Vespair
@Vespair@lemmy.zip
Formerly @Vespair@lemm.ee
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how misinformation works. It preys upon the ignorant and fills them with lies before they can be filled with truths. All it takes is mild interest in one tiny slice of the right-wing nutjob conspiracy pie to be immediately pulled down the rabbit hole via algorithms on youtube, tiktok, even reddit.
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Please do not take the words of me, a literal stranger, as the complete story. Please read the Britannica article.
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the party, my friend. It’s BYOB and nobody brought beer.
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
Literally. I don’t mean this to diminish Helen Keller, but the sort of “flying” she did was the same as when they let a kid into the cockpit.
Given her conditions, this is still absolutely an accomplishment and worth applauding. But to suggest that there is anything remotely unbelievable about it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the reality of the situation
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 2 weeks ago:
I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It’s ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn’t. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.
britannica.com/…/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)
- Comment on Maybe too much? 2 weeks ago:
How dare you. I have never looked upon a titty meme with exasperation, only every appreciation
- Comment on Not real hits too 2 weeks ago:
No, WWE is you go see failed actors and stuntmen, Hollywood is where you see the successful ones.
- Comment on Why are you wearing his tee-shirt 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t propaganda and intellectual dishonesty is the same thing as shitposting
- Comment on Day 801 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I mean yeah, gameplay/gunplay is no contest, but I do mean overall. Story, tone, setting, roleplaying toolkit, etc. I know people love to shit on FO4 for it’s “limited dialogue options” but having played both I frankly don’t feel like FO4 lost anything by reducing fluff and limiting response options, although I do concede that it is frustrating the way FO4’s choices are sometimes misleading or unclear.
- Comment on relaxing 3 weeks ago:
No that’s a panorama. You’re thinking of the primary speaking language of Brazil and a nation neighboring Spain
- Comment on Day 801 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah from I can tell this is the dividing line that separates Fallout fans into camps (excluding the “Fallout should never have been first-person!” grognards off in the corner). Glad we both at least have one game that matches our desires, but yeah catch me firmly over here on #teamFO4
- Comment on Day 801 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
As a big Fallout NV and Fallout 4 fan and somebody who is literally from the DC metro area, I fully expected to love Fallout 3. But I gotta be honest, I hated it. Maybe it’s because I was kind of working backwards, but I thought the game was so janky, but awkward, terribly paced, and like… sad in a not fun way. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but please give me Preston’s annoying settlement missions any day of the week over the depression of Fallout 3. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Hope I'm doing this right... 3 weeks ago:
I hate that it took me a minute
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile I got destroyed in another thread for saying Lower Decks was a low-brow gag comedy 🤷♂️
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 3 weeks ago:
Kpop started in the 90s with Seo Taiji and Boys.
Hyperpop didn’t start until the 2010s.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 3 weeks ago:
Maybe some manic hyperpop
- Comment on Fucking HATE this smug sack of shit. 4 weeks ago:
I do all of the grocery shopping in my family and I have never seen that man in my life. So interesting the individual little bubbles and microcosms we all live in
- Comment on you can date the time period by popular catch phrases 4 weeks ago:
Man, I actually liked the SirGrafo era of r/comics. Sure as hell was miles better than the Pizzacake/HowlingElk/etc “relatable” no-punchlines era
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 weeks ago:
We actually don’t have to participate in these pointless pop culture memes.
Like we can just not post them, since it’s not like anyone has any sincere opinions or reactions to this topic.
Nobody cares about the word moist
Nobody cares what you put on your pizza
Nobody is amused by Mariah memes
I will never understand why we go through the motions with these things
- Comment on To be happy… 1 month ago:
The first commercial convention oven was invented in the 1940s. The first prototype of the general concept happened in the 1910s.
Even if you mean the modern household tabletop convenience version, the Nuwave convection oven was already an informercial staple by 2003.
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
Got it. I googled it, I don’t Harry Potter, sorry.
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
I don’t know what this means
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
The woman in question’s name is Delores, if you feel like looking for the comment and associated story on tiktok.
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
Seems a bit extreme, mate
- Comment on Is there going to be something about potato buns tomorrow? 1 month ago:
It’s because of the woman on tiktok who identified a “perfectly sized” hot dog bun that now has a large crowd of tiktok users pushing for her to get a sponsorship.
Yes, I’m being serious.
- Comment on Video games 1 month ago:
That’s fine, you can enjoy the silliness of an error or fun addition to the joke. But that’s still not “the joke” being made, which is my point.
- Comment on Video games 1 month ago:
That makes no sense. You could literally remove the dates entirely and that point would still be made just by Mario -> Last of Us. Having the incorrect date for Mario doesn’t reinforce that point in any way.
- Comment on Video games 1 month ago:
That’s literally not the joke though. The joke doesn’t change at all if we correct the date to 1985, so clearly the error not only isn’t the joke, it’s not even a part of the joke. How is this so upvoted? People just slackjawed reacting like “omfg I remember the Simpsons!”
- Comment on That would be petrifying 1 month ago:
Air is not so different from water in the grand scheme of things, we’re just designed for and acclimated to air rather than water. So yeah, I think sinking is at best a subgenre of falling.
- Comment on It's time to move on....to JEANS! 1 month ago:
Now THAT’S an idea that deanfully has some jeanuine legs!