TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 19 hours ago:
How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?
- Comment on Anyone else fotklift certified? 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
He does such a good job. I wish he’d be a bit less clickbait-y, but I understand private equity investment means he kinda has to play the game, like many other very good YouTube channels (Veritasium springs to mind).
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
Like the flight where the pilots got lost above Kathmandu and flew right into a cliff like driving into a wall.
(I saw an Air Disasters/Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode about that one years ago and it really stuck with me. Recently Mentour Pilot did a good episode about it.)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
Starstruck Vagabond, Yahtzee Croshaw’s game.
It’s a well-designed game, and he documented much of the development process on YouTube. It has a dopamine-laden primary gameplay loop that involves either manually piloting your ship around a star system to complete missions, or letting the autopilot fly while you run around your ship making repairs as needed.
I wouldn’t say it’s fun, but it’s not necessarily supposed to be fun, in the way that Papers Please is not meant to be fun. It’s mostly about the living as a star freighter pilot. What plot there is is driven by other characters coming in and interrupting the drudgery.
But I love playing it before bed. It winds me down nicely. And it’s perfect for the Steam Deck.
I used to use Stardew Valley as my wind-down game but I found I was staying up much later because “just one more day-itis” sets in. Starstruck Vagabond I can just save and put down whenever.
- Comment on 😥 😥 💔 💔 1 week ago:
*sage nod* Wise words.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
I was going to say, “I’m sure technology connections has done a video on this.”
- Comment on challenge 1 week ago:
You don’t need wood glue? Just the toothpicks?
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 2 weeks ago:
Patternless. Plain white. Which works well, because if you break a plate you don’t have to worry about whether they still make that pattern.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 2 weeks ago:
(Sorry, I didn’t intend to write an essay here. It just sort of happened. This is a subject I have some amount of passion about.)
I can see where you’re coming from. I’m probably a little triggered by the word. I find the idea that any use of or participation in another culture is “appropriation” to be problematic.
Culture and language (which are largely inextricable from one another) are meant to be shared. That’s their entire purpose. If you participate in aspects of someone else’s culture in a respectful way, that isn’t appropriation. Appropriation, rather, is one part of the broad spectrum of behavior with regard to other cultures.
Humans do this innately. We adjust our manners of speech and behavior subconsciously to better reflect that of those around us. We are social creatures and by nature will act like those we interact with.
Societal views operate on pendulum swings, going from extreme to extreme around the nuanced truth. We went, as a society, from “acting however you want about other cultures is fine, even if it’s offensive,” an unhealthy extreme, to “participating in a culture not your own is not okay and is always offensive,” an equally unhealthy extreme. We like extremes because they are easy to categorize and require much less brainpower to contemplate. They are mental shortcuts our brains make.
But the world doesn’t operate on those extremes. The world is a nuanced place.
An example: a Nigerian-American opera singer was telling me about a time he was teaching a spiritual to a choir of white people. He corrected them when they said ‘they’ instead of ‘dey,’ saying, “The West African slaves who sang these didn’t use the ‘TH’ sound, it didn’t exist in the languages they had grown up with or the accents they had handed down. The proper way to approach this song is to sing it like they would. So you should say ‘dey’ instead of ‘they.’”
But this idea made many of the white singers uncomfortable, because we have shifted to seeing that type of cultural mimicry as offensive. I have seen white people even suggest that they shouldn’t sing spirituals at all, an idea that same Kenyan-American singer found silly. Singing is a way that humans connect with one another, and the best way to do it is to do it as genuinely as possible. It’s a shared experience. But where we are as a society these days, we find that uncomfortable.
And it’s understandable we do, because the extreme, blackface minstrel shows, is rightly seen as horribly offensive. But accurately performing a spiritual is so far removed from the horribly offensive and inaccurate mockery that were minstrel shows that the comparison isn’t a useful one.
We should strive to understand context, strive to be respectful, but also strive to share in the culture of others in constructive ways.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but the steak breakfast Crunchwrap (with extra creamy jalapeño sauce) is still the best fast food drivethru breakfast I’ve found.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 2 weeks ago:
The use of the word “appropriation” and “appropriated” seems unnecessary when discussing someone’s name, IMO. Especially given you also used the phrase “a celebration of the Western Australian aboriginal culture.”
The connotation of “appropriation” just doesn’t fit.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 weeks ago:
This is an old screenshot. The Quesarito, God rest its soul, has been gone for a while. And the scroll at the bottom is talking about George Floyd.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming less white: “This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You want to go back to the jungle?” 2 weeks ago:
Fuck off, you groomed your stepdaughter and fathered children with her. No one should give a flying fuck what racist shit you spout.
- Comment on Knows more than most scientists… according to one extremely reliable source: themselves 2 weeks ago:
Also in some cases it gives them a built-in sense of community and belonging, something they haven’t experienced. The documentary Behind the Curve does a good job of pitying flat earthers rather than just ridiculing them. (Though they are absolutely subject to ridicule.)
- Comment on Do Your Part to Keep Them Alive 2 weeks ago:
They need to be deep cycle marine batteries for that!
- Comment on I knew it 2 weeks ago:
You mean the Series X?
It’s about the same footprint but much shorter.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
Like I said, Protestant churches come in many flavors. MANY flavors.
What you’re saying is like, “Every quadrilateral I’ve seen lately has four equal sides and four right angles, I think you’re wrong about them only needing four sides.”
Evangelicals are (generally) Protestants (although “Evangelical” isn’t really any sort of organized body but rather something people identify as), but not all Protestants identify as Evangelicals. Those who preach the Prosperity Gospel would profess to be Protestant or Evangelical, but not all Protestants or even all Evangelicals buy into Prosperity Gospel.
Again, the most progressive denominations of Christianity are Protestant. That said, so are the least progressive denominations. It’s a huge category.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 2 weeks ago:
Protestantism.
Protestantism is Christianity but Jesus is Replaced with Capitalism. If you’re rich, God has chosen you. If you’re poor you have definitely committed every sin.
To help the poor is therefore a betrayal of God.
That is very much not Protestantism. Protestantism is simply the branches of Christianity that descend from the Reformation in the 1500s, “Protesting” what they saw as corruption and even heresy in the Roman Catholic Church. Broadly speaking, Christianity falls into three major categories: the Roman Catholic Church (with the pope and whatnot), Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. Protestant churches come in many different flavors.
Most (if not all) of the most progressive and Christ-like churches are Protestant.
What you’re talking about is Prosperity Gospel. Which is completely antithetical to Christian theology, but that doesn’t stop greedy megachurch preachers and televangelists from pushing it onto ignorant people who know nothing about their own faith.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yep.
Marry Chandler. Stable, wealthy, empathetic, and funny.
Fuck Joey. Dude exists to be sexy.
Kill Ross. Annoying, whiny, selfish.
- Comment on Enlightened 3 weeks ago:
That must be a massive and ugly file.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
I totally forgot about that. 🤣
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
RDR2 really doesn’t need a remake. It came out in 2018, and its graphics are still pretty amazing today.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
A remake of RDR1?
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have to do any of that other stuff. Is ancillary. The game will reward you for it, but it’s completely unnecessary.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 3 weeks ago:
I was the same way. I suggest you do finish it though, especially if you’ve done some of the side missions along the way. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the way they work actions you made, missions you did, and choices you took into the end is really cool and it made me get all verklempt.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 weeks ago:
Those bastards. Union busting and PC racism?
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 weeks ago:
cause I don’t have PlayStation
Isn’t it also releasing on PC and Xbox?
- Comment on Everytime 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, but I can kind of see it. 🤣
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 4 weeks ago:
There was a fire bite!!!