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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ahoy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nag he’s fine, he just has no idea what he’s doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one step closer to 100%'ing life!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one step closer to 100%'ing life!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you have relatively good parents, it is still an important step to realize just how many beliefs, habits, personality traits, worldviews, et al you’ve picked up from your childhood, usually primarily your parents. Many of these things are truly bizarre, or at least “not normal”, even a “normal” childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But they do have dedicated buttons for share/record/streaming and other social gaming activities. You can’t reassign them either. Social gaming activities is what Nintendo is doing here, essentially. The article makes it seem like “oh no I can’t jump in Mario if I don’t pay a monthly fee”. They’re providing a button shortcut if you want to use their game chat when you’re online gaming. It is useless if you’re not online gaming. That’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing burger. You need an online subscription to say online. How many people are realistically going to use a Nintendo Switch to hop on Game Chat and NOT play online games with the people you are chatting with?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take cover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t mind at all, if I had any hope whatsoever that they would give a single shit about what I wrote other than to check if I actually did it. In fact, places that require it are less likely to accept me, in my experience. They just want to seem exclusive and important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. That’s why religion and politics don’t mix. Someone truly spiritual is bad at playing politics, a politician can rarely be genuine. So then it just becomes a self sustaining system that doesn’t do or help anyone.

  I agree.

  Right now I’m just done for now attending anywhere and mostly with studying anything, aside from a few things like looking into Hinduism a bit, visiting with someone to a different sect of Christianity, stuff like that. I’d be pretty surprised if there was no intelligent design or greater purpose to the world. I do believe some form of spirituality is important to the human experience. I’m not married to any idea at the moment though.

  Thank you, that’s more than anyone else said :) I haven’t lost her yet, but it’s just a matter of time. A few more years at most. And mt sister has decided now is the appropriate time to say she hates me and has always hayed me and roped my adopted brother into the drama. My dad has been the opposite of helpful with that, my other sister is trying to be there for me. So I don’t know how or when I’m ever going back to visit again. It’s a whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The oversimplified explanation: they are stupid/unwise/shallow. I couldn’t have said it better myself than your last sentence, that’s exactly the narrative purpose of the prequel Jedi order.

  They have the correct words memorized, but they don’t understand what it actually means. Anakin is able to quote “unconditional love is encouraged, it is just attachment that is forbidden”. When he goes to Yoda after having nightmares of the future, he tells Anakin that he must learn to let go of the thing he is afraid to lose, since it is just a part of life. Is any of that wrong? Not particularly, was Yoda unconditionally loving him, or did he uncaringly spout dogma at him when he could clearly tell he was struggling. No questions of what it was about, no follow up, no kind words, no empathy, no nothing. There’s a lot more to it as well, but I’ll just touch on the clouding of the future. So, they could generally see the future before this point, and now they can’t. And they don’t think this is odd or concerning? They’re not on their toes enough to expect a trap or a feisty? Mace floats the idea of telling the senate in episode 3, many years after it started. Just because they are the ones the presuppose they are trying to do good and find the answers doesn’t mean that they will always have the answers or always be strong. Pretending otherwise led to the downfall of the free world.

  I am all too familiar with the mindset as someone who was raised very Christian. Jesus himself even criticizes the practice of “tithing the mint and cumin, but ignoring thr weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness.” Basically. the religious leaders of the time took the old law’s command to give a tithe (one tenth) of your income to God SO seriously that they’d dump out every slice on their spice rack into a table once a week, and carefully divide it into 10 equal pieces, and give a tenth to God. Yet they completely missed the point of religion, the concepts and real people that actually matter. Even for the small things, why did God want them to tithe their belongings? Not because he came down and grabbed it from the altar every night, but so it could go to people who needed it but couldn’t afford it. Yet the religious leaders neglected the orphans and widows in the community. They were too enthralled with the specifics (and their own additional dogma) that when God himself came, they killed him because they didn’t recognize his teachings as the same thing they “followed”. Whether you believe in the Bible or not, it is a universal truth about humanity, and unfortunately even so-called Christians have learned nothing from this.

  Similar to Anakin, I left my local church of over a decade because my mom got cancer, and nobody said a thing about it to me. I called out one guy on it later, and he was basically like “yeah but she’ll go to heaven so no big deal right? I don’t know what you want me to say” Like yeah maybe, even if I fully believe that (which I’m not sure I do anymore) or in Buddhism where we all become a part of something greater, I still have emotions and it would sure be great if anyone cared enough to help me process them. If God gave us emotions, it was for a purpose, not to ignore them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but also no. Due to all the good Star Wars video games and the emphasis on dualism, we think of force powers as abilities unlocked on a skill tree, and you have to choose to use or not use them, or it’ll make your dark side points go up. That’s not really the case though. Everyone uses the Force for telekinesis. Force Choke is just telekinesis, except increasing the pressure specifically around the throat. Sure, you can kill someone and be “good” or Light Side, even specifically that way theoretically. But let’s be honest here: it was a way for Vader to torture or kill underlings that questioned him to assert his authority to aura farm. Not out of love, not out of any sense of “I need to do this to make the world better”. So it is a “dark side power” in practice, because of your intention. There is some debate about how Palpatine’s master (have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?) was able to extend life. But at least one popular books says that it was by literally sucking the life energy out of someone else to extend your own life, increasingly having to kill more to extend your life by increasingly shorter periods. So yes, defying the laws of the universe of life and death, and using life itself (the Force that is a part of us all and we are all part of it) to inflict suffering, pain, and death, just to extend your own life ("you” really just being the Force too that exists for a small period of time, think Buddhism) is definitely a corruption of the Force for evil purposes. But if you were able to do this to sacrifice your own life to save multiple others, or even to save one person who can serve a greater purpose, perhaps that wouldn’t be seen as the Dark Side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucas himself kept it pretty simple. From interviews and the movies themselves, his narrative is that the dark side is a corruption and abuse of the force. Think like burning through natural resources, instead of renewable energy. The Force is not a finite resource in that way exactly, but corrupting the Force can have wider effects sociologically. This may seem. overly simple at first, but I don’t think it is.

  But you know, death of the author and all that. The expanded universe saved Star Wars in my opinion, and gave it a lot of much needed depth. There was a lot of info about lessons Luke had to learn about accepting all parts of himself, and learning how fear, even of himself, leads to the dark side. He hesitated using powers like force lightning or mind manipulation because of how evil it seemed. But he learned that it isnt an act itself, but the indention behind it that matters, as well as the rezoning behind it. Dominating another’s mind to aura farm is not the move, but a Jedi mind trick to save lives is acceptible,for example. This was expanded in more in the EU by those that walk a middle path, the Grey Jedi.

  The Prequels reinforced this by highlighting how imperfect and ultimately impotent the Jedi order was at the time of Palatine’s rise. I think that was intended even by Lucas.

  While I don’t believe the discourse online that Anakin killing all Jedi and Sith WAS the balancing of the Force, the Jedi Order DID need to be reworked. Just like how religion in real life isn’t perfect and needs reform kn a regular basis, but we do need people to tell us to be nice to other humans and form a certain kind of social accountability. We certainly DON’T need an equal, “balanced” amount of people whose religion is mass genocide and “might makes right” to the degree that they kill their teachers (often guardians that raised them) as a rite of passage.

  I’m not going to pretend there was any subtext to the sequels since there isn’t even a main text.

  Source: used to be WAY too much of a Star Wars nerd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy or Piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’d already had a Lemmy account I’d probably have just stuck with that but yeah Piefed has more features. The combined comments from cross posts are really nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between Woke and Political Correctness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on if you’re talking about actual woke, ironic woke, or Trump 2.0 era woke. Actual woke is opening your third eye to see what’s really going on around you, making you based. Ironic woke is calling someone/something woke that is clearly not as a joke. In reality, the person being referenced is probably getting their opinions from the hive mind of public consensus like most people, but a different hive mind that makes them THINK they’re enlightened and woke. Trump 2.0 era woke is “anything the most diabolical far right supporter doesn’t like or makes them slightly uncomfortable” which is just about everything. Politically correct aligns most with ironic woke because it relies on consensus on what is deemed “unprofessional” or “offensive”. It’s not inherently a bad thing though, it involves avoiding outdated terminology like “negro” or “retarded” which we should all do at this point despite them being the preferred politically correct term at one point. But it can go too far, and often leads to being politically incorrect to criticize certain groups at all, which is not actual woke. Being actually woke is aware of reality, even if it is offensive to bring up certain things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can people know what they want at a given moment?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying this is OP specifically or anything, but I have long suspected that some fellow humans just aren’t as…conscious/sapient as the rest of us. Like literal NPCs. It would explain a lot. No I’m not talking about anything race or eugenics related, not going there at ALL. Just sometimes I’ve met people and wondered “…did we grow up on the same planet?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, women do enjoy sex. Pleasure and pain can be mixed in enjoyable ways during sex, but no, it is not normal to experience pain during sex, nor is it required. You have to be lubricated enough. At the doctor, they will use their own lubricant, but having a stranger examine you is one of the least sexy experiences out there, and they use a somewhat sharp, cold metal instrument to stretch and hold you open beyond what inserting a penis would do. So it is not surprising that it hurts and is uncomfortable. Sticking something inside yourself “cold” with no buildup or sexual desire will have a similar effect. It is not a pocket.

  A few things:

  Since it appears you have not had sex before and don’t use sex toys very much, you probably still have your hymen intact. This is a membrane that will eventually be torn by inserting something. Sometimes this is a bit painful, sometimes it bleeds, sometimes you don’t even notice. Once that is out of the way, you should be good to go.

  Key word being “should”. It is always possible that you have a condition such as vaginismus, which causes unusual pain. If so, there are types of physical therapy that can help or overcome it. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned. Tip: you may want to bring a man with you, even if it is your dad. Vagina stuff is often not taken seriously by doctors. It is dumb but I don’t make the rules, just stating facts.but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite PSP games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite is when I go pspspspspsp to my dog and he comes over for cuddles.

  No but really, if we’re talking full exclusives, Ridge Racers 2 is pretty much all the good stuff about the old RR series but with better graphics and most of the content from all games. If we’re talking non exclusives (sometimes the best version though), Final Fantasy IV, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics WoTL, and Tactics Ogre, Let US Cling Together are pretty top tier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Japanese titles are like that. Sexy subtitle? Intriguing name? Nope, you get Gun Shooter 4. At least they’re extremely clear about what you get, like the anime I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Originally it meant what it sounds like: to be awake and alert about what is really going in around you, and not being pulled into a false sense of security or fooled by propaganda. This is as old as the 1930s, then got repopularized by Eryka Back in the 90s. There were some minor Menes about it like “wake up sheeple!” poking fun at truthers, or “woke vs broke”. Sometimes a meme, sometimes legit messaging.

  Broke: Racism is over bro, and slavery was a million years ago.

  Woke: Racism has gotten more hidden and insidious. There have been systematic changes to keep racial minorities in the poor parts of town with lots of crime, the FBI introduced crack cocaine to inner cities in the 80s, and then fake post racism truthers glorified gangs and the drug trade and praised it as “black culture”. Then they proceed to have private prisons and have young black men perform slave labor in jail when they are inevitably arrested, as a way to get around traditional slave labor.”

  Then the state of high budget media devolved into what it now is: pandering, fake “woke” garbage with race swapping popular characters. Inevitably this rage baited a lot of people, even minorities that are supposedly being “represented” now. So “woke” became an ironic term to mean “fake woke”, rainbow capitalism as one example.

  Then this ironic use got way out of hand and just means “any positive messaging about anything remotely progressive” or “acknowledging that nonwhite males exist sometimes” or even “something that I don’t like”. In a way, this in a way is back to the original meaning. Reactionary conservatives hate anything that breaks them out of their fragile bubble and makes them consider reality for what it is.

  Both original meaning and ironic meaning is somewhat usable still, but only if I have already gotten to know someone and where they stand politically and ethically. To have someone I don’t know well bring up the term unprompted in a non joking way throws up red flags.

  Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to take this shit post seriously for some reason. Sometimes people confuse morality with practicality. Or associate ick factor with immorality, or even things associated with something gross with immorality. Yet, they are all related for a reason.

  We have an inherent revulsion to fucking dead things. This is because dead things spread diseases. Also culturally it is disrespectful and gross. Practically, it is best to decide as a society to not allow that, and shun people who do it. If you practice safe sex with the corpse, and nobody legitimately knows or is hurt by this action, is it morally acceptable? Maybe, but what are truly the chances of a freak who would fuck a corpse wearing a condom because he’s concerned for future sexual partners? If he is a necrophiliac, what are the chances that this wouldn’t extend to killing to achieve this, or stealing bodies, which would be traumatic for the people related to the people whose bodies he acquired? If he is wired differently and doesn’t get this ick factor from fucking dead things the way regular humans do, either his brain is a little messed up, he has gone through some traumatic,personality changing experiences, or he has specifically sought our to desensitize himself from shame. Do you want to trust such a person in society? Or correct deviant behaviors before they become a problem. There’s a lot more context than a specific example in a vacuum.

  Incidentally, this is what some people don’t get about pedophilia/related philias. An ex girlfriend of mine once had a discussion with me that people were obsessed with age gaps online. While true, I didn’t agree with her because she went on to say “when I was a teenager, I remember going to a concert for my favorite band and wishing I could fuck the lead singer. If that had happened, I would have been happy and still talk about it today, not gap about how it was abuse.” And yeah, maybe, in that instance, it would have been fine. Or maybe he would have pulled a Steve Tyler and became her legal guardian so he could fuck her all the time and been abusive and controlling, and derailed her future by taking her out of school and on tour with him and getting her pregnant then leaving. Is it POSSIBLE to have someone underage consent? Maybe (and a big maybe at that) but really what are the chances that it is a completely healthy and fulfilling relationship that will be positive for both people in the long run? Stigmatizing inappropriate age gap relationships only benefits society. 18 is an arbitrary line, to be sure. Is 17 or 16 OK? Multiple developed countries think so. 15? Not so sure, maybe focus on the actual size of the age gap there, which most countries do. But at some point we have to draw the line as a society to just say “no, sexual activity with this child is not allowed” to not allow for abuse of trust, because kids don’t know what is best for them and what they want yet.

  This nuance is hard for people to understand. Even in organized religion, where God presumably has all the “right” answers, there is not always an absolute answer. In Christianity, Paul for example writes to focus on doing what’s right for the most amount of people, and not flexing your “rights” on others even if it bothers others. Mysteriously, this part of the bible tends to not be remembered, and religious people instead veer towards absolutism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Entombed starts playing*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends wildly on what type of death metal you prefer. There are some more classic death recs from Sweden, particularly Entombed, but Sweden is most popular for developing melodic death. At The Gates and In Flames are the one-two punch for getting into the melodic death sub genre. Soilwork is even more approachable, sort of the bridge to death core in some ways.

  Amon Amarth is a little bit of classic, a little melodic, a little black metal, and a little symphonic.

  People will argue with me that Opeth is melodic, but they basically are in a different way, and more progressive than anything, especially these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m going to avoid paying the devs directly what they are worth, I’ll just pirate. Paying for keys just wastes money and risks getting your account banned. There are a few multiplayer exceptions but again, I’ll just pay the devs then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google Translate good for (non-basic) Spanish regaridng in-depth dialog?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it extensively while flirting with a Mexican girl who eventually became my wife :) I understand Spanish a lot better now though I sometimes use a translator if she sends a wall of text because I’m lazy.

  It’s not perfect, nothing really can be, particularly slang/idioms. It translates pretty literally, it’s a machine. Puns you’d have to pay attention to yourself, thr translator is not going to go “BTW did you notice she said x and then x? Clever!”

  In your example it is up to you to interpret the meaning of an exaggeration. That’s pretty much exactly how you’d say it in English or Spanish in that situation.

  Lastly I recommend Offline Translator by David Ventura these days. It is based on Mozilla Firefox’s tech, FOSS, no trackers, and is on F-Droid. It doesn’t take up too much space and is faster since it does it offline instead of sending to Google’s servers. I am trying to De-Google my life due to privacy concerns. Some people on this thread recommended DeepL, which I do not. The accuracy is pretty top tier, but it has an even worse privacy policy than Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it pretty hard to believe that you couldn’t find a major game on Epic or the Microsoft store. An indie title? Sure, a lot of those are limited to Steam, because the devs prefer it.

  No idea what you’re on about with not being able to price below Steam. That is not a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also multiple places to buy from. Steam is pretty dominant, but only because they’re the best option. You can buy from Sony on PlayStation, that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyber Hook. 1st person grappling hook 3D platforming speed runner with an 80s retro futurism aesthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe they are drawn towards the confidence this process makes them feel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should watch it, it is pretty funny. It’s kind of like the Lego movie, where it is surprisingly good at capturing the ethos of why people like the product instead of just being corporate slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is debatable. But when you’re using them all together though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked Cuphead and beat it. But I just cannot do that again unless it is a bit easier. It took years off my life, harder than any Souls game and harder than most Nintendo hard 2D games from back in the day too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN | Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is my main thing. I miss it being an OPTION when I’m in that type of mood. I don’t need it to be industry standard. Could you imagine that for something like The Last of Us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it bad if I say I don’t remember?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PC with mods I’d say. i think they are doing a remake with both games but it’s been quiet on news for a while