Demdaru
@Demdaru@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uh-Oh 16 hours ago:
Same opinion honestly, free speech with free consequences of it community-wise. If you’re an asshole, be an asshole but if people start avoiding you or straight up telling you to shut up it’s a you-problem.
And while on internet many folk became quite intolerant of different opinions, on lemmy especially it’s visible as the whole fedi is built around smaller, tighter knit communities. Which is cool, and I love it but it does tend to create echo chambers and skew perception of norm.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 16 hours ago:
At best it’s encouraging sexual attraction to something that doesn’t exist
Which is literally xenophilia. People want to bonk with weird shit all the time - look at all the cases of people needing to be cut out of exhaust pipes or objects stuck in ass or vagina. Deviancy is normal, even if we all have different levels of it. That was the main part that made the xenophilia explanation work for me. Is xenophilia bad? Honestly not for me to judge, as it hurts no one and is pretty much unexplored when it comes to morality as we, kinda, never met any aliens in the first place. At least not en masse, if we try to keep open mind to conspiracy theories ;p
People want to bonk Transformers and we just give them weird look and carry on. People want to frick Cthulu and again, get weird look and carry on. I am of opinion furries also qualify there - they want to bonk something that doesn’t exist. Give a weird look and carry on.
and at worst those things that don’t exist look like a cross between humans who do exist and animals who do exist and that could cause people to fall on the wrong size of that actual animals part.
Yeah, I get ya there. But also there is a well documented thing of furries staying vigilant and hunting down actual zoophiliacs in the fandom. If someone gets too close to actual animal sex art, even if said animal is suggested to be sentient, fandom tends to implode on them and report them, which supports the idea they draw a very clean line between themselves and zoophilia. Which again supports the xenophilia claim.
About the guy you mentioned, I’m actually willing to bet he had nothing to do with furries. If furries were connected to zoophiliacs it would be mentioned more - people love attacking associated stuff and furries already have a huge target on their back. But almost every single time I saw an article about caught zoophiliac, it was a case of peanut butter and deviant curiosity with no moral brakes.
Heck, I have a furry friend, and while teasing him for shit and giggles once I wrangled the topic into more serious rails and it pretty much resulted in him saying he is still fully attracted to humans (and as dude is hetero, specifically women), it’s just that he likes the aesthetic. Similiar to catgirls, basically, just taken into full alien mode. I believe it’s safe to assume this applies to most furries - they are still attracted to humans rather than animals, they just like said humans having weird traits, basically not being vanilla. Which makes these furrsonas actual xenos rather than animals. Which supports xenophilia claim.
Which is still weird but not morally wrong, so there’s nothing wrong with letting them be. Althought they could actually try to minimalize the porn overflow T-T
- Comment on Uh-Oh 16 hours ago:
Eh.
Kinda with you on that one. Never understood furries and with their porn/erotica overflow on the internet them saying “it’s not a sex thing!” seems pathetic. Especially that this is popular enough to breed a joke about struggling artist giving into the dark side of furry porn.
That being said, the best (and only sensible) way it was explained to me is that they perceive it more like xenophilia rather than anything close to actual animals. They perceive these chars more like aliens rather than animals crunched into human form.
Still feels iffy but I grasp them better with that explanation. Helps that they actively hunt down zoophiliacs in their fandom so there must be some meat on that explanation.
- Comment on No problem 1 day ago:
…shoes off the couch, lady! >_<
- Comment on I will never understand how brain rot got it's way to Mastodon 2 days ago:
In short: Nerds got out-populated lol.
Everyone has a learning treshold. Nerds have it higher, normies lower. So the ratio of what’s popular shifts with the ratio of nerds. xD
- Comment on [Mimi] Hungry. [230] 2 days ago:
Horse will mock your sorry ass. Throw that at camel and see where it gets ya xD
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 4 days ago:
Being too innocent for this world is the first for me lol. I assumed that due to first comment, why else call her slut?
Damn. Feels weird to be the naive/innocent one for once. xD
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 4 days ago:
I wanted to point out cbeating is straight up evil. Then got back to image and checked…nowhere there is i fo about her being married. Or any other context.
And no, didn’t want to support dehumanisation, just point out calling a cheater slut isn’t that shocking, regardless of sex. But we don’t even have context for that lol.
- Comment on OCUPADO! 5 days ago:
Every workplace ever. Coupled with comment about always taken toilet (I swear to god some people forget they have to go until they see someone head in the toilets general direction)
- Comment on CAH at it again 1 week ago:
Better yet, sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com . The fact this link works tickles me.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 2 weeks ago:
If you stop thinking about sides as whole and start thinking about singular choices, it becomes easy to understand where do centrists come from.
I like tradition. I don’t think it should be untouchable, but I think it should be preserved and continued overall. I dislike globalism, valuing feeling of community with people from my country. I hate the idea of bending backwards just to fully accomodate whims of other people, even if these pertain to their feeling of self.
On the other hand, I hate the idea of functionally sorting people based on their skin, using traditions to shame and attack others, or deeming others as worse just because what they feel themselves be is different than what we perceive.
I hate censorship from both sides, portrayal of the other side as dumb and themselves as better and tendency for “group-thing” for humanity as a whole.
So yeah, i deem myself centrist. But if you ask me to join the side fighting fascists, nazis or communists (in the USSR sense of the word), I’m with ya.
- Comment on Beware 2 weeks ago:
As if I ever trusted that >_> Quick Save -> Save -> Check last savefile -> Save & Exit
- Comment on pied 3 weeks ago:
Second*
Do not forget Nicole, the fediverse chick >:|
- Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit 3 weeks ago:
Seen cool smokers. They ain’t making a big thing of smoking. They just go out, take 5 mins to smoke, return to whatever they were doing.
Seen goofy smokers. People who are unaccustomed or try to make smoking part of their identity.
Both stink. Both are loathsome to be around. First kind may actually put some work into lessening that like mints tho. Still stink.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
So, I am not an american and had to look the guy up. First of all, wtf. Second of all, wtf (but about your situation).
But at the end of the day, some people just don’t compute statements without face attached to them. :|
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
I tried soooo very hard to not tie age into that but…
Yeah. :<
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 3 weeks ago:
- It puts legitimacy behind their statements. You are no longer discussing with an internet no-name weirdo, the person you are writing with has a name and face.
- They weild authority in the field or bear respect assigned to them and are thus using it…or simply used to writing under their name due to that.
- They’re one of “I have nothing to hide” folks. And I don’t mean surveilence apologists - I mean folk who have such weirdly strong ego (without being egoists. At least most of the time) that their belief in who they are is unshakeable. They tend to rawdog the world.
Some combination of the three above is most common in my perspective.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 weeks ago:
This is really such an weird argument. Like arguing that you want to be able to drive a nail with any tool you find, so no matter if these are scissors, a spoon or an actual hammer, all need to be usable as a hammer.
We have genres for a reason. If you do not like soulslikes, pick another game. If you have no time to play arcade style games, pick another genre. There are thousands of games available, and genre overlap is huge - don’t play games that aren’t meant to align with your requirements and then complain they don’t.
Like, this is borderline egoistical of you.
- Comment on Carenheit 4 weeks ago:
Where I live we…just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).
This is gonna irk you further, isn’t it…? xD
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 weeks ago:
Match the type of a game, sheesh.
Bethesda like open world? Gimmie difficulty levels - nothing will change with them except that people will be able to tailor the experience more.
Narrative and/or choice heavy game? Leave difficulty choice off to let the original vision of the author speak for itself - havimg parts too easy or hard due to watered down or pumped up difficulty can ruin the story.
Arcade/Dark Souls games? I…don’t really see reasons for difficulty settings here except for harder than baselines ones? Like new game +. In these games, learning patterns and gettimg good is the game, there is no way around it.
All in all - not every game is for everyone, we have genres for a reason. Having difficulty tailored for arcades in open world exploration game makes no sense just as much as having watered down difficulty levels in narrative heavy games.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t think about it at the time…welp, true.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 4 weeks ago:
Yeeeep. Faith is a tool, especially if said faith is based on good intentions. It can be used for good (peace of mind, hospitality, feeding the poor, supporting communities), but even if faith itself was infallibly good, community aeound it simply will never be. And people who need to take shelter in faith often are more easily manipulated, sadly.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 4 weeks ago:
What even is science if not a cult of cause and effect?
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 4 weeks ago:
I mean, true. But at worst, faith worsk as a placebo, forcing our minds and bodies to fight harder for some unkown reason. At best, there were unexplainable cases. May as well assume it’s faith until proven otherwise.
In all cases, statistically insignificant xD
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 4 weeks ago:
Oh, when you look at miracles, they do heal a lot! Some of it is even scientifically proven IIRC. Human mind is a funny thing.
But in all cases, faith works on small scale, and quite often simply individual. So yeah…not even a start to science.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 5 weeks ago:
IIRC article well enough, pros were that they were able to talk to anyone at company at the same time, had all data available constantly and were great at drawing normal from data so in standard scenarios they could easily lead the company.
They hallucinated sometimes, but research found that not more than actual CEO’s lol.
What they failed at was exceptional, bad situations. Too little data resulted in choices that ended with the simulated board firing them.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 5 weeks ago:
Object permamence this, object permamence that…
In short, either yer liked or not, your effectiveness doesn’t matter. If boss cannot molest you 1v1 or stalk your ugly mug, you are worthless.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 5 weeks ago:
There was an experiment where they simulated LLM performing various company roles. The higher you put it, the more effective it was… xD
- Comment on Sounds beautiful 5 weeks ago:
lick
- Comment on Hmmmm! 5 weeks ago:
False. We are only able to perceive what we experience, and by extension, what we experience is what we call “The Present” or “now”. Sensory delay thus plays no role, other than shifting personal “present” a bit forward or backward. What doesn’t change is that we all only exist at the present. What does change is that present == present but present !== present.