Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 1 day ago:
i dunno if it’s the same one, but the feelings OP described are how I felt about bronies.
there was a time before the infestation of predators took hold when almost every person you’d meet among them was unflinchingly, unashamedly, relentlessly wholesome, sincere, and genuine. people who really took honesty, loyalty, kindness, and generosity to heart. but that kind of environment was not hostile enough to defend itself from exploitation. an object lesson in the paradox of tolerance: there are some things that no society will survive tolerating, and there truly are some behaviors that cannot be rehabilitated. there is hardly anyone around anymore from the height of the subculture around 2014…
- Comment on Tips 1 week ago:
Blankets are great because you only have to pay for them once, and now that you have them, they can keep you warm basically forever.
Now, when it’s HOT weather, fuck it I’m using electricity for air conditioning; it’s getting legitimately dangerously hot lately and THAT SHIT is what will kill me if I don’t pay up x.x
- Comment on Tips 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s because consumerism is a kind of brain rot all its own. The media landscape we’ve been living in for generations has sold us this ridiculous fantasy that happiness means owning (or at least temporarily renting) luxury goods.
The plurality, if not majority, of the population here has never had to adjust their expectations or really sit down and think hard about what’s actually worth acquiring. We treat desires for convenience and novelty as though they are necessities. But they aren’t.
What’s actually a necessity is having something fulfilling to occupy your time, as a counterbalance to keep you sane, and that activity does not HAVE to be of the sort that costs a lot of money. Take up art using cheap supplies–just sketch with standard number two pencils on white lined notebook paper or perhaps play music on improvised instruments made of household objects. It doesn’t have to be good in order to become meaningful and if you do it enough it’ll BECOME good. Walk outside when the weather happens to be nice. Learn to ride a bicycle again. Visit a library. Pretend to sword fight with a friend using a fallen tree branch. You don’t have to drop several grand on a resort vacation. You don’t have to go into debt for a fancy car. You don’t need to buy the latest edition of “triple a” micro transaction slop from so-called “studios” that don’t give one single solitary wet shart about actual creativity and fire all their devs immediately every time a project wraps.
Money can’t buy whimsy.
All it can do is, at best, remove obstacles from between you and being able to enjoy something. If it’s not being used to simplify your life, then it’s COMPLICATING your life: Giving you only empty distraction that does not provide your experience with any fertile ground for meaning. This is but one of the many ways we are socially “poisoned” and then told that conspicuous consumption is the antidote. It’s not. it’s just even more poison.
You know what the most enjoyable experience I had was in the past several months? Just sitting in the living room at a gathering of friends where everyone brought a little home made food and listening to their happy voices. It cost me next to nothing but turned out to be worth more than anything.
My computer is more than ten whole years old now but it handles old games i could find on sale just dandy and doesn’t need some suped-up rtx gpu to let me pirate some shows XD
I stopped mindlessly gorging myself on junk food, and now basically only eat either efficient daily maintenance nutrition OR choose to visit a small locally owned restaurant no more than once per week. I’m never spending upwards of fifteen fucking dollars on a fast food burger “meal” ever again.
Divest of tacky opulence. Defy Wall Street and its siren song of ruin disguised as prosperity. Embrace the elegance of simplicity and spontaneity. If this sprawling parasitic infestation we’ve mistaken for an *economy" can’t survive without sucking the life out of us all then maybe it deserves to collapse.
- Comment on Tips 1 week ago:
I’ve been losing weight, which has been good for me. But someday … I’m going to run out of stored calories. For the very first time in my life, it has crossed my mind to wonder if I might starve someday ._.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 2 weeks ago:
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 4 weeks ago:
huh wow. i was going to presume it was a storage volume quantity calibration of some kind. neat.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What’s wild is, back when i was a kid and contracted whooping cough (pertussis) i somehow developed an ability to interrupt abdominal contractions–which enabled me to force my body to stop coughing so I could breathe … and this enabled me to halt the vomit until I had a bucket in front of me. So it TRIED to come out every direction, but I was miraculously fortunate enough to have some influence on the sequence.
Luckily i also had wastebaskets of a solid material composition that could act as buckets without leaking within arms reach and also had managed to dilute the acidity before it started coming up x.x;
I proceeded to purposefully gulp down water to help flush the pipes out. I think it actually worked because although the experience is thoroughly unpleasant by its very nature, at the very least it seemed the usual peaks of discomfort were significantly blunted.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There is no kind of person who obsessively fixates upon the subject of penises with a frequency or intensity greater than that of a transphobe.
- Comment on Contain them 4 weeks ago:
I use ‘it’ to describe ME :3
- Comment on but like seriously do try it 4 weeks ago:
Slowmaxxing my travel ironically makes the journey feel shorter
- Comment on shock and awe 4 weeks ago:
Neon (Book Of) Genesis Evangelion
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The only reason this ain’t me right now is because i got food poisoning a week ago x.x;
- Comment on Lemmy and PieFed users in 50 years 5 weeks ago:
🧅
(the style)
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 5 weeks ago:
Fact: 90% of all leftist infighters MUST quit as a prerequisite before the movement can be capable of revolution, irrespective of “purity”.
- Comment on Good advice 1 month ago:
Stop fantasizing about falling in love with literally any person who is nice to you and breaking your own heart.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 1 month ago:
They are literally those.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 1 month ago:
If i want McRib, i skip the middle man and just buy q bulk family-size tray/tub of frozen microwaveable riblets and go to fucking TOWN
- Comment on Change my mind 1 month ago:
Not shown: the lower lines that list “Arguing in the Shower” and “Arguing in Your Imagination”, and the bottom line of “Not Arguing At All”
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 months ago:
Ohhh yeahhhh the lava lamp like ones are cool. Sometimes vague impressions of cyan and red, sometimes propagating in waves. I’m so glad other people are describing it!
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
weaponized incompetence exists at basically all levels of human interaction, alas…
but it’s especially shitty when corpos do it.
I really wish we’d stop fucking around and make executives regret what the people they are literally responsible for do. Their monetary compensation should be consummate with consequences–if they’re making three thousand times the amount of their front-facing employees they should be three thousand times more culpable for the shit their organization pulls.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Turns out my ribs don’t actually care whether the boot that cracked them came from a decisive kick or because someone clumsily tripped over me.
(Also sufficiently advanced malice is often indistinguishable from incompetence by design: “oops we didn’t mean to, please forgive us and we pRoMiSe we won’t do it again!”)
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
When i see that many idiots being duped it just makes me feel superior~!
:3c
Joking aside, look at how foolish the median person is. That they are average means that literally half of humanity is even more foolish than they are.
Quantity may be a quality all its own but in light of such damning disqualifications it hardly matters at all.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 2 months ago:
To be fair who ever heard of any billionaire ACTUALLY working?
- Comment on JD, you dog. 2 months ago:
Sleep with dogs, get fleas.
Any person who denies, betrays, and defiles common sense to hitch their wagon to a fascist pervert (redundant!) deserves what they get.
- Comment on sushi delivery 2 months ago:
I want to slap this person in the mouth.
- Comment on CNC 2 months ago:
When I tell my friends I’ve done cognitive behavioral therapy but use the acronym…
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 2 months ago:
A delightful third act switcheroo!
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 2 months ago:
I know it’s more likely the cut off text continues dryly…
This meme is an example of
how small sample size can
affect data. The three people in
the room (you included) do not
represent the data cited by the
dog with any accuracy, as the
number of gay individuals is three. - Comment on Anon is forever alone 3 months ago:
Comparison is the thief of joy.
I feel so much better when rather than looking at what others have and wishing i had it too, instead looking at what others lack and seeing if there’s anything I can do to help them attain it.
It helps me appreciate what I do have. There are people I love who want me around. It took so long to recognize, internalize, actually feel and experience that fact instead of just … knowing it in a distant academic sense like ‘sure yeah it stands to reason that this is true i guess but i have no proof’…
Until recently, i ‘knew’ that people cared about me and wanted me around the same way a person born blind can KNOW that the wavelength and frequency of the color Blue are 450 nanometers and about 666 terahertz (heh 🤘) respectively but not have an intrinsic experience of what it’s like to see it.
it’s nice actually being able to FEEL what i only previously just numbly heard about. and now all i truly want in the world, on the deepest level, beyond petty hedonic desires, is for more other people to know what it’s like to feel loved.
- Comment on Is. It....German????? 3 months ago:
boy argentina sure has a lot of german in it For Some Reason…