pleasestopasking
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- Comment on Are some people just unable to become fluent in a foreign language? 1 day ago:
This doesn’t answer your question, but I’m curious. You say your writing is good but your reading is bad. In my experience reading and writing are so intrinsically linked, and reading is the easier of the two. If it’s possible can you explain the difference for you? I just find it really interesting!
- Comment on What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves? 2 days ago:
When you can’t tap a button to fill the text dialogue, and have to wait for each letter to individually populate for 15 speech bubbles in a row.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 4 days ago:
I feel like the problem with AI generated content is it’s so easy for anyone to generate stuff, so there can be a huge amount created with little effort. There is high quality AI-generated content, but whew there’s a lot that’s total slop.
I don’t know what the best response is, though. Requiring disclosure of AI-generated comment doesn’t seem like it would help because that’s going to be mostly honor system. User-flagged could be used to brigade/suppress posts. Really it’s probably just a matter of blocking users and communities where you see consistent slop.
- Comment on Is it normal that my world views, opinions of myself, and mood changes extremely rapidly (within seconds/minutes) several times per day? 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad this helped you but damn it’s depressing. People should not have to resort to ChatGPT for therapy
- Comment on Is it normal that my world views, opinions of myself, and mood changes extremely rapidly (within seconds/minutes) several times per day? 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever been screened for bipolar disorder?
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 3 weeks ago:
The longer I live, the more I start to think that maybe the “intelligent life” are the creatures frolicking in the woods, not knowing what “fascism” or “rent money” means.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I was coming in here to respond “uhhhh no” but it being meat makes sense, because I don’t eat it
- Comment on Did the green "brat" album cover come from the hexadecimal color code for B4DD1E (BADDIE)? 3 weeks ago:
🤯 that is fucking incredible
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of good recommendations in here, some I’ve played, some I’m adding to my list!
I’ll share one that I haven’t seen in the thread yet: Crypt Custodian. You play as a ghost cat sentenced to clean garbage in the afterlife. Good mix of exploration and combat. I personally hate when combat keeps me from progressing in a story, so I like that they have Easy/Normal/Hard modes but that you can also further customize assists, like adding up to 3 extra hit points. You can also buy a market to show you the next place to go when you’re feeling stuck. Very good cozy-gamer territory.
The story wasn’t overly complex, but very sweet–the ending made me cry. I loved elements of the story like one of the bosses being the personification of grief.
I played it on XBox Game Pass, but it was worth paying for.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of recs for this one, it might have to be my next!
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know, tell us about it. What’s it like and why do you like it?
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- Comment on Let's discuss: Donkey Kong 3 weeks ago:
“Man Tasked With Making Score for a Monkey Riding a Swordfish Underwater Creates Transcendent Piece of Music”
- Comment on Let's discuss: Donkey Kong 3 weeks ago:
I love that the whole reason he even became a video game composer is because his boss promised an extra day off to anyone who could learn enough about the music computer to demo it to customers. Just floating through life by happenstance, and then becoming the most revolutionary person in the field.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if part of it is that you get a procedure done and you love the results, and it wasn’t actually as scary as you thought it was. So then you do another, and another, and another. And then when someone goes wrong, you get caught in a trap of trying to “fix it” and it goes downhill from there.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 3 weeks ago:
Probably depends a fair but on what else you eat with it. Like how drinking water doesn’t help but milk does.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 2 months ago:
No…?
I mean I’m not a genius or anything but I know some things about some things. When I can help someone with those things or just shoot the shit about cool things I know, it makes me feel good.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
I’m with ya. I was shocked to learn that there are people who don’t use it. Keyboard typing with your thumbs feels like Blackberry energy.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
Swipe typing is the cursive of smartphones. I love it, it’s so much faster than regular typing (for me at least). I didn’t realize how uncommon it is until several people commented on me using it.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
There are people who don’t have an inner monologue, they just think in abstraction. I have a friend who is like this. She tried to explain it to me and I just couldn’t even comprehend what a paradigm shift it is from how I thought all brains at a basic level worked.
It’s like when I learned that some people actually see images when they “picture something in your mind’s eye.” Had no idea that was literal.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
I think this is finally being corrected, but for decades kids have been taught “whole word reading” rather than phonics. The basic idea is that instead of learning how to sound out words, they should look at the first letter and guess what they think the word might be based on context/pictures. The proponents of this method claim kids will memorize words as “whole words” and eventually be able to read.
So, they can’t actually read. But they know how to look like they can read.
When you can’t read it’s not enjoyable, so you read less. When you read less you come across fewer words, which you don’t really know how to decode anyway because you were never taught.
Anyway these kids are now adults, and even the ones who are smart still struggle with spelling and reading.
Check out the podcast Sold a Story, really interesting investigation on this topic.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 months ago:
On/off switch
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 3 months ago:
Honestly, even if they’re not leaving permanently, who knows how much longer the Smithsonian will last if things keep going the way they are.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 months ago:
It’s pretty clear based on this response that you don’t understand the concept, Matt.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 months ago:
You sure do assume a lot, huh? I’m not going to explain it better than the top comment of the thread already did. You should read it. You should also take some time to think about how you come across.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 months ago:
Wow.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 months ago:
Anyone so convinced of this has never been raped.
I have in fact encountered a bear in the wild, a mama bear with her cub. They weren’t interested in me, just crossing my path trying to get to the river. I stopped walking and started talking so they’d know I was there. They went on their way, I waited a little bit to make sure they weren’t coming back, and then I went on mine.
I’ve also been raped by a man I thought was my friend.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 months ago:
A viewpoint from someone who would choose the bear:: I don’t think all men are by default violent sexual predators. It’s much more about the fear that we won’t be believed.
Nobody questions whether you wanted to be attacked by a bear. Nobody makes the case that the bear just made a mistake and we don’t want to ruin his future. Nobody suggests that you lead the bear on then changed your mind. It behooves us to be wary of being vulnerable with men until we have more information about the specific man we’re engaging with because of things go sideways there’s a good chance we’ll be blamed.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 3 months ago:
Your assumption is correct, thank you, I edited :)
I had no idea that there was ever actually a moment for Esperanto that got blocked! I figured it had just been dismissed out of hand since its inception.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 3 months ago:
Honestly I think so menu little would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.