MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 1 day ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 days ago:
This is what I would suggest.
Looking for grants and bursaries for the effort is something that should always happen. You may get lucky, or not, either way it will probably cost less than the same from an American university.
I mean, I haven’t done this, but it seems logical since OP is looking to further their education.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 days ago:
Those that want to leave are probably not the ones you want to avoid.
IMO, anyone who is awake and aware of the situation in any capacity, and can think rationally has, or is, considering leaving, or has left already.
It’s the people who agree and are happy with what is happening that you should probably avoid, and they don’t want to leave.
- Comment on LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life 2 days ago:
Sadly true, also the reason that most c-levels are also assholes. They want power and money and being an asshole is damn near a requirement to do so.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 6 days ago:
You can buy often that comes with more drama than it’s worth, and/or, isn’t consistent in terms of being able to have someone to be intimate with.
There are exceptions here, but they’re relatively uncommon.
Not saying that people in relationships can be intimate with their partner whenever they want, but I am saying you have more opportunities to be intimate, as long as both people are willing to do so at the same time.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
Maybe, but also, relationships take a lot of time and effort and sometimes your significant other is just crazy and you have to break it off.
It seems like getting a real-enough experience with a “real doll” and then not having to deal with another person or their drama, may appeal to some.
Not me, I’ve been in a long term relationship for going on 10 years now. I can just take my bias out of the discussion and consider other perspectives.
- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
Given the existence of products like “real doll”, there’s some merit to it happening to humans.
I don’t know enough about any of it since I’m in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
That’s just ADHD that’s undiagnosed.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed 2 weeks ago:
I had to stop playing when I saw the review for AC 3 (I think) from Zero punctuation.
He pointed out that the quests were almost entirely “gofer” quests… You know, you go over there and get that, then go fer that other thing and go…
I started the game not long after and I have to say, he was right. And every time I was given a quest to go somewhere only to talk to someone with little to no reason for doing so other than, I have nothing better to do in the game… When that happened, I heard his voice in my head talking about how annoying gofer quests were.
It annoyed me, and I stopped playing as a result. Never got past the first chapter.
- Comment on What are your bank details? 3 weeks ago:
“No.”
…
Why do people deflect instead of just saying no?
- Comment on Catch these jolly hands 3 weeks ago:
Violent night is a true story, and a warning to the public at large.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair, different games for different people.
I thoroughly enjoy satisfactory (obviously), but that doesn’t mean that everyone will.
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah. More or less.
Compare with the music industry, where there are a good number of streaming services, and pretty much all of them offer the same selection of music, all of it.
I don’t think I know of anyone who pirates music at all.
The answer is greed. They make more being vertically integrated doing their own streaming than they would make taking a cut from a third party to host the same content.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have a ton of time into HL/HL2/CS:GO/Audiosurf/PvZ
Pretty much all of that was lost.
I did a quick Google search and according to some commenters on websites, the great reset was around 2010.
I’ve been on steam since the early days, I think I installed it around the time that blue shift came out? I forget. But back then, if you had any HL2 title, and you put that into steam, you would get what is now known as “the orange box” (more or less). So, yeah, I got a bunch of valve games basically free and I’ve only expanded that collection.
Recently I’ve tapered my spending on games because life/work/family doesn’t allow me a lot of time to play. Which is probably why I like satisfactory so much. If I get an hour, I can build my factory, save it half complete and go back and continue building later.
The biggest thing that I feel like SF has going for it, is that they give you all the tools, tell you the objectives and let you figure everything else out. You have 100% control over how you accomplish the task at hand. You can save/quit anytime you would like, and there’s no demands to get things done in a particular timeframe.
You can save halfway through a build, and you’ll come right back to where you left off. Most games now-a-days are match based, once you’re in a match, you feel obligated to finish the match, and there’s seasons or limited time objectives that you must play a minimum amount in order to even have a chance of getting… There’s just so much pressure, micro-transactions, and effort required.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
A nontrivial amount of my gaming time was reset by steam around 2010… IDK why, but there are games on my steam account that I know I’ve sunk over 100 hours into that show zero hours.
Right now, one of my highest is satisfactory, sitting around 1500+ hours.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
Only 150 for satisfactory?
You’ve barely even started playing that game.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
I saw the OP and I was thinking “those are rookie numbers”
This is more like it.
- Comment on Diamond market 3 weeks ago:
Ha. That’s just how I am. I didn’t notice that I did that.
I appreciate the kind words, fellow lemming, and I hope you have a wonderful day.
- Comment on Diamond market 3 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Diamond market 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s a modification of “360 noscope” which is a gaming term for an unexpected change in a game stemming from fps games like counter strike. The term basically relates to a high skill/high luck shot usually involving a quick rotation and/or flick shot, where you didn’t use the scope of the weapon to help improve accuracy, but made the shot anyways.
Basically saying it was a highly unlikely outcome…
The “nopost” which replaces “noscope” is probably their way of referencing the above while making it relevant to the context (a post).
I’ll admit, the words, taken at face value, do not make a lot of sense. The entire thing relies on a general understanding of the 360 noscope meme.
- Comment on Any relations experts? 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair, humans suck.
Source, I’m human and I suck (not literally).
- Comment on Any relations experts? 3 weeks ago:
Is entirely tidy, gay-er than moderately tidy?
- Comment on Shitposting 4 weeks ago:
I’m left leaning, aka a “lib” and I’m a fan of things that are anti-capitalist.
I think capitalism has outlived it’s usefulness, just like religion did when we created modern criminal forensics.
At this point, we have so much in excess that if we did things in a reasonable and logical way, nobody would be homeless, nobody would go hungry.
The people with the power (money) don’t want things to change, because they get to stay in power that way. The only way to oust them is to overthrow the system.
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 4 weeks ago:
That list is very, very long.
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 4 weeks ago:
Now I want McDonald’s for breakfast.
Thanks. I don’t have one available on my drive to work so I’m going to be thinking about this all day now.
I hope you’re happy.
- Comment on We dumb 5 weeks ago:
IMO, all three of these statements are correct.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
This exists, but it’s generally only used in spacecraft.
Most terrestrial uses of RITEGs have resulted in tragedy.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
I started to realize that the thing I liked about Reddit were the analytical and thoughtful people like me on the platform. When I came here, I found that many came over. When I visit Reddit, either because I’m nostalgic or because I have a specific need for something there, I’m finding more and more recent posts that are mostly filled with trash. Sure, some of the insightful, thoughtful and analytical people are still hanging around, but the vast majority has shifted away from that type of person. Reddit has also become so mainstream that is a stone’s throw away from xitter or Facebook in terms of quality. Everyone and their mother is starting a Reddit account.
I miss when old.reddit.com was just reddit.com.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 weeks ago:
Violence is not the answer.
Violence is more of a question.
- Comment on this town has been well known for a long time 5 weeks ago:
That’s a trait of mine, to look at situations from different perspectives, not just mine, or what “I would do” or what I want to see happen.
I’m a long time observer of people, and the most fascinating thing to try to understand is why. It’s impossible to know someone’s true motivations for doing something but most of the time you can reach a pretty good guess if you have enough of a picture of what’s going on with them.
I don’t mind downvotes. I don’t hate what Luigi did, and I appreciate that he probably didn’t feel like he had another course of action, at the same time, I try to understand and be sympathetic regarding anyone else Luigi may have come into contact with.
We’re all living a life, everyone’s life is a complex, interconnected mess of happenstance.