taladar

@taladar@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hesitate to call any unreleased game good, not because I think good games won’t come out in the future but because it is so hard to distinguish hype from reality until actual, regular people get to play it without any restrictions (like NDAs,…).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has regrets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple really, cure the STD called life and stupid and horny are gone too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns the truth about "The Art of the Deal"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few politicians who wrote their own (e.g. Churchill) but usually there is some sort of agenda involved in terms of how they want the world to see them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standard tRump supporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  aborting post delivery?

  Up to 120 years post delivery?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standard tRump supporter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Such people have nothing more to lose,

  This is a very big flaw in that kind of argument. It might look like that but there are plenty of worse situations human beings have been in historically. There is no war going on, food and clean water and shelter (even with heating and lighting) are actually available,…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was that making people feel worse about their situation likely won’t improve the outcome. People either would be happy without a partner or they won’t and those who won’t don’t need an external push to try to find a partner and both groups might feel worse if they are publicly branded a failure for not having a partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That only works if you would consider the kind of person who likes to spend time at bars as a potential mate though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One more reason to consider suburbia a dystopian hellscape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless the person you respond to is trans the fact that they describe themselves as being referred to as a “chinese boy” would suggest that they are likely not a girl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be a good time to downplay the importance of a relationship for a happy life then instead of trying to push the message that your life sucks if you don’t have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the effect of other societal changes not immediately associated with relationships might be underestimated here too, such as the commercialization of any and all free time activities where one might casually meet people of the preferred gender on a regular basis combined with the limited disposable income. Or (in the US at least) the elimination of sidewalks and other public places where one might encounter people from your own neighborhood outside of a car. More customized media consumption leading to fewer guaranteed shared topics to discuss compared to the time when generally everyone watched the same things on TV and read the same news at a similar time. I could probably come up with other examples but the point is that a lot of things changed that make just meeting people to consider to ask out much more difficult than it used to be a few decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes wonder why so many people consider negative effects of porn on relationships obvious while completely disregarding negative effects of romance fiction on relationships (among other things the concept of a soulmate you have to just find and then everything in the relationship is effortless afterwards).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is waiting for Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Name one category of tasks that you would feel confident it can perform with at least a 90% success rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is waiting for Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So good in fact that apple spawned a whole new category of memes making fun of how badly that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a former president some feedback⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon builds a new PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dwarf Fortress (old style ASCII mode) is a good one after buying a new graphics card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon builds a new PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has become a sort of tradition for me to play some sort of game that really doesn’t need the performance as the first game on any new computer I get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how much control Apple tries to exert over how you use your devices that does seem pretty close to the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives practically invented taking advantage of women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are. Their intended result is just not the result they claim to want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to mention that of course 253 of the 572 advertising partners consider their use to be a ‘legitimate interest’ under privacy legislation despite being nothing even close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a busy day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is not even like grinding in a game like, say, Minecraft, where you work on getting some resource and then get to look at something nice you built with them afterwards, it is often literally just some checkbox or counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a busy day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough I don’t watch movies very often for similar reasons. They feel so shallow compared to a good series due to the limited time the creators have to tell any stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Making friends online who don’t live anywhere near you is probably another thing more common among science fiction and fantasy readers than in other genre target audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Books so large they literally fuck up your wrists from holding them for too long are certainly part of the reason physical books are on the decline in some fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably science fiction and fantasy readers are more likely to use e-books and audio-books over paper books and more likely to use online stores over brick and mortar than some other demographics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches The Terminator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a gun show is like comic con, only for guns.

  So people dress up as sexy guns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a business idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  why would I want fake pictures of something that never happened?

  Seems to be a popular part of tourism in the age of Instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a business idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus they are so generic that 99% of people you show them to will have forgotten them a second after the photo leaves their field of vision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a business idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I would be more disturbed if he offered and delivered real photos but never had showed up at the wedding (to my knowledge as the client).