SaraTonin

@SaraTonin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It makes me shudder⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it

  Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people

  It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help

  Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It makes me shudder⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is It just be that loathes the word “autist”? Gives me real “Oriental” or “the blacks” vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a man of many minds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read it, but I don’t find Hitchen’s argumentative style in other venues to be better than Dawkins’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a man of many minds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am as atheist as it’s possible to be. I’ve never been even slightly religious and there’s no part of me that even vaguely believes in anything religious, supernatural, or superstitious.

  I read The God Delusion and I found it extremely weak and unconvincing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Um.... no.... 🫩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What they mean is That they’ll give you “insights” and “recommendations” which they absolutely know people are going to treat as gospel and medical advice at least as good as that from a doctor, but that their legal team has advised them that having disclaimers and caning it something like “wellness” will be enough to avoid legal responsibility when people inevitably die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Without commenting on any specific meme (if for no other reason than that imgur is booked the UK and i can’t see the image) and without meaning to disparage OP in any way, because i believe they are asking an honest question, i think that sometimes it’s a question of framing. I think of it like this:

  Say you’ve broken your leg and it’s painful for you to hobble around on crutches. You get to work and find that the lift (elevator for the yanks) is out of order. You work on the 20th floor and have no choice but to take the stairs. You talk about how unpleasant this is going to be for you, and a colleague says “yes, everybody hates taking the stairs”. Maybe they do, but it’s not the same thing.

  Which again isn’t to suggest that everybody posting memes about neurodivergence is talking about real traits, just that the idea that “everybody runs out of social battery sometimes and therefore everybody is on the spectrum somewhere” isn’t really accurate. It can be the difference between deciding to skip a party because you’d rather curl up with a book and spending 4 months not exchanging a single word with another human being. Or the difference between having a favourite film which you say you’re “obsessed” with and spending 9 days straight watching it on repeat while only sleeping 4 hours a night because the other 20 are you watching the film.

  A decade or two ago people used to say “everybody’s a little bit OCD”. That seems to have fallen out of fashion now. I’m reminded of the meme which goes something like one person saying “I’m a bit OCD, i arrange my books by colour”, and the second person saying “cool. I think that if I don’t flip the light switch 40 times all my family will die”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you there, God?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The sun is blowing up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games then vs now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the whole “achievement unlocked” thing is from when Flash games were king

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand what you’re saying and the political point you’re making but welfare, in political terms, is defined as state intervention via public institutions to ensure the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That over-simplifies the definition of neoliberalism, and the contested nature of definitions of that term. It also ignores the differences between the liberalism that Thatcher claimed and her actual policies (although I’m not claiming that Hayak, for example, wasn’t part of the then-current definition of liberalism), particularly her social policies.

  I promise you, despite what Wikipedia claims, if a British newspaper were to refer to a liberal politician, they would not include Thatcher and Johnson.

  Firstly, the social aspect of the term liberalism is more prominant than the economic. And secondly, it would be rare in the modern age to see it applied to Hayakian economics as opposed to Keyensian.

  Neoliberalism, as a term, is to liberalism as Libertarian is to liberalism. They share a root and you can point to similarites, but once you scratch beneath the surface they aren’t all that similar and have important areas of opposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be more specific on the capitalism front, liberals generally support a well-regulated market which also has safety nets like welfare. As opposed to positions like neoliberalism which supports As opposed to positions like neoliberalism, which supports laissez-faire markets and opposes welfare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberal in the UK definitely doesn’t mean neoliberal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More generally, it’s not that cables are bad, it’s that audiophiles have way more money than sense. I’m not exaggerating when i say that I’ve seen short speaker cables sell for £6,000. Anything more than £5 will be of exactly the same quality as the £5 cable. You could maybe argue me up to £15-20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the writers of Freely (maybe Tim Minear?) did a blog post many moons ago where he outlined what some unresolved plot threads were and future episodes. You’re right that it was better off being cancelled. Even Nathan Fillion has said that the reason it’s so beloved is That it never had the opportunity to become bad.

  Let me give you the example that stood out to me. Remember in the pilot where Inara gets out a syringe when she hears about Reavers being nearby? Everybody assumed she was going to kill herself. Nope. There was going to be an episode where they got boarded by Reavers and Inara was left alone with them. The crew move heaven and Earth to get back on board and when they do they find Inara barely alive, surrounded by hundreds of dead Reavers. The syringe was full of a Companion drug which kills anybody who has sex with you. So Inara killed then all by letting them rape her.

  Mal would have been sweet and tender during her recovery, and that is what would have brought them together.

  Probably for the best that one never got made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wish I was her⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was 10+ years ago now, too, so more then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wish I was her⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best half of a business conversation i ever heard was “look, the bottom line is this: give her £100,000 a year, give her a Porsche, give her her own office, give her a secretary, and she’ll bring in more than a million in profit every year.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No i never had windows 8. Unless they retroactively updated windows 7 to go fullscreen it had to be 10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You did still have to install a third-party app to get the start menu not to take up the whole screen, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even retail. I can’t count the number of professional emails I’ve had, including from managers with huge salaries with basic grammar and spelling mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No i didn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that I like his suit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are genuinely and unironically men out there who don’t wash their own arses because touching a man’s arse is gay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m burnt out on it at this point. In the whole bullet haven gameplay loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got something like 200 hours in Vampire Survivors, and it cost me less than a fiver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sometimes it ain't just about dat math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…you do see the irony here, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got perhaps an unusual one - 99% of the time I play games with the music turned off. I just find it much more immersive and I enjoy, for example, not knowing that combat is about to start because the music’s just changed.

  There are plenty of games where you can’t turn the music off. I’m not a fan of that, but I get it. The devs want you to play their game in a certain way, and turning the music off isn’t part of that. No complaints.

  But then there are games which allow you to turn the music off, but all the rest of the sound has been made under the assumption that the music will be playing. The music often covers up a litany of jankiness like background sound effects not looping well. And sometimes the atmosphere sounds (say the drone of an engine in a spaceship) are also controlled by the music slider.

  So, if you’re going to give the option to turn the music off, make sure that the game still sounds good without the music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it’s cutscenes in general. I know there are people who do care in general, but for me a game where I care about the plot is very rare. And the examples I can think of (Outer Wilds, or Ico, for two examples) either have no cutscenes or very few brief ones, and tell the story in a different, more immersive way.

  For me, a general rule is - if the game forces moments on me when I can put the controller down and wander into a different room, then that’s not what I’m interested in. I want to actually play the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like 8-bit gaming, I recommend getting the free BBC micro emulator BeebEm

  Then get the ROM Citadel

  It’s a Metroidvania from before either Metroid or Castlevania. It still plays well, it’s still difficult, the puzzles are logical but require thought, and it’s several hours of gameplay to complete.