Boozilla
@Boozilla@lemmy.world
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 year ago:
Project 2025. They exposed their plan and now thry will implement it, and nithing can stop them.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 year ago:
- Comment on The Passion of The Christ sequel to reportedly start filming in 2025 1 year ago:
After defeating the Balrog in the mines of Moria, Jesus comes back as Buddy Christ.
- Comment on A Cool Guide about 12 myths that movies made us believe 1 year ago:
MYTH: Spaceship doors can be opened by shooting the control panel with a blaster.
TRUTH: If the door is closed it can be opened by shooting the control panel with a blaster, HOWEVER…if the door is open it can also be closed by shooting the control panel with a blaster.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 1 year ago:
The country was founded by slave owners. After that we had various “industry barons” like railroads, petroleum, automobiles, etc. Now we have multinational corporations (with larger budgets and more power than several countries) calling the shots in congress. It’s always been like this. Post-WWII provided a brief respite, but that limited run of the “American Dream” was temporary and no longer exists.
Part of the solution would be: worker cooperatives. We need a lot more of those. It won’t solve everything, but it’s a really good start.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 1 year ago:
It’s not owned by a greedy soulless corporation with a pigboy in control. There’s more assholes on here (the AKSHUALLY is quite strong) but there’s less hivemind.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 1 year ago:
I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who live to pounce on the smallest of things.
- Comment on Does Arkham Knight get better? 1 year ago:
It is clunky and I am also old, slow, and uncoordinated. I did manage to finish it, and I ended up liking it overall. I didn’t care for the Batmobile stuff, and I was never good at it. But once I got “good enough” at the Batmobile sections and could solve the puzzles, etc, I have to admit I found it satisfying in the same way you feel after getting your taxes or colonoscopy over with.
If you decide to walk away from it, you aren’t missing anything super fantastic. I love the series, but there’s no requirement to complete all of the games. Life is short, there are lots of other things to do. No need to beat your head against the wall on it.
You might like the Spider-Man games better. The combo moves, power ups, suit choices, etc, are more customizable there and I think it ‘flows’ better. Zipping around a realistic map of NYC is really damned cool, too. (Though I did find myself missing the moody atmosphere and je ne sais quoi of Gotham and Bats). There is are the occasional nasty / annoying boss fights in Spider-Man (one of them early on) but once you face roll past them, the rest of the game is hella fun.
- Comment on can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work? 1 year ago:
“There’s no need to micromanage me. I got this, and I know what I’m doing. When you micromanage me, all you’re doing is wasting your time and mine.”
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 2 years ago:
Thanks again. One of my friends keeps encouraging me to play it.
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 2 years ago:
Thanks for the warning. I haven’t played it yet, and it’s on my list.
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 2 years ago:
I honestly don’t care if they do or don’t add this stuff, but please make it skippable. The last thing I want is some boring corporate-approved formulaic bland sex scene that I have to suffer through in the middle of an interactive game. At least movies and shows let me 30-second skip past that stuff. All of them are exactly the same sequence. It’s tedious.
As for flirtation being more important to in-game social interactions and dialog trees that could be fun. It could also set young people up for trouble. They’d be practicing the “wrong habits” that will get charges filed against them IRL.
The reason game designers are afraid of sex is because most of Western society is. Can games help turn that around? I don’t know, but probably not. The USA is super puritanical about all things sex (but blood, gore, and violence are generally OK).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
I’ve never understood the candy wars. Every year people piss and moan about how horrible things like candy corn, whoppers, and almond joy bars are. Meanwhile they sell bazillions of them. It’s OK to have differing preferences. There’s no need go on a campaign. Eat what you like, don’t eat what you don’t like, and let other people enjoy things.
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 2 years ago:
Excellent suggestions! Biking also gives you many opportunities to spot some road kill pizza for those moral-boosting pizza parties!
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 2 years ago:
Expect a lot of the usual punching-down in response to this. “Carpool. Brown bag your lunch.” and so on.
- Comment on [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas? 2 years ago:
I would love to leave Christmas behind, but it is a huge percentage the stupid consumer-driven economy in the USA. I think it would upset the apple cart and put a lot of folks out of work for a while. I suppose things would stabilize and recover (unless riots and worse happened).
Christmas becoming a BFD was a gradual thing. It’s one reason I don’t care for Dickens. I don’t blame him for all of it, but he certainly helped make it “mandatory fun” with his preachy novella. It’s ironic, because he was moralizing against greed and now Christmas is all about greed.
- Comment on [CW: Slurs] Any attempt to connect with my dad immediately turns into "Woke liberals are ruining the world." 2 years ago:
I get where you’re coming from, but it’s possible to have pleasant meaningful conversations without getting into politics. Politics are important, but learning to connect outside of that context is an important life skill, too.
- Comment on [CW: Slurs] Any attempt to connect with my dad immediately turns into "Woke liberals are ruining the world." 2 years ago:
I know a few people like this. They see everything through a political lens. It’s exhausting.
Sorry your dad has no chill. Mine was much the same way. Maybe call it to his attention in a funny way. “You know dad, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
- Comment on I just got a pop up ad from Windows, for PC gaming and buy their Xbox controller. 2 years ago:
I love ShutUp10. Like you, I have used it for years now with zero problems. It places many different settings and options into one single app. The same settings that Microsoft likes to hide from us by scattering arbitrarily it all over Settings, Control Panel, the registry, etc.
- Comment on I hate that message. There's nothing to fix, I swiped left for a reason. 2 years ago:
I’m old enough to remember pre-internet matchmaking services. They were the butt of endless jokes, laughably bad, and anyone who used them tended to keep it a secret. People generally thought of you as a pathetic loser if you admitted to using them. They varied wildly in quality from service to service. And yet, they may have been better than the apps millions of people use today on their phones.
Using those old services, you might go on some lousy dates back in the day, but at least you went on a real date and tried to be your best and act in good faith (rather than lazily swipe past everyone in rapid-fire judgement mode).
Maybe it’s nostalgia talking, but I think it was less cynical. An actual human being was in the middle of the process to try and help make the matches. The old system was highly flawed, and perhaps a waste of money. But maybe better than a profit-focused algorithm written by socially awkward coders and tech bros.
- Comment on Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men? 2 years ago:
In the age of social media, friendships seem diluted to me.
I agree. People have always been selfish and self-absorbed to varying degrees. But social media acts as an amplifier of that, from what I’ve seen.
It isn’t that they’re unempathetic, either.
Thanks for pointing this out (and your other good points). It’s not reasonable to expect just any random person you know to be a shoulder to cry on.
Unfortunately, I think our modern “pace of life” here in 2023 has diminished the number and quality of those deeper friendships. I think back to my parents in the 70s and 80s, and how they had close friends that they would spend a lot of time talking on the phone with, visiting with in person on a frequent basis, writing letters and postcards to, etc. Much of that would seem completely absurd to a young person today. People are terrified of talking on the phone, and have forgotten how to do anything but conduct robot-like business on the phone (and they resent doing even that).
- Comment on Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men? 2 years ago:
I don’t think it’s a man/woman thing. I have been friends with men who were very supportive during such times, and women who saw it as weakness. I’ve also met a lot of women who are turned off by romantic gestures and sentimental feelings coming from men. And of course, I’ve encountered many that were the reverse of these.
So I honestly don’t think gender is a factor here. I think it varies a lot from person to person regardless of gender. It also highly depends on your relationship with that person. Don’t expect a lot of support or empathy from your most casual friends. Some friends will run away from you at the first sign of anything remotely ‘clingy’.
- Comment on Is it recommended to wear a face mask when riding bicycle around cars? 2 years ago:
Agree 100%. They should be banned…some places have already banned them and it’s a spreading idea.
- Comment on Is it recommended to wear a face mask when riding bicycle around cars? 2 years ago:
As a former paintball player, I do know what you’re talking about. There are solutions for this problem, but they’re kind of a nuisance. Your lungs may be worth the nuisance.
- Comment on Is it recommended to wear a face mask when riding bicycle around cars? 2 years ago:
I hate the two-stroke models. Electric aren’t so bad.
- Comment on Is it recommended to wear a face mask when riding bicycle around cars? 2 years ago:
Great question. There’s at least one study that claims they do help:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780759/
A lot of folks who operate leaf blowers and such would also benefit from wearing a respirator. I see landscapers forgetting to do this all the time. They have the eye and ear protection, but no lung protection.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 2 years ago:
Assuming the UK could get itself together and find the political willpower to do so…it still won’t be easy. The EU has to agree to it, and it would require all members of the EU approving them rejoining.
As I recall, the EU warned them that if they left it would be very challenging for them to rejoin. The idea was to discourage them from leaving the EU in the first place. But they did. And now they have to live with the consequences.
- Comment on I hate it that I muss all interesting low volume communities posts 2 years ago:
Yes, I try to limit stuff that I block but it’s a helpful tool for things I have zero interest in.
- Comment on I hate it that I muss all interesting low volume communities posts 2 years ago:
Have you tried blocking? I have found blocking a few communities and users helps keep my feed less annoying. I do agree with you, tho, I wish there was a better way to promote the niche stuff we want to see and not have to wade through a lot of repetitive “front page” stuff constantly.
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 2 years ago:
Really hoping it fails or it’s just another abandoned Google project, but it’s deeply worrisome for us netizens.