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- Comment on Former N.F.L. Player Is Arrested After Protest Over MAGA Plaque | Chris Kluwe, a former punter for the Vikings, was arrested after speaking at a City Council meeting in Huntington Beach, Calif. 4 hours ago:
No, not usually.
The problem is that once you say something “they” don’t like, “they” can and will find something to come after you for.
“They”, in this case, being whatever power is in place.
In this case, the thing they arrested him for was not given in the article, but he was physically moving towards where “they” were sitting, so it’ll be some trumped up bullshit like disturbing the peace, or communicating threats that aren’t actually related to what he was doing.
- Comment on Why have an adversarial legal system? 10 hours ago:
Okay, I have to make a few assumptions to come at this.
First, that because you’re using English, you’re going to be most interested in an answer framed about the systems of the countries where English is a, or the, main language used.
Second, that you don’t want a shit ton of detail, because you otherwise would have looked possibilities up yourself, because there’s character limits.
Third, that because you asked here, that you don’t want a pile of links (which I’m rarely willing to do nowadays anyway).
So, here’s my general purpose answer within those assumptions, which means precision and accuracy aren’t 100% a factor. None of this applies everywhere.
So, we gotta start with trials. A trial assumes a state, as in a government of some kind. Could be as small scale as a clan or tribal council, could be as big as a nation.
If you don’t start there, it gets crazy trying to fill in.
A trial, by definition, is when the body of the populace (the state), regardless of the organization of that populace, accuses someone of having violated the rules of that body. It’s the “state” saying : you did this, and the individual or group saying “nuh-uh”.
That’s the gist of what criminal justice is.
By the nature of such a thing, you have to have a way of deciding what is and isn’t okay during the trial, and you have to decide who determines the outcome. In monarchies, or feudal systems, it would be whatever ruler is in charge, though they may delegate that decision (as in a crown prosecutor, and judges)
Point being that a trial is inherently adversarial. It’s an accusation against a person or persons, and them having to refute that.
In order to bypass that, you have to eschew any organization of people at all. It’s person vs person, no trials, they hash their shit out. Which is still adversarial, but we have to limit this.
So, there’s always sides when there’s a disagreement. It’s unavoidable. If the state says you did it, and you say you didn’t, and you’re allowed a defense at all, the only question is what sides do what, with what resources. A panel of judges is just as adversarial in practice.
When did that start? At least as far back as written history. It’s a dilemma that’s human. You ever have a sibling or other relative say you did something? If you didn’t do it, or you don’t want to admit you did, until that issue is resolved, shit is unpleasant.
If it’s your siblings, mom and/or dad make the decision, fairly or unfairly.
In a bigger group, it might be the elders, or whatever. Accusations of wrongdoing require resolution for a harmonious group.
When decisions are made by a single individual, like a king, you have to rely on that king being smart, fair, and even handed, as well as wise in handing out resolutions.
So, people all around the world have rules for that.
A lot of the kind of rules you’ll find in the US, Canada, Australia, and places that used to be owned by the British Crown, follow rules that originated as British law. Not every detail, see the initial assumptions and disclaimers already made. But, as a broad thing, the body of law built up in England heavily influenced law in places they owned or dominated.
A lot of that has origins in Rome and Greece, and other preceding cultures, but that’s outside the scope of this.
So, chances are that whatever legal system you’re asking about, came about because of the way the British Empire did things. But you can look to the Magna Carta for the more recognizable facets of it. That was a document setting out rules between the ruling people on how they would treat each other.
But the key to it is that people, in general, need protections from people in power. So those in power sometimes agree to have a system in place to minimize unfairness, at least on the surface (and that’s ignoring how successful that is or isn’t).
That’s how it came about, an attempt to spread out or blunt the power of the state against individuals.
Like you said, panels can work, as long as all the power isn’t vested in that panel. If your group of judges isn’t perfect, then it’s no better than a king making the decision arbitrarily.
In theory, having the state have to present a case, while the accused offers a defense, and a jury making the decision while a judge makes sure everyone follows the rules, should be the way least prone to corruption and even when it fails, it should still be a mitigation of abuses of power. Obviously, it doesn’t work perfectly. As long as the rules are applied evenly to all, and the base assumption is that the state has the onus of proof, that’s as good as it gets in terms of humans trying to make decisions about other humans.
To bring this to a close, let me apologize for things being disjointed. We have a rogue rooster to deal with, so I’ve been writing this in between handling stuff, which means my thoughts were not allowed to flow the way I’d prefer. So I know I missed stuff, and that it doesn’t all connect the way I’d prefer. But I gotta figure out what the hell to do with this little guy, and that means no editing.
- Comment on are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that? 19 hours ago:
Like the other guy said, you missed a part, an important part
- Comment on are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that? 1 day ago:
Damn, you see those worms? What did you do to the can?
Look, this is a very hot button subject. So I have to make a disclaimer.
Trans rights are human rights, full stop.
TERF: trans exclusionary radical feminist.
There’s two parts to that. The first one is “radical feminist”. That ideology is where the people that hold to it believe that society as a whole has to be restructured to eliminate patriarchy and male domination. Those two things are damn near identical, but there’s enough difference to matter for some things.
The other part is “trans exclusionary”. As should be obvious, the concept is a rejection of the principle that trans women are women.
Now, the term terf has expanded to include any woman that rejects the womanhood of trans women, even if they aren’t actually radical feminists.
So, no, not all terfs are actually recommended feminists. But only because the terminology has shifted. At this point, I think it’s fair to say that it’s shorthand for transphobic women despite its origin.
That being said, yeah, radical feminism is an accepted aspect of feminism as a whole, so technically any terf that is a radical feminist isa feminist.
That’s the strict answer to your question
Here’s the problem with that.
Who decides what is and isn’t womanhood? Who decides what is and isn’t acceptable in defining feminism, or who is and isn’t a feminist?
Within the framework of radical feminism, and only within that framework (see my initial disclaimer for my belief), trans women being born with male anatomy can exclude them. There are inclusionary radical feminists that see trans women as a natural extension of the principles. Some of those, however, also lump trans men as enemies because they’ve abandoned their womanhood to submit to the patriarchy.
Radical anything tends to be about absolutism. It’s all or nothing.
And that’s where terfs fall. That’s where radical feminists fall, no matter who they do or don’t include/exclude. So, it’s actually difficult to peg them as transphobic, because the underlying belief system is not the same as other forms of transphobia. It does still fall under duck rule (they walk and quack like transphobes), but when it comes to deconstructing their arguments, you have to come at it from a different angle when combating their attempts at enforcing their beliefs. It’s like trying to fight a grease fire with water if you don’t come at it right.
I know that’s beyond the scope of your question, but I think it’s an extension that matters.
Right now, the war is about survival. And that war currently is one that needs minds changed. If you go at terfs as standard bigots, you run afoul of women that aren’t terfs, but can be influenced by them when they can claim to be targeted as women.
In their heads, it’s a battle to keep men out of women’s spaces, to keep the invasion of men into yet another aspect of women’s lives. Since the fallout of misogyny and patriarchy is actually a constant pressure to fall into line, any attacker becomes the enemy. You can’t sway the undecided when you are actually attacking the terfs as bigots, dismissing them yet again for being women, for not acquiescing to external controls.
You have to go specifically at their arguments, surgically. You aren’t going to sway the terfs. But you can sway others by deconstructing their arguments, in a way you can’t with a “normal” transphobe that’s using religion or arbitrary hate (woke haters mainly) as their driving cause.
I’m not saying that you can’t counter terfs. That you have to accept their belief as valid. Again, see my disclaimer. I’m only talking about how to frame the war of words to limit their effectiveness.
Part of that is accepting that they are a branch of feminism, or can be.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Here’s the trick to that.
It’s their body, so they have a say in things. Ideally, anything that’s about their body would be their choice, but some stuff just isn’t realistic, like medical decisions as one example.
However, they’re also going to deal with the fallout of such decisions.
A lot of kids, not just boys, go through a phase where they reject the seemingly arbitrary enforcement of hygiene standards.
So, when they make an adult decision, they can deal with adult consequences.
You aren’t required to sit in a car with someone that smells unpleasant. Nor at a dinner table, or on the couch.
Now, if them not using a given product doesn’t cause them to smell bad, there’s zero harm in it, so a parent would be a dick for trying to enforce an unnecessary thing, even by that method. If you’re trying to enforce pointless things, you’re fighting the wrong fight. Believe it or not, deodorants and antiperspirants aren’t the only way to keep oneself from smelling bad, and not using them doesn’t always result in an unpleasant smell. There’s a lot to be said for just bathing daily and giving the pits and crotch a scrub when you’re in the bathroom for other things
However, if they aren’t willing to do what it takes to not stank, remind them that adult choices have different consequences, and that you aren’t obligated to take them places, let them use your vehicle, sit around the dinner table with everyone else, snuggle on the couch for movies, or even sit on the couch at all. You can also enforce that they clean their private spaces (bedroom or other spots that they have where they have an expectation of privacy) more often so that those places don’t start to smell bad either
A stanky adult is quickly going to discover that people don’t want them around when they stank. Might take a while for friends and family to start objecting seriously, but out in the world, it can happen fast.
But respect body autonomy while doing so. It really, truly is something that they need to have. And it’s important to teach them that they should be able to expect body autonomy, even when there are consequences to some of the choices made.
It works. I’ve seen it work dozens of times, because I come from a big extended family that used to spend a lot of time together. Every generation of kids, there’s going to be a handful of them that express their body autonomy like this. Maybe it’s not bathing, maybe it’s deodorant, or hair washing, or a clothing issue. Staying gentle, but not backing down about it, you both keep their trust, and show them that every choice has consequences, even if tiny ones.
My personal phase, it was very effective. My grandmother, if I was smelling rough, would tell me to go wash up as soon as I walked in the door. After the first few times, it was “you know where the washcloths are.” If I didn’t wash, I could bloody well sit outside if the weather was safe. My mom and dad enforced similar boundaries.
Took maybe a couple of days before I got the point, and a couple of weeks before my stubborn ass decided they had a good point, and improved my routine.
Will it absolutely work for everyone, every time? Of course not. But it’s a gentle way that helps foster a sense of self control, of having a say in their life, as they’re needing to explore who they are the most. The key though, is gentle but firm.
You don’t say “you stink, go away” or some shit. You say “washing up is mandatory if you want to sit with the rest of us.” You make it a choice, if a limited one. Give them as many options as possible, too. If they’re objecting to deodorant in specific, maybe offer washing up, or changing clothes if the smell is more from that.
In other words make it about the actual problem rather than them. It isn’t that they’re bad or dumb, or anything else like that. It’s that personal hygiene is important for skin health, and social interactions. They don’t necessarily have to shower to be clean. They don’t have to use deodorant to not smell bad, or to smell good. So present them with alternatives after figuring out why they don’t want that specific method
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 day ago:
Well, if it helps, I have a friend that sings and plays lead guitar in his band. I’ve also been present both when they’re performing and recording. Dated a less professional singer as well, plus was forced into a chorus class as a teen.
Singing is not easy. You’re not only using your vocal cords, you’re using your whole body.
You’re breathing in fast, while sustaining long phrases with vibration. This makes the entire throat get dry, and draws blood into the throat tissues. Mucous production does increase, but it’s in response to the irritation and stresses, which means that everything from your lips all the way down to your lungs is working very hard.
Singers all have their own remedies for this. I don’t know any that use a spray, they tend to favor soothing beverages of some kind.
But even doing a single song, with warming up before singing, causes minor irritation. The process of recording a single track can be enough to need a decent length break, depending on exactly what you’re singing and how. Some notes (usually the ones in your highest resister) are more strain than others, and if you’re doing unusual techniques like growls, screams, overtone singing, etc, it can be more stressful to the anatomy.
I’ve recorded both a fairly mild metal growl, and some overtone singing with my friend. My throat felt like I had strep after maybe a half hour of work. Took me that night and the entire next day to feel better. But I’m an amateur, so most singers wouldn’t take that long to recover from a minor amount of work.
But doing an hour on stage, or recording all day? Your throat is going to feel rough no matter how well you treat it.
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 day ago:
Afaik, atomizers with breath spray used to be pretty common. I used to take care of old folks, some of whom went through the great depression as adults. A lot of them had those.
Disposable ones have been a thing since at least the 50s, if my memory isn’t failing. Binaca used to have commercials back before cable was ubiquitous, and a lot of people carried some to freshen up breath.
So, somewhere along the way, the specific trope of a guy spraying once or twice before hitting on a woman crept into social awareness. I never dug too deep looking into it, but it allegedly apparently was a thing.
The culture of lots of coffee at work followed by a drink or three after at a bar wasn’t exactly great for oral hygiene overall, and definitely makes breath funky.
The singer part of the trope, where you see them spritz before hitting the stage is supposedly a different thing. That was from stage actors, but that’s as far as I’ve ever looked, that it was a thing. No idea what they used, what the reasoning was. Never piqued my curiosity enough to look deeper.
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 day ago:
Well, of course! And isn’t that the way it should be?
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 day ago:
For me, it was the cheek lol. I think I was 5 or 6, but yeah, I think that’s something a loooooot of kids do
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 2 days ago:
Man, I wish this was fake, but I did that.
Which, I guess makes me fake and gay.
Oh Well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Not necessarily.
There are still legal routes, the chances of congress not laying down on the job, etc.
Then, you’ve got the first line of citizen action, protests and non violent direct action combined with people helping each other until the legal stuff has a chance to work.
Beyond that, right now, across the country, small groups are trying to organize. Most of them as a form of more assertive resistance and/or a safety net for trans people, immigrants, and other targets of the current administration.
There are also smaller groups than that organizing for the possibility of having to fight.
That does include people just as batshit as the more rabid right wing, but most of them are less eager than the crazies to get involved in an asymmetric civil war. So they aren’t very visible.
But there are people working at all levels to resist and turn things around.
The way out is for everyone that can to be ready. To take risks to protect each other, and to do what they can when they can.
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 2 days ago:
Well, as others have said, it’s more likely to be a mild allergy with that specific presentation. Check with a doctor if you can, food allergies are no joke.
However, sugar can cause an unusual sensation in high concentrations.
First, it’s hygroscopic. It pulls water to itself. Second, it can absorb through mucous membranes. Third, even in baked goods, it has a crystalline structure.
When it’s mixed in at low concentrations, it would be unusual to have any sensations associated with the product being sweet from sugars (as opposed to artificial sweeteners).
But at high concentrations like in icing? Yeah, you can have lingering sensations just from sugar doing its thing to the cells at the surface of your mouth.
I wouldn’t think to describe it as itchy, and never tingly, but I’ve experienced a tickly, kind of irritated sensation before, enough so that I went looking for what it might be.
You can test it by creaming a small amount of sugar in a small amount of butter and eating it. If it produces the effect, it’s likely the culprit. If it doesn’t, talk to your doctor because you really don’t want food allergies going undiagnosed.
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 2 days ago:
Patient transport is one of those things where you get bored. If that’s a problem for you, it would be better to keep your toe in with other branches of nursing.
Disclaimer: I was a nurse’s assistant, so I didn’t do that job, just know people that did.
Also, I’m assuming you mean critical care transport.
You’ll definitely run into moments where your skills are put to the test, but it’ll be in between a lot of waiting around. That may seem like a good thing, and it definitely can be. But it’s also why a lot of nurses end up leaving transport for other branches.
The good thing about that is exactly what you said, you can use that waiting time to keep up on literature in the field. So, if you do eventually get bored of transport, you’ll still be up to date and have that experience under your belt. Any variety of intensive nursing is a huge plus when looking for a new job, pay raises, etc. Transport isn’t as intensive as emergency, flight, icu, or even some surgery; but it definitely hones people’s skills with communication, improvisation, and the core skills that you’d need in an ED or ICU. Those skills are always welcome in other settings too.
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 2 days ago:
Depends on where you are in the world, but there are advanced nursing degrees out there.
Here in the US, there’s a bachelor’s and master’s
- Comment on Anon works at gamestop 3 days ago:
This is so gay, a rainbow blew apart my anus, and I liked it
- Comment on is it a good thing if someone says my nose looks like his? 3 days ago:
I mean, that character is essentially Patrick Stewart, one of the most ridiculously handsome dudes ever to grace stage and screen.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 3 days ago:
Ikr? But that’s what it gets called officially.
- Comment on Regarding a US Government Shutdown: What's stopping Musk from continuing to fund DOGE with his own money and continuing to tear apart the government while all the federal workers are put on leave? 3 days ago:
Bullets. Bullets would work to stop it.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 3 days ago:
Yeah, if that’s the person making the choice, that’s a good thing
- Comment on Would you consider me a “dry texter”? 4 days ago:
That ain’t dry. That’s death valley.
- Comment on Are mood problems a “turn off” for people even when they’re hard to manage? 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s a turn off. Doesn’t matter if it’s friends, partners, work, whatever, if you’re unstable, you aren’t going to be welcome company.
It doesn’t matter why, it doesn’t even matter if you’re justified. Nobody likes am asshole for long.
See, love is not magic. It isn’t something that gives a person blanket immunity to assholery. To the contrary, if someone loves you, and you claim to love them, you should be giving them your best self, not relying on their love to just gloss over you being an asshole
It’s like the whole concept of family being where you can just be yourself. Yeah, you can. Family is going to forgive a lot because you’re family. But that doesn’t mean you get to be an asshole and they’re obligated to forgive you. It means that you give them the best of yourself, and they forgive your and love you when you fall.
If you’re working on your anger issues, that’s great. Good friends will stick by you. But that doesn’t mean they have to put up with your shit. A good friend won’t put up with your shit, they’ll tell you you’re being an asshole, to stop it, refuse to let you continue, and offer you help to get better. That’s love, not pretending there isn’t a problem.
You absolutely can gain some degree of control over your anger. Even obstacles like severe neurological issues don’t prevent some control being gained.
But nobody, and I mean nobody, not your parents or anyone is obligated to put up with your shit and let you stay in their lives when you won’t put in the minimum effort into improving.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 5 days ago:
If things aren’t moving, then the people you’re around just aren’t interested.
You can’t strategize your way into someone being into you without it being fake. And if it’s fake, then you’ve not only lied, but you’ve wasted their time and yours because it’s dead in the water.
Not saying you can’t change yourself, you absolutely can. But if you’re changing into someone that’s fake and trying to bullshit you way into something, well, you’ll eventually get what you deserve.
How old are you? It matters. If you’re fifty and thinking like that, then there’s only so many ways to go. If you’re thirty, you have more options because you have more time if you’re under thirty, you haven’t been at it long enough to be worrying about “never” finding anyone.
For real, until and unless you stop thinking about it as some kind of challenge you have to chase after and plan out a strategy, you’re going to fail more often than not. That whole mentality loses because the outcome of success is eventually realizing that you’re in a dead marriage, or your wife realizing you aren’t who she thought you were. Neither of which is a good place.
I’ve seen that shit so many times over the years. Friends, family, trying so hard to win the prize that they forget to make sure they want what they’re chasing.
If you just want your dick wet, that’s easy enough. Nobody, including the people you’d be fucking, actually care if you lie outright, much less if you just fake things a little. But if you want the kind of relationship where you look into each other’s eyes when you’re 70 and still feel that love, you gotta be real. You gotta be willing to strip away your preconceptions of what you’re supposed to want, and figure out what really matters to you
My ass? I didn’t find what I was really looking for until I was forty. Had plenty of girlfriends along the way, some long term. None of them worked. But you know what was great about that? Because I knew what I was really after, and I was open and honest along the way (barring some youthful stupidity getting laid just to get laid), when those relationships weren’t going to work, we could end them before they got ugly, and stay friends mostly. Me and my wife hang out with some of my exes here and there.
If being you isn’t working, then the answer isn’t to play games, it’s to start figuring out why it isn’t working and work on that. It could be as simple as you being in the wrong place. If the place you’re in has a culture, and that culture is such that who you are isn’t seen as a positive, it isn’t necessarily a thing that’s wrong with it, it just doesn’t fit.
Or it could be you, I don’t know. Maybe you’re an asshole. Maybe you’re great, but horrible at telling when someone is into you, so you hit on the wrong ones. Maybe you have impossible standards. But I promise you, nobody ever gets happiness because they strategized their way into a relationship
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 5 days ago:
Well, as others have already said, there’s layers and levels of flirting.
All the little unconscious body language that most people aren’t even aware of is still part of flirting. So, chances are that you do flirt, but only on that level
Conscious flirting, that’s a more complicated issue. Truth is that it’s a skill. You have to practice it. But, practicing it means that the early learnin curve is brutal. It helps if you have kind of a natural flair for it, but there’s still going to be a lot of failures.
So, I really can’t recommend someone using it as a strategy. Then again, thinking about dating and romance in terms of strategy is iffy to begin with.
Best thing anyone can do is to stop thinking about getting another person to be interested. Outside of movies, one person winning the heart of another via some kind of plan isn’t a good thing. When it does work, it’s usually a disaster because the people involved never really got to know the other in a real sense. Which is fine for what it is. And it’s great if all parties are just looking for short term interaction to begin with. Having that veil of fantasy works out well for surface level stuff.
So, don’t flirt if it isn’t something you already do. Definitely don’t try and learn to flirt because you can’t trust anyone to teach you. Why? Because it’s a personal thing. The kind of flirting I do isn’t going to work for you.
Just be you. Be honest. If you’re interested, it’s going to show. You probably can’t stop it, and it would just show a different way if you tried.
Not that flirting can’t be fun, it is fun. When it’s mutual, it’s even better. There’s this dance of two (or more) people using all those normally unconscious cues as steps, inviting each other and urging each other.
The thing with that is that it really only happens like magic after all parties know they’re interested in each other. You should hear my kid roll their eyes out of their head when me and my wife are flirting. “You’re already married.” That’s the point kid, that’s the point. We’ve been doing that dance for over a decade.
Back in my younger days, there was a point where I flirted actively because I thought you were supposed to. That learning curve was indeed brutal, despite being decent at it. And I was a bouncer off and on, so I saw a lot of it. Mostly bad, and mostly failed because it was not natural.
So, again, I wouldn’t try to start flirting. And definitely stop thinking in terms of strategy. It isn’t a game to win. The more you let yourself think of it in those terms, the harder it gets to not only have good interactions, but the harder it is to stop and be yourself once it becomes obvious that the interactions aren’t positive.
- Comment on Real 5 days ago:
Look, I believe that dancing naked in the rain increases the chances of getting hit by lightning, but I’m still gonna do it
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 6 days ago:
Well, as usual with this kind of thing, the real answer is to ask the writer, because that’s who really did the world building. I guess the director has a lot of influence too, but in this case, I kinda doubt they thought of this.
So, let’s guesstimate!
In the movie, there are no significant skeletal changes. Now, this is ignoring the fact that it’s all makeup, but we gotta pretend the character actually transformed, or this is no fun
It looks like body of the changes are muscle deep at most, with sone cellular level changes leading to enhanced strength, agility, and durability.
What does this mean for a penis?
Well, a penis, human or otherwise, is basically specialized muscle tissue (more or less, I ain’t doing a tissue lecture here). So it is conceivable that there could be structural changes in that regard. And, since all of the changes are predominantly about hair, I think we can assume that the external features of the penis would be similarly changed. However, with no other significant skeletal changes, it is very unlikely a baculum would form.
So, this leaves us with a human looking penis, as in dangling from the front. It would likely be unusually hairy at the base, with some hair likely to extend up the shaft, since very hairy humans already have that sometimes.
It would likely also perform similar to a human penis, if not exactly the same.
Believe it or not, there is a genre called paranormal romance. That’s basically magic entities banging humans or each other, but churched up a little. So there is a wide range of fiction where werewolf peen is discussed in detail. A good author knows the answer to this kind of question, even if it will never matter on the page/screen, because it’s part and parcel of how and why the transformation works. They may not even consciously be aware they know the answer, but it’s there in their head, or they end up making a lot of world building mistakes.
- Comment on Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames 6 days ago:
Yup, I’m with you.
Mind you, if it was an all the time thing, it seems kinda boring, but as an occasional thing, it’s fun. It extends replay value, and sometimes lets you see things in the game you don’t have time for normally.
- Comment on Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames 6 days ago:
Nah, it doesn’t.
The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.
sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.
Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.
But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.
And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.
- Comment on Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames 6 days ago:
Nah, it doesn’t.
The entire point of any game is to have fun while killing time.
sometimes that means just going ham. Sometimes it means jacking up the difficulty setting, or nerfing yourself, or speedrunning, or wandering around and doing nothing at all except look at the.graphics.
Maybe, for you the only point of a game is to fuck around on.whatever the max difficulty is, and I genuinely hope that you always have games that can give you that.
But, my gaming homie, there’s no single point to gaming.
And, can we be real for a minute? Most games, the skill involved is hand-eye coordination combined with reflexes. Which is fine for what it is, but it isn’t like the challenges involved are.something special.
- Comment on Anon watches her boyfriend play videogames 1 week ago:
Pfft, sometimes you just want wreck shit all casual. Ain’t no shame in it as long as you aren’t trying to pretend you’re uber 1337, or fucking someone over.
- Comment on I have seen myself mentioned a few times out of the blue and I have a few things to say/ask 1 week ago:
Okay, for fucks sake, people gotta learn to self edit
And that’s coming from one long winded, rambling motherfucker.
I hate it when people just say they aren’t reading all of that, because why bother.
But come the fuck on, do you really expect anyone to wade through that? This is a support community for lemmy.world issues, and that is not a support ticket, it’s chaos in text form.