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- Comment on there's a Costco at the other end 1 day ago:
Thanks for confirming my initial thought. I had figured central park was much wider than what my brain was telling me from the picture and the car/building contrast.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 1 day ago:
Half the problem with those is that it is SO easy to justify doing things. Oh, your kid turned out well with a decent job/family/friend group? Well, everything you did must have been worth it then!
I ran into that thinking with my grandmother, when we were just casually discussing pre-k in the context of its effects on people’s chances in life. She immediately threw out the classic, “well, all of [your parent’s siblings and your parent] came out just fine, and we didn’t let them start until first grade! Earlier schooling would have doomed them!”
For them, everything was with “a reason,” even if that reason is completely post-hoc. They don’t do ‘X thing’ that is socially inappropriate? It’s because they were spanked for doing it! Spanking is good! They have a good job now? It’s because they were yelled at if they weren’t studying for hours after school! Yelling is good!
And conversely, they don’t care if the person was hurt. In your example of the traumatized man with an eating disorder? It’s his own damn fault. He was always going to turn out that way. He might have even been fat if he wasn’t yelled at!
It’s just sickening. There’s a reason to cut off parents who don’t acknowledge their actions.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 1 day ago:
I’m really curious who isn’t out here browsing by all. Maybe some lemmy.world weirdos? Like, I scroll my subscriptions, but the majority of my curiosity is sated by all.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 4 days ago:
I think all of my umbrellas can fit two if a couple, and three if everyone is okay with rubbing torsos.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Yeah, and in our current world, there are a lot of specific loopholes that are made to be exploited. It’s almost like the people ‘winning’ the game have written the rules of the game…
- Comment on 4 days ago:
You can actually skip step 1 if you want. That’s what they did with toys’r’us. Those actions have long since convinced me anything financial is just a game played by the very rich.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 4 days ago:
Lol, I now know you can spell gagged with the musical scale. I had never thought about that before. Also, cheech and bach (if, apparently, they use h as a notation for b natural like they do in germany, it seems).
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 4 days ago:
I wish that would become an official thing. Someplace quiet and with dim lighting that isn’t because people don’t want to see closely the making out, but because the room is better with some darkness.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 4 days ago:
Oh my god, I feel so dumb. I really thought you had just made a typo and said shake instead of share.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 4 days ago:
Australia is reserved? Dude, I work with a whole slew of them, and reserved is maaaybe the case at work. Anytime I catch them they’re wild.
- Comment on The future 6 days ago:
There are probably people who care about the idea enough to have it polished, but I’m not one of them, sorry. I think it was a weird fusion of the idea that the council must have known he was already ‘too old,’ that he was potentially the most dangerous being in the galaxy, that he trusted padme, and that he was clearly emotionally fragile. It’s not like anyone could have missed the moon eyes he was making towards her at all times, so something like they were trying to make the best of a bad situation, where if she had rejected him outright he was going to go all moody teenager but with a lightsaber instead of a guitar and badly written rhymes.
It just so happens that ‘whoops!’ It happened because of what they did rather than in spite of it.
- Comment on Roasted 6 days ago:
I think they had backup plans for those cases. Just quickly find your chalk and the chalked name/symbol of the god, and rub one out and lay the other down.
- Comment on The future 6 days ago:
We need to get you reading some more fiction! There are a lot of dystopias where the cold is coming! :D
- Comment on The future 6 days ago:
I still prefer the fan-canon that padme knew what she was doing because trying to emotionally connect and correct the upcoming angry sithy jedi was the only plan the council could come up with. Her (stated/acted on) feelings toward him were all a lie.
- Comment on The future 6 days ago:
Those aren’t the ‘put down the rebellion’ types, they’re just the motivators.
- Comment on The future 6 days ago:
That’s just a cool day. They made the mine in colder climes to keep the erections down.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 6 days ago:
Demon’s Souls, 2009. Tales of series had at least three entries before that with lore on items found in game that I know of. I would bet the others out of the 8 released between the first one I played and 2009 also had something similar. And that’s just one series. You mentioned baldur’s gate 2, which did it, and don’t forget to add its spiritual ancestor of icewind dale along with the original.
I’m sure if you went and looked through a great many games, since there are more than any person can realistically experience/play, there were hordes of them that had world lore from items. None of them that I remember were ‘nebulous.’
- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
Lovely how xkcd seems to have the answers to life and its mysteries.
- Comment on wat 6 days ago:
And Men in Black.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I don’t know what they did, but in the last year that ‘smooth as butter’ turned to randomly lagging and frame spike.s
- Comment on Robbed 1 week ago:
As someone else who doesn’t shave the armpit, my experience is similar. Less of a soul patch and more of a threadbare patch of dying grass though.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
Your view of whether it is disinformation depends on whether you believe church leaders and politicians had sincere beliefs about it, so, obviously, that’s going to be pretty personal to you. I have met several federal level politicians and ‘influential’ church leaders and gotten to know them well enough that I can say they push lies with intent, so I’d be confident in stating that the various flavors of satanic panic weren’t entirely organic and honest.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
The right wing of america and the various christian cultural movements/monoliths have been allies since roughly the reagan campaign. The power of that alliance is a large part of the republican’s base/power. The politicians on the right have a great deal of push on them to parrot christian talking points, like the satanic panic of various flavors that was pushed about music and activities like D&D.
So while the d&d being evil may not have started as right wing propaganda, it quickly became so due to the way the cultural onus of christianity pushed politicians into acting. You can see the same thing with ‘christian’ values around political fighting with abortion, teenage pregnancy / sex education, israel (though that one is obviously much more complicated than just ‘church leaders fetishes -> politicians’ stances), ‘morality’ based laws around prostitution and gambling, etc.
- Comment on Hail math! 1 week ago:
I saw a comic recently where the evil cultist tried to sacrifice his virgin friend to gain power/favor from a demon. Only, whoops! The friend had lied about being a virgin, and the cultist was one. Cultist learned just what the hard way is on that one.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I mean… a little bit of that is a good game design. I’d rather have some things that are just ‘characters living their own lives in universe’ rather than everything revolving around the character’s effect on the world. Fromsoft just goes overboard with some of it.
- Comment on How to sexualize males for a female audience? 1 week ago:
Yep. As much as it just makes me sound like a cynical asshole, again, it felt like that was him acting just like a real person would. Plenty of examples to be made from the current united states situation bullshit.
- Comment on funny how life works 1 week ago:
I think it’s an exercise left to the reader. Probably more likely the second one, as why would she not finish eating it, or eat half and then leave, if it was the first?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Oh, god, yes. I got one of the mechanic simulators with a bundle, and it just boggles my mind that someone would put time into it. Why would you want to simply click highlighted parts in order?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
It’s the nebulous lore part that really gets me. Other games have done the items=lore part before, but weren’t so fart-sniffing about it.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I think fromsoft shot themselves in the foot there. I really enjoyed dark souls 2 because there were a lot of enemies that your positioning and movement were more important than spamming dodge at the exact right time. Then 3 and elden ring came out, and it’s just ocarina of time, except instead of across hyrule field it’s across the anime glowing lines.