Vespair
@Vespair@lemmy.zip
Formerly @Vespair@lemm.ee
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 days ago:
I’ve spent a lot of time around dogs, even bonded with an liked a few. Still a very distinctly different feeling than human affection for me, and still doesn’t help me understand for the uncanny glee people get at the mere sight of a dog. 🤷♂️ I don’t know if I’m broken, but this seems to be something that’s just outside my understanding
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 days ago:
I do occasionally find people cute. But I don’t fawn over every person I see as if I’ve never seen a cute person before. This does not match my experience with the current cultural evaluation of dogs.
And maybe this is the crux of the issue, but I just don’t find human babies and dogs even remotely comparable. I have countless lifetimes worth of conditioning inside me compelling me to love, admire, protect human young; innate feelings and instincts on human babies written into my very DNA. Dogs are an animal.
I do sometimes find dogs cute, just like I sometimes find squirrels, lemurs, sloths, whatever cute, but it’s not an automatic response and it certainly doesn’t ever bring me to point of elation that seeing literally any random ass dog seems to bring so many others. I’m not even trying to suggest any judgement, if anything I’m just lamenting something that for my entire lifetime I have not been able to relate to or understand in my peers, which makes me feel somehow lacking, I guess.
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 days ago:
No hate intended, I promise, but I will never understand why people react to seeing any dog as if it were their first time seeing a dog. I’m glad we have them, and I’m so grateful for service animals in particular, I just don’t understand the hyper-fixation.
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 3 days ago:
I feel like with a spherical plastic mold this could easily be made real in the same way that people do those pumpkin face molds and Buddha pears
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Daddy Drought feels like the much less successful brother of Father Christmas
- Comment on fools! 2 weeks ago:
I never doubted
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 3 weeks ago:
Turns out, people actually like snark and most attempts to quell it have been vastly more about appearing “advertisers friendly” than actually appeasing any user bases.
- Comment on Her slumber is now complete. 4 weeks ago:
I literally do
- Comment on Her slumber is now complete. 4 weeks ago:
“Mariah is coming” memes will always be 100x more annoying than the actual song itself
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 4 weeks ago:
It’s not even the best sauce at Arby’s, which is clearly the Red Ranch.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 4 weeks ago:
That’s literally where I said “nah fuck this” and scrolled down to the comments, lol
- Comment on Fight me 4 weeks ago:
Pfft. Making things hotter is easy. The fact that we can regularly make things colder and hold them at that colder temperature is what’s actually impressive in thermodynamics
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 weeks ago:
Bro obviously they’re lauding physical mechanical buttons, not condemning useful features. Every single thing you listed can be controlled with manual tactile buttons. The issue that people have is with needless touchscreens and unnecessary digital interfaces.
- Comment on Have Fallout 4 and New Vegas again, say Bethesda, and also a release date for Fallout 76's Burning Springs 4 weeks ago:
So basically it’s just the existing game as is, but with “credit” to spend on disgusting paid mods. Revolting.
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
Ummm was your childhood stunted or something? 12yos absolutely can be capable of complex emotional intelligence and reasoning. Hell, for most of humanity “childhood” wasn’t even a concept and an adult was anyone over 13.
And don’t get me wrong, that we can gift our young the idea of “childhood” is simply one of the greatest achievements of the modern world, so I’m not out here trying to say kids should be considered adults again, but I think you are vastly underestimating the capability of children. Especially children who are trauma survivors and haven’t had the benefit of the slow progress of childhood gifted to them.
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
Image doesn’t show for me.
And I’m well aware of the difference, I’m saying that you are perceiving how people have been using the term wrong. People say meme when talking about image macros the same way people say fruit when talking about apples; it applies because the thing being discussed is an example of the field but it is not the whole of the field.
It is okay to be wrong. People will respect you more if you simply say “wow, I guess I didn’t realize that.”
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
What a stupid take; I don’t know who coined the term “coffee,” does that mean I don’t know what coffee is?
And yeah sorry to inform you dude, but you are the only one incorrectly thinking that meme means “funny image.”
What you’re describing is an image macro, a specific type of meme.
And honestly taking it further, it is the templates used themselves that are mematic, not the individual images themselves, if we wanna get real pedantic about it.
Meme does not, and has never, been “funny images that follow a template” any more than “music” is “down tuned guitar riffs over blast beats.” That is just a singular example of the greater form.
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
My guy, that is how everyone else uses the word.
Again, what definition are you using, because the rest of us are entirely in the dark about what you mean
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 4 weeks ago:
Yes, and therein lies the humor, the juxtaposition of opining in casual tone what feels implied by the speaker to be mundane and relatable but which is in fact extremely niche and specifically un-relatable.
- Comment on Woman 4 weeks ago:
Other than the dude who literally coined the term?
As in like, the definition of a meme? What the hell definition are you using?
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 4 weeks ago:
Not coffee, but we’re getting close:
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
I have no college credits and I would never call a mushroom a vegetable
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
As always, science sets us free.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
I am American.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
Why are we starting this scenario with the arbitrary restriction of 3? Yes, if you give people any number of items and tell them there is a finite number of categories, they were will find a way to divide those items into three. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t come up with a more compelling argument for their choices when told to divide into 4 groups.
At no point have our options ever only been “fruit or vegetable,” but yeah I guess if you tell people those are their only choices of course they’ll adhere. But like… I’ve never known anyone who though those were the only choices?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 5 weeks ago:
I love the attempt to draw people to the classic shock sites of old, but I simply have to complain about this sign:
Lemons are sour, not bitter. This should read “politics left you sour?” instead.
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 1 month ago:
If you listen to any of them and have thoughts you want to express, feel free to let me know! I basically always love any excuse to talk about or listen to people talking about music I like.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 1 month ago:
All the pumpkin spice people get excited about the wrong thing.
Autumn isn’t pumpkin season, Autumn is cranberry season
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 1 month ago:
Dunno if I go actively searching for difficult music, so I may not have the best answer for that specifically, but here are 5 albums I consider hidden gems or underappreciated:
Horse Bitch - RIP Pistachio
Tattle Tale - Sew True
Gaytheist - The Mustache Stays
Codefendants - This Is Crime Wave
Irist - Gloria (actually an EP, if you’ll allow it).
These probably won’t take you 5+ listens to appreciate, but I do think they’re smaller releases worthy of greater attention. Hopefully that’s close enough for you. ✌️