wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.
- Comment on Never make plans that far ahead around Hercules 🥶 1 day ago:
You mean HUNK-ules
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
The switch supports usb ethernet adapters. Look up the supported list. They plug into usb ports on the dock.
It’s pretty much mandatory for any online gaming on it.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 1 week ago:
I don’t know where the ones my parents bought me were from, because they were always surprise gifts. But I sure as hell remember where the ones I bought with my own money were from, and where a I bought a few particularly important to me games. Not address off the top of my head but I could pretty easily look most up now, or even years ago with the internet.
Kirby’s Dreamland 3 was from a discount bin at the Walmart where my family lived until I was 8. Death and Return of Superman for the SNES was from the video rental store we used to frequent after we moved, when they started selling off their old SNES games. Lots of games from one particular Gamestop in between the grocery store and the movie theater. Midnight release of Smash Bros Brawl there. Got a used N64 and some games for it there during the early 360 era too. PSP and some games for it was my first “real” purchase completely with my own money (no birthday or christmas gift money towards it) and was done at a Gamestop in the corner of a local mall. Moved 8 hours away with a GF and picked up Aladin, Starfox, and Super Metroid for the SNES for prices that would now be robbery from a local retro games store before the collectors started getting into retro games (still haven’t checked if they’re legit or repros, and I should because that store sold a few romhacks on physical cartridge from a different display area in the store). Moved back with my folks after a rough break up. Bubsy 3d from a new store that sells all sorts of used stuff out of what used to be an old Border’s book store where I had previously been to for a midnight Harry Potter release (cut me some slack I was like 10 for the Potter and it was long before any of the drama). Switch from a Gamestop in the town where my wife grew up.
Yes, I wish I remembered more important stuff, but I think people have forgotten what buying video games was like in the “old days”. You had word of mouth, experience with previous games in the series, cart and box art, and maybe a review from a gaming magazine to go off of. So it was an experience. Unless you were one of those kids that was going out to buy a brand new game, you used to actually browse and decide. It was a big deal because you’d get maybe one new game for 6 months at a time. I used to strecth things by trying to get a few used games instead of just one new one. Sometimes you got a flop, like when I bought Croc and Croc 2 because they looked fun and I liked the humor on the back of the box. Not bad games, but I already had experienced Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro 3. Early 3D platformer controls like Croc just weren’t my thing by that point.
In some ways I miss it. On the other hand, I have a lot less “meh” games hanging around now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s disgusting! What are you, some kind of pervert?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not a problem if you already walk around Costco full mast. Got some wondeful memories of many moments of passion in the Costco restrooms finding out just how many $1 hotdogs I could fit into my rectum. Just try going soft with half a dozen of those delicious meat tubes all up in you.
- Comment on PB&J 1 week ago:
Or that he approves. Don’t kink shame.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
There is an in-game map, but there’s no “magic quest destination arrow”.
- Comment on I can't wait for 2016! 1 week ago:
Yeah, pipes was awesome. The LTT shop has a button up with it as the pattern, but I can’t justify $50 + shipping for a single button up shirt. And the drama from years ago as reported by GamersNexus etc makes me hesitate to give them money anyway.
Another one I love is the old 3d maze from Windows 95 or 98. I swear I remember details about it that it doesn’t actually have though.
- Comment on I can't wait for 2016! 1 week ago:
What were your favorites? I feel like we lost an entire genre of art now that nobody uses screensavers anymore.
- Comment on i mean 2 weeks ago:
The left hand goes on the left or the middle depending on the game.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 2 weeks ago:
What part did you miss about “off grid”?
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 2 weeks ago:
Lol yeah. I have a friend who started a movement to unionize a local botanical garden/performance venue years ago. They napkin mathed it out that roughly 1.5M has been spent on the union busters, as the execs have just kept them “on retainer” for like half a decade now, occasionally doing displays of force whenever murmurs start up again about unionizing.
- Comment on me n the homes not crossing streams cuz were not gay 2 weeks ago:
It already has the drain topper removed for easier log stomping. How considerate! Make sure to thank your host because that is some grade A hospitality.
- Comment on Day 564 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
At the risk of sending you down a rabbit hole, there are some people who use Reshade on non-online games to do “game photography”. You could go as light as overlaying a grid, or more complicated stuff like simulating lens focal length, removing fog, adjusting colors, adding bloom, bokeh, etc.
It’s meant for overlaying complex graphical effects while you play, but there’s a small dedicated community of people using it to set up the perfect still shots. It’s definitely a deep rabbit hole.
- Comment on How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants... 3 weeks ago:
Part of the issue, admittedly, is that there’s a bunch. Many have outdated info as well.
NAACP guide seems written for a more peaceful era, but is a good place to start.
Rescue our Democracy similarly has some oversights when it comes to tech safety, but at least mentions wearing a mask.
I’m not finding the better guides right now.
The big things as far as reducing identification that I’m not seeing is that beyond face coverings and the like to prevent facial recognition, don’t bring your real phone or keep it powered off in a faraday bag.
Phones are still traceable when in airplane mode, and while powered off, through bluetooth low power mode. This is what many countries used for covid exposure tracking. The only defense agaist this tracking is having your phone in a faraday bag that it doesn’t leave until you are out of the protest area, or simply not bringing it.
There are a few ways to get burner phones not tied to your identity. If you wanted to go that route, you’d want to do the opposite. Keep the burner in the faraday bag at home and only use it out at protest locations, alongside the advice from those two guides as far as disabling biometrics, etc.
I’ll try and find some better ones later today.
- Comment on The perfect club! 3 weeks ago:
Hey, that’s I am a bunny! Didn’t know Nicholas went that hard.
- Comment on How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants... 3 weeks ago:
The protest safety guides need to be more widespread.
- Comment on Noooooo 3 weeks ago:
Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences
Oh my god this. I’ve gotten some well natured teasing from co-workers about taking a while to type multiple sentence teams messages (they’ll see the typing icon in the full team group chat), but when the alternative is a back and forth that doesn’t need to happen, or them having to wait a few minutes from first message until the idea is complete, I think it’s the best approach.
- Comment on We have Mental Healthcare at home 3 weeks ago:
It’s even better when you can’t do most of the socially acceptable de-stressing vices due to health conditions.
My lungs are fucky with asthma, so no smonking or vaping. Genetically recessive liver issue that I hit the jackpot on means I can’t drink, or have too much sugar, or long term it might just fucking fibros-ify my lungs. Short-term it gives me migraines, nausea, and exhaustion if I try to cheat it.
I’m not going to self harm. Body is enough of a mess without adding extra pain and scarring.
Jacking off and gaming it is then.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #12 3 weeks ago:
These are but short windows into a rich tapestry of lives. Of course we may find them confusing, lacking the proper context and life experiences that led to this specific moment. Truly, how can any person hope to bridge that chasm and truly understand another?
One thing I can say for certain though, is that a Dennys ought to have ham.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
ELITE? Really, of all the things to name it?
Well I guess they know who they’re marketing to.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 4 weeks ago:
Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 weeks ago:
Toss some rooftop park/garden/green spaces up there as well and they’d be pretty damn great, as far as skyscrapers go.
- Comment on Who wants cake? 4 weeks ago:
Needs a nice thick vein, like a snicker’s bar.
- Comment on i want to believe 4 weeks ago:
Everyone knows the warnings on paint thinner is because the illuminati doesn’t want us to know how to open our fourth eye.
- Comment on I hate when I see ads 4 weeks ago:
Sponsorblock does a good job skipping in video sponsored segments.
- Comment on Do we ? 5 weeks ago:
Then you do, in fact, want to be here. So fuck off with the bullshit and accept that you’ve decided you’re here for the ride.
- Comment on Do we ? 5 weeks ago:
Suicidal ideation isn’t a joke, fuckface.
- Comment on Do we ? 5 weeks ago:
Spoken like someone who has never had to deal with those thoughts.
Nice baseless assumption fuckboy.
For those unfamiliar, those are anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. Mine.
I’ve already spouted my personal psychological issues across other comments. I’m so sorry that I didn’t take the time to qualify my statement with an essay about my personal bullshit here.
I’m truly sorry about what you’re going through. If you feel that way then you aren’t getting the help you need. Notably, you also already have your clear reason not to end it. You should focus on that and work to build more reasons not to instead of getting pissy at an internet stranger for calling people out on glorification of suicide.
To put this as simple as fucking possible, in incredibly vague and simplistic terms (that are still true by personal fucking experience)
-
Repeated self talk about how you don’t want to be alive and the like isn’t going to help you or anyone else who is having these feelings. It reinforces those thought patterns that you clearly already understand are not healthy.
-
Being able to identify when you are having those disordered thoughts and doing your best to turn away from them helps reinforce against those patterns. It gets easier over time.
-
Posting suicidal ideation content into the void of the internet does not ultimately help you or others with handling or moving past those feelings
There is value in knowing you’re not alone in your feelings, and humor reaches farther than other means, sure. But the internet as a whole is clearly far past that point, and I’m getting increasingly more exhausted sitting by and watching this shit be normalized.
I’ve been living with ADHD my whole life (close to 35 years now). Depression (officially) for around 15. Anxiety for around a decade.
There’s at least a five year span of my life that effectively isn’t there. There’s still a small voice in the back of my head afraid I’ll either wake up one morning and be back there, or I’ll come back to my senses and find that the past decade has been all delusion as my car is plummeting off the local bridge or into oncoming traffic lanes from what was a constant battle every day not to just fucking do it.
I have a mental list of various options for how I’d do it if it came to it, backed by actual fucking research. I did back then too, and was fucked up enough to not care anymore about the hurt to those around me or the potential pain to myself from doing it in a dumb as hell way like a traffic accident. Good way to end up still alive but crippled physically and financially for the rest of your life.
Anyway.
One of the hardest things to accept is that there is some logic and soundness to the dumbasses saying “have you just tried not being x?”.
It’s not that simple, true. People who don’t have these issues will never understand, true. It will be some of the most unrewarding, soul draining shit you’ve ever attempted, and there’s no shame if you can’t get there yet or if you can’t do it on your own.
But here’s the worst part: they aren’t entirely wrong.
You build your healthy coping mechanisms and your psychological toolkit to fight against this shit through constant neverending effort to work against the bad internal shit. The more you work against it, the stronger those tools get. Eventually, like repeated practice of martial arts or musical instruments over years, the things that took concious effort will begin to become unconcious. The equivalent of mental muscle memory, for lack of a phrase for it that doesn’t sound silly.
You’ll stumble. You’ll fail. You’ll have to start back over from what feels like (and may actually be) square one. But that work against it is ultimately the core of any way you’re going to be able to keep moving forward.
It will never be as simple as “just don’t be sad, lol”, but some aspect of your journey out of it will have to come from personal effort to not be what you are today.
On top of all that?
This isn’t even an actually funny joke about not wanting to exist anymore. “haha, I don’t want to live anymore even though they do! Rofl lmao.”
Boo! Get some better material.
-
