of my time, I don’t know what could have been: Fired up Kdenlive and my copy here, so now people can enjoy this scene without context but with English subtitles, if so desired.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 5 weeks ago:
My favourite part from that one has always been the monologue about how grinding an animal down and putting it inside it’s own asshole is a mythological humiliation humanity has forced upon nature.
- Comment on How dare she! 1 month ago:
Now, if it had been three city bears - those fuckers would have deserved it, of course.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 1 month ago:
Also, there isn’t even a way to tell if this is real. Sure, it could be, but chances are high someone took a picture of a couple that look kind of “white trash” from who knows where, and just used it to create outrage/superiority-circlejerk-bait.
- Comment on Saw this in a public women's bathroom. I didn't want to touch it, but I am curious as to what it is. 2 months ago:
!whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
In the same way biofuels are: Technically yes, but still not that great of an idea outside special applications. (One I could imagine would be someone wanting to live completely off grid using filtered frying oil in an old-but-ridiculously-sturdy diesel generator)
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 months ago:
Yeah, remember that German philosopher? Immanuel Kant, whose last name is pronounced “cunt”? Who ended up kicking off the whole process of modern and ultimately postmodern philosophy? Who most likely had autism (non-judgemental) and some really weird habits (mostly non-judgemental, don’t hit your servants, dude) and ideas (somewhat non-judgemental, if you’ve never seen a person with darker skin in your life, don’t write about them).
It was all in the name!
Speaking of philosophers and licking cunts.
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- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 3 months ago:
Wow, I guess they have now literally reached the earliest one they could do a live action remake of. Good to know that even while things have been heating up globally, the underlying current of absolute boredom in this dystopia is going strong.
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 3 months ago:
What is this about? This?
Haven’t been on reddit and am notoriously often living under a rock when it comes to news outside my personal interests.
